tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36124491414472041962012-01-07T10:30:24.038+02:00tiny bits that save the daydjidjihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09332155348740532304noreply@blogger.comBlogger601100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3612449141447204196.post-25418390903786910702008-02-10T14:20:00.000+02:002008-02-10T14:35:59.221+02:00

I first saw this project a couple of months ago browsing through numerous how-to threads on the apple-bg.com forums. It is a dashboard widget that you can easily install on Tiger or Leopard. The Widget takes your query and translates it from English to Bulgarian or vice versa. To do the job it uses the online dictionary hosted by Bulgarian portal dir.bg at sa.dir.bg. You can download the widget

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If you need to convert lots of audio files in and from different file formats, you'll find Max - or Macintosh Audio for OS X - extremely useful. In can rip CD's, downloading needed metadata from the MusicBrainz database, it can mass-convert Ogg Vorbis, Flac, Monkey's Audio (Ape) and about two dozen other file formats. I'm very fond of the iTunes integration Max offers.Max is a free and open

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When diagnostic a computer problem it often helps to isolate software from hardware problems. And although this age of low hardware prices we tend to forget about it, the rule used to be that one of the first things one should check is for a bad memory module. There are few tools that can help you out on the Mac with a problem like that, apart from Apple's own Hardware Test CD, which they used to

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I remembered the hard way (or rather I remembered while reading this post on Apple's discussion forums and a howto on macrumors.com) that Apple's Samba implementation (the built-in software that allows you connect to Windows computers) doesn't support digitally signed communication. What does this mean for the average Mac OS X user? If he or she tries to connect to a Windows 2003 - based file

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It took somebody quite a lot of time to realize the impact of this but Apple have just released QuickTime 7.2 allowing for full screen movie playback without going for the pro version. You can get the latest version from AppleMenu->Software Update or from Apple's QT downloads page.(via World of Apple)

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Attending developers at this year's WWDC were given preview copies of Mac OS X's next major release 10.5 a.k.a. Leopard which was firs demoed exactly an year ago at WWDC'2006. The developer betas come as 6GB+ disk images, so in order to install them you have to burn the image to a dual layer DVD. Chances are your computer's not equipped with a dvd-dl burner drive (or if you're like me you have a

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Since Mac OS X 10.4.6 the built-in diskutil tool (Disk Utility.app's CLI brother) supports live repartitioning of the boot volume. The feature became very popular with different macos x related forums because of Bootcamp Assitant which first introduced it. In short words it allows you to reformat your Mac's built in hard drive without loosing your data. If you don't fear the command line

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As of June 2007 Apple are still bundling each computer they ship with their QuickTime movie player that fails to do the most natural thing one would want from a movie player - play a movie or a list of movies using the full screen of the computer. For that Apple wants you to purchase the 'professional' version of their player, or QuickTime Pro. If you don't feel like it you can choose from a

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There's a nice post over at macosxhints.com by user harrisj suggesting a bash script that will backup your stuff to mltiple DVDs. Consider it a supplement to my previous backup post.

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How do you check the spelling of a TextEdit document, Mail.app message, your personal website if you're working on a Mac? Well, MacOS X has a built-in spell checking engine, so no matter what application you use, provided that the application supports MacOS X Services, you should be fine. Ok, but how do you check the spelling of a document in Bulgarian? Well, you can't, not with the tools into

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Thanks to the wonderful Automator action Check for Disk made available from automator.us, you can setup an Automator workflow that will execute your backup script/launch your backup app every time you plug that external volume in your computer. Here's what you have to do:1. Go to automator.us to download & install the Check for Disk action; read the online example while your at it.2. Start up

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Most of today's Macs sport hard drives of 100+ gigs and more, which you'll be happy to fill with movies, audio songs, images and what not, but the more that heap of files of yours grows in size, the more critical it grows for your digital lifestyle. What will you do disaster strikes and you loose all those mp3 fies? Well, apart from re-ripping hundreds of CD's you could restore your files from

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MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard) with its rumored built-in virtualization technology has been delayed until October, so what can you do if you want to run an alternative operating system on your Apple hardware? You have several options, each with its Pro's and Con's:1. BootCamp Beta (Current version:1.2) Officially Supports: Windows 2K, XP-SP2 and VistaPros: Fastest (in terms of hardware performance)

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Q [kju:] - a FOSS project combining the QEMU open source processor emulator with Apple developed technologies like CoreImage, CoreAudio and others. The result - free emulator that lets you run alternative operating systems on your Mac, supporting a super wide range of OS choices from Darwin through FreeBSD, several Linux flavors to Windows XP and Vista. While most of the other emulators available

