USB PIC Bootloader is a software/firmware combination for full-speed USB PIC microcontollers (PIC18F2550, PIC18F4550, etc) and Mac OS 10.3 or later.

Pre-programming the bootloader firmware on the USB PIC microcontollers allows easy firmware updates in the future without special hardware.

The firmware on the microcontroller can be updated over USB in the field using a Mac and its built-in CDC drivers (no driver installation necessary).

Whats New in This Release:

· Initial release.

The Check Pic Box Color AppleScript solves the "jagged edge syndrome" encountered when a grayscale or color scan is placed in a QuarkXPress picture box set with a background color of none.

The script checks all the picture boxes in a QuarkXPress document for the problem and where appropriate, changes their background color to white.

Pic-a-POD is a program designed to download a picture of the day from up to three different collections and sets your desktop picture.

It can then randomly change the picture at set intervals. Downloading new pictures can be scheduled to happen every day, or only when you want.

You can browse through the downloads, deleting or setting the desktop as you wish. The user interface can be shrunk to a mini window if you want to save space and it can have different color themes applied.

Sleep USB is designed for use with PC card-based USB adapters for PowerBooks. Current USB card driver software (v1.2) has a bug causing the system to freeze when waking up from sleep if the USB card is installed.

This script will attempt to quit out of any applications running from non-startup drives, eject these drives, and then eject the USB card before putting the system to sleep.

The Automatic USB Support AppleScript is used to enable the USB Support extension included with the Mac OS USB DDK kit, by adding a "usbx" resource to the extension.

Although USB to Ethernet adaptors are cheap and plentiful, Mac OS X drivers are not.

USB-to-Ethernet offers you USB to Ethernet Adaptor Drivers.
There are two basic catagories of USB-To-Ethernet adaptors:
· USB 1.1 devices that use a Pegasus driver.
· USB 2.0 devices that use a AX8817x driver (or its successor, the AX88772).


Each disk image includes an installer for Panther or Tiger, and a "src" folder containing the corresponding xCode projects.

Installation

Download and mount the appropriate driver disk image listed above, run the corresponding installer for Panther or Tiger, and then restart your system as suggested. The Installer will ask you to authenticate so it can place the corresponding driver in "/System/Library/Extensions/" with the correct file permisions to load as a kernel extension.

Next, plug-in your Ethernet adaptor with a live Ethernet cable attached. When you open the Network Preferences panel, it should inform you that a new port has appeared and ask if you want to enable it. Enable the new port and apply your network settings. Thats it.

Each driver is pre-configured to recognize a handfull of common devices. If your device does not appear to be recognized by the driver, you might have to add it to the Info.plist file, which is located inside the USBPegasusEthernet.kext or USBAx8817x.kext directory. You can use the System Profiler or USBProber tool to find the corresponding Product ID and Vendor ID.

To uninstall the driver, make sure any USB adaptors are disconnected, and then drag the corresponding driver in /System/Library/Extensions/ USBPegaususEthernet.kext or USBAx8817x.kext to the trash. You may need to authenticate that you have administrator privileges.

USB 1.1 Performance

The Pegasus chipset provides a USB 1.1 compatible implementation which could be a concern for some users. USB 1.1 runs at 1.5 Mbps (low speed) or 12 Mbps (full speed). For best performance, its important to isolate any low speed devices on a separate bus. Mice and keyboards often run at low speed.

Using the Link Rate tool in IPNetMonitorX, I measured the link rate to another device on my LAN as 6 Mbps. The built-in Ethernet on my 12" PBG4 reported 44 Mpbs. When I measured the link rate to the next hop router through my cable modem, it reported 1 mbps. It didnt make any difference whether I used Ethernet built-in or the USB-To-Ethernet adaptor. Finally, I downloaded a 2.2 MB file to compare the throughput using the Monitor tool.

Both downloads took 5 seconds, but Ethernet built-in reached a peak rate of 589 KBps versus 579 kBps. Repeating the experiment several times produced similar results. Ethernet built-in might be 1-2% faster, but performance was clearly limited by the speed of my cable modem (Your Mileage May Vary).

USB 2.0 Performance

The AX8817x chip set provides a USB 2.0 compatible implementation which runs at up to 480 Mbps (high speed), so it should be possible to keep up with 100 Mbps fast ethernet as long as there are no other slower devices on the same bus. To test this I copied a 64.8 MB music file to my PBG4 laptop connected through a LinkSys USB200M Ethernet Adaptor (en3) and compared this to the same file transfer using Built-in Ethernet (en0).

