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HoRNDIS: USB tethering driver for Mac OS X | Joshua Wise's domain

http://joshuawise.com/horndis
HoRNDIS (pronounce: “horrendous”) is a driver for Mac OS X that allows you to use your Android phone's native USB tethering mode to get Internet access. It is known to work with Mac OS X versions 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) through 10.9 (Mavericks – see notes below), and has been tested on a wide variety of phones. Although you should be careful with all drivers that you install on your computer, HoRNDIS has been tested at least well enough for the author (and many others) to run full time on their own personal computers.

Shelf (computing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelf_(computing)
The Shelf is an interface feature in NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, and is used as a repository to store links to commonly used files, directories and programs, and as a temporary "holding" place to move/copy files and directories around in the file system hierarchy. In Mac OS X, items may be dragged onto the sidebar area of the Finder while holding the Apple key, but these do not behave as placeholders and cannot be manipulated in the below manner.

DragonDrop, from ShinyPlasticBag

https://shinyplasticbag.com/dragondrop
Dragging and dropping is a great way to get stuff done on your Mac, but DragonDrop makes it even better. DragonDrop lets you set down what you're dragging, leaving you free to find your destination without worrying about keeping the mouse button held down.

Buttered Cat Software - Products :: QuickBoot

http://buttered-cat.com/products/QuickBoot
QuickBoot is a handy utility to make it easier to reboot into your Boot Camp windows drive, or even another OS X install. It will also not permantly change your startup disk so once you reboot again, it'll boot back to your standard OS. Choose to boot windows and go get a drink, no more waiting around holding the option key. Great for bluetooth keyboard users where option key might not always work.

Textual: IRC for Mac OS X

http://www.codeux.com/textual
Textual is a lightweight IRC client created specifically for Mac OS X. It was designed with simplicity in mind. Textual has taken the best of IRC and built it into a single client. Its easy-to-use functionality combined with scripting support makes it an ideal IRC client for novice to advanced users.

Platypus | Sveinbjorn Thordarson

http://www.sveinbjorn.org/platypus
Platypus is a developer tool for the Mac OS X operating system. It can be used to create native, flawlessly integrated Mac OS X applications from interpreted scripts such as shell scripts or Perl and Python programs. This is done by wrapping the script in an application bundle directory structure along with an executable binary that runs the script.

Port Map and TCMPortMapper

http://www.codingmonkeys.de/portmap/index.html
Did you ever feel the urge to map your networking ports using your Airport Basestation or a UPNP router? Did you ever want your application to be reachable from the internet, even in a home networking setup? Don't despair anymore. Port Map and TCMPortMapper are here!

Lallafa’s Blog » OpenCBM on Mac

http://lallafa.de/blog/opencbm-on-mac
"OpenCBM is a library and a set of command line tools that allow to control old Commodore IEC devices like the famous 1541 floppy disk drive. You can transfer disk image to and from old discs. As modern computers do not provide a IEC connector, OpenCBM allows to control adapters that attach to your PC. Older PCs use parallel port cables (like the XA1541 or XS1541) and newer ones use a USB adapter (XU1541 or XUM1541). This pages shows you how to use OpenCBM on your Mac. As modern Macs only support USB connectors and no parallel ones, we focus on setting up the XU1541 or XUM1541 devices."

Hack Brings Mac OS X to the Nokia N900 - PCWorld

http://www.pcworld.com/article/188271/hack_brings_mac_os_x_to_the_nokia_n900.html
"Finnish geek Toni Nikkanen has become the first person to successfully run Mac OS X--in this case, Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther" (released in 2003)--on a cell phone. The phone he managed to achieve this feat with - Nokia's N900 smartphone. Sadly the hack, which makes use of PowerPC emulator Pear PC, runs incredibly slowly."