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MacJanitor is one of Brian Hill's excellent MacOS X utilities which lets you run periodic system tasks with nothing but a few mouse clicks. Periodics are tasks that inlude rotating and backing up logs, cleaning up cache files, updating search databases and so on and they usually get executed in the middle of the night. If your computer is accidentally not awake at that time they will fail to

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If you like and use MacOS X Tiger's Spotlight search engine you'll probably thought about the idea of having a similar utility that can search the web, with live results coming back to you as you type your query. Well, actually there is such a tool and it is called Inquisitor. It is a Safari extension that auto-completes your words as you type the query in Safari's normal search box and results

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Problem: quicktime gives us great stuff like full-screen view through Front Row, AppleTV, browser integration and what not... but for most of us non-native English speakers subtitles are a must. Most of the popular video players out there like VLC or MPlayer support the viewing of subtitles along with the video content. Anybody who has ever played a XviD movie with Cyrillic(wikipedia.org)

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Project Perian (perian.org) enables you to easily watch many popular, but officially unsupported video file formats in QuickTime Player. Ambitiously dubbed 'the swiss-army knife for QuickTime', Perian consists of a couple of QT component files, that allow you to use DivX, XviD, .avi, .flv and what not with a little more than a double click. And what is more, XviD to iPod video conversion is just

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xCHM (xchm.sourceforge.net) - another .chm viewer for the MacOS. This one is cross-platform, available for MacOS X and Windows(?). Opensource, published under the GPL.

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xACT (xact.sourceforge.net) - a nice gui frontend for a couple of unix tools alowing you to transcode audio file formats. Currently the most popular format for losses audio compression on the net is FLAC, APE coming somewhat second, and I can't play any of them on my iPod, which is why I need to transcode files to something more playable such as AAC. xAct(which stands for Audio Compression

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VLC (www.videolan.org) a multi-platform video player which started as a student project, but currently is one of the most popular video players out there. It is more of a streaming solution than just a player (started as a client-server project), very nice user interface Current version has better support for cyrillic subtitles than mplayer which is enough for me. VLC is an actively developed

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Transmission (transmission.m0k.org) - a very quick, lightweight and robust torrent client with nice user interface. Multiplatform (various *n*x-es, BeOS), opensource (MIT license). You can download tons of stuff with this thing.

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Smultron (http://smultron.sourceforge.net) - is a lightweight, Cocoa-based text editor that is currently on top of my list. I've alway been a great fan of quick text editors that serve me to compose a document, which later on I can mark-up in another application if I need to do so. Smultron can be very sophisticated, if you need it to. It supports syntax coloring, line/column numbers,

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Reveal (albumshaper.sourceforge.net) - and exif data viewer/editor, which means that you can actually change a lot of properties of a photo, for example change the shutter speed/aperture value (not very useful) or maybe change the date a photo was taken (hmmm). It is an opensource project with MacOS X binaries available. Donationware.

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RBrowser (www.rbrowser.com) - afaik a unique remote GUI-enabled file system browser for the MacOS X. Supports various protocols, such as sftp-ssh, ssl/tls-enabled ftp, plain old ftp. The gui is very similar to MacOS X's column view, so new users feel at home, and can perform sophisticated tasks as remote-to-remote folder synchronization by simply dragging and dropping between two Finder-like

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OmniOutliner (www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnioutliner) - another application by the OmniGroup, I think this one can be described as a tool for data collection and organization. I usually start a new project by organizing a list of actions/items in OmniOutliner, then each item becomes a category containing other items and so on. The user interface allows for multi-column lists, checkboxes for

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OmniGraffle (www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle) - a diagram and charting tool with very easy, yet very powerful user interface, allowing you to create office layouts, organization charts, UML diagrams or whatever you need to visually describe a process or idea. The diagrams it creates are in a vector format which you can later export to almost anything you want, reducing the process of

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MPlayer OSX (www.mplayerhq.hu) - an OS X port of the popular Movie Player for Linux. The port is now integrated into the original project. It has nice features such as on-screen display, multi encoding subtitles and supports quite a lot of movie formats. Opensource project, published under the GPL2.

