ENCRO  Haha, awesome work!

More fun than watching the dock bounce.  
(Version 1.0)

ENCRO  The description of what this iRemove Applescript does is totally inaccurate.

.DS_Store files are created by the Finder and store custom attributes of a folder such as the position and size of the window and icons and also the choice of a background image. They also contain Spotlight Comments and other metadata.

Where the problem lies with .DS_Store files is that they are only used by the Finder, pollute folders and network shares with potential security risks. The Finder will create a .DS_Store file in every folder that you visit even if you haven't made custom changes.

To disable .DS_Store File Creation on Network Shares use the following command in Terminal.app:

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true  
(Version 1.3)

ENCRO  Yes indeed, thankyou also :)  
(Version 5.0.5)

ENCRO  While Sandbox is certainly great you can also use Workgroup Manager on OS X Client by downloading the Server Admin Tools from the Apple site. You don't need to use OS X Server to use these tools.  
(Version 2.2)

ENCRO  and a great day for Leopard Users :)

Fantastic to see an update to this awesome utility.  
(Version 0.4)

ENCRO  Apple Bug ID #5734181 Closed. Marked as behaves as intended.

I think it would have been better if SecurityServer advised that the Application has been changed and the content could no longer be verified. The keychain asked if you would like to trust the app with broken signature.

I can see where Apple is coming from a Security Perspective though.  
(Version 0.95)

ENCRO  Apple Bug ID #5734181 Closed. Marked as behaves as intended.

I think it would have been better if SecurityServer advised that the Application has been changed and the content could no longer be verified. The keychain asked if you would like to trust the app with broken signature.

I can see where Apple is coming from a Security Perspective though.  
(Version 1.3.8)

ENCRO  You can also enable 'Show Path Bar' in the View Menu of the Finder if you are using OS X 10.5

This will place a path bar at the bottom of the Finder Window.

If I need to obtain the POSIX path I usually just drag a file or folder into Terminal.app and copy the path from there.  
(Version 1.0.5)

ENCRO  Code Signing: cs_invalid :

(Pretty much all Apple applications are code signed and will break on 10.5)

Apple Apps:

Activity Monitor

Address Book

Airport Utility

Console

DictionaryPanel

Directory Utility

Disk Utiliity

iCal

iChat

iDVD

Image Capture

Input Method Hot

iPhoto

iSync

iTunes

iWeb

Java Preferences

Java Web Start

Keychain Access

Mail

Network Utility

ODBC Administrator

PhotoBooth

Podcast Capture

Preview

Quicktime Broadcaster

QuickTime Player

RAID Utility

Safari

Server Admin Tools

Soundtrack Pro

Spaces

Stickies

System Profiler

Terminal

Terminal

TextEdit

ThumbnailServer

Time Machine

VoiceOver Utility

3rd Party apps:

Cyberduck

EyeTV 3

Newsfire  
(Version 0.95)

ENCRO  Code Signing: cs_invalid :

(Pretty much all Apple applications are code signed and will break on 10.5 if debug stripping is enabled)

Apple Apps:

Activity Monitor

Address Book

Airport Utility

Console

DictionaryPanel

Directory Utility

Disk Utiliity

iCal

iChat

iDVD

Image Capture

Input Method Hot

iPhoto

iSync

iTunes

iWeb

Java Preferences

Java Web Start

Keychain Access

Mail

Network Utility

ODBC Administrator

PhotoBooth

Podcast Capture

Preview

Quicktime Broadcaster

QuickTime Player

RAID Utility

Safari

Server Admin Tools

Soundtrack Pro

Spaces

Stickies

System Profiler

Terminal

Terminal

TextEdit

ThumbnailServer

Time Machine

VoiceOver Utility

3rd Party apps:

Cyberduck

EyeTV 3

Newsfire  
(Version 1.3.8)

ENCRO  Be aware that apps like Trimmit can break code signed applications such as Mail.app on 10.5 if the strip debug symbols option is enabled. This is why it is a good thing to have the backup option enabled.

I can manage to consistently break Mail.app and cause it to popup the password window. It will then never remember the password, attempt to store or attempt to retrieve it from the keychain *if the Application code signature is invalid*.

In testing I've tried removing many things from Mail.app such as language files, compressing images, removing redundant unnecessary files and stripping the redundant PowerPC binary and various other things from the bundle. None of this seems to damage Mail.app's code signature.

How do you break Mail.app you ask?

By stripping the debug symbols from Mail.app using one of many app trimming applications such as Trimmit. Since Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard introduced Code Signing and Apple Mail is code signed my guess is that because the bundle is changed and the code signature is then broken and invalid Apple Mail is then treated as an untrusted application and is refused access to the keychain by SecurityServer.

According to

http://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/Security/RN-CodeSigning/index.html

applications should trigger a popup confirmation to allow the Application to update the keychain but it appears that Mail.app does not do this and SecurityServer suppresses the dialog as the code signature is invalid.

