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Killer OSX Native Apps (Utilities)
BLT
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Developer: Home Page
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License: Freeware
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BLT (Braxton's Link Tester) is a freeware link checking program for Mac OS X. It has a very small footprint (under 250KB!), but because of its extremely powerful foundation it really packs a punch. It can check sites both online and offline, create HTML and CSV reports, and can even be set up to check sites on a regular basis. BLT checks all objects on web pages, not just images and clickable links. In addition, you get many options to help customize your link checking experience. [more]
Backup
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Developer: Home Page
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License: Freeware
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Your computer stores valuable information that can be damaged or lost. The best way to protect your files from accidental loss is to keep backup copies of them. Backup makes backing up copies of your important files simple and fast. You can use Backup to back up files to your iDisk, or to a recordable CD or DVD disc.
Words of warning, this Backup app may look good and work well, but you do need a .mac account in order to use it. [more]
Combine PDFs
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Developer: Home Page
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License: Freeware
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Drop some PDF or picture files on the application or the main window. Reorder or remove pages as you want. Enter some meta information like the Title and save the new PDF. Analyzing and processing of PDFs may take a while.
I have tested this with many PDF, some huge (50MB+) with zero problems, highly recommended. [more]
File Buddy
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Developer: Home Page
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License: Payware (30 day demo)
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File Buddy is quite simply the best utility available for working with files and folders on your Macintosh. First released more than nine years ago, it has been continually enhanced, improved, and supported since that time. Be sure to visit the File Buddy home page and read what users are saying about it.
This is a new discovery for me, but already has proven to be invaluable by saving me from a nasty data fork issue. One comment would be, that it would be much better if it was fully integrated into finder. [more]
HexEdit
HexEdit is a file editor allowing you to view and edit the data contained within any file. [more]
More Internet
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Developer: Home Page
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License: Freeware
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More Internet is a System Preferences pane that uses Internet Config to allow you to choose which applications are set as helpers for internet protocols (i.e. which application will be chosen to handle which URL.) Apple's own Internet Preference Pane only allows you to set Mail and Web applications - More Internet allows you to change (or add/remove) any of the internet protocols. [more]
QTConvert
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Developer: Home Page
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License: Freeware
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Converts AAC audio files into AIFF files. [more]
SharePoints
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Developer: Home Page
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License: Donation-ware
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SharePoints is an application or a preference pane that makes it easy to add and delete share points like in the old Finder. In Mac OS X, by default, you are limited to sharing only what is in your public folder in your home directory. This program makes it easy to share any folder. In addition SharePoints also brings back users and groups management to Mac OS X as well as easy configuration of AppleFileServer (AFS) and Samba (SMB) Server properties.
This useful app adds functionality to Finder that Apple should have included in the first place. If you use AFS or SMB shares you want this app badly, it Works well, highly recommended [more]
Site Cleaner
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Developer: Home Page
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License: Shareware
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SiteCleaner is a web site content-collection utility that gathers all code and media necessary for publishing a web site, omitting orphaned files and collecting the results in a "cleaned" folder while leaving your original project folder untouched. It can scan code in Flash MX compressed and protected media as well as HTML and text files. [more]
Stuffit Expander
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Developer: Home Page
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License: Freeware
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Stuffit Expander easily expands and decodes all those files you download from the Web or receive in your email. It quickly accesses Stuffit files, unzips zip files created by WinZip and other zip utilities, plus decompresses tar, gzip and bzip files for Unix users. Just drag, drop, and you're done! Expander works seamlessly with Web browsers such as Internet Explorer and Netscape. From BinHex to zip, StuffIt to MIME, Expander accesses more formats, in less time, with zero hassles. [more]
Unace
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Developer: Home Page
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License: Shareware
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unace is a utility to extract, view, and test the contents of an ACE archive.
As far as I can tell there is no way to create ace compressed files on any platform other than windoze. For help working with any compressed files have a look at my detailed howto [more]
Xbenc
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Developer: Home Page
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License: Freeware
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Xbench was developed to provide a comprehensive benchmarking solution for Mac OS X. Xbench is useful not only for comparing the relative speeds of two different Macintosh's, but also for optimizing performance on a single machine. Xbench is accompanied by a website that allows graphical side-by-side comparison of any out of thousands of submitted benchmarks. [more]
YuBurner
CD/DVD Recording software, supports Mac, ISO and Jolliet file systems. Uses cdrecord for burning (included) [more]
xCHM
xCHM is a .chm viewer for UNIX (Linux, *BSD, Solaris), written by Razvan Cojocaru. Success stories of xCHM on Mac OS X have also been received, and apparently xCHM even works if compiled under the Cygwin environment in Windows. xCHM can show the contents tree if one is available, print the displayed page, change fonts faces and size, work with bookmarks, do the usual history stunts (forward, back, home), provide a searchable index and search for text in the whole book. The search is a fast B-tree search, based on the internal $FIftiMain file found inside indexed .chm archives, and it can be customized to search in content or just the topics' titles. xCHM uses Jed Wing's CHMLIB for general purpose .chm access, and wxGTK for the GUI.
As far as I am aware this viewer is the only one in existence outside the Windoze world for those nasty Micro$oft proprietary compiled help files, that seem to be slowly creeping into everything. With all my testing, the only issues where with the default font sizes used by some of the .chm files, and with one specific file (a M$ ebook) where nothing other than the cover was displayed. [more]
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