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Monolingual (monolingual.sourceforge.net/) - another utility that helps you save hard drive space by removing unused localization resources(see also delocalizer). Ad bonus, this one can remove sources from the input menu and also unused architectures from the application bundles. The last one sounds interesting - if you're currently running on an Intel chip you probably won't be going back to

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Maintenance (automatorworld.com/archives/maintenance) - an automator action that runs a series of system maintenance scripts, without having to know your way around the CLI/Terminal.app. It repairs permissions, verifies preference files, runs the periodic scripts and updates pre-bindings. In English: it makes MacOS X run a bit faster. The real beauty is that you can schedule the thing to run

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MacSaber (isnoop.net) - yet another fun showcase for the sudden motion sensor (SMS?!) that is built-in most of Apple's recent mobile computer models. This one mimics the sound of a star wars light saber, turning your laptop into a high-tech weapon, albeit very expensive.

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KisMAC (kismac.de) - passive stumbler for MacOS X. It can put a WiFi adapter in passive mode, thus turning it completely invisible. Useful for probing upon other people's networks. Supports a long list of third party wireless cards, check site for details. Freeware and published under the GPL.

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iStumbler (istumbler.net) - a wireless detection/scanner app, currently has plug-ins for Airport/WiFi networks, Bluetooth devices and Bonjour services. It can show you useful info for each detected service, such as signal to noise ratio, radio channel and so on, which can be very helpful when designing wireless networks.

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iGetter (www.igetter.net) - a very well designed download accelerator/optimiser for the MacOS X. It speeds up downloads by uding multiple slots/requests for different segments of the file that is being downloaded. Very similar to the popular Windows tool FlashGet. iGetter is a shareware product with a 25 USD registration fee, made by Presenta, which is a Bulgarian software company.

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iAlertU (www.ialertu.com) - this is one-of-a-kind alarm system for the MacBook. It lets you lock your MacBook via the infrared Apple Remote that came in the laptop box. When locked (or armed) iAlertU will detect movement of the MacBook by using the built-in motion sensor, the device that is supposed to prevent hard disk data loss. Upon movement detection iAlertU can produce an audio and visual

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HexEditor (www.ex-cinder.com) - a hex editor for the MacOS X, that allows you to work on raw file data, with nice add-ons like ascii/hex search ability, support fort different encodings, etc.. Freeware.

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HandBrake (handbrake.m0k.org) - your one stop solution to create an iPod movie from any DVD-like source (dvd disc, image file, VIDEO_TS folder...). You can control the size, quality and bitrate of the resulting MPEG4 movie as well as decide which language track and subtitle (cyrillics work ok) language to include and which not. Handbrake is licensed under the GPL and apart from MacOS X the home

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Gawker (gawker.sourceforge.net) - tiny utility that can create time-lapse movies using your webcam/iSight (maccam compatible). More than this,it lets you connect to other shared cameras over the net and potentially create a movie of up to 4 camera sources. Gawker is licensed under the GPL and accepts donations via PayPal.

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Fugu (rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu) - sftp/scp client with GUI. In fact, the help page says that this is a sftp frontend to the client that normally ships with MacOSX. This utility helps web designers/administrators and all normal users to have secure access to their remote files, which is far better than using plain ftp. Fugu is distributed under the BSD license. Current version is an

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Frogblast (www.ayanamichan.com/richard/frogblast/) - once there was Hotline which consisted of the Hotline Server, Hotline Client and the Hotline tracker. It was a system for file sharing designed years before p2p programs began to show here and there and it was exclusively popular with the Mac users. Now that the company that created Hotline is long gone, the Hotline culture survives through

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Flip4Mac (www.flip4mac.com) - this is a solution that is required for easy integration of numerous format encoded .wmv and .avi files, it other words, all those movies your PC-owning friend can play and you normally can't. It is brought to you by the nice folks at Telestream, Inc. and they also give you the opportunity to purchase WMV Player Pro (allows for re-encoding in QuickTime formats) as

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This one probably doesn't need introduction, being the web browser of choice for millions of people. I don't use it as a Safari replacement, but rather as a second browser, for secure and banking sites as well as for web development due to the gazillion web dev extentions available.

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EyeTV (www.elgato.com) is ElGato's TV recording software. Very well integrated with the OS. Commercial license, but available as a bundle with different TV tuner devices, both from ElGato and from 3rd parties. Unfortunately in Bulgaria you don't get online tv schedule services, so for me half of the functionality of EyeTV is lost.

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Exif Untrasher (www.bluem.net) is an utility that can "unerase" your accidentally deleted digital camera pictures. Very helpful with images in .jpg format, doen't play that well with raw camera data. Freeware, PayPal donations accepted.

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DVD2one (www.dvd2one.com) is a tool that can help you when you want to do a quick copy of an entire DVD. Quick, friendly interface allows you to fit all the original content of a disc into a single DVD-R by re-compressing it on the fly. Available both for MacOS X and Windows. Commerical license.