Filed as Apple Bug ID #5734181

Opening Console.app and checking secure.log shows many entries from SecurityServer to advise:

Feb 10 23:04:02 macbookpro com.apple.SecurityServer[20]: suppressing keychain prompt for invalidly signed client /Applications/Mail.app(7514)

Feb 10 23:04:32: --- last message repeated 16 times ---

If you are getting these messages, this wll mean you may need to restore from a backup version of Mail.app from storage, time machine or another computer. If you re-install the app from the original 10.5 Installer CD you may also need to run the 10.5.1 installer and Security Update to ensure that Mail.app is up to date.  
(Version 0.95)

ENCRO  Monolingual 1.3.8 will break Mail.app on Leopard and possibly other code signed applications.

I can manage to consistently break Mail.app and cause it to popup the password window. It will then never remember the password, attempt to store or attempt to retrieve it from the keychain *if the Application code signature is invalid*.

In testing I've tried removing many things from Mail.app such as language files, compressing images, removing redundant unnecessary files and stripping the redundant PowerPC binary and various other things from the bundle. None of this seems to damage Mail.app's code signature.

How do you break Mail.app you ask?

By stripping the debug symbols from Mail.app using one of many app trimming applications such as Monolingual. Since Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard introduced Code Signing and Apple Mail is code signed my guess is that because the bundle is changed and the code signature is then broken and invalid Apple Mail is then treated as an untrusted application and is refused access to the keychain by SecurityServer.

According to

http://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/Security/RN-CodeSigning/index.html

applications should trigger a popup confirmation to allow the Application to update the keychain but it appears that Mail.app does not do this and SecurityServer suppresses the dialog as the code signature is invalid.

I have filed as Apple Bug ID #5734181

Opening Console.app and checking secure.log shows many entries from SecurityServer to advise:

Feb 10 23:04:02 macbookpro com.apple.SecurityServer[20]: suppressing keychain prompt for invalidly signed client /Applications/Mail.app(7514)

Feb 10 23:04:32: --- last message repeated 16 times ---

If you are getting these messages, this wll mean you may need to restore from a backup version of Mail.app from storage, time machine or another computer. If you re-install the app from the original 10.5 Installer CD you may also need to run the 10.5.1 installer and Security Update to ensure that Mail.app is up to date.

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Technical Details for strip command

===================================

/usr/bin/strip: changes being made to the file will invalidate the code signature in: /private/tmp/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail

Stripping debug symbols.

#!/bin/zsh

#This shell code sample taken from Trimmit.app

[[ -n $sym ]]&&{

# strip debug symbols. "2>&1" means error messages to the standard out.

/usr/bin/strip -Sur Contents/MacOS/*(*) 2>&1

/usr/bin/strip -Sx **/*.dylib(N) **/*.framework/**/*(*N) 2>/dev/null

echo "== Stripping debug symbols."  
(Version 1.3.8)

ENCRO  ISO 639-1 & ISO 639-2:

http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php  
(Version 1.2)

ENCRO  seknb wrote:

"I don't know whether it's a legal name or not but at least it isn't a common names."

These are actually in the i18n Proposed List of 2nd level Language Identifiers in RFC 3066 and also an ISO Standard.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3066.txt

Country identification, such as en-US are described in ISO 639.

Parent:

en

Children:

en-AU

en_US

en_GB

Quite a few applications use this style for localization so it's certainly worth adding direct support for in iLingual.  
(Version 1.2)

ENCRO  You're commenting and marking on an "experimental" release from Mozilla's trunk builds???

3.0 isn't even publicly released yet.  
(Version 2.0.0.8)

ENCRO  Hold tight, its not too far down the track. I'm using a beta (9.0r60) and I can tell you things are just about to get really really good for flash on the Mac. This version includes suppport for hardware acceleration.

If you feel like jumping on the cutting edge bandwagon head to:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/

Keep in mind its still beta so you may experience crashes and to report any issue s to Adobe.  
(Version 9.0.47)

ENCRO  Well looks like that site is down.

The gist of it was along the lines of:

If you are having trouble pairing the phone to your Mac try doing the opposite and pairing the computer to your phone.  
(Version 2.2)

ENCRO  I agree with Calle that this is absurd in just over 2 weeks.

The updates that are added are mere point releases and dont warrant a major version number.   
(Version 3.0.2)

ENCRO  Really good apps, this certainly beats trying to edit in the Midas style editor on the website.

One things I'd really love to see it support for Fotobuilder/Scrapbook facilities.

