Mac OS X Freeware, OSX Freeware

2/28/2007

Fenetres Volantes - 1.1

You are not using your windows ? Fenêtres Volantes make them fly ! After some idle time that can be set in the System Preferences, the windows take off the screen and flutter in the void. On a mouse move, the windows immediately come back and stuck to their original position.

What's new in this version:

* addition of an option "Realistic reflections" in the preferences. But it could slow down Fenêtres Volantes on old Mac.
* correction of the bug of doubling of the windows.
* correction memory leak in the configuration window.
* improvement of futur compatibility with MacOSX 10.5.
* correction of the bug of gray screen when animated background.
* modification of the method of display of the credits.
* suppression of the monitoring of certain events likely to cause the premature end of the screen saver.
* addition of a log on the event causing the end of the screen saver.
* test of the combination of keys MAJ+CTRL+COMMAND when click on button OK of the preferences, to activate or not the debug mode. [Known bug] Certain configurations with multiple screens prevent Fenêtres Volantes to function properly (darken screen) in “on all joined screens” display mode. You can, however, safely try to select this mode in screen save's options. [Limitation] There is no anti-aliasing: this limitation comes from QuartzComposer. The correction of this limitation depends now only on APPLE.

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PortableOSX - 0.0.1b4

PortableOSX installs a stripped down version of Mac OS X to a mobile device, such an USB2 or FireWire drive.

What's new in this version:

There are two major new features in this beta: it prevents the creation of the sleepimage file, wich could take over a GB and it can also do a real system installation inside a folder. A small fix is that Installer.app is now always included in the system.

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2/27/2007

Xbox 360 Controller driver - 0.04

This driver adds support to Mac OS X for the official Microsoft Xbox 360 wired controller. Along with all the buttons, both analog sticks, the analog triggers and the D-pad, it implements Force Feedback support using the rumble motors as well.

As the driver is open source, it is also possible to see an example of how to communicate with the driver directly, to control the LEDs as well as bypass the Force Feedback functionality for direct rumble motor control.

Third party controllers should also be supported, but these must be added manually to the driver's list of supported devices. Currently this includes the official controller and the DOA4 stick controller.

What's new in this version:

* Wireless Gaming Receiver support (source code to follow)

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MailFollowup Mail Plugin - 1.1

Adds a "Followup" item to the Message and contextual menus (and optional toolbar item) of Apple's Mail application that allows you to compose (and then send) a quoted version of the original message to all of the original recipients, keeping the To, Cc and Bcc addresses exactly as they appeared in the original message. Hawk Wings has a nice description of MailFollowup.

What's new in this version:

* See complete revision history here.
* NEW: Added a much-requested Followup toolbar button. The button can be added via the toolbar customization panel, either as a stand-alone Followup button, or in a Reply-Reply All-Followup-Forward group.
* NEW: Improved handling of multiple accounts.
* NEW: The plugin version and a list of all installed plugins is now printed in the Console log when Mail is launched.
* NEW: The installer now warns the user if the Mail bundle compatibility is already set to 1 (old style), and lists all currently installed plugins at the end of the installation.
* NEW: The installer now offers to back up the Mail folder and preferences to the Desktop.
* NEW: The installer has been localized in German and French.
* IMPROVED: Re-thought and changed the logic for when to cc and/or bcc the original and/or followup sender, and the overall process is faster.
* IMPROVED: Improved the handling of followups from the Sent mail folder.
* FIXED: The recipient addresses in the followup message are now the full "formatted" addresses.

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NTPScape - 1.0

NTPScape is a tool for discovering, exploring, and debugging NTP time servers. It can be used to determine if any NTP servers on your local network are misconfigured.

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UnicodeChecker - 1.12.1

UnicodeChecker displays detailed information for every code point from the Unicode Standard. The information includes Unicode name, UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 encodings, XHTML entities, mapping info and a lot more.

You can browse characters by code point or find them by their Unicode name.

Several string conversion functions (IDN, XHTML, CSS, Java, etc.) are available from within UnicodeChecker, via the MacOS X "Services" menu and/or via AppleScript

What's new in this version:

* UnicodeChecker can now directly download and install the Unihan data file.
* UnicodeChecker Help includes instructions for changing keyboard shortcuts for Service menu commands.
* Improved support for Aliases in file paths.
* Fixed a bug where the saved “Unihan Tag Filter” was initially not used for filtering.
* Fixed a bug where UnicodeChecker would hang if “to custom location” was selected in the Spotlight index generation dialog.

