My Tool List - One of the more popular thing's Scott Hanselman has done is maintain a tool List, essentially a list of applications and utilities that he's found useful. There are plenty of absolute gems in his list and rather than present my own I'd be very comfortable just pointing you to his... But what fun would that be? None! I also think there are a few more that I can add that are relevant to my personal experience. The list is rather short and there's a bit of overlap with Scott's but if all goes as planned I'll expand it over time as old useful tools come to mind or I discover new ones. Cloud iAWSManager - This is an iPhone app that lets you manage many of the functions of Amazon Web...
Wrapping Arbitrary Executables in an .app in Mac OS X 10.6.2 - Recently I've purchased a new Mac and went through the typical, long and involved process of installing all the software I wanted on it. One application in particular, Netbeans, gave me some trouble. The installer simply refused to work. No matter, I figured. I'll just grab the universal version (it's written in Java after all). Sure enough it ran just fine. One thing plagued me, however. Because the universal version doesn't have an actual .app file to put in your Applications directory you can't add it to the dock. While it's not a show-stopper it's clearly suboptimal. I was certain there must be several ways I could wrap the netbeans startup shell script into an .app that I could add to my dock and maybe even set an icon for. After...
