A look at the new Coherence Mode feature in Parallels desktop.
MacOS X: How to turn textmode tools into first class applications. Mutt.app, Vim.app, Irssi.app, Top.app, etc.
How to get command line apps to respect the OS X network location. A neat little hack exploiting symlinks and $0.
HTML mail is bad enough when it works - it's intolerable when it's as broken as in Apple's Mail.app.
For a little while anyway.
How Emacs is extremely productive and horribly slow at the same time.
Getting a feel for Emacs on OS X.
... are possible with a little work and a lot of patience.
Right on time.
Free (as in beer). Built on WebKit. Simple. Beautiful.
Sometimes! Or, fork(2) is a very fast operation on legitimate operating systems. I didn't realize it could be as fast as spawning a thread, though.
I think I may finally be able to get rid of Colloquy.
Payware GUI shell thingy for MacOS. This is not a QuickSilver/Launchbar clone. It's more like a magical bash interpreter that knows things about what's happening in various Mac GUI applications (like Finder, Safari, etc).
I wonder why newsgator would make this free. Seems like there was a pretty decent slate of paying users. Losing ground to Google Reader? Eventual ad placement? Just wanted to be nice? Weird.
This trumps Leopard for most important Mac development this year as far as I'm concerned. Words cannot explain the hatred I've developed for booting up multiple Parallels VMs to get at IE.
Absolutely beautiful new Vim port for OS X - sane GUI tabs, multiple windows, client/server mode, fonts look great. Stop building Carbon Vim from source!
Manual page URL handler for Safari (e.g., "man:bash", "man:sort" in URL box). References to other man pages are hyperlinked very nicely and the pages themselves are formatted quite nicely.
That was quick. IMO, the Mac needs this application more than other platform's (including Windows) because of its document oriented application switching.
Blatant license violation!
"To average users, the suggestion that they use the command line – or the shell, or the terminal, or whatever else you want to call it is only slightly less welcome than the suggestion that they go out and deliberately contract AIDS." That's a damn sham
I'm gonna give this a try for managing home directories now that I've convinced myself that version control is the wrong solution. I moved my homes from CVS to SVN a couple years ago and just tried going with bzr but VCS just isn't right here.
About half of these will be well-known to the UNIX hacker but there's a couple I've not seen elsewhere: lsbom, softwareupdate, screencapture, and lipo.
Awesome look at using advanced features of ipfw(8) on OS X.
This is pretty darn close to my configuration but I used the mutt-devel port... Oh, and my ~/.procmailrc is pretty insane also :)
"Essentially, this add Vi command functionality (albeit a small subset) to any (and all) text editors that use the Cocoa text system; e.g., Safari, TeXShop, XCode, etc."
"Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine."
Vim 7.0.188 Universal and PPC binaries are up.
Nice looking Newsreader for Mac OS X (F/OSS with an Apache 2.0 license and public subversion repository).
Seamless window support for rdesktop (and perhaps Cocoa Remote Desktop). Similar to Parallel's Coherence Mode for RDP.
A Cocoa port of rdesktop. Universal Binary, multiple concurrent sessions, no X11 makes it the best RDP client for Mac on paper.
Oh wow, I just ripped all my iTunes DRM'd songs down to unprotected AAC in about 10 minutes. These guys did a great job.
I wanted to like it but...
Alright, it looks like I'm going to have to break down and learn how to package ports since none of this crap is working on Tiger.
A Spotlight Plugin that imports and indexes Python source code. w00t!
Will be useful if amazon ever decides to ship my stuff.
Notes on stuff that should be backed up and other tips for a smooth upgrade. The comment thread looks promising as well with everyone reporting in with problems and opinion.
"Clutter is a small Mac OS X application that lets you put music CDs on your desktop. You can drag them anywhere. Line them up neatly or put them in piles, it's your choice."
Can't wait..
Supposedly kick ass video game for OS X, Linux, and Windows. Free demo available.
Did IBM drop the x86 PC so it could start selling Mac's? Interesting..
Haven't tried yet but these optimized builds are rumoured to blow the doors off the standard distribution.
only takes 15 pages to explain.
A flickr desktop client.
Excellent repository of OS X configurations, tips, applications, etc.
Hard to believe this isn't part of the standard distribution.
"KDE and GNOME have both gotten much better, but let's get real. They're not even in the same ballpark." -- Ouch. True though...
"A repository of every keyboard secret in OS X."
"share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems" via PhotoMatt.
Title is a bit misleading. GNOME feels they have reached Windows' level of functionality (I'd agree) and are now shooting to bring the featureset in line with Apple's OS X.
Collection of poorly documented OS X key-sequences.
Hey tkington! I noticed this come in on my OSX del.icio.us feed.
Six part series on OSX's built in Apache httpd configuration.
Solid OS X interface.
Modify the RGB values used for ANSI colors in Terminal.app.
Sample chapters from book I need to buy.
"..this book is your guide to figuring out the BSD Unix system and Panther-specific components that you may find challenging."
This document attempts to give a hacker over-friendly answer to the question "What is Mac OS X?".
Python script to convert iTunes xml database to rhythmbox xml database.
OS X Hacks. Forum type format.
Hardware mods.. Spooky!
The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X.