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Making Blogbridge 4.0 work with Intel-based Macs

posted 10:21PM Nov 27, 2006 with tags atom blogbridge macosx opensource rss by Lars Trieloff

Blogbridge 4.0 is out and it is great as always. It is one of the best RSS readers available, mostly due to the great blogbridge service that allows you to:
  • use Blogbrigde cross-platform: Windows, Mac OS X and Java are supported.
  • synchronize your reading lists: Blogbrigde supports OPML subscriptions (not only one-time import/export) and expert-powered reading lists by topic experts.
  • synchronize read/unread state using the blogbridge service. This allows you to conveniently share the status of blog entries across multiple computers.
  • tag posts using the blogbridge service or del.icio.us
The bottom line: Blogbridge is the ultimate info-junkie tool.

If you are running blogbridge on an Intel-based Mac, you may experience problems when starting BlogBridge which can be solved by issuing following command in the terminal: 

cp /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Resources/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub 
  /Applications/BlogBridge.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub

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Comments:

Lars, thanks for the positive comment!!! I went back and double checked the problem you mention and was not able to reproduce it. I downloaded

http://www.blogbridge.com/install/releases/blogbridge-4.0.dmg

to my MacBook Pro. Launched and it ran with no ill effects.

Can you give me more details of your experience?

Thanks,

Pito

Posted by Pito salas on November 27, 2006 at 11:19 PM CET #

Hi Pito,

It looks like this problem is specific to my MacBook Pro only. I had the same problem with Yourkit Java Profiler, with Blogbridge and a Mac OS X package for TcpMon, which would not work without the hack described above on my mac, but which work, to my surprise, flawlessly on other Macs (Intel-based and PPC).

Posted by Lars Trieloff on December 03, 2006 at 10:54 AM CET #

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