OS X ripper: Max
Max is a free and open source (GPL) OS X application for creating high-quality audio files in various formats (including FLAC), from compact discs or files. http://www.sbooth.org/Max/ (more…)...
Category: Mac
Ubuntu 6.10 on my PowerBook
My PowerBook has been continually crashing in OS X. As a last ditch attempt at salvaging it (or proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that the hardware is bad), I'm running the PowerPC version of Ubuntu on it....
Another day, another 3 PowerBook crashes
Another day, another 3 PowerBook crashes, originally uploaded by msabramo. You know things are pretty bad, when I'm actually contemplating switching to a Windows laptop... :-)...
Vienna: Freeware RSS/Atom newsreader for OS X
Vienna is a freeware, open source RSS/Atom newsreader for the Mac OS X operating system. It provides features comparable to commercial newsreaders, but both it and the source code are freely available for download....
Atari800MacX
A few times in the past few days at work, at lunch a few of us were reminiscing about our old 8-bit Ataris and some of the old games. I have a fondness for those Atari machines as that's where I first learned to program (you can...
Getting FLAC
After a coworker mentioned it, I decided to rip all of our CDs to FLAC so that we'll have perfect copies and can always transcode to the latest file formats. Last night I ripped a few CDs with dBpowerAMP Music Converter (dMC)....
Quicksilver: Cmd+Escape
Just stumbled upon a gem from 43folders. Cmd+Escape lets you send the current selection to Quicksilver. So I can highlight a file in Finder, hit Cmd+Escape, and then have all Quicksilver's actions at my disposal....