Free miscellaneous software for mac

Harry Potter Updater updates the original release of Harry Potter to version 1.0.1.
Enhancements:
- fixes miscellaneous bugs

The GeeXboX is no more than an awesome standalone media player. Why such a name ? Well, its main purpose is to play DivX movies and, as everybody usually call this kind of projects DivX boxes, well just prepended a "GeeX", cause thats for the geeks you all are ;-)
So, GeeXboX is a full operating system, running under Linux and based on the excellent MPlayer. No need for a hard drive, you just have to put the GeeXboX bootable CD into the CD-Drive of any Pentium-class computer to boot it. Moreover, GeeXboX is free software, created as open-source software. This means that everyone can modify it and build his own release of the GeeXboX.
You may wonder why you should have to boot another operating system to play your media files, but just think about the Mini-ITX platforms like VIA Epia/Eden or Shuttle barebones. Its now affordable to bring DivX to your home cinema, plugging this kind of computer directly to your TV !!
At the time of the first development releases (Dec. 2002), it was only capable of playing DivX movies, but now, nearly every kind of media file can be played with GeeXboX, with the OS supporting :
- MPEG 1/2 movies (MPG files, VCDs, DVDs ...)
- MPEG 4 movies (DivX, XviD ...)
- RealMedia and Windows Media movies.
- OggMedia streams
- Matroska streams
- Audio streams like : MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, WAV (AudioCD), AC3 ...
GeeXboX is an operating system but you still need something to boot on ;-) Youre lucky, GeeXboX is based on MPlayer, which can be considered as one of the less cpu-dependent movie players, thanks to the use of FFMpeg for decoding movies.
Enhancements:
- System :
- Support for the PowerPC (MAC) architecture.
- Linux updated to 2.6.12.3 version.
- Use of UDEV to automatically populate the /dev directory.
- Remove of the now useless SuperMount patch.
- Use IDE CD driver instead of the old ide-scsi emulation layer.
- Support for CPU frequency scaling for supported CPU (generally laptops) to minimize power consumption.
- Use LZMA algorithm instead of gZip for compressing iso (far slighter).
- New HotPlug script : hot autodiscovery and mount/removal of external devices.
- Reduce CD drives spin to 8x each time a disc is inserted in (previous versions did it for boot media only).
- Toolchain :
- Complete rework of the sources tree (splitted init.d scripts and patches now are in packages directory, allowing a successfull build of old versions).
- Toolchain can now build distribution for different architectures.
- Toolchain can now optimize distribution compilation for specific CPU.
- Player :
- Updated MPlayer to 1.0pre7 (support for H.264 video and AAC audio codecs).
- Can play IFO files from disk to read complete DVD structure.
- Keep current path in OSD after the end of a file (no more need to do a complete browse each time you play a file).
- Use cvidix video output mode instead of vesa:vidix by default.
- Support for radio cards.
- Support for FLAC files.
- Support for MusePack codec (.mpc files).
- Avoid some crashes when pausing/resuming a movie with remote control.
- Audio :
- ALSA drivers ported to 1.0.9b
- Fix some SPDIF configuration problems.
- No more need to force sound rate for reluctant sound cards.
- Can choose which soundcard to use (default is #0), output mode (SPDIF or Analog) and AC3/DTS decompression method (Hardware or Software) through the ISO generator.
- Added drivers for Emu10k1X chipsets, SB Audigy LS and SB Live! 24bit cards.
- Fix some ALSA bug with Nforce2 chipsets.
- Support for Intel High Definition Audio (Azalia) chipsets.
- Video :
- Removed buggy Savage vidix driver (works fine using VESA).
- Fix vidix support for some Rage128 / Radeon cards.
- More chipsets supported by atitvout : Mobile M3, Radeon Mobility, Radeon Mobility 9000, RV200.
- Drivers :
- Support for QStor SATA controllers.
- Use GPLd RT2500 driver instead of Ralink one.
- Support for CX88 analog TV chipsets (BT8xx successor).
- Support for in-built multi-LUN X-in-1 card readers.
- Support for XboX gamepads.
- Networking :
- Security fix : FTP / Telnet / HTTP services (anonymous root) are closed by default : use generator to open requested ones.
- Support for the CIFS protocol.
- Can setup network and Samba configuration directly through installator.
- Samba updated to 3.0.14a.
- Can manually set DNS server to use.
- Faster Samba shares mount (parallelize mount processes for multiple servers).
- Internationalization :
- Use TrueType fonts for subtitles.
- Use UTF-8 as default charset.
- Support for different charsets for menu and subtitles.
- Miscellaneous :
- LIRC updated to 0.7.2.
- Support for the DigiMatrix remote controller.
- New FLTK graphical ISO generator for both Win32 and Linux.
- Added analog TV channels scanner in installator.
- Added HTTP server for remote Web management of GeeXboX : web designers are fully welcomed to build the Web interface.
- Non-free codecs package is now directly available on our server.

