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: "Developers are starting to distribute binaries that will run on Intel-based hardware as well as PowerPC Macs. This will add about 30% to the size of the executables. To recover the disk space, you can remove the unneeded code using the command-line program ditto.
For example, suppose Foo.app is a fat application bundle installed on a PowerPC Mac. While logged in as an admin user, you would open a Terminal window and type something like:
ditto --rsrc --arch ppc /Applications/Foo.app /Application/Foo-ppc.app
Now
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Web Browsers – Software for Macintosh: A nice collection and download links for web browsers for the Macintosh platform Both Classic and OSX links.
(Via pure-mac.)
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VacuumMail: "Apple Mail Slowing Down? VacuumMail Can Probably Help" VacuumMail, which can be used as a regular application or automated through the included LaunchAgent for use with Launchd. I also took a few minutes to document the script and provide some information about Launchd and how to manage LaunchAgents and Services. The download package has three files: VacuumMail, the launch agent (which is just a .plist file), and a page of documentation.
(Via musingsfrommars.)
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Reuse that old iPod or external drive… Protogo to the rescue:
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Living Without Safari Week 3: Opera: "After leaving Safari behind to spend a week with Firefox, and then another in OmniWeb, I was surprised to find that my Web browsing experience was going pretty well. I even compared OmniWeb to visiting a town where there are happy surprises around every corner. But my trip to Opera ville... I'm pretty sure the guy that punched me in the stomach as I rounded the first corner also stole my milk money"
(Via The Mac Observer.)
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The Filter software ships for Mac: “iTunes users on the Mac gain a free and powerful music recommendation tool developed by a UK software firm.
(Via Macworld UK.)
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News: Is Palm for sale? Analysts abuzz: “Palm, one of the handheld world’s pioneers, could be purchased this week by one of four possible buyers, according to published reports citing unnamed sources.
(Via MacCentral.)
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Linux Desktop Offering 'for the Masses' Red Hat is planning a packaged Linux desktop solution that it hopes will push its Linux desktop offering to a far broader audience than exists for its current client solution.
The move is designed in part to compete with Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 platform, which includes SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, which were released in July 2006.
"As we move out with this new desktop strategy, which we will announce sometime over
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C-Command Blog - SpamSieve 2.6: "SpamSieve now works with Mozilla Thunderbird."
SpamSieve now works with Mozilla Thunderbird.
Improved detection of image spams and phishing messages.
Made various message analysis improvements to increase the accuracy of the Bayesian filter.
AppleScripting the whitelist and blocklist is much more efficient for scripts that access a lot of rules.
Improved compatibility with pre-release versions of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
When installing a plug-in for a mail program,
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Slideroll Gallery AV – Let Your Photos Play:
“Hi! Slideroll Gallery AV is a simple tool that makes publishing your own photo and video gallery really easy and fun. That’s it, no big whoop.”
(Via slideroll.)
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Many Tricks · Service Scrubber: "Wouldn't the services menu be much more useful if it weren't overcrowded by services you never even thought of using? With Service Scrubber, you can:
• restructure the services menu
• change service keyboard shortcuts
• disable services"
(Via manytricks.)
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Geneva, Switzerland - March 17th 2007 - CTM Development releases FoxTrot
Personal Search 1.5, an advanced Mac find-by-content application including
the most recent optimisations to its high-speed FoxTrot search engine.
"Although FoxTrot Personal Search is a great addition to any knowledge
worker's MacBook or iMac, version 1.5 now contains many improvements
relevant to Mac users in the legal, media and scientific fields." said
Chantal Favre, VP of data mining at CTM Development.
This new release
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Norrkross MorphX: "Use Norrkross MorphX for calculating images or movies where one image transforms into another. Simply drag 2 images to the document window, drag a few lines to indicate similar areas and Norrkross MorphX calculates images so that it looks like the first image magically is transformed into the other. You can save the morph as as still image snapshot or as a full animated QuickTime movie."
morph.mov
(Via norrkross.)
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Clear out missing files in iTunes: "I've moved my iTunes library around from machine to machine for about four machines now, and in the process, many files get lost or missing. But iTunes keeps the references to those files around, resulting in the (to me) dreaded circle-exclamation-point icon, and the task of either finding the file or deleting the reference.
So I sat down and worked out this AppleScript...
tell application 'iTunes'
set thePlaylist to library playlist 1
set musicFiles to the
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IceCleanIceClean is a powerful Finder and System Maintenance and Optimization Tool using ONLY built-in System Tasks to help your Mac stay healty and to keep it running smoothly.
(Via macdentro.)
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