Headless Virtualbox on OSX - Jon Atkinson

http://jonatkinson.org/headless-virtualbox-osx
"When I'm developing, I try to continuously deploy to a realistic environment as often as possible. This means a Debian server running a stack as close to production as I can get. Of course, I don't deploy to the actual production servers (a lesson I've learnt many times over), so I virtualise a Debian box and clone package set from the production server. Combined with bridged networking and a quick hosts file change, and I've got a production-equivalent server always available at server.local."

Irradiated Software - Cinch

http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/cinch
"Cinch gives you simple, mouse-driven window management by defining the left, right, and top edges of your screen as 'hot zones'. Drag a window until the mouse cursor enters one of these zones then drop the window to have it cinch into place. Cinching to the left or right edges of the screen will resize the window to fill exactly half the screen, allowing you to easily compare two windows side-by-side (splitscreen). Cinching to the top edge of the screen will resize the window to fill the entire screen (fullscreen). Dragging a window away from its cinched position will restore the window to its original size. "

Snow Leopard broke Control and Caps Lock swapping

http://troyandgay.com/blog/2009/08/30/snow-leopard-broke-control-and-caps-lock-swapping
"The problem turned out to be related to the wireless USB hub for Logitech’s MX Revolution (and others?) mouse. If you unplug it before you change the Modifier Keys the changes do take effect. You can then plug the Logitech USB dongle back in and everything works fine. I tried every combination of plugging my keyboard into my computer but the Logitech dongle was plugged into the back of my display so I didn’t think to try it. Michael Richardson figured it out."

OSX.Loosemaque: It’s Not Just a Game Anymore | Symantec Connect

http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/osxloosemaque-it-s-not-just-game-anymore
Must be a slow day on the OS X malware front. This is really reaching... "What’s interesting is that the author of this “game” flat-out says what it does on his Web site. Reading through the author’s description, it seems that he has created this game/threat as some sort of artistic project. The aliens are your files and there are consequences for “killing” them."

GoatTracker - C64 SID music editor for Mac OS X

http://www.sidmusic.org/goattracker/mac
"GoatTracker is a cross-platform tracker written by Lasse Öörni, producing SID chiptune music for the Commodore 64, and released with source code under the GPL. It is notable for being possibly the only SID chiptune-composer NOT native to the C64, as many alternative composers (including JCH, and CyberTracker) only execute on the C64 or inside C64 emulators. Many SID tunes are available in various formats on the Internet, especially through the High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC). GoatTracker is capable of directly exporting to the .sid (PSID/RSID) file format in addition to standard C64 PRG files."

Tattiebogle.net - Mac OS X driver

http://tattiebogle.net/index.php/ProjectRoot/Xbox360Controller/OsxDriver
"have created a USB driver which allows you to use wired XBox 360 Controllers via USB, and wireless XBox 360 Controllers via the Microsoft Wireless Gaming Receiver for Windows, on your OSX machine, including support for the Apple Force Feedback library. The driver is licenced under the GPL."

Better local development with VMs | Open Komodo

http://www.openkomodo.com/blogs/jeffg/better-local-development-vms
"I just downloaded and installed Ubuntu Server 9.04 in a VM Image strictly for the purposes of setting up a simple local dev environment on my MacBook. This is the base image, which I want to configure with some useful but general capabilities."

Stainless for OS X Leopard

http://www.stainlessapp.com
"Although Stainless started out as a technology demo to showcase our own multi-processing architecture in response to Google Chrome, we've been inspired by our growing fanbase to forge ahead and craft Stainless into a full-fledged browser. In fact, Stainless now has features you won't find in Chrome or in any other browser."

Porticus

http://porticus.alittledrop.com/index.html
"Porticus is a Cocoa GUI for the MacPorts package manager. MacPorts provides ready to build open-source software packages modified to compile and run on Mac OS X. The MacPorts project provides a TCL command line tool to manage installation, update and activation of the port packages. Porticus provides a GUI front-end to this tool."

Objectpark's FuzzyClock

http://www.objectpark.org/FuzzyClock.html#download
"Often you don't need the exact time in hours, minutes and seconds. A more human readable style like "five past ten" makes more sense. For that, you can now use FuzzyClock. FuzzyClock is a menubar clock which displays the current time in a "fuzzy" style."

