Changes - graphical diff and merge. Looks very nice and can be integrated into various tools and version controls. Could be a usable alternative to the rather stiff XCode FileMerge. Also works via SFTP on remote servers. And the scripting language is F-Script, how cool is that? Unfortunately, it only runs from Leopard onwards.
mac-os-x - 5.6.2007 - 29.2.2008
Flying Meat: Acorn - an image editor previously unknown to me, which offers some interesting features, especially text layers (which I miss in some other tools, simply packing texts as bitmaps onto a layer is really not the same). I should take a look at it. No, Gimp is not really always the answer to the question "image editing?".
iMaginator - a tool that builds on Core Image. Comes with a whole set of Image Units that you might be able to use in Acorn as well (it can handle Image Units). Sounds quite interesting for some of the problems I keep encountering in image editing.
vi & TextMate together at last - well. vi operation for Textmate. What I have learned, however, generally from all these projects (also those for Emacs): nothing is like vi, except vi (ok, I prefer of course vim, some comfort must be there). And shockingly, vi is still one of the easiest editors for me to use ...
abyssoft teleport - didn't I already have this? Control two Macs with one keyboard and mouse. With GUI.
FSClass 3.0 - allows extending Objective-C classes and creating new classes in F-Script without having to directly access Objective-C. If someone would build a decent class browser around it, with which you can interactively create methods instead of having to go through files, then OSX would almost be something like a Smalltalk system.
Learn F-Script in 20 Minutes...and Have Fun Playing with Core Image - nice tutorial for F-Script. Interactively explore the OSX API through image experiments.
Become a Mac OS X Services Ninja - how to build services (those integrated editor extensions in OS X) with F-Script. Looks really interesting - I should really get back to F-Script, especially since I'm in a Smalltalk phase again.
So you’re going to write an iPhone app… - about experiences with the (not yet available) iPhone SDK and software development for the iPhone.
Developing an iPhoto export plugin - as the name suggests: how to build iPhoto exporters.
ScriptExport - very nice. A plugin for iPhoto, with which you can export images via shell scripts (or also Python scripts and whatever else can start the shell). Hmm. With a bit of tool help, I should be able to push snapshots from Second Life to my static server instead of to Flickr.
Programming Nu - mini-Lisp with integration in ObjectiveC on Mac OS X. Sounds quite interesting.
Upload with SCP - with Automator. No idea if I already have it, but it could be useful.
OSXCrypt.org - Truecrypt for MAC(encrypted volumes as open source solution - which can then also be used by other systems)
Mac OS X and DTrace - the great dtrace (and some other debugging techniques) are explicitly prevented by Apple for e.g. iTunes. Probably to avoid getting to unencrypted DRM content. Nevertheless - how pathetic is that? Explicitly crippling system diagnostic tools?
Airfoil 3 Spreads Music Streaming Beyond AirPort Express - I guess I should finally take a look at it. Saving cables sounds pretty good ...
Dryad - build digital trees based on parameter sets and visually navigate in "forests" of tree alternatives. And it's also available for OS X!
Wilber loves Apple - since Photoshop Elements keeps crashing on me (and of course, I have no idea what the nonsense is supposed to mean), I've once again dealt with Gimp and Mac. Wilber loves Apple is a very well-made collection of Gimp for Mac, ready for drag-and-drop installation and, in my opinion, much better than the more well-known Gimp.App (for example, Wilber loves Apple finally shows all filters and scripts even when the German interface is set, which Gimp.App does not do).
iCab is back - and uses WebKit. What I always found interesting about iCab were the very powerful filtering options. And of course it's nice that it's a real OS X program (unlike Firefox, which is still too bulky under OS X).
GrabFS: The Screenshot File System - brilliant idea, simply a virtual file system for running applications and a file that represents the current window content. Copy the file and you have a snapshot. Ideal for scripted webcasts, for example.
Run Python Script - Automator Action. Unfortunately only from 10.5, so I have to wait.
