Marco Coïsson's free MacOS X software
Versione italiana
(the Italian page contains some software and MacOS X resources not included in the English page because they lack English localization)
All applications and projects listed here are provided as-is, without any support. None of them is currently in development; this does not mean that they have been abandoned, simply I don't have the necessary time to regularly follow their development; they will be updated when conditions will permit. Each of these applications and projects is available for free, and the source code is provided for your convenience. You can modify the source code and redistribute the modified program, as long as:
- you change its name;
- you don't charge for it;
- you cite this web page or the home page of the program you started from.
In case of any doubt, please contact me.
TeX FoG (TeX (Fo)rmula (G)raphic user interface) is an equation editor to be used for
typing TeX and LaTeX equations without the need to remember all the commands. At the
moment version 1.2.4 is available. Universal Binary.
VirtualScreens is a little app giving you multiple virtual screens letting you organize at best your workspace on your Mac. Version 2.0.1 is currently available.
RSS news reader for Tevac, Italian Mac-users community founded and managed by Roberto Rota.
Small utility to execute 1-line Terminal or AppleScript commands without the need to open Terminal or ScriptEditor.
ATC X, or Air Traffic Controller for MacOS X, is a game inspired to an old game by Walter J. Biess. The application is still in beta release (the current version is 0.9.8), so a few bugs may be present, and graphics and icons are not definitive.
PMC is a small utility that installs itself in the menu bar; it lets you monitor how many unread messages there are in the folders that are configured in your e-mail client. See the documentation for supported e-mail applications and how to add support to new ones.
CPUeaters is a small utility that lists in a menu all running processes, sorted by their CPU usage. An inspector lets you kill, pause or resume processes execution.
Very simple dice game. Universal Binary.
Final Countdown (the currently available version is 1.7) is a countdown timer: you can
start as many timers as you like, and when they reach zero they alert you by beeping
and performing a user-defined action.
Hénon is a screensaver for MacOS X based on the equations by Hénon.
They are two non-linearly coupled equations giving fascinating graphic results.
gnuplot MacOSX GUI is a graphical frontend for gnuplot. You need a version of gnuplot
running from the Terminal and at least an idea of how gnuplot works. The documentation
gives a link and some basic instructions for getting and compiling gnuplot.
ThunderStorm is a data analysis and graph plotting app. Currently it's in beta.
Version 0.1 is available.
LogViewer is a small app to view the last lines of log files (any text file, in fact). It offers a quick way to change the update time, the number of rows to be displayed and the window opacity. Moreover, it reads and outputs files generated by different apps/systems
that have different line terminators (new line, carriage return or both).
MacErrorCodes is a little app that converts MacOS X error codes (e.g. -36) into their equivalent name and description (e.g. ioErr (-36): I/O error (bummers)). Multiple error codes can be processed at one time, typing them in separated by a blank space. The perl script that is at the core of this app was originally published on MacOS X Hints and then on Tevac by Roberto Rota.
Collection of command line tools that implement some of the functionalities of Cocoa classes.
A "menulet" that displays what's on TV in Italy for the current day. A small tutorial (in Italian) is included.
A "menulet" that interfaces itself to iCal through AppleScript; its goal is to display a menu with all events of the week.
AppleScripts
The following are scripts or applications developed using AppleScript.
- BattriX: this small utility displays some useful information about the battery of your laptop. All iBooks and PowerBooks running MacOS X are supported. The author of this utility is Alberto Marvisi ([Daitarn]), to whom I gave some help with the code. The development of this application has been carried out through an interesting discussion on Tevac's forum. We would like to thank Sauro Spagnol for the beautiful icon and Paolo Portaluri for helpful suggestions. The current version is 1.1.
- List Fonts: this AppleScript creates a TextEdit document that lists all fonts installed on your Mac and writes a sentence using each font. Useful for printing out a sample of all available typefaces. Look at the script code for customizing how the TextEdit document looks like and the sample sentence. Compatible only with MacOS X 10.4 or above. Originally developed on Tevac's forum.
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