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eBay Auction Manager 1.0
eBay Auction Manager offers you an effective offline Appleworks Database which is written to manage eBay items listed primarily on the UK version of the site (though it can be used for any auction site). more>>
eBay Auction Manager 1.0 offers you an effective offline Appleworks Database which is written to manage eBay items listed primarily on the UK version of the site (though it can be used for any auction site). It does not upload information nor does it allow information to be imported into it ? you need to manually key in the information yourself.
The database may not do some of the things which other eBay Auction Managers do (at a price) but I designed it for my own personal use after not being able to find a solution that was worthy of the fee asked which also did not insist upon quoting all things in US dollars. Essentially this is a database I wrote for myself and I'm distributing it here just in case someone else will find it of use.
Requirements:
- Appleworks 6.x
3 Maintenance Scripts 1.0.1
3 Maintenance Scripts - Cron maintenance scripts more>>
I wrote this because in certain cases the unavailable memory isnt freed until either the cron script is run, or a reboot. I used another utility for a while but didnt feel like paying the shareware fee for something that I could do myself in Terminal. I recommend using the weekly script.
Enhancements:
- Added startup screen with opt-out and no longer a run- only script.
Font Cache Cleaner 1.0
Fix garbled text font corruption. more>>
What appears to be happening is that incorrect or corrupted encoding vector information is being used when mapping the character codes as input by your keyboard to the glyphs they represent in the problematic font.
You can run Font Cache Cleaner to purge these cache files in an attempt to restore normal behavior. If you use Font Cache Cleaner but the problem remains, then it could be caused by a font conflict or by a corrupt font. Try removing fonts to isolate the problematic fonts that are causing this behavior.
Beyond Wonderland
Free wester-style font for your Mac more>> Open Transport 2.6 addresses DHCP issues in Mac OS 9.0 and prevents Macintosh computers from being used in certain types of Denial of Service (DoS) issues.
Open Transport is the networking software in the Mac OS. This software installer updates Open Transport to version 2.6. This updater is for use only on computers using Mac OS 9.0, and PowerMacintosh G4, iBook, and iMac (Slot-loading) computers running Mac OS 8.6.
Note: this updater will not work on other computers running Mac OS 8.6 or earlier versions of Mac OS.<<less
Singapore Street Directory 2.07
Singapore Street Directory - Search Singapore street map info by street name, building name or landmark name. more>> Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like Make, but without Makes wrinkles.
Why another build tool when there is already make, gnumake, nmake, jam, and others? Because all those tools have limitations that Ants original author couldnt live with when developing software across multiple platforms. Make-like tools are inherently shell-based -- they evaluate a set of dependencies, then execute commands not unlike what you would issue in a shell. This means that you can easily extend these tools by using or writing any program for the OS that you are working on. However, this also means that you limit yourself to the OS, or at least the OS type such as Unix, that you are working on.
Makefiles are inherently evil as well. Anybody who has worked on them for any time has run into the dreaded tab problem. "Is my command not executing because I have a space in front of my tab!!!" said the original author of Ant way too many times. Tools like Jam took care of this to a great degree, but still have yet another format to use and remember.
Ant is different. Instead of a model where it is extended with shell-based commands, Ant is extended using Java classes. Instead of writing shell commands, the configuration files are XML-based, calling out a target tree where various tasks get executed. Each task is run by an object that implements a particular Task interface.
Granted, this removes some of the expressive power that is inherent by being able to construct a shell command such as `find . -name foo -exec rm {}`, but it gives you the ability to be cross platform -- to work anywhere and everywhere. And hey, if you really need to execute a shell command, Ant has an task that allows different commands to be executed based on the OS that it is executing on.<<less
Extract Files Action 1.01
An Automator action that allows you to extract any combination files by file extension or file type. more>>
The new Extract Files Action for OS X Automator allows you to extract any combination files by file extension or file type. This is very useful for video and photo workflows. For example you could extract all jpg, tiff and gif and then use another action to resize them all to the same size. The Extract Files Action will recursively search all the included subfolders for the file extensions or types specified.
To use this action enter file extensions in the form txt, jpg, mp3. Note that the items are separated by a comma and a space. do not use a period before the file extension such as .txt, .jpg, .mp3. The same is true for the file types.
