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SABnzbd 0.4.12
SABnzbd provides you with a free yet sophisticated news client which helps you download files from your newshost more>>
SABnzbd 0.4.12 provides you with a free yet sophisticated news client which helps you download files from your news host. This is the OS X build - everything packed in one convenient universal application. Just download, point, click and run. Almost no configuration required!
Major Features:
- Access the news client from any internet connection.
Connect from work, school, wherever and tell SABnzbd to download. Your downloads are ready when you get home. - No more repairing or unpacking. SABnzbd handles the dirty work for you.
You tell it what to download and when it is done, SABnzbd will repair the download, unpack it, and clean up the mess. Leaving you with nothing but the files you wanted. - Full nzb support
Enhancements:
- Update unrar for Windows to 3.90 (solves CRC errors when unpacking)
- Don't show NZB-s no longer present in the RSS feed in the preview (they won't be matched anyway)
- Default skin: Hitting enter after changing the RSS definition would delete the definition.
- Send Group did not always work properly
- Add Cheetah 2.2 compatibility (primarily for Linux)
- Add field to API-qstatus XML output.
No more repairing or unpacking. SABnzbd handles the dirty work for you. - You tell it what to download and when it is done, SABnzbd will repair the download, unpack it, and clean up the mess. Leaving
The Unarchiver 2.1
The Unarchiver is designed to be a versatile and sophisticated program for you which is packed with a lot of features. more>>
The Unarchiver 2.1 is designed to be a versatile and sophisticated program for you which is packed with a lot of features.
Major Features:
- Supports more formats than you can remember. Zip, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, 7-Zip, Rar, LhA, StuffIt, several old Amiga file and disk archives, CAB, LZX, stuff you don't even know what it is.
- Copies the Finder file-copying/moving/deleting interface for its interface.
- Uses the character set auto-detection code from Mozilla to auto-detect the encoding of the file names in the archives.
- Supports split archives for certain formats, like RAR.
- Built around libxad. This is an old Amiga library for handling unpacking of archives.
- Supports a whole lot of formats, and a couple more, and bug fixed old code.
- A higher-level Objective-C wrapper around it is also included, which might be useful for other projects too (including Xee).
This is an old Amiga library for handling unpacking of archives. It supports a whole lot of formats, and added a couple more, and bugfixed old code. Also wrote a higher-level Objective-C wrapperLicense:Freeware
This is an old Amiga library for handling unpacking of archives. It supports a whole lot of formats, and I added a couple more, and bugfixed old code. I also wrote a higher-level Objective-C wrapperLicense:Freeware
Dock Library .06
Dock Library is designed as a professional program which shows you the power of taking the headache out of managing styles for your Leopard dock. more>>
Dock Library .06 is designed as a professional program which shows you the power of taking the headache out of managing styles for your Leopard dock. Download styles from sites such as LeopardDocks.com or LeopardDocks.net. Once downloaded, theres no need to expand or unpack the file, just click "Add Dock" to add it to Dock Library.
When you have some styles in your library, youre a simple click away from changing the look of your dock. No hunting through hidden system directories, just select the dock you want and click "Set Dock".
Once downloaded, there's no need to expand or unpack the file, just click "Import" to add it to Dock Library. When you have some styles in your library, you're a simple click away from changing theLicense:Freeware
Once downloaded, theres no need to expand or unpack the file, just click "Add Dock" to add it to Dock Library. When you have some styles in your library, youre a simple click away from changing theLicense:Freeware
SpaceControl 1.1.0
SpaceControl is known as a user-friendly tool which shows the free space available on your startup disk and warns you when the free space goes below the chosen limit. more>>
SpaceControl 1.1.0 is known as a user-friendly tool which shows the free space available on your startup disk and warns you when the free space goes below the chosen limit. The warning can also be sent by e-mail.
Major Features:
- SpaceControl also have support to warn the user for other Volumes then the start up disk.
- SpaceControl is designed to be simple.
- Download the application, unpack the file and drag the application (the one with the hard disk icon) to your Applications folder.
- Launch SpaceControl.
- A text will appear in your menu bar showing how much free space there are available on your startup disk.
