Fantastic widget which checks installed freeware bundles in /Applications and ~/Applications for new versions, completely automatic. A must have!

A great extension for Firefox: Tab Sidebar. It uses the Canvas HTML element of Gecko to draw the thumbnails without any noticeable delay.

It’s nearly as good as Stand, a plugin for Safari, visible on the right. After getting used to the tabs on the left instead at the top, selecting the right tab visually is so much easier, and even more much more suitable for wide screen displays.

That’s really good news:

Was looking for another terminal app some time ago, but didn’t find anything which properly integrates into OSX and is fast enough. So another reason to look forward to Leopard in march.

With MacOSX the Finder and the BSD/fink subsystem have a different understanding what an application really is. If you want to launch for example “gv” from Firefox to view postscript files, it is not enough to select /sw/bin/gv in the Firefox open dialog. What you have to do, is to create an .app bundle from a fink shell script. Platypus makes that quite easy:

• Installl and launch Platypus
• Set intepreter to /bin/sh
• Click on the “New” button below the “Script Path”.
• Click on “Edit” and write something like:

It’s important that you write it, not only copy it from here. Copy&paste creates ^M (DOS like?) line ending such that the script is not runnable afterwards.

• Select “Is droppable”
• Change the “App Name” to something sensible, e.g. “gv”
• Click on “Create”
• Store the gv.app in ~/Applications.

Now you can open a postscript file in Firefox and select the new gv.app in the “Open with” dialog. Voila: “shell applications” in your Mac programs.