Snow Leopard Services: Set ZIP File Date
With Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard, you can create a system service to compress files or folders and set the ZIP file modification date to the date of the contents.
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iChm Adds Index Search
Keeping up the pace of nearly weekly releases, iChm Version 1.3 now allows you to search the index.
iChm Adds Index Support
Shortly after the release of iChm 1.1.1, Robin Lu has responded to popular demand and updated his CHM Reader for Mac OS X with support for indexes.
iChm — Cocoa CHM Reader for Mac OS X
Robin Lu has released iChm, a CHM reader for Mac with Webkit rendering, tabbed interface and a bookmark system so you can save links to favorite topics.
Using Mac VPN Clients with Virtual Machines
You can share your VPN connection between the host Mac and the guest PC by setting the network adaptor to share the host’s Internet connection via NAT.
Sharing DITA-OT in OS X & Boot Camp
How to use a single installation of the DITA Open Toolkit on your Windows partition to generate output from either operating system environment.
CHM Viewers for Mac OS
A handful of open source & shareware apps provide Mac users access to Windows help files in the Compiled HTML Help (CHM) format.
Automator Workflow: Set ZIP File Date
When you compress a file or folder in the Finder via the Create Archive command, a ZIP file is created using the current date as modification date.
CTRL-clicking in VMware Fusion
If you Enable Mac OS keyboard shortcuts option in VMware Fusion, Mac keys are passed on to the VM, but you can still send the CTRL key if you need to.
SCPlugin — Subversion Client for Mac
There’s now a Mac equivalent for TortoiseSVN: SCPlugin is a free, open-source utility that displays the status of your version-controlled files in the Finder.
HumaneText.service
A new system-wide Mac OS X service converts Markdown to XHTML (and vice versa) with keyboard shortcuts.
Versions: New Mac OS X Subversion client
The interface artists at Sofa are working on a new Mac OS X Subversion client called Versions, which is due out for public beta release “any moment.”