iTunesCheck is a program that I wrote after checking out several other programs and not finding exactly what I wanted. It provides global hot keys for controlling iTunes without switching to it, it provides a hotkeyable floating window that shows the currently playing song, and it provides a hotkey for quickly finding a song without switching to iTunes.
Yes, all of these things are, of course, available directly in the iTunes interface. But I find it cumbersome to have to switch to iTunes just to figure out what song is playing. This is faster.
Enhancements:
- Modularized display options for easy expansion.
- Fixed bug where iTC would launch iTunes if you set the info window to show all the time. Fixed associated bug where you couldnt quit iTunes if iTC was running.
- Fixed a bug where iTC would crash if you set it to display the last played date and the current track didnt have one.
- Added Read Me button to About tab.
- Added "Increment Play Count" hot key.
- Rewrote info window controller. Artwork should be higher quality, you can choose from three sizes, and there is an option to look inside the files folder for artwork (in case thats how you roll).
- Updated the title, artist, and album scripts to work more intelligently with streaming data.
- Changed iTC to work with the notifications iTunes now sends out when it changes songs. No more processor-intensive polling of iTunes, awww yeah!
- Fixed the crashing bug related to iTC being open too long that everyone who ever used the program reported. Thanks guys. But thanks to Guy Brooker for being a stud and fixing it!
- Added a "while playing" display option.
- Miscellaneous other improvements made over a year of poking around, of which there are a lot.

Cretin Tracker lets you keep track of a list of people (cretins, most likely), including their name, email address, and any miscellaneous notes you have about them. You can assign each person a Cretin Level from 1 to 100 (where 100 is really very bad indeed), and also note a reason for their inclusion in your list. Perfect for dangerous sociopaths!

Cretin Tracker can help you if you are fed up with fools intruding on your life or feel a psychologically unhealthy need to maintain a detailed list of the transgressions of your family/friends/coworkers.

MacNetTools is an internet utility program for Macintosh which provides a lot of usefull features in one versatile, yet easy to use package.
Main features:
- Joins Segmented Files (what most of you use it for)
- Splits Files into Segments
- Decodes Encoded Binary Files - Auto Detect Format, UUEncoded, Mime (including AppleSingle and AppleDouble), Binhex, Macbinary, yEnc
- Encodes Binary Files - UUEncoding, Mime, Mime AppleSingle, Mime AppleDouble, Scripted Mime (Future addition), Binhex, Macbinary, yEnc
- List Files - All Files, Uncommented Files, Missing SIT Segments, Missing MPG Segments, Missing Pattern Segments, Pattern, Duplicate Files (based on content, not name), Set Match, List Match, List Invisibles, Wide variety of output formats and targets
- Set Filetype - Sets the Finder filetype of all files dropped on it
- Adjust All Filetype - Sets the Finder filetype of all files dropped on it based on each files extension
- Concatenate - A very generalized version of the Join command, Input as:, Files, Text Clippings, Combined Output as: File, Text Clipping, To Clipboard
- CRC and Checksums - Sum32, Adler32, XOR8, MacBinary, BinHex, CRC16, CCITT16A, CCITT16B, CRC32, CCITT32, POSIX.2, ZIP 32, MD5, SHA, Custom CRCs, Custom CRC Table Generation, Several output formats and targets
- File Tools - Fix HL Files, Strip Resource Fork, Encrypt-Decrypt, Move Matching Files, Move Non Matching Files, Trash Matching Files, Delete Matching Files, Label Matching Files, Rename Matching Files, Rename By Subject, Move Duplicates (based on content, not name), Move Dupl Names (name based), DTList To DBF, Alias To File, Dup.nn To Dupa.ext, Fix BinHex
- Folder Tools - Combine Fldr, Group Fldr A, Group Fldr B, Group Fldr C, Step Fndr Fldrs, Delete Empty Fldrs, Open Fldrs, Close Fldrs, Calc Fldr Size (not yet functional)
- Par Tools - Check Pars, Generate Pars, Recover Files
- Miscellaneous Utilities - Get/Set File Info, Wildcard Match Check, Step Fndr Fldrs, Open Fldrs In Trash, Close Fldrs In Trash, SlideShow (Possible Future addition)
- Choice of 3 Matchers for commands which use them: wildcard, regexp and regexs.
Enhancements:
This update corrects two small but significant problems pointed out by by users.
- The filetype autotyper was changed to provide support for properly typing Stuffit file segments rather than typing them as Stuffit archives as was previously happening.
- A second UU decoder was also added (user selectable) to allow proper decoding of multipart encodings in which the last line of uu data in one segment is not separated from the header data of the next article. A blank line may be required there under message handling RFCs (I have not yet checked) and in any case is customary. The new decoder works even without that blank line present, but loses the ability to detect bad uu character data as a result (which the old decoder does well). Other popular decoders use the second method only while ignoring errors as can be seen by CRC checks of the resultant data. MNT now allows you to have a choice between the two methods.
- Error reporting options for Par file handling were also expanded on a test basis (see comments in documentation).

