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2010-11-03T13:16:00.002+01:00

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2009-06-05T12:34:00.005+01:00

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Check out our new blog about Mac OS X freeware here.

SafariSafe - 1.1

2007-08-10T07:21:00.001+01:00

SafariSafe is a simple application to temporarily move all of your Safari settings to a safe place, and lock your keychain.

Website
Download SafariSafe

TeXShop - 2.13

2007-08-10T07:18:00.001+01:00

TeXShop is a TeX previewer for Mac OS X, written in Cocoa. Since pdf is a native file format on OS X, TeXShop uses "pdftex" and "pdflatex" rather than "tex" and "latex" to typeset; these programs in the standard teTeX distribution of TeX produce pdf output instead of dvi output.

Website
Download TeXShop

Startrail - 1.4

2007-08-10T07:17:00.001+01:00

Startrail leaves a trail of shining and coloured stars behind your mouse cursor, wherever it goes.

Website
Download Startrail

MarcoPolo - 2.0

2007-08-10T07:14:00.001+01:00

MarcoPolo brings context-aware computing to your portable Mac computer. It allows your computer to determine its context through gathering evidence from your environment (evidence sources), using flexible rule-based fuzzy matching to make an educated guess (rules), and then performing arbitrary actions upon changing context (actions). MarcoPolo's concept of contexts is a generalisation of a location, and encompasses more than just where your computer is. A context might represent what you are doing, or what else is going on around you. MarcoPolo quietly stays in the status bar at the top of your screen (right-hand side of the menu bar), from where it can be configured to your own needs.

Website
Download MarcoPolo

iGTD - 1.4.5.5

2007-08-09T14:06:00.001+01:00

You are a busy person, aren't you? And there's an easy way to track all things that have to be done... and to get those things done!

iGTD takes some concepts from Getting Things Done methodology and makes them easy to understand and use in your every day life. Just divide your tasks by contexts - where they have to be done? At home? At your office? At laptop? At any time you can access the Internet?

Website
Download iGTD

TeXShop - 2.12

2007-08-09T14:04:00.001+01:00

Sharpshooter - 0.4.1

2007-08-09T14:03:00.001+01:00

Sharpshooter is a small application which aids the management of screenshots. When you take a screenshot on Mac OS X with Command-Shift-3 (or with another variation) Sharpshooter will presents a window where you can review the picture and choose what to do with it. You can either rename it from its default name to something more descriptive, move the screenshot to the Trash, or cancel the operation keeping the screenshot as it is.

Sharpshooter is a background agent application so you may want to add it as a login item to always have it running in the background. You can control Sharpshooter through the menu status item on the right side of the menu bar.

Website
Download Sharpshooter

Baseball Widget - 2.5.1

2007-08-09T14:02:00.001+01:00

Keep an eye on your favorite baseball team (MLB or minor leagues down to Class A) - all the information you need in one single and small widget. Show the current scoreboard, full results from previous days, the schedule for the upcoming week (game times are displayed in your local time), or current division and wildcard standings. For ongoing or past games, show the score overview and current game situation while having a convenient link to the full box score only a click away. The widget is optimized to retrieve the smallest amount of data required and thus is much faster than refreshing the same data in your browser (which typically uses about 20 to 40 times as much data to display).

Website
Download Baseball Widget

iPod Viewer - 3.0.1

2007-08-09T14:01:00.001+01:00

iTunes allows you to copy MP3s from your computer to your iPod, and do everything but copy those MP3s back to your computer. But now with iPod Viewer, you can do just that! Just launch the application, import the songs from your iPod, select the songs you want to copy, choose where you want to copy the songs to, and transfer the files. That's it!

Website
Download iPod Viewer

PCGen - 5.12.1

2007-08-09T14:00:00.001+01:00

PCGen is a character generator for role-playing games. It currently is aimed at supporting as many RPGs as is humanly possible. The project's current focus is on OGL games (OGL is Wizards of the Coast's Open Gaming License). PCGen runs on Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Unix/Linux using Java 1.4.

Website
Download PCGen

Google Reader Notifier - 1.0

2007-08-09T13:58:00.001+01:00

Google Reader Notifier is an open source menubar plugin that will tell you if you have unread items in Google Reader pending. The icon is made so that it will fit in nicely with the official Google Notifier icons, ie. colorized icon when unread items are available. Google Reader Notifier is in no way affiliated with the fine people at Google Corp.

Website
Download Google Reader Notifier

Dashalytics Widget - 3.02

2007-08-09T13:56:00.001+01:00

Dashalytics Widget is a free Dashboard Widget for OSX that offers quick access to Google Analytics statistics.

Website
Download Dashalytics Widget

Code Collector - 1.1

2007-08-09T13:55:00.001+01:00

Ever had some code you are proud of, maybe something you wanted to keep somewhere for reference? Code Collector lets you store code snippets with ease.

Website
Download Code Collector

LimeWire X - 4.14.3

2007-08-09T13:52:00.001+01:00

LimeWire is the world's fastest P2P file-sharing application, letting users share and search for all types of computer files, including movies, pictures, games, and text documents. Other features include dynamic querying, push-proxy support for connecting through firewalls, the ability to preview files while downloading, advanced techniques for locating rare files, and an extremely intuitive user interface.

