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SafariNoTimeout 1.1 Haxie Changes 60 Second Connection Timeout In Safari [OS 10.2 up]
Control Freak 1.5.1 System Configuration/Maintenance Tool [OS X 10.3.5 up]
Speed Freak version 2.2
ImageBrowser 1.5.1 Image/Movie Display & Catalog [OS 10.2 up]
Preferential Treatment 1.0.2 Checks Preference Files For Corruption
HistoryHound 1.5.1 Searches Safari/IE/OmniWeb history/bookmark content [OS 10.2 up]
FreeDMG 0.4b Drag And Drop Disk Image Creation Software [OS 10.2 up]
WindowsUpdater for Mac OS X 10.3 Or Higher
MrPostman 2.1 Email Archiving For POP and IMAP Accounts [OS 10.2 up]
Select Edges 1.0 Photoshop Selection Plugin For Selective Processing
Tubetrack 0.4.1 London, UK, Dublin Live Rail Arrivals Board [OS X 10.1 up] [/url]
GNU-Darwin v 1.1 for PowerPC
The first release candidate for the GNU-Darwin Distribution .is now available. Get the installer here.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=15543&package_id=33148&release_id=261266
Built for Darwin 7.x including Panther. It ships with GNOME 2.6.1, GNUstep and many great applications.
GNU-Darwin-ppc Office represents the best of our package collection. These applications have been used successfully with Darwin and Mac OS X for heavy duty scientific calculation, authoring papers and progress reports, high resolution graphics production, and all in a state of publication quality. Create Word and PDF files, stunning graphics, whatever you need. This disc is packed with a tightly integrated collection of over 250 packages, including OpenOffice, AbiWord, The Gimp, PyMOL, gdFortran, parallel computing, GNOME Desktop, and other productivity software. Best of all, it is free software and GPL-compliant, which means that you also get the source code, and you can share these discs with your friends as much as you want.
Access the full power of GNU-Darwin for OS X capable computers with our complete package collection on DVD-R media; 10,000 packages strong, over 7 gigabytes of source code, GNU-Darwin Office and essential files on CD. Note to Apple users! Some early combo drives are not compatible with the DVD-R format, Superdrive recommended.
The GNU-Darwin package collection peaked at over 15,000 titles last summer. These revolutionary DVD-R discs are complete with nearly 8000 packages, over 7 gigabytes of source code, GNU-Darwin Office and essential files, all of the packages that are available for Darwin for Intel- and AMD-based computers. Created with Darwin-x86 and free software, 100%.
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This subscription service account includes 1-year SSH shell access, web hosting, full-service secure email, including file sharing, webmail, POP3, and IMAP access, all with SSL encryption, and all provided with free software. More services will be added as they come on line.
GNU-Darwin-ppc operating system (2 CD-R discs, $15)
GNU-Darwin-ppc packages (5 discs, $45)
GNU-Darwin-ppc Office (2 CD-R discs, $15)
GNU-Darwin-x86 Office brings nearly all of the same great free software from the Office-ppc collection to the x86 platform, including AbiWord, The Gimp, ImageMagick, gnomepim, Gnumeric, PyMOL, and Dillo. Source code included.
GNU-Darwin-x86 Office (2 CD-R discs, $15)
Consider a cash donation to The GNU-Darwin Distribution. The base donation is $20 (15+5 "shipping").
For more information, visit:
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/
SafariNoTimeout 1.1 Haxie Changes 60 Second Connection Timeout In Safari [OS 10.2 up]
Safari, free web browser from Apple, suffers from a very short request timeout - 60 seconds. Some database-driven report pages and others fail to load because of that timeout. SafariNoTimeout is a haxie that allows you to change the connection request timeout in Safari to a different value (by default it sets it to 10 minutes).
SafariNoTimeout is an essential tool for any web developer or a user who has ever experienced an annoying 60 seconds timeout while waiting for a web page.
SafariNoTimeout is an InputManager plugin. Application Enhancer is not required for this haxie to function.
New in v1.1:
• Updated the installer to fix a visual bug while installing.
