Filter Forge - wow, they have a Mac beta! And it works in Photoshop Elements (though only on Windows - on OS X apparently only the big packages. Damn). Hmm, I think that would be something to test - because seamless textures is the only reason why I still need Windows, even if it's only in an emulation.
mac-os-x - 1.3.2008 - 31.1.2009
Darwin/x86 Boot Loader - interesting details on how PS2 devices are (no longer) supported under OSX. Could this serve as a starting point for elantech drivers for the Eee-PC? Somehow I want and need to get rid of the stupid touch-click.
How To Migrate from Parallels to VirtualBox - might be a good idea, as VirtualBox is free - and should also run on my Asus. And yes, it's completely crazy to have virtualization running on a netbook. But OS X also runs on mine.
XBinary: Extended Binary Format Support for Mac OS X - looks quite interesting.
TimeMachine fails backup - InsanelyMac Forum - there are tips on how to get Time Machine to fly. At least it works with an eee-PC that has an Airport card (the Ralink drivers are said to conflict with the patch).
how to find mac os x application specifier for preferences - since I only have 600 pixels in height on my EeePC, but some dialogs are larger (and you need to get to the things at the bottom): there is help. Mac OS X is already a fine system.
OS X on the EeePC - works. The linked snap shows my EeeBook with NetNewswire in the foreground, notes and a shell (where software is currently being installed with MacPorts) in the background. EeePC: 350 Euro. RunCore 64 GB SSD (fast!!): 199 US$. 2GB memory upgrade: 25 US$ (and I'll also replace the WiFi card so I can use the native drivers, so another 30 Euro). Finally Windows-free: priceless.
eee Mac journey: EEE Boot: Installing OSX on an EEE PC 901 or 1000 with an original Apple Install Disk v1.09 - ok, I think I'll buy a USB DVD drive today or tomorrow. OS X on the little fat one? I have to see this!
Improve Your Photo Booth With 90 Free Effects - pointless, but funny. The video effects also work with iChat video chats.
Raw Photo Processor (RPP) - sounds very interesting, I should check it out. Normally I am satisfied with Lightroom - and thus Adobe Camera Raw - but for some images one could invest a bit more energy and time and then this could be quite interesting.
MacMegaPov Index - good mac version of PovRay with small GUI for the parameters.
arRsync - an Rsync GUI for Mac OS X - Title says it all. Addendum: the programmer was probably on drugs. You can't enter ssh servers or anything, only paths. What the hell is rsync good for local paths? The advantage of rsync is especially on network connections ... (oh, and no documentation and no status, unless you sacrifice an email address for "information about the new release")
Poladroid project : the easiest and funniest Polaroid Image Maker - check it out. I love Polaroid.
Unity creates games and 3D applications for the iPhone [Update] - ouch, the price for the iPhone option is quite steep. However, Unity is quite an interesting story, so this could lead to some new games. And particularly interesting: Unity also supports network games and has basic functions in the server for persistent worlds (though you still have to do a lot of programming yourself). Could definitely cause some stir. But for my hobby budget definitely outside the realm of reason.
GTK+ on OSX - maybe this is finally the first step towards a native version of GIMP. Although there will probably still be some visual shocks for Mac users - the X mindset is still deeply ingrained in many programs.
tms - a very useful command line tool for Leopard, with which you can look very detailed into TimeMachine backups and find out what the hell was actually backed up there. Helpful when you're sitting there again and wondering why the stupid system wants to back up 1.3 GB now (probably it was the system upgrade) ...
SourceForge.net: X-41 - an HP-41CV Simulator - for OSX. The HP48 and above were of course more modern, but somehow only the HP41 is the real HP pocket calculator ...
Dropbox - Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy. - interesting file sync service - the client is written in Python (though closed source in the delivery). Initially, I was a bit annoyed because it doesn't say which systems it works on - and my work Mac on which I'm currently testing it is still on 10.3.9. And yes, it actually works. Ok, if it even supports 10.3.9, you can ignore system version specifications ... (although, I've heard there are still 10.2 users)
Dumb User Interfaces (c) by Apple
What idiot at Apple had the brilliant idea of the icon configuration on the "desktop" of the iPhone? And above all, at whose expense is the great deed of updating a program to place the icon of the update not where the actual program is located, but to quickly place it on the first free spot of the first page with such a thing?
