Golly (Game of Life) for Mac PowerPC

I get it, you have a Mac PowerPC and have some free time on weekends and you want to install some RPG games just for casual play, but nothing that would take too much of your time.  Go Golly!  Golly is a game of life simulator currently under development, for the Mac PowerPC.

Do you like math?  Do you like puzzles?  If you answer yes, go ahead and download the Game of Life Golly.  The Game of Life is also known as cellular automation and was developed in the 70’s.   It’s likely a really fun game for mathematicians or those who understand complex mathematical situations.  Go ahead take a look at Conway’s Game of Life and other cellular automation and let me know how you spent your week.  Golly is an open souce cross-platform application.

* Golly 2.4 (10.4 Tiger / 10.5 Leopard) (Free) PowerPC – http://golly.sourceforge.net/

MacLibre for Mac PowerPC

I’m downloading this application right now and decided to launch my favorite word processor to start writing about it.  This is a deal changer for the Mac PowerPC community and if it works how I think it will, we get our own AppStore!

Well, I installed and launched it, but unfortunately it did not work properly.  I’m stuck with this window that says “double click for selecting the package you want to install, re-install or update”.  I’m not sure what went wrong, but I certainly will try again later.  Too bad because it looks like with this application, it allows you to update and install all the free open source software.  Let me know if it worked out for you guys.  I’m currently running Leopard.

MacLibre 2.0.2 ( 10.3 Panther/ 10.4 Tiger/ 10.5 Leopard) (Free) PowerPC – http://www.maclibre.com/

Featured applications: • Audacity • Blender • Gimp • Inkscape • Adium • Colloquy • Cyberduck • Fire • Firefox • Nvu • Thunderbird • Vienna • Multimedia • HandBrake • MPlayer • VLC • AbiWord • NeoOffice • ClamXav • DesktopManager • iTerm • VirtueDesktops • X11

P.S.: Thank you “Starfighter” for sharing this fix, it works very well.

Guys check out comments from “Starfighter” if you are having the same issue.  He found out how to make it work.

iTunes Get Lyrical for Mac PowerPC

Alright, now that we’ve got iTunes updated (for Leopard only) we can enjoy this wonderful player just a little bit more.  I like iTunes and I use it all the time to manage and organize my music.  I learned how to work with it and how to get more from the smart library, which is simple.  Some users say that it uses a lot of memory but this is the price you have to pay…so let’s have some patience when everything slows down a bit.  I also would recommend to get this app/plugin called Get Lyrical, it’s free and it works perfectly.  A caution:  to get more from this program you’ll first need to organize all your Artists, Albums and Names of music really well!  After that, it will start looking for lyrics to your music!

The downside of this program is that sometimes it’s not 100% accurate.  Occasionally, it gets wrong lyrics but the errors are very minimum and you can always fix it very easily.  Never was it so easy to add lyrics to your iTunes library!

Get Lyrical 3.7 – (Free) – Leopard – http://shullian.com/get_lyrical.php

Now let’s attach an application that I checked today but for some reason it did not work on my Mac.  I understand that the minimum requirements for this app is PPC/Intel 10.6 and I was wondering why it asks for PPC 10.6 if 10.6 it’s not compatible with PowerPC in the first place.  So I installed an application called Cefipx and I did not have any issues with the installation.  My Mac recognized the app but when I launched the application it gave me the message“application not responding” and after that I had to “force to quit”.  So anyways, I decided to attach this name in this post because maybe someone would like to take a closer look at this app.  As far as I know, it helps to sync any device with your iTunes, share or transfer files like music, video, etc.

*Cefipx – http://www.imactools.com/cefipx/

Aurora for Mac PowerPC (The Missing Fox) – (AuroraFox Project)

Aurora 15.0a2

I was almost finished another post about Browsers, because Mac PowerPC users like to browse around and suddenly I got great news on my Twitter account that AuroraFox released the new Aurora 15.0a2 on July 6th and right away I downloaded this new version and it seems to be working like a well oiled machine:  very stable and fast with the same great layout!  Having Aurora in my PowerPC ensures that I won’t miss Google Chrome because it’s equally as good as Chrome.  These guys aren’t playing around, for more info take a look at:

Aurora (Free) 10.5 Leopard – http://aurorafox.wordpress.com/page/2/ –  The modern browser for PowerPC Macs.

