D-Vision: D-Vision is a powerful tool to work with video and audio from DVD’s. I have recently been using this to put OGM files on a video ipod, but there other useful tasks that can be done with it. Including the ability to: -encode DVD movies in Divx, Xvid or h264. -extract sound of a DVD in MP3 or AC3 -encode AVI and MPG files in Divx, Xvid or h264 -cut AVI files -merge AVI or VOB files -encode audio file in MP3 or AC3 -demux OGM files Read more [...]

Macworld UK - Google offers free Web analysis tool: Formerly known as Urchin from Google, Google Analytics offers businesses performance data to help improve online marketing campaigns and websites. The service helps business users find out what keywords most attract visitors, which email campaigns work and which web pages are the most popular. Google offers free Web analysis toolBy Jonny Evans Read more [...]

macosxhints - 10.4: View size requirements for Burn folders: Ok so I'm not sure if I'm the only clueless one on this, but I figure since it took me awhile to find it, it might be useful to others out there.When using the new Burn folders in Tiger, the system creates aliases to the files you want to burn. It's a good idea since it now (finally) allows a Finder burn without the dreaded disk image creation. But since the Burn folder consists of nothing but aliases, the size report you get for it (or Read more [...]

Virtue:

Virtue is a virtual desktop manager for Mac OS 10.3 developed as a so called pet project
of mine. Over time Virtue developed (and keeps developing) into a full featured virtual
desktop manager able to compete with commercial variants of its kind

Safe Sleep According to an Apple article: Safe Sleep ensures that data stored in main memory will not be lost should the system shut down due to a loss of power during sleep mode. Prior to your system entering sleep, Safe Sleep automatically saves the contents of main memory […] to the hard drive. In the event the battery becomes completely depleted while the system is asleep, the computer will shut down. But when a power adapter is connected or a freshly charged battery is installed, the PowerBook Read more [...]

Mac Help - Backup Strategies for Mac OSX Using Disk Utility, Carbon Copy Cloner or Other Programs: BACKUP STRATEGIES FOR OSX: There are three basic ways that I would like to cover in this article: 1) Using Disk Utility to quickly and easily make a complete, bootable backup to an external drive; 2) Using Carbon Copy Cloner to either (a) do the same thing as Disk Utility, or (b) to clone a certain folder or group of folders (another program that does a great job is SuperDuper!); 3) Drag-and-drop Read more [...]

Apple’s lockdown patent lacks method and apparatus | Channel Register:

Apple filed the application in April 2004, and it was published by the US Patents and Trademarks Office last week. If it works as described, the technology will be a key factor in ensuring Mac OS X doesn’t run on generic PCs, and only on Apple hardware.

Mail Act-On 1.3.1 – Key Stroke Plugin for Apple Mail.App:

What is Mail Act-On?
Mail Act-On is a plugin for Apple’s Mail (Panther) in that allows you to map specific mail rules or actions to “Act-On” keys. When viewing mail you can apply the “Act-On” action for a message by making simple keystrokes.

An AppleScript to sanitize Safari:

I recently moved from Firefox to Safari after upgrading to Tiger. One thing I missed was the ability to ‘sanitize’ (clear history, cache, cookies, saved searches etc.) my browser. Although Safari has a Private Browsing, featu…

Apple Mac OS X on x86: a first test – Printer friendly – ZDNet UK Reviews:

Apple Mac OS X on x86: a first test
Kai Schmerer
ZDNet Germany
November 09, 2005, 09:20 GMT

10.4: How to take ‘screen-based flashbulb’ pictures:

Are you a 10.4.3 user, but not a new “iSight built in” iMac user? Want to see at least one small piece of Photo Booth technology in action? It seems that the 10.4.3 includes at least one of the Photo Booth features to those o…

TidBITS: Missing Sync for Palm OS 5.0 Modernizes Palm Interaction

Version 5.0 takes the next logical step and provides synchronization of iTunes playlists and iPhoto albums of your choosing.

Hardmac.com : Le “Macbidouille” in English:

A step-by-step to turn your iBook12″ into a PowerBook12″-killer

“The iBook 12″ is an excellent compromise between mobility, robustness, performance and price. It can also be transformed to become a strong competitor for its brother, the PowerBook 12″.”

Translated French Website “How-to”:

New Camino beta & Intel native builds:

A new stable beta of Camino 1.0b1 is now available with many improvements and bug fixes. Unofficial Intel builds of Camino, Firefox, and Thunderbird are also available for testing from http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mac:Intel.