- Click on the menu item and submenus will apere, showing information about all disks or volumes mounted on your desktop.
- If you want SpaceControl to start everytime you log o to your Mac you can choose that option in the Preference window.
- You can also make some choises about how you want the menu item to appear.
Download the application, unpack the file and drag the application (the one with the hard disk icon) to your Applications folder. Launch SpaceControl. A text will appear in your menu bar showing
Chrome List for Thunderbird 0.4.1
This will add an Explore Chrome item to Firefoxs Tools menu. more>>
Major Features:
- Browse all of chrome:// as if it were a directory tree
- Quickly find out what manifest registered a certain file
- Save chrome files to a local file.
- Copy URLs and paths to the files.
- Find files in LXR, or in some other source browsing system if you configure the hidden pref for the URL
- Open files in the browser, or view their source
- List possible problems with the Chrome Manifests in use in the Error Console.
Enhancements: July 4, 2009
Fixes some minor cosmetic issues:
- Folders now open if you doubleclick them in the right pane even if not shown in the left pane.
- Fixed formatting of byte values in the properties window (and improved it in the main window)
- Fixed some string consistency issues.
- Default LXR lookup is now MXR
Requirements:
- Firefox 2.0 and onwards
- Thunderbird 2.0 and onwards
- XULRunner applications on XULRunner 1.9a7 or newer
p7zip 9.04
A quick port of 7z.exe and 7za.exe for Unix more>> A quick port of 7z.exe and 7za.exe for Unix
p7zip is a port of 7za.exe for POSIX systems like MacOS X, Unix (Linux, Solaris, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, AIX, Cygwin, ...), and BeOS.
7-Zip is a file archiver with highest compression ratio. Since 4.10, p7zip (like 7-zip) supports little-endian and big-endian machines.
NOTE: To install, open a terminal, go to the source directory and run "make" without the quotes.
Enhancements
From Windows version of 7-zip 9.04 :
- 7-Zip now can update solid .7z archives.
- 7-Zip now supports LZMA2 compression method.
- 7-Zip now supports XZ archives.
- 7-Zip now can unpack NTFS, FAT, VHD and MBR archives.
- 7-Zip now can unpack GZip, BZip2, LZMA, XZ and TAR archives from stdin.
- New -scrc switch to calculate total CRC-32 during extracting / testing.
- Some bugs were fixed.
- #2799966 " A newly created 7z archive (by p7zip 4.65) is broken and cannot be unpacked / listed / tested"
- Fixed : now "7za a -mx=9 archive.7z directory" creates a good archive even
- if there are a lot of executable files.
- Fixed : the RAM size was reported incorrectly on MacOSX 64bits (with 2Gb+ RAM)
- #2798023 "segfault handling very large multivolume .7z file"
- p7zip now displays the following error "Error: Too many open files"
- if you dont have enough rights to open all the splitted files
- ( on Linux : ulimit -n)
with Intel Compiler 11 on Ubuntu 8.04 x64) - 7-Zip now can unpack UDF, XAR and DMG/HFS archives. - Its allowed to use -t switch for "list" and "extract" commands. - Bug : wrong timestamp for files extractedLicense:GPL
unnks 0.2.3
Command-line utility that unpacks NKS archives more>> Command-line utility that unpacks NKS archives
unnks is a free and open source application that extracts data from the nks archives that are used by several music synthesizer programs. unnks is designed to have a similar interface to GNU tar.
Version restrictions:
- Only extracting or listing archives is supported, unnks does not create new ones.
- unnks can only extract one type of file, which is typically used for sound samples. nks archives can contain additional data that unnks does not know how to extract.
- The archives that are being extracted must be seekable files. Extracting from stdin or other non-seekable streams is not supported.
Enhancements
- Added support for unpacking additional nkx archives
SABnzbdPlus 0.4.11
SABnzbdPlus is an effective web-interface based binary newsgrabber written in python with the support of nzb file. more>>
SABnzbdPlus 0.4.11 is an effective web-interface based binary newsgrabber written in python with the support of nzb file.
This is the OS X build - everything packed in one convenient universal application. Just download, point, click and run. Almost no configuration required.
