platypus
Platypus 4.2
Create application wrappers for shell scripts. more>> Create application wrappers for shell scripts.
Platypus is a Mac OS X program for creating application wrappers around scripts, i.e. creating Mac OS X applications that execute a script they are bundled with.
Scripts are then to run transparently from the graphical window environment, facilitating their execution and blending seamlessly into the user interface.
Platypus is free, open-source software and is distributed under the terms and conditions of the Free Software Foundations GNU General Public License. Platypus is written for the Cocoa application programming interfaces.
Main features:
- Supports shell scripts, Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, Expect, Tcl, AppleScript
- Supports arbitrary interpreter -- thus support for any script type
- Executing scripts with root privileges via Apples Security Framework
- Drag and drop files, which are passed to the script as arguments
- Graphical feedback of script execution: progress bar or text window with script output
- Can create applications which run in the background
- Sophisticated app bundle configuration for associated file types, identifier, version etc.
- Graphical interface for bundling support files with script
- Built-in script editor, or linking with external editor of choice
- Set own application icon or select from presets
- Command line tool for automating script application bundling.
Enhancements
- Droppable Platypus apps can now execute script again when new files are dropped.
- Text settings now available for Progress Bar output mode.
- Command line tool now supports setting text output properties such as font, color and encoding.
- Command line tool has achieved feature parity with GUI application.
- Command line tool now correctly handles relative paths.
- Change in profile format to make it more transparent and human-readable/editable.
- "Show Shell Command" now shows all parameters for command line app.
- Platypus apps now default to remaining open after execution.
- Secure bundled script option now correctly excludes Development Version save option.
- Fixed bug from 4.1 where text settings failed to be applied.
- Fixed memory leak and bugs in privileged execution mode.
- Fixed bug in path text field autocompletion.
- Updated documentation to reflect recent features.
- Minor interface tweaks and fixes.
Platypus Downloader 1.0.1
Simple file downloader w/resumable downloads. more>>
PNGCrushrrr 1.0
PNGCrushrrr - File compression for PNG files more>>
PNGCrushrrr works best on 24-bit PNGs, especially those saved from Apples Preview. Thanks to Andy Smith (aka Termie) for essentially rewriting my shell script and getting it to play nice with Platypus!
The icon is from David Lanhams wonderful Soma icon set.
Portable X-Chat Aqua 0.15.2r.10
Portable X-Chat Aqua - X-Chat Aqua packaged for portable devices more>>
How to install:
1. Drag "Portable X-Chat Aqua" folder to your portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also to your internal hard disk) as long as it has 5 MB of free space.
2. Clicking "Portable X-Chat Aqua" will open Portable X-Chat Aqua from your portable device, wait a while.
3. If a local copy of X-Chat Aqua is running an alert window allow you to quit it.
Using your data:
You can copy your user preferences to Portable X-Chat Aqua when "Copy preferences" window ask you. So, if you wish to use your preferences you already have on your system, just click "Copy" when prompted.
X-Chat Aqua application, preference file and folder are inside the bundle: Portable Portable X-Chat Aqua.app/Contents/Resources/app/
Known issues: Configure Download Folder path of DCC Settings in Preferences as "~/.xchat2/downloads"; be sure to have enough space on your portable drive or choose another folder.
Portable X-Chat Aqua is packaged using the Platypus script wrapper from Platypus.
Support Forum: Posst questions, tips, suggestions, clues, helps, bugs to our OS X Portable Applications support forum.
Enhancements:
- First public release.
- 100% standalone.
- Preference are automatically copied if desired.
- Portable X-Chat Aqua ask to quit X-Chat Aqua copy already running.
Portable Audacity 1.3.0b
Portable Audacity 1.2.4b - Audio editor for portable drive more>>
How to install
1. Drag "Portable Audacity OS X" folder to your portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also to your internal hard disk) as long as it has 12 MB of free space.
2. Clicking "Portable Audacity" will open Audacity from your portable device, wait a while before Audacity start.
3. If a local copy of Audacity is running an alert window allow you to quit it.
Using your data
You can copy your user preferences to Portable Audacity when "Copy preferences" window ask you. So, if you wish to use your bookmarks, history, preferences you already have on your system, just click "Yes" when prompt.
Audacity application, preference file and folder are inside the bundle:
Portable Audacity.app/Contents/Resources/app/
Audacity is packaged using the Platypus script wrapper from
http://sveinbjorn.sytes.net/platypus
Support Forum
Post questions, tips, suggestions, clues, helps, bugs to our OS X Portable Applications support forum.
iPodBackup 1.5.4
iPodBackup is a shell script-turned-application that backs up your home folder to your iPod more>>
You can customize a list of items to be excluded by simply dragging-and-dropping them onto the app. By default, the Musi folder, as well as certain cache folders are skipped, in order to prevent duplicating your music and because caches are a kind of stupi thing to backup
A note for first-time users The first backup can take quite a while, especially if you use an encrypted disk image! Subsequent backups will be much faster, as only files that have changed will be copied over.