• Updated the icon, read me file and other cosmetic improvements.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
Requires Safari 0.9 or newer
SafariNoTimeout is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.unsanity.com/products/free
Control Freak 1.5.1 System Configuration/Maintenance Tool [OS X 10.3.5 up]
Control Freak is freeware
Are you left unfulfilled by the meager set of preferences Apple has left you with?
If so, you just might be a Control Freak.
Finder / Window Options...
• Configure Scrollbar Arrows*
• Add "Quit Finder" to Finder Menus
• Enable / Disable the "Snap to Grid" animation
• Enable / Disable window "Zooms"
• Enable / Disable Launch Animations
• Show hidden Files in the Finder
• Change the Dialog Sheet Animation Delay
• Backup / Restore Finder Preferences
Dock Options...
• Change the Minimize Effect*
• Set placement of the Dock*
• Set pinning of the Dock
• Enable / Disable Translucent Icons for Hidden Applications
• Enable / Disable the Launch Bounce
• Enable / Disable the Dock Shadow
• Enable / Disable the ExposĂ© "Blob"
• Backup / Restore Dock Preferences
Unix Tweaks...
• Run Daily, Weekly, and Monthly Scripts
• Update Prebinding
• Repair Permissions
• Empty caches from all major browsers
• Empty the System's Font Cache
• Optimize Network Buffers for Dialup or Broadband
• Renice User Processes
Other stuff...
• Save embedded Quicktime Movies (Also works with iTunes Music Store Videos)
• Get Uptime Report
• Clean DS_Store files
• Configure Safari*
(* )contains additional options not available in System Preferences
New in this version:
• Fixed a startup error.
Changes with version 1.5
1. Added "Double at Start" scroll bar option.
2. Various Code Optimizations.
3. Added "Automation" drawer to combine tasks across tabs (Specifically, the "Cleaning" tab and the Scripts on the "Tweaks" tab).
4. Added "Secure delete items in trash" to "Caches" tab.
5. Fixed bugs in DS_Store routine (again).
6. Made Uptime update at user selected interval, removed "update" button and enlarged font & text area.
7. Renamed "Caches" tab to "Cleaning".
8. Added remove recent folders to cleaning tab.
9. Added "Repair Classic Permissions" to scripts in "Tweaks" tab.
10. Added "Network" tab including the follow Safari options...
11. Initial Timed Layout Delay
12. Maximum History Items
13. Import from Internet Explorer or Netscape
14. Clear Favicon Cache
15. Moved Network Buffer Cache configuration to "Network" tab.
16. Renamed "Tweaks" tab to "Unix".
17. Added local IP reporting to "Network" tab.
18. Added preferences to disable info gathering routines at startup.
19. Fixed Firefox cleaning routine for new location (Application Support/Firefox).
20. New Icon! I can't bring myself to leave the Invader Zim theme.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3.5
For more information, visit:
http://home.comcast.net/~jeff.ulicny/software/
Speed Freak version 2.2
Speed Freak, at a user-specified interval, reprioritizes applications so that the frontmost (or active) application gets more processor time than background applications. By default in Mac OS X, all processes have equal priority. By using Speed Freak, you override this default by increasing the priority of whatever application you are currently using, resulting in faster application performance. Speed Freak accomplishes this through the Unix "renice" command.
Speed Freak does not affect graphics card performance and will show little to no increase in 3D games. Although Speed Freak does not affect network performance, the increased CPU priority it offers should increase performance in internet applications. For example, web pages with complicated HTML should render faster but download speed will not change.
changes with version 2.2
• Added option to use Unix reice values in the "Advanced" tab.
• Code Optimizations.
• Now allows window resizing.
• Cosmetic changes.
• Japanese localization. (Thanks to "E-WA")
For more information, visit:
http://home.comcast.net/~jeff.ulicny/software/
ImageBrowser 1.5.1 Image/Movie Display & Catalog [OS 10.2 up]
ImageBrowser is a simple program for viewing and organising images and movies. The ImageBrowser window is split into two sections (see the screenshots below). The list on the left shows a list of all the files in a folder, and you can move around all the folders on your hard drive using either the mouse or keyboard. When a image or movie is selected it is shown in the viewer on the right side of the window. The images/movies can either be shown as thumbnails or generic Finder icons.
Features Include
• Multiple windows: You can open as many browser windows as you need, each one operating independently so you can view separate folders in each one.
