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Or you can just use Lock My Mac. I use this with Spotlight (cmd-space, then L, then Enter).

1. I just tested exactly what you describe in your post above, and I still have "Show File" regardless of where I import to iPhoto from. Do I need to do another video to prove you wrong? It only takes me a few moments to record something that takes 10 seconds.
2. This is an amazingly trivial thing to quibble about. I've proved that you can export stills from iMovie (you take a still, then reveal it in Finder). If you're not happy about the way Apple did it, submit a bug on it. I have done this previously (an issue with Terminal in the developer builds of Leopard), and it was fixed ASAP.
3. From your movie, I cannot make out the window that you are claiming descends below the Dock. Personally, I've yet to manage to make a window that cannot fit completely on the screen. Mac OS X is aware of where the Dock is, and will resize windows to accommodate it. Take a screenshot of it, using the Cmd+Shift+3 built into Tiger.

I'm also interested in knowing how my not upgrading to Leopard to be like all my sheep Mac buddies has anything to do with my complaint.

I was pointing out that if you are as dissatisfied with Mac OS X Tiger as your whining on here and in your video makes you out to be, there are alternatives. You have an Intel Mac. You could install any OS you want to on it. That you are still using 10.4 merely indicates to me that you are going out of your way to find things to troll and whine about. Apple still supports 10.4, as well, for that matter, and you could submit a bug report on your Mail window problem (if it really is a problem; in your video I could not make out the bottom of the window being below the Dock). But I'm betting that you've submitted no bugs, as you're just here to troll and whine.

For that matter, it's not like Apple is forcing you not to use another mail client, there are a quite a few of free choices (Thunderbird, Eudora, Correo, and Mulberry spring to mind).

You're quite mistaken about software. There are thousands of quality free software for the Mac. Thousands of quality shareware too. And thousands of commercial apps with high price tags.

Try http://www.macupdate.com/ or http://www.tuaw.com/ or http://www.versiontracker.com/ to start. You can also install thousands of free apps from sourceforge or freshmeat that were originally meant for linux or the command line... you even have access to X11 apps!

There are actually quite a few Java apps that are important to many Mac users. Obviously, if you're running Mac OS X Server, you might want to run stuff like Apache Tomcat. User-level Java Mac apps include stuff like XML mind, which is widely used to write docbook documents. It's also kind of interesting that some Java apps running on Macs try to hide the fact that they're Java apps, because many Mac users have an irrational hatred of Java (probabbly due to the incredibly bad performance and looks of early Swing apps).

MacUpdate lists Java-based teaching apps, CAD Software, Microscope Image viewers, Magic card databases, iTunes helpers and a ton of games.

I'd say a huge number of Mac users have at least one or two Java apps on their Mac, probably without even realizing the apps are written in Java.

There are actually quite a few Java apps that are important to many Mac users. Obviously, if you're running Mac OS X Server, you might want to run stuff like Apache Tomcat. User-level Java Mac apps include stuff like XML mind, which is widely used to write docbook documents. It's also kind of interesting that some Java apps running on Macs try to hide the fact that they're Java apps, because many Mac users have an irrational hatred of Java (probabbly due to the incredibly bad performance and looks of early Swing apps).

MacUpdate lists Java-based teaching apps, CAD Software, Microscope Image viewers, Magic card databases, iTunes helpers and a ton of games.

I'd say a huge number of Mac users have at least one or two Java apps on their Mac, probably without even realizing the apps are written in Java.

There are actually quite a few Java apps that are important to many Mac users. Obviously, if you're running Mac OS X Server, you might want to run stuff like Apache Tomcat. User-level Java Mac apps include stuff like XML mind, which is widely used to write docbook documents. It's also kind of interesting that some Java apps running on Macs try to hide the fact that they're Java apps, because many Mac users have an irrational hatred of Java (probabbly due to the incredibly bad performance and looks of early Swing apps).

MacUpdate lists Java-based teaching apps, CAD Software, Microscope Image viewers, Magic card databases, iTunes helpers and a ton of games.

I'd say a huge number of Mac users have at least one or two Java apps on their Mac, probably without even realizing the apps are written in Java.

There are actually quite a few Java apps that are important to many Mac users. Obviously, if you're running Mac OS X Server, you might want to run stuff like Apache Tomcat. User-level Java Mac apps include stuff like XML mind, which is widely used to write docbook documents. It's also kind of interesting that some Java apps running on Macs try to hide the fact that they're Java apps, because many Mac users have an irrational hatred of Java (probabbly due to the incredibly bad performance and looks of early Swing apps).

