Software
I actively develop and maintain free software. Most of the software packages available here are for Apple's Mac OS X operating system. They are distributed as free, open-source software under the terms and conditions of the Free Software Foundation's GNU General Public License. Some of them are on my GitHub account if you feel like lending a hand.
That being said, if you find my software titles useful, please consider making a donation. I rely on your support in improving them and developing new ones.
Platypus
Platypus is a developer tool that creates Mac OS X applications from scripts written in interpreted scripting languages. Such scripts can thus be run transparently through the native graphical window environment instead of running through a terminal client.
Sloth
Sloth is a Mac OS X graphical application frontend for the lsof tool. It displays a list of all open files in use by all the applications your user account is running on the system -- and, optionally, all IP and Unix sockets, character devices and directories, along with their owning applications.
Tapir
Tapir is a powerful Mac OS X development tool which makes it easy 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.
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.
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.
Vox Machina
A GUI for the Mac OS X Speech Synthesizer which can save spoken text as audio. Features lip syncing animations, MP3 encoding and more.
osxutils
osxutils is a bundle of Mac OS X-specific command line utilities for viewing, editing and manipulating HFS file metadata such as labels, comments, file/creator types, Finder flags etc. osxutils is a collaborative project and is hosted by SourceForge.
Data URL Toolkit
A collection of open-source programs for working with Data URLs.
Mentat
A fast, lightweight Perl-based personal website management system which powers a number of currently active websites, including this one.
ManDrake
Docerator
osxiconutils
osxiconutils is a set of Mac OS X command line utilities for retrieving, setting, converting and working with Mac OS X icons.IconScanner
PowerBlinken
Old, obsolete stuff
| ManOpen for Intel | An extended Intel build of Carl Lindberg's ManOpen, a superior man page viewer. |
| Radnor | A graphical interface for DOSBox (OBSOLETE, PPC only) |
| Explicit | An application for splitting AVI video files in a variety of formats. Uses the mencoder engine. (OBSOLETE, PPC only) |
| Leopard MenuHack | A hack to remove the translucency of the Mac OS X 10.5 menu bar. (OBSOLETE, now in System Preferences) |
| 'watch' for Mac OS X | port of a nifty command line program (OBSOLETE, PPC ONLY) |
| Betrayal at Krondor | a seamlessly integrated Mac OS X package of this game, run in DOS emulation mode (OBSOLETE, PPC only) |
| aalib | Mac OS X PPC install package for aalib, an ASCII graphics library. (OBSOLETE, PPC ONLY)
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| xGates | Murder a well-known software monopolist with a chainsaw (PPC binary only, Classic and Mac OS X) |
| MacRPM Utilities | A Mac OS Classic program for viewing RedHat Package Manager package contents and extracting files from them. (OBSOLETE, CLASSIC OS ONLY) |