Both transfers reached 10 MBps (80-90 Mbps) and took about 10 seconds. I repeated the test in the other direction.

While the USB-To-Ethernet adaptor was slightly slower, at 80 Mbps there was little noticeable difference. Files moved quickly from one system to another via 100 Mbps fast Ethernet. Copying the same file using AirPort wireless took 50-90 seconds.

Stability

While other USB-To-Ethernet drivers are reported to be buggy, I havent encountered any stability problems to date. The adaptor turns off when the computer goes to sleep and comes back on when the computer awakes. It does not support "Wake On LAN" at this time.

Wrap Up

This USB-To-Ethernet Adaptor combination could be an attractive solution for a Mac Mini, or old iBook used as an Internet gateway or server. Im particularly fond of using old laptops as servers since they are compact, quiet, use little energy, and include their own battery backup.

USB CD Burner Toggle is a AppleScript application designed to allow those who want to have both Toast or Toast Deluxe 4.1.2 and the iTunes 1.1/Disc Burner 1.0.1 CD-burning packages installed on their Macs equipped with supported USB CD burners to switch from one to the other without rebooting.

This is made possible because a full Toast installation is completely compatible with iTunes/Disc Burner with the exception of one Disc Burner extension: USB Authoring Support. If this extension is enabled, Toast usually (there are exceptional cases) will not recognize the USB CD burner, but iTunes/Disc Burner will run with no problems. If it is disabled, Toast will recognize the CD burner but Disc Burner will not run (it will display the "Insert blank media to begin" but will not go beyond this step).

The script will determine which configuration is active and allow the user to chose to maintain the status quo or to switch to the other configuration. After moving the extension, it will then instruct the user to turn off the CD burner (that is, unplug it or switch it off, depending on the burner) and then turn it on again.

Completly freeware.

VST USB Hard Drive is a package that contains the driver for the USB Thin Drives.

This driver provides support for ATA and ATAPI storage devices using the ISD725, ISD200 or ISD300 USB Bridge chips.

Mac OS X USB drivers for the GM-10 and GM-45 Geiger counters/nuclear radiation detectors.

Whats New in This Release:

· Packaged for distribution and installation.

Ever thought about using your laptop as a synthesizer or digital effect-box? Did you notice theres some delay related to the computers soundprocessing?

The USB ASIO driver is the solution. It enables buffersizes down to 32 samples (0.73 ms) and does an ultra highspeed USB audio connection, bypassing the operating systems audio.

This does not only give you low latencies but better sound quality also.

SoundManager (Mac) and MultiMedia Extensions (MME / Win) use non-highend sample rate conversion in order to sync the different audio signals from applications to the sample rates used on the external soundcard. And sometimes theres not even a way to control the rate to be the prefered one. (E.g. 48kHz instead of 44.1kHz.)

Using ASIO its possible to do direct "one to one" hardware connections and even use higher bitrates (e.g. 20bit or 24bit) if supported by the device. Plus this driver can further increase quality by adding dither.

But of course, you need an ASIO compatible application like Cubase / Cubasis, Logic Audio / Micrologic, Reason, Live, Digital Performer, Sonar V2.2, BPM Studio, etc. If the app supports ASIO2 youll be able to benefit from more features.

Keyspan USB Server allows you to configure multiple USB devices to Keyspan hardware over a network.

The USB Server supports both Ethernet and Wi-Fi networks -- making it easy to print to a USB printer from a Wi-Fi based laptop!

Whats New in This Release:

· Universal Binary.

Apple USB DDK is a development software package that gives you some of the tools that you need to write your own USB drivers.

Keyspan USB Adapter contains the drivers for the following adaptors:

Twin Serial Adapter (models USA-28X, USA-28XA and USA-28XB)
PDA Adapter (models USA-19 and USA-19Qi)
High Speed Serial Adapter (models USA-19W and USA-19QW)
USA-18X Serial Adapter
USA-28 USB Serial Adapter
USA-49W 4-port Serial Adapter (models USA-49W, USA-49WLC, USA-4E230)
USA-19H USB Serial Adapter (models USA-19Hs and USA-19Hp)
serial port in MPR-112 Mobile Port Replicator.

Whats New in This Release:

· Universal Binary.

Macally USB Mouse/Trackball is for iMousePro/ iBallPro/ iMouseJr./ iSweetNet/ iOptiNet/ iceMouse/ iOptiJr. iceMouseJr./DotMouse Optical Trackball/Optical MicroMouse/ RFMouseJr./RFMouse).

Whats New in This Release:

· Universal Binary.