Either you have a cheerful icon shuffling after every update, or you are allowed to search for your icons after a series of updates to see where they have landed again. The pushing of icons is particularly great, of course, if you have all pages full - and if you don't have them all full, updates happily move across the pages. And has anyone ever tried to push an icon from the last page to the first one if you have more than just two pages? No fun, absolutely no fun.
The designer responsible for the iPhone's icon configuration deserves to be slapped. At least for a week. Non-stop.
Sync trigger with Applescript ... - the path of the command line tool to trigger a sync is mentioned in the last comment. Very nice to build your own backup system, e.g. using Unison and iDisk.
Index of /namespace/OmniOutliner - DTDs for the OmniOutliner XML format.
tunnelblick - graphical OpenVPN client for OS X with all necessary binaries and tools. Could be really useful for me.
Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes - loads of practical scripts for iTunes.
OmniFocus for iPhone and iPod touch - cool. Combining the iPhone OS's Location Services with a GTD application. Obvious idea, but you still have to come up with it first. Additionally, there will be a sync between Mac and iPhone for OmniFocus - that makes the software quite interesting - especially of course if it is based on elements and possibly even can synchronize several OmniFocus instances? The latter probably not, but one can still hope.
Aquamacs: Emacs for Mac OS X - now also supports tabs. Hmm. Maybe I should finally get off my ass and make the necessary adjustments and switch. The flexibility of Emacs is unparalleled and Aquamacs now has a really usable - and Mac-like! - interface. (Update: nah, nah, really not. In the moment I used vi to edit the .emacs file, I knew that all the Mac adjustments would be useless)
AVOX Antares Vocal Toolkit - wow! That's exactly what I've been looking for - live-editing of voices (or batch in audio editing) with various effects. Ideal for my avatar work in SL, to give avatars suitable sounds. Specifically, Mutator and Articulator are interesting (the latter is perfect: it overlays the formative parts of the voice over other sounds and thus lets, for example, the wind speak).
Cocoa Text System - everything you want to know about the text system configuration under OS X (or don't want to know, but can still read about it)
impromptu - new version of the squeaking Scheme for the Mac.
fseventer - interesting GUI tool for live analysis of file changes on the Mac.
Taskpaper - interesting approach to a to-do list: a GUI program that works directly with very simply structured text files. Perfect for managing the files with Mercurial or similar and conflicts can also be resolved in a usable way. Ideal for parallel use on multiple computers. And there are also useful modes for various editors with which you can edit the files well. Hmm. But can this solve my Omnioutliner dependency?
Ready Lisp: Common Lisp for Mac OS X - cool. After the Eclipse version, there is now also the classic Emacs version. Very nice - Eclipse works on my iMac, but it's not really a hit there. And for a nostalgic Lisper like me, old == better.
DAZ Productions Hexagon 2.5 - a 3D subdivision modeler, and it looks quite usable. Above all, it offers export for Second Life Sculpted Prims, including texturing. Maybe I should take a look at it too (normally I use AC3D, which is fixed and well configurable, but it looks rather thin on the side of texture creation, at least for someone with my non-skills)
GreaseKit - User Scripting for all WebKit applications - great. With this, Safari is getting closer to Firefox. With this and PithHelmet, Safari is already quite rounded. However, it would be nice if Apple would officially support plugin interfaces for such tools instead of constantly breaking the functionality of these tools. Even better would be a direct integration into Safari, because the ideas of these two tools are really not that far-fetched ...
Mailplane - wow, I definitely need to check that out. A Webkit-based specialized browser for Google Mail that can handle multiple accounts. I currently use multiple Prism instances for this, but a single program with switching capability would of course be much better. Besides, Prism is nice, but (thanks to Mozilla technology) is simply not a Mac application. And Fluid would be Mac-like, but unfortunately it can only handle one Google Mail account (since it does not separate cookies or KeyChain entries).
