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Start Menu 1.0
Start Menu is known as a free, yet very useful software for Mac OS X which provides a simplified Start Menu functionality from the Windows world. more>>
Start Menu 1.0 is known as a free, yet very useful software for Mac OS X which provides a simplified Start Menu functionality from the Windows world. Just copy Start Menu program into any folder on your Mac (your user's folder recommended) and then drag and drop it into any place of the Dock. Then you'll be able to browse the list of all installed Applications and run what you need with a single mouse click - like you do in Windows.
StartBox 0.1a
StartBox is an advanced program which satisfies you with an iTunes remote and Start Menu. more>> StartBox 0.1a is an advanced program which satisfies you with an iTunes remote and Start Menu.
Enhancements:
- Early alpha release
- Mac OS X 10.0 or later
- iTunes
Start Jack For Mbox
A free script to automatically start Jack OSX and make it work correctly with the Mbox almost every time more>> A free script to automatically start Jack OSX and make it work correctly with the Mbox almost every time
Start Jack for Mbox is an easy to use script that launches Jack, opens and saves prefs (as seems to be needed each time for Mbox), then starts Jack.
Blasted Mbox... Now this is really just an example of using UI interface scripting to control normally non-applescriptable applications.
System requirements:
- Uses UI scripting, so assistive devices access must be enabled in Universal Access prefpane. If it is not, the script should tell you.
- Jackpilot must be enabled in the Digi Coreaudio setup.
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.

FM Starting Point 1.0v7
FM Starting Point provides you with a free yet efficient FileMaker template designed for use with FileMaker Pro 10, and is focused on small businesses, work groups, and non-profit organizations. more>> <<less
License:Freeware
Last Start? 1.3
Last Start? - Displays how much time has passed since last startup more>>
Example: The computer has been on for: 1 day. 20 hours. 5 minutes. 13 seconds.
Completly freeware.
Enhancements:
- Full rewrite for Mac OS X.
FINAL START READER 1.9
The program to visualize any TXT-formatted book to look a real paper book on your display in full-screen mode more>> <<less
Quicktrack Start V
Asset, item or loan tracking system. more>>
A full license is free with the purchase of any barcode reader from barcodereaders.com.
QuickTrack Start X V
Track inventory location records. more>>
Details of items and users or locations are filed and can then be booked in or out by scanning barcodes or using the keyboard.
Traffic@Singapore 1.1
Traffic@Singapore - Provides access to live webcam images of traffic flow on Singapores expressways. more>> Select colors from anywhere on your screen and copy the html HEX code with ease. Easy to use, just open Hue GO! and press the escape key to begin sampling. Point to the color you want to sample and press escape again. Press Apple-c to copy the code.<<less
POPFile Startup 1.0.1
Launches POPFile email filtering at startup more>>
This allows POPFile to start at login time so that email filtering is always available.
The advantage of starting at login time instead of at system startup is that multiple users can have different buckets and settings.
XMMS CoreAudio Output Plug-in 1.0
XMMS CoreAudio Output Plug-in is a plug-in applying the native OSX audio libraries for output. more>>
Enhancements:
- Initial release. Support for mono, stereo, 8bit, 16 bit audio formats at sampling rates from 11 to 48 KHz. Multiple instances also supported.
Requirements:
- OSX 10.3, X11, XMMS, gcc 3.3
SMSLib 1.4
SMSLib - a library for SeisMac and SeisMaCalibrate to access the Sudden Motion Sensors more>>
For better accuracy, you can use SeisMaCalibrate to calibrate your laptops Sudden Motion Sensors. SMSLib is open source, released under the University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License.
For example, if you open the Terminal, change to the directory containing smsutil, and type:
./smsutil -i0.01 -c1000 -atxyz -s09 >capture.txt
then smsutil will start sampling every 10ms, running for 1000 samples (10 seconds), writing one line per sample into the file capture.txt, with each line including the time in milliseconds since smsutil started, and the calibrated x, y and z axis values, all separated by tabs.
Enhancements:
- Improved debugging data (now shows 10Hz sine waves, decaying over 3 seconds, with X, Y and Z axes staggered by 1 second)
- Improved calibration with MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 17" (Y and Z axes reversed)
Calcium Supplements 1.0
Free Dashboard health widget for your Mac more>> All in one: SAMPLIT is the ultimate solution for sampling your midi and real instruments. Everything is here: automated recording, naming, truncating, compression, normalization, looping, resampling and even playing. Samplit sends the midi notes to the midi hardware, records all the individual sounds and create ready-to-play Sampler instruments with a few mouse clicks.
Formats: SAMPLIT currently supports 9 sampler formats:
Halion (Steinberg)
EXS24 (Apple)
Kontakt (Native Instruments)
Sampletank (IK Multimedia)
Reason (Propellerheads)
VSampler (MAZ Sound Tools)
Soundfont (EMU)
Gigasampler (Tascam)
Structure (Digidesign)
Quality: SAMPLIT uses the ASIO driver on PC and the CoreAudio driver on MAC.
Supported sampling rates: 44.1, 48, 96 kHz (depending on your audio card)
Supported bit resolutions: 16, 24, 32 bits (depending on your audio card)
You can always convert to a lower sample rate and bit resolution. For example you can record a piano in 96/24 and create a nice 96/24 piano in Kontakt format and a lighter 44/16 piano in soundfont format. All the operations on samples are non destructives.
Interface: The main window gives you a clear view of your current project. Anything that you do has an immediate visual impact. You can add or remove a velocity, select or deselect a note, listen to any sample, erase a sample that you dont like...
Recording: With SAMPLIT, you are in control. The recording window allows you adjust all the recording parameters in real time: thresholds, pre-recording, post-recording, recording limit, recording pause... You can also decide if you want to record by velocity or by note.
Midi: Every program inside a project records the bank change program change and control change. When you select that program, all these midi parameters are sent back to your midi synth like a total recall. But you dont need a midi interface to use SAMPLIT, you can also record any kind of non-midified sounds.<<less
Tomcat Collar 1.1
Tomcat Collar is a widget that will help you to start and stop Apache Tomcat without being forced to open shell more>>