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Sunday, September 05 2010 @ 16:27 CEST

History: MacPaint and QuickDraw source code released

Wednesday, July 21 2010 @ 11:49 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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From the Computer History Museum: "...we are pleased, with the permission of Apple Inc., to make available the original program source code of MacPaint and the underlying QuickDraw graphics library.". Wow - that's a real piece of history, in many senses of the word.

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GrandPerspective

Tuesday, March 23 2010 @ 19:42 CET
Contributed by: tingo
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GrandPerspective is a small utility application for Mac OS X that graphically shows the disk usage within a file system. It can help you to manage your disk, as you can easily spot which files and folders take up the most space. It uses a so called tree map for visualisation. Each file is shown as a rectangle with an area proportional to the file's size. Files in the same folder appear together, but their placement is otherwise arbitrary. Very useful.

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CoRD - Remote Desktop for Mac OS X

Saturday, October 10 2009 @ 15:09 CEST
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CoRD is a Mac OS X remote desktop client for Microsoft Windows computers using the RDP protocol. It's easy to use, fast, and free for anyone to use or modify.

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sdltrs - TRS-80 Model I/III/4/4P emulator for Mac OSX, Windows, and Linux

Wednesday, October 07 2009 @ 00:25 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 77

sdltrs is a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I/III/4/4P emulator for Macintosh OSX, Windows, and Linux. It has been ported from Tim Mann's excellent X-Windows UNIX emulator xtrs. Instead of using the X-Window system for graphics, it uses the portable SDL library.

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Bean - a free OSX word processor

Saturday, May 16 2009 @ 14:14 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor (or more precisely, a rich text editor) for Mac OS X, designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. Bean is Open Source, fully Cocoa, and is available free of charge! MS Word, OpenOffice, etc. try to be all things to all people. But sometimes you just want the right tool for the job. That is Bean's niche. Read what Wikipedia has about Bean.
(found via Make: magazine, the paper edition)

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AncientFS

Thursday, December 18 2008 @ 13:05 CET
Contributed by: tingo
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AncientFS - Ancient Unix File Systems on Mac OS X. It gives you access to numerous old (and more recent) file systems on Mac OS X. AncientFS is a file system for MacFUSE that will mount all sorts of ancient file systems in the form of data containers as regular volumes on Mac OS X. Very cool.
(via OSnews)

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New Trojan Leverages Unpatched Mac Flaw

Thursday, June 26 2008 @ 14:35 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 117

OSNews tells the story - a New Trojan Leverages Unpatched Mac Flaw: this trojan runs without requiring a root password, and it is modular in nature, so that it can tag along any regular application. Ouch! Stop-gap fixes here (until Apple gets on top of this).

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ExpanDrive - Access remote files within any application

Tuesday, March 04 2008 @ 20:55 CET
Contributed by: tingo
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ExpanDrive is a file system extension for Mac OS X, that lets you mount SFTP servers (the ssh / scp variety) as volumes in the Finder. From the web site: ExpanDrive gives you perfectly transparent access to open, edit, and save files with your favorite programs, even when those files are half a world away. Transparent means that you don�t even notice you�re operating on remote files�they act like they�re on an USB drive you plugged directly into your own computer. It's not free, but the price might be worth it, according to this blog report from Daring Fireball.
Interesting.
(via a friend in personal mail)

Why OS X Saves You Money

Monday, September 24 2007 @ 20:45 CEST
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Views: 186

From OSWeekly comes Why OS X Saves You Money, an article about what you actually get when you buy a Mac with OSX.
(first seen on NewsForge)

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A mini Mac Solution

Monday, February 19 2007 @ 11:51 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 203

The Macdevcenter article A mini Mac Solution describes a server setup on Mac OS X. Read that as "OS X", not "OS X Server". On an Mac mini, no less. Quite interesting.
(found via BSDnews)

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