New version of Ready Lisp for Mac OS X available - anyone who wants to test Common Lisp in a typical work environment, this package makes it typically easy on a Mac. Simply download a DMG, put the bundle in the Applications folder and off you go. The package includes AquaMacs, Slime, and SBCL, which is quite decent. Unfortunately, it's only for 10.5 - so not usable for me.
NodeBox - Tool for playing with 2D graphics, based on Python. Reminds me a bit of Processing, but with Python instead of Java.
iP2F - looks nice Flickr uploader, stumbled upon it at Schockwellenreiter. Looks quite nice. Might be an idea for my SL snapshots, instead of collecting them all in a big pile on the disk (and uploading them with an external uploader).
Tarimporter - and this one even looks into other formats. Unfortunately, both only look at filenames, not contents. Too bad.
Ziplight - Search ZIP Files with Spotlight - maybe old news for some, but new and practical for me.
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review - a very good overview of all possible aspects of 10.5 - from the kernel inside to the GUI on top.
Doing the Leopard Moan - I think I'll wait a bit with the update ... (until the manufacturers of the many little helper tools have converted the first quirks of the system and Apple's new ideas into usable tools that help you get over them). Am I actually a Mac heretic if I say that I would prefer to have this stupid Dock completely unplugged? I mean even the one from older versions, not just the one from Leopard.
TidBITS Macs & Mac OS X: Getting to Know Time Machine - sorry, but after all the features that Apple apparently left out of the release (AirPort Disc for backups, controlled archiving of old files, etc.), Time Machine sounds anything but impressive.
CL-OBJC project - Cocoa applications with sbcl or Allegro.
Jobs looks forward to hundreds of iPhone applications - oops, this is coming faster than expected. It could get exciting to see what appears when the SDK is available.
Flying Logic : Software for Visual Planning Support - hmm. Constraint Solver as a graphical tool. Sounds quite interesting.
Shades - allows you to adjust the screen brightness on iMacs, and below the ranges allowed by OS X. It seems to use live filters, so it takes some graphics performance, and has the one or other glitch when you then start games like SL, but it seems quite usable as a first approach.
TidBITS: New iLife '08 Revealed - sounds quite nice. And the expansion of .Mac sounds as if it could be interesting now. Not because of the disk space etc. - I have that on my own machines cheaper. But because of the extremely simple integration into the iLife tools.
iPhoto Library Manager - pimp your iPhoto.
DarwiinRemote - Driver to connect the WIIRemote to the Mac.
Chax - miscellaneous iChat improvements - pimp my iChat.
iGlasses for iChat AV - pimp my iSight.
BrowseBack: Visual Web History You Can Search - looks quite nice. Could elegantly solve the problem of lost web pages. Disk space is not such a huge problem today.
Tinderbox: Downloads - wow, a lot of changes since my last update. It might make sense to switch to a newer version again, especially since I now have use for statically generated pages again (on the other hand, I have thousands of other tools for that - but Tinderbox is somehow like a good old buddy you'd like to meet again)
Perian 1.0 turns Macs into universal video players - check it out. Could be useful.
XGP - OS X IDE for GNU Prolog (which includes a native code compiler). Hmm.
Anthracite - MacOS X Software for Web Mining Automation. Looks nice, something like Pipes for the desktop.
ZFS is in MacOS X 10.5 - Golem.de - "ZFS is only equipped with read support and can only be used via the command line - integrated ZFS partitions cannot be written with Apple's operating system." - damn. That's useless.
Sun: ZFS becomes the new file system in Apple's Leopard - hopefully not just in the server version. HFS+ is somehow more of a hack than a file system.
Camino. Mozilla Power, Mac Style - and in new version out. Download.
MarsEdit - can also preview Markdown. Might be interesting for me, as I like to base my projects on Markdown.
MailTags - interesting plugin that allows you to tag emails (in Mail.app).
Relocating iTunes Music Libraries to Removable/External Storage Media - this might allow me to place my iTunes Library on the server and only keep a part on my local drive. However, I would then have to sort the music myself. Too bad iTunes can't simply mount remote libraries, then I could save myself the trouble and move rarely played songs to another library.