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This page contains information about OS X software I wrote some time ago and that is currently unsupported. There have not been updates to these applications since a long time but it’s not excluded that I will update them in the future.

Slider

Download Slider v1.3 (Tiger Only, Universal) Download APE from UnsanitySlider is an haxie that adds a sliding + fading effect [Preview] when opening or closing any window of a cocoa application. It adds a nice touch to the “feel” of MacOS X and it’s totally unobtrusive !

It will not work on Carbon applications (like the Finder) and runs only under MacOS 10.4 Tiger.It’s still a work-in-progress, and you may experience difficulty with some apps (i had crashes when quitting iPhoto). But since it only applies to Cocoa, you don’t have to worry of any problem with the Finder !Updates in v1.2:* Fixed the tooltip bug* Fixed the Safari adress bar bug* Added the possibility to reduce the sliding effect to 0 width (only fading)

Unifier

Download Unifier v1.1 (Tiger Only, Universal) Download APE from UnsanityMy first haxie: it was built to unify the look of MacOS X 10.4 (aka Tiger).The latest version of MacOS introduced a new interface design: the unified toolbar/menubar look. You can find examples of this in the new Mail.app. It’s nice, way better than Metal IMHO !

But what about the other OSX apps ? Is it possible to make them adopt this new look ?* Good news is: Yes, with Unifier* Bad news is: PartiallyPartially, because it only applies to Cocoa applications. Not carbon, this shouldn’t be a big problem because more and more developers use Cocoa nowadays, but apple mostly doesn’t ! The “Finder” for instance is a good ol’ Carbon application. As for other iApps…The other problem is related to Cocoa very own structure: when enabling the unified look in non-natively unified applications, it’s impossible to determine if it has a toolbar or not early enough in the initialization process. The consequence of that is that Unifier will kill the Metal look on any metal application, replacing it with the unified look (if toolbar) or standard window/aqua look (if no toolbar).‘Arglll!’, i can hear you say, but don’t worry because you’ll be able to exclude any application you want from being Unified.You can enable/disable the unified look globally, or application by application. Even if it has been globally applied, you can exclude any application you want.DelicitunesDownload delicitunes DeliciTunes is a MacOS X application designed to fill a hole in the current Deliclous Library implementation: It allows you to export all the music albums currently in your iTunes library to your Delicious Library.In it’s current state, the features are pretty limited but, it’ll work on the basic tasks.

You can select each playlist that you want to export to your Delicious Library. It will add the corresponding albums in the “Music” sectionDeliciTunes does not actually handle art/covers from your music library but you can just manually select each added album in Delicious Library then ask to refresh from Amazon… it will also fill the missing sections (price, reference…)Distibuted under the GPL, sources included.


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  1. miamoto.de » Blog Archive » Multimedia Datenbank für Mac 16.11.06 / 10pm

    [...] Natürlich will man als ehemaliger DVDProfiler und dvdb.de Nutzer seine Sammlung auch anderen online zum hemmunglosen bewundern zugänglich machen. Delicious Library selbst bietet keine Möglichkeit der Veröffentlichung. Allerdings werden direkt auf den FAQ-Seiten 3rd-Party-Apps genannt, die das können. So z.B. DeliciWeb, welches die Bibliothek einfach in .html speichert, oder DeliciTunes, welches die iTunes CDs einliest. Bis dahin nicht schlecht. Was mich daran hemmt, die 40$ für das Programm auszugeben, ist die Ansicht im virtuellen Bücherregal. Eigentlich eine nette Idee, für größere Sammlungen aber leider unpraktisch. Hier würde ich mir eine Umsetzung á la CoverFlow wünschen, in der man hemmungslos rumscrollen kann. Naja, vielleicht kommt das ja noch, oder noch besser: es gibt es schon und ich weiss nix davon! ;) [...]

  2. pierre chatel’s blog’n stuff» Blog Archive » Slider and Unifier now Universal Binaries 09.12.06 / 11pm

    [...] Unsupported software « Winter Panoramas [...]

  3. Apfel+Z | Rueckschritt nach Vorne » Slider 26.12.06 / 12am

    [...] Slider – love it or hate it. [...]

  4. ©Deskmodding.NET » Archivo del weblog » Window Slider |efectos a las ventanas del sistema 20.02.07 / 12pm

    [...] Si os apetece agregar un nuevo efecto de difuminado para las aplicaciones Cocoa de vuestro sistema podréis hacerlo de forma gratuita con WindowSlider, que permite agregar ese efecto en el cierrey apertura de las ventanas de dichas aplicaciones. WindowSlider es un complemento de Application Enhacer y por tanto binario universal, se instala como panel de preferencias y permite configurar varios parámetros del difuminado y la animación al abrir y cerrar ventanas. [...]

  5. Day by Day » Blog Archive » Two Kernel Panics In A Row 05.05.07 / 7pm

    [...] Just now my iBook G4 had two kernel panics in a row. I had installed an APE module that I removed and that may have been the cause. The APE module was named “Slider“, the odd thing about that being the cause would be that APE’s never scrape the hardware surface enough to cause a panic. The second possible cause would be the Dashboard widget “iStat Pro“, whose job it is to display hardware statistics. As a matter of fact I seem to remember this widget being a kernel problem in the past, but what makes no sense about that is that DashboardClients shouldn’t be able to cause panics. These two pieces of software are the only two that I installed recently enough to be potential candidates and I removed them both now. I think I may have stopped the culprit anyway, because the last two panics my mac had started up (or been awake after the install), put to sleep, woken up, put to sleep, and on wake up had the panic. That’s two times of sleep and then the panic. This last time (of which it’s still up from) I was able to successfully wake it up 3 times without a panic. The one thing I keep trying to find (and haven’t yet) is a simple set of instructions (or an app) to debug single kernel panics up the line of control until a visible app’s or widget’s process. If anyone has any ideas on a way to do this I’d love it if they’d post a comment here with their thoughts. Enjoy, Alex [...]

  6. Slider 11.10.07 / 11pm

    [...] Slider 1.3 [...]

  7. Unifier 11.10.07 / 11pm

    [...] Unifier 1.1 [...]

  8. takeshi(japanese) 22.12.07 / 4pm

    I love unifier,,,but is it impossible to unifier the application “finder”?
    except “finder” I satified by unifier!
    If do you know the answer,
    please tell me it!

  9. maurice 14.01.08 / 2am

    Bonjour,

    j’ai craqué pour votre si pratique Sidenote, mais après deux sessions il refuse maintenant de s’ouvrir.

    Que puis-je faire pour le persuader?

    Mac mini intel core 2 duo, Tiger 10.4.11

  10. guenzel.eu | Multimedia Datenbank für Mac 30.03.08 / 12am

    [...] die das können. So z.B. DeliciWeb, welches die Bibliothek einfach in .html speichert, oder DeliciTunes, welches die iTunes CDs einliest. Bis dahin nicht schlecht. Was mich daran hemmt, die 40$ für [...]


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