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SoftRightClick 1.8 - Lets you right-click by holding down the left mouse button. Useful for touch-screen portables like the Fujitsu Lifebook P1510D that don't have an actual mouse button, or if you just want an old-school 1-button Macintosh mouse experience. Developed using AutoHotkey; standalone .EXE with source included.
AppleScripts
Music Valet 1.0 - Lets you collect your iTunes music library into a single folder. Unlike iTunes' Consolidate Library command, Music Valet moves files rather than copying them, so you don't end up with extra copies of dozens of songs cluttering your hard disk. Also lets you force iTunes to reorganize the library folder by artist and album and provides a list of any missing files. Developed with AppleScript Studio so it has a real UI; requires Mac OS 10.2 and iTunes 3.
RootFinder - This script for Mac OS X quits the Finder, then re-launches it with super-user privileges so you can easily manage files in any directory without worrying about privileges. When you quit the "root" Finder, it re-launches the Finder under your regular user account. (not tested with Mac OS 10.2)
iTunes Scripts - iPod Remix randomly chooses songs from your main iTunes library and adds them to a dedicated iPod playlist, letting you easily "mix up" your selection of "tunes to go" if you have more MP3s than will fit on your iPod. iTunes Gather automatically moves all your iTunes tracks into a single folder for use with the MP3 Mix CD script.
MP3 Mix CD - Randomly chooses 650MB or 700MB worth of MP3s from your collection, then automatically burns those to a CD using Toast 5 Titanium (or, with a little tweaking, just selects the files in the Finder). Perfect for making MP3 mix discs for work, car trips, whatever. Now includes Carbonized applets for Mac OS X.
Miscellaneous
X Keymaps - Keyboard mapping files for Dvorak and QWERTY, for use with the X Window System (i.e. XDarwin/Xfree86) under Mac OS X.
Writing
Starship of Fools, Millennium Edition. In 1985-1986, as seniors at Grove City High School, Rex Crossley and Jerry Kindall wrote a sci-fi comedy novel entitled Starship of Fools. Now, fifteen years later, comes the "Millennium Edition" of this unheralded classic. Includes an all-new introduction by one of the authors and "Melvin's Crew," a never-before-seen 1987 short story set in the same universe. "Juvenile and derivative!" raves one critic. "You haven't lived until you've stopped reading this!" says another. It's a gift from me to you on the occasion of National Novel Writing Month.
Download it soon; who knows how long I can bear to keep this embarrassing reminder of my youth up on my site where everyone can see it? DOS text file format in a ZIP file. You Windows people should be able to handle it without difficulty. Mac users can unpack it with StuffIt Expander and read it with BBEdit Lite.
Web Stuff
ASPulse 0.2 - Realtime Web traffic monitoring (in a very quick and dirty way) for Web servers that support Active Server Pages. I'm not kidding about the "quick and dirty" thing, it's really not very well designed at the moment. Future development will see a refactoring of the code so more of the formatting is in the log display script, resolution of variable and cookie namespace issues, logging of individual page hit counts, and prettification of the display.
Jerry's Finder Patch
Jerry's Finder Patch is for U.S. versions of Mac OS only. However, the included instructions for making your own patch are applicable to any international Mac OS release.
Jerry's Finder 9 Patch 1.4 - Latest release works with Mac OS 9.1 (with or without Disc Burner), Mac OS 9.2, 9.2.1, and 9.2.2. The keyboard shortcuts you can't live without, plus many other useful patches. Get it while it's hot!
NOTE: Some users are reporting problems with the Command-T keyboard shortcut. Make sure "Warn before emptying" is turned off in the Trash's Info window. If it isn't, turn it off and restart. Command-T should show up in the Special menu and work correctly.
Jerry's Finder 9 Patch 1.2 - This is the older version of the popular patch for Mac OS 9.0 and 9.0.4.
Jerry's Finder 8 Patch 1.3 - This version is for Mac OS 8.x. Unsupported; please do not distribute this archive further since it does not contain accurate contact information for me.
Music
Quantum Mechanics (5.1MB) - Back in 1993 or 1994, I had a spare bedroom full of MIDI and audio equipment. This is the only piece I finished in those days to have survived intact in a digital form. It was composed and sequenced using Master Tracks Pro on a Macintosh SE/30, which drove something like twenty tracks of audio from various synths and modules into an Alesis 1622 mixer and then onto DAT. (Yes, the Alesis 1622 was a 16-track mixer. To get the 20 tracks, I used a couple of the effects returns as input channels, and one of the modules had an audio passthrough.) I messed up the mix somewhat; there's way too much treble on the drum track, and that kind of moaning noise halfway through the piece really has gotta go, I don't know what the hell I was thinking -- but I never got a chance to remix it. I sold all the music gear to start my freelance writing business. But there's something about this piece that I still find deeply satisfying.
OneClick Utilities
All these utilites are for the Macintosh and require OneClick from WestCode Software.
CueCat "driver" - Allows USB model of CueCat barcode scanner to be used to scan barcodes into any program. The CueCat supports a pretty good range of barcode formats, but "obfuscates" the barcodes using a modified base64 encoding and an exclusive-OR operation. This OneClick palette is a "driver" that captures the data sent by the CueCat, decodes it, and "types" the cleartext into whatever program is frontmost. It's not perfect (depending on what program's in front, some of the CueCat's data might go to the application before the script "wakes up" to decode it -- Microsoft Word is especially bad about this, naturally) but you may find it useful anyway. It works pretty well in a lot of programs.
