Mac Apps thread

[melvbot]

"How do I use Transmission without a mouse?"

good question

terminal?

[Wallalai]

Everplay is a lightweight standalone media player who plays music from the iTunes Library or the Last FM online radio service. Free, but still in beta.

Everplay



Dropir is a small utility that allow to drag files, URL on the icon in the menu bar and generate a kind of tiny URL. 1 gig free space.

Droplr • Hello

[Butterfly]

terminal?

it does ? that would too good to be true

[Wallalai]

So ... I've tested Dropir and it's clearly not as good as Dropbox. Moved to trash.


But Everplay is a nice lightweight app, I'll keep it.

[melvbot]

This is mostly for UK users but there are some Euro/US offers
iTunes 12 Days of Christmas

[melvbot]

If youve got loads of downloads like movies or games give this app a try. Instead of just having the folder with the movie or whatever in it this creates and icon file so you can have a nice icon of a DVD case with the movie/game cover as the icon

You need to find the pic you want to use yourself but after that its as simple as dragging the pic into the app to create the icon, then drag the folder/file into the app and it applies the icon to the file or folder.

Best of all its free!

SlipCover

[melvbot]

If youve got loads of downloads like movies or games give this app a try. Instead of just having the folder with the movie or whatever in it this creates and icon file so you can have a nice icon of a DVD case with the movie/game cover as the icon

You need to find the pic you want to use yourself but after that its as simple as dragging the pic into the app to create the icon, then drag the folder/file into the app and it applies the icon to the file or folder.

Best of all its free!

SlipCover

Just to tie in with this is a site for covers you can use

Cdcovers.cc / World's Largest CD Covers and DVD Covers Album Art Archive

[Wallalai]

Thanks for this app and the link. I have to check more as it seems that some covers don't show correctly in Cover Flow.

[melvbot]

Thanks for this app and the link. I have to check more as it seems that some covers don't show correctly in Cover Flow.

I havent tried that many yet but havent noticed any probs so far. Great app for free if you like any sort of media.

[Wallalai]

I'll have a close look, coz I like the look of the DVD box icons. Many avi movies on my 1TB external hard drive.

I have to test if it's also compatible with XBMC.

[Butterfly]

don't bother with XBMC, it's crap

Use Plex, it will download for you all the DVD covers automatically

[Wallalai]

I've downloaded today a music torrent and it came as .wma files.

I had to look for a free converter to mp3 and found Audion.

Audion 3 - The ultimate Macintosh MP3 player / encoder

[melvbot]

Everyone knows that VLC is OK as a media player but this one isnt too bad either, looks a bit better than VLC as well

movist - Project Hosting on Google Code

[Wallalai]

^Really interesting software, thanks. Just saw a news today about it on a french Mac website today.

[Wallalai]

You may want to give a kind of an old shape to your pictures, like the old Polaroid one.

Here is a free app you could like: Poladroid project | the easiest and funniest Polaroid Image Maker my bungalow in the garden

Here is an example, crappy ... like a polaroid


Click for full size - Uploaded with plasq's Skitch

I like this app, and I tried 3 times with the same pic and get 3 different results

[Wallalai]

And of course Skitch, doesn't matter if it was already mentioned in this thread. It deserve another report.

The ultimate pics sharing tool only available for Mac And it's free, even if I had to pay for it I wouldn't hesitate. A great tool.

Skitch.com + Skitch = fast and fun screen capture and image sharing.







Click for full size - Uploaded with plasq's Skitch

[Butterfly]

I have spent the whole afternoon installing different emulators on the Mac,

found this, this is absolutely great, brought back all kind of memories

Pure Mac: Emulators

you need to download the ROMs, but they are easy to find. There are different version of ROMs that were hacked back in the days by the enthusiasts to have access to the MONITOR ( rings a bell ? ) and do all kind of backdoor things, notably hacking and cheating games in INTEGER mode

a lot of nice documentation by former Apple employees, hacks, and tricks to use the different version of Apple IIe, IIc, II+, II etc...

this is absolutely great, can investigate how machines would work back then, old language machine etc...

[Wallalai]

NameChanger is a very useful free software (Donationware).

Product Description:
NameChanger helps you rename a list of files quickly and easily. See the changes as you type. Change names by Replace First Occurrence, Replace Last Occurrence, Replace All, Wildcard, Prepend, Append, Character Removal, Sequence and Date. Advanced options for file extensions and selective renaming. Also includes an Image Browser for visual reordering, integrated Quick Look and the ability to save renames for later use.

What's new in this version:
Added Snow Leopard Compatibility

Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC

NameChanger 2.2.2 software download - Mac OS X - VersionTracker

[melvbot]

I upgraded to a Macbook with Snow Leopard a few weeks ago and was quite a fan of the look of the callout when you right click and app on the dock. You get a nice grey/white box pop up with the options, then I hit my hot corner for Expose, yuk!

This ugly blue garish outline appears when you hover over a window, must have let the tea boy have a go on that one. So I set out to find something to replace it and this is what I used.

http://creativebits.org/mac_os_x/cha...posé_outerglow

Its pretty simple as its just overwriting a .png file, theres a folder with the files in to download but you could just make your own or modify the existing ones and change it to whatever you want.

[melvbot]

Got an email today and its always nice to here from my fave app bundle discounters Macheist!

They bundle together apps and sell them at a discount, you might need some of the apps and not others but theres usually something in there thats worth the price

MacHeist ~ Getting deeper into the truck now.

[Wallalai]

^ I can see the RipIt -[at]The Mac DVD Ripper icon there. Bought it last year in a MacUpdate Bundle.

[DaffyDuck]

Got an email today and its always nice to here from my fave app bundle discounters Macheist!

They bundle together apps and sell them at a discount, you might need some of the apps and not others but theres usually something in there thats worth the price

MacHeist ~ Getting deeper into the truck now.

What's also nice is that their page is designed with zero Flash -- runs on the iPhone as well as it does on the Mac.

[melvbot]

Ive just stumbled across a very impressive iPhone app for remote support/access called TeamViewer. Im hoping to start a small business dong this sort of stuff so it could turn out to be a real gem.

The iPhone app now has me controlling my desktop from my iPhone, all it requires is the Mac/PC user to initiate a session (nothing needed to install on their comp) you enter the key and password and thats it, connected. Works with both PC (up to Win 7) and Mac

This is for the TeamViewer site

TeamViewer - Free Remote Access and Remote Desktop Sharing over the Internet

Im not posting iTunes store links anymore so just search for the app

[Butterfly]

TinyVNC viewer sounds familiar ?

and how is it different ? I think there is Java plugin version of VNC

[melvbot]

TinyVNC viewer sounds familiar ?

and how is it different ? I think there is Java plugin version of VNC

As usual Butty you miss the point, its an iPhone app.