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Sunday 21 March 2010

Handy Mac Apps

Do Something When is a system preference pane that allows the user to watch for drives mounting and un-mounting, allowing them to launch or quit applications, whenthese events happen. You can launch iTunes when your music hard drive gets mounted, you can quit iTunes when you eject the drive. This is just an example of what can be done.
DSW_1.1



Renamer for Mac - allows bulk renaming of files

Remote Desktop Client for Windows - to access Windows networks

Incredibly versatile .FLV viewer - SWF & FLV Player for Mac

Trash It! -This AppleScript-based application force-empties your Trash and/or removes stubborn items. Especially useful if you have files or folders in the Trash with permissions set incorrectly, locked Trash items, want to securely delete a stuck item, or trash items from other partitions. If you drop files or folders onto the Trash It! icon, it will delete them as well. If you double-click on it, it will clean out your Trash can. This is the software recommended by Apple Tech support when all else fails!
Trash It! should be used when:
1. You can't get rid of trash items manually.
2. You can't move items to the trash.
3. You have a large number of items to delete (i.e., previous system folders).
4. You just like using cool scripts. :)

This is not a Finder trash can replacement! It should be used as a last resort!

  • Expand 7z, bzip2, gz, rar, tar, and zip files.
  • Shrink files into 7z, zip, gz, tar, and bzip2 formats.
  • View the contents of an archive without opening it.
  • Delete files from an archive without opening it.
  • Create, verify, and repair par2 files.
  • Process multiple files with ease.



MPEG Streamclip is a powerful high-quality video converter, player, editor for MPEG, QuickTime, transport streams, iPod. And now it is a DivX editor and encoding machine, and even a stream and YouTube downloader.

You can use MPEG Streamclip to: open most movie formats including MPEG files or transport streams; play them at full screen; edit them with Cut, Copy, Paste, and Trim; set In/Out points and convert them into muxed or demuxed files, or export them to QuickTime, AVI, DV and MPEG-4 files with more than professional quality, so you can easily import them in Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Toast 6, 7, 8, and use them with many other applications or devices.
Supported input formats: MPEG, VOB, PS, M2P, MOD, VRO, DAT, MOV, DV, AVI, MP4, TS, M2T, MMV, REC, VID, AUD, AVR, VDR, PVR, TP0, TOD, M2V, M1V, MPV, AIFF, M1A, MP2, MPA, AC3, ...

iSquint is an iPod video conversion app for Mac OS X. It's many times faster than QuickTime Pro, works with almost all popular video formats, and it's infinitely free-er. It's also really easy. Just drag in your file, and click Start. You can also choose "TV" or "iPod" size, set your quality, or even go all-out by playing in the Advanced drawer.

Use and create Delicious bookmarks from the Safari web browser
 
MacTheRipper is a DVD ripper (extractor). It removes CSS encryption, Macrovision protection, sets the disc's region to '0' for region-free, and is capable of removing RCE region checking. It can also copy ARccOS copy-protected DVDs. This is to backup your legally-purchased DVDs onto your hard drive.

ffmpegX is a Mac OS X graphic user interface designed to easily operate more than 20 powerful Unix open-source video and audio processing tools including ffmpeg the "hyper fast video and audio encoder" (http://ffmpeg.sf.net/), mpeg2enc the open-source mpeg-2 encoder and multiplexer (http://mjpeg.sf.net/MacOS/) and mencoder the mpeg-4 encoder with subtitles support (http://sf.net/projects/mplayerosx).


NeoOffice

Cache Out X is a robust tool that cleans your computer's system, getting to, and deleting the multitude of cache files generated by Mac OS X and web browsers. By using Cache Out X, you can get your computer feeling like it did the first time you bought it. The application deletes system and user cache files and removes cookie and other Internet related navigation and download cache files.
Cache Out X sets itself apart with the ability to remove Persistent Cache files.

The superb Delicious Library


iPlayerGrabber

Dropbox

SuperDuper

Seashore is an open source image editor for Mac OS X's Cocoa framework. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based around the GIMP's technology and uses the same native file format.

GimmeSomeTune

ShakesPeer is an Open Source Direct Connect client for Mac OS X. Direct Connect is a popular filesharing network.

FixTunes


Google Notifier in Growl


TweetDeck

MacMP3Gain is an AppleScript Studio application which brings an Aqua GUI to the command line version of mp3gain, a utility that performs statistical analysis to determine how loud the MP3 file actually sounds to the human ear and performs lossless volume adjustments. MacMP3Gain is free and open source. You may download either the application itself or the entire project including the source code.


VirtualBox

Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.

iCyclone is an open source fan controller


Soundflower is a Mac OS X (10.2 and later) system extension that allows applications to pass audio to other applications. Soundflower is easy to use, it simply presents itself as an audio device, allowing any audio application to send and receive audio with no other support needed. Soundflower is free, open-source, and runs on Mac Intel and PPC computers.


The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system