• Thumbnails: You can generate thumbnails for any image or movie file and they will be displayed in the list. Menu commands allow you to create thumbnails for all the images and movies in a folder, or even those in subfolders.
• Three Thumbnail Sizes: Large, medium and small.
• File Operations: You can Rename, Delete, and Edit images/movies. Also create new folders, show file information, and show the file in the Finder.
• Editing: Open the image/movie in its default application, or an application you have defined.
• Drag and drop: Files can be moved between folders by dragging and dropping them on a different new folder. You can drag to folders in other ImageBrowser windows.
• Copy: Copy the image or the image's name to the clipboard.
• Bookmark folders: Make it easy to jump to the folder you want to browser by adding a bookmark to the Bookmark menu.
• Multiple views: Images/movies can be view in different formats: actual size, or proportional size to fit the window.
• Zoom and Rotate: Zoom in and out on images/movies, using a configurable zoom factor, and rotate images clockwise and counter-clockwise.
• Toolbar: Access frequently used functions from the toolbar.
• Keyboard Navigation: Control the program without using the mouse, or a combination of mouse and keyboard.
• Scroll the image by dragging with the mouse.
• File comment (as in Finder's Get Info) viewing and editing in Info dialog.
New in v1.5.1
• Fixes a couple of memory leaks.
New in v1.5
• Added viewing of PDF files, EPS files and Illustrator files that are PDF compatible. Note that rotating one of these files will rasterize the image.
• Menu and toolbar items for next and previous pages in PDFs.
• Add option to set the background behind images to a configurable colour.
• Add option to enable animating on appropriate images e.g. animated gifs. (10.3 or later only).
• Reorganized preferences loading to be more robust.
• Fix crash on Info dialog.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or later QuickTime 6.5 or later
ImageBrowser is donationware
For more information, visit:
http://www.simulacrum.net.nz/imagebrowser.html
Preferential Treatment 1.0.2 Checks Preference Files For Corruption
Preferential Treatment has garnered a quite a bit of attention lately, which is gratifying. It has been chosen as a Macworld Magazine Mac Gem in the August 2004 issue, it’s been featured in Ted Landau’s Mac OS X Help Line, Panther Edition (and is part of Ted’s “Top Ten Troubleshooting Tips for Panther”), it has been the software “Pick of the Week” at [url=http://www.macosxhints.com]http://www.macosxhints.com,[/url] the “Utility of the Month” at [url=http://www.macfixit.com]http://www.macfixit.com,[/url] and has been very favorably reviewed at [url=http://www.versiontracker.com]http://www.versiontracker.com[/url] and [url=http://www.macupdate.com]http://www.macupdate.com[/url] Thanks for the encouragement!
Building on a discussion at [url=http://www.macintouch.com]http://www.macintouch.com,[/url] this application will check your preference files (both in your user’s preference folder and the system’s preference folder) for corruption by using the “plutil” command line tool. If it finds suspect files, it will list the files and allow you to reveal them in the Finder or move them to the trash. You may also double-click on a file in the found files table to open it in the application of your choice (you can designate the default application from the preferences). There is also an option to save the results of a scan to a text file. (Note: if you trash a file before saving a report, the report will not include information on the file you moved to the trash.)
“Preferential Treatment” is basically a GUI wrapped around the “plutil” command line tool provided by Apple Computer, Inc. since Mac OS X 10.2 (see “man plutil” in the Terminal). “plutil” just checks to see if .plist files are valid XML. This application is no panacea but it does help to fix blatantly corrupt preference files.
There are some files that require administrative permission for this application to check them properly. If the account from which you run this application is not in the admin group, you will not be able to check these files. For this reason, for maximum benefit, it is highly recommended that you run this application from an administrative account.
New in this version:
• Addresses a potential security concern through improved validation.
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
Preferential Treatment is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://homepage.mac.com/jonn8/as/
HistoryHound 1.5.1 Searches Safari/IE/OmniWeb history/bookmark content [OS 10.2 up]
Go back to pages in your browser Bookmarks or History by typing any words that appear on them!
