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Platypus

Platypus is a developer tool for creating application wrappers around scripts, i.e. creating Mac OS X applications that execute a script they are bundled with. Scripts can thus be run transparently from the graphical window environment without having to resort to using the command line interface.

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Tapir

Tapir is a powerful but easy-to-use development tool for Mac OS X 10.3 or later. With Tapir, it becomes easy for you to create your own global menu applications, based on shell commands or scripts. Status items such as memory monitors, workload monitors and process viewers can be created in a matter of seconds, with minimal knowledge of the command line, while more sophisticated menu applications can be constructed using a scripting language of choice.

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Explicit

Explicit is an application for splitting AVI video files in a variety of formats, such as DivX, XviD, 3ivX, etc.

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AppHack

AppHack is a developer and theming tool to alter, replace or extract the property lists or icons of Mac OS X application bundle packages.

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Sloth

Sloth is a program that displays a list of all open files in use by all the applications your user account is running on the system -- this list includes IP and Unix sockets, character devices and directories. This list is presented along with the names of applications using the file and their process IDs.

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Sentinel

Sentinel is a Mac OS X application which faciliates monitoring and observing command output. By allowing the process output to be monitored with periodic execution, it becomes easy to observe changes over time. In a way, Sentinel is similar to the watch command line program, but includes additional features, such as diff-ing output with previous output and colouring lines of output that have changed.

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Vox Machina

A Mac OS X Speech Synthesizer with the capability of saving text as audio speech. Features lip syncing imagery, MP3 encoding and more.

[Download] | [Source] | [More About Vox Machina] | Vox Machina CGI

osxutils

osxutils is a bundle of powerful Mac-oriented command line utilities for viewing, editing and manipulating file meta-data such as labels, comments, file/creator types, Finder flags etc. 'osxutils' is a collaborative project and is hosted by SourceForge.

[SourceForge Project Page]
[Documentation] | [osxutils page]

Exterminal

Ever wanted your Mac to feel like a genuine bare-bones Linux box? Didn't think so. But with Exterminal you can. It's a Mac OS X terminal client application similar to the one supplied by Apple. However, it runs entirely full screen, giving you that bare-bones feel. It also supports multiple sessions.

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VirtualSafari

VirtualSafari is a Web-based frontend for Apple's WebKit HTML rendering engine.

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xGates 1.3

xGates is a sophisticated but outrageously bloody game of brutality that pits you and your chainsaw against a powerful software monopolist named Bill.