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MySecureShell - 0.95

MySecureShell is a SFTP Server that can be configured by hand or in a Graphical Mode. It is very secure, simple to install, easy to manage and configure. MySecureShell is the best way to transfert securely files ! Try it ;-)

What's new in this version:

* + support ACLs

* + support sftp extension : check data

* + add tag LogFile

* + full support of remote administration

* + sftp-who: add global bandwidth used by MySecureShell

* ~ reduct necessary ressources by MySecureShell

* ~ improve transfer files and broswing directories

* ~ improve load of configuration file

* = fix bug with symlink

* = fix bug on tags PathDenyFilter, HideFiles, StayAtHome and ShowLinksAsLinks (with HideNoAccess)

* = fix bug with option --configtest

* = fix bug on tags LimitConnection, LimitConnectionByUser and LimitConnectionByIP

* = fix memory leaks while loading configuration file

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MagiCal - 1.0.7r1

Badia PageView - 2.0

Badia PageView is a free XTension for QuarkXPress 7 that introduces a navigation palette displaying a color thumbnail of the active spread in the document, as well as a variety of new tools for handling views. You will be able to jump quickly to a certain point in the spread with a single click of the mouse, or zoom in to any area by dragging the mouse over the thumbnail.

What's new in this version:

- QuarkXPress 7-native
- Universal Binary release

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Friendz - 1.5b

Friendz is an application for viewing your xbox live friends. At the moment it is in beta stage and needs some bugs to be worked out. If you do find any bugs please contact me at info@thermoglobalnuclearwar.com.

What's new in this version:

The ability to send and recieve messages. Growl support for messages and friends.

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JES Video Cleaner - 1.3.1

Product Description:

* reduces general noise
* removes logo
* averages movies
* removes cross-luma
* removes bottom garbage

What's new in this version:

Minor bug fixes

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iBackup - 5.2.2

Backup is a simple to use backup/restore utility for scheduled backups of your system preferences, like the dock, deskop picture, time settings, firewall, bluetooth and system applications like AddressBook, Mail, Stikies, iChat, iTunes and more.

You can edit these preferences settings and add your own.

iBackup do also backup/restore files, folders and applications.

What's new in this version:

* bug fixed: Updating from minor version don't throw errors
* bug fixed: Adding new profiles don't throw errors anymore
* bug fixed: Due to restore, the folder ~/Library/Application Support/iBackup is deleted and new created. No error occurs anymore.
* improvement: Smart Folders; a smart folder adds all items that it contains automatically to the backup
* improvement: iBackup use a folder icon for backup folder
* improvement: iBackup play sound after finishing a backup or restore
* improvement: iBackup run script before it checks if a volume is mounted
* improvement: The menu settings allows to set the UNIX command that iBackup uses to copy the data
* improvement: Help is updated
* improvement: System Preferences renamed to System Settings and Application Preferences to Applications Settings
* improvement: iTunes style adopted
* improvement: If profile Restore is selected, it updates the sources automatically
* improvement: If a scheduler is set, click on the timer image in the main window opens up the settings window to modify the scheduler settings
* improvement: iBackup is able to backup to a WebDAV server if the option is selected in the Settings menu
* improvement: simplified chinese translation

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River - 1.1

This utility helps Mac users to serch (and find!) torrent files. River use most important torrent portal on the web. Open River and type word to search. Drag a file or a folder to search the torrent element's name.

What's new in this version:

- Add folder support (now you can drag a folder as a file)

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Pixer - 1.1

Pixer is a little application thet help you to rescale Png, Jpeg, pict and Tiff images in batch. Drag a image or a group of images into Pixer icon and type the size you want (for exemple 500 is 500 pixel): Pixel convert them to the typed size. That's all! Hint 1: leave the window blank and press OK, Pixer leave the size unchanged and building the icon to all images (icons are very cool, with progressive trasparency with PNG 24bit) Hint 2: type H for 800pixel, M for 480pixel, L for 305pixel and T for 80pixel. If you use letters instead of numbers, Pixer insert the letter as standard prefix and postfix in the name of image (image.jpg becomes H_image_1.jpg).

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Neuronyx - 2.2.4

The goal of the game is to match cards in as short a time as possible. Several levels of difficulties, possibility to create its own cards games. The matching cards can be maded of images, sounds or texts, to match in order or not. Many options of personalization. More game cards downloadable on the authors website.

What's new in this version:

Distributed as Donationware.

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DiceX - 1.2b3

DiceX is a dice-roller for Mac OS X. It features optional roll-dropping, "per die" and "to total" bonus and penalty modifiers, and a log to maintain track of your previous rolls. The source code is now available on my web site under the GNU General Public License, version 2.0.

