One of our favorite applications, Quicksilver has gone open source. This move has been rumored for a while now and it is good to see it come to fruition. The project is released as a Google Code Project. With Quicksilver being so powerful, the TweakOSX team can only imagine the possibilities for the future of this code base as well as added stability and faster development from a sure to be devoted community.
Engadget Mini How-To: Remove the Windows BSOD icon in Leopard
Engadget has a Mini How-To posted on removing the Windows BSOD icon from Leopard. If you are not aware of the icon, take a look at the article. We must say, we find it rather amusing but do see it as a bit of a slap shot.
(Via Engadget.)
Reports across the web are coming in with sales of Leopard pushing 2 million copies during its first weekend of sales. While not unexpected, this number seems to be further evidence of the growing Mac user base. We would be very interested to know the breakdown of copies bundled with new hardware and stand alone copies. We know several people who were holding off on upgrading hardware for the release of the new OS. What about you?
Jackilyn.com: Get Rid of the Glass Dock in Leopard: If you don’t like the glass dock in Leopard you can change it with a few simple lines in Terminal. Check out this tip to learn how!
(Via Jackilyn.com.)
Straight from Steve Jobs:
Third Party Applications on the iPhone: “Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our users. With our revolutionary multi-touch interface, powerful hardware and advanced software architecture, we believe we have created the best mobile platform ever for developers.
If there is any media which is generally a pain to deal with, video has to be it. With formats and codecs too innumerable to count, obtaining video from sources and converting it for use with other software or devices is potentially one of the more frustrating tasks a user may experience. Let us introduce you to a program which can significantly reduce these frustrations, HandBrake.
The TweakOSX team is a big fan of always having the latest versions of software installed on our machines. This ensures we are always running the code with the most recent bug fixes, giving us peace of mind as we go on with our daily lives. A relative newcomer to the Mac application scene, AppFresh helps make the process of keeping all of your applications up to date as painless and quick as possible. 
The AppFresh website states:
AppFresh helps you to keep all applications (third-party and Apple), widgets, preference panes and application plugins on your Mac up to date, from one place. It works by checking the excellent iusethis.com for new versions and lets you download and install available updates easily.
So head on over to the AppFresh website, give it a look and try it out!
Having consistently seen questions regarding alternatives to Stuffit in forums across the net, we decided to shine our spotlight on one of our favorite free utilities – The Unarchiver. This information is not ground breaking by any means, and can be found across Mac sites, but we want to provide a central place to obtain good information, and The Unarchiver certainly belongs here.
The compression tools which come with OSX can handle a wide array of situations but will on occasion leave you without the ability to open some more exotic archive files. Best of all, its free! The Unarchiver handles a very wide range of files which include Zip, Tar-Gzip, Tar-BZip2, Rar, 7-zip, LhA, Stuffit and many more.
TUAW: iStat menus v1.1 preview screenshot and details:
Additional news to our recent post about our favorite apple system stats application, The Unofficial Apple Weblog writes today:
The iSlayer crew have released a preview screenshot on the company’s blog that highlights a few key features coming in v1.1 of iStat menus, their utility for keeping an eye on your Mac’s various statistics from the menubar. Specifically new in this upcoming version will be network graphing, monitoring of S.M.A.R.T. hard drive temperatures, a breakdown of every temp sensor on a CPU and what looks like a significantly redesigned calendar.
N.E.R.D.: How to turn Spotlight OFF (and ON Again)….:
Tech Blog N.E.R.D details how to turn off(or on) Spotlight on your Mac. Doing this will require editing your /etc/hostconfig file using sudo.
Edit /etc/hostconfig and change the line that reads
SPOTLIGHT=-YES-
to
SPOTLIGHT=-NO-
Run the following two commands from the command line to get rid of existing index files
sudo mdutil -i off /
sudo mdutil -E /
Reboot
The Blog also goes into further details about how to remove Spotlights index file and remove the icon from the Menubar.
(Via N.E.R.D.)
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