Scripts & Utilities
Little scraps of functionality for your Mac.
- Pascal's Triangle and Binomial Expansion: A mathematical visualization widget.
- Yojimbo Tag Companions: Apply one tag to all items that already have another.
- Select Grep: Select files whose contents match
greppatterns. - strpdf: Create PDF pages populated with simple text strings.
- iTunes Library Item Transfer: Move songs and videos between libraries with less fuss.
- Resize Pages Graphics by Percent: Use relative percentages to adjust object dimensions.
- Tcl:: Language Module: Minor improvements for TextWrangler’s Tcl editing abilities.
- Export with Comment Tags: Export Yojimbo items with their tags as Spotlight comments.
- Open As: Create and open named duplicates of files with the Finder.
- Archive Yojimbo Bookmarks: Retrieve web archives of selected Yojimbo bookmarks.
- Posterizer: Make stylized reduced-color versions of your images.
- Expanded Yojimbo Comment Fields: See more of your item comments.
- Save Selection Service: Save the selected text directly from any application.
- Backdate Yojimbo Import: Automatically restore original creation and modification dates of imported items.
- Backdate Yojimbo Items: Modify item creation and modification dates.
- Global GraphicConverter Information Window: Consult image information from other applications.
- Import Yojimbo Note Service: Create a new note entry from selected text.
- Man oh Man: Display UNIX
manpages in Preview or your browser. - Yojimbo Tag List: Display and copy concatenated lists of Yojimbo tags.
- Load Tab in New Window: Liberate Safari tabs.
- BlogBlank: A modified version of BlogThis that doesn’t initialize your post.
- Bookmark in Yojimbo: Bookmark web pages from Safari or Firefox directly to Yojimbo.
- lselect: Make complex Finder selections using
lssyntax. - Geocode Service: Convert US street addresses to latitude and longitude.
LDraw
LDraw is a hobby CAD system for LEGO models.
- Part Search Services: Look up information about selected part numbers or descriptions.
- Instruction Step Fading: Tricks with PreL3P.
- PreL3P: Preprocess LDraw files for color compatibility with L3P.
- LDMerge: Merge and unmerge multiple LDraw libraries.
- Brickshelver: Early version of an upload client for Brickshelf.
- LDLink: Merge and unmerge multiple LDraw directories using symbolic links.
- ldinline prototype: Reduce models to primitives.
- Isecalc online: An interface to Philippe Hurbain’s Isecalc program for computing part intersections.
- RSOPlayer: Desktop interface for rsoplay.
- LSynth Service: Run LSynth on almost any editable text.
- TextWrangler LDraw Kit: Wrangle LDraw files with aplomb.
- Bitsticker: Convert bitmap images to virtual “stickers” for your LDraw models.
- txt2dat online: An interface to Ross Crawford’s txt2dat program for making text stickers.
- Macintosh compatible LDraw software: An inventory on the LDraw Wiki.
Guides & Information
- Chipmunk Basic: documentation, example code, and syntax highlighting.
- Building NEdit 5.5 on an Intel Mac
- Building XV 3.10a on an Intel Mac
- Embedding Flickr Slideshows
- Linking to Flickr Photos by Date
- Secure remote screen access with Vine Server
- YouTube Comment Blocker: YouTube is cool. Dumb comments aren’t.
- Tcl starting points for ThisService
- Script Runners: An introduction to running AppleScripts.
- Starkits and Starpacks: An introduction to my favorite Tcl/Tk packaging system.
- Tcl/Tk Mac Application Packages: How to package Tcl/Tk programs as Mac OS X applications.
- File Comparison with FileMerge: An introduction to visual diff.
- News Feeds: An overview of RSS.
- Scalable Images with CSS: Resizing images along with text.
- Msgcat and Mac OS X: Tcl localization works well with the Mac.
Old Games
Simple games for vintage Macs.