MacUpdate lists Java-based teaching apps, CAD Software, Microscope Image viewers, Magic card databases, iTunes helpers and a ton of games.

I'd say a huge number of Mac users have at least one or two Java apps on their Mac, probably without even realizing the apps are written in Java.

There are actually quite a few Java apps that are important to many Mac users. Obviously, if you're running Mac OS X Server, you might want to run stuff like Apache Tomcat. User-level Java Mac apps include stuff like XML mind, which is widely used to write docbook documents. It's also kind of interesting that some Java apps running on Macs try to hide the fact that they're Java apps, because many Mac users have an irrational hatred of Java (probabbly due to the incredibly bad performance and looks of early Swing apps).

MacUpdate lists Java-based teaching apps, CAD Software, Microscope Image viewers, Magic card databases, iTunes helpers and a ton of games.

I'd say a huge number of Mac users have at least one or two Java apps on their Mac, probably without even realizing the apps are written in Java.

There are actually quite a few Java apps that are important to many Mac users. Obviously, if you're running Mac OS X Server, you might want to run stuff like Apache Tomcat. User-level Java Mac apps include stuff like XML mind, which is widely used to write docbook documents. It's also kind of interesting that some Java apps running on Macs try to hide the fact that they're Java apps, because many Mac users have an irrational hatred of Java (probabbly due to the incredibly bad performance and looks of early Swing apps).

MacUpdate lists Java-based teaching apps, CAD Software, Microscope Image viewers, Magic card databases, iTunes helpers and a ton of games.

I'd say a huge number of Mac users have at least one or two Java apps on their Mac, probably without even realizing the apps are written in Java.

There are actually quite a few Java apps that are important to many Mac users. Obviously, if you're running Mac OS X Server, you might want to run stuff like Apache Tomcat. User-level Java Mac apps include stuff like XML mind, which is widely used to write docbook documents. It's also kind of interesting that some Java apps running on Macs try to hide the fact that they're Java apps, because many Mac users have an irrational hatred of Java (probabbly due to the incredibly bad performance and looks of early Swing apps).

MacUpdate lists Java-based teaching apps, CAD Software, Microscope Image viewers, Magic card databases, iTunes helpers and a ton of games.

I'd say a huge number of Mac users have at least one or two Java apps on their Mac, probably without even realizing the apps are written in Java.

On a Mac, i believe you can get the Quicktime engine to have all the codecs you'll ever need by installing the free open source package Perian and the free (closed source) Flip4Mac WMV, which covers the last few.

Arguably, Apple should pre-install both of these packages - or variants thereof.

Now to get back onto the main topic..

One could also argue that the Apple-provided Quicktime player sucks ass big-time - and of course that is very true - but that's easily fixed by installing NicePlayer (also FOSS) - the other route is to ignore all the Quicktime-based solutions, and use something like VLC.

None of the above will stop an uneducated and/or unsuspecting user from clicking their way through an installer (and giving up an administrator password) believing it to install something great/fun/useful. If you try too hard to protect the naive and/or foolish from their own actions when administering the system then you end up taking the route Microsoft have with Vista (and their earlier Windows, each to a lesser extent) -- Are you sure? Are you really sure? Are you really really certain? Can i get a password with that? -- Ah.. Mac users are getting used to giving passwords during installs - bummer. (Mind you, they don't do it as quickly as the average Windows user/administrator can click Ok, Ok, Ok, Ok)

Being honest though, i don't think naivety or foolishness really enter into the equation - after all, it's a social engineering trick driven by the simple male quest for boobies - a somewhat unstoppable force!

MacUpdate's had this for years.

Example: http://www.macupdate.com/adobe will trigger a search for Adobe software.

It's an extremely impressive device. Oh, and if you can get a sensor bar (third party models exist), there are drivers to get Wiimotes working on PCs, albeit experimentally at the moment. In the medium term I can see PC games being released that support them.

I actually use Remote Buddy to control my Mac mini (which is hooked up to my HD beamer) with a Wii remote. It's become my main media box (think TVShows and remote-controlled iTunes via Chicken of the VNC) and gaming console (think MAME). The Wii Remote + Mac mini combination is simply awesome.

