System Utilities > Tweaks & Enhancements

Description: Amnesty Widget Browser is a utility for Mac OS X Tiger and Panther (10.3.9) that allows Dashboard widgets to have expanded capabilities as they run directly on your desktop via a convenient icon in your system menu bar..Widgets loaded in Amnesty Widget Browser run completely outside of Apple's Dashboard environment, maintain their own preferences and feature adjustable settings such as window level (desktop, standard or floating), opacity (transparency) and shape (now you can rotate and scale your widgets so they fit on your desktop where you want them). Widgets can also be arranged into multiple virtual workspaces that can be called up - by menu or hot key - to the screen at any time.This "independence" from Dashboard means Panther users can get in on Apple's widget experience, using Amnesty Widget Browser to run many third-party Dashboard widgets (a library of sample widgets is bundled with every copy).Fully functional 30 day trial.What's new in this version:Fixes issues with Weather after 10.5.3 OS X u...

Keywords: virtual library browser desktop utility screen window system 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 13722 kb; Updated: 2008-06-05

Description: Amnesty Singles is a drag-and-drop-utility that converts any Dashboard widget into a standalone application.Simply drop a widget file onto the Amnesty Singles window, click a button, and out pops a small OS X application that will open an instance of the widget outside of Dashboard when launched. Applications built with Amnesty Singles also include features important for running a widget continuously outside Dashboard such as adjusting the window level (desktop, standard or floating) and setting an "auto refresh" timer (for widgets that are designed to refresh only when Dashboard is shown).What's new in this version:Fixes issues with Weather after 10.5.3 OS X update.Updated engine improves compatibility with dynamically resizing widgets.

Keywords: application utility desktop button window file into 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 10957 kb; Updated: 2008-06-05

Description: Cuckoo brings clock chimes back to the Mac. Play a beep on the hour---or on the half-hour, or every five minutes if you must. You can use one of Cuckoo's tasteful built-in tones, or any of your Mac's installed sounds. Cuckoo has its own volume control, so your chimes can be a subtle part of your work environment. And Cuckoo will go silent altogether if you want (for example, while iTunes is playing music or videos, or when the screen saver is active).What's new in this version:Performance: Cuckoo now works harder to ensure that the chime sound (and QuickTime itself) are loaded into RAM before it's time to chime. This should help address some rare situations where chimes would be missed, or would judder and skip during playback. (Thanks to Robert, Lauren, and other users who helped me test this fix.)Update checking: Cuckoo now quits System Preferences when downloading an update (to ensure that the correct code is loaded when the new version is installed).Update checking: Stability fixes.

Keywords: screen saver address control system screen saver clock music 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 278 kb; Updated: 2008-06-05

Description: Save your constant menu pixels from getting burned into your screen!Gain better focus on your work & play, and away from the menu bar!What's new in this version:NEW FEATUREMenu Eclipse now works in all your Spaces.There is no option to set here, this new feature simply just works!NEW OPTIONShow Menu Eclipse icon in the menu bar.You can double-click this icon to show the Menu Eclipse window.INFOMinor fixes and enhancements.

Keywords: screen window play save show into 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 728 kb; Updated: 2008-06-03

Description: Afloat is a Cocoa plug-in that adds both useful window management and nice eye candy to most Mac applications. It can keep windows on top, make them transparent or unclickable, and more.What's new in this version:This new version of the Afloat package includes the same version of Afloat 2.0 that was previously available. It also includes PlugSuit 1.5.5, the new version of the PlugSuit plug-in manager and loader.PlugSuit 1.5.5 fixes a bug that prevented certain third-party extenders, such as Blacktree's Vision, from working correctly. For more information, see PlugSuit's release notes.This update is not required for all users of Afloat, but is recommended to users that also use third-party extenders with PlugSuit alongside Afloat.

