Write
1. Insert blank DVD
2. Choose “Open in finder”
3. On the left hand side of finder window, select “Untitled DVD”
4. Drag stuffs that you want to write and drop them into that folder
5. Then “Burn” on the upper right corner of the finder window
Or use “Burn folder” as shown in this video
http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-burn-a-dvd-on-a-mac
Copy
This website has nice screenshots and step-by-step explanation.
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/making_dvd_copies.html
>cd to
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/System-Utilities/cdto.shtml
Open terminal at the directory of the front most finder window.
aMSN
http://www.amsn-project.net/
I think this is the closest to Windows Live Messenger.
BibDesk
http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/
Use BibDesk to edit and manage your bibliography. It will keep track of both the bibliographic information and the associated files or web links for you. Good for LaTeX users
Caffeine
http://lightheadsw.com/caffeine/
Give your Mac a cup of coffee to prevent it from automatically going to sleep.
Cyberduck
http://cyberduck.ch/
FTP Client
Delivery Status
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/shopping/deliverystatus.html
The status will update automatically for you, and even count down the days! It also works with Growl to give you pop-up message, email notifications, and more, whenever your package status changes.
Eclipse
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
Super IDE!
Firefox
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/upgrade.html?from=getfirefox
Web Browser
Folx
http://mac.eltima.com/download-manager.html
Download Manager
Linotype FontExplorer X 1.2.3
http://www.fontexplorerx.com/download/
Font Manager
Growl
http://growl.info/
Growl lets Mac OS X applications unintrusively tell you when things happen.
iTunes – Covershare plugins
http://code.google.com/p/covershare-plugins/downloads/list
Find Thai mp3 covers easily
iTunes – ThaiTunes
http://www.macdd.com/webboard/viewtopic.php?t=2095
Fix unreadable Thai songs name
MacFUSE
http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
MacFUSE allows you to extend Mac OS X’s native file handling capabilities via 3rd-party file systems.
MacLoc
http://ourapples.com/downloads/macloc
Lock your computer while you are away.
MacTeX
http://www.tug.org/mactex/
TeX for Mac
Miro
http://www.getmiro.com/download/
Video browser and downloader
NameChanger
http://namechanger.en.softonic.com/mac
Batch rename utility
NTFS-3G
http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/
Support NTFS on Mac
QuickSilver
http://docs.blacktree.com/quicksilver/what_is_quicksilver
Application launcher & more
RealPlayer
http://www.real.com/mac/realplayer?src=realhome_spmac_bb_0_1_1_0_0_2_0&pcode=rn&opage=realhome_spmac_bb
Play *.rm, *.rmvb files
rEFIt
http://refit.sourceforge.net/
Boot menu for Multi-OS
Skim
http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/
PDF Reader
Skype
http://www.skype.com/download/skype/macosx/
Chat, Talk
Smultron
http://tuppis.com/smultron/
Smultron is a free text editor for Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 which is both easy to use and powerful. It provides syntax highlighting and tabbed browsing
SpaceSuit
http://www.docklandsoft.com/spacesuit/
Allows different background for each space. Setting or changing a background image has never been easier. Drag your image to SpaceSuit’s Dock icon and SpaceSuit will immediately apply it to the current Space.
StuffIt Expander
http://my.smithmicro.com/mac/stuffit/expander.html
Decompress (Unzip) utility. Only expander is free but full is commercial.
TeXShop
http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/
LaTeX editor
Thai Dictionary
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/productivity_tools/thaidictionary.html
Include Thai dictionary in OS X dictionary application
Toast Titanium [commercial]
http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/titanium/overview.html
Complete CD/DVD burning solution
Transmission
http://www.transmissionbt.com/
BitTorrent client
Twhirl
http://www.twhirl.org/
Twitter client. Can be installed directly from web without download
VLC
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
VLC media player is a multimedia player capable of reading most audio and video formats.
VMWare Fusion [commercial]
http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/
Virtual machine
Zipeg
http://www.zipeg.com/
See inside zip files without extracting
XAMPP for Mac OS X
XAMPP for Mac OS X is the simplest, most practical and most complete webserver solution for Mac OS X. The distribution includes an Apache 2 web server, integrated with the latest builds of MySQL, PHP (both 4 and 5) and Perl. It comes as a Mac OS X Installer package which contains all the necessary files and requires no dependencies.