Go to either MacUpdate or Version Tracker for Mac software with user ratings and reviews

Perhaps this program would make things easier?
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/8658/sharepoi nts

it may give you some correctly configured config files that you can then just copy over to all the client computers.
Since it just uses an absolute path, you should be able to set up a Windoze shared folder that's the same path on every computer. I use this to share a non-home-folder folder, with it's own user/pw.

A program like OS EX will decrypt the DVD and create a disk image that you can burn to a regular DVD-R or whatever

....at least....that's....what....somebody told me.

There's also OSXPM which is free GPL software and Desinstaller which is also freeware. Both use Apple's own package management system which leaves all the relevant information for uninstalls in /Libray/Receipts/. It is interesting that Apple has done everything but create a standard front end for uninstalls. Perhaps they have plans for a drag-and-drop uninstaller like you suggest but haven't gotten quite all the bugs out of it yet.

There's also OSXPM which is free GPL software and Desinstaller which is also freeware. Both use Apple's own package management system which leaves all the relevant information for uninstalls in /Libray/Receipts/. It is interesting that Apple has done everything but create a standard front end for uninstalls. Perhaps they have plans for a drag-and-drop uninstaller like you suggest but haven't gotten quite all the bugs out of it yet.

my ass. There is plenty of high quality freeware/shareware available for Mac OS X. HardOCP either doesn't know where to look or ignored what's out there. Check out Apple's download section or macupdate. Shoot, just do a Google search for OS X Freeware.

http://www.versiontracker.com/

http://www.macupdate.com/

Are you kidding me? Mac OS X has more free solutions available than Windows by a LONG shot. It seems every single program on Windows is crippleware, whereas most of my utility and internet programs are free as in beer. Thanks to the BSD heritage, we have a billion programs that put a great user interface on top of existing Unix/Linux projects (things like Transmission and Camino come to mind).

Seriously, look at http://www.macupdate.com/ and filter by "Free". Have fun.

Hey dude.

What does your signature refer to? It links to http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/18261,perform ance but this URL is simply redirected to the root of Macupdate.

thanks,

-b

On all laptop macintoshes there are now always webcams on the screens, and go figure there are already maybe 5 or 6 such utilities, taking regular snapshots of the mugger and sending them silently back somewhere...
I agree this still sounds stupid, but just because there is a LED aside the cam :-(

see for instance: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/20425/underco ver
The icon itself says it all...

Thanks for mentioning that, I haven't tried my sites in Lynx for years.

Turns out Drupal looks great in Lynx, just like it seems to for everything else. It's a very well-done CMS.

OS X users, get Lynxlet

http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/22856

Back in the "old days" when harddrives were 150 MB and people backed-up to floppies, there were tons of programs that would make indexes of your floppy collection for off-line searching. Are you seriously saying that zero of those programs still exist?

A quick MacUpdate.com search brings up this product, but there must be others: http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/15717

Like I said, there used to be dozens... I don't believe that they're *all* disappeared.

...wishing they would add things, like OS integrated multiple desktops..."

If you have a PPC version of OSX, multiple desktops has been around quite awhile. But it's an add on and it has cool switching effects to select from.

If it's the standard USB Missile Launcher, have you tried the USB Missile Launcher NZ. It should work with USB Missile Launcher and the DreamCheeky Rocket Launcher.

You are welcome!

