Software Downloads Developed by James W. Walker

AutoPairs is a prefpane that modifies the behavior of certain keystrokes, to help you keep paired characters such as parentheses properly matched. For instance, when you type a left parenthesis, AutoPairs will type the right parenthesis and a left...

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PrintToPDF is a shareware Macintosh printer driver that creates .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) files. You do not need to have the full Acrobat package (as opposed to the Reader) installed for PrintToPDF to work. You can create PDF bookmarks to your section...

After spending too many hours wondering why my document icons werent showing up under Mac OS X, and finally figuring out that it was caused by a typo in my plst resource, I wrote this utility to help other Mac OS X programmers. Drag a packaged...

OtherMenu creates a system-wide hierarchical menu somewhat like the Apple menu. Besides opening applications and documents, it runs 28 little utilities called externals. In a directory dialog (Open/Save dialog), you can use the menu to select a...

The Keyboard Switcher control panel extension was invented to allow you to use customized keyboard layouts more effectively. The Keyboard Switcher control panel provides detailed online help, including an explanation of why you dont really need...

When you rebuild your desktop, an alias to an application on a different volume loses its ability to support drag-and-drop. Alias Dragon fixes this by copying desktop information from the target volume to the volume containing the alias. You can...

Text Capture FKEY applies various patches to other applications or to desk accessories. This approach gives more control over conflicts and memory bloat than extending application behavior by adding extensions to the system. The patching process...

AutoPairs is a prefpane that modifies the behavior of certain keystrokes, to help you keep paired characters such as parentheses properly matched. For instance, when you type a left parenthesis, AutoPairs will type the right parenthesis and a...

Carpetbag is a shareware ($5) control panel that makes fonts, sounds, FKEYs, and keyboard layouts available to your programs without altering the System file. Specify certain folders, and Carpetbag opens all resource files therein at startup. It...

I wrote PrintAid so that I could print to my aging ImageWriter while working in other applications. It does not provide true background printing, because the application that is doing the printing remains tied up. I stopped using PrintAid when I...

Once in a while, I need to take a picture of the screen with a menu pulled down, in order to document one of my shareware programs. If I did this every day, I suppose I wouldnt mind paying for a screen capture program with all the bells and...

Clipboard Magician is a desk accessory that performs various transformations on data on the clipboard. It was written by Ed Lai, an Apple employee, though this is not an official Apple product. Mr. Lai released it as freeware, dedicated to the...

Manual Maker is a simple application that converts a collection of SimpleText files into a low-overhead standalone document called a Manual Reader. Besides displaying styled text and embedded pictures, a Manual Reader provides chapter and section...

Reference Link is a System 7-only INIT that makes THINK Reference 2.0 easier to use. With R.L. installed, a modified double-click on a word in a text editor or word processor causes the word to be looked up in THINK Reference 2.0. A keystroke...

Text Editor Patches is a freeware application that applies various patches to other applications or to desk accessories. This approach gives more control over conflicts and memory bloat than extending application behavior by adding extensions to...