mac-os-x - 6.10.2006 - 21.5.2007
MarcoPolo - Automatic location switching for Mac OS X - very cool. Uses various rules to decide with which probability you are in a certain network environment and switches accordingly. Can also trigger shell scripts, so you can automate quite a lot with it. Very good for network nomads.
FlickrExport - plugin for iPhoto. Considering moving my pictures from iView to iPhoto - iView is technically superior in terms of features, but what good are features I don't use? Lightroom would also be nice, but it has even more features that I actually never use. iPhoto has the nasty habit of just working ...
A MacFUSE-Based Process File System for Mac OS X - quite nice. Very nice. procfs and its many variants are extremely practical for shell scripts that want to check something quickly. Good to have something like this as an option for OS X as well.
JungleDisk - Reliable online storage powered by Amazon S3 ™ - interesting approach: set up a local WebDAV server with local cache on S3. Data access like on local drives, but automatically saved to S3. Nice for online backups (if the DSL supports it - mine likes to go offline when I put too many packets on the line).
ardour - check out what it can do and how it works.
Manually Adding DNS-SD Service Discovery Records to an Existing Name Server - an interesting way to manually get server entries in Bonjour. Could be used, for example, for network-wide centrally maintained bookmarks on sites, or for the various Linux-bound services.
F-Script - new version of the Cocoa-Scripting language.
Introducing Dashcode - comes with Leopard. Yummy. Building Dashboard applets in an IDE. I'm always up for such toys, simply because it's a way to playfully deal with programming - the more easy ways to applications there are, the better.
Delibar - interesting del.icio.us client that lives in the menu bar.
delimport - Allow Spotlight to also run over del.icio.us bookmarks.
Internet Connections on the Mac
Does anyone have an idea how to prioritize the use of internet connections on the Mac? I don't mean the cable connections that can be edited under network control in the system settings. I mean the modem connections. I have registered my phone for Bluetooth and for USB use. In addition, I have a USB UMTS modem. Now the modem status with the menu still shows the first UMTS connection via Bluetooth as the default. I always have to switch the connection to the modem first and then connect. That's annoying. You should be able to change what it uses as the default dial-up connection ...
the messing link - home of a delicious widget - and another del.icio.us client that lives in the Dashboard and displays a tag cloud.
ChronoSync - file synchronizer, can be used for backup or synchronization of multiple computers. Similar to SuperDuper, but more focused on data synchronization than backup.
Apple - Downloads - Mac OS X - Automator Actions - see what's listed there.
automator actions - and even more of it.
Automator World - all about the Automator.
Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes - tons of scripts around iTunes
USB-To-Ethernet Adaptors for Mac OS X - could be useful to turn a Mac Mini into a firewall, for example.
Write Your Own Automator Actions - as the name suggests: how to write your own Automator Actions.
Locomotive - a nice way to run Ruby on Rails on the Mac. GUI with integrated Ruby, separate from the system, so that you are independent of the versions and can run several in parallel.
appscript - Python as an alternative to AppleScript (hadn't I already mentioned this one?)
Gtk+ for Mac OS X - nice. Soon all GTK applications will also run natively on the Mac.
Backhoe - Editing Second Life Terrain Files on a Mac. I could have used this before the last sim...
Amnesty™ Singles - converts Google widgets into dashboard widgets.
JavaScript for the Macintosh - not such a bad idea. JavaScript as a full OSA language, integrated with all tools. Could make a lot of things easier - because JavaScript has regular expressions and humane data types, unlike AppleScript.
Lingon by Peter Borg - edit launchd configs with a GUI. Clicky-Bunty-Goodness for sysadmins.
NetworkLocation - Location Manager. On Steroids.
QuickTime Broadcaster - free tool from Apple for streaming video content to a Quicktime Streaming Server. Could be quite exciting for Second Life if I can stream videos there.
GrandPerspective - graphical display of disk usage. Useful to find out what is cluttering up the huge disk again.
Adium - now 1.0. I should really take another look at it, even though I'm actually satisfied with Psi. But Psi somehow consumes too many resources ...
Literature and Latte - Scrivener - interesting concept for an editor specifically designed for authors. Convincing features and nice interface.
macfuse has received a small enhancement. There are simple installers and two ready-to-use filesystems for easy use: sshfs (with a small connector GUI and command-line tool) and SpotlightFS. The latter offers trivial simple ad-hoc Spotlight searches even on the command line. Genius!
News -Anfängerfehler in Mac OS X - I think it's good that the Month-of-Apple-Bugs is running and Mac OS X is being looked at more closely. Because a company that develops its software outside of external control will always make mistakes like the one linked.
Entity Crisis: Unity3D Evaluated. Wow. - I'll definitely have to check this out soon.
XO Wave - I'm actually quite satisfied with Amadeus II, but maybe I should still check out this sound editor.
macfuse - FUSE for OS X. Useful - sshfs or gmailfs, anyone?
Correo - a new mail client for OS X - something like Camino for Firefox, but for Thunderbird. Could be quite exciting.
Max (Macintosh Audio for OS X) - I should check that out, it could be an interesting alternative to simple iTunes ripping. On the other hand: the charm of iTunes lies precisely in its simplicity ...
hexfiend - nice, now free, hex editor.
[FairGame](http://seidai.50webs.com/Seidai Software.html) - copies purchased songs via AppleScript and iMovie into new, unprotected songs (with quality loss due to the principle). Essentially, this is what you can also do manually by burning the CD and then ripping it - but no blanks are burned here.
CSSEdit - looks interesting, GUI editor for stylesheets. However, I am still a fanatical vi user when it comes to HTML and CSS ...
Perian - The swiss-army knife of QuickTime® components - free plugin to play a lot of video formats with the Quicktime Player.
Fission for Mac OS X - lossless audio file editing. Nice addition to Audio Hijacker by the same manufacturer, e.g. for recording life events on the internet ...
OpenGL Tools for Serious Graphics Development - does the OpenGL Profiler allow capturing textures?
Mac OS X "Leopard" with extended access control - MAC for Mac OS X. Nice.
Addressbook X LDAP - interesting tool that can replicate data from the OS X Address Book to an LDAP server.
MoinX - very nice. MoinMoin with OS X Controller in the menu bar. Ok, not the feel of VoodooPad - it is still a web application - but the performance of MoinMoin is not to be underestimated.
Scribus/Aqua - manual installation (why don't they package the libs in the application bundle?), but maybe still worth a look.