Mac OS X archive Freebies List

Description: In Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Apple has introduced Time Machine, a very convenient way to make backups. Unfortunately the backup interval is preset constantly to one hour.TimeMachineScheduler disables the automatic backup function of Time Machine and installs its own launchd daemon. As the daemon is located in the main library, the administrator password is required for all (writing) operations. Except disabling Time Machine no further system files and preferences will be touched by TimeMachineScheduler.There are (still) some access privileges problems in OS X 10.5 Leopard, if the operation system has been updated, migrated or installed with the archive & install option. TimeMachineScheduler takes care of all files and sets owner, group and the privileges to the proper default value.You can install and uninstall the daemon as well as only load and unload it to disable making backups temporarily. The interval can be set between 1 and 12 hours, and the daemon can be set to run additionally at load, which means a...

Keywords: administrator uninstall password archive library access backup system 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 2253 kb; Updated: 2008-08-26

Description: If you usually download movies, music or large archives from news groups, public web servers, streamload, edonkey or whatever place, this is your tool. If you'd like transportate a 5MB document in a floppy disk to your home, or fit a 400MB archive in two ZIP discs, or even move a 7GB film to a computer with a DVD burner and you only have a single CD-RW, this is your tool. If you wish share a 6MB document with your PC-friends over the internet and you can only put up online chunks of 1MB because of your ISP restrictions, this is your tool.MacHacha will do a simple job: split archives into smaller parts and join them when requested.What's new in this version:various tweaks to make it run again under OS X 10.4, work with newer Hacha files, etc.

Keywords: computer document download internet archive movies online music 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 851 kb; Updated: 2008-06-05

Description: MiniBatteryStatus widget monitors battery status and charge percentage. It displays colorful information to quickly notice your battery conditions.The widget assumes different colors depending on the remaining charge of the battery. It is also aware of battery charging and plugged status. User can choose if the widget should display percentage, remaining time, capacity (current/maximum) and cycle count or just the charge gauge.MiniBatteryStatus tells you when it's time to recharge your battery, when you're done charging and when the power source has changed with Growl notifications.The sharing service included makes your battery remotely monitorable by MiniBatteryLogger and sends your data to the shared battery data archive.What's new in this version:Solved long term bug with time displayed not updated after the charge has ended.

Keywords: information archive source data time 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 515 kb; Updated: 2008-05-29

Description: Fed up with clumsy zip tools that are difficult to use and cost way too much? Well, we were. So we wrote YemuZip and we're sharing it with the rest of the Mac OS X world. YemuZip is a simple, no-frills, easy-to-use application for making zip files. YemuZip sports Yellow Mug's signature intuitive user interface, and it is free of charge for personal use. Please note that YemuZip does not yet handle resource forks. YemuZip also does not perform unzipping.What's new in this version:Added an option to reveal the resulting archive in the Finder.

Keywords: application personal archive tools files free easy 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 1229 kb; Updated: 2008-04-01

Description: MetaX is a meta-data tagger for mp4 files and their derivatives. It uses Atomic Parsley on the back-end to write the tags to your video files. MetaX automatically searches Amazon.com to find tags (so you'll need an internet connection). Cover art data can be retrieved from Amazon.com, Yahoo!, or from the video file itself. Share your tag data with friends using the new archive export feature.What's new in this version:Fixed the horrible QuickTime movie support (works now!)Several minor bug fixes

Keywords: connection internet archive video files movie data file 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 3686 kb; Updated: 2008-02-24

Description: Drop a folder on Viou to automatically create and apply the appropriate icon based upon the icon of the application it contains.You acn also drop a file icon to change the parent folder icon.You can edit and change the model.Select the folder icon among different models.Now you can also copy/paste icons in the finder, create thumbnails for picture files and see the picture without additional software...right in the finder thanks to contextual menu.(The size of the Viou archive is due to the numerous models provided.)What's new in this version:Public stabilized realeaseABoth PPC and Intel on 10.4 (Tiger) and 10.5 (Leopard)Save for CMM option redisigned.

Keywords: application archive picture folder create files icons save 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 14541 kb; Updated: 2008-02-10

Description: Mail Scripts is a collection of AppleScript Studio applications for Mail and Address Book offering additional features or simplified workflow. Mail Scripts consists of the following scripts:Add Addresses (Mail): Add addresses found in the selected messages (in the header fields "From", "To", "Cc", and "Bcc") to the Address Book. This is much more flexible than the "Add Sender to Address Book" available in Mail and provides a convenient way for creating mailing lists.Archive Messages (Mail): Move messages from the selected mailbox(es) to an archive mailbox or export them to standard mbox or plain text files for backup purposes or import into other applications. You can select to move all messages or only messages sent within or certain period as well filter messages based on their read and flagged status.Change SMTP Server (Mail): Switch between different already defined SMTP servers or define a new one. This is especially useful if you are using your computer in more than one location and have to switch s...

Keywords: address book computer archive mailing address scripts backup filter 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 4096 kb; Updated: 2007-12-24

Description: This archive contains a file that will install GnuPG binaries for Mac OS X. GnuPG is the GNU Privacy Guard, an OpenPGP client. It provides access to public key cryptography for use in encrypting and signing emails (or anything!). GnuPG is a command line tool and is licensed under the GNU GPL. After downloading the archive, please verify its validity with MD5 or the detached sig. If not, the file may have been tampered with and may not be secure.Once you have GnuPG installed, visit the Mac GPG Website for GUI tools to avoid having to use the command line.MD5 (GnuPG1.4.8.dmg) = db046fd96e274dfe3c7021047561fb5aWhat's new in this version:Changed the license to GPLv3.Improved detection of keyrings specified multiple times.Changes to better cope with broken keyservers.Minor bug fixes.The new OpenPGP standard is now complete, and has been published as RFC-4880. The GnuPG --openpgp mode (note this is not the default) has been updated to match the new standard. The --rfc2440 option can be used to return to the old...

Keywords: privacy website archive secure access client tools tool 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 10854 kb; Updated: 2007-12-24

Description: SimplyRAR is a Cocoa based file compression utility based on the very popular RAR file archive compression utility. RAR compresses data files extremely well compared to others that are available on the market but lacks a good GUI for use on the Macintosh. SimplyRAR aims to fill this void making it a pleasure to use this great archive compression utility. SimplyRAR will not only make rar compression archives but will also unrar archives too, other features include the ability to add a comment to the archive (useful to add instructions etc.), password protect archives, you can also create spilt volume archives making it easy to transfer packages. SimplyRAR is also capable of Testing the integrity of archive Set that you create. SimplyRAR will also let you set the compression level, ranging from storing files to very compact small archives. SimplyRAR is also able to create Par2 redundancy sets allowing users to repair incomplete or damaged archive files. At the moment SimplyRAR is not yet capable of using the par2 files to fix archive sets but this feature will appear in future releases. Above all it\'s free...

Keywords: compression password utility damaged archive protect repair create 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 582 kb; Updated: 2007-03-26

Description: The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for "BOMArchiveHelper.app", the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X. The Unarchiver is designed to handle many more formats than BOMArchiveHelper, and to better fit in with the design of the Finder. It can also handle filenames in foreign character sets, created with non-English versions of other operating systems. Supported file formats include Zip, Tar-GZip, Tar-BZip2, Rar, 7-zip, LhA, StuffIt and many other more or less obscure formats. It is localized into Japanese, German, Spanish, French, Portugese and Russian.

Keywords: archive design file into 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 1536 kb; Updated: 2006-11-24