Rich's Tongfamily (Richtong.net add-on)

I normally use 7Zip on the PC to unpack strange formats like RAR. For the Mac, the freeware product is called “UnRarX”:http://unrarx.clom Powered by ScribeFire.

The Mac has this alternative interface called the Dashboard which have a collection of small applications called widgets. It ships with things like clocks and calendars, but “Apple”:http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard has a whole bunch more including: Sudoku Fun Widget that lets you play this addicting game Hangman. the famous game “Canto Pod”:http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/music/cantopod.htm…

I just love BeyondCompare for file copying and updating on my PCs, so “Match”:http://www.bytewash.com/Bytewash/Match.html seems like equivalent on the Mac Powered by ScribeFire.

OK, I normally use DVDDecryptor, SmartRipper or AutoGK for the PC to backup up DVDs, for the Mac, it looks like “MacTheRipper”:http://mactheripper.org is the most popular at least according to the most popular list at “MacUpdate”:http://www.macupdate.com/popular.php Another very popular one is “HandBrake”:http://handbrake.m0k.org which seems to be more like AutoGK in…

OK, I just love MP3DirectCut for edtiing MP3s, MP3Tag for editing tags and filenames, ffdshow for codecs galore and DMC for conversions, LAME for MP3 encoding and ExactAudioCopy for CD copying but what are the Mac equivalents. Well, “Pure-mac.com”:http://pure-mac.com/audio.html has a good list and their “MP3”:http://pure-mac.com/mp3.html. I also checked out…

“Macworld”:http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macosxhints/2005/08/installxcode/index.php says “Xcode Developer Tools”:http://developer.apple.com/tools/xcode/ is a great toolset to have for us power users. Even if we don’t write code. Powered by ScribeFire.