AlchemyTV – TV Tuner and Video capture PCI card for your PowerMac
Looks like a nice uncompressed video capture card for the Mac. The TV PVR and radio capabilities are a nice bonus.
Category: Mac
David’s notes on using JNI with various Unix systems (including MacOS X)
MacOS X Bugs (this guy)
Matthew Thomas » My first 48 hours enduring Mac OS X
I just like the last line:
Mac OS X is like Sir Winston Churchill’s description of democracy: the worst possible system, except for all the others
Thanks Alex
Java, JNI, Firewire Camera Capture for MacOS
FWCamAkiz allows image sequence acquisition from a FireWire camera compatible with the IIDC standard, on an Apple computer running MacOS 10.1.5 or above. FWCamAkiz provides:
a Java Native Interface (JNI) library handling the camera
a Java class interfacing with this library
a plugin for the free image manipulation software ImageJ by Wayne Rasband which allows comfortable acquisition with multiple timing options from within ImageJ, live preview and color conversion from raw image data.
Put a GUI on that script
Research Systems Unix Group: iHook
iHook – a graphical interface designed as a frontend for commandline executables.
Text to Speech – File (put it on your iPod)
codepoetry :: projects :: Text Reader
From the site:
All I wanted was a program that took a text file and saved it to an audio file for my iPod. All I could find were programs I had to pay for to do this simple task that can be accomplished in one line of AppleScript. That’s silly. So, I wrote a very simple program to do this and more.
WINE for Darwin and Mac OS X
Use Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) to run Windows applications on Darwin and Mac OS X.
Amazing collaborative text editor
SubEthaEdit
From the site:
With SubEthaEdit you can. The idea of collaborative editing has been researched for years, with notable results. But now for the first time it has been implemented in a way you actually want to use: A sophisticated technique allows all users to type anywhere in the text without locking parts of the text for other users, making SubEthaEdit just as easy to use as a traditional text editor
Send from Localhost on Panther
chaotic intransient prose bursts: Panther Tips (1): Running SMTP
From the site:
turning on Panther’s SMTP server. SMTP is for sending email. I like sending email via the localhost, just because I can. In earlier system versions, it meant turning on Sendmail, but Apple has dropped Sendmail in favor of Postfix. Postfix is arguably easier to configure and a little
Compression engine for the Mac
P O P W I R E
From the site:
Popwire announces the release of its new Compression Master 2.2, an unrivalled Mac OS X-based encoder. This state-of-the-art desktop encoder is perfect for Broadcasting companies, Media houses, ISPs, and Mobile operators with the need to provide high-quality content in multiple bit rates.