USB Overdrive is a universal USB driver that handles all USB mice, trackballs, joysticks and gamepads from any manufacturer and lets you configure them either globally or on an application-specific basis. It reads all kinds of wheels, buttons, switches and controls and supports scrolling, keyboard emulation, launching and complex macros as well as all the usual stuff like clicking, control-clicking and so forth.

Limitations:

· Registration Reminder.


Whats New in This Release:

· adds a workaround for a Mac OS X 10.4.5 problem that prevented the USB Overdrive from loading on Intel-based machines.

PACE developed the USB Floppy Enabler in response to the needs of customers using its InterLok* anti-piracy products, a fifth generation tool set for protecting, distributing and selling software.
The USB Floppy Enabler currently supports Imation1s SuperDisk and Newer Technology1s uDrive, two of the leading external USB floppy systems.
PACE is working with several other major USB floppy drive manufacturers to ensure universal compatibility.
This driver will not only allow software products and content protected by InterLok* to be authorized with PACE1s KeyDiskettes, but it will also enable other developers1 software products to access the new USB drives, said PACE president and CEO, Allen Cronce. Our USB Floppy Enabler should be of interest to anyone with software that makes calls to the floppy drive. PACEs InterLok technology has been successfully protecting our Japanese font products for nearly ten years, said Jim DeLaHunt, Adobe Type Library Engineering Manager.
The floppyless PowerMac G3 machines presented us with a unique situation that called for an innovative solution. PACEs innovation has averted a major re-engineering expense and will help us provide uninterrupted distribution of our Japanese font products.

The Quattro USB audio interface is perfect for any application that requires portability and high-quality audio. It s designed to run on AC-power in order to drive the same high-end components found in the companys acclaimed Delta PCI audio card line.

Here are some key features of "MAudio USB Quattro":

· provide the latest audio drivers for the M-Audio USB Quattro.
· provide improved support for MIDI on the following devices:
· Audiophile USB
· Keystation 49 and 61
· MIDISPORT 1x1, 2x2, 2x4, 4x4, and 8x8
· OmniStudio USB
· Oxygen8
· Ozone
· Quattro
· Radium
· Sonica
· Uno.


Whats New in This Release:

· Fixed a problem that caused short sounds such as system beeps to be inaudible or truncated.
· Improved timing precision with CoreAudio.
· Added an uninstaller.
· Removed support for Mac OS 10.1.
· Fixed a problem with the installer that caused the driver to fail to load with Mac OS 10.4.
· Fixed a problem that occasionally caused the driver settings to not match the preferences panel settings when the Quattro was plugged into the computer while the computer started up.

USB-TCP Bridge is a tool that "bridges" communications between a Palm handheld connected with a USB cradle and a TCP/IP socket. It can be used, for example, with the GDB debugger (which normally connects to the Palm OS Emulator on TCP/IP port 2000) to debug on a Palm handheld instead of debugging on the Palm OS emulator. It can also be used to connect the Unix-based pilot-link synchronization tools to a Palm handheld on Mac OS X.

The software can also be redistributed with predefined settings. As an example, "AvantGo USB Sync" is a repackaging of USB-TCP Bridge with built-in AvantGo synchronization for Mac OS X.

Whats New in This Release:

· New UI with predefined selections in the pop-up menu, and a separate field for custom TCP port editing
· The bridge now supports a Connection Type selection which determines which USB pipes will be used for reading/writing
· The bridge can now execute a unix command line upon connection.
· Preferences are now remembered accross sessions
· New forced settings mechanism for distributing a locked binary with presets (see documentation)
· Quit the application when the window closes
· French translation by Michel Poulain.

Keyspan USB Card Assistant is a small application that diagnoses the USB port card and displays its status.

The status of your Keyspan USB Card is displayed in the "USB/PCI Status" text box.

Connected USB devices and their status is displayed in the "USB Status" text box.

Completly freeware.

For USB WLAN-Sticks, that based on ZydasZD1211(B) Chipset:

3COM 3CRUSB10075
AOpen 802.11g WL54
iNexQ UR055g
Sitecom WL-113
Telegent TG54USB
TwinMOS G240
Yakumo QuickWLAN
Airlink+ AWLL3025
Zyxel ZyAIR G-220
X-Micro XWL-11GUZX
Edimax EW-7317UG
Safecom SWLU-5400
Longshine LCS-8131G
Planet WL-U356
Sweex wireless 54MB
Acer WLAN-G-US1
Trendnet TEW-424UB
DrayTek Vigor 550
Asus WL-159g
Fiberline WL-410u.