Keywords: information management manager windows window notes 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 1946 kb; Updated: 2008-05-25

Description: You miss your old typewriter? You want your Macintosh to play typewriter sounds when you press the keys of your keyboard? You even want your keyboard to play your own sounds?Then Typewriter Keyboard is what you need!Typewriter Keyboard allows you to make your keyboard play typewriter sounds or any other sounds.- It plays typewriter sounds when you press your keyboard keys.- You can replace the typewriter sounds by your own sounds.- A free and growing library of new sounds is available.- You can adjust the sound volume.- You can activate or mute it with the global hot key combination Control-Alt-Command-T.- It appears in the right side of the menu bar.- It doesn't need any installation which makes it very easy to use.- It is available in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish and many other languages.Read the whole documentation for more details...What's new in this version:A full recompilation has been made to be compatible with Leopard.The graphi...

Keywords: keyboard library control sound free play easy 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 5734 kb; Updated: 2008-05-22

Description: KeyCue is a simple, unobtrusive utility application that helps you find, remember, and learn menu shortcuts. Just hold down the Command key for a while - KeyCue comes to help and shows a table of all currently available menu shortcuts. When you have found the desired shortcut in the KeyCue table, just type it and continue working as usual. The KeyCue window will disappear automatically.Over time, you will automatically remember frequently used shortcuts and become a power user of your favorite applications, working much more efficiently.What's new in this version:KeyCue can now display Keyboard Maestro macros when you press the ctrl key.Under certain circumstances, KeyCue prevented the computer from shutting down or restarting.KeyCue avoids overlapping its shortcut table with the head-up display of CopyPaste Pro.

Keywords: application computer keyboard utility window table time find 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 907 kb; Updated: 2008-05-20

Description: UTC Global Clock will display Universal Time — and/or any world time zone(s) — in any corner of your screen, the menu, and/or the Dock. UTC Global Clock also features timers, stopwatches, chimes, calendars, and much more. It is highly configurable, stable, and accurate.What's new in this version:New Feature: Chimes at the top of the hour may now repeat the same number of times as the current hour (a la a cuckoo clock). This follows a 12-hour (a.m./p.m.) format, since 23 chimes at 11:00 p.m. seems like a bit much. ;-)Multiple Quick Calendar windows may now be opened simultaneously.Quick Calendar window now remembers its position.Preferences window shows reminder (at bottom of window) when changes have been made in windows that open from the Preferences window.Installer has been streamlined, with fewer clicks required to complete an update. Install process no longer asks where to download the disk image; it downloads to the Desktop unless that directory is not writable, in which case it asks. Inst...

Keywords: downloads directory reminder download calendar desktop windows screen 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 11571 kb; Updated: 2008-05-18

Description: Quay extends the Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Dock to show extended popup menus for most Dock items, including applications, stacks, Smart Folders and URLs. Quay also allows you to make folder proxy icons with easily customized icons.So why should you use Quay at all? Extra information, more flexibility. For one, the Dock's popups are limited to about 500 items; Quay's limit is in the tens of thousands. You can have a Quay popup on both sides of the Dock; Apple has them only on the document side. The Dock doesn't follow aliases/symbolic links in its menus; Quay does. It works for Smart Folders, also shows application versions and (for running applications) CPU and memory statistics. Still, if for some reason you want the Dock's normal display, just hold the Option key down before clicking.Quay is a simple-to-use Cocoa application. You can run it just to configure a popup item in the Dock, but it works automatically with your existing stacks; the actual popup is handled by a background process that uses few sys...

Keywords: application information document folders memory folder proxy icons 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 938 kb; Updated: 2008-05-09

Description: Change the one-hour interval of Time Machine backups. You can change the interval or decide to make a backup once a day, once a week or once a month. TimeMachineEditor installs nothing in your system, it merely tells the system when Time Machine should be called.What's new in this version:This version enforces correct permissions for a Time Machine system file.

Keywords: system backup time file 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 488 kb; Updated: 2008-05-05