- Download files from your newshost
- Access the news client from any internet connection. Connect from work, school, wherever and tell SABnzbd to download. Your downloads are ready when you get home.
- No more repairing or unpacking. SABnzbdPlus handles the dirty work for you. You tell it what to download and when it is done, SABnzbdPlus will repair the download, unpack it, and clean up the mess. Leaving you with nothing but the files you wanted.
- Full nzb support
- Fixed missing session keys in the skins
- Added compatibility option to disable the new security feature
- Added option to disable use of multi-core par (OSX and Windows)
- Replaced PAR2 for OSX
ZODB3 3.9.0 Beta 1
A free set of tools for using the Zope Object Database (ZODB) more>> A free set of tools for using the Zope Object Database (ZODB)
The Zope Object Database provides an object-oriented database for Python that provides a high-degree of transparency.
Applications can take advantage of object database features with few, if any, changes to application logic. ZODB includes features such as a plugable storage interface, rich transaction support, and undo.
The components you get with the ZODB release are as follows:
- Core ZODB, including the persistence machinery
- Standard storages such as FileStorage
- The persistent BTrees modules
- ZEO, for scalability needs
- documentation (needs more work)
ZODBs primary development platforms are Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows XP.
System requirements:
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Enhancements
New Features (in more or less reverse chronological order):
- The Database class now has an xrefs keyword argument and a corresponding allow-implicit-cross-references configuration option. which default to true. When set to false, cross-database references are disallowed.
- As a convenience, the connection root method for returning teh root object can now also be used as an object with attributes mapped to the root-object keys.
- Databases have a new method, transaction, that can be used with the Python (2.5 and later) with statement
- This uses a private transaction manager for the connection. If control exists the block without an error, the transaction is committed, otherwise, it is aborted.
- Convenience functions ZODB.connection and ZEO.connection provide a convenient way to open a connection to a database. They open a database and return a connection to it. When the connection is closed, the database is closed as well.
- The ZODB.config databaseFrom... methods now support multi-databases. If multiple zodb sections are used to define multiple databases, the databases are connected in a multi-database arrangement and the first of the defined databases is returned.
The zeopack script has gotten a number of improvements:
- Simplified command-line interface. (The old interface is still supported, except that support for ZEO version 1 servers has been dropped.)
- Multiple storages can be packed in sequence.
- This simplifies pack scheduling on servers serving multiple databases.
- All storages are packed to the same time.
- You can now specify a time of day to pack to.
- The script will now time out if it cant connect to s storage in 60 seconds.
- The connection now estimates the object size based on its pickle size and informs the cache about size changes.
- The database got additional configurations options (cache-size-bytes and historical-cache-size-bytes) to limit the cache size based on the estimated total size of cached objects. The default values are 0 which has the interpretation "do not limit based on the total estimated size". There are corresponding methods to read and set the new configuration parameters.
- Connections now have a public opened attribute that is true when the connection is open, and false otherwise. When true, it is the seconds since the epoch (time.time()) when the connection was opened. This is a renaming of the previous _opened private variable.
- FileStorage now supports blobs directly.
- You can now control whether FileStorages keep .old files when packing.
- POSKeyErrors are no longer logged by ZEO servers, because they are really client errors.
- A new storage interface, IExternalGC, to support external garbage collection, http://wiki.zope.org/ZODB/ExternalGC, has been defined and implemented for FileStorage and ClientStorage.
- As a small convenience (mainly for tests), you can now specify initial data as a string argument to the Blob constructor.
- ZEO Servers now provide an option, invalidation-age, that allows quick verification of ZEO clients less than a given age even if the number of transactions the client hasnt seen exceeds the invalidation queue size. This is only recommended if the storage being served supports effecient iteration from a point near the end of the transaction history.
- The FileStorage iterator now handles large files better. When iteratng from a starting transaction near the end of the file, the iterator will scan backward from the end of the file to find the starting point. This enhancement makes it practical to take advantage of the new storage server invalidation-age option.
- Previously, database connections were managed as a stack. This tended to cause the same connection(s) to be used over and over. For example, the most used conection would typically be the onlyt connection used. In some rare situations, extra connections could be opened and end up on the top of the stack, causing extreme memory wastage. Now, when connections are placed on the stack, they sink below existing connections that have more active objects.
