iSyncIt

iSyncIt is a small menu bar application that allows you to sync your devices more easily and quickly than just using iSync alone. iSyncIt has the ability to automatically turn your bluetooth on and off, saving you power if you are using a laptop. It also has a built in scheduler to allow you to set up automatic syncing of your devices.

To reduce the amount of space needed on your menu bar iSyncIt also contains an, albeit limited, bluetooth menu, allowing you to use iSyncIt as a replacement for your bluetooth menu bar item.

This software requires OS X 10.5, PPC or Intel processors and for all of your devices to have been synced at least once in iSync.

In Mac OS it is only possible (as far as I am aware) to control the power of internal bluetooth dongles, those provided by Apple, therefore automatic bluetooth control will not function with external dongles. However, the scheduling and syncing functions of iSyncIt will continue to work as normal.

My Book Icons

This is a set of Western Digital My Book icons for Mac, Windows (including Vista) and now Linux. The set includes icons for the Western Digital My Book; Premium, Pro, Essential, Premium II, Pro II, World, World II drives and now; new Essential, Home, Office, Studio & Studio II.

All icons are in vertical and horizontal orientations.

Included in the ZIP file are ICNS files and ‘Get Info’ copy & paste icons for Mac, ICO files for Windows and PNG files for Linux.

If you are having trouble setting the icons on your hard drive you can read my tutorial here or download Set Icon here if you want something that will do it for you.

My Passport Icons

A set of Mac, Windows & Linux icons for the Western Digital My Passport range of portable external hard drives. The set currently includes icons for the red, black, dark blue, light blue, orange, pink, turquoise, white, silver and yellow “Essential” drives & the black and silver “Studio” drives.

Included in the ZIP file are ICNS files and ‘Get Info’ copy & paste icons for Mac, ICO files for Windows and PNG files for Linux.

If you are having trouble setting the icons on your hard drive you can read my tutorial here or download Set Icon here if you want something that will do it for you.

Set Icon

Set Icon is a small application that lets you quickly and easily set a custom icon for one your drives either from an ICNS file or any old image file that Mac OS supports.

Just select your drive, drag an image file to the image box and click ‘Set Icon’, when you want to remove the custom icon just select the drive, check the ‘Remove Custom Icon’ box and click ‘Remove Icon’.

At the moment Set Icon scales any images you drop onto it to fit in a square, for best results first crop or resize your image in Preview to be a square that is at least 512×512 pixels in size.

Set Icon applies custom icons in such a way that they appear correctly both in Leopard’s side bar and in the Boot Camp chooser.

Bug: Occasionally Set Icon will fail to apply the icon to the drive on the first try, in the event of this problem occurring just click the “Set Icon” button again and everything should work fine.

Kill Dashboard

Kill Dashboard is a basic Automator action to shut down Dashboard after use. it allows you to free up RAM and processor cycles without permanently disabling Dashboard. It should work on all Tiger platforms assuming you’ve done no dodgy OS editing of your own. I have created this for people that do not wish to write their own AppleScript or Automator actions.

Kill Front Row

Kill Front Row is a basic Automator action to shut down Front Row after use, it is useful if you want to free up RAM and processor cycles to use for something else, without disabling Front Row altogether. It should work with all versions of Front Row on all platforms even if you have hacked it on yourself.

Web Server Management

Web Server Management is a useful little Automator action that I created to allow you to easily turn on and off your web server components. The initial release caters for Mac OS X’s built in Apache Server and the latest releases of MySQL that installs to ‘/usr/local’. I have created this for people that do not wish to write their own AppleScript or Automator actions.