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How to install SVN plugin for Mac’s Finder?

Do you missed the TortoiseSVN plugin for Windows Explorer? I missed it terribly. I was living with RapidSVN for quite sometime. It is not that bad but I needed a bit more satisfaction than that. I was really wishing that I can get SVN integration right in the File Browser – The Finder. Eclipse Projects are well taken care of by Sublipse. What about the other projects that do not necessarily come under Eclipse – where I just monitor the codes, file hierarchy, et al and not really get involved with.

The solution came in with 2 free software – SVN Client and the SCPlugin.

Step 1 – Downloads

Before we start on How to install/use SVN plugin for Finder, let us download the following files

a) SVN Client – get this easy to install Package from Metissian. For the bravehearts, they can compile the source from Subversion.
b) SCPlugin

Step 2 – SVN Client Installation & Confirmation

a) Double click the SVNClient Installer and follow the steps to install it.
b) Add to PATH & Confirm SVNClient Install (follow steps below)

(i) Open Terminal (it is located under Applications > Utilities)
(ii) Type the following without quotes in a single line — “pico .bash_profile”
(iii) Type the following 2 lines –

PATH=”/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/subversion/bin:$PATH”
export PATH

(iv) Save this using Control + O in the Pico Window
(v) Restart your Terminal
(vi) Type “svn” without the quotes to confirm, it should says something like “Type ‘svn help’ for Usage”
(vii) That’s it, SVNClient is now installed and functional on your system.

Step 3 – SCPlugin Installation

a) Double Click the SCPlugin Installer and follow the steps to install it.
b) Restart Finder. Well, you really cannot restart Finder, so either Restart your OS or Force Quite (Command + Option + Escape) Finder and Relaunch.

Step 4 – SCPlugin Setup

a) SCPlugin is installed under System Preferences – Screenshot
b) Enable Finder Integration and follow the steps below to set the path to the SVNClient – Screenshot

(i) Click “Open” and Press Command + Shift + G to invoke “Go to Folder” and enter the following line without the quotes – “/usr/local/bin/”
(ii) Select “SVN” and thus your path will look like – “/usr/local/bin/svn”
(iii) Close the System Preferences because you are done!

Now, right click on any folder to start “Subversion > Checkout”. Well, you can then sit back and enjoy.

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Aug 06

Dashalytics – Google Analytics Dashboard Widget

Dashalytics is another dashboard widget that can get datas from your Google Analytics page and display as a widget. You can switch between all your sites listed in your Google Analytics Account.

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Aug 06

Junior Mint Dashboard Widget

Mint is site statistics engine, you can download Junior Mint, a Dashboard Widget for the Mac OS X. This will display the total visits including the unique ones on your Dashboard.

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Jul 06

Deer Park – the firefox for the mac

Deer Park is an unsupported version of the Mozilla Firefox highly optimized for the Mac platform (G4, G5 and the new intel-Mac). If you are on a Mac and is cursing for a sluggish Firefox, then this is the one for you.

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24
Jul 06

Smultron – a free, light-weight text editor

If you are looking for a free code/text editor but way lighter than Eclipse (I am not talking about serious programming/coding yet) and a little advanced than Textedit (comes along with OS X) and TextWrangler (free), then Smultron is the one. This comes with its own ActionScript Syntax File.

Some of the features are

Snippets – You can set custom snippets and even assign key shortcuts to it; use the Fn with a key combination of your choice to assign your snippet shortcuts.

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22
Jul 06

Which is the best and free RSS Feed Reader

I was a loyal customer of FeedDemon (Windows). When Newsgator took over FeedDemon and Topstyle, FeedDemon customers were given Newsgator Inbox as gifts (I have forgotten how was it, but I got it because of FeedDemon).

When I shifted to Apple Mac recently, I was looking for an alternative which should be at par with either FeedDemon or Newsgator Inbox. Well, my first option was NetNewsWire. I have been evaluating it for the past one week and I am extremely happy with it. However, before finally taking the decision to buy it ($29.95), I decided to study and see what are the other alternatives (preferably a freeware) that I can get if not as kick-ass as NetNewsWire but comparible enough.

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20
Jul 06

Letterbox – Mail’s plugin for widescreen monitors

Letterbox is a plugin for Apple’s Mail that takes advantage of your widescreen monitor. It rearranges the interface into three vertical columns, so the message pane is to the right of the message list, rather than below. Especially on widescreen Macs, this layout makes better use of your available screen real estate, and gives emails a more pleasing paper-like shape. You?ll probably need at least 1280 and perhaps 1440 horizontal pixels for this layout to work well for you.

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19
Jul 06

Uno – The Sunken Unified GUI

UNO, a Latin word that stands for “as one”. UNO is a theme that brings the sunken unified toolbar/titlebar look & feel to every single window on your system (cocoa or carbon, metal or aqua and already unified windows as well). UNO’s main goal is to enhance aqua interface consistence, by making all elements look & feel “as one”. UNO is aimed to those who want a clean and un-osbstructive interface while keeping the best of Aqua.

Adium – Free Instant Messenger for Mac OS X

Coming from the world of Windows, I found Trillian to be one of the best Collective Instant Messenger which can connect to Yahoo! Pager, MSN Messenger, AIM, ICQ, IRC. The pro version (Pro is the paid version) sport the Rendezvous option where you can have server less messenger within a close intranet. When I shifted to the Apple Mac, my requirement for a universal/collective Instant Messenger was the utmost need and Adium came to my rescue. I never looked back after using Adium.

Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM (ICQ and .Mac), Jabber (including Google Talk), MSN, Yahoo, Bonjour (Compatible with iChat), Gadu-Gadu, Novell Groupwise and Lotus Sametime. Adium X requires Mac OS X 10.2.7 (“Jaguar”) or later; Mac OS X 10.4 (“Tiger”) or Mac OS X 10.3.9 (“Panther”) is recommended. Adium X 0.88 and later are Universal applications which run natively on both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macintosh computers.

For those who want to tweak around and jazz up Adium, it can be done through the Adium Xtras. At the time of writing this article, the current Adium Stable version is 0.89.1 whereas the Beta is at 1.0b5.

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