Splook Software

Welcome to my redesigned and hopefully much less tedious software page. Instead of a massive scrolling page with almost no information, just click a name on the left to see a quick summary.

Bulk Custom Icon

Someone on the MacWorld forums was looking for a tool to apply a common custom icon to a whole bunch of folders without having to do it by pasting onto one folder at a time. Here's the tool to do it.

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4+ (Universal; 64-bit)

Compost

Take control of your trash.

DateService

DateService adds commands to the OS X Services menu to insert the current date or time in any of the user-specified formats configured in System Preferences' International settings.

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3+ (Universal)

DenyThumbDrives

DenyThumbDrives is a utility to help administrators of public terminals maintain the integrity of their systems. Basically all it does is watch for attempts to mount small, local volumes like the common USB thumb drive, and immediately eject them.

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4+ (Universal)

DockArt

I was reading Usenet one morning in March, 2005, and saw someone ask if anyone knew of a program that would display the cover art for the current iTunes track in the dock. I thought it might be a fun project. Here's the result.

Requirements:
iTunes 10.4+ (Universal; 64-bit)

Fading Images

FadingImages is a Mac OS X screen saver that displays images scattered across your screen and slowly fades them out or presents them with a star field effect.

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3+ (Universal)

FileCutter

FileCutter adds Cut and Paste functionality for files to the Mac OS X Finder.

MAI

MAI is short for MenuBar Application Icons. It displays in the menu bar, the icon of all running interactive applications, highlighting the active one. You can switch to one by clicking its icon.

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3+ (Universal)

Manual Labor

Manual Labor is a simple tool to bind a folder full of image files into a PDF with a little more control, less tediousness, and nicer results than what comes with the OS.

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.5+ (Universal; 64-bit)

Nakishi

A pet project that I thought might be useful for other people. I wanted a simple way to crop an image to be suitable for use as wallpaper on my iPad.

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.5+ (Universal)

Neko

Neko is a everyone's favorite computerized cat, finally available for Mac OS X. There's already a screensaver version, but this gives you a little kitten running around on your desktop.

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.10

PanoSaver

Over the years our displays have gotten large, but our digital cameras have gotten even larger. PanoSaver is a plugin for the Mac OS X screen saver engine that displays very large images from a specified folder by panning randomly across them.

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3+ (Universal)

SaverDesktop

Run your screen saver on the desktop without the usual compromises.

SaverPreview

On April 25, 2007, I read a post on Usenet from someone looking for a way to preview screen savers without having to install them. SaverPreview was initially written while that post was still up on my screen, and then tweaked a bit the next morning.

Search In Browser

Safari exports a service to run a Google search on selected text. This supports multiple engines and your preferred browser.

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.5+ (Universal; 64-bit)

Shrink Alias

It's a plugin to recover some disk space that Apple decided to take away from you. When you create an alias file in Finder, the resulting file can have a lot of information in it that isn't really required to find the original item.

Simple Floating Clock

It's a clock. A simple, floating analog clock that sits on your desktop any where you'd like to put it.

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.6+

TakeIconFrom

TakeIconFrom is a little application to simplify one particular case of applying custom icons to files and folders. It minimizes the effort required to use the icon from a given file or folder as a custom icon for any number of files.

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4+ (Universal)

TextClippingImporter

TextClippingImporter is, as the name implies, a Spotlight importer plugin that indexes the context of text clippings.

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4+ (Universal)

TimeSaver

Given an image with an aspect ratio at least as wide as your screen, TimeSaver will scroll the image across your screen as time passes. Any photographic panoramic image will do nicely, as will specially created artistic images.

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3+ (Universal)

TrimTheFat

TrimTheFat gives users the means to regain disk space by eliminating the executable code for architectures in which they have no interest.

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2.8+ (Universal)

Volumizer

So I was reading Macintouch on the morning of May 16, 2007, and saw someone complain about the hassle of getting at volume icons that may be hidden under other windows. I thought a solution might be a fun project.

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2+ (Universal)

WebArchive Folderizer

WebArchive Folderizer is a tool born of need. I needed to get the images out of a Safari webarchive file and for some reason Safari had decided to refresh the stored page but couldn't get to the online resources it needed.