Apple - Stack Exchange. SIMBL. Problem: Some applications do about 90% of what I want. Solution: Develop my own applications. Better Solution: Patch the application myself... SIMBL (SIMple Bundle Loader) - pronounced like "symbol" or "cymbal" - enables hacks and plugins. If you are having a problem, you can check the list of current bugs. If you are interested in a more in-depth technical explanation, you can can read the SIMBL developement notes. Installing SIMBL Plugins Most plugins should come with an installer, however it's easy to do it yourself.
Plugins can be copied into /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins for all users, or ~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins for just your account. SIMBL plugins are nothing more than standard Cocoa bundles created by XCode, with the addition of one key in the Info.plist. SIMBL was originally created when I was working on PithHelmet, but here are now a bunch of SIMBL plugins available. Questions | Comments | Feedback Developers Licensing Revision History. Silverback — guerrilla usability testing. Twitter and Facebook application - Social Visor.
Software : Neutrino. Neutrino — the core player for the Mac with advanced playback features you won't find in any other player. Add effects, reverb, loops, time, pitch, Audio Units plug-ins, and more, all in real time. Enhance your music with equalizers and space correcting audio units. Explore stunning Music Visualizer representations of your music as it plays. New Features in Neutrino 1.8 Multiple markers Neutrino 1.8 adds support for multiple markers per track. Track Artwork Add, view and edit artwork for your tracks. A few other Neutrino Features iTunes Integration You've put a lot of time into collecting and organising your iTunes Library. Core Audio FXChain Apple's Audio Units are the industry standard effects plug in format. Per track settings Unlike other players, Neutrino automatically saves effects, reverb, equalizer, visualizers and in fact all your settings on a per track basis. Quartz Compositions Neutrino is one of the first apps to implement the Quartz Composer Music Visualizer protocol.
Applications. 30 Fantastic Geeky Tricks to Get The Most From Your Mac. If you’re one of those Mac users that loves to dig in and play with hidden features and settings, this post is for you. Below you’ll find 30 tips and tricks to help both seasoned and beginner Mac users to get the most out of their OS X experience. We’ll cover everything from obscure Terminal commands to keyboard shortcuts that every Mac user should know and use. Let’s get started! Dock Tricks Recent Items Stack Stacks are quite the handy addition to your Mac’s dock and the good people at Mac OS X Hints figured out a way to make them even more useful by creating a stack that automatically contains your most recent applications.
These can of course be found under the Apple menu as well but it’s much more convenient to have them right in the dock. Recent Items Stack To accomplish this feat, simply copy and paste the line below into Terminal. defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }' Stacks List View Stationery.
7 Tools to keep your Mac Healthy. For the four years I’ve been using a Mac, I haven’t used a maintenance tool. All I’ve ever done was verify disk permissions, and maybe use Drive Genius to perform some optimisation. But even that was just something ‘extra’ and not necessary according to me. The real question is, can maintenance tools really help in getting your system speedy, healthy, and less prone to crashes? The answer is a subjective yes. Maintenance A straightforward tool, as can be told by its name, Maintenance is a one window wonder.
Ice Clean A much more comprehensive tool, Ice Clean is sort of your eyes into the system. When it comes to maintenance, Ice Clean can run the usual system scripts, disk verification and other forms of cleanup. MainMenu A no fuss application, MainMenu resides as an icon in your menubar. Onyx The big name in Mac maintenance, Onyx allows you to run a whole lot of maintenance scripts, along with cleanups of internet, fonts, logs, etc. MacPilot TinkerTool Cocktail Verdict. 25 Free Mac Apps. Advertisement There are many applications that can help you work faster and efficiently. Though, not many applications come cheap. For this post we tried to digg deep to find the best selection of free and/or open source Mac applications that will help you be a more efficient designer.
We’re covering from application launchers, GTD (Getting Things Done) to design utilities that can help you focus on what’s important: create. 1. aLunch aLunch1 is a very lightweight but powerful application that does what it is supposed to do and nothing more: a handy launcher that runs from within the menu bar. aLunch helps you get all your apps organized and get an uncluttered dock. 2. Adobe’s Creative Suite 4 applications – Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Fireworks and Flash – have an Extension panel that connects directly to Kuler2, the web-hosted application for generating color themes.
But you can also access the Kuler site from its own standalone application to get more flexibility. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.