I know that this is the third post about Aurora, but I felt I had to share the news of this update with you guys because it’s yet another compatible program for the PowerPC community.

eBook for Mac PowerPC + PowerPC U

Today, we’ve got great news for our readers.  One of our regulars (PowerMac4Ever) gave us the great idea to convert our blog [MacPowerPC] to an eBook, so our users could have a reference guide for their PowerPCs.  We confess that in the beginning we thought that it wasn’t going to happen.  After we sat and put some thought and some research into it we realized that it could be really cool to offer an eBook to our loyal fans.  For a limited time, we are offering the complete MacPowerPC blog in PDF format absolutely FREE as a sign of appreciation to our diligent readers.  All we ask is that you subscribe to our blog and we will send a copy to your e-mail.  Should you want to offer a small donation to help keep this blog alive, we appreciate your support!

The benefits of having the blog as an eBook are that it can be saved onto any device and taken with you, wherever you go!  Subscribe now and get for Free your copy of eBook for Mac PowerPC.

Thank you PowerMac4Ever for the great idea!!!

Also we have a new page called PowerPC U >   This is a place that you can share all your favorite apps/blogs/doubts/etc.  Take your time to browse around and share with us  your results and what applications your PowerPC can’t live without, and want your fellow PowerPCers to know all about them!

Organized (widget) for Mac PowerPC

Some people don’t use their dashboard very often and disable it because it uses some memory ram to run all those widgets, but sometimes there are nice widgets that could help your day by day browsing, getting news or just using the computer regularly.  In fact, Apple was really smart to set up a location (like a desktop) for all your favorite widgets.  To take it a step further, there is a great widget I came across entitled Organized.  It’s a simple and fast way to check your calendar, events, world clocks, notes etc. All in a single widget.  If you like the idea, you should just visit the developer’s web site to gather more information.  It’s free to use and installation (and uninstallation) of this widget is VERY easy.

* Organized 1.11 (Free) PowerPC Leopard 10.5 – http://www.islayer.com/apps/organized/

Browser for Mac PowerPC (revisited)

NagaraBrowser / Stainless Browser for Mac PowerPC

It’s really hard to say which browser is the best option for PowerPC these days, it’s a never ending forum.  Today we can not complain about it anymore because we have  some great options.  I believe TenFourFox (http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/) is installed in 11 of 10 PowerPC Macs around the world and it’s probably one of the most powerful and updated options today and runs in G5/G4/G3.  Also Aurora, that just came out for PowerPC,  seems to be the promised one.  I’ve been using it for the last few weeks and I always have 4 tabs + google and it didn’t crash once!  So far it seems to be a very stable browser.  We can not forget to mention Camino, which is another good option and before this list starts growing (thumbs up) let’s mention some names that are not quite as popular but they deserve to own a place in your hard drive.

NagaraBrowser (1.0.1) (PowerPC 10.2 [way to go Jaguar] or later) – http://www6.plala.or.jp/lingo/contents/software/nagarabrowser.html   The nicest thing about NagaraBrowser is the full screen view mode.  You also have your entire desktop to work as a browser and you still have all access to your docks.   Also, you can open any search web site like GOOGLE for example and leave it as a wallpaper in case you need to do some fast research,  you just press the short cut (command + tab) and bingo, it is ready for you!  Having all your research as wallpaper makes your life really easy when you are reading and writing at the same time!

Stainless (0.8) (PowerPC 10.5) – http://www.stainlessapp.com/  I like to use Stainless because it’s very fast, very stable and it has a very nice layout.  It kind of looks like Firefox but the Bookmarks are in the left side (vertical).  I’m not quite sure how long they will keep updating this software for PowerPC compliance, but let’s hope that our community gets bigger and bigger not only for those that already have a PowerPC Mac but also for those that own an Intel and want to have a second machine running side by side.  I also enjoyed parallel sessions which allow you to log in using different credentials in separate tabs at the same time, that’s awesome new feature, not even Google Chrome has something similar.

EureKalc (advanced calculate) for Mac PowerPC

This app is most certainly designed for that special someome…but until now, I’ve not been able to ascertain who!  I’m not quite sure if you guys will like it or even download it.  I will be very honest with you:  I didn’t get it.  I didn’t waste my time because I know I wouldn’t use it anyways, I have no idea how to start it and I have no purpose for this app in my computer.

I was so happy when I finished school because math was somewhat entertaining and challenging, and then it slowly became a pain in the butt.  But I thought if there is someone “lost” out there looking for something like this app called EureKalc, enjoy it because is compatible with PowerPC and it seems that it does what it’s supposed to do.  It’s a very advanced scientific calculator.

