Other Applications
Romeo: "Romeo gives you remote control of your Mac via Bluetooth and a compatible mobile device, controlling programs such as iTunes and DVD Player, as well as presentation applications." This is free software.
CocoaMySQL: "*The* Open Source MySQL Database Manager for Mac OS X".
Packages from Marc Liyanage: "There two kinds of packages here: Other people's Open Source software which I am building and packaging for convenient installation on Mac OS X, and some software written by me, mostly for Mac OS X but not exclusively."
PDF and Panther: An interesting article from The Seybold Report.
A list of every software title mentioned in Mac OS X Power Tools, along with URLs to get more information about each.
Safari, a web browser from Apple.
Safari Enhancements
AcidSearch is a search enhancement for Safari. It adds unlimited "Search Channels" to the Google search field. Channels can be customized in a nearly infinite variety of ways. AcidSearch also includes powerful features such as JavaScript support, the ability to import iSeek and Butler Search Sites, true hierarchical menu organization, and the ability to search multiple search engines at the same time.”
Some free utilities by Nicholas Riley, including ICeCoffEE, which adds a "Services" menu item in text fields' contextual menus.
The Mac Orchard "is a community resource - a carefully cultivated list of the most vital Internet applications and links for Macintosh Internet users, along with Internet software reviews contributed from The Mac Orchard's audience".
A big list here.
Adobe Announces OS X-Native Photoshop 7.0.
"VCD Copy X is an OS X utility for copying the tracks off of a VCD or SVCD"
Handbrake: "HandBrake is a GPL'd multi-platform, heavily multithreaded DVD to AVI/MPEG-4 converter. HandBrake was originally available on the BeOS, but now has been ported over to MacOS X (with GUI) and to GNU/Linux (CLI only)."
A compiled color "ls" for color directory listings in the Terminal: seems to work fine on MacOS 10.2.
Subsume Technologies, Inc.: innovative products with an equally innovative registration concept. Here you can find InstantLinks, which is "a system service that allows you to quickly perform a web-based operation on the selected text."
42 "is designed to be a simple, hassle-free tool for converting DVD's to other formats, such as DiVX, SVCD or VCD."
A review of the Salling Clicker, which allows you to control your Mac from certain cellular phones using bluetooth.
Nice List of Utilities: An interesting personal list of favorite system enhancements, useful applications, and utilities.
Skype on Mac OS X: A Hands-On Approach
More Mail.app IMAP bugs: Why do people keep trying to use Apple's Mail program, even when they've heard the horror stories? Here's a recent one:
"I just tried to drag and drop a few mailboxes between IMAP accounts on the same server, on my LAN, using Mail.app. Each mailbox had something like 2500 messages, and I dragged over 4 of them [...] One mailbox ended up with 129 messages, another with 1200 and the final two with the exact amounts (roughly 2500 each). What happened to the first two?
"No idea. But I'm glad I only tried to make copies."
There is a glowing review in TidBits of the powerful and inexpensive program Audio Hijack Pro that captures audio from any application (so you can record streams) and can process it in real time.
Google Maps Plugin for Address Book: Get maps or directions from Apple's Address Book with a click or three.
GNUMail: Looks like a serious mail user agent with IMAP support. Based on GNUStep and runs on OS X, Linux, and the BSDs. On OS X it appears to be a Cocoa application, with some integration: for example it uses the data in your AddressBook.app.
Cocoa Cookies: This is a 0.1 release but seems to work. Quite useful!
"Cocoa Cookies is a very simple Cocoa app that helps you to search for and delete HTTP cookies stored in the shared Cocoa cookies storage used by Safari, NetNewsWire, Shiira, and others."
rooSwitch: "rooSwitch exists to make it easy for you to create different profiles of almost any applications data. You then switch amongst the profiles to activate the data you wish to use. It's like a multi-user environment for just one application."
Commercial software, $14.95, 30 day free trial.
Escaping from Mail.app: You've finally discovered the error of your ways and want to escape from Apple's Mail program and start using a real mail machine. Oops, Apple has decided to store your mail in a proprietary format rather than one of the standard, open formats that have become well-established for email. Here is a neat little hint that explains how to get your email back into a standard format.
Review of DevonThink Pro by a scientist: He likes it: "DevonThink Pro is, in my opinion, a really useful application: its ability to store different file formats into a single, interconnected database, the possibility to link documents to one another, the ability to view pdf files in-line with text files, integrated web access, handy (although improvable) tables, and really powerful and rich scripting facilities make it a daily companion of my lab and office activity." However, the reviewer is not very impressed by its keyword classification, which the folks who make it consider one of its principal selling points.
Hex Fiend: This looks like a very capable hex editor, able to handle files as large as 118 GB, and implementing "smart saving", avoiding wasting time overwriting the parts of your files that haven't changed. It's free and open source. Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later, however.
Opal, the new Acta: The classic Mac outliner, Acta, has been reborn as a free-for-now preview (not open source) universal binary that requires OS X 10.4. This thing will open 20 year old Acta documents, so might be of intense interest to you if you used Acta in the past.