e-liXiR’s OS X Software List

>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

Setup PHP+MySQL and utilities on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard in 5 mins

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

• MySQL Administrator 1.2
• MySQL Query Browser 1.2
• MySQL Migration Toolkit 1.1

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*

Sharing Windows printer with OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

The instructions are located at http://macs.about.com/od/macwindows/ss/sharewinprinter.htm

These are the steps required.

1. Printer Sharing – PC to Mac Overview
2. Printer Sharing – Configure the Workgroup Name (Leopard)
3. Printer Sharing – Set Up Windows XP for Printer Sharing
4. Printer Sharing – Add the Windows Printer to Your Mac (Leopard)
5. Printer Sharing – Using Your Shared Printer

Muubook Project | Dual-boot 3 Partitions : Mac OS X Leopard + Windows XP + shared NTFS on Macbook Pro

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

1. Install Leopard
   1. Install Mac OS X Leopard.
   2. Install Macfuse and NTFS-3g
2. Partition
   1. Run bootcamp to create Windows partition but when it ask you to insert Windows CD and press the button. Don’t do it. Exit the program.
   2. Run Disk utility (see Appendix below)
   3. Click on the harddisk.
   4. Click on “First Aid”
   5. Verify and repair your Leopard partition first.
   6. Click on “Partition”
   7. Resize Leopard partition. You can drag the bar to resize it
   8. Make new Mac partition in the middle by pressing “+” to add new partition and select its type to be Mac OS Extended (Journaled) (The one on the top).**It must now be a Mac partition and we will convert it to FAT in the end otherwise you will not be able to install Windows completely.
   9. Here are what I have (top to bottom in this order)
      • Macintosh HD (HFS+) 31GB
      • Storage HD (HFS+) 80 GB (Approx.)
      • Windows HD (FAT32) 31GB
3. Install Windows
   1. Quit disk utility
   2. Quit Mac OS X installation.
   3. Reboot in OS X.
   4. Remove OS X CD
   5. Insert Windows CD
   6. Restart and hold “C” key
   7. Wait for a while you might see “Press any key to boot from CD..” so Press any key (Last time I got pass this step into setup automatically)
   8. Then wait for setup to initialize.
   9. After enter Windows setup, select the 31 GB partition. and try to install Windows on that partition. If it ask you to format it or not, you MUST format it no matter you want to use FAT32 or NTFS for your windows drive.
   10. Wait for Windows setup to format and copy files. It will reboot when finish.
   11. Finish the rest of Windows setup. (You will have to boot into the Windows partition to do so. If you do not boot into it by default, you can either press alt when the machine start to select the Windows partition or select Windows partition as startup disk within OS X and restart)
   12. When you are in Windows, insert OS X cd and run bootcamp setup to install drivers.
   13. Install Macdrive
4. Convert Mac partition in the middle to NTFS
   1. Run Disk Utility
   2. Erase that Mac partition to FAT partition
   3. Restart in Windows
   4. Look in my computer. You should see the main Windows drive and another FAT32 drive. Remember its drive letter.
   5. Run command line.
   6. type “convert X: /fs:ntfs” and enter (Replace “X” with your drive letter)
5. Enjoy!

Appendix

How to run Disk utility

1. Insert your OS X cd into CD drive
2. Restart and press “C” while booting.
3. You’ll enter Mac OS X setup screen.
4. Choose language
5. Look on the top menu bar. Click on utilities>>Disk utilities