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12.25.2006

NMP3 Ripper 0.7.0 is out; it is a universal binary (finally), and includes LAME 3.97. It requires OS X 10.4 or later. The previous version runs on 10.3.

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Code

NMP3 Ripper v0.7.0 - one click mp3 encoding.

The easiest and most satisfying way to get extremely high quality mp3s in Mac OS X. Period. NMP3 Ripper uses the LAME mp3 encoding engine which to my ears and many, many others provides the best sound quality / file-size ratio available. It has freedb and id3 tag support so you don't have to type in track names and crap like that. If you're looking for a fast and easy way to create high quality mp3 rips, this is it. One mouse click to rip and entire CD. It doesn't get any easier than that.

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Logsplode v0.2.1 (source) - brute force log watching

Logsplode is a log monitoring utility written in Java that will monitor files locally or via ssh. Monitoring via ssh is ham-handed; it simply connects and calls 'tail -f blargh.log'. It works great for my purposes, so I called it good.

It can connect to an arbitrary number of hosts and monitor an arbitrary number of logs on each. It will organize all logs by into tabs by host (or not if you prefer), passively alert you when there is "a lot" of activity, and it's all configurable through a .properties file. Logsplode is released under the GPL.