software - 17.10.2006 - 19.11.2007

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.

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.

Multiverse - now available in version 1.0. Currently clients only for Windows, the server however in Java, and thus multi-platform. Competitor to Unity and TGE - although Multiverse definitely focuses on MMOG. Maybe interesting for tinkering projects.

iPhoto Library Manager - pimp your iPhoto.

Jing Project: Visual conversation starts here. Mac or Windows. - sounds strange, but potentially useful.

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)

Anthracite - MacOS X Software for Web Mining Automation. Looks nice, something like Pipes for the desktop.

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).

wxMaxima - a GUI for Maxima. Should also compile on OS X.

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 ...

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.

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.

Uni-verse Home - I need to take a closer look at this, just realized that there are OS X applications available for download there.

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...

Maya -> Second Life : Beta version - similar to prim.blender, but based on Maya (commercial software, expensive).

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.

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!

XO Wave - I'm actually quite satisfied with Amadeus II, but maybe I should still check out this sound editor.

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 ...

cutmp3 - a nice little MP3 editor for the console - ideal for quickly cutting pauses out of songs and similar tasks on a streaming server.

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.

Coccinella | Jabber client with integrated whiteboard - multiplatform, apparently in TCL (at least extendable in TCL).

The Zfone Project - Encryption-Proxy for VOIP Clients.

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 ...

Addressbook X LDAP - interesting tool that can replicate data from the OS X Address Book to an LDAP server.