I often need to use OS X icons on the web. Unfortunately, it’s not an easy matter to extract icons from Mac files or folders. The solution? IconGrabber.
IconGrabber
Beyond Repair
Where can you find an application that comprises a single shell command wrapped in so many layers that it ends up 10,000 times bigger, slower, more obtrusive, less intuitive and full of junk, but still performs the same function as the original command?
AppleScript can be handy sometimes, but when people release applications like this, and get awards for it, alarm bells should be going off. WallSaver is almost two megabytes in size. For a single command-line.
Just reinforce the point, I wrote another wrapper for the same command in Objective-C. It’s 100 kb, or 60 kb without the icon. It can pause the screensaver (which brings it down to 0 CPU usage), resume it or restart it. And not once will it throw an “AppleScript error” 
. Download it and see for yourself.
As for the source code, all you need is:
/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background
Eliminate Bloatware
The Vikings left their trash on the ground - Mac developers are stuffing theirs into their apps.
Continue Reading Eliminate BloatwareHide in your shell
Your Mac has a UNIX core - learn to use it.
Continue Reading Hide in your shellMac developer? Clean up your app
The reason for this article should be obvious: too many OS X third party developers do an absolutely terrible job of building and packaging their applications. rixstep
Too many apps are shipped with debug symbols, uncompressed images, redundant files or generally useless rubbish that not only wastes users’ disk space, it ultimately ends up increasing the developer’s own bandwidth costs.
FancyForm - Pretty checkboxes and radios
Styling form controls has always been limited with HTML and CSS. Not anymore. FancyForm provides the solution by letting you style checkboxes and radio buttons as you would any other elements, while degrading gracefully on older and non-graphical browsers.
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