Archive for November, 2007
Upgrade Your Hackintosh to OS X 10.5.1
A couple of weeks ago, I detailed how I built a Hackintosh Mac on the cheap from start to finish. The build benchmarked incredibly well, and I’ve been using it as my main PC every day since. A few days ago, I decided it was time to upgrade my Hackintosh to Mac OS X 10.5.1, [...]
Run Internet Explorer on Your Mac with ies4osx
Mac OS X only: Install and run Internet Explorer for Windows 5, 6, or 7 on your Mac with free, open source application ies4osx. Getting ies4osx up and running takes a little effort on your part and an installation of previously mentioned Darwine, but the download site has detailed step-by-step instructions for getting it up [...]
Add a Stack of Recent Things to Your Dock [Mac OS X Leopard]
Web site Mac OS X Hints highlights a simple Terminal command that will tweak your Dock to add a ‘recent things’ Stack capable of showing you recent apps, docs, servers, or favorite volumes and items. Just open Terminal and type (one line):
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add ‘{ ’tile-data’ = { ‘list-type’ = 1; }; ’tile-type’ [...]
MacNote2 2.7 - Notepad software
MacNote2 is an advanced version of MacNote. It includes functions like: managing many memos in a hierarchy structure, making text links, opening multi-windows and so on.
The text link function allows you to make a link to an URL, a file path, or any other memo inside MacNote2, so you can easily make multi-functional memos that [...]
DMG Utility 1.0 - Create and mount disk images. (Free)
Create and mount disk images. Images can be mounted remotely. Creation offers several compression options. Images can be encrypted.
More information
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Stuffit Expander 12.0.1 - Just the expander. (Free)
StuffIt Expander allows you to decompress most of the popular archived files that software developers use to compression their files for faster transfer.
More information
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Cast Away 2.4.2 - Podcast removal scheduler and episode auto-player. (Shareware)
Cast Away fills in a gap so far left in iTunes’ implementation of Podcasts. It allows for the scheduled removal of podcasts on a per podcast basis. It also features the automatic playing of podcasts.
Podcast Removal Features:
Separate podcast removal settings per podcast subscription
Separate settings for iTunes and iPod for each podcast
Separate settings for [...]
Leopard Cache Cleaner 4.0.2
Leopard Cache Cleaner makes system maintenance simple with an easy
point and click interface to many OS X functions. Leopard Cache
Cleaner can improve system performance by tuning internet and file
cache settings, implementing ram disks, and cleaning out various
cached and stale data. LCC includes tools to help optimize files and
memory. LCC can recover wasted [...]
ProfCast 2.2b1 - Record and publish live presentations. (Shareware)
ProfCast is a versatile, powerful, yet very simple to use tool for recording lectures and creating enhanced podcasts.
ProfCast provides a low cost solution for recording and distributing lectures, special events, and presentations as podcasts. ProfCast offers an integrated workflow that makes creating, recording, and publishing podcasts easy. It’s as simple as Launch, Load, and Lecture!
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Amadeus Pro 1.2 - Multitrack sound recorder/editor with MP3 support. (Shareware)
Amadeus Pro lets you use your Macintosh computer for any audio-related task, such as live audio recording, digitizing tapes and records, converting between a variety of sound formats, etc. Thanks to its outstanding direct-to-disk abilities and waveform caching, edits on arbitrarily large sounds (even beyond the usual 2GB limit) are performed at lightning speed. The [...]