Upgrading Tivo With Your MacBook Pro(intel) and VMware's Fusion! | Winged Power Photography

http://www.wingedpower.com/archive/2008/02/upgrading-tivo-your-macbook-prointel-and-vmwares-fusion
"Okay, it's pretty much as involved as most other howto's, but using this method, you can use any Intel Mac computer with USB ports, to perform an upgrade of the Tivo drives, using the Linux-based tools. This means you will be able to make the most of your Tivo drives as well as being able to still surf the new and perform other tasks, during the hours that the drives are upgrading!"

Pocket Gnome - WoW Bot for Mac

http://www.savorydeviate.com/pocketgnome
The real question, though, is will it play Progress Quest for me? "Pocket Gnome is a "bot" for World of Warcraft. Its goal is to make it easier to automate repetitive activities within the game; activities like moving around, killing monsters, looting, mining/herbing, skinning, and generally wasting your life waiting for your mana bar to refill. Pocket Gnome designed to do all of these things for you."

Stupid DRM handcuffs | D'Arcy Norman dot net

http://www.darcynorman.net/2008/11/05/stupid-drm-handcuffs
"That’s me in the DVD. But because the MPAA makes software companies bend over to protect their content by baking DRM into the apps that ship with my computer, I’m prevented from doing legitimate things with my own content. Thankfully, there are ways around it (Jing was more than happy to capture a screenshot - I’m sure the MPAA attack dogs will be closing that hole ASAP)."

Bricksmith

http://bricksmith.sourceforge.net
"Bricksmith allows you to create virtual instructions for your Lego creations on your Mac. The magic is based on the LDraw library, a collection of 3D models of Lego building blocks created by enthusiasts from around the world. With Bricksmith, you never have to worry about running out of parts"

Technical Support - Mac: StarCraft and Diablo 2 fail to load

http://www.battle.net/forums/thread.aspx?FN=support&P=1&T=535843
"We've received a handful of reports from users with the newest (2-26-08) revision of the MacBook Pros and an inability to start up Diablo 2 and StarCraft. ... The StarCraft Startup Options and the Diablo 2 Options screens will appear, but after pressing Ok, the games close and do not load." Apparently, this is because a recent Leopard update removed 256 color display support from graphics drivers. Later in the thread, it seems that a patch is in the works by the heroic Mac team. Alternatives are Boot Camp or a dicey selective downgrade in graphics drivers from an earlier update.

Isolator

http://willmore.eu/software/isolator
"When you're working on a document, and don't want to be distracted, turn on Isolator. It will cover up your desktop and all the icons on it, as well as the windows of all your other applications, so you can concentrate on the task in hand."

MacNoteTaker Home Page

http://homepage.mac.com/wis/Personal/programs/NoteTaker/NoteTaker.html
"MacNoteTaker lets you write notes up to 32,676 long. It stores them in a hierachical structure with unlimited nested folders just like the files on your computer."

Taskpaper

http://hogbaysoftware.com/products/taskpaper
"TaskPaper is a simple to-do list that's surprisingly adept. Unlike the competition, TaskPaper's text based interface offers you paper-like simplicity and ease of use."

TiVoDecode Manager

http://tdm.sourceforge.net
"TiVoDecode Manager (TDM) is a free Applescript Studio interface (i.e. "wrapper") for the tivodecode program that automates the process of downloading of standalone TiVo Series 2 files to your computer and decoding into MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 files."

Iconara » AIR runtime installer, error 2038

http://blog.iconara.net/2007/06/12/air-runtime-installer-error-2038#comment-4602
"It turns out that the AIR runtime installer installs a framework in ~/Library/Frameworks. In a vanilla installation this folder doesn’t exist, but I had one, and the permissions we’re not what the installer expected. I changed the permissions and ran

AppleTV hacked to run Xgrid - Engadget

http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/18/appletv-hacked-to-run-xgrid
"if you're just using the Apple TV as a media extender, that processor is just sitting there wasting spare cycles when you're not using the device, so this little hack to run Apple's Xgrid distributed-computing client on an Apple TV seems pretty slick."

