The Bad NewsThe weblog of Peter Mitchell from Big Animated Digital Amsterdam (BAD Amsterdam).Mac OS X Management Software and Tips- February 22, 2003 Some Useful and Interesting Terminal Commands for Lab Managers Remote AdministrationBackup of Mac OS X Using rsync Mac OS X Mass Deployment Using Apple Software Restore How to Clone Mac OS X How to create a bootable OS X CD How to move swapfiles to a different partition How and why to move your home directory to a different partition How to remove non-American English localization resources to save space Recovering from a Blinking ""http://www.bombich.com/mactips/index.html Utility Software for Mac OS X- February 22, 2003 The purpose of Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) is to assist you in moving your entire Mac OS X installation or selected folders from one partition to another as easily as possible. CCC can copy all the system files necessary, maintaining Unix permissions and ownership, to create a bootable backup of your drive. Moving your X installation to a larger hard drive CCC is right for you. Share My Desktop (SMD) is a simple little wrapper application that I created for OSXvnc in AppleScript Studio. SMD makes.http://www.bombich.com/software/index.html Troubleshooting Utilities: OS X Utilities- February 22, 2003 Some very handy utilities for Mac OS X See also: Utilitieshttp://www.macfixit.com/staticpages/index.php?page=20021025143249142 Blu-ray Disc technology- February 19, 2003 heir calendars. The nine companies promoting Blu-ray Disc technology--a next-generation recordable DVD format using blue-violet lasers--announced Thursday that licensing will begin Feb. 17. Blu-ray Disc technology allows for 27GB storage capacities on a single-sided 12cm disc. DVDs hold 4.7GB of data. Hitachi, LG Electronics, Matsushita Electric Industrial, Pioneer, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sharp, Sony and Thomson are known as the "Blu-ray Disc Founders" and have...http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-984520.html Path Finder re-invents the Mac OS X Finder- February 19, 2003 No doubt that the latest Mac OS X Finder in Jaguar is a tremendous improvement over previous versions, but do you find the Mac OS X Finder a little limiting Do you still find it slow, simplistic and lacking many powerful features If you answered yes to any of these questions then you will be thrilled to hear that after spending extremely long hours rewriting the Finder, we have come up with the killer solution that everybody has been waiting for! Today, CocoaTech and YazSoft are..http://cocoatech.com/pr.html TTC-Pro- February 19, 2003 TTC-Pro MX 2.0 totaly cross platform - Windows, Mac OSX , Mac classic, shockwave safe. TTC-Pro is an Xtra for Macromedia Director that adds computer vision and live video manipulation capabilities to director. TTC-Pro is a more advanced version of TrackThemColors. It allows precise control over all aspects of capture, tracking and display and adds many features over those of the original TrackThemColors. The Xtra lets you view video from any video source and works fast with...http://www.smoothware.com/ ShapeShifter3D- February 19, 2003 The first cross platform, low-cost integrated modeling application designed specifically for the Macromedia Director Shockwave 3D platform. ShapeShifter3D is optimized for low polygon modeling, has full support for texturing and skeleton creation, and can import objects from other 3D programs and convert them to Shockwave 3D files. Learn all the features. ShapeShifter3D is available for both the Macintosh and Windows platforms. See the complete...http://xtras.tabuleiro.com/products/shapeshifter/index.tdb MPEG Advance Xtra- February 19, 2003 MPEG Advance Xtra is the successor to DirectMediaXtra and MpegXtra. It combines the best features of our previous MPEG playback Xtras into a cross-platform solution, while adding a number of new features and full compatibility with Director 8.5, Director MX, Windows XP, MacOSX and Classic. See also: Directorhttp://xtras.tabuleiro.com/products/mpeg_advance/index.tdb Welcome to Xtrasy.com- February 19, 2003 This site's goal is to become a valuable resource for Macromedia Director Developers. As a start we have put together a complete list of Xtras currently available for Director, a list of useful books for developers and a collection of useful links related to our favorite software. Near term features of the site will include tutorials, code samples, open source movies, and forums for developers. See also: Directorhttp://www.xtrasy.com/ OSControl Xtra- February 19, 2003 The OSControl Xtra adds a couple of long awaited member types to Macromedia Director: boxes, dropdown listspopup menus, contextual menus, scroll bars, push buttons, bevel buttons, progress bars, 'little arrow'-buttons, sliders, radio buttons and checkboxes. Unlike Director's built-in controls and Flash MX's UI Components, OSControls all are drawn in the OS appearance as set by the user. These controls are truly cross-platform: on a Macintosh they look and behave like real Macintosh controls,..http://www.peghole.com/xtras/osc_xtra/ |