System Utilities

One of my most frequent instructions to Mac OS X users when I get a help request is to open Disk Utility, select the startup disk volume icon, and click Repair Disk Permissions. Quite often that is the only necessary step to get things working...

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Keyseer runs in the background to activate Applescripts when specified keys are held down. You can use the sample Applescripts provided and you can add your own Applescripts. Completly freeware.. MacRam2mp3.

Toggle Visibility is an ApleScript that allows you to toggle the visibility of normailly hidden items in the OS X Finder. When you doubleclick on its icon it will quit the Finder for a few seconds and after relaunch you will have acces to all...

Keep Simpleshade in your Dock to immediately collapse or uncollapse all Finder windows by clicking its Dock icon. To put it into your Dock, just double-click its icon. To keep it in the Dock, drag it there while its not running, control-click the...

With RootLaunch you can launch applications as the root user. RootLaunch launches applications as root successfully in most cases. RootLaunch may ask you to choose the base executable for the application in certain situations. Some applications...

Show Disk Image File can reveal the disk image file belonging to a disk image volume mounted on the desktop. Have you ever: - opened several disk images while working then forgotten which mounted volume belongs to which disk image file? -...

Disk Image Droplet is a droplet that makes compressed disk images of files/folders dropped on it.. MacRam2mp3.

MOSS Installer is an AppleScript that enables you to install Startup Screens (MOSS resources) like those available from ResExcellence. It automatically saves your original startup screen resources so that you can restore them whenever you want....

Cascade Finder Windows is a small AppleScript that allows you to cascade the Finder Windows. As if Expose wasnt enough. Completly freeware.. MacRam2mp3.

Laines Window Scripts is a collection of 8 scripts that are to help modify and arrange the open windows in the Finder. The scripts range from toggling window shade and cascading windows to opening/closing popup windows. Completly freeware for...

The Automatic USB Support AppleScript is used to enable the USB Support extension included with the Mac OS USB DDK kit, by adding a "usbx" resource to the extension.. MacRam2mp3.

When the Clipboard (to named clipping) AppleScript is double-clicked, it creates a clipping file from the current clipboard content. Completly freeware for personal use.. MacRam2mp3.

Indexer for Personal Web Sharing is an AppleScript that can be used for creating html index files for any chosen root folder. The script will create an index.html file for each subfolder (which contains links to items in that folder) and another...

MacAnalysis is a program intended to avoid all intrusions and damages caused by hackers. The method of Macanalysis is indeed simple, it hacks your server (Unix, NT, Mac) like any experienced hacker and informs you how it did proceed and how to...

DMG Mechanic fixes .dmg files to be associated with Disk Copy. Ever downloaded a .dmg file (MacOS X disk image) only to find it is recognized as being a SimpleText document or a generic file? Double-click the file and you will get some kind of...

MISO-J is an file appending utility which is able to support several kinds of file formats. For example, you can append multi txt files in a single one. (001.txt + 002.txt + 003.txt --> output.txt) Sometimes, we may get some multi-segment...

Get the most important news headlines, without opening your browser! NewsTyper is a Flash-based RSS/RDF news reader. It features an intuitive and rich interface, with pre-defined news channels. Freeware.. LSNN - Lady Silvia National Network.

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). Completly freeware for...

Doodim permits one to dim the background of the foremost application thereby enhancing its visibility. You can switch it on or off very quickly from the menu bar, and set the level of dimness. Completly freeware for non-commercial use.. La...

MySQL Magic is a Cocoa GUI wrapper for MySQL client written in Objective-C.It is multi-document, multi-threaded, and blazing fast, and will tremendously increase your productivity on your web site developments. It allows spreadsheet-like EDITING...

URLologist is a dragndrop URL/e-mail address extraction utility. URLologist will extract addresses from most text file formats including those pesky read-only, Read Me files that accompany almost every program ever written. Addresses can be...

DownLog E/R 1.0 is a utility to log all downloads made using Netscape browsers. Simply place the DownLog extension in your extension folder, restart. Once Netscape is launched DownLog will monitor all activity. When a download is detected...

Veta Chat is an application for communicating with other Mac users via Bluetooth. It is super useful when you need to quickly exchange messages with somebody without drawing the attention of other people - like during those boring meetings that...

KoolClip keeps track of clipboard history and allows easy navigation. It can "freeze" a particular entry so that you can easily copy new items without affecting the current contents of the clipboard. You can ensure that KoolClip is...

QCake (GPL) is a programming environment to develop Games, VR-reality, 3D-Simulation.. .

DroPic! is made for easily shrinking images to a reasonable size for www display or email attachment. Todays multi-megapixel digital cameras generally produce pictures which are way too large for a simple presentation in an email attachment or...

iGP32 is a Mac OS X AppleScript Studio application which works as a GUI of several command line tools. iGP32 is intended to become a Mac-friendly utility which helps any Mac user who owns a GP32 console to have easy access to all common tasks...

LinkControl is a programmers source code package for the Macintosh. With it, programmers can build a control definition which looks and feels like a hyperlink in a web browser. This is primarily useful for referring application users to a...

fKeys is a MacOS X keyboard tweaker. It is heavily inspired by uControl, but its rewritten for Tiger from the ground up. In fact, it ONLY runs on Tiger. It is still incredibly young, so it does only three things at present: 1. CAPS LOCK on...

Well, its getting colder in new england. getting ready for the holdiays? It puts me in mind of the time jon maeda asked us to participate in a snowflake-athon at the media lab. This is not complete, no pref-panel available yet.. knowuh: software....