LuaCore, a Cocoa wrapper to Lua

http://gusmueller.com/lua
"LuaCore is an Objective-C framework for running Lua scripts. Even better than that, it includes a bridge so that you can pass in Objective-C objects, and work with them in the Lua environment. You can call functions and methods and all kinds of other cra

ThisService

http://wafflesoftware.net/thisservice
"I built a tool to easily turn any command line script ... or any AppleScript responding to a certain handler into a full-blown first-class service, complete with name and keyboard shortcut."

Loominous

http://www.fluffy.co.uk/loominous
"Loominous shows forthcoming events from iCal in your menu bar or in a floating window. Events 'loom', becoming darker and more noticeable as they get closer."

La Chose - Process Wizard

http://www.lachoseinteractive.net/en/products/processwizard
"Process Wizard is a menu hack that allows you to access to all the processes of your system (applications, background applications, user processes, non user processes) and to change their priority (Unix nice value)."

It's All In My Head

http://homepage.mac.com/blahblahfilm
"I have come to view Tinderbox as a three dimensional writing tool. I can work using its basic functions one day, then dive into its more diverse functions the next to examine my thoughts and ideas from many different angles."

appscript

http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/appscript.html
"Appscript makes MacPython a serious alternative to Apple's own AppleScript language for automating your Mac."

CocoaJSON

http://toxicsoftware.com/blog/index.php/weblog/entry/cocoajson
"Blake Seely released some code yesterday to convert Cocoa datatypes to JSON. I've had similar code that Ive been meaning to put online for a while now. So now the world has gone from zero to two Cocoa code-bases to read/write JSON."

bb's Homepage

http://www.bernhard-baehr.de
"SleepWatcher 2.0.3 is a command line tool (daemon) for Mac OS X that monitors sleep, wakeup and idleness of a Mac."

Zombies

http://codenautics.com/zombies
One of the best things about this page is the zombie head that follows you when you scroll. "Welcome to Zombies, a turn-based game where the only goal is to outlast and destroy the zombies before they do the same to you."

AquaPath

http://www.ditchnet.org/aquapath
"AquaPath is a free Cocoa-based developer tool for Mac OS X Tiger that allows you evaluate XPath 2.0 expressions against any XML document and view the result sequence in a dynamic, intuitive tree representation."

Cocoa XML-RPC Client

http://www.ditchnet.org/xmlrpc
"XML-RPC Client is a free Cocoa-based developer tool for Mac OS X Tiger that allows you to access and debug XML-RPC web services from the comfort of your desktop."

AppleScript Shell

http://hayne.net/MacDev/Ash
"I was curious to see if I could make an "AppleScript shell" which would allow immediate execution of AppleScript commands. I implemented "ash" as a Perl script and it works quite well."

Software- App Stop

http://developer.mabwebdesign.com/appstop.html
"App Stop is a little status bar that resides in your menu bar that allows you to pause, resume, and set priorities for your applications."

Hallon

http://homepage.mac.com/pgw3/hallon
"Hallon can create bookmarks in many applications (like iTunes) that usually can't create bookmarks and they are always accessible from a menu whatever you are doing."

emlxconvert

http://www.cosmicsoft.net/emlxconvert.html
"This tool will convert your individual emlx mail files (found in ~/Library/Mail/) to the old mbox format, used by almost every UNIX/Linux mail client and recognized by many more."

Main Page - LeverageWiki

http://leverage.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
"Welcome to the leverage wiki. The leverage project is all about tools for working with text on OS X."

TextExtras

http://www.lorax.com/FreeStuff/TextExtras.html
"TextExtras is a bundle that gets loaded into all Cocoa applications. It adds cool features to the text handling of all Cocoa applications."