EureKalc – 3.0.01 – (Free) PowerPC 10.3 / 10.4 / 10.5. – http://web.me.com/nicohirtt/EureKalc/English.html (not working)

http://cl.ly/3i23390O3r212Q002304

Features:

*Calculate with physical quantities (numbers with units)
•Calculate with lists of numbers (sequences and vectors)
•Use complex numbers (NEW IN THIS VERSION)
•Present results in the form of tables and graphs
•Use variables and own functions and use them in your calculations
•Access easily physical constants and data sets
•Write equations in a normal algebraic notation
•Edit, duplicate, merge… equations
•Transform equations using a vast set of algebraic rules
•Calculate derivatives of functions
•Present your work in a neat and structured lay-out
•Export your pages as PDF
•Export pages or equations to LaTex
•Export results of your calculations (to use in Excel for instance)

FormulatePro for Mac PowerPC

FormulatePro 0.0.6b

In my last post we talked about Skim (a really good PDF Reader) and I thought it would be more fulfilling to add this great utility that will help you to fill out the blank spaces on your PDF file.  As I mentioned before, I don’t handle PDF files too often, but this app is probably quite beneficial to have installed in case you ever need to fill out and print online forms, as filling out forms by hand can be tedious at the best of times!

Formulate Pro 0.0.6b (Free) (Tiger 10.4 or Leopard 10.5) PowerPC – http://code.google.com/p/formulatepro/

Skim PDF Reader for Mac PowerPC

Skim PDF Reader for Mac PowerPC

This is a light post.  Actually, it’s more like a mention than a post and I will be honest with you…it’s because I don’t use PDFs a lot so and I already have Preview installed, so using Skim isn’t a necessity.  I don’t like having extra/unnecessary software or apps installed on my computer.  But if Preview doesn’t support your PDF file needs, you should take a look at this program.  Skim is not only a PDF reader but also allows you to create/edit notes on the top of your PDF, highlight important information, or just mark what is important so you can come back to all your notes and highlights later on.  I think these are very good features for students or those who are doing projects and gathering a lot of information.  Skim offers more features that will change the way you use/read PDF.

Skim 1.3.21 (Free) (Leopard 10.5) PowerPC – http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/

Skim 1.2.7   (Free) (Tiger 10.4) PowerPC – http://skim-app.sourceforge.net

Become An Xcoder programmer for MacPowerPC

Become An Xcoder (Tiger/Leopard) for Mac PowerPC

Become An Xcoder using Objective-C.

The most important parts of programming:   First of all, you must get into it, once you start I don’t think you ever can stop.  I found this book online (for free / PDF format) that explains/teaches/puts you on track to start programming Macs using Objective-C.  The book/tutorial is for non-programmers and is written by Bert Altenberg, Alex Clarke and Philippe Moughin.  I hope you guys like this post and start some projects for our ever-growing PowerPC community.

You guys can download the book here:

10.4 Tiger – http://www.cocoalab.com/?q=becomeanxcoder

10.5 Leopard – http://www.cocoalab.com/?q=becomeanxcoder

For other languages, please visit this link: http://www.cocoalab.com/?q=becomeanxcoder

iFFmpeg for Mac PowerPC

iFFmpeg for Mac PowerPC 2.3.0

If your looking for good convert/encode software I would say to check out iFFmpeg, it’s simple to use like most of Apple applications:  drag and drop!   gosh I so love this system of drag and drop.  I have to confess that I was windows user a looooooooong time ago, but back to what really matters here!!   There are so many formats that this app supports, that having this app saved in your application folder would be a safe thing to do.  Just to mention a few formats you can convert/encode:  Apple TV, iPhone, iPod, iPad, mp4, wii, avi, PS3, PSP, X360, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, mov, mpg, AAC, WAV, OGG, FLAC, M4A, WMA, REALMEDIA, RM, MKV, FLV, VOB, DV NTSC, etc.  Check the picture bellow for full list.

*iFFmpeg – 2.3.0 (Shareware $10.00) (Free Trial) – Leopard – http://www.iffmpeg.com/styled-4/index.html

iBook Guy for Mac PowerPC

iBook Guy For Mac PowerPC

Has anyone ever heard about the iBookGuy?  Well if not, I think all PowerPC users should visit his web-site – http://ibookguy.com, he has many tips about how to get the most out of your machine.  He’s also got tips on how to disable a few tools that you probably won’t use very often, so that way you will have more free memory ram.  When visiting this web-site,  check out the “video production” he made.  It’s a kind of reallity show/Podcast (A Week With a G4 – Are They Obsolete?) showing us how a G4 user can survive these days with an iBook G4, it’s very cool and totally worth spending some time to wacth all the videos.  He also offers some services like fixing, selling parts, etc.

