This is one utility that will make your whole archive experience more pleasant. With support for almost every archive format known to man, and the ability to rejoin split .rar files as well as natively unzip .Jar files its all the rage on the scene atm.
Best of all you can set it to by default show the files that its just unachieved in the finder, alleviating that whole, wheres that stinking file that i just unzipped.

So my advice, get this cool utility, it will make your day!

Home - The Unarchiver

iStumbler is like this totally cool wifi tool. It lets you see all those pesky invisible networks around you as well as find open access points for you to jump onto and get your groove on! If your ever out and about with your computer this one is for you!

The best bit, as with all of the Cool Apps featured on this blog, its free! So go and enjoy this find.

Find a sexy screenshot & link below:
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Chicken of the VNC is a VNC remote desktop viewer for the Mac, its free software which makes me happy and the icon is funky as to! If you have the need for a VNC Client this is the one to get these days. A VNC client allows you to display and interact with a remote computer screen. In other words, you can use Chicken of the VNC to interact with a remote computer as though it’s in front of you.
The best bit, as with all of the Cool Apps featured on this blog, its free and OSS! So go and enjoy this find.

CotVNC - Home

June 11th, 2007 - June 15th, 2007

So here is the big news for this Month, ive been awarded a scholarship by the AUC to attend the Apple 2007 WWDC in San Francisco. I cant really believe its happening as its seriously the coolest thing to happen to me for ages!

I will update everyone with more information once I actually calm myself down a little, but its enough to say that i’m excited!

Looks like ill be jetting off to California in a few months. So Happy!!!

(Well ok in reality those dates arnt free, there smack bang in the middle of my exam period, but im stoked and as if i care about exams being at the same time)

Burn is a really nice, simple CD / DVD burning application that allows you to do all sorts of burns, including: Data, Audio(CD), Video(VCD, SVCD, DVD, XviD) and finally Clone Disks and burn image files.

The best bit, as with all of the Cool Apps featured on this blog, its free and OSS! So go and enjoy this find.

Burn - Home

I find it useful to have a local apache server set up for all my web-dev work so that i can see changes to files in real time, which makes it easier to develop server side web apps.

Up till a month or so ago i had been editing the DocumentRoot line in my /etc/httpd/httpd.conf every time i wanted to work on another project. This has slowly been driving me crazy so i decided to use virtual hosts to do all the dirty work for me.

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Hop Theif….. Hop….. :)

Montastic at JamesX

It is good isn’t it, i just stumbled across Monastic while Dreamhost was down.

So the idea behind the Green Page, or in my case the Red Page is that it basically shows red if any of your current sites are unavailable. This allows you to see if any sites are down if you have a machine with that page open in a browser.

I guess its for people that don’t have email or something.

Enough to say that mine was Red for a few hours today. :)

-Rich

Well I have just poured myself a Black Russian to unwind some more, and thought I would take a moment to announce the fact that i have got a new theme running on my blog. If you can’t tell, well you must be stupid!

No! On a serious note, it blends in with the home and other pages much better than the old one ever did, not to mention the dated 2005 look that it also carried.

The current leader-board image is from a shot I took in Melbourne, a rather nice piece of graffiti i thought. Now heres a challenge, if you can find the piece and take a photo of yourself with it i will you $5!(Only the first person to do so i might add, lest i end up going broke from 100,000 hits for free and easy money.)

Yes, this is just the first of many competitions to appear on multimeter v4.00, so stay tuned for more coming to you soon, very very soon! Not to mention more in the way of Mac how-to content and more news to.

-Rich

Making the perfect little machine to both hack around with and to have connected to your tv to watch all your shows and play music. It would even make a good little home server, with the best bit being that its not that expensive.

I am considering getting one some time next week just to mess around with and should be able to get it to do what i want after a few hours of modding. Its so good when companies bring out embedded platforms that are actually open. just look at the scene that has built up around the Linksys WRT-54G.

Bit more info here.