Website
Download LimeWire X

SafariSafe - 1.01

2007-08-08T07:21:00.001+01:00

SafariSafe is a simple application to temporarily move all of your Safari settings to a safe place, and lock your keychain.

Website
Download SafariSafe

Pontoon - 2.4

2007-08-08T07:19:00.001+01:00

Pontoon is a complete Player vs Dealer BlackJack game, ideal for practicing your skills with no fincancial loss! Customize your game by enabling the major BlackJack rules and options, including Surrender, Insurance, Five Card Charlie, Split and Double.

Website
Download Pontoon

Pando - 1.7.1.0

2007-08-08T07:17:00.001+01:00

Introducing a little app with a lot of muscle.

Pando lets you send your home videos, giant presentations and entire folders of original quality photos to anyone with an email address. See how...

No adware, no spyware ... no, really.

Website
Download Pando

Amnesty Hypercube - 0.1.2a

2007-08-08T07:16:00.001+01:00

Amnesty Hypercube is a free desktop widget platform designed to release Google Gadgets and other web widgets (such as Flash games and video) from the confines of the browser.

Already using Dashboard? Any widget in Amnesty Hypercube can be pushed into your Dashboard with one click, which makes it a perfect extension to Tiger's native widget environment.

And to help you manage the largest widget library available, Amnesty Hypercube automatically imports web widgets from over 150 providers.

Website
Download Amnesty Hypercube

LyX/Mac - 1.5.1

2007-08-08T07:14:00.001+01:00

A fully-featured implementation of LyX, a WYSIWYM editor/formatter using the LaTeX typesetting engine, on the Mac OSX native graphics display, with the familiar Aqua GUI look & feel and anti-aliased text. LyX/Mac does not require X11. It is particularly well-adapted to technical and scientific editing and writing, but equally useful for a simple letter, articles or books.

Website
Download LyX/Mac

Transmission - 0.80

2007-08-08T07:11:00.001+01:00

Transmission is a free, lightweight BitTorrent client. It features a simple, intuitive interface on top on an efficient, cross-platform back-end.
What's new in this version:
** Users of previous versions: COMPLETE YOUR DOWNLOADS BEFORE UPGRADING OR YOU WILL LOSE DATA! **

* Ability to selectively download and prioritize files
* Torrent file creation
* Speed and CPU load improvements
* Fix to UPnP
* Rechecking torrents is now done one-at-a-time to avoid heavy disk load
* Better rechecking of torrents that have many files
* Many miscellaneous improvements and bugfixes
* Partial licensing change -- see the LICENSE file for details

Mac-Specific Changes:

* Overlay when dragging torrent files, URLs, and data files onto window
* Ability to set an amount of time to consider a transfer stalled
* More progress bar colors
* Various smaller interface improvements
* Italian, Korean, and Russian translations

Website
Download Transmission

SafariSafe - 1.0

2007-08-07T07:14:00.001+01:00

SafariSafe is a simple application to temporarily move all of your Safari settings to a safe place, and lock your keychain.

Website
Download SafariSafe

The Filter - 2.4.1

2007-08-07T07:11:00.001+01:00

The Filter is a neat, free piece of software that helps you build fantastic playlists from the music stored on your Mac. It's like a musical assistant who knows exactly which songs will fit together and which songs won't.

To build a playlist you open up iTunes and let The Filter analyse your library. You then click on "Create a Playlist" to generate one based on your choice of artist or song. The music in the playlist comes from the music in your collection - it is a great way of rediscovering music you forgot you had!

Website
Download The Filter

Mac-Zone Junk Stopper Light - 1.0

2007-08-07T07:10:00.001+01:00

Mac-Zone Junk Stopper Light is a free utility that stops adds from showing in any browser.

Website
Download Mac-Zone Junk Stopper Light

MetaX - 2.0.6

2007-08-06T06:20:00.001+01:00

MetaX is a meta-data tagger for mp4 files and their derivatives. It uses Atomic Parsley on the back-end to write the tags to your video files. MetaX automatically searches Amazon.com to find tags (so you'll need an internet connection). Cover art data can be retrieved from Amazon.com, Yahoo!, or from the video file itself.

Website
Download MetaX

Startrail - 1.3

2007-08-06T06:19:00.001+01:00

Startrail leaves a trail of shining and coloured stars behind your mouse cursor, wherever it goes.

Website
Download Startrail

Taco HTML Edit - 1.7.3

2007-08-06T06:17:00.001+01:00

Taco HTML Edit is a full-featured HTML editor and PHP editor distributed as freeware. It is designed exclusively for Mac OS X and uses many of the core technologies built into Mac OS X including image transparency (in the image map wizard), toolbars, WebKit (for live previewing), and much more.

