System Utilities

Desky is a very nice tool that will change the desktop-picture fast and without System Preferences. Simply drag a picture on Desky. It will check the format and change the desktop to this picture without opening the system preferences. Tip:...

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With todoPod you can sync your notes with your iPod and listen to them later. Transform your daily to-do notes into voice notes that you can listen to on the go. Have a grocery list, an address, phone number, or something you have to do later?...

Thoth is usenet newsreader, available as a PowerPC binary for Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later, localized for both English and French languages. It is intended for downloading only by existing Thoth users with valid registrations previously purchased...

Unhide Desktop Folder is a tool that allows you to make the Desktop Folder visible in the network again if youve installed OS 9.1 or 9.2, which has made it invisible on the network. Just drop your volumes onto this tool and their Desktop Folders...

UDF ISO FS Switcher is a Contextual Menu Item Extension that allows you to select a UDF volume and re-mount it either with Apples or Adaptecs UDF or even as ISO 9660, providing it is a ISO/UDF hybrid disk (as DVD-Video discs are). Completly...

Have you ever encountered an error message when attempting to play a DVD-Video using Apples DVD Player? Actually, this error message is not always telling you the truth: It also comes up for just the reason that the DVD is totally error-free but...

Basically, the Joliet Volume Access System Extension enhances the way your Macintosh computer can read CD-ROMs from other platforms, mainly Windows. Until now, if you inserted a Windows CD-ROM in your Mac, file names appeared to be crippled (in...

Adaptec UDF Volume Access is a little extension for your System Folder (more precisely, a File System extension) to enable Macs with System 7.5.5 up to Mac OS 9.2.2 to read CDs formatted in UDF (on Windows: "CDUDF") format. Apple...

UDF ISO FS Enabler is a Control Strip Module that allows you to temporarily enable or disable Apples and Adaptecs UDF extension as well as Various ISO 9660 File Systems (Apples, Joliet Volume Access and Joke Ridge) The extension "UDF Volume...

Save a BNDL gets the Finder to recognize changes in a files BNDL resource without requiring rebuilding the Desktop Database or rebooting. It only runs under System 7.0 and later. A files BNDL Resource controls what icon the Finder uses for the...

Parent Folders is a CM (Contextual Menu) Plug-in for Mac OS 8 and beyond. Its function: Control-Click on a Finder window and itll pop up a list with the folders surrounding that windows folder. Just like command-clicking in the windows title...

Unhide utilities is a set of 2 applications for changing the visibility of files and folders. Unhide Desktop Folder This tool allows you to make the Desktop Folder visible in the network again if youve installed OS 9.1 or 9.2, which has made it...

Reveal Creator is a CM (Contextual Menu) Plug-in for Mac OS 8 and beyond. Its function: Control-Click on a file and itll reveal the application that would be opened if you would double click that file. Completly freeware for non-commercial...

Ricochet Modem Scripts is a set of two Modem Scripts for Ricochet modems (both for the original 28kbps and the new 128kbps modems). Modem Scripts are used with "Apple Remote Access" (ARA 2.0, 2.1), "Open Transport/PPP" (OT/PPP)...

ZyXEL Modem Scripts is a collection of Modem Scripts for ZyXEL modems (including ISDN). Modem Scripts are used with "Apple Remote Access" (ARA 2.0, 2.1), "Open Transport/PPP" (OT/PPP) and Remote Access 3.x. Completly freeware...

Open any PPC-enabled RB Plugin with RBplugin Plunger to see what Controls, Classes and Methods it provides. This code is Open Source, which means that you are invited to enhance the tool if you feel the need, and return the enhancements to me,...

RB Project Tools is a set of classes to work with RB project files (in their binary form).. Thomas Tempelmann's REALbasic tips & demos. REALbasic sample code, programming tips, reusable classes and plugins

Process Sleep Demo is a class (not a plugin) that uses Threads and Semaphores in order to allow a routine to put itself to sleep until some other code awakes the routine again so that it continues in its flow. The whole thing is quite simple,...

The Bit Ops plugin adds methods for many useful bitwise operations on Integers. It also provides a new class TTsBitSet that handles large arrays of bits. Heres an incomplete list of the provided functions: And, Or, XOr, Not, Nor, Nand, Shift,...

I have taken Doug Holtons free Expat plugin, added Windows support, fixed a bug that would cause a crash when memory was low, improved access to Attributes, and enabled (local) entity resolving and XML Parser (Expat) Plugin was born. It comes...

MemoryBlock is a REALbasic extension that adds the following methods and properties to the built-in MemoryBlock class: • Address (offset as Integer) as Integer • FSSpec (offset as Integer) as FolderItem (Mac OS only) • OSType...

Collection Extension is a REALbasic plugin that adds a method to read back the Keys that are stored in a Collection object, similar to the available "Item" method that returned the values from a Collection. Completly freeware for...

Array & ListBox Sorting is a class that implements QuickSort and BubbleSort. It can sort any type of data: You need to subclass this class and then implement a Compare and a Swap function. The Sort class does the rest for you. It comes with...

Provides a "Log" function that outputs a string to a debugging console, which is DCon on Mac and something like DebugView on Windows. This allows you to add instructions to your code and see them on the text logged by an RB-independent...

MacResource is a class, similar to RBs ResourceFork, that can read Mac Resource files. It works on all platforms and allows you also to read the new data-fork based resources on Mac OS X.. Thomas Tempelmann's REALbasic tips & demos....

UTC (GMT) offset contains just one function that returns the local times difference in minutes to the UTC (Universal Time Coordinated) or to the GMT (greenwich mean time) without daylight savings.. Thomas Tempelmann's REALbasic tips &...

The Cat Search plugin implements the PBCatSearch function of the Mac OS File Manager. This is a very fast routine to find specific types of files on a volume. The MacOS tool Sherlock (aka Find File) uses this function to do its quick search on...

DLL Plugin PostLinker was originally written by me to ease the creation of Windows (x86) plugins. Using this postlinker, that is an add-on for the CodeWarrior system, you can create the x86 plugins in one step. To see how this works, get the...

CRC Plugin provides functions to calculate CRCs over a range of bytes in a MemoryBlock, in the MacOS memory space or in a String. Theres three versions of CRC calculation: One for 16 Bit, one for 32 Bit and one for 16 to 64 Bit wide checksums....

If you want to write your own plugins, you may use the Plugin Starter skeleton. It requires CodeWarrior Pro 4 or higher. It supports 68K, PowerPC, Carbon and Windows x86 code generation. Whats New in This Release: · Added a project...