15. No Date Display: Ok yeah, set the date format to display would be nice. I just glance at my iCal icon. 14. Desktop Widgets: I just Dashboard, Grab Widget, Undashboard and drop on my desktop. "Dev Mode?" it's a >defaults oneliner 13. Inconsistent Use of Context Menus: Have you ever used MacOS X context Menus? They're soooo contextual. If anything I vote for doing less in them. It would be nice to have a *.app/contents/context/ folder to store my own scripts that appear in Finder context items. I vote for more spacific context menus in toolbars (instead of "Customize toolbar...etc). But please don't muck up contextual menus like windows. Eak! 12. Documents and App Instances on the Dock: Stupid idea. Contextual menus are better (I don't even think I need to justify this- it's pretty obvious- you're asking for a Windows Taskbar). It would be nice to have to use a command-click to add/remove items from the dock. That would life easier. 11. Managing Window Size: I'm a big fan of my clean borderless windows. Try Zooom- that kind of integration would be welcome. And for those looking for Maximize...option-zoom. 10. Accessing Applications: That's what Spotlight is for. Or you could use Contextual Menus. Or better yet, integrate Quicksilver. 9. Backspace and Delete Keys: Quit being retarded. Fn-Delete is sufficient for a notebook. I use forward delete all the time; Especially Option-Delete. 8. Printer Setup: Explain. I plugged mine in an clicked Make Default. 7. Inconsistent User Interface: Did it ever occur to anyone that using different window art makes it way the heck easier to know what you're clicking on without paying attention? I like the various interface looks. Besides it's only inconsistent if you appraise it on Apple's written guidelines. If you put various windows next each other they fit together pretty well. 6. Laptop Screen Dimming: It happens in half the display sleep time. You can set it manually (or by script) using pmset. 5. Managing Finder's Columns View, Problem No1: If the whole column were a grab point it would interfere with scrolling operations. What you really want is smarter auto-width. 4. See #5 3. Managing Finder's Columns View, Problem No. 3: No idea what you're talking about. I'll throw in my own complaints though. How about sort-by for columns, and keeping the focused column in center (implement autoscroll left). And finally always expand the Save pane. No one wants to use that silly menu that only lists common folders. (this can be partially taken car of with a defaults write) 2. Finder's Hobbled Cut Command: Cutting files is stupid. How about a Shelf (available in Quicksilver). 1. Dynamic Finder Refresh: I agree. Rewriting the Finder would be a good starting point.

I've always been a fan of "middle-click" to drag a window by clicking anywhere on it. Oh yeah, and when dragging don't change the focus! There's a pretty responsive developer the makes a program called Zooom. If Apple doesn't do it, I already bought my $4.95 license. (discalimer: no relation)

You might be interested in iPartition. It's not free, but it's more flexible than /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility. There are others, but this is the only one that quickly comes to mind. Don't bother asking Powerquest/Symantic to make a Mac version of Partiton Magic, ports of existing Windows utilities generally suck on other platforms.
http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iPartition.php

As for other Mac Applications, there are several websites you can check out for various Mac apps. I have never found a shortage of Mac (or Linux) applications, once I avoided the pitfall of finding a "port" or "perfect replacement" for my favorite Windows applications. Things are a little different in the Mac and Linux world, so you might need to find similar, but significantly different applications to meet your needs.

Check out:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/
http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/
http://www.macorchard.com/
http://www.macupdate.com/
And if you want games:
http://aspyr.com/product/product_listing
http://www.destineerstudios.com/macsoftgames/mac_l isting.html
http://www.feral.co.uk/
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/all.html
http://www.pangeasoft.net/index2.html
http://www.freeverse.com/
http://www.apple.com/games/
http://www.macgamefiles.com/

For OSS Mac stuff, a good guide is OpenSourceMac.

Care to educate a noob on OS X and linux apps?

There you go - never heard a startup sound since.

It is NOT mandatory.

Turn down your sound (in the OS X volume control), or mute your speakers.

Restart.

Tada! No startup sound.

There are also applications and Applescripts that will do it automatically for you:
http://alphaomega.software.free.fr/startupchimesto pper/Startup%20Chime%20Stopper.html
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031 005165919533
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/16780

By the way, the Apple startup sound is more akin to the PC Bios Boot-Beep. It's a hardware test, and it will play a different sound if there is a video card failure or ram failure, something which prevents the system from reaching the GUI.

My AMD X2 4200+ has massive power savings modes, it changes its voltage from 1.1V to 1.4V, it changes its speed from 1GHz to 2.2GHz. But it never actually turns one core off either.

It's not like it's exactly hard to get off your butt and see that you don't know what you're talking about here.

Crazy idea huh? It had 3 games I really liked (Lumines, Wipeout, GTA). It plays all my audio files from iTunes, AAC and MP3. I could rip DVDs and videos to it fairly effortlessly with software like Handbrake or PSPWare.

So what's the big deal?

Well, the big deal as we all know, is that the potential for the device is much more than what Sony can throw at it. And I think this rankles a lot of users. Not the majority, mind you, not even close... but enough to create a homebrew scene.

However I look at that scene with a sort of detatched interest. I've never been tempted by any of the homebrew software enough to downgrade the firmware. I'm simply... happy with it. Crazy I know.

Since I received it, the thing has gained major abilities at a regular pace. Web browsing, RSS feeds, Flash lite, WMA support, better wireless security, etc. None of this stuff was really promised or advertised, but we get it all for free. Now I do cool stuff like stream from my G5 to the PSP (MyTunesRSS - kicks ass).