Taco HTML Edit includes the following features:

* Live previewing of HTML and PHP documents
* Projects with multiple documents
* Customizable HTML and PHP tag coloring
* Code Clips to keep track of frequently used HTML code
* The ability to choose any browser for the preview browser
* Creating new documents with the code from an existing file
* Customizable toolbar with a show/hide option
* Find panel with multiple search options
* Wizards for inserting colors, font tags, image tags, image maps, links, lists, meta tags, and tables
* Image map wizard that is easy to use and powerful
* Advanced Tag Insert Panel with all HTML 4.01 tags and attributes.
* Supports opening and saving files in Unicode and UTF8 formats to handle non-English characters.
* Checks tag syntax and structure.
* Auto-indent.
* Spell-checking, with ability to ignore HTML tags.
* Display line numbers for documents.
* Universal binary.

Website
Download Taco HTML Edit

Additune - v68

2007-08-06T06:16:00.001+01:00

Founded by die hard Apple fans, Additune is the first major Mac only music recommendation app. It understands that the kind of music you want to listen to depends not only on what you like in general, but what you're in the mood for at the moment. Additune is free to use, free of ads, and will keep all your data secure.

Website
Download Additune

NightShift - 1.6

2007-08-06T06:15:00.001+01:00

NightShift automatically downloads and updates WebKit, the Safari HTML rendering engine, to the latest nightly version. No user intervention is required, everything is fully automated.

* Downloads WebKit nightly build from web server
* Mounts the disk image
* Creates a backup archive of the original application on disk
* Copies the new nightly build to its default location
* Launches the new version of WebKit
* Option to undo latest install and revert to last version
* Option to show the change log for past week

Website
Download NightShift

Vine Server - 2.2

2007-08-06T06:14:00.001+01:00

Vine Server, previously released as OSXvnc, is a free, open-source VNC server from Redstone Software, Inc.

Vine Server offers a rich and unique feature set among Mac OS X VNC servers:

* Flexible port assignment for multiple VNC servers on a single computer.
* System servers that run independently of user accounts.
* Outstanding clipboard sharing; Exchange of rich text, images, files, and applications with Vine Viewer.

Website
Download Vine Server

Motion JWii - 0.9.2

2007-08-06T06:13:00.001+01:00

Motion JWii is a shell script command that can convert most video files into the Motion JPEG format that the Wii uses, with QuickTime Pro. These videos can then be played on the Wii Photo Channel.

Website
Download Motion JWii

StepStats - 1.0.0.0

2007-08-06T06:12:00.001+01:00

A smart and simple application that allows you to keep track of your sport successes. It is perfectly suitable for all sports, where you want to create stats on distance, time or speed.

Key features are:

* simple, understandable interface
* keeps track of date, distance, steps and time
* gives you stats with overall values and a nice graph with your speed
* automatic backup of your data once a week to prevent data loss or corruption
* available for MacOS X, Windows and Linux
* and best of all - It is Freeware

Website
Download StepStats

XNJB - 1.4.9

2007-08-06T06:11:00.001+01:00

XNJB is a Cocoa graphical user interface for Mac OS X for the Creative Nomad range of portable MP3 players. It uses libnjb and libmtp for low level communication.

Website
Download XNJB
Changelog

iGTD - 1.4.5.4

2007-08-05T08:21:00.001+01:00

Additune - v67

2007-08-05T08:19:00.001+01:00

Quinn - 3.5.1

2007-08-05T08:17:00.001+01:00

Quinn is an arcade-style tetromino puzzle game written and designed specifically for Mac OS X. It features a clean, elegant user interface, beautiful graphics, and smooth, subtle animations for fluid gameplay. Instead of reinventing the game with yet another variation of the rules, the goal of Quinn is to combine the simplicity of the original idea with the genuine Mac experience for perfect user enjoyment.

Website
Download Quinn

DiceX - 1.3.9

2007-08-05T08:16:00.001+01:00

DiceX is a dice-roller for Mac OS X. It features optional roll-dropping, "per die" and "to total" bonus and penalty modifiers (as well as multipliers), a log to maintain track of your previous rolls, multi-roll support, rerolling functionality, and percentile rolling options. The source code is available on my web site under the BSD License. Note that, after installing over a previous version, you should remove the ~/Library/Application Support/DiceX directory to ensure glitch-free performance.

Website
Download DiceX

Twicetab - 1.2.1

2007-08-05T08:14:00.001+01:00

Install Twicetab, double-click the Safari tab bar, and a new tab will be created. And that's it.

Website
Download Twicetab

pongClock - 1.0

2007-08-05T08:12:00.001+01:00

This Widget is all you need when it comes down to Pong on the Dashboard. If idle, it plays Pong against itself, while the score always displays the current time. But if you feel competitive, you can always play Pong against the widget.

Start the game by pressing the racket icon bottom-left. Press the Up-arrow to move the right player upwards, the Down-arrow to move it downwards; well, that's too obvious. You may pause the game any time by pressing any other button.
The speed of the game increases, if you win, and decreases, if you lose. The player who reaches 10 points first wins.

To really enjoy the good old Pong-feeling you can play fullscreen. Just click the toggle-icon beneath the racket icon and there you go. Same applies to get out of fullscreen.

There are a few settings available, like turning off the reflective glass and increase CPU usage to get a smoother game. You can also adjust the transparency of the widget for fullscreen mode. However, setting this too low may give you problems getting out of fullscreen because the controller does not show up; if that happens just hide and show the Dashboard again and the controller should be visible again. If nothing helps, press Apple + R to reload the widget and all will be fine.

