Cool tips, tricks, and software for your Mac.

I was going through my Applications folder on my MacBook Pro last night looking to replace old PowerPC versions with newer Universal Binary builds. I was saddened to find that a handful of my apps did not yet have Universal Binary counterparts. SSHKeychain 0.7.1 worked fine, but was a little slow to start up, but MacStumbler 0.75b didn't work at all. Well, after a night of insomnia I have created Universal Binaries for both of these apps. Enjoy.

• MacStumbler 0.75b FIXED SIGNAL STRENGTH! (Source Code)
• SSHKeychain 0.7.1

NOTE: I just fixed the weird negative signal strength issue. Try re-downloading the file above and giving it a try.

A few days ago, I got myself a shiny new 2.0GHz MacBook Pro. It is a wonderful machine. I'll elaborate more on the details on how I got this machine later, but it's not particularly interesting.

Yesterday I upgraded it to 2 gigabytes of DDR2 RAM, making this laptop the most RAM endowed machine I have had the pleasure of working on. It is quite likely that this laptop is now the most powerful machine I own. Yum.

The "Keychain Access" application that comes with MacOS X is one of the most useful tools that come with Macintosh computers, but it is also one of the most neglected. If you are a Mac user and don't know what this tool is or how to use it, read on.

Finally some brave soul has taken on the task that so many have abandoned... Gtk+ has now been natively ported to MacOS X! This means that you can expect a native MacOS X version of Synfig Studio at some point soon after I release it.

Speaking of releases, expect Synfig to be released next week by the end of the month*. It may be a little bit of time before the native MacOS X version is ready, but it will happen.

(*) I've changed my moving schedule around so this makes things a bit more uncertain.