- There is a new pool-timeout database configuration option to specify that connections unused after the given time interval should be garbage colection. This will provide a means of dealing with extra connections that are created in rare circumstances and that would consume an unreasonable amount of memory.
- The Blob open method now supports a new mode, c, to open committed data for reading as an ordinary file, rather than as a blob file. The ordinary file may be used outside the current transaction and even after the blobs database connection has been closed.
- ClientStorage now provides blob cache management. When using non-shared blob directories, you can set a target cache size and the cache will periodically be reduced try to keep it below the target size.
- The client blob directory layout has changed. If you have existing non-shared blob directories, you will have to remove them.
- ZODB 3.9 ZEO clients can connect to ZODB 3.8 servers. ZODB ZEO clients from ZODB 3.2 on can connect to ZODB 3.9 servers.
- When a ZEO cache is stale and would need verification, a ZEO.interfaces.StaleCache event is published (to zope.event). Applications may handle this event and take action such as exiting the application without verifying the cache or starting cold.
- Theres a new convenience function, ZEO.DB, for creating databases using ZEO Client Storages. Just call ZEO.DB with the same arguments you would otherwise pass to ZEO.ClientStorage.ClientStorage.
- Object saves are a little faster
- When configuring storages in a storage server, the storage name now defaults to "1". In the overwhelmingly common case that a single storage, the name can now be ommitted.
- FileStorage now provides optional garbage collection. A gc keyword option can be passed to the pack method. A false value prevents garbage collection.
- The FileStorage constructor now provides a boolean pack_gc option, which defaults to True, to control whether garbage collection is performed when packing by default. This can be overridden with the gc option to the pack method.
- The ZConfig configuration for FileStorage now includes a pack-gc option, corresponding to the pack_gc constructor argument.
- The FileStorage constructor now has a packer keyword argument that allows an alternative packer to be supplied.
- The ZConfig configuration for FileStorage now includes a packer option, corresponding to the packer constructor argument.
- MappingStorage now supports multi-version concurrency control and iteration and provides a better storage implementation example.
DemoStorage has a number of new features:
- The ability to use a separate storage, such as a file storage to store changes
- Blob support
- Multi-version concurrency control and iteration
- Explicit support dfor demo-storage stacking via push and pop methods.
- Wen calling ZODB.DB to create a database, you can now pass a file name, rather than a storage to use a file storage.
Added support for copying and recovery of blob storages:
- Added a helper function, ZODB.blob.is_blob_record for testing whether a data record is for a blob. This can be used when iterating over a storage to detect blob records so that blob data can be copied. In the future, we may want to build this into a blob-aware iteration interface, so that records get blob file attributes automatically.
- Added the IBlobStorageRestoreable interfaces for blob storages that support recovery via a restoreBlob method.
- Updated ZODB.blob.BlobStorage to implement IBlobStorageRestoreable and to have a copyTransactionsFrom method that also copies blob data.
- New ClientStorage configuration option drop_cache_rather_verify. If this option is true then the ZEO client cache is dropped instead of the long (unoptimized) verification. For large caches, setting this option can avoid effective downtimes in the order of hours when the connection to the ZEO server was interrupted for a longer time.
- Cleaned-up the storage iteration API and provided an iterator implementation for ZEO.
- Versions are no-longer supported.
- Document conflict resolution (see ZODB/ConflictResolution.txt).
- Support multidatabase references in conflict resolution.
- Make it possible to examine oid and (in some situations) database name of persistent object references during conflict resolution.
- Moved the transaction module out of ZODB. ZODB depends upon this module, but it must be installed separately.
- ZODB installation now requires setuptools.
- Added offset information to output of fstail script. Added test harness for this script.
- Added support for read-only, historical connections based on datetimes or serials (TIDs). See src/ZODB/historical_connections.txt.
- Removed the ThreadedAsync module.