The widget is powered completely by Javascript and therefore you can run it within Camino, Firefox or maybe even within IE:win (haven`t tested the latter). It consumes some CPU-Time, namely about 11% on a 1 GHz G4 PowerBook and about 6% on a MacBook Pro on low CPU usage mode. This about doubles when opting for the higher CPU usage setting. Of course pongClock does not run while the Dashboard is hidden and does therefore consumes no power then.

Website
Download pongClock

Amnesty Generator - 1.4

2007-08-04T07:15:00.001+01:00

Easily convert millions of web widgets, games and videos - designed to live on home pages, blogs or MySpace - into widgets for your Dashboard. If you like widgets on the web, you'll love them on your Dashboard.

Copy and paste the HTML code for a web widget directly into Amnesty Generator and generate a new Dashboard widget with the click of a button.

You can try out your new widgets right away by installing them into your Dashboard automatically from inside Amnesty Generator.

Website
Download Amnesty Generator

SSHKeychain - 0.8

2007-08-04T07:12:00.003+01:00

SSHKeychain is a graphical front-end for ssh-agent and ssh-add on Mac OS X.

Website
Download SSHKeychain

Floola - 1.5

2007-08-04T07:12:00.001+01:00

Floola is an application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model that supports iTunes) under Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Video and music files can be easily added and removed. Playlists can be managed with simple drag-and-drop. Lyrics and artwork are supported. Tracks can be submitted to last.fm. Podcasts are supported as well.

Website
Download Floola

ItunesBuddy - 1

2007-08-04T07:10:00.001+01:00

Now you can keep an eye on all the top songs, new Itunes releases and features and much more all in one really cool widget with some awesome sliding transition effects!

Website
Download ItunesBuddy

Subway Maps for iPhone - 0.3

2007-08-03T07:17:00.001+01:00

If you are like me, you ride the subway and want to be able to check a map from time to time. Being able to check the MTA website on your iPhone is great, but if you are already underground with no signal you are out of luck. I developed these series of maps for my own use, then several of my clients saw it and wanted a copy. I figured other people might be interested as well, so why not make it available to download?

Website
Download Subway Maps for iPhone

MetaX - 2.0.4

2007-08-03T07:16:00.001+01:00

Webmin - 1.360

2007-08-03T07:15:00.001+01:00

Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any browser that supports tables and forms (and Java for the File Manager module), you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and so on.

Webmin consists of a simple web server, and a number of CGI programs which directly update system files like /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/passwd. The web server and all CGI programs are written in Perl version 5, and use no non-standard Perl modules.

Website
Download Webmin

Jubler - 3.3.0

2007-08-03T07:13:00.001+01:00

Jubler is a tool for editing text-based subtitles. It can be used an an authoring software for new subtitles or as a tool to convert, transform, correct, and refine existing subtitles. Some of its key features are subtitle preview, smooth cooperation with MPlayer, full subtitle editing, and ASpell support.

Website
Download Jubler
Changelog

Second Life - 1.18.1.2

2007-08-03T07:10:00.001+01:00

Second Life is a virtual world - a 3D online persistent space totally created and evolved by its users. Within this vast and rapidly expanding place, you can do, create or become just about anything you can imagine. Built-in content creation tools let you make almost anything you can imagine, in real time and in collaboration with others. An incredibly detailed digital body ('Avatar') allows a rich and customizable identity. A powerful physics simulation running on a backbone of hundreds of connected computers and growing with the population allows you to be immersed in a visceral, interactive world that as of November 2005 holds more than 80,000 residents. The ability to design and resell 3D content, combined with the ability to own and develop land and a microcurrency, which can be exchanged to real money means that you can build a real business entirely within Second Life.

Website
Download Second Life

Mozilla Thunderbird - 2.0.0.6

2007-08-02T07:17:00.001+01:00

Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component. Our goal is to produce a cross platform stand alone mail application using the XUL user interface language. Our intended customer is someone who uses Mozilla Firebird (or another stand alone browser) as their primary browser and wants a mail client based on mozilla that "plays nice" with the browser. In addition, by focusing solely on stand alone mail, we believe we can make some dents in the overall footprint and performance of the mail client by removing components and chrome we don't need. On top of that, the UI becomes much cleaner as a stand alone application as opposed to being part of the mozilla suite.

In addition to the feature set found in Mozilla Mail, Thunderbird has several new features and improvements to make your mail and new experience better. Highlights include:

* The ability to customize your toolbars the way you want them. Choose View / Toolbars / Customize inside any window.
* UI extensions can be added to Mozilla Thunderbird to customize your experiene with specific features and enchancements that you need. Support for extensions. Extensions allow you to add features particular to your needs such as offline mail support. A full list of available extensions can be found here.
* A new look and feel. Thunderbird also supports a large number of downloadable themes which alter the appearance of the client.
* An addressing sidebar for mail compose which makes it easy and convient to add address book contacts to emails.
* Online help includes a FAQ, tips and tricks and other useful information.
* Simplified preferences UI and menus.
* Footprint and performance improvements.

