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BwanaDik 3.3 (Mac)

BwanaDik is an IP address WAN and LAN menu item. Yes, another IP address app. Just what the world needs. You may be asking yourself "why the heck does the world need another IP address application?" Well, it doesn't. But I did. I looked all over for an IP address...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Menu Bar, Network, IP, IP Address, John Schilling, BwanaDik, Network Technology, Networking

Software downloads 2009-11-13

AAPLStockDock 2.4 (Mac)

AAPLStockDock is a pretty lame stock ticker for one company only: Apple Computer stock symbol AAPL. It grabs the latest AAPL stock quote and displays it in the dock, and in a floating window if you choose. The apple is color coded to reflect changes to the stock value. When...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Stock, John Schilling, AAPLStockDock, Investment, Finance

Software downloads 2008-11-02

Solscape X 2.6 (Mac)

Solscape is a "Solar Data Browser" application that grabs real time, up to the minute images of the Sun in multiple light wavelengths. Solscape also monitors current Solar flare activity, Earth view satellite images, Solar geomagnetic activity, and Aurora activity. Solscape gets all of its information via the Internet and...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Activity, John Schilling, Solscape, Internet

Software downloads 2008-10-30

Cosmic Debris 2.1 (Mac)

Cosmic Debris is an Aurora Borealis AKA the Northern Lights monitor menu item. It monitors two internet data sources for the probability of an Aurora event. The menu icon then displays the likelihood of an event using a color scheme: green for low probability, yellow for medium probability, red for...

Tags: Monitor, Apple Macintosh, Probability, John Schilling, Cosmic Debris, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2008-10-24

MacBarfX 1.1 (Mac)

MacBarfX is a port of a very, very old System 7 extension for the Macintosh, called MacBarf sometimes called MacPuke. It was one of my favorite useless apps for the Classic Mac OS. When running, your Macintosh will emit a barfing sound any time a disk is ejected. This isn't...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Disk, John Schilling, MacBarfX, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-03-03

X-MasTree 1.4 (Mac)

X-MasTree is a small (or medium, or large) floating Christmas tree for your desktop. Since YourHead software, maker of Christi's Tree, seems to have dropped off the face of the earth, I thought I would write a new Christmas tree app.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, John Schilling, X-MasTree, Desktops, Tools & Techniques, Hardware, Management

Software downloads 2006-12-10

LunaSaver 1.2.4 (Mac)

A simple Screensaver for Mac OS X which displays the current phase of the moon, along with some detailed lunar information.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, John Schilling, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2006-12-08

Mac-O-Lantern 1.3.1 (Mac)

Mac-O-Lantern (formerly Jack-O-Mac) is an animated or not animated Halloween Jack-O-Lantern for your desktop.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, John Schilling, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2006-10-29

Conan the Librarian X 1.2 (Mac)

It's back. The best app ever written for the Macintosh. Conan the Librarian to Mac OS X. Make new enemies, torture your cats, send me hate mail.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, John Schilling, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2006-10-24

EarthquakeX 1.1 (Mac)

EarthquakeX is a port of an old prank/joke control panel for System 7 called Earthquake. When installed, your Macintosh will experience random earthquakes. This version is a bit different from the old one, but the principal is still the same. The old version, being a control panel, allowed you to...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Control Panel, John Schilling, EarthquakeX, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2006-09-16

Heart Monitor 1.3 (Mac)

Heart Monitor is a bare-bones CPU monitor menu extra that displays a beating heart. As the CPU load increases, the heart beats faster. You can set Heart Monitor to track the User, System, Idle or Nice load. It does not do much else. Uptime, processor info and other tidbits are...

Tags: Monitor, Apple Macintosh, CPU, John Schilling, Monitors & Displays, Processors, Hardware, Components, Semiconductors

Software downloads 2006-09-16

LunaMenu 1.2 (Mac)

A simple menu bar item that displays an icon of the current phase of the moon. You can also opt to have a floating moon on your desktop, and there's a window with a detailed summary of the current moon phase.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Menu Bar, Moon, John Schilling

Software downloads 2006-08-05

Smell-O-Mints 2.3.2 (Mac)

Smell-O-Mints is a Periodic table of the elements for the Macintosh. It's not as full-featured as a lot of other Periodic tables out there, but it's free and looks very nice. Especially if you put it next to the coffee table by the ferns. Click on an element symbol to...

Tags: Periodic Table, Apple Macintosh, John Schilling, Smell-O-Mints

Software downloads 2006-06-20

The Lonesome Electric Chicken 3.2 (Mac)

The Lonesome Electric Chicken is a time and life wasting application that spews forth a gathering of quotations. That's it. Don't look any farther into it than that. Currently there are only about 70 quotes in the chicken pile. These are quotations that appeal to me personally, and may not...

Tags: Application, Apple Macintosh, Pile, John Schilling, Lonesome Electric Chicken, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2006-06-05

BinClocken 1.6 (Mac)

Floating binary clock. I was given a ThinkGeek binary clock by a friend (in a not-so-transparent attempt to force me to learn binary math). It sucks. It runs fast, very fast, gaining about 5 minutes per day. So I wrote my own binary clock. This one is free, and doesn't...

Tags: Clock, Apple Macintosh, John Schilling, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2006-06-05

Atomic Beef 1.3 (Mac)

Atomic Beef is yet another app/file menu item launcher. Put items in the Atomic Beef Menu Items Folder, and they will appear in the Atomic Beef menu item. It's slow and pokey, but it works. There are plenty of these things out there, but I wanted one with image previewing...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Item, John Schilling, Atomic Beef, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2006-06-05

BelchX 1.2 (Mac)

BelchX is a port of an old System 7 extension for the Macintosh, called Belch. BelchX is an invisible application that will cause your Macintosh to have a case of indigestion: it lets out a nasty belch every once in a while. Put it on your friend's Macintosh, and they...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, John Schilling, BelchX, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2004-02-11

Jack-O-Mac 1.2 (Mac)

Jack-O-Mac is a floating, glowing jack-o-lantern for your desktop. The application runs as a menu extra and floating window, with options to set the flicker rate, place the window on the desktop level behind all icons and more.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Window, John Schilling, Jack-O-Mac, Construction, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2003-10-08

Solscape 1.2.1 (Mac)

Solscape is a "Solar Data Browser" application that grabs real time, up to the minute images of the Sun in multiple light wavelengths. Solscape also monitors current solar flare, geomagnetic, and Aurora activity, providing current Aurora Borealis information and warnings for your location, along with real time Aurora images when...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, John Schilling, Solscape, Internet, Monitors & Displays, Desktops, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2002-01-01

Skwonk! 1.2 (Mac)

Skwonk is an application that will listen to your Ethernet interface for traffic. All traffic. Like a traffic monitor. Difference is, Skwonk plays specific sounds for the type of packets that go flying by. For example, if a TCP packet for port 80 goes flying by the network to another...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Packet, Traffic, John Schilling, Skwonk, Ethernet, Tcp/Ip, Desktops, Networking, Hardware

Software downloads 2001-12-21