Protocol Spec is here:

http://pics.livejournal.com/doc/protocol/  
(Version 1.0.5)

ENCRO  Press Release:

http://www.eudora.com/press/2006/eudora-mozilla_final_10.11.06.html

Developer:

http://wiki.mozilla.org/Penelope  
(Version 6.2.4)

ENCRO  Well at least its a Universal Binary :)

A/V is coming as per the Microsoft Mac Mojo Blog entry by Mary Starman:

http://blogs.msdn.com/macmojo/archive/2006/09/27/774149.aspx  
(Version 6.0)

ENCRO  oh and expander on its own:

ftp://ftp.allume.com/pub/pub/mac/StuffIt/For_MacOS_10.3_and_later/StuffItExpander11.dmg  
(Version 11.0)

ENCRO  At the moment, the site has a lot of users updating but once it eases up, you can download it via ftp also: ftp://ftp.allume.com/pub/pub/mac/StuffIt/For_MacOS_10.3_and_later/StuffItStandard11.dmg  
(Version 11.0)

ENCRO  Bug in 3.0 when selecting the S700i in the phone list. It incorrectly loads the T68i Profile instead.  
(Version 3.0)

ENCRO  A reboot will fix the constant activation issue, i'd guess it has something to do with the kext.

Other than that its pretty cool and works well.  
(Version 1.0.8)

ENCRO  defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true  
(Version 2.3)

ENCRO  NSLevelIndicator is not supported on MacOS X prior to 10.4

Getting this to work would require a custom widget to be written by the developer to replicate its behaviour.  
(Version 1.0)

ENCRO  I love this drum app, its quick to get a useable beat and very flexible.

iDrum is now at Version 1.5 and is now under the izotope banner:

http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/idrum/

No Release notes seem to be listed so I assume its mainly a rebranding only. I hope izotope fix the unreferenced sample bug after saving and reloading the kit soon that is still in this version. There also really needs to be a way of quickly selecting random drums for the kit also.

Previous Release History:

Changes in 1.1.1:

Fixed #398 Endianness bug in Copy Protection library manifests itself on Intel-based macs.

Changes in 1.1:

Universal Binary support.

Fixed #190 Missing localization resources for languages other than English

Changes in 1.0.9:

Fixed #168 Bounce to AIFF is now working correctly when 'bounce each channel to separate file' is selected.

Changes in 1.0.8:

Fixed #151 Clicking slave to host in iDrum.app no longer causes 'Machine gun' effect.

Fixed #132 Song mode now loops correctly in GarageBand and Logic

Changes in 1.0.7:

Changed: When in song mode and not slaving to host (or in standalone), iDrum will now continue playing from the last stop position. This makes it easier to edit songs.

Fixed: #116 Double-clicking on an iDrum file would not open iDrum.app properly.

Fixed: #111 Crashes in earlier versions of Logic (<= 6.4.1)

Fixed: #104 Drag and drop of audio files directly to channel fixed.

Fixed: #99 Fixed some installer oddities (Full installer wasn't overwriting demo install)

Fixed: #96 The 'iDrum - Default' GarageBand preset that shipped with the demo had missing samples.

Fixed: #95 & #90 The song mode bar indicator would jump to 720 on stop

Fixed: #93 Occasional crash when scrolling through samples.

Fixed: #87 When quitting, iDrum.app now prompts to save when the current file is modified.

Fixed: #86 Return key now dismisses Confirm Delete dialog.

Thanks to Iris Uffen (#111), Jane Snijders (#93) and Adam Berro (#90) for the bug reports.

Changes in 1.0.6:

- FIXED: Intermittent crashes in Pro Tools 6 & 7

- FIXED: Panther and G3 incompatibilities introduced in 1.0.3 (Case 38)

- FIXED: Intermittent crash when scrolling through kits.

- FIXED: Crash when deleting iDrum while UI is open in Ableton Live 4/5  
(Version 1.0.2)

ENCRO  The icon is awesome, more power to the duck!  
(Version 0.89.1)

ENCRO  I never upgraded from v.X but its really good to see the effort gone into 11.2.3 enhancements.

Things like Spotlight and the SyncServices.framework integration are easily selling points for Office 2007 but Microsoft have included it in an update. Fantastic! :)  
(Version 11.2.3)

ENCRO  Please, Please add the ability to trigger an audio sample from a file. I use a sample of an alarm sound (from a patented hardware alarm) that I would rather not include in the iTunes database. Cheers :)  
(Version 2.1.4)

ENCRO  The easiest was is to send it via Bluetooth using Blueetooth File Exchange in /Applications/Utilities or if you don't have bluetooth you could alway get a USB/Serial cable that is suitable for your cellphone/handset.  
(Version 1.92)

ENCRO  I'm pleased to say that this is a great application. It's extremely flexible and the address book importing and snooze features are both wonderful additions in Alarm Clock Pro. The developer is friendly and responsive with regards to feature requests and bugfixes. A very worthwhile purchase which is updated frequently.  
(Version 7.3.2)

ENCRO  I can't get this to work, when I drop a .dfont onto the app it gives me an applescript error:

The variable sfnt_ in not defined (-2753)

Using version 2.0.1  
(Version 2.0.1)

ENCRO  I find that both applications complement each other quite well. VLC on OS X has come quite a long way in the last 2 years and while it seems progress on MPlayer isn't quite as fast it is still a very useful program. I am personally very proud of the developers who are all creating applications like this that provide solutions for the codecs that QuickTime doesn't provide. kudos.  
(Version 1.0pre8 rc2)

ENCRO