I dunno. Call me quaint. I am happy with the thing because I was satisfied with its capabilities as it was presented. So I can't really feel jilted. (Of course, it was free for me. But if I dropped mine in the lake tomorrow, I'd probably go get another.)

From what I've seen the problem is very widespread - however it isn't always noticed.

I'm on my third MacBook Pro (for other problems, not the noise!), and all the ones I've had have made this noise, as has every other one I've seen. However probably more than 50% of people who've listened to my machine couldn't hear the noise.

The whine is very high pitched and it seems that lots of people just don't hear that frequency. However I can tell you that if you do hear it it's like fingernails down a blackboard. It nearly drove me mad until I found QuietMBP which immediately shut it up.

"The Mac platform in general has very little activity on the 'free software' side"?

Here's a list just of free Mac apps on my system, not including the ones that came with it:

Camino.app,
Firefox.app,
Opera.app,
Shiira.app,
Mini vMac.app,
Nestopia.app,
SNES9x.app,
Freecell.app,
Jin.app,
n_v14.app,
Neave Space Invaders.app,
Quinn.app,
Celestia.app,
Google Earth.app,
Aurora.app,
beaTunes.app,
CocoaJT.app,
Google Video Player.app,
MacMP3Gain.app,
MPlayer OSX.app,
NicePlayer.app,
Ollie's iPod Extractor.app,
PandoraMan.app,
RealPlayer.app,
Remote Remote.app,
VLC.app,
Adium.app,
Azureus.app,
Compress.app,
EasyDMG.app,
StuffIt Expander.app,
Untar.app,
Eavesdrop.app,
FrostWire.app,
JBidWatcher.app,
QuickTerm.app,
Remove Duplicates.app,
Skype.app,
XNap 3.0-pre1.app,
Adobe Reader 7.0.8.app,
Formulate.app,
LiquidCD.app,
PDFLab.app,
TextWrangler.app,
Applejack DesInstaller3.app,
FinkCommander.app,
iLikeYouMore.app,
MassReplaceIt.app,
Preferential Treatment.app,
Temperature Monitor.app
one that works with DVDs, another one that works with DVD drives, and one that sounds like something you might buy when you were hungry for corn flakes

That's not to mention the numerous command-line and x-window programs which are free to download, all of the programs which have been ported to run on Fink, and hundreds or thousands of free programs you can find from sites like macupdate.com and versiontracker.com.

It has Mac OS X. For me, that puts it high enough above everything else.

Why? I'm much happier with Linux...

That's why I said "for me". I don't claim that Mac OS X is best for everyone, and in fact, the MythTV box in our living room runs Linux (obviously). There are valid reasons to go with Linux over Mac OS X - especially if you know what you're doing.

For my personal computer, though, I prefer something that actually works for what I want to do and does what I want it to do, and for me, that's a Mac.

Although your criticisms seem a bit weird:

the directory names are easier to type,

Easier to type? How so?

the GNU command-line utilities beat the crap out of the BSD versions most of the time

Which ones are you talking about? What don't you like about BSD's command-line utilities?

there's much more software available

Now this is quite simply not true. If anything, the Mac has way more software than Linux. All of Apple's aplications like iMovie or iDVD, Apple's pro apps, Microsoft Office, Adobe's apps, all the Cocoa apps like Delicious Library or Omni Graffle: There's nothing like those on Linux.

features that should be free (virtual desktops, for example) are free

They're free on the Mac, too.

Why do you like Mac OS X? (Seriously... I'm curious.)

Why do I like the Mac?

First, it has a consistent and beautiful user interface. Yes, that matters to me. I have to stare at that (imho, of course) butt ugly excuse for an interface that is Windows all day long at work, I don't need that in my spare time.

Second, it has Xcode and Cocoa, which allow for rapid development of real Mac OS X applications.

Third, stuff just works. Plug a Gamepad into your Mac: Done. Plug a gamepad into your Linux box: Spend a day hunting for drivers, then spend a day hunting for games which actually support gamepads, then, if you don't find any, try to find an app which translates your particular gamepad's movement to keyboard entries so you can use them with the games that don't support your pad (like, all of them), then don't find anything that actually works, then get annoyed, throw the gamepad into a corner and never touch it again. Yes, there's a gamepad lying in our living room next to the MythTV box.