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-macosx.html
MySQL Tools
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html
Notes:
When using these tools, choose “more options” and fill in “Connect Using Socket:” box with
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/var/mysql/mysql.sock
Miscellaneous
If you have MySQL installed before and want to uninstall
sudo rm /usr/local/mysql
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/mysql*
sudo rm -rf /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM
sudo rm -rf /Library/PreferencePanes/My*
edit /etc/hostconfig and remove the line MYSQLCOM=-YES-
sudo rm -rf /Library/Receipts/mysql*
sudo rm -rf /Library/Receipts/MySQL*
You can increment specific part of date (year, month, day, …) without manipulating confusing milliseconds stuff.
Also, the Date constructor is very smart. To be more specific, you can input 32 Jan and it will round to 1 Feb automatically.
Thanks to this article.
“Date Math for lazy people at Flex Examples”
http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/24/date-math-for-lazy-people/
The instructions are located at http://macs.about.com/od/macwindows/ss/sharewinprinter.htm
These are the steps required.
I had a problem where I couldn’t shutdown my Windows XP under VMWare Fusion – it started shutting down and then just locked up. There doesn’t appear to be any way to force a shutdown via Fusion.
If you select “Power Off”, that’s like pulling the plug from the power of the virtual machine, and it’ll shut right off.
Credits: http://juststuffreally.blogspot.com/2008/09/vmware-fusion-won-shutdown.html
By default, FlareVis component listens to events from stage (entire application). However, this may be not practical. So we can set the hitArea to itself only. In this example, hitArea is the container Canvas.
Also, you might want to clip the FlareVis object so it will not draw outside the designated area. This can be done by applying mask to it as follows:
<mx:Canvas id=”container” width=”100%” height=”100%”>
<mx:Canvas width=”100%” height=”100%” backgroundColor=”0×000000″ id=”cv”/>
<flare:FlareVis id=”tviz” width=”100%” height=”100%” mask=”{cv}”
tree=”{snapshot.heap_tree}” hitArea=”{container}”
/>
</mx:Canvas>
I copy this from my old blog. This configuration still works nicely. The only change is now I change the shared drive from NTFS to FAT. It works much smoother. The instructions are the same except that you can skip those NTFS-3g and Macfuse and you don’t have to convert FAT drive to NTFS in step 4.6. However, I still keep NTFS-3g and Macfuse so I can read/write the Windows partition in OS X.
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This is my first time that I have an Apple computer and have to play with OS X. However, I still want to have Windows XP on the same machine. As you may know, OS X 10.5 or “Leopard” supports having Windows on the same machine using feature called “bootcamp”.
Nevertheless, my goal is to have 3 partition on this machine.
Goals
1) Mac OS X partition (HFS+)
2) Storage partition (NTFS) so I can keep my pictures, music or whatever in this drive
3) Windows partition (NTFS)
Challenges
1) Windows cannot read HFS+
>> I have to install a tool called Macdrive. It works!
2) Mac can read NTFS but cannot write.
>> Install latest version of Macfuse-Core and NTFS-3g will fix this. You will be able to read and write NTFS volume from OS X.
Macfuse-core : http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
(I used MacFUSE-Core-10.5-1.1.1.dmg)
NTFS-3g : http://mac.softpedia.com/get/System-Utilities/NTFS-3G.shtml
3) Bootcamp supports only 2 partition, Mac and Windows.
>> This is the hardest part. It took me 2 days with 3 Windows installations until I can get what I want.
This is conclusion from all of my trial and errors about how to do it.
Read this first
I tried this on Macbook Pro 15″ with Intel Core2duo using Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” and Windows XP Professional.
By using this method. You can normally restart in Mac OS X from Windows by right-click on boot camp menu and “Restart in Mac OS X”. However, when you open “Startup Disk” on Mac to choose to boot from Windows, you will NOT see the Windows there. Don’t worry. You can still boot from Windows by pressing “option” key (The key on the left of left Apple button) while the machine reboot to open boot menu. You can select Windows from there.
My suggestion is to install RefIt (http://refit.sourceforge.net/), which will give a nice boot menu when the machine starts
Instructions
Appendix
How to run Disk utility
This is how to use flare.flex.FlareVis object.
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx=”http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml” backgroundColor=”0×111111″
layout=”absolute” xmlns:local=”*” xmlns:flex=”flare.flex.*”
creationComplete=”init()”>
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
private function init():void
{
var spr:Sprite = new Sprite();
spr.graphics.beginFill(0x000000,1);
spr.graphics.drawCircle(100,100,5);
spr.graphics.drawCircle(200,100,10);
spr.graphics.endFill();
fvis.visualization.addChild(spr);
//You should be able to see two black circles on white background.
//You can access the visualization object via "fvis.visualization"
//FlareVis is a class extends from Canvas that contains the visualization object inside
}
]]>
</mx:Script>
<flex:FlareVis id=”fvis” backgroundColor=”0xffffff”/>
</mx:Application>
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