AppleJack

A command-line utility for troubleshooting Mac OS X in single user mode, thereby circumventing the need for a separate boot disk or emergency CD. Written in bash. Planning on moving it to C. Latest version: 1.6, released July, 2010.

• A tidBITS notable mention
• An AppleJack a Day…
• AppleJack wins a 2008 MacWorld Eddy Award
• Dan Frakes MacWorld review of AppleJack

git-phing

My branch of Zachary Danger’s nice starter set of git related tasks for Phing.

XJanitor-PL

A tool for transparently and consistently being able to run the maintenance scripts in OS X, even if your computer is not on for 24 hours at a time. Once installed, it requires no input from user to do its magic. Also includes an AppleScript for temporarily suspending maintenance on occasion. Written in Perl and AppleScript. There’s also a preference pane version of XJanitor-PL written in Cocoa.

Productivity Miscellanea

• BBDiff: An AppleScript for BBEdit which uses diff to generate diff patch files from frontmost two windows. Latest version: 1, released Aug 15, 2007.
• Eudora to SpamCop: An AppleScript for quickly reporting spam to SpamCop from within Eudora. Latest version: 1.2, released July 23, 2004.