Finders Friend X 1.0
Finders Friend X - Quit or restart Finder to free up some memory more>>
Ever run processor intensive programs such as emulators (ie. Virtual PC or SNES9X) and games? Well if you dont have a spiffy new imac or a lightening fast blue and white tower and you arent getting the performance that you want from these applications, then quitting the Finder may help improve your speed. When you quit the Finder you will notice that the finder is no longer available in the active application menu in the top right corner of the screen and you cannot simply click the desktop to make it return. I can hear you asking "How do get my Finder back?" Fear not my friend, simply quit all open applications and the Finder will return.
I offer no guarantees with this script to how much performance you will gain. I also take no responsibility for any damage it may cause. I use this script quite frequently on my own mac and have never encountered a single serious problem since its creation.
Enhancements:
- OS X support.
Finder's Friend X 1.0
Finders Friend provides users with an easy-to-use product which is not quite as useful as the 1.5.1 more>>
Finder's Friend X 1.0 provides users with an easy-to-use product which is not quite as useful as the 1.5.1 version since you can restart the finder by the force quit command. You can still quit the finder though which could be useful!
Have you ever had a message appear that says "Not enough memory..." yada yada yada when you don't have any applications launched? Well sometimes when you quit a program for some reason the memory that was previously being used by the program gets locked up. This means that the computer still thinks you have a program using the memory and keeps you from accessing it. Restarting the Finder can cure this problem in seconds. Once you restart the finder it will likely recognize that no programs are using said memory and will free it up.
Ever run processor intensive programs such as emulators (ie. Virtual PC or SNES9X) and games? Well if you don't have a spiffy new imac or a lightening fast blue and white tower and you aren't getting the performance that you want from these applications, then quitting the Finder may help improve your speed. When you quit the Finder you will notice that the finder is no longer available in the active application menu in the top right corner of the screen and you cannot simply click the desktop to make it return.
XMLmind XML Editor 4.4.0
Highly-extensible, multi-platform, validating XML editor featuring a word processor-like view more>> Highly-extensible, multi-platform, validating XML editor featuring a word processor-like view
XMLmind XML Editor is a highly-extensible, multi-platform, validating XML editor featuring a word processor-like view.
XMLmind XML Editor is a powerful tool available in two editions: Standard Edition and Professional Edition. Standard Edition is free of charge but has fewer features than Professional Edition.
Main features:
- Supports the DTD, W3C XML Schema, RELAX NG schemas, XML namespace, XSLT, XPath, XInclude, XML catalog standards.
- Editing commands are DTD/schema aware. This makes creating invalid documents almost impossible.
- Word processor-like views are configured using cascading style sheets (CSS2).
- When a CSS style sheet is not available for a document, a fully editable tree view is used instead of the word processor-like view.
- Multiple, synchronized, views can be used to edit the same document.
- Standard controls such as buttons, check boxes, combo boxes, text fields, etc, can be embedded in the word processor-like view. With this feature, XXE can be used to edit XML data, XML documents or a mix of both content types.
- Has an easy to use and yet extremely powerful integrated spreadsheet engine.
- Can transform the document being edited using a built-in XSLT engine and FO processor plug-ins.
- Supports many image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG, SVG, TIFF, BMP, EPS, PDF, etc) through the use of image toolkit plug-ins.
- Can be used to edit documents stored on an FTP or WebDAV server.
- Ready-to-use support for XHTML (including HTML.4 tables and forms), DocBook (including CALS tables), Simplified DocBook, Slides.
- Localized to English, French, German and Czech. Spell checker with dictionaries for English, French, German and Spanish.
- Multi-platform: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X.
- Can be customized (menu, tool bar, keyboard shortcuts, macro-commands, etc) without any programming, using modular XML configuration files.
- Can be extended by writing custom commands and custom views in the JavaTM programming language.
- Configuration files and Jar files containing extension code can be centralized on an HTTP or FTP server.
- Can be deployed using JavaTM Web Start.
System requirements:
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- At least 256Mb of memory and a 600MHz CPU.
- 60Mb of free disk space, 120Mb for a self-contained distribution which includes a Java 1.5 runtime.
Enhancements
- Suns ``next generation JavaTM plug-in can be used to run XMLmind XML Editor (Professional Edition only) as an applet.
- Integrated support for input methods (e.g. Japanese Romaji Input).
- Several other enhancements make XMLmind XML Editor (all editions) more comfortable to use.
