If you’re using Safarilicious to export your Safari Bookmarks to Delicious, then you’ve probably been searching for a simple way to access these bookmarks from within your Safari Browser or even the operating system.
Matteo Rattotti wrote a software called ‘Delibar’ which allows to reach your Delicious Bookmarks from within your Menubar. Nifty
Soon you all may be able to use Gimp without that nasty X11 starting in the background (and slowing down your Mac).
Gimp uses the so-called Gtk+ toolkit to display it’s widgets & visible elements. Gtk had originaly been developed for use in Gimp but then continued on a bright path conquering all kinds of territory; it’s now Gnome’s official toolkit, used as the standard-toolkit for Mono (an Open Source .net development) and thus drives a lot of open source applications. Now some people have been working hard on porting it to Mac OS X – natively, that is without any X11. The benefit of this would be that, next to Gimp, a gigantic amount of Gnome-Applications would be available on Mac OS X. And since Gnome proposes and follow a HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) which is quite close to Apple’s, there’s a good reason to look forward to this event.
There’s been a small problem in the multimedia par of Mac OS X for a long time now: If you wanted to watch Windows Media Files (WMV) you had to use Microsofts proprietary Windows Media Player 10 for Mac which had a rather limited featureset: No playlists, no videoformats besides WMV (not even things like Microsofts own ASF), an ugly interface, no real drag and drop support, and apart of all that an ugly install mechanism that places files in so many folders so it’s really difficult to uninstall it again. But on the other hand, at least watching WMV files worked. Mac Users, as Macs used PowerPC processors, couldn’t use hacked Windows DLL’s unlike Linux users do so they can watch WMV content.
Just some weeks ago, Flip4Mac made it’s debut: A great Quicktime plugin which allows to play WMV content using every available Quicktime application (Quicktime, Finder, etc), but the only drawback was that it cost $9.99.
And now Microsoft bought Flip4Mac and released it for free for all Mac users. Yep, you read that right. Microsoft bought it, released it for free, and even more than that: Replaced the old Windows Media Player for Mac with this nice app.
Great.
Get it here
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Although Mac OS X has built-in Zip-Support, Spotlight doesn’t index or search those files. It would of course be a very usefull feature if Spotlight would index Zip-Files just as well.
And that’s just what Ziplight is for. It indexes your Zip-Files, and allows to search them via Spotlight. One drawback is that it doesn’t index the contents of those files as that would require to unzip each file in order to parse it.
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