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So, I recently decided to try and install Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on a PC. Heres how it went…So I burned the needed patched versions of Leopard to bootable DVD’s and installed, everything went PERFECTLY! Then it went downhill.

I installed Leopard and all was good, until I turned it off. Then it wouldn’t boot from the HD, so I tried to boot from the DVD no luck there it just kept trying to reinstall Leopard, so i gave up on that patch (Kalyway) and tried Leo4All which I heard the guys over at TechnoChubby got on well with, but no luck there either.

So I decided to leave it for a few days and then try another iso I had downloaded Kalyway V10.5.2 (I was previously using Kalyway V10.5.1) and the exact same thing happened. I couldn’t believe it.

So in then end after 2 weeks of solid trial with the PC still trying to install Leopard, I gave up, and I am sad to say put Ubuntu on the machine and it is now my new file server. So not all lost really, I now have a really high spec file server! S’all good! 

If you’re a Mac user like me, you may know that it can sometimes be hard to find good applications to do all of your web coding in! Well, I have found a solution.

CODA - One window web development.

CODA is one great application, seriously! I love it and use it every day, all my websites are made with that application. CODA’s sites features make it great for me to manage all of my (and my clients) websites!

The built in FTP and file browser allow me to quickly get to any files I need either on my system, or my server.Built is CSS editing tools make it easy to create great and valid designs, quickly and easily.

Clips are great, it allows me to get to all of my most used pieces of code very easily, things like DOCTYPES and meta tags that I frequently use are already stored in the program!

Finally, the books feature! Books are a great way in CODA to learn new techniques like JavaScript, PHP, etc…

I highly recomend this application to anyone using Mac, you can find out more at www.panic.com/coda