Wednesday, 27 February 2008

Geekbench - Cross platform benchmarking

Geekbench is a cross platform benchmarking tool with which you can compare the speed of your system.

Tuesday, 26 February 2008

Flip4Mac - play wmv and wma

Flip4Mac makes it possible to play both wmv and wma directly in Quicktime.

Sunday, 24 February 2008

VLC Video player

VLC player is a media player which is also capable of showing subtitles from e.g. srt files. It plays various formats like mpeg, avi, mov and mp3, but is also capable of playing DVD's.


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Saturday, 23 February 2008

jEdit - Programmers text editor

jEdit is a texteditor which runs on Mac OS, Windows and Linux. It had the ability to use plugins so you can add extra features. It also has auto indent, and syntax highlighting for more than 130 languages.


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Friday, 22 February 2008

VirtualBox - Free virtualisation

VirtualBox is a free general-purpose full virtualiser for x86 hardware.


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Tuesday, 19 February 2008

Caffeine

From the Caffeine website:

Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Hold down the Command key while clicking to show the menu.

Monday, 18 February 2008

SyncMate - Sync your Mac with PocketPc for free

Always want to sync your pocket pc device with your Mac? Eltima has developed a tool called SyncMate which can do this for you! And it is free!

From the SyncMate website:

SyncMate by Eltima Software is an easy-to-use handy synchronizer that will help you keep all your private notes, docs, contacts and other files organized. Form a quick connection between your Mac and your Pocket PC. SyncMate allows you to make synchronization via USB cable with such applications as Bookmarks, Address Book, Stickies, iCal, iTunes, iPhoto and others. With SyncMate you are able to receive, read and manage your text messages, read your device status, install applications to your mobile device, synchronize time and follow all file exchanges using operation log.


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Sunday, 17 February 2008

TrailRunner

From the TrailRunner website:

TrailRunner is a route planning software for all kinds of long distance sports like running, biking, hiking, inline-skating, skiing and more. If you ever asked yourself how long your workout routes are and what route you should choose for this evening — then TrailRunner should be your training-partner. TrailRunner can calculate a route for your desired distance and export directions onto your iPod, giving you a detailed orientation while you are on your way.


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Saturday, 16 February 2008

NFS Manager

According to the website:

NFS Manager is a small tool for easy access to the NFS features of Mac OS X. As an operating system with a Unix core, Mac OS X is able to support the Network File System (NFS) protocol. NFS is the accepted industry standard for sharing files between Unix systems.

Although NFS is a built-in component of Mac OS X, users cannot access this feature without special knowledge and use of the command-line. NFS Manager solves this problem by providing an easy-to-use Aqua interface for the definition of NFS connections.



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Display Rotation Menu

Mage Software has a cool tool called Display Rotation Menu. It can rotate the monitor, which can be quite useful when having a screen which can rotate.