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Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh, Freeware

Open Terminal: access Mac terminal from Finder

Open TerminalOpen Terminal is a small program that provides quick Terminal access directly to specified folders. For instance, if you're five folders deep in Finder and realize you need Terminal access to that folder to edit a .plist, it's a pain to launch Terminal and type cd /users/todd/folder1/folder2/folder3. Instead, you could use Open Terminal in one of three ways:
  • Drag the "folder3" icon onto Open Terminal which will launch a Terminal window already active in "folder3"
  • Stick Open Terminal in your Finder toolbar (hold down the Command key while dragging the .app onto the toolbar), so you can drag "folder3" onto the Open Terminal icon directly above the folder list
  • Install the included contextual-menu plugin which will add an option in the right-click menu to launch Open Terminal to your desired folder (this requires installing Open Terminal and having it run in the background)
Open Terminal 2.0.4 is only for Leopard and supports Terminal tabs, but the developer has older versions available for Mac OS 10.2 through 10.4.

Windows XP users should check out the "Open Command Window Here" powertoy for similar functionality. Vista users can hold the shift key while right-clicking a folder and click "Open command window here" in the context menu.

[Via MacUpdate]

Filed under: Business, Internet, Web services, Search

Hubbuzz, the neighborhood apartment finder

Hubbuzz, the neighborhood apartment finder

Finding a neighborhood to live in which suits your individual taste is sometimes a huge challenge. After all is said and done, you must be happy with the place you call home. Hubbuzz helps find an ideal apartment for you, with the amenities you're looking for, in an area which you'll enjoy living.

Other websites like apartments.com and rent.com provide the same type of apartment searching with many more listings, but are much more complex to navigate than Hubbuzz. Further, those traditional sites don't offer an in depth look at what neighborhoods are truly about.

Current cities to choose from in the Hubbuzz neighborhood database include Los Angeles, Denver, San Diego, Colorado Springs, Northern Colorado and Dallas-FortWorth. When selected areas are chosen, an event calendar, featured neighborhoods, and area facilities like parks, shopping and restaurants are pinpointed to get a better idea and feel for the area in question so you can make a more informed decision about your new abode.

It's great having all of this information in one single location. Previously, it's been a pain to search multiple sources to grab all details on an area in which you want to live. Plus, when you use Hubbuzz to find an apartment, they'll give you $100 bucks back when you sign a lease at a complex listed in their database.

Filed under: Developer, Utilities, Macintosh, Apple, Commercial

Path Finder 4.6.1 - The swiss-army knife of file browsers for Mac OS X

Path FinderPath Finder is the uber-replacement for the Mac OS X Finder which has many features (and forethought) that the stock Finder could use. Even after its shiny metal facelift in Mac OS X 10.3, the Finder has felt very little in the way of new features or changes as of late, much like a cute puppy whose name you can't remember. My favorite features of Path Finder are its tabs, the drop stack, the integrated Terminal panel and the wicked Select tool. It can feel a bit foreign to switch from the Finder to something new, but if you are determined I bet you can make it through the 21-day free trial without much trouble. As Merlin Mann shows, you can either have as much "frippery" enabled as you want, or you can play it simple and straightforward.

With WWDC just around the corner and Mac OS X Leopard details gently leaking around the Web, what do you Download Squad readers think would be a good addition to the Mac OS X Finder? What features, no matter how crazy you think they are, do you think would be a valuable addition? Or should it stay simple and sweet, leaving the talented third parties to take it to the next step?

[Via 43 Folders]

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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