Imagelys Picture Styles - yet another generator for tileable textures. This one is free, so I should at least take a look. Unfortunately, it's only for Windows again. Somehow, there's nothing decent for Mac in this area.
software - 30.11.2007 - 31.1.2009
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.
ngPlant - Open Source plant modeling package - this one is for Blender. Looks very nice, but will I be able to get it to fly?
Arbaro - tree generation for povray - can also generate .obj files. Could be quite useful for me, because I always need my own plant textures from time to time (and I can have them rendered by povray)
MacMegaPov Index - good mac version of PovRay with small GUI for the parameters.
POV-Ray: Documentation - together with Arbaro, this gives me really nice trees and bushes!
POV-Tree - another tree generator. Free as in free beer. Also in Java. More focused on pure trees with fixed presets, not as algorithmically oriented as the previous one.
SuperColdMilk - tons of ac3d plugins.
Poladroid project : the easiest and funniest Polaroid Image Maker - check it out. I love Polaroid.
John Nack on Adobe: The DNG Profile Editor: What's it all about? - a very interesting short article about the DNG 1.2 Profile Standard, which Adobe is currently developing. The Profile Editor in conjunction with a standard color card sounds like it could be a practical tool for the photo bag - small cards don't take up much space and reduce the color noise in the later processing of the images of a session.
Jeffrey’s “Export to Flickr” Lightroom Plugin - because I'm looking at the latest version of Lightroom again. Picasa is great on the go because it uses so few resources, but for the desktop, maybe another software would simply be more powerful.
Jeffrey’s “Export to PicasaWeb” Lightroom Plugin - and Picasa works too.
WinMerge - Merge program for Windows. Should I integrate it into Mercurial so that something sensible can happen when conflicts arise during merges.
picasa2flickr - flickr upload plugin for picasa - works great with Picasa3. This gives me a compact workflow for my little Digi and the Asus. Yes, I know, Google is evil, Yahoo is evil and the chip of my Digi is noisy.
.:: NOTEPAD++ ::. - since I'm still setting up my Asus, I've blogged about it - could this be an alternative to Textwrangler on the Mac?
Abbyy FotoReader: OCR with the digital camera - not a bad idea at all. And could even be quite useful in combination with little-fatty (my Asus 901) and my upcoming digicam (which has a special document mode).
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.
Neat Image /Mac - best noise reduction for digital cameras and scanners on Mac - blogged for future reference, as I might need it.
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) ...
I41CX+ - and since it's so nice, also an HP41CX emulator as an iPhone app. Even a very complete implementation with support for modules and built-in printer (so printer simulation). On the iPhone, this is even really practical.
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.
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.
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).
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?
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.
MidiKeys - just a software midi keyboard for the Mac.
Fluid - Free Site Specific Browser for Mac OS X Leopard - damn, more and more features that make me think about upgrading to Leopard. This would be nice - I use many web apps and dedicated mini browsers for them would be quite cool. Also, the integration of user scripting and the Dock and Growl integration are interesting.
Prism - is something similar to Fluid, but for more systems (based on Mozilla technology)
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.
Allegorithmic | MaPZone - algorithmic texture generation. I should check it out, Texturemaker is nice, but sometimes a bit cumbersome and hard to follow which tools to use.
OSXCrypt.org - Truecrypt for MAC(encrypted volumes as open source solution - which can then also be used by other systems)
an offline Wikipedia reader for the iPhone - ok, outdated with download to the iPhone, but still: that would really be a reason to have an iPhone (the direct and immediate access to Wikipedia and Google alone would almost be worth it, but also to directly access it locally in cases where nothing else works - nice!)
Strasheela - hmm, that would finally be a chance to take a closer look at Mozart and Oz, a software for algorithmic music composition (and no, I have no idea about composition - I just like everything that algorithmically generates something else that either looks good or sounds good ...)
Unshaking and refocusing your photos - a few interesting tools linked, worth checking out.
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).
Scratch Home imagine, program, share - a fun project to introduce children to programming in a graphical way. For my taste, it's too much based on the old Structogram technique, but still quite nice to look at. Additionally, it's nice that a Mac version is also available.
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).
Chromatron, by Silver Spaceship Software - for puzzle lovers. Free as in free beer.