The Geeky Junkyard of kingler

Update 3 (10/9/2006):  This list is getting rather old, but I guess I will just keep it as a proof for the history. For new Intel-native application lists, take a look at the latest universal builds on osx86project Wiki page.Update 2 (04/20/2006): As the new intel Macs become available, everyone is hopping on the “Universal” switch. What a successful switch to Intel, Apple!

Update 1 (11/17/2005): these universal build won’t work on the new 10.4.3 intel developer Tiger system.

Here is a list of universal binaries for both PowerPC and Intelx86 platforms.
Most of them are NOT official release yet, so, be prepared for bugs.

Internet Browsing / Emails / Remote Control/FTP etc:

- Firefox 1.0(Internet browser)

- Camino (Internet browser)

- Thunderbird 1.0 (E-mail client)

- Chicken of the VNC (VNC remote control client, compiled by myself)

- CyberDuck (FTP client)

- web kiosk application

- iStumbler (wireless, bluetooth discovery tool)

- Tomato Torrent (bittorrent download)

Text Editors:

- BBEdit (famous text editor)

- SubEthaEdit (text editor that supports multi-user collaboration)

Instant Messager/IRC Clients:

- Adium X (IM Client, supports AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, etc)

- Colloquy (IRC & SILC Client for chatting)

- X-Chat (A X-windows client with Perl and Python scripting support)

- MacIrssi (open-source IRC client)

- Fire (another free Instant Messaging client, but it supports Google Talk!)

Media :

- LiveQuartz Image Editor(a simple image editor)

- VLC (media player)

Desktop/System Enhancement:
- DragThing (dock designed to tidy up your Macintosh desktop)

- SyncupX (a backup application)

- Fazesoft AddressWeb (converts Mac OS X address book into an HTML document)

- Xbench (Benchmarking software)

Games:

- DosBox86 (DOS emulator to run old games)

- Snes9X (Super Nintendo emulator to play lots of games)

- Quake II (familiar with this name? you should be)

Science:

- NeuroLens (environment for the analysis and visualization of functional neuroimages)

Modified Date: 04-20-2006

Somewhat as expected, Google introduced their version of IM messager, called Google Talk. So, for now, we have three major websites competing with very similar line of services: Search Engines, Map Service, Instant Messager, Email, and Blog. Tight competition will defintely urge the companies to provide better services. This is really good news for end-users.

When I was in New York City, I used my camera to shoot a small footage. But the video file turned out to be in the landscape mode, so I did a little research on how to rotate the video file by an angle, say 90 degrees clockwise.

• The first thing you can try is the Windows Movie Maker in the accessories. Import the video file into the storyboard and right click to choose the “video effects”. Add “rotate 90″ to the effect, and then you can export the movie to a WMV file. The good thing here is that you don’t need to download anything, since Windows Movie Maker comes with Windows XP.
• The other solution is that you can download a software called virtualdub. Open the video file in virtualdub, and make sure in the “video” menu you are in the “full processing mode”. Now choose “add filters” and find the “rotate” filter. After the rotate filter, don’t forget to add a “resize” filter. If your original movie is 640×480, you should set the resize filter to 480×640.

Here is the final result for a short video I took on the fifth ave. in new york city.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1NAMOZfXcU[/youtube]

Just came across this site on the web with sleek and smooth interface based on Flash technology.
It can pull map data either from Google Maps or MSN Virtual Earth! Yes, both of the leading competitors! Now, there’s an easier way to do a back-to-back comparison.