Children of teh Atom

tangerinebreem

I started this thread cos I wanted to, to link to stuff that is dead good, but onl for teh Apple Mac cos there is ten million gazzilion threads on places like t'other place.

Here are some to start.

http://www.isquint.org/ - useful video conversion software

http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/ - Very useful shareware for recording sound from alsorts of stuff - trial version is good enough to record long snips of stuff, such as to use in a mix or suchlike.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ - simply genius is this, a brilliant free sound editing tool that is mind bogglingly good and easy to use and all for free etc!

http://handbrake.m0k.org/ - a very straightforward (albeit a bit slow) tool for ripping direct from DVD to a computer format (eg, avi) - can rip individual chapters, extras or a whole film - It's free and easy.

http://www.mactheripper.org/ - The name is genius, the programme is free. It rips stuff - Anything pretty much. It is a must have.

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ - My bittorrent client of choice.

http://www.algoriddim.net/ - A fun little Djay app that is good.

http://www.last.fm/dashboard/ - If you havn't got this, you don't deserve a computer frankly. Great tool to listen to music and to find new stuff and keep watch on your mate's musical choices.

http://download.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php - Trial version of MSword expired? - Fuck it and have this for free cos it does pretty much everything MS word does and all for free etc. - Great spreadsheet/wordprocessing stufferizzle.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ - Media player, plays pretty much anything you can throw at. Really, should come pre-installed cos it's teh face.

http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv_download.htm - Lets you play wmv files in quick time - the trial version is fine, if that's all you want to do. It means you can play more stuff in front row.

http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/ - Loads of filums use the divx format. You can't watch em in quicktime (and thus front row) unless you have this. Then, you can. And you will be happy.

Will do some more when I can be arsed.

bristle-krs · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:35 pm Post subject:

ffmpegx
http://homepage.mac.com/major4/
ffmpegX is a Mac OS X graphic user interface designed to easily operate more than 20 powerful Unix open-source video and audio processing tools:
* Reads the following input formats: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DIVX, XviD, non-encrypted VOB and VIDEO_TS, Quicktime .MOV, .DV, .WAV, Real Audio, Real Video, H.263, MP4 H.264, PGM, YUV, PPM, AC3, PCM8/16 bits, mulaw/Alaw, WMA-1/2, SUN AU format, MP2, MP3, AAC, 3GP, FPS1, ALAC, and even more formats
* Converts the above formats to DivX, AVI XviD, H.264 MP4, MOV, DV, 3GP, Sony PSP, MP2, MP3, AAC, AC3, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VCD, CVD, SVCD, KVCD, KSVCD, DVD, KDVD and MPEG-TS with complete control over encoding options.
* Supports subtitles in VobSub, SubRip, MicroDVD, SubViewer, Sami, VPlayer, RT, SSA, AQTitle, JACOsub and MPsubt formats
* Authors as VCD or K/XVCD (.bin/.cue files); as SVCD, CVD or K/XSVCD (two .img files); as DVD (/DVD/ folder or .img file)

bristle-krs · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:36 pm Post subject:

Transmission
http://transmission.m0k.org/
Ultra-lightweight BitTorrent client

bristle-krs · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:37 pm Post subject:

Jubler
http://www.jubler.org/
Subtitle editor in Java, works in Mac OS as well as Linux and Windows

bristle-krs · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:39 pm Post subject:

Max (Macintosh Audio for osX)
http://sbooth.org/Max/
Rips high quality audio from CD or files, lets you generate audio in over 20 compressed and uncompressed formats including MP3, Ogg (Vorbis), FLAC, AAC, Apple Lossless, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, Speex, AIFF, and WAVE.

bristle-krs · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:42 pm Post subject:

Sizzle
http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=Sizzle
Mac DVD authoring tool (menus/video/audioo etc)

bristle-krs · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:44 pm Post subject:

D-Vision 3
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/8825
Great app for joining movie files, subs, audio tracks etc and authoring to DivX etc - though the developer's French, so the English isn't always perfect, it's easy enough to find you way round with a bit of exploration

tangerinebreem · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:21 pm Post subject:

the top one, I've just downloaderised - it's hexactly what I wants. Why I have started posting in a Ned Flanders styleroonie is anyone's guess.

bristle-krs · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:33 pm Post subject:

soulseex/ssx
http://chris.schleifer.net/ssX/
Mac Soulseek client, for p2p downloads

tangerinebreem · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:07 pm Post subject:

http://www.potionfactory.com/blog...0/19/introducing-tangerine?page=4

This is g-reat (as good as frosties, easily) and is a simple and functional beat matching app that does all the work for you, no hammering the space bar in time to the music, just press a button and come back 5 mins later and you know the BPM of all yer itunes tunes.

