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IconFinder.com – Finding icon has never been this easy!

elixirk — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 01:27:25 +0000

IconFinder.com allow you to find icon by name, with dynamic filter by size. It provide icons in both .png and .ico format. When you select one icon, it will also show links to other icons in the same set, so you can keep your theme consistent.

OS X Apps List 2010

elixirk — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 01:54:26 +0000

Browsers & Internet

Chrome
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/landing_chrome_mac.html?hl=en

Firefox
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/firefox.html

uTorrent
http://www.utorrent.com/downloads/mac

Cyberduck
http://cyberduck.ch/

Skype
http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/get-skype/

Maintenance

AppFresh

http://metaquark.de/appfresh/

AppCleaner
http://www.freemacsoft.net/AppCleaner/

GrandPerspective
http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/

Designer

Caliper
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/Other-Desktop-Enhancements/Caliper.shtml

Adobe Kuler
http://kuler.adobe.com/

Color Browser
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/marketplace/index.cfm?event=marketplace.offering&marketplaceid=1&offeringid=10037

Skitch
http://skitch.com/

Icon Generator
http://icon-generator.net/

COLOURlovers
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/marketplace/index.cfm?event=marketplace.offering&marketplaceid=1&offeringid=10077

Utilities

>cd to
http://code.google.com/p/cdto/

Caffeine
http://lightheadsw.com/caffeine/

7zx
http://sixtyfive.xmghosting.com/products/7zx/

MacLoc
http://ourapples.com/downloads/macloc

DropBox
http://www.dropbox.com/

Evernote
http://www.evernote.com/

QuickSilver
http://quicksilver.en.softonic.com/mac

NameChanger
http://web.mac.com/mickeyroberson/MRR_Software/NameChanger.html

UltraCopier
http://ultracopier.first-world.info/

Growl
http://growl.info/

Linotype FontExplorer X 1.2.3
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Font-Tools/Linotype-FontExplorer-X.shtml

Skim
http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/

Smultron
http://smultron.sourceforge.net/

rEFIt
http://refit.sourceforge.net/

MacFUSE
http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/

NTFS-3G
http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/

Stuffit Expander
http://my.smithmicro.com/mac/stuffit/expander.html

SpaceSuit
http://www.docklandsoft.com/spacesuit/

LaTex

MacTex
http://www.tug.org/mactex/

TexShop
http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/

Mendeley Desktop
http://www.mendeley.com/download-mendeley-desktop/

Video

VLC
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

RealPlayer
http://www.real.com/

Miro
http://www.getmiro.com/download/

Others

Burn
http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html

InkScape
http://inkscape.org/

XMind
http://www.xmind.net/

Kindle for Mac
http://www.amazon.com/gp/kindle/mac

Plugins

iTunes – Covershare plugins
http://code.google.com/p/covershare-plugins/downloads/list

iTunes – ThaiTunes
http://www.macdd.com/webboard/viewtopic.php?t=2095

Thai Dictionary
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/productivity_tools/thaidictionary.html

Seaglass cross-platform look and feel for Java

elixirk — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:06:40 +0000

This is a very beautiful look and feel for Java applications. It is still in development (alpha) but you can try it. I plan to use it for my current project.

Requirements: JRE 6 update 17 and later
http://code.google.com/p/seaglass/

Write/Copy DVD on Mac OS X

elixirk — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:16:23 +0000

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

e-liXiR’s OS X Software List

elixirk — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:07:13 +0000

>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

elixirk — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:33:36 +0000

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*

Date manipulation in Flex

elixirk — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:12:04 +0000

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/

Sharing Windows printer with OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

elixirk — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:03:01 +0000

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

These are the steps required.

Printer Sharing – PC to Mac Overview
Printer Sharing – Configure the Workgroup Name (Leopard)
Printer Sharing – Set Up Windows XP for Printer Sharing
Printer Sharing – Add the Windows Printer to Your Mac (Leopard)
Printer Sharing – Using Your Shared Printer

Forcing VMWare Fusion to shut down

elixirk — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:52:52 +0000

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.

Ben Gertzfield said…

Another way to solve this is to open the Virtual Machine menu, then hold down the Option key to change “Shut Down Guest” to “Power Off”.

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

Masking and set hitArea of Flare component

elixirk — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 17:05:42 +0000

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: