Mathusalem is a robust and unintrusive backup system for Mac OS X Leopard, which can be used either as a System Preferences pane or directly as a command line tool.
Mathusalem is complementary to Time Machine as it backups automatically one or more directories of your choice to remote servers in order ensure extra safety of your most important data.

• It supports a wide range of destinations: local drives, iDisk, WebDAV, AFP, SMB, FTP, SFTP or Amazon S3
• It can generate archives in various formats: sparse or compressed .dmg and CPIO or ZIP archives
• It generates fully self-contained backups i.e. data and settings which makes it possible to access them from any machine or even relocate them
• It can restart a download or upload that failed or was cancelled by the user without having to restart the entire backup
• It runs in low-priority mode on your machine so it doesn’t hang your CPU or hard drive
• It runs only when necessary (it is managed by launchd like other system services)
• It is fully open-source which means no proprietary file formats (backup data files are plain XML)
• It stores passwords in the Keychain
• It reports detailed information on the backup progress
• The command line tool version can be integrated in existing tool chains or used with launchd

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SuperDocker allows to customize parts of your Mac OS X Leopard. Using SuperDocker, you will be able to:

• Display a 2D/3D Dock
• Use transparency on hidden applications’ icons
• Add separation in the Dock
• Modify the display of the Docks
• Add stacks in recent elements
• Display a border cadre around applications
• Modify the display of the Stacks
• Modify the effect of window minimisation in Finder
• Modify the switching time between 2 spaces under Space
• Modify the drawing time of dialog boxes
• Display the complete path in the title bar
• Display the hidden files
• AForce new windows to open in tabs
• Display the Debug menu in Safari
• Display WebInspector in Safari
• Choose to display or not a message after each new disk detection in Time Machine
• Display the iCal debug menu
• Activate the Data Detectors mod for iChat
• Activate the Dashboard’s Developper mode
• Modify the display of the menubar
• Modify the capture format
• Modify the print dialog boxes’ format
• Modify the Mac OS X bootsplash
• And more…

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GarageBuy provides an easy way to search on eBay. Finally, an application that looks the way it should (using the Mac’s native interface) to help you find and purchase items on eBay. GarageBuy is the first Mac desktop application officially certified by eBay for bidding and it supports

• Place Bids and Purchase Items directly from within GarageBuy
• Gallery List View
• Saved Searches
• Growl Suppor

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FLV2iTunes… This is a simple docklet application for converting movies to iTunes, iPod and iPhone supported format. Just drag and drop videos to it and wait for it to finish. It will accept any video format that are supported by ffmpeg (WMV, XVID, DIVX, FLV, AVI, and more), converts it, and insert the movie into iTunes library. If you like the program and want to make a donation, I will appreciate it.

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NetNewsWire is an easy-to-use RSS and Atom newsreader for Mac OS X. Its familiar three-paned interface — similar to Apple Mail — can fetch and display news from thousands of different websites and weblogs, making it quick and easy to keep up with the latest news. Features include:

• A tabbed browser lets you read web pages with the convenience of staying in the same window.
• Search your news items with a standard Apple search widget — as in Mail and other applications.
• Downloads podcasts and enclosures, and sends podcasts to iTunes with with your choice of genre and playlist.
• The flagged items feature lets you mark items that you want to keep — they stay forever or until you mark them as unflagged.
• Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) compatible, and includes Automator actions to control functions in NetNewsWire.
• Other features include syncing, smart lists, search subscriptions, built-in styles, and AppleScript support.
• Includes a built-in categorized list of feeds that can be easily subscribed to.
• If NetNewsWire Lite is already running, quit it before running NetNewsWire.

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Stacks In Da Place allows you to customize your Stacks with just a drag & drop! A set of icons is available from the “Stacks In Da Place” menu.

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Cocoa Packet Analyzer is a native Mac OS X implementation of a network protocol analyzer and packet sniffer. It uses libPCAP for reading packet trace files and for capturing network traffic. Supports the Cocoa bundles technology for creating TCP/IP application layer protocol “Analyzer PlugIns”.

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ImagePhone is a free Mac OS X wallpaper maker and image manager for iPhone/iPod Touch. Image editing is easy due to the adaptable graphics editor that allows to crop and resize images in accordance with the defined exact position and size. Cropping of pictures is effected according to parameters of iPhone display. You can enhance your photos with Core Image-based filters: sharpness, brightness, sepia, blur and more. Ready wallpapers can be organized in wallpapers gallery or transferred to iPhone. Native iPhone support allows transfer wallpapers easily. iPhoto integration allows automatic creation of backgrounds from iPhoto library.

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GPS2Aperture Lite is a free and easy to use geotagging application for use with Apple’s Aperture and Google Earth.

• Visually geotag your images with the help of Google Earth.
• Copy GPS positions from one image to another.
• View individual image locations in Google Earth.
• Go into ‘constant update’ mode and watch Google Earth automatically fly from location to location as you navigate from image to image in Aperture.

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GrandPerspective is a small utility application for Mac OS X that graphically shows the disk usage within a file system. It can help you to manage your disk, as you can easily spot which files and folders take up the most space. It uses a so-called tree map for visualisation. Each file is shown as a rectangle with an area proportional to the file’s size. Files in the same folder appear together, but their placement is otherwise arbitrary.

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