InterActual-enhanced DVD titles, also known as DVD-ROM titles, include added-value features provided by studios to their customers. These features typically contain HTML content interacting with DVD-Video playback. These HTML pages may be stored locally on the DVD, or reside online at a studio website.
If you have a DVD with Macintosh content on it:
Be sure to quit the Apple DVD Player if it is running (the Apple DVD Player will typically launch automatically upon insertion of a DVD).
You can make InterActual Player launch automatically when you insert a DVD by opening your System Preferences and clicking on CDs & DVDs under the Hardware section.
Enhancements:
- Added support for GPRM events if running under Mac OS 10.3.5 or greater.
- Added preliminary Tiger support.
- Added support for the IA_Open command
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and stability improvements.

Chimoo Timer is a nice tool, a countdown/up timer featuring speech recognition and text-to-speech support.
Chimoo Timer major features:
- Speech Recognition for Start, Stop, and Reset.
- Speech support for counting seconds and alerts.
- "Tick" sound on seconds.
- Count up and count down modes.
- Low CPU usage, esp. when in background or hidden.
- Written in Cocoa - native for Mac OS X.
- Dock menu to start/stop/reset timer.
Main features:
- Speech Recognition (for Start, Stop, Reset, "current value", and "disable speech recognition").
- Speech support for counting seconds, speaking alerts.
- "Tick" sound on seconds.
- Count up and count down modes.
- Floating mini window mode takes up less space.
- Low CPU usage (esp. when in background or hidden).
- Written with Cocoa - native to Mac OS X.
- Dock menu to start/stop/reset timer.
- Multiplier view for counting elapsed frames.
- Detachable controller.
- Customizable settings for what to do upon timer expiration.
- Optional feature to warn before stopping timer - great for timing important things such as time spent working at home which you dont want to accidentally reset.
Enhancements:
- [new feature]New menu extra optionally displays timer in menu bar.
- [new feature]Dock icon can be hidden when menu extra is shown.
- [new feature] Greatly expanded text-to-speech options including count down expiration warning, ability to speak last ten seconds of a countdown, and customizable voice and speech rate settings.
- [new feature]Retooled speech recognition system with a few more options now displays standard floating speech palette.
- [new feature]New OS X style toolbar for timer control.
- [new feature]Option to display progress bar during count down.
- [new feature]Automatic repeat after delay option.
- [new feature]Ability to log current timer value and save log to a file.
- [other] Preferences reorganized.
- [other] Lots of other miscellaneous changes.
- [bugfix]Accuracy of timing is no longer affected by automatic internet updates of the computers date and time.
- [bugfix]Problems getting a count down time to stick have been resolved.