gsiegman.com

I am a recent convert to the Mac. I was a Windows PC user for over 15 years, and more recently an Ubuntu user for 2 years. One of the things I am struggling with most as a new user is figuring out what the must-have Mac software is. So I'm putting the question out there. What software should a Mac user not be without and why? I spend most of my time doing Django development, but would also like to hear about small one purpose utility programs as well; such as time management, to-do list software, RSS readers, etc. Please leave your recommendations in the comments section or send them to me on Twitter @gsiegman .

Here are the steps I took to get Google Chrome OS running in VirtualBox on my MacBook Pro.

1. Went to gdgt , signed up for an account and downloaded the VMWare image one of their engineers had made. Extracted the zip file to get the vmdk image.

2. In VirtualBox click on the New button to setup a new machine. Type in the name of the machine, select Linux as the operating system with the version set to Other Linux.

3. I gave the machine 1024MB of memory.

4. Leave on Boot Hard Disk and select use existing hard disk. Browse to the extracted vmdk file from step 1.

5. Before powering the machine on, highlight the new machine in the list. Click settings. On the Network tab change the Network Adaptor 'Attached To' to Bridged. Click OK.

6. Power the machine on and login with your Google credentials.

>>> print 'Hello World!'