What's new in this version:

* Added log-export functionality.
* First open-source release (visit my web site to download the source).
* Updated the online help.

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Noise Maker - 1.0

Noise Maker lets you create RGB or grayscale random noise maps, and save them to PNG file(s). Options let you control the resolutions (pixels wide x high), as well as automated generation of multiple noise files. Useful for the graphics and video industry, or for creating useful maps to use in Quartz Composer.

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Noise Industries Units - 1.0.8

A set of filters and generators that are compatible with any Core Image-enabled application on Mac OS X (e.g. Quartz Composer).

* NI 3x3 Weights
* NI Displacement Distortion
* NI Drop Shadow
* NI Red Channel
* NI Green Channel
* NI Blue Channel
* NI Join Channels
* NI RGB to YUV
* NI YUV to RGB
* NI Sobel Edge
* NI Threshold
* NI Threshold With Colors
* NI Flip
* NI Luma
* NI Luminance
* NI Sobel Edge v2
* NI Expand Color
* NI Noise Generator

What's new in this version:

Version 1.0.8:

* New Expand Color unit
* New Noise generator unit, to replace the buggy Perlin Noise generators of the past
* Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes

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FMenu - 2.0

FMenu is a menu extra providing customizable Growl notifications about various Facebook events, a menu to easily access common Facebook pages, and a count of your messages, pokes, events, friend requests, wall posts, and photo comments.

What's new in this version:

* Upgraded to Facebook API v.1. Consequently some menu items have disappeared, but all the submenus are back and there is now a Shares counter as well
* All counters can be put in the menubar, including shares, photo comments, and wall posts
* "f" icon can now be hidden (note that this can be dangerous, since it can make the menu nearly inaccessible)
* Interface should be more responsive as updates are performed in separate threads
* Repeated friend notifications should hopefully be eliminated
* Errors should be handled more gracefully
* Rudimentary update checking will notify you through Growl when a new version is released
* Quicklaunch now properly loses focus after return is pressed
* New messages, pokes, and shares are detected even if the number of unreads remains unchanged

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2/26/2007

iTunes Playlist Changer - 1.0

iTunes Playlist Changer permits you to change the playlist within iTunes without abruptly changing the song currently playing. It also permits you to change song in the middle of hearing another one. You have a crossfadable 'next' and 'previous' button, and a 'stop', 'play', and 'pause' button. iTunes Playlist Changer wll crossfade between any 2 songs in your iTunes library.

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Enhanced Carbon Emacs (ECE) plugin - 1.0.1

Enhanced Carbon Emacs is now a universal enhancement plugin for arbitrary (unix, carbon, or aqua) emacs distributions (such as Yaced, Aquamacs, CarbonEmacs Tiger, or the native darwin emacs in /usr/bin/emacs). This includes a fully customisable LaTeX editing environment based on AucTeX, RefTeX, Preview and other packages. Basically, ECE is a convenient way to properly install a large number of pre-configured useful packages for LaTeX users, which includes a hack of AUCTeX, that allows to have a more intuitive handling of the "view" command in a macintosh context (in particular, for non-pdftex users willing to preview in pdf). From emacs, you can launch directly any latex process or any mac application on files or regions you are working on.

What's new in this version:

* 1.0.1 fixes a bug in the interaction between filladapt and bibtex

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LilyPond - 2.10.20-1

Why can't computer printout look just as good as traditionally engraved music? With that thought in mind we have started LilyPond nine years ago. We built it to be robust, flexible, and, of course, easily usable. Use it for your music as well! LilyPond is an automated engraving system. It formats music beautifully and automatically, and has a friendly syntax for its input files.

What's new in this version:

This release fixes many bugs.

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Untar - 1.3.2

Untar is a wrapper application which acts as the front end to a variety of UNIX utilities, such as 7za, tar, gzip, bzip2, rar, and zip. Untar is able to uncompress files in.7z, .tar, .tar.gz, .tgz, .tar.z, .z, .gz, .svgz .Z, .tar.Z, .taz, .tar.bz, .tar.bz2, .tbz, .tbz2, .bz, .bz2, .rar, and .zip formats. Source code and project are included.

What's new in this version:

* Now open source under the GPL license.
* Added French localization.
* Added Traditional Chinese localization.
* Updated Help files.
* Fixed a potential problem with extracting from 7z files.
* Archives will now extract the files into their own containing folder.

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TrailRunner - 1.3v136

If you ever asked yourself how long your workout routes are and what route you should choose for this evening - then TrailRunner should be your training-partner.