MacNoteTaker Home Page

http://mac-huwis.lut.ac.uk/~wis/programs/NoteTaker/NoteTaker.html
"MacNoteTaker lets you write notes up to 32,676 long. ... When you do a hotsync it synchronises the folder structure of your notes with a folder on your Mac."

MBS: NFS Manager

http://www.bresink.de/osx/NFSManager.html
"NFS Manager solves this problem by providing an easy-to-use Aqua interface for the definition of NFS connections."

Peter Maurer - Witch

http://www.petermaurer.de/nasi.php?kopf=labor&sprache=english&thema=witch
"Have you ever wanted to switch to a certain window — not just the application it belongs to?"

Developing with Core Data

http://developer.apple.com/macosx/coredata.html
"Core Data, new in Tiger, completes the Cocoa vision for building well-factored applications based on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern by providing a strong, flexible, and powerful data model framework."

Cage Fighter

http://www.otierney.net/cagefighter
"Can't stand Mail.app's new look? This app is simple and sweet. Just click the Off button to turn Mail.app's new (hideous) toolbar buttons off."

Seashore - About

http://seashore.sourceforge.net/index.php
"Seashore is an open source image editor for Cocoa. ... It is based around the GIMP's technology and uses the same native file format."

Virtue

http://virtuedesktops.sourceforge.net
"Virtue is a virtual desktop manager for Mac OS 10.3 developed as a so called pet project of mine."

Gus Mueller's Website: FlySketch

http://www.gusmueller.com/blog/archives/2005/1/9.html#1199
"How about a little floating window, with simple drawing tools where I can drag and drop the resulting image into any application that supports it? Oh- and make it activate and go away via a hot key."

Longhand

http://longhand.pansophists.net
"Longhand is a calculator built from the ground up to facilitate calculation."

Cycling '74: Soundflower

http://www.cycling74.com/products/soundflower.html
"Soundflower is a MacOS X (10.2 and later) system extension that allows applications to pass audio to other applications."

Growl and Apple Mail

http://michael-mccracken.net/blog/blosxom.pl/2004/09/20#GrowlMail
"Growl comes with a bundle for Apple Mail that notifies you when new mail shows up. Unfortunately, that's not too selective, and you end up getting a lot of notifications you don't care about"

Whiteout for Mac OS X 10.3

http://www.suicidegirls.com/apps/whiteout
"Tired of metal EVERYWHERE? ... Whiteout replaces a system resource file with a modified version. The metal texture is changed to the original Aqua pinstripe texture." Yes. Thank you. I HATE BRUSHED METAL GUIs.

Surfin' Safari

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/archives/2004_08.html#006219
"I'm happy to report that we now have basic XSLT support working in Safari using libxslt" HOORAY!

Welcome to Growl!

http://growl.info
"Growl is a global notification system for Macintosh OS X. This allows any application to send it a notification, and then it displays it."

LanOSD's Homepage

http://oomz.net/Lanosd
"So, LanOSD allows you to make your own notifications, in a cool, lickable animated semi-translucent iconified Aqua Goo way."

Think Secret - A Look at Delicious Library 3.0 (images)

http://www.thinksecret.com/news/deliciouslibrary.html
"Think Secret recently got ahold of a beta copy of Delicious Library 3.0, a forthcoming Mac OS X application that delivers powerful cataloging features in an impressive interface" Barcode scanning with an iSight. I guess this beats my CueCat.

Incessant popping noise

http://saladwithsteve.com/osx/2004/07/incessant-popping-noise-few-days-ago.html
"a few days ago the speakers on my 12" Powerbook started making an incessant popping noise that sounds very much like a spike being sent to them, seemingly at random." Same thing happens occasionally on my 12" PowerBook.

