Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Activity tagged “mac”
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Ephemera: The Mac tool for Instapaper & ebook reader enthusiasts
Two-way Instapaper/Kindle sync. Must try.
mxcl's homebrew at masterbrew - GitHub
Looks like a perfect middle ground between the Scylla of MacPorts/Fink and the Charybdis of building everything by hand. Next OSX box I set up is going to use homebrew.
Time Warp
Interesting idea: take your Time Machine backups and sync 'em to Amazon S3. I've been essentially doing the same thing by hand, but this looks much slicker. Worth a try, I think.
MacBook Pro unresponsive keyboard & trackpad solution — Jason Robb
Totally ghetto, but my MBP is back to life! Albeit with a business card shoved in the battery case, but… alive nonetheless. Just hope it lasts long enough to get me back to the states for repair.
Mac OS X Security Update 2009-001 might break your Perl (CPAN)
Apple fucked up Perl in the 2009-001 security update. Way to go, guys.
Official Google Mac Blog: Search Without Effort: The Quick Search Box
This is what the creator of QuickSilver has been working on at Google. Pretty rudimentary right now, but I'm excited to see where it goes.
tunnelblick - Google Code
Super-simple OpenVPN client for Mac OS X. Just throw OpenVPN configs in ~/Library/openvpn and then connect with the menubar item. Awesome.
Mock It!: An lxml you can bank on
Finally! easy_install staticlxml and done.
Bare Bones Software | BBEdit 9.0 Release Notes
BBEdit 9 is out, and looks fantastic. BBEdit was the first text editor that I really fell in love with. It certainly languished for a loooong time, but BB9 finally looks like a modern text edit. Now that TextMate 2 looking increasingly like vaporware I may well go give BB a try for a couple of weeks and see if it's as good as I remember.
Use Tabs in Textmate for Files Opened Via Transmit by Stuart Colville
Brilliant little hack. The (lack of) Transmit/Textmate integration is theo nly part of my workflow I hate; this fixes it.
Wx
Serious weather nerdery.
Theocacao: Preview of Versions SVN Client
Scott previews “Versions” - a native Mav SVN client. Looks fantastic, event to a command-line weenie like me.
Secrets: index
Brilliant - a preference pane for “secret” system settings that anyone can contribute to.
Vara Software : ScreenFlow
Really hot-looking screen capture/screencast software. $100, but probably worth it for anyone who does a bunch of screencasts.
Changes Beta
An interesting visual diff tool along the lines of FileMerge or kdiff3. I've been more than happy with FileMerge, but Changes is probably worth a look.
Coding Horror: Why Doesn't Anyone Give a Crap About Freedom Zero?
“So let's be completely clear: when you buy a new Mac, you're buying a giant hardware dongle that allows you to run OS X software.” Cute.
Peggle for Mac
If you'd like to not get any work done for the rest of 2007, by all means download this game (newly available for the Mac).
Mac Forums - View Single Post - No Airdisk (Airport) Time Machine Backups!
Gotta try this when I get home.
EVE Online on the Mac next Tuesday
Ohshit. There goes any chance of me getting any work done in the foreseable future.
http://svn.red-bean.com/pyobjc/branches/pyobjc2/pyobjc-core/NEWS.txt
All (and there's lots of it) the new stuff in PyObjC 2 (i.e. the version in Leopard). Really, really nice stuff here.
Taskpaper
A text-based GTD-ish todo app. I'm pretty torn between this an OmniFocus, which is strange given how different in philosophy they are. I'll probably end up using TaskPaper if only for the really simple text format.
AppFresh - All Software Updates for your Mac in One Place
A sane, centralized third-party software updater for Mac OS X. I'm baffled that Apple doesn't provide this as a system service…
Welcome | PostgreSQL for Mac | Andy Satori
Very well-done Postgres Mac packages; they Just Work (and even correctly set up pg_config so that extensions build correctly out of the box). My new Best Way of installing PG on a Mac.
Index of /darcs
Binaries of darcs for OSX/Intel; took me forever to find this.
Official Google Mac Blog: Google data APIs connect Cocoa developers to Google
Cocoa GData bindings from the great G in the sky.
Dozing Cat Software
“SaverLab: Runs Mac OS X screensaver modules in regular windows.”
DjangoKit - jerakeen.org
“DjangoKit is a framework that will (eventually) allow me to package just about any Django application as a stand-alone MacOS .app.”
The Filter - Instant Playlist Generator Plugin for iTunes
Like Pandora, but for your own iTunes library.
antoniolore.net - under_construction
Export AddressBook to CSV (for gmail import).
Correo - a new mail client for OS X
“Correo blends technology from two popular Mozilla projects, Camino and Thunderbird, to create a polished native Macintosh application.” This could be huge.
TWAIN SANE Interface for MacOS X
Just Works.
Download Audacity for Intel Macs
Pre-release Audacity binaries for Mac OSx86
Ross Barkman's Home Page
Modem scripts for a whole bunch of mobile phones.
Experience the First Virtualization Solution for Intel-powered Macs!
The first — of many, let's hope — virtualization software for OSX-Intel.
First Blue Screen of Death on my Imac Core Duo
The *real* reason to run Windows on your Mac!
Hex fiend
“A fast and clever free hex editor for Mac OS X.”
Macintosh Garden
“…a site devoted to preserving Macintosh abandonware games.”
Adobe Labs - Project: Lightroom
Adobe's response to Aperture
mnk::macbs2::about
Basic Stamp programmer for mac
Using MySQL - NeoWiki
How to set up MySQL with NeoOffice/J
macosxhints - Multi-DVD or (multi-CD) spanning backups with tar
Brilliantly simple multi-part backups using only standard tar. Not really just for macs, actually; I'll probably end up using this on my Linux box.
The Objective-C Programming Language: Type Encodings
List of type codes for ObjC functions/methods. Armed with this table, PyObjC can wrap any function from any framework,
Re: Dual Session Audio and Data
How to burn multi-session CDs using Cocoa's DiscRecording framework.
Cage Fighter
Fix the INCREDIBLY UGLY Mail icons in Tiger
FixIt Guide - FixIt Guide Series
Powerbook/iBook repair guides