Drive Monitor 4.1
Drive Monitor displays information about volumes mounted to your computer, including which volumes are currently mounted, and how much space is being used on each of them more>> Drive Monitor displays information about volumes mounted to your computer, including which volumes are currently mounted, and how much space is being used on each of them.
The main window shows the name and icon of each volume as well as their size, used space, free space, percent used, percent free and a "thermometer" graphic representation. It is possible to sort the display by any of these items. If a volume is locked, a padlock icon is shown to the left of the drive name. Nearly-full volumes are hilighted in a used selectable color at a user-specified threshold. The bottom of the window provides a summary of all of the drives shown.
Mac OS 8.6 or later.
Version 4.1 adds a few bug fixes and native OS X support.
Start OpenOffice.org 1.0b9
Start OpenOffice.org is a double-clickable Mac OS X application that allows the user to easily open docs more>>
It also provides an easy way to just launch "OpenOffice.org".
Enhancements:
- Fix problem with the "Application.applescript" and "Utility.applescript" scripts being too long to edit with Script Editor - moved some handlers around, removed unused code etc, and created new "ChangeHistory.applescript" file.
- Add support for Mac OS X 10.3.x Fast User Switching feature - each user has a different X11 DISPLAY. Original patches provided by Randolph Brown and others; support added to handle the actual X11 DISPLAY being used at runtime.
- Add Preferences dialog field for the preferred X11 DISPLAY.
- No longer need Direct to PostScript option.
- Add support for handling files with special shell characters and Unicode characters in their filenames. Based on idea by Roger Jolly.
- Add support for checking for updates, using MacPAD.
- Add support for localized MacPAD messages.
- Conditionally support the MacPAD "barber-pole" progress bar at runtime for different versions of Mac OS X.
- Add additional User Defaults, including default "OpenOffice.org" module name.
- No longer set DYLD_LIBRARIES_PATH.
- Check if BSD tools are installed.
- Default "OpenOffice.org" version to "OpenOffice.org" v1.1.x.
- Add support for special handling of "-net" installs and "-net" workstation installs.
- Launch "OpenOffice.org" document (if any), separately, after launching "OpenOffice.org" itself, to work around weird problems when documents have special shell chars in their name.
- Major changes for handling paths and URLs.
- Tidy-up debugging.
- Fix bug with handling fonts dragged to "Start OpenOffice.org" after launch, if "soffice" has never been run (perhaps because of a X Window Server launch error).
- Change Mac OS X 10.1.x hack to be an AppleScript Studio hack for older Mac OS X (< 10.2.3).
- Increase wait time from 5-10 secs to 30 secs and improve checking for "OpenOffice.org" launch, as "OpenOffice.org" v1.1.x "pagein" process can take a long time on a slow machine before the "soffice" process is running.
- Put up "Please Wait..." floating window before time consuming operations; automatically hide the window when choosing a X Window Server or when an error Alert is up.
- Make "isProcessRunning" handler only look at processes for this user; and ignore "zombies".
- Merge French localization resources from Yves de Champlain.
Home Credit Card Manager 3.0.070309
Home Credit Card Manager categorizes expenditures more>>
With Home Credit Card Manager, you simply match your statement transactions to the categories provided, then use the tools to group and sort the information and with the integrated "auto-matching" tool, most of the work is done for you!
BinkMachOPlayer 1.8b
BinkMachOPlayer - Play Bink files more>>
Bink is a hybrid block-transform and wavelet codec that can encode your video using 16 different compression techniques (wavelet, DCT, motion compensation, a variety of vector quantizers, Smacker-style, etc). With all of these techniques in one codec, Bink can handle any type of video.
Bink also has a VBR psycho-acoustic based audio codec that is capable of 8:1 up to 20:1 perceptually lossless compression, so your audio will sound as good as your video looks. Other video codecs force you to license a separate audio encoder, but Bink has one built right in!
Another nice feature of Bink is that its technology was completely independently developed. We are not based on any MPEG or other committee standards (our techniques are quite different, in fact) of any kind, so the IP is safe, encumbrance-free, and (best of all) entirely royalty free. Thats why we develop our own codecs (both video and audio) - we dont want to be hindered by any third parties who see games as a side market rather than the target market. RAD has been developing video codecs for games since 1992 - our software codecs were being used before MPEG could even be played on a PC without a hardware decoder card.