- Now depend on zc.lockfile
Bugs Fixed:
- fixed Python 2.6 compatibility issue with ZEO/zeoserverlog.py
- using hashlib.sha1 if available in order to avoid DeprecationWarning under Python 2.6
- made runzeo -h work
- The monitor server didnt correctly report the actual number of clients.
- Packing could return spurious errors due to errors notifying disconnected clients of new database size statistics.
- Undo sometimes failed for FileStorages configured to support blobs.
- Starting ClientStorages sometimes failed with non-new but empty cache files.
- The history method on ZEO clients failed.
- Fix for bug #251037: Make packing of blob storages non-blocking.
- Fix for bug #220856: Completed implementation of ZEO authentication.
- Fix for bug #184057: Make initialisation of small ZEO client file cache sizes not fail.
- Fix for bug #184054: MappingStorage used to raise a KeyError during load instead of a POSKeyError.
- Fixed bug in Connection.TmpStore: load() would not defer to the backend storage for loading blobs.
- Fix for bug #181712: Make ClientStorage update lastTransaction directly after connecting to a server, even when no cache verification is necessary.
- Fixed bug in blob filesystem helper: the isSecure check was inversed.
- Fixed bug in transaction buffer: a tuple was unpacked incorrectly in clear.
- Bugfix the situation in which comparing persistent objects (for instance, as members in BTree set or keys of BTree) might cause data inconsistency during conflict resolution.
- Fixed bug 153316: persistent and BTrees were using int for memory sizes which caused errors on x86_64 Intel Xeon machines (using 64-bit Linux).
- Fixed small bug that the Connection.isReadOnly method didnt work after a savepoint.
- Bug #98275: Made ZEO cache more tolerant when invalidating current versions of objects.
- Fixed a serious bug that could cause client I/O to stop (hang). This was accomonied by a critical log message along the lines of: "RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration".
- Fixed bug #127182: Blobs were subclassable which was not desired.
- Fixed bug #126007: tpc_abort had untested code path that was broken.
- Fixed bug #129921: getSize() function in BlobStorage could not deal with garbage files
- Fixed bug in which MVCC would not work for blobs.
- Fixed bug in ClientCache that occurred with objects larger than the total cache size.
- When an error occured attempting to lock a file and logging of said error was enabled.
- FileStorages previously saved indexes after a certain number of writes. This was done during the last phase of two-phase commit, which made this critical phase more subject to errors than it should have been. Also, for large databases, saves were done so infrequently as to be useless. The feature was removed to reduce the chance for errors during the last phase of two-phase commit.
- File storages previously kept an internal object id to transaction id mapping as an optimization. This mapping caused excessive memory usage and failures during the last phase of two-phase commit. This optimization has been removed.
- Refactored handling of invalidations on ZEO clients to fix a possible ordering problem for invalidation messages.
- On many systems, it was impossible to create more than 32K blobs. Added a new blob-directory layout to work around this limitation.
- Fixed bug that could lead to memory errors due to the use of a Python dictionary for a mapping that can grow large.
- Fixed bug #251037: Made packing of blob storages non-blocking.
- Fixed a bug that could cause InvalidObjectReference errors for objects that were explicitly added to a database if the object was modified after a savepoint that added the object.
- Fixed several bugs that caused ZEO cache corruption when connecting to servers. These bugs affected both persistent and non-persistent caches.
- Improved the the ZEO client shutdown support to try to avoid spurious errors on exit, especially for scripts, such as zeopack.
- Packing failed for databases containing cross-database references.
- Cross-database references to databases with empty names werent constructed properly.
- The zeo client cache used an excessive amount of memory, causing applications with large caches to exhaust available memory.
Fixed a number of bugs in the handling of persistent ZEO caches:
- Cache records are written in several steps. If a process exits after writing begins and before it is finishes, the cache will be corrupt on restart. The way records are writted was changed to make cache record updates atomic.
- There was no lock file to prevent opening a cache multiple times at once, which would lead to corruption. Persistent caches now use lock files, in the same way that file storages do.
- A bug in the cache-opening logic led to cache failure in the unlikely event that a cache has no free blocks.
- When using ZEO Client Storages, Errors occured when trying to store objects too big to fit in the ZEO cache file.
- Fixed bug in blob filesystem helper: the isSecure check was inversed.