New version of VirtualBox also runs under Mac OS X and Solaris (Update) - and offers seamless desktop also for Linux guests. That would almost be interesting and reason to take a look at it. Although Parallels has been working so well for me that there is little "pressure to suffer" for such experiments.
USBOverdrive - I need to check this out, it allows you to assign functions to additional keys on USB devices. My Logitech keyboard and mouse have some unused keys, and you don't really want the Logitech Mac software on your computer ...
The Flying Meat Wiki: Acorn - nice, there's a wiki with tips, tricks and plugins for Acorn. I like to use Acorn because it's a quick way to change images. And scripting is possible in Python, which is not to be sneezed at.
Lighthouse - also does dynamic port forwarding on the router, but with more options to define things and, for example, bind them to certain applications. However, it is not free, but shareware.
Port Map and TCMPortMapper - a nice little tool that can open ports on routers (provided that the router supports corresponding protocols for remote control). Useful for temporarily making services on your own computer accessible from the internet.
Strange TCP-networking problems with Mac OS X 10.4 and Solaris 10 - obscure TCP parameters you might want to tweak to possibly boost OS X's sluggish networking.
Usability problems with .Mac sync - I can only confirm what Jeffrey Zeldman writes here. Apple's sync tools are simply terrible. I have had the sync of trivial data between my iMac under Leopard and my notebook under Tiger crash multiple times - fortunately, only one is leading, and in an emergency I can simply reset everything. But worse than the sync of simple data (contacts, calendar, etc.) was the sync of the keychain - it took me quite a while to clean up the damage. And the iDisk? Oh man, I only tried to edit 4 OmniOutliner documents on both computers in turn. Result: dreadful. Simply and plainly junk. For documents, I have simply switched back to Mercurial (I use it anyway for my other documents, the outliner files were just a test). It is reliable and stable. Even if it only offers a command line as an interface - for data synchronization, I want stability and not gimmicks. Sync services that crash my data are simply garbage.
MCL 5.2 has been released as open source - unfortunately probably not running under Rosetta, so nothing for Intel Mac users (which excludes almost everyone who has something modern from Apple). Well, the manufacturing company is probably more or less history, but maybe there will soon be a version that works with Rosetta - or someone ports the OpenMCL Compiler Backend into this version.
After Security Update today: "Bus ... - if you, like me, suddenly get bus-errors with ssh after the update on 18.3, Nicecast has an update for their tools - Instant Highjack is the actual culprit. Install the update from Nicecast and everything seems to run smoothly again.
iTimeMachine - another way to back up to network drives with Time Machine. Not tried, but it should be able to back up to any (not just Time Capsule and Airport) network drives (even those mounted via SMB).
fscklog: Firmware 7.3.1 für 802.11n-AirPort Stationen: Time Machine-Backup mit AirPort Extreme [Update] - finally. Now you can use the pre-Time Capsule parts for backups as well. And you can back up the Time Capsule's drive to an external drive (offline, hopefully). This makes the whole thing even more interesting - because with the Time Capsule, it's just a compact device for automatic backup and the external terabyte drive is used once a week for backing up the Time Capsule. And until the Time Capsule is finally available, my external drive can play Time Capsule for now ... (in my case, only after I created a file ".com.apple.timemachine.supported" in the main folder of a network drive)
Building a Codeless Language Module with BBEdit 8.5 and (Ir-) Regular Expressions - interesting, because it shows the more complex features of Perl Compatible Regular Expressions. Could be helpful for own Language-Modules that I might need.
MidiKeys - just a software midi keyboard for the Mac.
iPhone Developer Program Details - it's getting exciting. Starting in the summer, the first tools. And the freeware programmers can get into the Developer Program relatively cheaply and also use the iTunes Store platform for distribution.
Programming Nu - had I already seen that? It's something like F-Script, but with Lisp-like syntax instead of Smalltalk-like syntax.