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18 April 2007

I love my new Mac (list of cool utilities from Twitter) « Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogger

by springnet
I asked the 2500+ people following me on Twitter what their ideas were for me to load up and in just the first minute got dozens of suggestions. Here’s some of the first:

13 April 2007

Diffly - Subversion Browsing and Check-in Tool

by jpcaruana & 1 other
Diffly is designed to make it easy to browse a Subversion working copy and see all the changes, across all the files. You can filter out files you don't care about (e.g. externals) and sticky-select files for checking in. When it comes time to check in it's easy to review the changes for the files you are working with and assemble a detailed commit message and check-in.

bartek:bargiel : iGTD

by jpcaruana & 1 other (via)
Powerful GTD-like organizer for Mac

12 April 2007

Service Scrubber 1.1.3 - MacUpdate

by jpcaruana (via)
Wouldn't the services menu be much more useful if it weren't overcrowded by services you never even thought of using? With Service Scrubber, you can: * restructure the services menu * change service keyboard shortcuts * disable services

Gmail Growl for Google Notifier

by jpcaruana & 1 other (via)
Makes Google Notifier show Growl notification bubbles whenever new email arrives in your Gmail inbox.

Chax - miscellaneous iChat improvements

by jpcaruana & 6 others (via)
Chax is a collection of minor modifications and additions that make using Apple's iChat more enjoyable. Features include (full list): User list: * Toggle text status visibility of users * Automatically resize the contact list to fit the number of visible users * Set font of names, status messages, and group separators * Show animated user icons * Ability to hide iTunes music store links in text statuses * Idle time included in tooltips * Display Address Book nicknames instead of full names * Option to show a warning before messaging mobile users * Hide the audio/video status icon at the top of the user list * Message a specific screen name for people with multiple screen names Message window: * Tabbed chats, allowing you to keep all of your chats together in one window * Option to auto-accept text chats, skipping new message notification window * Show status changes directly in the message window * Disable the smiley button in text input lines * Option to open images sent through direct connect directly in Preview * Send away auto-reply only once per conversation * Save and restore window positions for individual screen names Other: * Unread message notification in the dock * Growl notifications for new messages and users changing status * Properly use ICQ accounts without sending text formatting in messages * Automatically set status to away when screensaver is activated * Option to auto-accept file transfers * Hide all iChat windows when iChat is inactive * Always on top option for user lists, text chats, and audio or video chats * Set a custom away auto-reply that is different from the away message * Change the delay of or disable auto-away * New message windows cascade properly instead of always appearing on top of each other * Built-in log viewer * Activity window shows history of user status changes * Warn before quitting while there are active chats * Option to disable pausing of AV chats while there are active file transfers * Disable picture-in-picture in video chats * Automatically reconnect when disconnected * Disable alert sounds when away, idle, or available

Welcome to Growl!

by jpcaruana & 8 others
Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X: it allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications.

Heading East

by jpcaruana & 2 others (via)
I keep seeing lists of 10 must have Mac programs, but the lists is they are well known can't-live-without programs like Launchbar and Windowshade already installed on Machead machines. Here are some slightly more obscure programs I use every day:

11 April 2007

CoRD

by jpcaruana & 2 others
CoRD is an open source native Mac OS X remote desktop client for Microsoft Remote Desktop and Terminal Services. It is a Universal Binary, and allows you to connect to multiple servers concurrently. It was originally ported from the UNIX program rdesktop

02 April 2007

PandoraMan

by jpcaruana & 1 other
Small cocoa app to run the Pandora mini player using WebKit. Created so you can quit Safari/Camino/etc without killing your music stream.

23 March 2007

DbVisualizer - The Universal Database Tool

by jpcaruana & 3 others
DbVisualizer is a feature rich, intuitive and cross platform database tool for developers and DBA's providing a single powerful interface for a variety of databases. DbVisualizer supports simultaneous database connections, it lets you explore and manage database objects, execute SQL queries, visualize information and a lot more.

Mailplane - Home

by jpcaruana & 12 others (via)
But they are both from different worlds and aren’t friends, yet. That’s where Mailplane comes in to bring them together: Google Mail’s superb SPAM protection, endless storage and global access – and the friendliness of your Mac.

blog.gkaindl.com » App Update

by jpcaruana (via)
App Update is a free Dashboard Widget that can automatically check for updates to your installed software. It supports Apple's software directory, MacUpdate and Version Tracker. It will present you with a tidy link list of all the updates found, enabling you to read release-notes and download the the updates quickly and painlessly.

21 March 2007

15 March 2007

DashboardWidgets - Showcase

by jpcaruana (via)
A very simple widget (my first) that will put whatever the currently playing QuickTime movie is into Full Screen mode, even if you don't have QuickTime Pro. Still a beta version, so let me know of any issues and I'll try to fix them.

Galerie

by jpcaruana & 1 other (via)
Ce logiciel pour Mac OS X (10.2 à 10.4), crée en quelques clics des pages Web pour présenter images, films, panoramas, sons... Galerie est Universal Binary Galerie travaille de concert avec iPhoto, GraphicConverter, iView MediaPro, Extensis PortFolio 7 ou par glisser-déposer des fichiers

13 March 2007

10 March 2007

08 March 2007

Spotlaser

by jpcaruana & 3 others (via)
Spotlaser est un utilitaire de recherche pour Spotlight. Il vous permet de préciser le type de fichiers, ou effectuer la recherche, la date de création, d'ouverture ou de modification, la taille limite et d'autres éléments.

Reversecode.com

by jpcaruana (via)
Display Eater est un logiciel qui vous permet de faire une capture vidéo de votre écran. Devenu depuis peu gratuit, ce logiciel est idéal pour ceux qui souhaitent faire des tutoriels rapidement.