Website
Download Mozilla Thunderbird

Pontoon - 2.3.1

2007-08-02T07:16:00.001+01:00

Splendid City - 6.4.2

2007-08-02T07:15:00.001+01:00

Splendid City Team Sports Scheduler, and Sports Scheduling Software System is useful for people who organize team sports or game events. Use it to manage and publish sports schedules of any size and complexity. Automatically create high quality double or single elimination tournament brackets, round-robin league schedules, swiss round tournaments, cross divisional or practice schedules for any sport that requires pairings.

It features options that include the ability to set team and field constraints, game lengths; configurative time management utilities to help you organize events the way you would like; object constraint sharing; automatic schedule generation and re-generation; configurative project web site creation, use of HTML website templates, tournament brackets for unlimited number of teams; publishing via FTP, export to HTML, CSV, iCalendar, XML; import schedules and associated data from existing CSV schedules; standings support with tie-breaker formulas; contact management; import teams, fields, officials, players and player rosters from other users' projects ; constraint and conflict checking and resolution.

Users can freely exchange all data associated with projects with other users who have a free copy of Splendid City Lite installed regardless of platform. The application comes with an integrated e-mail client that can aid with the exchange of object files among organization members. There is also a simple FTP client for direct uploading to web domains from within the schedule view frame.

The scheduler gives you complete control over all aspects of the schedule, and creates solutions effortlessly and elegantly in accordance with the user data entered. It can be custom-tailored, and with repeated use via a plugin interface, can be made to automatically accomplish users' unique scheduling needs.

The user experience is interactive and straight forward. The application comes fully documented with a built in searchable help system to provide answers to implementation questions. Several tutorials are also provided.

Website
Download Splendid City

NcFTP Client - 3.2.1

2007-08-02T07:14:00.001+01:00

The purpose of ncftp is to provide a powerful and flexible interface to the Internet standard File Transfer Protocol. It is intended to replace the stock ftp program that comes with the system.

Although the program appears to be rather spartan, you'll find that ncftp has a wealth of valuable performance and usage features. The program was designed with an emphasis on usability, and it does as much as it can for you automatically so you can do what you expect to do with a file transfer program, which is transfer files between two interconnected systems.

Some of the cooler features include progress meters, filename completion, command-line editing, background processing, auto-resume downloads, bookmarking, cached directory listings, host redialing, working with firewalls and proxies, downloading entire directory trees, etc., etc.

The ncftp distribution comes with the useful utility programs ncftpget(1) and ncftpput(1) which were designed to do command-line FTP. In particular, they are very handy for shell scripts. This version of ncftp no longer does command-line FTP, since the main ncftp program is more of a browser-type program.

Website
Download NcFTP Client

MkConsole - 1.10

2007-08-02T07:12:00.001+01:00

This is a little application that displays logfiles on your desktop. Really useful if you have to monitor servers or you just want to keep an eye on what's going on on your machine. In its standard configuration it displays entries from any number of logfiles interleaved in a single window. It is smart enough to close and reopen files every now and then to deal with rotating files and it transparently works around stale NFS handles which often exist after your Mac wakes up from sleep and tries to read from a logfile mounted via NFS. If you don't mind hacking the user defaults (rather than using the preferences panel) you can also configure multiple windows with multiple logifiles each.

Website
Download MkConsole

Sporktris - 1.0

2007-08-02T07:11:00.001+01:00

Sporktris is a clone of Tetris-clones. It is meant to be fun, functional, and pretty, with as little annoyance as possible.
Features:

* Customizable keys (including both turn keys)
* Nifty level backgrounds (from the happyspork.com gallery), and coloured pieces to go with them
* Highscores
* Its own key repeat system (allows for holding down two keys at once, among other things)
* Automatically pauses when it isn't in front
* Will not cause a raccoon infestation in your home or work place
* Handy Features list

Website
Download Sporktris

Font Mate - 1.1.1

2007-08-01T07:56:00.001+01:00

Font Mate is a simple utility for displaying the fonts installed on your computer. You can see all of the characters in all of the fonts, and copy selected characters to the clipboard for use in other programs. You can print a sample character sheet for any font.

Website
Download Font Mate

Pixer - 1.9

2007-08-01T07:55:00.001+01:00

Pixer is a little application thet help you to rescale (or rotate, add pad and, crop) Png, Jpeg, Tiff, psd , bmp or Pict images in batch. Drag a image, a group of images or a folder of images into Pixer icon and type the size you want (for exemple 500 for 500 pixel): Pixel convert them to the typed size. That's all!

Website
Download Pixer

ZipCleaner - 1.0

2007-08-01T07:37:00.001+01:00

Although being able to create zip files right in the Finder is very convenient, they have the disadvantage of often including invisible files. These can be handy on the Mac, but if you send them to people using other operating systems, e.g. MS Windows, they show up as a bunch of unusable extras, like .DS_Store, Icon^M and __MACOSX.

ZipCleaner can remove these files from the zip archives the Finder creates: just drop them on it. It also allows you only to remove the .DS_Store files, which contain Finder settings and Spotlight comments. To do that, drop an archive on ZipCleaner, while holding down the option key.