Enhancements:
- Growl notification support
- Better handling of disk image mounting problems.
Portable Cyberduck 3.0.1 r3.0
Portable Cyberduck is developed to be aan advanced Cyberduck FTP and SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer) browser with an easy to use interface, integration with external editors and more>>
Portable Cyberduck 3.0.1 r3.0 is developed to be aan advanced Cyberduck FTP and SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer) browser with an easy to use interface, integration with external editors and support for many Mac OS X system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour, the Keychain and AppleScript, packaged as portable application so you can carry around with you on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive,memory card, other portable device (also on your internal hard disk) as long as it has 30 MB of free space and use on any Mac OS X computer, taking your bookmarks, history, preferences with you.
Major Features:
- Multilingual and EN, DE, FR, IT, JP monolingual versions available.
- Drag "Portable Cyberduck" folder to your portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also to your internal hard disk) as long as it has 30 MB of free space.
- Clicking "Portable Cyberduck" will open Cyberduck from your portable device, wait a while before Cyberduck start.
- Using your data
- You can copy your user preferences folder to Portable Cyberduck when "Copy preferences" window ask you. So, if you wish to use your bookmarks, history, preferences you already have on your system, just click "Copy" when prompt.
- Cyberduck application, preference file and profile folder are inside the bundle:Portable Cyberduck.app/Contents/Resources/
- Support Forum: Post questions, tips, suggestions, clues, helps, bugs to our Portable Apps OS X support forum
- Portable Cyberduck.app is packaged using the Platypus script wrapper from sveinbjorn.sytes.net/platypus
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Portable Audacity 1.3.3b r2.0
Portable Audacity offers a potential and easy to use audacity audio editor packaged as portable application so you can carry around with you on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive,memory card, other portable device (also on your internal hard disk) as long as it has 24 MB of free space and use on any Mac OS X computer, taking your preferences with you. more>> Portable Audacity 1.3.3b r2.0 offers a potential and easy to use audacity audio editor packaged as portable application so you can carry around with you on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive,memory card, other portable device (also on your internal hard disk) as long as it has 24 MB of free space and use on any Mac OS X computer, taking your preferences with you.
How to install
1. Drag "Portable Audacity OS X" folder to your portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also to your internal hard disk) as long as it has 24 MB of free space.
2. Clicking "Portable Audacity" will open Audacity from your portable device, wait a while before Audacity start.
3. If a local copy of Audacity is running an alert window allow you to quit it.
Using your data
You can copy your user preferences to Portable Audacity when "Copy preferences" window ask you. So, if you wish to use your bookmarks, history, preferences you already have on your system, just click "Yes" when prompt.
Audacity application, preference file and folder are inside the bundle:
Portable Audacity.app/Contents/Resources/app/
Audacity is packaged using the Platypus script wrapper
Support Forum
Post questions, tips, suggestions, clues, helps, bugs to our OS X Portable Applications support forum
TextToMP3 1.0
TextToMP3 - Converts text files to spoken word MP3 audio files more>>
TextToMP3 was created using Platypus.
Linear Laundry 1.1.1
Linear Laundry - Accurately and easily develop RAW photos more>>
Main features:
Raw to Linear PSD.app
- Mac OS X native application that converts Canon CRW photos to a linear PSD
- Built using dcraw and Platypus. You dont need to install or compile dcraw, an OS X binary is included inside the program.
LinearLaundry.atn
- This is a set of photoshop actions to easily develop Linear PSDs into bright, correctly colored photos.
- The actions are non-destructive. Each of the actions uses effect layers to develop the photo, so the original PSD is on the bottom layer, untouched.
- All of the actions can be used in batch processing as desired.
- The actions include: (pictures can be found on the product page)
- Gentle Cycle - Preserves all highlights. Takes about 30 seconds per image, but for high-saturation photos, its worth the wait.
- Quick Rinse - Develops about the same as Gentle Cycle, but can blow some highlights. Much Faster, ~2 sec/image.
- Bleach an a Bucket - Sometimes beautiful, sometimes a train wreck. Almost always an interesting effect. Some have described it as "Holga-like"
- Ansel Adams - High-contrast Black and White, with a slight channel skew
- Tumble Dry Low - Light sharpening routines
- High Heat - Heavy sharpening. May cause slight pixelation.
