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If you are a mac user, well done. You can find here some fun (and/or tricky) applications (freeware or shareware) that make your life funnier or easier. Of course, the use of all this stuff is at your own risk and discretion, Any copyright infringing activity you choose to perpetrate using this application is illegal, wrong, and beyond my control bla bla bla ...

DVD Regions

This is one of the most anoying things you'll find in every new computer. The default "region-free" configurations are set so after 5 changes your regions are locked forever (=No freedom whatsoever). The solution is relatively complicated and risky. The mac-DVD-gurus that make the firmware patches are xvi and cynikal, in their pages you'll all the information you need as well as their region free firmwares.
Alas, I "flashed" my Superdrive with xvi's firmware and the region chains shall now burn in hell.

Media

• getTunes This beta-version toy lets you copy music from the shared library of your local connected iTunes-pals to your library rather than streaming. Its great ! don't tell;-).


• MacTheRipper Removes encryption and region flags from a DVD, converting the dvd into a VIDEO_TS folder.


• HandBrake A GPL'd multi-platform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter (from your VIDEO_TS folder).


• VLC A versatile movie player for most file types (.avi .asf. mpeg).


• RealPlayer Movie player for .rm file types.

Utilities

• Desktop Manager Gives you virtual multiple monitors(s). Excellent for small screens and laptops.


• Konfabulator Provides your desktop with very useful (and very useless) widgets. (Note; to Reduce Konfabulator widgets' CPU usage, just follow this trick..


• MacOSaiX Produces a mosaic of any target image with hundreds of source images (from you PhotoLibrary or Google).


• OSXplanet A live Desktop with real-time Sun, Planets and Earth with its weather system (really cool).


• PithHelmet A powerful Adds-blocker for Safari


• SharePoints A preference pane that lets you share files to Mac & Windows networks without the need of duplicate them into your Public folder.


• Synergy Keybindings (hot Keys) and menu bar control for your iTunes.


• TextWrangler Free text editor with some emacs keybindings, languages color coding etc.


• XNap P2P Software, lets you look for anything shared in your local network (form Mac & PC's).

X11 and the like

• Chicken of the VNC A virtual network client (VNC) that allows remote computer screen. So you'll run your Unix CMD in your mac.


• mrxvt-0.4.0. This tabbed-customizable xterms are highly quite convinient to avoid having n-xterms open everywhere, besides they look way cooler. You should download the latest Source code (0.4. ...)


• Scisoft Astronomical Software for your mac (IRAF, Pyraf, SEX etc).


• Starlink BETA version of GAIA, ORAC_DR (ORAC_DR doesn't run for IRIS2 reduction)


• FinkCommander FinkCommander is an open-source, software packaging for Mac OS X for downloading and installing Unix (X11) software.


• Gimp The open version of Photoshop.

Please let let me know if any Link is outdated or it doesn't work.