Website
Download ZipCleaner

RapidoMap - 1.0b1

2007-08-01T07:36:00.001+01:00

RapidoMap is the ultimate geotagging solution for Mac. It allows you to easily add your photos and home videos at the location where they were taken. Using high resolution satellite maps, easy to use search tools, and a simple, integrated interface, RapidoMap makes it easy and fun to manage and present your media or just localize your contacts. Key Features: - Browse your media with street-level maps or a detailed list - View your media right in the application, or present a virtual tour of your photos in a Flyby Slideshow - Geotag your media just by entering the name or address of the places you went. - Drag and drop photos directly on the map from the integrated iLife Media Browser - Share your photos and their locations with anyone from anywhere with the integrated Flickr uploader - View and edit information about each place, such as its name, address, phone number, and comments - Import geotagged photos from GPS enabled cameras

Website
Download RapidoMap

Firefox - 2.0.0.6

2007-07-31T07:35:00.001+01:00

Firefox is an award winning preview of next generation browsing technology from mozilla.org.

Firefox empowers you to accomplish your online activities faster, more safely and efficiently than any other browser, period. Built with Tab browsing, popup blocking and a number of other seamless innovations, Firefox stands out ahead.

Website
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MetaX - 2.0.2

2007-07-31T07:33:00.001+01:00

Torrent Episode Downloader - 0.90

2007-07-31T07:32:00.001+01:00

Meet ted! Your new way of downloading tv shows from the web! Add your favourite tv shows to ted and ted will automatically download torrents of new episodes! Ted has built in support to download torrents for the newest episodes from 24, Lost, The Simpsons, South Park and many more! Features:

* Checks feeds from TorrentReactor, Mininova, TVRSS, The PirateBay, Mr. Twig, Isohunt and MyBittorrent for new episodes of tv shows
* Fill in the current season and episode you are watching. Ted will automatically find new episodes that you have not seen yet
* Built-in support for all mainstream shows (24, Lost, Topgear, Desperate Housewives, the Simpsons, South Park, Grey's Anatomy, Battlestar Galactica, etc.)
* Add your own shows to Ted
* Use keywords to filter out fakes and unwanted versions of episodes
* Use episode- and breakschedulers to save your resources and bandwidth from the torrentsites
* Saves torrents of new shows to your harddisk and optionally opens the torrents in your favourite torrent client

Website
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Motion JWii - 0.9.1

2007-07-31T07:31:00.001+01:00

JellyfiSSH - 4.5

2007-07-31T07:30:00.001+01:00

JellyfiSSH is a simple bookmark manager for connecting to *NIX boxes like BSD/Linux etc via Telnet or SSH 1 or 2. You can set preferences for each bookmark including the terminal colours, fonts, window size, transparency and default login. Version 4 introduces bookmark grouping. Report any problems to the developer.

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htaGen - 0.3.1

2007-07-31T07:29:00.001+01:00

htaGen generates user/password files required for protecting directories on Apache web servers using a .htaccess file. To secure a directory of an Apache web server you basically need two things: a user/password file and a .htaccess file. You can use htaGen to generate the user/password file (a .htaccess file template is also included).

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IphoneAps - 1.0

2007-07-31T07:27:00.001+01:00

Brings all the hottest iPhone Applications right to your dashboard, Our Dynamic list is updated all the time with fresh applications. Developers can also submit their apps for listing.

Website
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Short break

2007-07-28T07:51:00.000+01:00

Hi folks!

Again I've to take a small break from blogging. I'm in Warsaw, Poland right now to attend a friend's wedding.
The posting will be resumed on Monday or Tuesday, respectively.

So long!

MetaX - 1.9.8

2007-07-25T07:36:00.001+01:00

Yum - 2.2

2007-07-25T07:35:00.001+01:00

"Yum" is a recipe collection manager for organising your own recipe collection (also includes an example recipe collection). Features include:

* Indexing by category - each recipe can belong to any number of user-defined categories.
* Several printing options (all, selected, category).
* Highly customisable page layout and text can be formatting including fonts, styles and paragraph settings. Your recipes can look just the way you want them for both printing and on screen.
* Graphics can be included (copy/paste, or drag/drop) within the recipe text.
* Recipes can be imported from MasterCook export files, other Yum files or Yum XML files, and can be exported to Yum files, XML files or plain text files.
* Email recipe(s) (uses your default email client)
* Generate Shopping list for arbitrary sets of recipes.

Website
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CUPS-PDF - 2.4.6

2007-07-25T07:34:00.001+01:00

CUPS-PDF is an open-source backend module for CUPS (Mac OS X's printing system) by Volker C. Behr that, rather than printing to a device, prints straight to PDF files.

Why use this rather than a simple "Save as PDF" in the print dialog?

* Pressing return is faster.
* Batch-print through the writer to convert documents to PDF.
* Common save location for all generated PDFs.

Website
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Privateer Gemini Gold - 1.02a

2007-07-25T07:32:00.001+01:00

Many of us experienced Privateer in the early 90's, the engaging space piracy and trading game that captured us with mystery and challenges.

