Well hello once again from IGS, just bought a brand new mac mini this week and exploring about my new Mac OSX Lion. Since, it’s brand new and coming from a windows based web developer myself, there’s a few freeware and apps I must have to complete my “transitional experience” to this new O/S.

Here is a few apps and freeware I recommend installing into your Mac O/SX 10.7 Lion.

1. LaunchPadCleaner - If you are Mac O/SX lion user, you will probably noticed that the launchpad is the place where you place all your icons of the new installed apps. However, some of the icons may get “Duplicated” over time and it gets even messier that the current version can only delete the icon (dragged from the appstore and not those from downloaded ones – by right it is said you can do so by Pressing Command and Option and then looked for the X icon when the icons starts to wiggle). But unfortunately, once again icons get duplicated and there’s no way of deleting it (what a bummer for user “experience” – Apple!), thankfully you have this app that does deletion and backup for you just in case, only thing is (it’s not entirely free – is free if you want to delete icons from the first page…workaround for it, just move those icons to first page and rerun the app hahaha…)
2. JDK for Mac Lion – Wow yet another important development kit just go missing, don’t panic just goto utilities, run the terminal app, type java; a prompt will appear indicating java is not installed, and it will ask to download the java dmg for you. To double check whether java development environment is installed properly head over to the terminal and type java -version and then javac -version they should return you the version number than errors.
3. MacFuse for Mac Lion, yes the mac is having problem “reading / writing” on NTFS drive – almost every mac person bitch about it. Just use this app to mount the drive. If you want a good simpler solution try paragon ntfs 9  but, its gonna cost you 20 bucks.
4. Adium – All Rounder Chat App other than iChat. I’m having problem connecting to msn for mac. Using this solved the problem,
5. Chrome – haha because of the cool webstore and and being the fastest browser on earth!
6. uTorrent – the very tiny bit BitTorrent client. Nuff said . And if you need a mac Lion compatible vpn client use tunnelBlink (download the beta ones it has better support on Lion)
7. fileZilla – a simple FTP app which is free for mac/pc version. Very very useful for uploading stuff to the hosting sites.
8. Flash plugin for your browsers – this is if you wanna watch youtube and stuff.
9. SCPlugin SVN Toolbar plugin (tutorial video) – a very useful toolbar plugin to allow you to checkin, update and do your SVN stuff easily. Use the latest one below under downloads.
10. jDownloader – a wonderful freeware tool which allows you to download faster (break files into multiple smaller chunks) and support resume. You no longer need to have safari / browser still running once your have this running.
11. Dropbox – a must have, intact I use this one to backup my source files and document files. It offers a free online cloud storage for up to 2.0 GB and you can create share public links from the website. Available on all platforms as well as mobile phones too.
12. Eclipse / Aptana / Titanium Studio – A great all rounder IDE for programming especially on mobile and web technologies. These IDE comes with internal web server integrated with your existing browser too. All of these are based on eclipse and you can extend the functionalities of the IDE.
13. OpenOffice – for your daily opening and viewing office related document and spreadsheets.
14. Unarchiver (browse Mac Appstore for this – it’s free) - This is a handy tool to open all kinds of compressed files e.g. zip, 7zip, lha, rar, and etc. Best of all it’s free!
15. If you want something more powerful (encryption / password protect and better compression method) than Unarchiver – you can use this too Keka here.
16. Xcode (browse Mac Appstore for this – it’s free)  - For native mac app or dealing with iphone/ipad development projects.

Some side note for those that wanted to have the “dark theme text mate with vibrant ink” on eclipse or eclipse “variant” – check out this site and more dark theme stuff here also.

I remember my days of churning contents to be placed in a product like photo displayer especially, when creating online interactive flash application for various product. Renaming products into a special naming convention with preferred prefix and suffix is always good practice.

However, if you are in a hurry and have hundreds of images to rename, that can be a problem. Luckily I’ve discovered this cool freeware that will solved all our problem. ReNamer, like the name of the tool said, is very easy to use and particularly useful when you have to rename a large number of files. The user interface is designed using the traditional computer model for input > process > output. You can have a wizard guiding you on how and what to rename or you can simply go advance mode by using those regular expression like syntax to perform more complex renaming functions.

Go ahead try it out here

Having problems with damaged disc or files stored in some old scratched cd, dvd, even blue ray disc? Suxs isn’t. Well don’t just throw the disc away though – because there might be a chance, that you will be able to salvage the files stored in the disc!

Introducing  the free CD Recovery Toolbox software for windows. (works in Windows 98 – latest Windows Vista Sp2).

This is a mini tool which tries to copy content from the damaged disc and apply some error correction to extract data stored in it to the hard drive. You can then, copy back the data to a new disc. The CD Recovery Toolbox Free tool not only has a complete set of data recovery features, but is also user-friendly and convenient.

The program interface is designed as a step-by step wizard, where the user has to perform a single action on each page of the wizard. The wizard makes the use of the tool very simple and convenient even for a beginner.

CD Recovery Toolbox Free is absolutely free. Anyone can install it on the computer and use the program for an unlimited time. This fact is one of its main advantages over the rival software. Moreover, the functionality of the tool is equal to that of most paid software. Check it out here!

If you are an open source developer at times, you may want a simple tool that can wipe off those .svn folder from the source. I normally do that, if the svn repository is too screwed up and clean up function isn’t all that perfect. I will normally checkout all the source file. Perform a .svn clean up, delete the svn repo folder and start all over (checking in again). However, apparently there’s lack of a tool in windows which is to do this easily other than going through command console thingy.

Fortunately, I found a good solution for this. A mini tool which sticks to your Windows shell’s context menu. All you need to do is to select your svn source folder and right click. Walla then, just select Remove all .svn

This free mini tool known as SVN Cleaner can be found here. Last but not least, if it get posted here – it simply means IS GOOD STUFF!

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Sometimes, when you transfer a bunch of folders with pictures on it ; you will notice a bunch of space wasting Thumb.db – This is of course thanks to Windows XP default images thumbnail database. These db files does eat up space and is useless if you are in other operating system or web server. Best way is  to get rid of it. During the weekends, I was asked to transfer a website to another domain hosting. I found out I was downloading a bunch of these useless thumb.db. This is so mind numbing. Ahhh well time for some clean up!

I found out this cool tool which does just that, cleaning up mess lol. Just assign folder with all the image crap inside. Run this mini tool. (does not require installation) .Click Search once, it’s done search simply click clean!

To get this software, you will need at least DotNet Framework 2.0 installed, if you have Windows Vista you can straight away double click and fire away.

Get your Thumb Cleaner version 1.0!

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Presenting “Virtual Clone Drive”. Yet another post on handy software which allows you to mount an ISO file to a virtual drive excluding malware, rootkit stuff and adwares. Yup, just plain simple freeware that does that.

This tool will be useful for those that like to create images of the DVD/CD and stored them as ISO files (backup purposes). These ISO files are made by software like imgburn / nero burning rom and etc. Originally, ISO files are made to be used as source disk reference for DVD/CD burning software.

With Virtual Clone Drive installed all your ISO files will be somewhat executable, simply double click on em, and the software will then mount a virtual drive that emulate exactly like the original DVD. Quite useful for those whom prefer simple drive mounting to checkout contents in ISO files.

Virtual Clone drive is available free for download here.