Sveinbjorn Thordarson

Software

I develop software for Apple's Mac OS X operating system. Most of these programs are free, open-source software distributed under the terms and conditions of the Free Software Foundation's GNU General Public License.

• Major Applications
• Minor Applications

That being said, if you find my software titles useful, please consider making a donation to encourage me in improving them and developing new ones.

Major Applications

Platypus Platypus is a developer tool for creating Mac OS X application wrappers around interpreted scripts. Scripts can thus be run transparently from the graphical window environment via an app launcher without having to resort to using the command line interface. Download | Source Code | More About Platypus

Tapir Tapir is a powerful but easy-to-use development tool for Mac OS X 10.3 or later. With Tapir, it becomes easy for you to create your own global menu applications, based on shell commands or scripts. Status items such as memory monitors, workload monitors and process viewers can be created in a matter of seconds, with minimal knowledge of the command line, while more sophisticated menu applications can be constructed using a scripting language of choice. [Download] | [More About Tapir] | [ Register Tapir ]

Explicit Explicit is an application for splitting AVI video files in a variety of formats, such as DivX, XviD, 3ivX, etc. Uses the mencoder engine. [Download] | [Source] | [More About Explicit]

AppHack AppHack is a developer and theming tool to alter, replace or extract the property lists or icons of Mac OS X application bundle packages. [Download] | [Source] | [More About AppHack]

Sloth Sloth is a program that displays a list of all open files in use by all the applications your user account is running on the system -- this list includes IP and Unix sockets, character devices and directories. This list is presented along with the names of applications using the file and their process IDs. [Download] | [Source] | [More About Sloth]

Sentinel Sentinel is a Mac OS X application which faciliates monitoring and observing command output. By allowing the process output to be monitored with periodic execution, it becomes easy to observe changes over time. In a way, Sentinel is similar to the watch command line program, but includes additional features, such as diff-ing output with previous output and colouring lines of output that have changed. [Download] | [Source] | [More About Sentinel]

Vox Machina A Mac OS X Speech Synthesizer with the capability of saving text as audio speech. Features lip syncing imagery, MP3 encoding and more. [Download] | [Source] | [More About Vox Machina] | Vox Machina CGI

osxutils osxutils is a bundle of powerful Mac-oriented command line utilities for viewing, editing and manipulating file meta-data such as labels, comments, file/creator types, Finder flags etc. 'osxutils' is a collaborative project and is hosted by SourceForge. [SourceForge Project Page] [Documentation] | [osxutils page]

Minor Applications

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