Last night I was chatting with my friend Steve and he mentioned that I should install the Aperture trial. I thought it was a great idea so I did and here are my "first look" thoughts. When you first start up the application you have several options to get started. You...
Wubi
If you've ever wanted to try out Linux and you're a PC user. Now you can and you don't even have to worry about destroying your Windows installation and the best part of it is that you don't even have to set up a separate partition for it. There are no longer any...
InnoTek VirtualBox
I only learned about this product a few weeks ago. This is the only virtualization product that is currently available for Windows, Linux and Mac hosts that is also free and open source. It's developed by a very large community and is backed by InnoTek. Products like...
Parallels Desktop
You're probably asking yourself: "Is he really reviewing another virtualization product?" Yeah, I am. I guess it's a virtualization review special on TechButter. Like I mentioned in the previous article I am reviewing these products because I am unable to run them on...
VMware Fusion
NOTE: Please see the end of this entry for updated information about this product and what has changed in this article since the original posting. I finally have the opportunity to try out VMware Fusion. I am staying at a house this week for a family member who just...
OLPC Live CD Distribution
I was on the OLPC Wiki and realized that I could download a Live CD of the latest version of the OLPC operating system. The OLPC is based on the RedHat operating system (not Fedora). I downloaded it and ran it in a virtual machine. Here are my initial reactions. When...
Move from TypePad to WordPress
Over the weekend I had a great opportunity to help someone move from TypePad to WordPress running on their web hosting account. The reason the person wanted to do this is because they were no longer going to continue paying for their TyePad account. Understandable...
MarsEdit
I was telling a friend about my experience with offline blogging software. He pointed me to MarsEdit. I hadn't heard of it before, it wasn't a free application. I usually don't download anything but free software. This time I did download it and after using MarsEdit...
Witch
When I first got my Mac there was a productivity plunge. I knew it would just take me a while to build up speed with OS X but this application helped me out a lot. On Windows whenever you Alt + Tab you get a list of the open windows. Whenever you Command + Tab on a...
MAMP Web Server
When I am designing a theme for WordPress I always install a copy of WordPress onto my local server. I have my server set up in a virtual machine. It's aggravating because I have to wait on that virtual machine to start up before I can do anything. I have been...