For more information, keep an eye on our blog as we are working hard to keep bringing you more and more options for your favorite PowerPC Mac.

* iBook Guy – http://www.ibookguy.com/

Wunderlist for Mac PowerPC (Task Management)

Wunderlist for Mac PowerPC (Task Management) 1.0.0 / 1.1.1

I took this Saturday, a good day off to make few extras post to upload during the weak, we know sometime the day pass by and we are very busy having our day-by-day responsibilities, work, home, blog, bills, appointments, grocery stores, concerts (of course) and etc.  You probably  know very well for having your own.  If you browse at App Store you will find tones of todo/task management things for Intel, but we are not allowed to use App Store, so we have to find our own way to get things done and we need to keep our day-by-day organized using PowerPC machines.  After browsing around I have found this app called Wunderlist that is available for PowerPC, it’s very easy to use and keep all your task organized, with this app you will be able to manager all your appointments and even sync with your devices like iPhone, iPodTouch, iPad, Blackberry, etc.  There is a really cool feature that you can ask for help with your Twitter or Facebook friends or even send by e-mail what you need to do and who could help you with.  I have to say this Cloud sharing and the synchronization with the devices are really good.  It would work very similar to iCal on iCloud.

I also need to point out the layout is well done, it’s an app that they took very well care about the design, it totally could be an Apple application and best thing “IT’S FREE”.  It’s very light to run, it uses about 50MB of RAM only.  I think the only downsize in this app is it doesn’t have alarm or reminders (yet) but it totally compatible for PowerPC so no complains from my side.

Wunderlist 1.0.0 (PowerPC Leopard) – http://cl.ly/0C43220f0C0M3s3z3L36

Wunderlist 1.1.1 (PowerPC Leopard) – http://cl.ly/3a122I0K0c1o082m3m15

After I finished this post I was checking for more informations about this app, and I found out they do have some product called Wunderkit, and this pack offers you more than a task management, but it looks they brought everything to browser, it looks like become an twitter account with task management, anyways worth a try: http://get.wunderkit.com/

Wundelist’s layout was inspired by David Allen’s best selling book “Getting Things Done”.

 

Aurora: “the next generation” for Mac PowerPC

AuroraFox Browse for Mac PowerPC

AuroraFox is on my G5.  I think/hope they fixed “whatever” was being a problem and not supporting G5s, and I’m anxious for the new update to come so I can start using this program on regular basis.  Yesterday, I got home from work and tried to download it again and suddenly it worked and launched with no problems at all.  So far I’m using it and like it.  I will keep AuroraFox as another browser option because I like to have 2 sometimes 3 browsers open to do different tasks at the same time.  Right now I have 3 tabs on: twitter, facebook and myapplespace.com running, with no problem.

I like the full screen view and it looks like you can sync your firefox account with Aurora, plus mange the famous add-ons…

Well so far that is the news for the Monday, and you can download the version that is working for me from this link:

AuroraFox (Free) PowerPC Leopard 10.5 – http://cl.ly/1E3p0l212Y0D0y1N2w0H or

http://aurorafox.wordpress.com

Happy Surfing!

AuroraFox (Browser) for Mac PowerPC

AuroraFox 10.5 Fx for Mac PowerPC

Just browsing around this morning, I came across some pretty sweet news, Aurora (Mozilla Project) just released a browser for PowerPC users called AuroraFox 10.5Fx!!  Needless to say, I immediately downloaded AuroraFox and launched it, but for some unknown reason, it seems not to work on PowerPC G5 machines only.  I posted the news on Mac PowerPC’s Facebook page and some of the G4 users tried Aurora and it did work for them, and it apparently works fine.  I’d really like to share more information with my Mac PowerPC readers, but I don’t have a G4 machine and usually I like to test all the apps/software before I post them here, but this time I won’t be able to do so.  I think AuroraFox is a great browser and will be a breath of life that we PowerPC users have been waiting for, to keep our machines alive and working.

* AuroraFox (10.5Fx – Free) PowerPC 10.5 Leopard – http://code.google.com/p/aurorafox/ or

http://aurorafox.wordpress.com

* You can check the comments at http://facebook.com/macpowerpc