Some contemporary efforts tried bringing back the Privateer joy of years past, but all have been limited by the blocky 320x200 pixel art in the game. The competing Privateer Gemini Gold has just released a new Open Source Privateer to all platforms with the inflight and ground art redone at 800x600 as well as with all the familiar controls that were baked into the base scenes and immersed the player in the scenes.

Just like the original, you start poor, with an old scout class ship in a sparsely populated system in the Gemini Sector. As usual, you must try to get money through various mission assignments from which you can purchase better ships and upgrades. It's your choice how to explore Gemini and align with the various factions, earn your money as a merchant, bounty hunter, traitor or pirate. Meet Sandoval in a bar on New Detroit and talk to him to trigger the original campaign and the newer Righteous Fire expansion.

Website
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vMailias - 1.1.1

2007-07-25T07:31:00.001+01:00

If you have your own domain, with a catch-all email account, you can use vMailias to quickly provide unique email addresses for your catch-all when registering with web-sites.

If you have a Gmail account, vMailias can perform the same service, using the Gmail '+' notation to generate email addresses that are directed into your main Gmail account.

Website
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GetDilbert - 1.7

2007-07-25T07:30:00.001+01:00

Feed your addiction! GetDilbert simply grabs and displays the latest Dilbert comic from unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert.

Website
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D&D Manager - 1.3.9

2007-07-25T07:28:00.001+01:00

D&D Manager is an application for keeping track of D&D characters, spells and their related properties including weapons, skills and feats. Also allows quick character creation and the creation of template characters. You can also run battles between the characters with special ability support, spells, including casting of summoning and ability changing spells, and one, two and multiple weapon attacks. Characters can also have one of the built in, or custom character classes and spells can also now belong to them. More information is available on the features page of my website. If you find any bugs please can you send me an email to bugs@erasersoft.com.

Website
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Highlight - 1.3

2007-07-25T07:27:00.001+01:00

Highlight is a tool designed with teachers and demos in mind : it helps you attracting the attention of your audience on what happens on the screen. It is designed to be as unobtrusive and simple as possible, while letting you express your communicating skills efficiently.

Website
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FStream - 1.2.8

2007-07-24T07:48:00.001+01:00

Little WebRadio listener/recorder software.

Website
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Additune - v66

2007-07-24T07:46:00.001+01:00

Simple Comic - 1.4

2007-07-24T07:45:00.001+01:00

Features:

* Page Layout: Pages laid out as they would be in print
* Page Ordering: Left to right or right to left
* Page Scaling: Original size, window fit, horizontal fit and defined height
* Fullscreen: Maximize viewing area
* Archive Handling: Seamlessly deals with .cbr, .cbz, .zip, .rar, tar, 7z, lha and others
* PDF Handling: Opens PDF based comics
* Multiple Sessions: View multiple comics at one time
* Auto-save: Comics are automatically bookmarked and reopened at launch
* Page Rotation: Rotate the pages to maximize display area
* Simplicity: Does not attempt to be all things to all people

Website
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Floola - 1.3

2007-07-24T07:44:00.001+01:00

Iceberg - 1.2.4

2007-07-23T07:28:00.001+01:00

Iceberg is an integrated packaging environment (IPE) that allows you to create packages or metapackages conforming to the Mac OS X specifications.

With Iceberg, you can quickly create your installation packages using a graphic user interface similar to your favorite development tools.

Iceberg can also be useful for Administrators who want to gather in a metapackage numerous packages for remote distribution via Apple Remote Desktop.

Iceberg source code is available under the BSD license.

Website
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Aquamacs Emacs - 1.1

2007-07-23T07:27:00.001+01:00

Aquamacs is a Mac-like distribution of the powerful Emacs text editor. It looks and behaves like a Mac program - even though it's still GNU Emacs with all the extensibility that millions have come to appreciate.

Emacs is a text editor of legendary power and configurability, but it also has an enormously complex interface. Aquamacs tames the Emacs tiger: you get Apple shortcuts (in addition to the Emacs ones), nice fonts, one file per window (if wanted), international input methods, Apple Help manuals and more. Aquamacs comes with a range of modes for various markup and programming languages: HTML, C/C++, Java, Python, Perl, AppleScript, Tcl, XML, R (S)... These modes have extra functions for the languages, including excellent syntax highlighting. You can even use Aquamacs to read news and e-mail, just like any Emacs.

Website
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QuickBoot - 1.0.1

2007-07-23T07:26:00.001+01:00

QuickBoot is a small application to make it quick & easy to boot another drive/partition like Windows and have the system boot back to your default system afterwards.

Website
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Amnesty Hypercube - 0.1.1a

2007-07-23T07:21:00.001+01:00

Shiira - 2.2

2007-07-23T07:19:00.001+01:00

Shiira is a web browser based on Web Kit and written in Cocoa. The goal of the Shiira Project is to create a browser that is better and more useful than Safari. All source code used in this software is publicly available.

Website
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Dashalytics Widget - 3.0

2007-07-23T07:16:00.001+01:00

Dashalytics Widget is a free Dashboard Widget for OSX that offers quick access to Google Analytics statistics.

Website
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XNJB - 1.4.8

2007-07-23T07:15:00.001+01:00

XNJB is a Cocoa graphical user interface for Mac OS X for the Creative Nomad range of portable MP3 players. It uses libnjb and libmtp for low level communication.