S'not a freebie but you get a 15 day trial and it's cheap and as far as I know is teh only app that does this for mac.

*cue bristle...*

J · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:46 pm Post subject:

sovietpop · trainee ninja Joined: 11 Jan 2006 Posts: 333

this thread is the dogs bollox

tangerinebreem · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:53 pm Post subject:

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/24492/thelastripper

allows you to save lastfm streams as mp3 and downloads yer album art and stuff

tangerinebreem · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:56 pm Post subject:

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php...20/trailrunner#descContainer_link

A free app for planning long cycles and stuff - never used it, but it looks cool, not sure if it works with british maps so if anyone is into this sort of thing then feel free to review and I will, when I get my bike fixed*

*been saying that for over a year...

tangerinebreem · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:02 pm Post subject:

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/20806/torrent.search-widget

A widget that searches accross 26 torrent sites.

What a clever and useful idea...

tangerinebreem · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:05 pm Post subject:

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/21708/metronome

So, you want to play soulful basoon melodies alone but, in isolation, you just can't keep time - You need a metronome.

tangerinebreem · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:59 pm Post subject:

tangerinebreem · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:14 pm Post subject:

http://www.electricsheep.org/

Teh bestest screensaver ever.

tangerinebreem · Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:05 am Post subject:

http://macs.about.com/gi/dynamic/...ttp%3A//www.fadingred.org/senuti/

very useful app for ripping stuff from an ipod to a mac.

tangerinebreem · Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 2:32 pm Post subject:

http://www.crankmymac.com/index.html

A few handy things here, some hints, tips, apps and general mac shizzle

bristle-krs · Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 3:01 pm Post subject:

tangerinebreem · Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 12:38 pm Post subject:

I really want an applescript or add on app that will allow me to export tracklistings for the mix cds I do into a text file or printable CD cover - I used to have such a thing but I can only find one for Itunes 4 that doesn't work with 7. - Is there such a thing?

(I know I can export a text file but it gives you loads of shitey bollocks info I don't want)

bristle-krs · Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 12:55 pm Post subject:

in itunes, collect together the tracks for your mix in a single playlist, then select playlist, and apple-p/file>print

this throws up a dialogue which offers you the choice of printing off cd inserts, song listings or album listings, with a small selection of preset designs.

tangerinebreem · Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 1:06 pm Post subject:

Fucking hell - how did I not know that! - Cheers Bristle!!!

bristle-krs · Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 1:09 pm Post subject:

i only found out by mistake myself

tangerinebreem · Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 8:26 pm Post subject:

Are there any decent alternatives to Toast available - especially free ones. I really cannot get toast to launch - repaired disk permissions, trashed the prefs, reinstalled it, tried to rad the crashlogs and uninstall potential conflicting items - even tried some terminal jiggery pokery to no avail - it just will not launch. I need to make DVDs for work from various formats of movie so it's pissing me off cos toast is great for what I need and it won't work.

Only thing I can find is 'disco' which looks shit and I can't find a liberated copy of it to even try out, cos I'm not shelling out £30 without a trial version.

tangerinebreem · Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 10:21 am Post subject:

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19994

This is quite good for free - You can't just lob a movie file in like you can with toast but converting to video ts with ffmpegx gets round that and it's quick at duplication.

tangerinebreem · Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 1:30 pm Post subject:

Just seen that 'sizzle you posted ages ago - gonna check dat out now. Why am I West indian now man?.

tangerinebreem · Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:10 am Post subject:

http://graphicssoft.about.com/gi/...3A//www.daniele.ch/downloads.html

Good list of free apps - shame not all of them universal binary but some nice wee things here.

tangerinebreem · Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:59 am Post subject:

http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macgems/2006/09/jpegresize/index.php

more photo resizing apps