OCSmart Hacks 2.03

Overview

OCSmart Hacks is a service bundle, which considerably extends the functionality of any native, Cocoa-based Mac OS X application: among others, it supports the following services:

the main menu can be popped up anyplace, anytime;
tear-off menus;
resizing a window by any edge;
moving a window by any point inside its frame (not just by its title);
entering URL links into RTF(D) documents in TextEdit;
saving any formatted text into HTML;
even keeping a watch over the current keyboard and reporting when it changes (this is a power user feature, check the Power Users help page for details);

and much more: see please the other Help pages for details.

Note please that OCSmart Hacks from β.1 up need a Panther (10.3) or newer Mac OS X release to run. The newest release needs Tiger. They will not run properly in any previous Mac OS X release. This release supports both Intel and PowerPC machines.

Beware that due to how Apple crippled Input Managers in Leopard, Hacks would not run there "out of the box"! You would have to move them from ~/Library to /Library and change the access rights yourself!

If still interested, here are detailed instructions.

At the moment of 2.03 releasing, amongst non-Cocoa – and therefore not, repeat not, supported by OCSmart Hacks – applications were e.g., Finder or iTunes of Apple, Firefox or Thunderbird of the Mozilla Corporation, or most Adobe applications. If you do not know what Cocoa means and how a native Cocoa application differs from a legacy Carbon or non-native Java/X11 yourself, do please enquire for the current state of any application you are interested in with its respective developer: he would know.

Download and Registration

The current public release is 2.03; download it from www.ocs.cz/OCSmartHacks/OCSmartHacks.2.03.dmg (Tiger/Leopard, Intel/PPC).

You can test freely by activating in the OCSmart Hacks Application. To be able to use Hacks in any Cocoa application, you need to register it buying a registration key through KAGI (order.kagi.com/?4TK&lang=en) and entering the key and your e-mail address into the Registration panel in the OCSmart Hacks Application.

The key has no time limit and will apply for all minor upgrades; the price is $29. One key can be used for up to three installations (to cover up the very common case of using the software both on a desktop and on a laptop, with one copy to spare). For more installations separate keys have to be bought: if you need a multilicence, contact me please at ocs@ocs.cz. The 1.0 keys still work in 2.0: no upgrade fee.

Other information

The complete OCSmart Hacks documentation is available online:

• Overview

• Ordering Windows

• Resizing and Moving Windows

• Creation and Maximization of Windows

• Tear-off Menus

• URL Links in RTF and RTFD documents

• Saving As HTML

• Pop Up Main Menu

• Disabling OCSmart Hacks

• Power User Features and More Info

Also, you can check the known problems of the current version page.

Contact

mailto:ocs@ocs.cz, http://www.ocs.cz.