Monthly Archives March 2007

links for 2007-03-30

DigitEyeOCR – Free OCR Software For OS X » at Cool OSX Apps DigitEyeOCR is free optical character recognition software for Mac OS X. It allows you to convert paper documents into Text, PDF, LaTex, DVI, HTML and a lot more formats. (tags: ocr scanner software macosx character) ThisService Lets you turn any command line [...]

links for 2007-03-27

Xee Xee is useful as a more powerful replacement for Preview, or most any other image viewer available on Mac OS X. It is very fast, and uses less memory than most other image viewing tools. It also uses OpenGL to display and scroll images much more smoothly (tags: preview image browser) Hobo – the [...]

links for 2007-03-24

Dropbear SSH server and client Dropbear is a relatively small SSH 2 server and client. It runs on a variety of POSIX-based platforms. Dropbear is open source software, distributed under a MIT-style license. Dropbear is particularly useful for “embedded”-type Linux (or other Unix) syste (tags: ssh software server client)

links for 2007-03-20

CUPS-PDF Package for Mac OS X CUPS-PDF is a backend module for CUPS (Mac OS X’s printing system) by Volker C. Behr that, rather than printing to a device, prints straight to PDF files. This software is designed to produce PDF files in a heterogeneous network by providing a PDF print (tags: print printing printer [...]

links for 2007-03-17

Cygwin Information and Installation Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. (tags: commandline windows) Windows Update: Tweak UI 1.33 : [Microsoft, Windows 95, downloads, download, updates, update, user interface] With the Tweak UI 1.33 update, you can adjust your Windows User Interface, including menu speed, window animation, and Microsoft Internet Explorer. (tags: windows customization configuration [...]

links for 2007-03-16

Keyword Assistant Readme Keyword Assistant is little plugin that improves iPhoto’s keyword handling. it lets you enter keywords in an auto-completing text field, like the ‘To:’ field in your email client. It does some other stuff too, which you can read about in the features sect (tags: iphoto plugin software macosx tags keywords)

links for 2007-03-15

Lingon by Peter Borg Lingon is a graphical interface for creating launchd configuration files and controlling them through launchctl for Mac OS X Tiger. (launchd is a system daemon that is used to run scripts/programs automatically, repeatedly or at certain times.) You get al (tags: launchd software application management) DNS Enabler DNS Enabler allows Mac [...]

links for 2007-03-14

The Jargon Lexicon 4.4.6 (October 25, 2003): quantifiers In techspeak and jargon, the standard metric prefixes used in the SI (Système International) conventions for scientific measurement have dual uses. With units of time or things that come in powers of 10, such as money, they retain their usual meanings of (tags: math computer science jargon) [...]

links for 2007-03-13

Graffletopia stencil website for OmniGraffle (tags: omnigraffle stencils) Software :: SendEmail – Send email with this free command line email client SendEmail is a lightweight, command line SMTP email client. If you have the need to send email from a command line, this free program is perfect: simple to use and feature rich. It was [...]

links for 2007-03-09

How FairPlay Works: Apple’s iTunes DRM Dilemma Understanding how Apple’s FairPlay DRM works helps to answer a lot of questions: why it hasn’t been replaced with an open, interoperable DRM that anyone can use, why Apple isn’t broadly licensing FairPlay, and why the company hasn’t jumped to add (tags: itunes drm music copyright) Flip4Mac Drive-in [...]