Convince Finder to eject disks.

Download Eject Disks 0.4

Eject Disks version 0.4 is released! Get it from the link above.

Changelog:

• Fixed drag and drop and Finder selection.
• Added more timely dialog boxes using CocoaDialog.
• Changed Finder selection options so you can choose to do a normal scan if there is an inadvertent Finder selection.
• Fixed bug parsing optical volumes with spaces in the name so they don’t appear twice.
• If a disk and it’s subvolume(s) are selected for ejection, now subvolumes are skipped instead of throwing errors.
• Removed official Tiger support since I no longer have a Tiger test system.

More info on the Eject Disks product page.

Tested on:

• Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
• Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

Convince Finder to eject disks.

Download Eject Disks 0.3

Eject Disks version 0.3 is released! Get it from the link above.

Changelog:

• Changed disk discovery from relying on Applescript to parsing using System Profiler and diskutil on the command line to reveal more stuck and unmounted disks.
• Drag and drop and Finder selection eject is broken for disks, but works for network volumes at the moment, to be fixed in a future release.

More info on the Eject Disks product page.

Tested on:

• Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
• Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

Bypass slow DNS lookups.

Download Bypass DNS in Safari 0.1

Bypass DNS in Safari version 0.1 is released! Get it from the links above.

More info on Bypass DNS in Safari.

Tested on:

• Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
• Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

Suspend those interruptions

Download Suspend Energy Saver 0.1

Suspend Energy Saver version 0.1 is released! Get it from the links above.

More info on Suspend Energy Saver.

Tested on:

• Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
• Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

Maximise your transmissions

Download Set MTU 0.1

Set MTU version 0.1 is released! Get it from the links above.

More info on Set MTU.

Tested on:

• Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
• Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

Find your DHCP server.

Download DHCP Server Lookup 0.1

DHCP Server Lookup version 0.1 is released! Get it from the links above.

More info on DHCP Server Lookup.

Tested on:

• Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
• Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

An AppleScript to quickly launch applications

AppScript Launcher 0.1 | Source Code

Just a quick note to say that AppScript Launcher has now been tested on Leopard. It didn’t actually need any changes but the original 0.1 release works fine on Leopard as is.

More info on AppScript Launcher.

Tested on:

• Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
• Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

Having just read John Siracusa’s excellent (as always) review of Leopard, I got thinking about one gaping hole in Mac OS X. An uninstall application/framework.

Apple’s Installer application and underlying framework is right up there, it’s easy to use, easy to create installer packages (and metapackages) for, easy to use and parse via the command line. But where is it’s uninstalling counterpart?

Apple have always emphasized single shot uninstallations, as in, you delete the .app package for an application and it’s done. Simple. Unfortunately applications are not just the contents of the .app package. They create preferences files in the Users or System Library folders, amongst other things. Especially with the new application signing feature of Leopard, would it be that hard for Apple to keep track of files created by a specific application using the fsevents framework that keeps track of all filesystem changes (as leveraged by Spotlight and Time Machine). Then when an applications is deleted, the system could offer to clean up other files that had been created by the application.

Of course, this could probably be accomplished without either application signing or fsevents as long as applications stick to naming conventions so associated files can be found. But using these advanced frameworks could lead to a scenario where you delete an application, and Mac OS X pops up and asks you if you’d like to remove preferences files, widgets, preference panes and even documents created with the application!