- Fixed bug in transaction buffer: a tuple was unpacked incorrectly in clear.
- Fixed bug in Connection.TmpStore: load() would not defer to the backend storage for loading blobs.
- Fixed bug #190884: Wrong reference to POSKeyError caused NameError.
- Completed implementation of ZEO authentication. This fixes issue 220856.
Aperture to Picasa Export Plugin 0.1
Aperture to Picasa Export Plugin is a really superior and tractable export plugin for Aperture. more>> Aperture to Picasa Export Plugin 0.1 is a really superior and tractable export plugin for Aperture. Just unpack the downloaded file in ~/Library/Application Support/Apperture/Plugin/Export/
Enhancements: First public version
Requirements: Aperture 2.0 or later.
MKext Tool 1.0
Powerful and easy to use graphical utility to unpack, pack, and view contents of mkext files. more>>
A utility designed for ease of use. Mac OS X uses mkexts, which are basically bundles of kernel extensions consolidated into one file for faster loading and caching. While there are built in Darwin tools to manipulate mkexts, they are not suitable for the end user. MKext Tool fills that gap by using a fast and efficient interface to manipulate mkexts. This tool uses built in Darwin tools to pack, unpack, and view the contents of mkext files in a matter of seconds. This application is a must have for people who are developing or testing extensions.
XMMS2 0.5
The next generation of XMMS player more>> The next generation of XMMS player
You might have heard of XMMS (xmms.org), the hugely popular Winamp clone for Linux and UNIX-like operating systems.
XMMS2 is a project started (in late 2002) by one of XMMSs original authors - Peter Alm - to produce a "kick-ass music player" (much like the worlds 347349739921 other music player projects). In short, XMMS2 is the next generation XMMS.
So, XMMS2 is definitely an audio player. But it is not a general multimedia player - it will not play videos. XMMS2 has a modular framework and plugin architecture for audio processing, output and visualization, but this framework has not been designed to support video.
Also the client-server design of XMMS2 (and the daemon being independent of any graphics output) practically prevents direct video output being implemented.
Install how-to:
-Download and install Macports
-Install sqlite through macports with the command: "port install sqlite3". Now you should be good to compile xmms2 on your Mac OS X Tiger by running "./waf configure && ./waf && sudo ./waf install" in a terminal window, after changing the working directory to the unpacked directory containing the source.
Main features:>
- Client-server model
- Allows XMMS2 to have various multiple interfaces (as clients).
- Command line interfaces
- GTK clients (matching GNOME & Xfce4 look and feel)
- KDE clients (matching KDE look and feel)
- Network transparency means you can run and control XMMS2 remotely, (e.g. run XMMS2 on your media box and control it over network using a bluetooth-enabled PDA (TCP) - see Mobile platforms)
- Wide format support: Play mp3, vorbis, m4a, wma, mac, sid, mod, wav, flac, mpc, speex files.
- Transports: Play from local files, over http, samba, daap and mms.
- Flexible transform chain concept: Allows for more flexible access to media. (e.g. play mp3 files from a Samba share without having to mount it on the local filesystem)
- Medialib: Database-driven media library stores metadata about songs as theyre played, so songs can be quickly recalled and new playlists easily made. The media library can be easily queried and managed using Collections.
- Other: Gapless playback, coverart extraction.
- Play your music.
- Manage your music library
- Use collections to help you organise your music as you like
- Allow you to control it using a variety of clients.
- Runs on Mac OS X, Linux, *BSD, Solaris, and Windows
Enhancements:
- Add hack to GVFS plugin to handle local files with # sign
DictBuilder 1.7.1
DictBuilder offers you a professional and highly-efficient unpack/pack dictionary tool; more>>
DictBuilder 1.7.1 offers you a professional and highly-efficient unpack/pack dictionary tool which supports various formats: ABBYY DSL + IPA Transcription, XDXF, TI/StarDict, TI/Folder Struct; Core (Perl) subsystem requires HFS+. It is specially designed for using with TranslateIt! Deluxe.