- Gimme a JPEG - convert from 16-bit to 8-bit mode, change the color profile for a web-based JPEG
Process Raw Darkroom.app
- Processes an entire set of photos using RAW to Linear PSD and LinearLaundry.atn
- Creates a set of full-res, JPEG images, and imports them into iPhoto
- Cleans up after itself.
- Uses jhead to re-add the camera EXIF information after processing.
- Assumes a very particular directory structure to work! Specifically:
- You are using Image Capture to download both CRW and THM files to the "Pictures" folder
- You have folders called "RAW Darkroom" and "RAW Negatives" made in your Pictures folder. "RAW Darkroom" will be used for temporary processing, and "RAW Negatives" will be used as long-term storage for your CRW and THM files
- Since Photoshop doesnt like it when people touch the keyboard in batch mode, you may want to run "Process Raw Darkroom.app" when youre going to step away from the computer for a bit.
Enhancements:
- Fixed jhead bug in "Process Raw Darkroom.app".
- EXIF is now added on again successfully.
Portable Nvu 1.0 r2.0
Portable Nvu - Nvu pkg for flash drives more>>
Enhancements:
- 100% standalone.
- Portable Nvu is wrapped on application package with Platypus.
- Preference are automatically copied if desired.
- Portable Nvu ask to quit Nvu copy already running.
- Files hosted by Sourceforge.net OS X Portable Applications project.
- New application incon.
Portable Gimp.app 2.2.10-svg r1.0
Portable Gimp.app - Gimp.app packeged for portable drive more>>
How to install
1. Drag "Portable Gimp.app" folder to your portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also to your internal hard disk) as long as it has 125 MB of free space.
2. Clicking "Portable Gimp.app" will open Gimp.app from your portable device, wait a while before Gimp start. Portable Gimp.app requires that either Apples X11 or XDarwin be installed. Apples X11 is included in the "Optional Installs" package on the OS X install disk.
There is a bug currently that Gimp.app will not work from within a folder containing any of the following characters: pipe |, forward slash /, backslash , ampersand &, pound #, or double quote ". Any other printable characters should be fine.
Gimp.app is packaged using the Platypus script wrapper from
http://sveinbjorn.sytes.net/platypus
Support Forum
Post questions, tips, suggestions, clues, helps, bugs to our OS X Portable Applications support forum.
Enhancements:
- First public release
- 100%stand alone.
Portable Sunbird 0.5r2.0
Portable Sunbird is the Sunbird Project cross platform standalone calendar and task manager application more>>
Portable Sunbird is the Sunbird Project cross platform standalone calendar and task manager application, packaged as portable application so you may take it with you on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also on your internal hard disk) as long as it has 40 MB of free space and use on any Mac OS X computer, taking your calendar and task list with you.
Enhancements:
- Sunbird update to 0.5
- New shell script.
- Profile copied if desired with file select option.
- Portable Sunbird ask to quit Sunbird copy already running.
- Dialog made by CocoaDialog.
- Portable Sunbird is wrapped as application package with Platypus.
- Requires OS X 10.4 or later.
- OS X 10.4 version check.
- Locked volume check.
- BSD command check.
- New icon.
Portable Newspeak v17 r1.0
Portable Newspeak - Newspeak IRC client for portable drives more>>
How to install
1. Drag "Portable Newspeak" folder to your portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also to your internal hard disk) as long as it has 2 MB of free space.
2. Clicking "Portable Newspeak" will open Newspeak from your portable device, wait a while before Newspeak start.
3. If a local copy of Newspeak is running an alert window allow you to quit it.
Using your data
You can copy your IRC servers, channels list and saved transcript to Portable Newspeak when "Copy preferences" window ask you. So, if you wish to use your IRC servers, channels list, saved transcript and preferences you already have on your system, just click "Yes" when prompt.
Newspeak application and preference file are inside the bundle: PortableNewspeak.app/Contents/Resources/app/
Newspeak chat transcript files are in:"
/Portable Newspeak/Newspeak Transcript folder
Portable Newspeak.app is packaged using the Platypus script wrapper from
http://sveinbjorn.sytes.net/platypus
Support Forum
Post questions, tips, suggestions, clues, helps, bugs to our OS X Portable Applications support forum.
Main features:
- 100% standalone.
- Portable Newspeak is wrapped on application package with Platypus.
- Preference are automatically copied if desired.
- Portable Newspeak ask to quit Newspeak copy already running.
Easy Writer 3.5
Teaches kids how to write letters of the alphabet properly. more>>
Handwriting books in the past have typically indicated the most efficient order and direction of strokes with numbered arrows, but most young children cannot process that type of information.
At last we have built have handwriting software that displays the model letters and their correct formation as an animation. Youngsters can process and imitate animations without needing abstract thought--something that doesnt usually kick in until later in their development.
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