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Changelog

phpMyAdmin - 2.10.3

2007-07-22T07:25:00.001+01:00

phpMyAdmin is intended to handle the adminstration of MySQL over the web. Currently it can:

* create and drop databases
* create, copy, drop and alter tables
* delete, edit and add fields
* execute any SQL-statement, even batch-queries
* manage keys on fields
* load text files into tables
* create and read dumps of tables
* export data to CSV values
* administer multiple servers and single databases

Website
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SeaMonkey - 1.1.3

2007-07-22T07:24:00.001+01:00

Web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple -- all your Internet needs in one application. The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived from the application formerly known as "Mozilla Application Suite". Whereas the main focus of the Mozilla Foundation is on Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird, our group of dedicated volunteers works to ensure that you can have "everything but the kitchen sink" — and have it stable enough for corporate use.

Website
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Wcalc - 2.3

2007-07-22T07:23:00.001+01:00

Wcalc is a very capable calculator. It supports abitrary precision, has standard functions (sin, asin, and sinh for example, in either radians or degrees), many pre-defined constants (pi, e, c, etc.), support for using variables, "active" variables, a command history, hex/octal/binary input and output, unit conversions, embedded comments, and an expandable expression entry field. It evaluates expressions using the standard order of operations.

Wcalc also comes in a command-line version that can be compiled on most (if not all) forms of Unix.

Website
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Quinn - 3.5

2007-07-22T07:21:00.001+01:00

iGTD - 1.4.5.3

2007-07-21T07:33:00.001+01:00

Shimo - 1.0.3

2007-07-21T07:32:00.001+01:00

The initial reason for the development of Shimo was the lousy software-implementation of the Cisco-VPN-Client for MacOS. Shimo wants to do it the MacOS-way: That means to reduce the interface to the important features and integrate it right into the user-interface of the OS. Thus the interaction with this piece of software is absolutely intuitive and self explanatory. Try it out and you will see what we are speaking of...

* simple and intuitive interface
* advanced statistics
* automatic reconnect on wake-up/start-up
* automatic updating to newest version

Website
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Maintenance - 1.1.6

2007-07-21T07:31:00.001+01:00

Maintenance is a System Maintenance and Cleaning utility. It allows you to run misc tasks of system maintenance: repair permissions, run periodic scripts, reset Mail's and Spotlight's Index, rebuild the LaunchServices database, delete Application, Font and System cache, check the status of the Hard disk...

Website
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Cocktail - 3.7

2007-07-21T07:30:00.001+01:00

Cocktail is a general purpose utility for Mac OS X. The application simplifies the use of advanced UNIX functions, gives access to hidden Mac OS X settings and let you easily optimize your system. It is a smooth, powerful and simple to use utility with all major features arranged in five basic categories and a Pilot that lets you clean, repair and optimize your system with one click of the button.

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Additune - v65

2007-07-21T07:29:00.001+01:00

Mozilla Thunderbird - 2.0.0.5

2007-07-21T07:27:00.001+01:00

Twicetab - 1.2

2007-07-21T07:26:00.001+01:00

Install Twicetab, double-click the Safari tab bar, and a new tab will be created. And that's it.

Website
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OnyX - 1.8.2

2007-07-21T07:25:00.001+01:00

OnyX allows you to run misc tasks of system maintenance, to configure certain hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, Safari, Dashboard, Expose, Disk Utility... to delete cache, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome, to see the detailed info of your configuration, to preview the different logs and CrashReporter reports, and more.

Website
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RapidoStart - 1.6

2007-07-21T07:24:00.001+01:00

RapidoStart is a Free application designed to quickly launch applications, open documents, or access folders. When there is not enough space in the Apple Dock, you can use RapidoStart to stock an endless number of items! RapidoStart is also more discreet. It can be used in conjunction with the Apple Dock or as its replacement. RapidoStart is Freeware, gratis and freely usable! You can copy and distribute it. You can use it for as long a time as you want. RapidoStart requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 Panther. RapidoStart is optimized for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.

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Metadata Export for iPhoto - 1.0.0

2007-07-21T07:22:00.001+01:00

Metadata Export for iPhoto is an export plugin for iPhoto 6 which allows you to export metadata about your iPhoto library photos, including:

* Comments - comments about the photo.
* Dates
o Archival Date - Archival date of the photo.
o Creation Date - Creation date of the photo.
o Modification Date - Modification date of the photo.
* Format - the file/image format of the photo.
* Height - height of the photo, in pixels.
* Keywords - keywords assigned to the photo.
* Path - absolute path to the photo.
* Rating - ranking/rating of the photo.
* Rotation - rotation of the photo, in degrees.
* Title - title (name) of the photo.
* Width - width of the photo, in pixels.

to a number of different file formats, including:

* Comma-separated Values (CSV)
* Extensible HTML (XHTML)
* Tab-delimited Text
* XML Property List

With the exported metadata, you can do things like generate and print labels for organizing hard copies of your photos, slides or negatives. Or, you can import the data into a database program and run and generate queries or reports to gain insights about your iPhoto library.

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