Software
I develop software for Apple's Mac OS X operating system. Most of these programs are free, open-source software distributed under the terms and conditions of the Free Software Foundation's GNU General Public License.
That being said, if you find my software titles useful, please consider making a donation to encourage me in improving them and developing new ones.
Major Applications
PlatypusPlatypus is a developer tool for creating Mac OS X application wrappers around interpreted scripts. Scripts can thus be run transparently from the graphical window environment via an app launcher without having to resort to using the command line interface. |
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TapirTapir 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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ExplicitExplicit is an application for splitting AVI video files in a variety of formats, such as DivX, XviD, 3ivX, etc. Uses the |
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AppHackAppHack 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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SlothSloth 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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SentinelSentinel 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 |
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Vox MachinaA 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 |
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osxutilsosxutils 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]
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Minor Applications
| Mentat | A lightweight web maintenance system which powers a number of currently active websites, including this one. |
| osxiconutils | A set of command line tools for retrieving, saving, extracting and setting Mac OS X file and folder icons.. |
| ManOpen for Intel | An extended, Intel build of Carl Lindberg's ManOpen man page viewer. |
| xGates | Murder a well-known software monopolist with a chainsaw |
| Radnor | A graphical interface for DOSBox (OBSOLETE) |
| ManDrake | A man page editor for Mac OS X with live-updating preview. |
| Leopard MenuHack | A hack to fix the translucency of the Mac OS X 10.5 menu bar. (OBSOLETE) |
| Armadillo | Graphical interface for creating Mac OS X Startup Items (OBSOLETE) |
| PowerBlinken | A silly application which turns your PowerBook or MacBook Pro into a blinking lightshow, using the backlit keyboard and LCD. |
| ASCII Web Artist | Create ASCII Web art from images |
| DataURLMaker | Create Data URLs from images |
| 'watch' for Mac OS X | port of a nifty command line program |
| Betrayal at Krondor | a seamlessly integrated Mac OS X package of this game, run in DOS emulation mode (PPC only) |
| aalib | Mac OS X PPC install package for aalib, an ASCII graphics library.
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| MacRPM Utilities | A Mac OS Classic program for viewing RedHat Package Manager package contents and extracting files from them. |