HistoryHound lets you do a fast text search on the entire content of all web pages you've visited recently, plus all the pages you've bookmarked. It's a "personal web search." Just type in a few keywords and HistoryHound gives you a list of pages you've viewed recently, ranked by relevance.
Have you ever tried to find something in your browser history or bookmarks, but couldn't quite remember when or where you saw it? Or perhaps you've got your bookmarks meticulously organized, but it takes forever to mouse through the menus to get to something you want? HistoryHound will chase down the page for you - fast.
Powered by Mac OS X Panther's "V-Twin" search technology for fast searching, HistoryHound scans your browser's cache, history, and bookmarks periodically to keep its search index up to date. It also includes a built-in browser based on WebKit, the same engine that's inside Safari, so your search results are rendered quickly and accurately. A number of different options make HistoryHound convenient and fast to use, and the fully-functional demo runs for 30 days with no limitations.
HistoryHound fits the way you work by offering you a number of options:
• Choose the full search window, or an unobtrusive search palette. <IMG> If you don't need fancy previews, sorting by name and relevance, or a preview window, use HistoryHound's search palette instead. You can use it as a normal window, configure it to float above everything else, or to hide itself when HistoryHound is in the background.
• Assign a hot key to quickly call HistoryHound into action. It's almost as easy as shouting "Go get it boy!" A quick press of command-option-space (or any other key combination you choose) brings HistoryHound to the front and selects the search field. You just type and it finds what you're looking for.
• Pick a search method that works for you. Search for any or all of your search terms, use a boolean search, or take advantage of the include/exclude notation to quickly find what you want.
• Follow your tracks for as long as you want. You can tell HistoryHound to keep as many days of your web browsing history as you like. Even when your browser has long forgotten where you've been, HistoryHound will remember.
New in this version:
• Fixed a bug that caused stop words not to be correctly displayed in the help window.
• Corrected a problem that could result in HistoryHound failing to launch on some machines.
Recent changes (version 1.5)
• Added support for OmniWeb and URL Manager Pro.
• Downloading, indexing and searching is much smarter and more efficient.
• You can now specify filter strings to prevent HistoryHound from adding certain URL's to its index.
• Recent searches are remembered so you can quickly repeat a query.
• A new drawer provides quick access to search options.
• You can now search only a portion of the index.
• HistoryHound has a new find command for searching the browser preview window and the list of indexed pages.
• When adding new search items to the index, you can now choose which indexer to use.
• HistoryHound no longer indexes password-protected pages.
• All recently-visited pages are added to the index, even those that only have a title and URL, but no text on them.
• Extracting URLs from a file with the extension ".monitor" redownloads every page in the file each time a scan is done. This is useful if you want to keep an up-to-the-minute index of a list of news sites.
• Both lists in the Index Status window are now resizable.
• Added the ability to rebuild the index by re-downloading all indexed pages.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
HistoryHound is $19.95 shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.stclairsoft.com/HistoryHound/
FreeDMG 0.4b Drag And Drop Disk Image Creation Software [OS 10.2 up]
This is a freeware program that is used for drag and drop disk imaging. This is helpful for quick imaging (where Apple's disk utility may prove too complicated).
New in this version:
Dock icon drag and drop feature. Dock menu with "Create image" option. Decompression of disk images when dropped. Imaging of multiple source files.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or later
FreeDMG is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.kelleycomputing.net/downloads.html
WindowsUpdater for Mac OS X 10.3 Or Higher
This small floating palette, automatically forces the refresh of the Finder windows contents.
A popup menu lets the user selects the frequence of the automatic refresh. Alternatively the user can force the refresh simply clicking on the button "Update Windows".
WindowsUpdater is useful whenever the Finder won't update automatically the contents of the windows, or when it delays at updating the windows. Like any OS X user knows, in fact, after creating documents like PDF files using Acrobat Distiller or when working as "control station" of remote file servers, the Finder delays the refresh of the windows contents.
You can learn more and download WindowsUpdater 1.0 for free at:
http://www.choosefile.com/products/windowsupdater/fp.html
MrPostman 2.1 Email Archiving For POP and IMAP Accounts [OS 10.2 up]
MrPostman observes an unlimited number of email accounts, automatically downloads incoming emails and saves them within one or several folders on the local machine. Furthermore, MrPostman allows to automatically extract and decompress mail attachments.
