Pacifist 2.5.1 is a shareware application that opens Mac OS X .pkg package files, .dmg disk images, and .zip, .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, and .xar file archives and allows you to extract individual files and folders out of them. This is useful, for instance, if an application which is installed by the operating system becomes damaged and needs to be reinstalled without the hassle of reinstalling all of Mac OS X. Pacifist is also able to verify existing installations and find missing or altered files*, and Pacifist can also examine the kernel extensions installed in your system to let you see what installer installed them, and whether the installer was made by Apple or a third-party.
Pacifist is compatible with Mac OS X 10.3 or higher, including Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard”. It is also compiled as a Universal Binary for maximum performance on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs.
Pacifist has received 5 mice in a recent review by Macworld!
*This product includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors.
BootCD is a Cocoa app that creates a disk image that can be used to burn a Mac OS X boot CD with a working Finder and Dock on it. This utility is unfinished and still has some flaws, but works. The current version works much better than previous versions, and includes the ability to run Drive10 and other utilities, although Norton does not yet work from the CD.
Note: BootCD is unsupported, and is not compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). Please do not e-mail me asking me about a release date for the next version.
BootCD has received 4 mice in a review by Macworld!
Click Here to download DockDisks 1.0b5.2, an unsupported hack that makes disks appear in your Dock when you insert them, allowing you to reduce clutter on your Desktop.
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