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A list of Mac freeware

cyberkni — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 21:59:51 +0000

Extremely Useful Mac Freeware is a list of freeware utilities for Mac OS X. Some of my favorites are on the list and some others I have not tried yet. Adium is towards the top of my list of free apps for Mac. I would add Cyberduck to the list if I had my way. Cyberduck is a nice free FTP/SCP/SFTP client which I use quite often.

CLI Utility to Grab Images from iSight

cyberkni — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 02:58:18 +0000

I just bought a MacBook(white 2.0Ghz model) and all I wanted was a simple webcam system. Grab the image, upload it via FTP/SCP to a server, wait a few seconds/minutes, repeat. Also, I did not want to pay…
After some googling I found this.

iPhoto plugin for Coppermine

cyberkni — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:40:11 +0000

CopperExport will let you export from iPhoto directly to Coppermine. I’ve been doing this manually since I started digital photography. It will be nice to be able to selectively publish photos on my gallery.

Web Browsing on my Mini

cyberkni — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:41:26 +0000

As always with computers I want things to be snappy. Unfortunately, snappy does not go hand in hand with a Mac Mini. While a very economical computer it is also slower than mud. I wish Apple would grow up and play with others so I can get fast and cheap hardware with OS X.
The point is, Safari is great but GMail does not work well in it(causes memory leaks). This means at any given moment I need at least w different browsers open, typically this has been Safari and Firefox. Unfortunately they are both big fat ugly memory pigs that quickly lead my Mac in to the realm of poor performance. This gets extremely frustrating when I have the need to open another large nasty application like Opera. Right now I am posting in it and it seems like its going to be an improvement. The only problem so far is page rendering issues which have appeared but not in a form that has caused me to need another browser. The good thing is that Opera has an RSS reader which I have grown to love using in Safari(Opera’s RSS reader is NOT nearly as nice as Safari’s).

Bluetooth Phone Software

cyberkni — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 15:19:21 +0000

If you have a Mac with bluetooth along with a bluetooth capabable phone then you will probably like BluePhoneElite. It will let you SMS from your Mac through your BT cell phone, give you incoming call alerts(it ties in to the OS X address book so it can pop pictures of the incoming callers from your address book up on the screen). Overall its a pretty cool application but it costs money.
In the continual fight against paying for software while not committing piracy I discovered that before ReelIntelligence released BluePhoneElite they had a freeware application called BluePhoneMenu which does a lot of what BluePhoneElite does except its not nearly as clean.