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If you need a free (S)FTP browser for Mac look no further than Cyberduck.
Cyberduck is free and hails from China and offers "easy to use interface, integration with external editors and support for many Mac OS X system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour, the Keychain and AppleScript".
Cyberduck is well-designed and very easy to use. You can bookmark all your often-used FTP accounts for quick connection and providing you're in the right directory uploading is a simple drag and drop procedure (there's a dashboard widget too!)
It's also available in a variety of languages!
There are still some people that don't know about this fantastic free tool that will convert any printable document to PDF. The program, PrimoPDF, works as a printer driver and uses the data sent to the printer to create a PDF. This means the PDF generation is application-independent.
Download PrimoPDF for free here.
I'm currently trying to hone my Combustion / Premiere skills and needed some footage to work with. I thought I'd try my hand at editing / restoring some home movies that had been recently burnt to DVD. Despite the fact that DVDs are basically MPEG-2, the DVD makers have made it as hard as possible for us to edit them.
If you look at the files on a DVD you will notice one (or more) VOB files; these are the files that contain the audio and video but the bad news is most applications won't let you open them.
After much Googling I found a free application that does the job nicely. This site has an application called Auto Gordian Knot that will decode a VOB file and output it as an AVI. It's very simple to do and the program and very easy to use. The decoding takes some time but it's well worth it.
Please note that most commercial DVDs prohibit this kind of reverse engineering.
Google today released Beta 4 of Google Earth, a free 3D interface to the planet.
The new version boasts a larger map index, a new and more simplified user interface, textured 3D buildings and a feature that allows users to share geographical information with others. Perhaps the most importantly new feature is that there is now a Linux version out too!
For those not familiar with it, Google Earth is a free desktop application that allows you to views places, terrain, buildings, data, roads and lots of other useful data via a 3D globe interface. Find out more about Google Earth here.
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