Heres something I came across today, flip4mac, a free Quicktime plug-in that allows you to play Windows Media Player files in your Quicktime player. From the quick testing I’ve done, this Quicktime plug-in works alot better than Microsoft’s Windows Media Player. If your a mac user I’d recommend downloading it.
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I’ve been using Butler for awhile now, and I always thought it was good, but, I’ve just come to realize that its great. I finally had some extra time to configure it a little bit more, and found out about the abbreation’s feature, which quite simply, is amazing. I’m amazed at how fast it is, its got to be at least 10x as fast as spotlight; and you can customize the search panel to only show certain types of files. Heres a screenshot of it in action:
I’m amazed at how one developer can create something much more useful that Apple’s spotlight (Butler cant search the content of files though…). I thought I would be using spotlight alot when i bought OS X 10.4, instead I’ve used Spotlight only about 5-10 times. Maybe its because most of the time I just want to find a file by its name, and not by what contents it has. I’m probably going to be disabling spotlight soon since Butler’s abbreviation feature is far superior.
If your a Mac user, I highly recommend you download Butler and try it out. Don’t forget to donate to Peter if you find Butler useful!
What piece of software is missing from the Mac platform? What plug-in or addition to OS X would severely increase your productivity by eliminating a step in your workflow?
I’m going to start working on my next application, but wanted your opinion of what I should make. If you have any ideas or comments, send me an E-mail or post a comment on this blog post. Feel free to share this with anyone who is interested.
I noticed this new feature in OS X 10.4, there is now an option to ‘Ignore Ownership on this Volume’. While working on a project that involved changing permissions, I was having trouble since no errors were being reporting from the functions that were changing the permissions, but the permissions were not being changed. I finally figured out that it was the Ignoring Ownership ‘feature’ that was causing this problem. As far as I can tell changing ownership on a file/folder in a volume that has that enabled will not really change the permissions, and no error will be reported. I dont understand what the point of this ‘feature’ is, but now I understand were my confusion in this permission problem was coming from! 
I never thought it would happen, but I’m happy it did!
Apple is officially switching to Intel processors. I think this is a very good move for Apple, this will allow them to put faster, cheaper processors into Macs. According to the information on the WWDC keynote, developers wont have to do much at all to make their Cocoa based apps work on Intel processors; I’m pretty amazed Apple could pull this off.
Most Windows/Linux users are probobly thinking “Now I can run os x on my Dell.” I would suggest that Apple, to the best of their ability, will make this impossible to do. x86 based os x will most likely only run on Apple branded Intel boxes; which I believe is a good thing, most of Windows’ problems stem from incompatibility in different hardware configurations.
I’ve been looking at iPodLinux for awhile now wanting to put it on my 4g iPod, unfortunately iPodLinux does not officially support the 4g’s yet and from looking at previous posts on the iPodLinux forums they will not offer help if can’t figure out how to install it from their directions on their web-site; which were a little too vague for me. Somebody put together exactly the type of directions I was looking for which made it easy, actually almost too easy to install it on my iPod. Thanks to exDev for the great directions!
Its pretty cool to have linux on my iPod, the iPodLinux team did a great job on this software- but it’s not near finished. Music plays in ultra slow-motion, there seems to be some bugs with the contrast and click wheel settings on startup. Luckily, you can easily switch from iPodLinux and Apples software. iPodLinux has great games however, much better that Apples brick and solitaire, and the file browser is very cool. If you have an iPod i’d highly recommend trying iPodLinux out!