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Airlock for Mac
Airlock allows your Mac to lock itself, plain and simple. Using your iPhone or iPod Touch, Bluetooth, and a smidgen of pixie dust, Airlock determines whether you're near your computer. When you leave the room - poof! - your Mac locks itself. “And when I come back?” You guessed it: your Mac unlocks
Curb
Curb is designed to facilitate emptying the trash from removable media such as USB Keys.
NameChanger
Rename a list of files quickly and easily.
See how the names will change as you type.
pytivox - Project Hosting on Google Code
pyTivoX lets you play movies from your mac to your tivo. It is a free replacement for the upload feature of Tivo Desktop Plus
itivo - Project Hosting on Google Code
iTiVo is a Mac front-end to your Series 2, Series 3, and TiVoHD device. It will download shows to your mac, and convert them to many popular formats / devices.
Jumpcut: Minimalist Clipboard Buffering for OS X
Jumpcut is an application that provides "clipboard buffering" — that is, access to text that you've cut or copied, even if you've subsequently cut or copied something else. The goal of Jumpcut's interface is to provide quick, natural, intuitive access to your clipboard's history.
TVTaggr⇡ - NorthIs..⇡
TvTaggr easily allows you to edit the metadata on a single movie file or to apply changes to a batch of files. The interface is familiar to anyone who has edited tags in iTunes. It is perfect for adding information to home movies or podcasts.
TvTaggr⇡ works on standard mp4 files and m4v files downloaded from iTunes.
Mailplane brings Gmail to your Mac desktop
If yes: You've come to the right place. Continue to use the Gmail web interface you know and love, but from Mailplane instead of your web browser: Mailplane makes you more productive and saves you precious time.
Backup Bouncer
Backup Bouncer is here to help keep the ugly backup tools out of the club. It’s a command-line-based test suite that makes it easy to find out how bad (or good, if you’re lucky) your backup software is. It aims to be a comprehensive test for preservation of all OS X file metadata.
xGestures
"xGestures is a shareware program for Mac OS X 10.3 and later that allows you to use mouse gestures in all aspects of your Macintosh computer. You can define gestures for individual programs, or for the whole computer, and map them to useful functions like closing or minimizing windows, switching or launching applications, picking menu items or performing keystrokes, triggering Exposé, and much more!"
MultiClutch
MultiClutch works by installing a simple input manager that will catch a gesture events, looks to see what shortcut you’ve defined for it in the frontmost app (if you haven’t defined anything, it behaves in the standard manner), and performs that shortcut.
Firefox plugin: It's All Text! - O'Reilly Mac DevCenter Blog
Thanks to a post on Lifehacker, I found out about the It’s All Text Firefox plugin that lets you edit any text area in your favorite editor.
From the comments on the plugin page, some Mac users have had issues with getting it to find their editing applications, and it is still in beta, so your YMMV.
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The trick is to point at the binary and not the application folder.
For example. TextMate.app is just a folder. You need to point to
the executable at this location./Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/bin
To do this, you need to get past the application's folder.
When you are setting the preferences, you need hit the
key sequence of Command-Shift-G to target the binary within
the Application's folder.Great plugin!
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/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/bin/mate is what worked for me
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Matt | February 26, 2007 10:36 PM