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Disk Inventory X (www.derlien.com) is a program that looks at your hard drives and draws a nice diagram showing the directory and file structure. This is very helpful when you're trying to find out where did your free hard drive space go. It is free, released under the GPL and based on KDirStat.

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The good thing about MacOS X applications is that they can come localized in as many languages as their auther has designed them to, and to use a specific language localization you only need to change you prefs and restart. The bad thing is that having so much localizations at once can eat up hard drive space pretty fast. In comes DeLocalizer (software.bombich.com), it can go into each package on

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DeFish (www.worldserver.com/turk/quicktimevr/fisheye.html) Ken Turkowski's application will let you re-map fisheye images into perspective images. There is some discussion about who-owns-what patents for fisheye image processing on Ken's site. DeFish is freeware.

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CrossOver Mac (www.codeweavers.com) - this is CodeWeaver's Windows-compatibility-for-the-Mac product, it lets you run Windows applications without running windows or requiring a Windows license. It is the perfect solution if you just need to test that web page with IE6. The catch - only helps you run win98 compatible software. Based on the Wine project. $59.95 commercial license, trial available.

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Comic Life (plasq.com) - great app that lets you easily create cartoon-like pages with your iPhoto albums or any collection of photos you have. Endless possibilites with this one, you can turn into another Frank Miller in several easy steps - you choose your cartoon-like template, add photos to it and then add conversation bubles between your subjects. All this using an intuitive GUI. 25$

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coconutIdentityCard (www.coconut-flavour.com) - don't know how useful it might actually be, but this utility can show you exactly when and almost exactly where your Mac or iPod has been built. Mine says Shanghai, China. Made by the same German kid that gives you coconutBattery. PayPal donation-ware.

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coconutBattery (www.coconut-flavour.com) - a nifty tool that can show you the current capacity of your notebook's battery, your current maximum capacity, the original maximum capacity and the number of load cycles your battery has survived. To cut it short, it can tell you if your battery is still good or not. Recommended for everyone looking into getting an used Apple laptop.

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CocoaMySQL (cocoamysql.sourceforge.net) - an Objective-C (or Cocoa) based MySQL gui client, one of the first that were available. I've been using it for long years. Funny thing, even now when far more sophisticated clients are availavle from mysql.com and what not, I still prefer to use this one. For one thing, it doesn't mess-up cyrillic data from my databases. PayPal donation-ware.

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ClamXav (www.clamxav.com) - nice gui for the ClamAV open source engine(clamav.net), well integrated with the OS, with instructions that just might be enough for the average user. When it comes to virus protection and spam filtering I always recommend the open source projects. At least you can be sure nobody out there tries to push their specific solution down the customer's throat. Very well

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Chmox (chmox.sourceforge.net) A .chm reader for the MacOS X. .chm is the extention for Windows help file. Why do I need to reed Windows help files? Well, I don't, but seems a good majority of the e-book pirates fro m the ex-soviet countries have been using .chm as a cheap substitude for .pdf. Well, what do you know... Universal app, published under the GNU LGPL.

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aMule(www.amule.org) - a multi platform eMule compatible client for the eD2k and Kademlio p2p networks. Universal application, freeware, accepts PayPal donations.

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Adium(www.adiumx.com) - My current instant messenger of choice. Supports several IM services - yahoo, jabber, aim, icq, msn, googleTalk, many, many more. Clean, customisable interface, quite robust, supports all the latest Tiger-related goodies - Spotlight, Growl, etc. I've always been on the quest to keep only one IM application running at a time. Adium brings me very close to achieving that

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Update: The good folks over at Microsoft's mac mojo blog have just posted info that a beta version of RDC v.2 is available for download from MS's Mactopia site. New in this version is support for Microsoft's (!?) Remote Desktop Protocol v.6 (whatever that is), support for multiple simultaneous sessions (say hell-yeah!), Universal Binary, user interface tweaks, etc. I only had a brief moment in

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Remote Desktop, or ARD(www.apple.com/remotedesktop) - the must have remote management tool for MacOS X system/network administrators. You can think of it as VNC on steroids, crack, whtatever. If you have a bunch of macs to manage you can effortlessly copy items to them, install packages remotely, run unix commands on multiple machines and many more. Client machines can be organized in lists or

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Chicken of the VNC(cotvnc.sourceforge.net) - best VNC client for the Mac I can think of. VNC clients allow you to connect to the screen of a remote computer running a VNC server, and somehow have become the network lazy network admin's tool of choice. Very slick interface, support Bonjour and keeps a list of all my servers with usernames and passwords. Universal application. Licensed under the

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