MrPostman is the perfect tool for saving and archiving emails. In addition, it can be integrated as an email recipient into MacEntur and connecTem.
Examples of use:
• Archiving: MrPostman downloads the emails of all of a company's email accounts and saves them within a predefined folder on the local machine. This folder can be regularly backuped which ensures that all incoming emails are archived. Besides saving incoming emails, MrPostman also allows to save and archive outgoing emails.
• Editorial Office: A newspaper may has got several email addresses such as , , and possibly many more. MrPostman automatically downloads the emails of all these accounts and hands them over to the MacEntur/connecTem system, which makes the emails available to all MacEntur users who have got the according privileges.
• Log files: Many server applications and network components regularly send log files to the person(s) who administrates them. MrPostman downloads all these log mails and saves them within one folder. All log data is therefore saved at one place.
New features of version 2:
• IMAP support
• Email attachment and HTML text extraction
• Rules for naming dowloaded emails
• Auto-generation of destination folder
• Detailed log output
• Toolbar support
New in this version:
Email download filter
The email download filter lets one specifiy, which emails shall be downloaded. Each filter rule allows one to define a matching subject as well as the current mailbox.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
For more information, visit:
http://www.e-nvention.com/main.htm
Select Edges 1.0 Photoshop Selection Plugin For Selective Processing
Select Edges is designed to easily make a selection using one of five different edge finding algorithms. These selections can then be used to smooth or sharpen images, a powerful Photoshop technique. The big advantages of Select Edges are that it works in one step, it offers multiple types of edge detection, and it functions in Grayscale, RGB, Lab, and CMYK color spaces, both for 8 and 16 bit images.
System requirements:
Photoshop 5.x or later
Select Edges is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.drjohnruss.com/downloads/
Tubetrack 0.4.1 London, UK, Dublin Live Rail Arrivals Board [OS X 10.1 up]
Tubetrack is a little utility that sits on your desktop, periodically updating its dot matrix indicator display with the next set of trains due to arrive or depart via the following services -
• London Tube ETA
• London DLR Daisy
• UK National Rail
• Dublin DART
Tubetrack is not affiliated with Transport for London, National Rail or Iarnród Éireann in any way, it displays the same information on your desktop as you would receive in your browser.
Tubetrack will run happily on Mac OS X, Mac OS 9, Linux (SuSE and RedHat - GTK 2) and Microsoft Windows. An internet connection of some sort is required in order for the train information to update.
Do you work or live close to a Bakerloo tube, DLR, DART or UK rail station? Rather than making a mad dash and then facing an indefinite wait at the station, check Tubetrack for your next train. Then pop down to the station when you're ready!
Transport for London are currently running a trial to put their live arrivals information on the web. The trial consists only of the Bakerloo Line between Queens Park and Elephant and Castle and the DLR stations. Keep an eye on the Tube ETA web site for more lines soon. A new version of Tubetrack shouldn't be far behind. All rail stations throughout the UK should be available - if one isn't, check National Rail's web site.
Tubetrack is designed to be a lightweight little utility that looks like a dot matrix indicator and acts as a desktop widget. I originally considered developing Tubetrack in Konfabulator, but did not agree with people having to purchase the Konfabulator application in order to run Tubetrack. Therefore, Tubetrack looks and feels like a Konfabulator widget but doesn't require Konfabulator!
Version 0.4.1 New:
- Ability to reset all Tubetrack settings
- Many other minor fixes
Version 0.4.0
- Live departures and arrivals for Dublin's DART suburban rail
- Access to maps for each service via a map icon
- Bug fixes including Newcastle (metro) issue
New in this version:
• Ability to reset all Tubetrack settings
• Many other minor fixes
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.1 or higher
The dock's Tubetrack icon is designed to give you easy access to the Tubetrack window. If you would prefer it to remain invisible, please download the iconless version (coming soon) of Tubetrack OS X. Due to inherent OS X limitations, the Tubetrack window of the iconless version will remain hidden behind other windows even when you click on it - as a result, it can only be used from the desktop.
Tubetrack is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://homepage.mac.com/balazsboros/tubetrack/
Charles W. Moore
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