Daring Fireball: Dashboard vs. Konfabulator

http://daringfireball.net/2004/06/dashboard_vs_konfabulator
"… when a utility is designed to compensate for a hole in Mac OS X, the developer should not expect the hole to remain unfilled by Apple forever." Tired of hearing about this whole Konfabulator-stolen-by-Apple thing, but I'm glad John Gruber nailed i

DejaMenu 1.1 for MacOS X

http://homepage.mac.com/khsu/DejaMenu/DejaMenu.html
"DejaMenu will display the current application's main menu as a context menu when a key combination is pressed."

Usability and editing code: TextShapeView

http://michael-mccracken.net/blog/blosxom.pl/2004/06/21#meetTSV
"I've hacked together a widget for an alternative view of text. It's based on the idea that familiar source code is easily recognizable by a programmer using indentation alone." Very cool. Browse code by its shape.

No More Pizza

http://www.windley.com/2004/06/11.html#a1272
"One of my complaints about Safari has been that I constantly got the little spinning pizza (some people call it a "beach ball" since its multi-colored) whenever a page download was slow."

AutoGraf Home

http://autograf.sourceforge.net
"Introducing AutoGraf, a whole new metaphor for Cocoa with automatic, self-updating diagrams of your classes, and intelligent, visual browsing of code documentation."

Synergy

http://synergy.wincent.com
"Synergy won't take up precious space in your Dock as it appears only in the menubar." Neat iTunes accessory. Unfortunately, on this 12" PowerBook, menubar space is *so* much more precious than dock space.

Fish

http://oriol.mine.nu/fish
"Fish is an aquarium simulator. It allows you to add fish to an underwater environment and customize them."

BluePhoneMenu 1.1

http://www.reelintelligence.com/BluePhoneMenu
"BluePhoneMenu is a small application that adds Caller ID functionality to your menu bar and desktop using your Bluetooth enabled phone."

Tree House Ideas: DataCrux

http://treehouseideas.com/datacrux
" An Objective-C framework to easily store and retrieve data objects in an embedded SQL database without a server process or query strings." Seems like a Cocoa analogue to Python with SQLite and SQLObject

codepoetry :: End-To-End

http://www.codepoetry.net/archives/2004/04/19/endtoend.php
"Hello enterprise market, it's nice to meet you. How can we rid you of Microsoft today?" Personally, I'd love to be working in a server environment made up of XServes

sshLogin

http://www.synthemesc.com/sshLogin
"sshLogin is an application and a preferencePane designed to help users manage ssh-agent and ssh-add features in Mac OS X."

TerminalColors

http://www.culater.net/software/TerminalColors/TerminalColors.php
"TerminalColors is a SIMBL plugin that patches Apple's Terminal.app to add a color picker to allow the user to edit the ANSI colors."

Next Mac OS X to be Metadata-driven?

http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=6101
"All this is not a surprise for us, as the people who were behind the same realization on BeOS --Dominic Giampaolo and Pavel Cisler-- today work at key positions at Apple Computer in the file system and Finder areas respectively."

The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins

http://homepage.mac.com/evanbaumgardner/iMovieTheater6.html
"Leonard Nimoy. After seeing this, no star trek actor ever has the right to complain about being typecast ever again. You know you love it."

WikiNotePad

http://gizmolabs.org/~andrew/andrewweb/project.php?pid=4&tab=0
"It's kind of like VoodooPad, but without all of the features, registration fees, and closed source."

Colloquy: IRC Client

http://www.javelin.cc/colloquy/index.html
"By adhering to Mac OS X interface conventions, Colloquy has the look and feel of a quality Mac application." Not only that, but AppleScript support, and XSLT-based look&feel plugins for text display using WebKit.

Apple G5 Converted to A PC

http://www.overclockers.com/tips1133/index02.asp
"When I showed my friend, who happens to love Apple, he looked sick. He did not say anything to me. He just put his hands on his head and was in shock. I wish I had a picture of that." Oh God. Uhh. What an expensive PC case. What nice parents. What a

TunesAtWork

http://www.tunesatwork.com
TunesAtWork lets you listen to your personal iTunes music collection while at your office or lab, even though your iTunes collection resides at home.