Fourth, it has the apps. There simply is nothing like iMovie or iDVD on any other platform. I was in Berlin last month, spent a week there visiting friends. I took some pictures and movies while hanging out, going to the zoo, stuff like that. At the end, I spent two hours (yes, that's it, two hours) to put it all on my Mac, create a nice DVD with a movie short movie containing video sequences shot that week, added a matching soundtrack using Garage Band (one song which changes its' speed and theme according to the pictures), put the pictures into slide shows, also with matching movies and then burned half a dozen DVDs (that's the part which took longer than two hours, but since you don't have to actually sit there and wait for it, it doesn't really matter) to give to my friends as a parting gift.

There simply is no other platform where you can do this as effortlessly - and all the apps you need come free with your Mac, to boot.

When I got the MacBook Pro, I created a short comic-style review for my blog. Mac OS X comes with Comic Life, which creates panels, speech bubbles, titles and "draw" effects for you. Using Photoshop, this would have taken me about a quarter of a day. Using Comic Life, which is not available anyhwere else and comes free with your Mac, it took me half an hour.

A few days ago, I needed a

Pioneer DVR-111D

Great IDE Dual-Layer burner, Mac compatible (works with Toast out-of-the-box, I used Patchburn to make it "Apple Supported/Shipped"), apparently Linux compatible, and dirt cheap ($35.99).

Kicks ass, no coasters, does just about every format. 'nuff said.

While there haven't been any nightly CVS builds that I could find (though I haven't been trying hard at all), a few months ago I did come across a third party that was posting the occasional CVS build at http://www.haque.net/software/mplayerosx/cvs/.

No, it's not officially sanctioned. I've been using these builds. If you don't trust them, don't use them.

Otherwise I'd have to thank an AC for linking an updated RC on MacUpdate, which is apparently more current than the CVS builds available on the previous link.

MacUpdate link here: http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/18580

New universal binary version available at http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/18580

Yea, http://www.download.com/RealPlayer/3000-2139_4-102 55189.html (23 million downloads), helix itself is installed on 60 million Symbian handhelds and http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 15540 http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/8428 (419.000+122.000 downloads on OS X).

Good morning already.

This isn't the first such motion alarm for the Mac. BumpAlarm (of which I happen to be the developer) was an idea that was implemented a little over a year ago. http://www.alcemore.com/blog/2005/03/26/bumpalarm- motion-sensor-for-apple-powerbooks/ http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/17684

http://macupdate.com/
http://macskill.com/?q=softwareupdate
http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/

Macupdate
Version tracker

So - you install a version of the gimp - you get a copy of gtk, install eog - you get a copy of gtk, install.... well I think you get my point.

Or you could use a package manager like Fink or DarwinPorts.

On the Mac you have scour the web deciding Free or Paid, can I trust this site? Am I downloading a trojan. Oh, this is windows only....

VersionTracker and MacUpdate keep track of "official" software sources. Apple has a directory as well.

There are lots of third party codecs available for most other file formats. For xvid, try http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/17151 . WMV? Flip4Mac (which you can even get straight from microsoft now).

To explain what I mean, it is trivially easy if, say, you have a set of photos you've taken, your camera gives them filenames sequentially by time. Irfanview can resample and sharpen the images, give them completely sequential filenames, RETAINING the original order (which I have yet to figure out how to do in OS X). This can be done in just a few seconds.

Using it through emulation doesn't do it justice at all, its very, very fast even on ancient Windows hardware (The Viewer is almost totally I/O limited, unless your system is prehistoric). A Pentium II at 300MHz, running windows 98, runs Irfanview to edit multimegapixel images very well. I know that it doesn't touch the windows graphics api's at all to do any of this, due to posts about concerns about windows vulnerabilities, the author has said that it doesn't.

Unfortunatly other Mac people think I'm trolling when I talk about it. Luckily "Xee" on OS X is starting to equal the media viewer functionality.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19978

But for its editing capabilities I'm forced to resort to photoshop, which is no where near as responsive or convenient. Although maybe, (here's hoping) once WINE gets working on OSX Intel, and I actually switch back to intel (*sobs, shakes fist at fate*) by buying an intel based mac I'll be able to use it again.

Just in case anyone isn't in the mood to hunt it down, here's a few links for Little Snitch:

http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/10426
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 17642

Developer's Site:
http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.ht ml