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MacTech Magazine interview on AppleJack

kristofer — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:26:37 +0000

Josh Long, of MacTech Magazine, interviews Kristofer Widholm, lead developer of AppleJack, for an episode of MacTech Live.

AppleJack 1.6 released. Snow Leopard compatibility at last.

kristofer — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:22:03 +0000

The long (and somewhat bitterly) awaited AppleJack 1.6 with support for Snow Leopard has been released and is immediately available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/applejack.

BBDiff: quick patch file generation from within BBEdit

kristofer — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:53:29 +0000

While BBEdit has a great tool for comparing and applying changes between files, it does not generate standard .patch files that can be used for bug reports, code fixes, and change logging. BBDiff will compare the contents of the frontmost window to the contents of the window just behind it, and will use the diff [...]

AppleJack v. 1.3.2 released.

kristofer — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:19:42 +0000

AppleJack 1.3.2 fixes a serious bug associated with File Vault use that could wipe large sections of a user’s hard drive. In addition, AppleJack has been retooled to operate much more securely while doing file deletions. An added feature in this release is an automatic check for the /tmp directory (often implicated in boot problems). [...]

AppleJack 1.3 Released

kristofer — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 00:29:07 +0000

AppleJack is a user friendly troubleshooting assistant for Mac OS X. AppleJack lets you troubleshoot a computer even when you can't load the GUI, or don't have a startup CD handy. AppleJack runs in Single User Mode and is menu-based for ease of use.

Eudora to SpamCop v 1.2. Fixes submission format

kristofer — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 21:33:55 +0000

This is an AppleScript for quickly reporting spam to SpamCop from within Eudora. This version fixes the format of submissions to SpamCop to comply with SpamCop's new, more strict header parsing routines

XJanitor-PL: Surefire Periodic Maintenance for Mac OS X (Now with a controller)

kristofer — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 17:11:44 +0000

I have written a Perl script that simply checks to see how long it's been since a particular task has been performed, compares the time with how often that task should be performed, and if necessary, executes the task. The script is extensible to any maintenance tasks that output to a log file (and any task can be made to do so). The script also includes the option to send you an e-mail (but only if the task(s) have been executed) including full script output. Also, there is an AppleScript controller which will allow you to suspend maintenance activities for discreet periods of time, so you're machine won't suddenly start churning during a presentation, for example.

Eudora to SpamCop v. 1.1

kristofer — Thu, 10 Jul 2003 00:42:52 +0000

An AppleScript for easily reporting spam to SpamCop from Eudora

CrashCleaner.sh: Repairs hard drive(s), deletes cache and swap files to help recover from Mac OS X crashes

kristofer — Sun, 01 Dec 2002 19:14:57 +0000

Ok. Sometimes even the best computers crash. They're still too primitive for the complexity we push on them. Poor things. Poor us. Here's a script that helps clean up the mess left over from a system crash in Mac OS X (10.2). The script first checks your harddrive and attempts to repair it, then asks you if you want to delete old swap files (virtual memory), and cache files scattered around your system. This script has only been used with Jaguar! You could really damage your system if you use this on some other platform.

XJanitor.pl: Surefire periodic Maintenance for Mac OS X

kristofer — Wed, 15 May 2002 18:34:37 +0000
I have written a Perl script that simply checks to see how long it's been since a particular task has been performed, compares the time with how often that task should be performed, and if necessary, executes the task. The script is extensible to any maintenance tasks that output to a log file (and any task can be made to do so). The script also includes the option to send you an e-mail (but only if the task(s) have been executed) including full script output.