Useful MAC Apps and Hardware [Ongoing Updates]

Mike Lucey

I've tried a load of them and keep coming back to Opera, not perfect but it has all the features I need and USE every day!

tfdesign

Yes Opera is very good. I need to have another play with it.

pbacot

Thanks for the great ideas everyone.

Personally I have been having some problems lately with Firefox and some Java sites and have started using Safari more often again.

Say, does anyone know of a add-on which will create "tear-off" windows of pull-down menus ? I think there was something like that once... or was that in a particular program? Anyway my CAD program has pull downs for the layer "sheets", the setup of a group of layers. In a complex drawing I jump from sheet to sheet. Just pulling down the menu then searching the list, dragging to the selection etc etc is GETTING OLD. I've suggested to the developer that this be a window, but nothing's likely to happen. I'd like to get that pull-down always open on my monitor so I can mouse over and click on any layer setup--like we do for scenes in SU.

Edson

Snagit on Mac has been released. it is an impressive screen capture app. it is worth a peek.

driven

nice, simple. free paint program I tried out for my seven year old and decided to use it myself.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/paintbrush/
I like it...
john

tfdesign

@tfdesign said:

I've now switched to Camino- which is rather elegant, and also free. So we'll see how that goes......

Well I can honestly say that Camino is utterly fabulous, and has now become my main browser

driven

in the status bar
hi all,
at the moment, this is called sumac.app and as far as I'm aware, no one else has tried it out.
there's a write up in http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=35023&p=308823#p308823
I've had no reply's there, so I thought I'd put it here where I know Mac users will see it.

It's moved forward and I've made a demo movie, but before making a new dmg, I want to know if anyone else is interested.

so, if you have a look at the link and come back here to reply,
I'll then post the links here, if that's OK

john

Mike Lucey

John,

Could you post the movie link here so we can get a better idea of the app in action?

Mike

driven

hi Mike,

not a problem, when I tidy it up a bit...

in the mean time I just finished a test dmg plugin loader, that should put a ruby and support folder directly into the right place.
dmg load test.jpg

it's just Jim's homer.rb ( Jim hope you don't mind)
if you already have it, it will ask if you want to replace, etc...

Can everyone try, I'll put a 'how to make' in the dev forum if it works well.
It may make life easier for Mac-SU plugin newcomers [as well as developers]
it may only work on v8 which is what I really need to know.

cheers

john

homer instal.dmg.zip

tfdesign

John, the link doesn't work.

tfdesign

John, I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to do

The video is also too blurred to make much sense out of. Any chance of a higher resolution version?

cheers.

Tom

driven

hi Tom,

Links and file sizes are driving me nuts, so now I've remembered it only needs to work on a Mac.... like the app.

here's a reasonable quality version (with all my fumbling with a giant cursor!!!)

it's took me 7 secs to download and you can watch in full screen to see what's happening.

all the actions are SLOWED down, it's not as clunky in use...

sorry for the others, I'll take it down

john
http://homepage.mac.com/johnboundy/filechute/sumac_demo%232.mp4.zip

driven

sumac_demo#2.jpg
Hi all,
I made a [low quality] demo, but it's still >4MB

Here's a download linkEDIT: NEW LINK

REMOVED this one as well, too small, see two posts below for a full screen demo, link

I'll sort out a smaller one later...

john
edit: replaced the broken link... this should work

tfdesign

"Filechute" is so awesome!

driven

Me again,
here's the link to the app, It's slowed down at the moment because I added a load of extra steps and delays to show what's happening...

have a play
http://homepage.mac.com/johnboundy/filechute/sumac_dev_2011-03-01-002859.dmg.zip

...a had trouble with the short URL's

kate-art

Since we launched Shaderlight for SketchUp back in October we’ve been inundated with emails asking when the Mac version will be released. Well the wait is over – you can download Shaderlight for your Mac!

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Mike Lucey

Hi Guys,

When I was back in the Stone Age using Windows , I got very fond of a handy little utility called 'Meazure'. It was an on-line ruler.

Over the past couple of years I have come across a few similar Mac apps but none as good as Meazure until now!
PixelStick http://www.plumamazing.com/mac/pixelstick/ does the job very well. Check out the screencast on the site as it explains the in and outs.

Meazure allowed me to open multiple rulers which was needed at times. To do this in PixelStick I have to 'copy' the app and make multiple pixelsticks.

It looks to be free or a pay if you like! If you find it useful please consider buying as it helps the developer to improve the app.

Mike

PS: For all the Win users that have a peek in here, the link to Meazure is http://www.cthing.com/Meazure.asp