Archive for the 'mac software' Category

How to make a favico.ico on a Macintosh

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

Telegraphics - Free plugins for Photoshop & Illustrator…and other software: http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/
ICO (Windows Icon) Format
An easy way to create your web site’s favourites/shortcut/bookmark icon in Photoshop (all versions including CS and CS2), Elements or Paint Shop Pro (v9 recommended)

The iTunes-LAME Encoder combines the simple interface of iTunes with the high quality of the LAME encoder

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

iTunes-LAME
Trying to figure out how to convert the super-high bitrate FLAC files from some live shows somebody loaned me.  Have been using xAct to convert to AIFF for importing into iTunes. The only problem is that the files are HUGE.  I think this might be the ticket for squishing them down a bit. “The iTunes-LAME [...]

Media Juster BBEdit HTML Plugins V1.20

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

Media Juster BBEdit HTML Plugins V1.20

How to turn your dual-monitor PC into a dual mac-PC system - Lifehacker

Monday, January 30th, 2006

How to turn your dual-monitor PC into a dual mac-PC system, from Lifehacker

QuickTime Stuff

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

Embedding QuickTime Streams
Retrieve Images from QTVR
QT streaming server product page
QT Streaming Server help
Streaming Server FAQ
Darwin Streaming Server
QT Sample Code including: Embedding QT [...]

The Best Mouse for a Macintosh. Period. MacMice The Mouse.

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

MacMice The Mouse. I love this product. Let me say it again: “I Love This Mouse”. I bought one about a year and a half ago. It crapped out fairly soon, but the folks at DVForge sent me a new one instantly - no questions asked and they were very nice [...]

how to view SID files on a macintosh

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

ExpressView Browser Plug-in (MrSID) for Macintosh. Or, how to view SID files on a Macintosh from your GIS buddies. By LizardTech.
Mr Sid Tips 

Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts. Simplify your life. Save time. Be happy.

MeasureIt - Firefox ruler extension for web developers

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

MeasureIt - Firefox ruler extension for web developers. A very nifty little extension for measuing anything in your browser window.

Give your Mac OS X computer a hostname with DynDNS

Monday, December 5th, 2005

Give your Mac OS X computer a hostname with DynDNS
This article will show you how to easily setup a free DNS service that will give your Mac computer a static hostname. There are a lot of possibilities you can use this for, as most of the Internet connections offer dynamic IP addresses. Having a dedicated [...]

Linotype FontExplorer X

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

Font Management - Simple, Smart, Free - Linotype FontExplorer X

HOW-TO: Make a customized RSS screensaver in Tiger

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

Learn how to make a customized RSS screensaver in Tiger. From the nice folks at Engadget.
An article about if from when Quartz Composer was pixelshox
Apple’s Introduction to Quartz Composer Programming Guide

Daring Fireball: CSS Syntax Checker for BBEdit and TextWrangler

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

Daring Fireball: CSS Syntax Checker for BBEdit and TextWrangler

iFirstAid: First Aid Advice Online via Your iPod

Tuesday, September 27th, 2005

First Aid Advice Online with iFirstAid
Audio files of basic First Aid techniques. Knowing what to do can make the difference to a person’s recovery, and you could even save their life.

Portable Firefox

Sunday, September 18th, 2005

ThePlaceforitAll.com - Portable Firefox
Mac and PC Compatible Cross-platform Portable Firefox

About Time They Released Palm Desktop for Mac - Too Bad It Sucks

Wednesday, September 7th, 2005

Palm Desktop 4.2.1 Rev C for Mac seems to have been written by the dimmest person at Palm.
Unfortunatly, I did not have the sense to look at Version Tracker first - where it has been vary fairly reviewed. Doh!
The software is, to put it mildly, a piece of JUNK. It totally [...]

Cocoa GUI for GNU Wget

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005

SimpleWget ver.0.8.1 Cocoa GUI for GNU Wget

Modern Cubism

Friday, July 22nd, 2005

Inside Apple’s Design Award

Widget Manager

Monday, July 11th, 2005

Widget Manager
Widget Manager is a Preference Pane for OSX 10.4 that allows you to inspect, remove, and disable Dashboard Widgets. Widget Manager is a convenient way to manage all the Widgets on your system, including the standard Apple Widgets.

Raging Menace - MenuMeters

Monday, July 11th, 2005

MenuMeters
MenuMeters is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for MacOS X. They are true SystemUIServer plugins (also known as Menu Extras). This means they can be reordered using command-drag and remember their positions in the menubar across logins and restarts. Sweet.