* Geographic display of your workout area.
* Plan routes interactively.
* Collect routes.
* Route description and direction signs at crossings.
* Timed-checkpoints according to your pace.
* Rate your favorite tracks.
* Plan routes automatically with target distance and as many favorite tracks as possible.
* Export route descriptions onto your iPod as Notes-Text or NanoMap-Photos
* Collect your workout data in a Diary.
* Send to and exchange routes with friends and workout partners.
* Import GPX-Tracklists from GPS-units.

What's new in this version:

Version 1.3v136:

* Multiple diaries for Triathletes and Groups
* Bugfixes and stability improvements

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MagiCal - 1.0.7

MagiCal is a FREE menu-based clock and calendar. It features a huge range of configuration options for how the time and date are displayed, and can operate either in addition to, or instead of, the built in system menu clock. In addition to this, MagiCal features a handy drop-down calendar that can be torn off and placed anywhere on screen.

What's new in this version:

* You can now click on the month or year in the drop-down calendar to jump directly to the desired date.
* Time format now supports display of am/pm as A.M./P.M. - simply type A.M. in the desired position in the time format string to use this option.
* Time format now supports display of 24hr times without a leading zero by using "2" as the hour format.
* Added option to display time in the menu tool tip.
* Changes to the time and date in the system preferences are now immediately reflected by the MagiCal menu and tear-off calendars.
* Added "Open Date & Time..." option to menu.
* Added Danish localisation. Thanks go to Michael Kristensen for the translation.
* Added Brazilian-Portuguese localisation. Thanks go to Ed Lamblet for the translation.
* Corrected some omissions in the Spanish localisation.

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GrandPerspective - 0.99

GrandPerspective is a small utility application for Mac OS X that graphically shows the disk usage within a file system. It can help you to manage your disk, as you can easily spot which files and folders take up the most space. It uses a so called tree map for visualisation. Each file is shown as a rectangle with an area proportional to the file's size. Files in the same folder appear together, but their placement is otherwise arbitrary.

What's new in this version:

New functionality:

* Added choice of file size measure. You can choose between logical file size (the default), and physical file size.
* Added help documentation.

Changes to the release files:

* The application has been released as a Universal Binary.
* The source release has been extended, and now includes everything needed to directly build the application.

Furthermore:

* Various minor improvements to the GUI.
* Fixed four minor bugs.

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DockReboot - 1.0.1

You know the problem, when the Dock doesn't work anymore and you can not open an application? Then you are not alone with this problem! A lot of Mac-Users have to restart the Finder or the whole computer to solve this problem. Just launch DockReboot from your application folder and the tool restarts the Dock for you.

What's new in this version:

* new interface
* options added (Show Success Window, Ask before restarting Dock)

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iBackup - 5.2.1

iBackup is a simple to use backup/restore utility for scheduled backups of your system preferences, like the dock, deskop picture, time settings, firewall, bluetooth and system applications like AddressBook, Mail, Stikies, iChat, iTunes and more.

You can edit these preferences settings and add your own.

iBackup do also backup/restore files, folders and applications.

What's new in this version:

* bug fixed: Due to restore, the folder ~/Library/Application Support/iBackup is deleted and new created. No error occurs anymore.
* improvement: Smart Folders; a smart folder adds all items that it contains automatically to the backup
* improvement: iBackup use a folder icon for backup folder
* improvement: iBackup play sound after finishing a backup or restore
* improvement: iBackup run script before it checks if a volume is mounted
* improvement: The menu settings allows to set the UNIX command that iBackup uses to copy the data
* improvement: Help is updated
* improvement: System Preferences renamed to System Settings and Application Preferences to Applications Settings
* improvement: iTunes style adopted
* improvement: If profile Restore is selected, it updates the sources automatically
* improvement: If a scheduler is set, click on the timer image in the main window opens up the settings window to modify the scheduler settings
* improvement: iBackup is able to backup to a WebDAV server if the option is selected in the Settings menu
* improvement: simplified chinese translation

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IPSentinelStatus - 1.0.4

IPSentinelStatus is a menu bar status item which displays and copies your machines IP address and name. This program also logs to console when the ip address changes.

This software is donationware which initially runs in fully functional demo mode. When the demo expires you are requested to make a donation in the amount of your choice to obtain a permanent password. A permanent password will enable you to run the program indefinitely. All upgrades are always free.

What's new in this version:

* An email notification can be delivered whenever the program refreshes itself (such as when the IP address changes.)
* A preference pane has been implemented for mail server setup.

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Maintenance - 1.1.1

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

What's new in this version:

* System Optimization simplified
* Verifications executed before the request for password
* The LaunchServices database is not selected any more by default
* Bug corrected when the Restore Defaults button is clicked in the Preferences

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