Mac OS X drive Freebies List

Description: SMARTReporter is an application that can warn you of some hard disk drive failures before they actually happen! It does so by periodically polling the S.M.A.R.T. status of your hard disk drive. S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a technology built into most modern hard disk drives that acts as an "early warning system" for pending hard disk drive problems. SMARTReporter can notify you of impending hard disk drive failures by sending e-mails, displaying a warning dialog or executing an application. The current status of your hard disk drives is always displayed through the customizable menu item. Because SMARTReporter relies on the S.M.A.R.T. implementation of Mac OS X, it only supports ATA, SATA or eSATA hard disk drives, if you want S.M.A.R.T. support for your FireWire hard disk drive, send feedback to Apple. Please note that a S.M.A.R.T. alert doesn't mean that your HDD will completely fail for sure, nor can S.M.A.R.T. catch all possible HDD errors - it's just a very valua...

Keywords: application monitoring analysis system drive disk into 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 1229 kb; Updated: 2008-08-21

Description: Region X allows you to see and change the region defined for your region-free (RPC-1) drive. Standard DVD drives are region locked and won't benefit from Region X.Currently, Region X is localized in Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese and Spanish.What's new in this version:Quit and optionnally launch DVD Player and Front Row.

Keywords: player drive free 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 1843 kb; Updated: 2008-07-23

Description: Backuplist+ is a simple, yet powerful file copy and backup application for Mac OSX. With it you can create lists of your important folders and files that you want to save to an external hard drive or other destination. It makes simple copies so there is no need for complex restore operations. It will automatically collect all the important system preferences and application preferences for safe keeping as well. There are many other options including single compressed archives or Burn folders ready for making CD or DVD hard copies. And you can schedule backups daily or weekly. The elegant and intuitive interface makes it easy and fun to use.What's new in this version:Backuplist+ 6.1 is an important update to the major release of version 6.0. There is a fix for a potential loophole causing data loss with incremental backups. There are some other important bug fixes especially for use of expert options. This upgrade is highly recommended for all users of Backuplist+.

Keywords: application schedule folders restore backup create system drive 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 3994 kb; Updated: 2008-07-20

Description: It's a CD/DVD recording application which allows you to burn custom hybrid discs or cue/bin files.What's new in this version:This is essentialy a release that fixes minor bugs. I know there are thousands of improvements to do, but I just don't have the time anymore.When the burn fails, the disc is ejected rather than mounted to prevent the drive from freezing.The layer break bit can be manually set when burning DVD+R DL medium. See the "advanced burn options" at burn time.Fixes a bug in the Japanese localization where the controls were too small to show the entire text.

Keywords: application advanced drive files text time show 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 7373 kb; Updated: 2007-12-01

Description: Beginning with MacOS X 10.4.0 Spotlight took away the ability to search deeply in your hard drive. You could not search packages nor could you search in invisible directories. Better Search attempts to correct that. While it is not as pretty as Spotlight it does allow one to have greater control over a search. But this comes at a cost. Better search does use a high level of cpu time and memory. You can run multiple searches at the same time, search in packages, search visible and invisible directories and search case insensitive or not. Better Search will also allow you to either only search for Directories or files, or both. Keep in mind when you search that Bundles such as Applications, are considered by the system to be directories. This will possibly be accounted for in a future release but for now you must choose to find either files and folder, or folders if you are looking for applications or other bundles. For more great utilities and applications visit: http://www.fornextsoft.comWhat's new in thi...

Keywords: utilities control folders system memory search folder drive 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 256 kb; Updated: 2007-11-26

Description: Continue to make gas consumption less painful with the satisfaction of knowing you got the best deal in town. Gas provides a simple, elegant, easy to use method for finding the cheapest gas in the area, right from your Dashboard. Whether you're going cross town or cross country, Gas delivers information from GasPriceWatch.com in order to provide you with the most up to date gas prices available. Have a nice drive.Features1. Up to date gas prices, color coded by date and sorted by preferred grade2. View all (and only) your preferred grades with multi-grade mode3. Handy gas guage on backside indicates value4. Links directly to Google Maps to locate your station of choice5. Beautiful graphics, slick animations, and optional pole for your visual pleasure6. Intuitive keyboard controls and scrollwheel support make finding the cheapest gas even easier7. Unique preferences per instance give you maximum controlWhat's new in this version:Leopard compatibility.

Keywords: information graphics keyboard drive color easy best view 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 701 kb; Updated: 2007-11-12

Description: Updates LaCie FireWire 400/800 and USB2 drives to latest firmware for improved performance and/or compatibility.This updater will detect the version of firmware present on a drive, and offer an update if available. Not all products require an update.This updater is NOT for LaCie SAFE drives or Ethernet Disks with USB interfaces.Be sure to review the Readme for instructions.

Keywords: drive 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2.8; File size: 2355 kb; Updated: 2007-05-03

Description: (from the TiMidity home page): \"Timidity++ is a software synthesizer. It can play MIDI files by converting them into PCM waveform data; give it a MIDI data along with digital instrument data files, then it synthesizes them in real-time, and plays. It can not only play sounds, but also can save the generated waveforms into hard disks as various audio file formats.\" Do you have an old collection of MOD (or XM, MIDI, IT, or S3M) music files wasting away on your hard drive? Do you want to turn them into MP3\'s, but not want to have to buy a commercial application to do a simple conversion? If so, Timidity++ is for you! Timidity++ is a command-line program that will convert the following file types to WAV (which you can then convert to the MP3 format in iTunes):MIDI (.mid)MOD (.mod)XM (.xm)IT (.it)S3M (.s3m)Note that Timidity++ does not currently convert the MAD (.mad) file type.

Keywords: application conversion convert digital format drive files music 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 434 kb; Updated: 2006-12-30

Description: iPhoto Diet is a utility that helps to slim down your iPhoto library by manipulating your photos in the following ways:eliminate duplicate photos created internally by iPhoto or imported by yourselfremove iPhoto's backups of rotated or modified photosstrip the thumbnail icons of your photosremove thumbnail photos that have become mixed up with your high resolution photosidentify photos which have not been added to albumsweed out unnecessary folders and files from the libraryThese operations allow you to recover hard drive space and to fit more photos in your iPhoto library bound for CD or DVD burning. iPhoto Diet supports multiple iPhoto libraries, and provides basic library management features such as switching and launching libraries. In addition, iPhoto Diet can be run manually or configured to start scanning your libraries automatically at desired times.

Keywords: management thumbnail utility library folders recover photos drive 

Requirements: Mac OS X Mac OS X; File size: 430 kb; Updated: 2006-10-19