OS X Mountain Lion or Lion Use the following Terminal command to reset the DNS cache: sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder
This is the fourth installment of my must have must have list of tools and utilities as a Mac and iOS developer (2009, 2010, 2011). A lot can change in twelve months when you work in the technology space. The biggest change for Apple developers each year are the platform updates. This year saw the transition from iOS 5 to 6 as well as Lion turning into a more powerful Mountain Lion.
First, create a file in one of three formats: .rtfd, .rtf, or .txt (TextEdit is great for this). Add whatever content you want, and then save the file as “PolicyBanner” in the Library > Security folder.
SiteSucker is an Macintosh application that automatically downloads Web sites from the Internet. It does this by copying the site's Web pages, images, backgrounds, movies, and other files to your local hard drive.
I simply hashtag my notes, which makes them incredibly easy to find in both Notational Velocity and Simplenote
I had a dream since I’ve started using Mac — to get current host written with large letters on the background.
py2app is a Python setuptools command which will allow you to make standalone Mac OS X application bundles and plugins from Python scripts.
This was a pretty big “wow” moment for me. No AppleScript, no .command files (which launch Terminal.app), just pure, instant command line gratification.
SleepWatcher 2.1 (running with Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6, source code included) is a command line tool (daemon) for Mac OS X that monitors sleep, wakeup and idleness of a Mac. It can be used to execute a Unix command when the Mac or the display of the Mac goes to sleep mode or wakes up, after a given time without user interaction or when the user resumes activity after a break or when the power supply of a Mac notebook is attached or detached. It also can send the Mac to sleep mode or retrieve the time since last user activity.
Sequel Pro is a fast, easy-to-use Mac database management application for working with MySQL databases.
Welcome to PTHPasteboard PRO 4, the best and most mature multiple pasteboard program for OS X. How often have you copied something only to find that you need it a few minutes later but you've already copied another item? PTHPasteboard PRO watches you while you work and keeps a copy of any items that you have copied to your pasteboard.
QTCoffee 1.2.5 is a set of command-line Mac OS X utilities for manipulating QuickTime movies and other QuickTime readable media (AVIs, MPEGs, as well as audio files such as MP3s and AACs).
As you probably know, TextMate derives a lot of power from the underlying shell infrastructure in OS X. A place where this is evident is in the bundle editor, which allow you to (amongst others) setup (shell) commands and scripts to run.
When launchd scans a folder, or a job is submitted with launchctl, it depends on a properly formatted plist file that describes the job to be run. This is, for most sysadmins, is the most difficult area of launchd to grasp. SystemStarter used simple shell scripts to launch daemons. launchd requires the admin to be able to properly format an XML file and while not exceedingly difficult, it can be confusing.
WebSaver is screensaver that shows websites
[Ever since reading Stephen Wolfram runs a keystroke logger to analyze his own computer usage, I have been very intrigued by how much I might type in a day and when]
ImageSnap is a Public Domain command-line tool that lets you capture still images from an iSight or other video source. You might remember Axel Bauer's original isightcapture tool (that is no longer supported but still works on most systems). With ImageSnap I hope we'll be able to move forward and add features, adapt to the ever-changing Apple architectures, etc.
Turns your iPhone/iPod touch into a numeric keypad for your notebook.
[I'll upgrade eventually]
I was able to use a Mac OS X “.dfont” font file on windows by using a simple FOSS software to convert it into standard TrueType format (.ttf). The app is called Fondu. It’s actually a set of many command line programs rolled into one, but I only used the main fondu app. Couldn’t have been easier:
Finally, the Quicksilver is back in my Snow Leopard faster than ever! I’m disabling Google Quick Search Box for now. B56a7 will work on your Snow Leopard machine, but most of the features won’t play well on it or slow. [When I upgrade, I guess I might never use Quicksilver again. :_(]
VueScan supports over 1200 flatbed and film scanners and 321 digital camera raw file types, and is available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.
This is a TWAIN datasource for MacOS X that aquires images using the SANE backend libraries. The SANE backend libraries provide access to a large range of scanners connected through SCSI or USB.
Slife is a time and activity analytics application for both Mac and Windows that automatically keeps track of where you spend your time on your computer.
Don't waste time capturing each window separately, importing them in your favorite PSD editor, naming the layers, positioning the images, etc. Do it with Layers in no time! Press the capture hotkey or customize your capture in the inspector. You'll obtain a full fledged PSD file with one layer per window, including menu and desktop icons, dock and menubar.
Monolingual is a program for removing unnecessary language resources from Mac OS X, in order to reclaim several hundred megabytes of disk space. It requires at least Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther) and also works on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
Forget the “default browser”, Choosy lets you open links in the browser you want. Just set up a few simple options and Choosy will do the right thing, whether that's opening a browser or letting you pick from some or all of the browsers on your system. The beta is free, the full version will be shareware with a discount for beta users.
Boxer is a DOS game emulator for OS X, built around the powerful DOSBox.
This is a fairly rudimentary version of Hamachi for OS X. It is a console package (no pretty GUI), it requires manual installation and depends on tunneling drivers by Mattias Nissler. See the README file for details.
Pixelmator, the beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editor for Mac OS X has everything you need to create, edit and enhance your images.