The other big reason that we develop our own codec technology is because general video codecs are just not designed for games. They are designed to play movies in a nice little media player sandbox on a PC with little else going on. They use a ton of memory (Bink uses up to 16 MB less than other codecs), and they use almost all of the CPU. Bink is designed just for games - we arent trying to be a media player for the masses, or get integrated into some set top box, or stream video off the internet. Our only goal is great looking, easy to use, high performance video for your games.
The Bink SDK supports the Nintendo DS, the Xbox 360 and the Xbox consoles (using pixel shaders!), the Sony PlayStation 2 console, all versions of 32-bit Windows, the Xbox console, the Nintendo GameCube console, MacOS, MacOS X and GNU/Linux. It supports pixel shaders, DirectDraw, DIBSections, DirectSound, waveOut, Sound Manager, NGC AX, NGC MusyX, SDL_mixer, and the Miles Sound System.
Bink uses the YUV colorspace, so it can use overlays for hardware color conversion and smooth scaling on Win32 and Nintendo GameCube. On platforms with pixel shader support (DirectX 9, Xbox, and Xbox 360), Bink can use the GPU to do incredibly fast and incredibly high quality YUV to RGB conversions. Bink also includes a ton of hand-optimized assembly YUV to RGB colorspace blitters, so youll be able to access Binks output in any RGB format you like (32-bit RGB, 24-bit RGB, 16-bit RGB, etc).
As far as data rate goes, Bink really doesnt have a minimum - 256x192 animations look great at 50 kps for Nintendo DS and 1280x720s look awesome at 900 kps on Xbox and Xbox 360 for HD video. Bink is so fast, that it works great for the low-end, like the DS, and for the high-end, like the Xbox 360.
For such a high-end codec, Bink requires very little hardware resources - it will run on a machine as slow as a Nintendo DS (67 Mhz!), and will be screamingly fast on a modern P3, P4 or Athlon. Any Macintosh shipped in the last 10 years will run Bink great. All of the modern consoles can handle Bink easily (even the slow-ish PS/2 for which weve done massive assembly optimization to get Bink running wonderfully).
Because Bink is pretty different from other codecs, weve put together information describing the advantages of using Bink. You can even view the entire Bink development history to see the complete evolution of Bink. Finally, you can check out what other Bink customers think.
Think Bink!
Enhancements:
- Added support for the beta Xbox 360 hardware (June XDK).
- Fixed 8-bit audio playback on Nintendo DS - we still recommend using 16-bit audio, though.
Journeyman FTP 0.8.1
Journeyman FTP - File Transfer Protocol client more>>
Journeyman FTP simplifies the process of uploading and downloading your files to and from a server.
Instead of ambiguous commands like Put and Get, Journeyman uses easier to understand command such as Upload and Download.
So why use Journeyman FTP? There are many other FTP clients out there, such as Fetch and WS_FTP, but these programs carry a price that many people may not be so eager to pay. When the final version Journeyman FTP is released, it will be classified as freeware.
Main features:
- Upload files in either ASCII or binary formats
- Download files in either ASCII or binary formats
- Change directories
- Create new directories
- View images on your local machine
- Move up one directory.
Enhancements:
- Modified interface
- Current directory (local & remote) listed
- Move up one directory button.
SyncTERM 0.8
SyncTERM gives you an ANSI-BBS terminal created to connect to remote BBSs via telnet, rlogin, or SSH more>>
SyncTERM is a BBS terminal program which supports:
- Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP, Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OS X , and FreeBSD
- ZModem up/downloads
- Runs in full-screen mode on ALL platforms (ALT-Enter switches modes)
- *nix versions will run using SDL, X11, or using curses
- Full ANSI-BBS support
- Support for IBM low and high ASCII including the face graphics (? and ?) and card symbols (?, ?, ?, and ?) which so many other terms have problems with (may not work in curses mode... depends on the terminal being used).
- Phone books
- Multiple screen modes (80x25, 80x28, 80x43, 80x50, 80x60)
- ANSI Music (through the sound card if installed)
- Telnet, RLogin, SSH, and RAW connections
- Auto-login with Synchronet RLogin
- Large Scrollback
- Mouse-driven menus
- Copy/Paste
- Supports character pacing for ANSI animation as well as the VT500 ESC[*r sequence to allow dynamic speed changes
- Comes with 32 standard fonts and allows the BBS to change the current font *and* upload custom fonts. This tool will allow you to create fonts for use with SyncTERM.
