Cheap Mac Apps
„I have compiled a list of 10 Mac OS X applications that not every user knows about, but that I find very useful for my day-to-day activities. They are given in no particular order.
„
Common Queries
„Aggregates Rename Database Parties with candidates in all districts
Cascading aggregates Show Create Trigger Who makes all the parts for a given assembly?
Cross-aggregates Show Tables Schedules
Group data by 15-minute periods Frequencies Game schedule
Per-group aggregate lists of specified size Display column values which occur N times Pivot table schedule
Per-group aggregates Display every Nth row Sequences
Per-group aggregates across multiple joins Graphs and Hierarchies Find missing numbers in a sequence
Within-group aggregates Trees, networks and parts explosions in MySQL Find previous and next values in a sequence
Within-group quotas Joins Find sequence starts and ends
Data comparison Cascading JOINs Find specific sequences
Compare data in two tables Parents without children Gaps in a time series
Date and time Parties who have made contracts Make values of a column sequential
Age in years The [Not] Exists query pattern Spherical geometry
Appointments available NULLs Great circle distance
Count business days between two dates List NULLs at end of query output Statistics
Count Tuesdays between two dates Parents with and without children Averages from bands of values
Datetime difference Order By Count unique values of one column
Last business day before a reference date Order by month name Multiple sums across a join
Make a calendar table Pagination Percentiles
SUM time values Pagination Random row selection
DDL Pivot table Running Sum
Compare structures of two tables Group column statistics in rows Skip repeating values
Find child tables List all firstnames for every lastname Sum across categories
Find parent tables Pivot table using a JOIN Top ten
Find the size of all databases on the server Relational division
List differences between two databases All possible recipes with given ingredients“
[Photoshop Tutorial] Creating fake Miniature environments
„Here is a VERY simple tutorial that is also a favourite of mine, and only takes less than a few minutes to do!“
MEDIAPORTAL – free MediaCenter HTPC Software
„MediaPortal is an Open Source application ideal for turning your PC / TV into a very advanced Media Center. MediaPortal allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch and store your videos and DVDs, view, schedule and record live TV as a digital video recorder and much much more. You get MediaPortal as Open Source software. This means you can help in developing MediaPortal or tweak it for your own needs with lots of innovating plugins from our great community.“
Shiira Project
„Shiira is a web browser based on Web Kit and written in Cocoa. The goal of the Shiira Project is to create a browser that is better and more useful than Safari. All source code used in this software is publicly available.“
Blackhole Media – Noise
„It’s the hottest sensation to sweep the nation: Pink Noise! Also known as a signal with even power distribution on a logarithmic frequency scale, pink noise masks background noise to help you concentrate. Now with source code and white noise, for those less colorful. Drown out annoying roommates and co-workers today!“
Stoplight 1.1 Released – InsanelyMac Forum
„For those who missed out on the contest and are wondering what this is all about, Stoplight is the winning app in our first iAnnoyance contest.
Andy and Joe have been hard at work fixing the bugs and improving Stoplight… and are now ready to introduce Stoplight 1.1. They’ve really set the bar high for future iAnnoyance winners. smile.gif
Stoplight (which I always want to call Spotlight) is now a universal binary (it was previously Intel only) and should work with all classes of Cocoa apps. Make sure you’re running the newest version of SIMBL while using it.“
VMware Workstation 6 Beta
„Welcome to VMware Workstation 6.0 Beta Program! Thank you for your interest in VMware Workstation. Workstation 6.0 includes exciting new features, such as:
* Support for Windows Vista – Use Windows Vista as host operating system
* Multiple monitor display – You can configure a VM to span multiple monitors, or multiple VMs to each display on separate monitors
* Integrated Virtual Debugger – Workstation integrates with Visual Studio and Eclipse so you can deploy, run, and debug programs in a VM directly from your preferred IDE
* Automation APIs (VIX API 2.0) – You can write scripts and programs to automate VM testing
* Headless mode – You can run VMs in the background without the Workstation UI“
Fusion Beta Program
„VMware Virtualization for Mac Beta Program
What is VMware’s virtualization product for Mac?
The new VMware desktop product for the Mac, codenamed Fusion, allows Intel-based Macs to run x86 operating systems, such as Windows, Linux, NetWare and Solaris, in virtual machines at the same time as Mac OS X. It is built on VMware’s rock-solid and advanced desktop virtualization platform that is used by over four million users today.
With Fusion, you can run traditional PC applications on your Mac: if you need to run PC applications, you can now do so by leveraging the power of virtual machine technology.
Fusion allows you to:
* Create and run a wide variety of 32- and 64-bit x86 operating systems on OS X without rebooting. You can simultaneously run PC applications next to your OS X applications.
* Leverage Virtual SMP capabilities to gain additional performance improvements. On any Mac with dual-core processors, you can assign multiple CPUs to your virtual machine to gain additional performance for CPU-intensive workloads.
* Access physical devices from the virtual machine: read and burn CDs and DVDs, and use USB 2.0 devices like video cameras, iPods, printers, and disks at full speed. Even devices that do not have drivers for OS X will work in a virtual machine.
* Drag and drop files and folders between OS X and virtual machines to easily share data between the two environments.
* Leverage the cross-compatibility of VMware virtual machines. VMware virtual machines created with existing VMware products are all cross compatible, including virtual machines created by VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VMware Server and VMware Infrastructure 3.
* Run any of the 360 virtual appliances available from the Virtual Appliance Marketplace vam.vmware.com [vam.vmware.com] ).“
UNEASYsilence & Parallels add Windows apps to OS X dock
„Parallels beta build with Windows apps in the dock
Parallels is non-stop with their software updates. The latest beta updates include a number of anticipated improvements including USB 2.0 support, improved Boot Camp partition [NTFS & FAT32] support, and the ability to place individual Windows Applications icons directly in your dock providing instant Coherence mode.
Read about the initial Beta announcement previously posted here. Download the latest beta build 3094 release directly from the Parallels.
The Parallels servers are crawling due to heavy traffic. Feel free to download a copy of the file from the mirror.
Windows apps in the dock
For anyone stumbling with the necessary steps to get a Windows application added to the dock, follow the steps below:
* Open your Windows applications within the Windows environment via Parallels.
* Start Coherence mode which will add the Windows application icon to the OS X dock.
* CTRL Click on the Windows app icon and select %u2018Keep in dock%u2019.
Running a Windows application from the OS X dock will automatically open the app in Coherence mode as though it were an actual OS X application.“