DictBuilder brings you a helpful unpack/pack dictionary tool which is able to support the following dictionaries formats: DictBuilder 1.7.1 - RealSoftsExpanderQueue 0.2 Beta
ExpanderQueue launches Stuffit Expander and starts extracting the files starting with the file you added first more>> ExpanderQueue launches Stuffit Expander and starts extracting the files starting with the file you added first
A common problem is that sometimes you may have many files with different passwords to extract and you dont want to switch to Expander after each File and then get the password first and copy-paste it and wasting time with all these actions.
Another example is when I leave my computer and theres many files to extract (and we all know that extracting has a pretty high CPU usage) it would be nice to have them unpacked while Im gone. With Stuffit Expander I have to retype the password even its the same every time.
You can add files to a list and set a password for each file. If you have many files with the same password you can use the "set password" feature to add the password to all files.
When you hit "expand" ExpanderQueue launches Stuffit Expander and starts extracting the files starting with the file you added first. When expanding large files (100mb+) ExpanderQueue the system displays the rotating cursor symbol. Dont be bothered by that and just let ExpanderQueue in the background. Ill try to fix that if possible.
System requirements:
- Stufit Expander
rb-appscript 0.5
rb-appscript gives a tool to monitor scriptable Mac OS X applications applying ordinary Ruby scripts. more>>
rb-appscript 0.5 gives a tool to monitor scriptable Mac OS X applications applying ordinary Ruby scripts. Appscript makes Ruby a serious alternative to Apples own AppleScript language for automating your Mac.
Simple all-in-one binary installers are provided for Apple-installed Ruby 1.8 on Mac OS 10.4.x, and source files are included for installing appscript on other OS/Ruby versions. Example scripts, documentation and tutorial are also included.
Enhancements:
- OSAX module no longer errors on import in 10.5 if a ScriptingAdditions folder (e.g. ~/Library/ScriptingAdditions) doesn't exist
- added Appscript: Application#is_running method
- added hfs_path, #hfs_path methods to MacTypes: Alias, MacTypes:FileURL; existing path, #path methods now use CFURL functions to convert between POSIX paths and URLs
- aem/appscript now raises Connect: CantLaunchApplicationError instead of AE:MacOSError if unable to launch an application. Users should update existing code as necessary.
- fixed extconf.rb so that universal binaries build correctly
- built-in help system now uses ASDictionary 0.9.0+ instead of AppscriptHelpAgent. (AppscriptHelpAgent is no longer used as-of rb-appscript 0.5.0 and may be removed if previously installed.)
- #help method now writes messages to stderr instead of stdout
- Appscript: Reference#respond_to? now has identical signature to Object#respond_to? (optional second argument was previously missing)
- fixed bug in AE.convert_long_date_time_to_unix_seconds (used to unpack AEDescs of typeLongDateTime) where it would crash if passed a FixNum instead of a BigNum
- now allow methods that have been added to Object class at runtime (e.g. importing the pp module adds #pretty_print and #pretty_inspect) to be invoked on Appscript:Reference and Appscript:Application instances, assuming that the reference object doesnt already have a property/element/command by the same name. In other words, instances of these classes now behave more or less the same as instances of ordinary subclasses that use bound methods rather than #method_missing to handle incoming messages. Previously, calling (e.g.) #pretty_inspect on an appscript reference would result in a property/element/command not found error.
- improved behaviour of Appscript:Application#AS_new_reference when argument is nil (now returns a new reference to the root application object)
- OSAX:Application initialiser now optionally accepts static terminology glue module as its second argument. This is partly to provide scripts that need to run in 64-bit processes with a workaround for accessing the OSAX module, which cant yet automatically obtain osax terminology under 64-bit (see TODO file).
- added process_exists_for_path?, process_exists_for_pid?, process_exists_for_url?, process_exists_for_desc? class methods to AEM: Application
- deprecated AEM:Application.is_running? (will be removed in 1.0.0); any existing code that uses this method should be updated to use AEM: Application.process_exists_for_path? instead
- fixed minor formatting flaw in generic references #to_s method
- AEM:Application is now a subclass of AEMReference: Base, allowing aem Codecs instances to pack it
- added AB_export_vcard.rb sample script
Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.3 or later
- Ruby 1.8 or later.
