Etherpad on Mac

Here is the link to a very good article on how to install Etherpad on Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

Setting MySQL Permissions on Mac

OK, it took me a while because I was not familiar with Mac's user settings. But it's just 2 lines of code:

sudo bash
chgrp -R mysql /usr/local/mysql/data
chown -R mysql /usr/local/mysql/data
exit

Done! Have fun with starting your MySQL server!  

Editing Napkin Gadget of Google Wave

I was searching for a collaborative editing Web based environment which can include chatting, drawing, and some other optional gadgets. I'll keep you posted when I'm done with that.

But, the first thing that comes to your mind for such a platform is Google Wave. It has multiple gadgets and looks very customizable. The problem with Google Wave is that it cannot handle fine-grained access controls: you cannot set different permissions for different gadgets for a specific user and there is no "owner" role defined in it: any user who is not a "read-only" user, can add others to the wave and set their access controls. This is in addition to wave's problems for allowing scripts to be run in the it. I didn't see any update on these issues yet.

But what made me write this post is: Google Wave doesn't function well on Firefox-Mac combination. As you may know, I'm a new Mac user. I started playing with Wave on Firefox 4.0.1 and I couldn't make the "Ctrl+E" or "Command+E" key to enable editing the Napkin gadget. So, use Safari if you want to work with Google Wave on Mac, I hope it saves you some time!