Cross-platform Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

TUAW's Daily Mac App: HandBrake

by Samuel Gibbs (Jul 7th, 2011)

Open-source software is a beautiful thing. It's free, community driven, and more often than not, incredibly useful. HandBrake, one of the best video converters around, is a classic example of great open-source software. The Swiss army knife of video converters and a perennial TUAW favorite, ...

Noby Noby Boy out now on iPhone, and it's awesome

by Mike Schramm (Feb 18th, 2010)

Keita Takahashi is a strange guy. He's most known for delivering the brilliant Katamari Damacy to us on the Playstation 2, a game in which you rolled around a ball that stuck to everything in the world, growing bigger and bigger as more and more stuff collected on it. But after that early success, ...

LANrev speeds mass deployments of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

by Steven Sande (Sep 15th, 2009)

When you only have a handful of Macs in an office or household to upgrade to a new operating system, it's no great problem to run around with the installation DVD and upgrade one machine at a time. But when you're supporting a large office or school environment, it's impossible to take the time to ...

VLC 1.0.0 released

by Robert Palmer (Jul 7th, 2009)

While being a useful tool for several years now, VLC has finally reached that first pinnacle of software development: 1.0. VLC is an alternative media player for Mac, Windows and Linux that handles a wide variety of media file formats without requiring additional software (like Perian) to be ...

Cocotron: bringing Cocoa to Windows

by Mat Lu (Oct 28th, 2008)

Cocotron is a potentially exciting open-source project that "aims to implement a cross-platform Objective-C API similar to that described by Apple Inc.'s Cocoa documentation." What this means is that, in principle, Cocotron would allow an OS X Cocoa app written in Xcode to be easily cross-compiled ...

Back To My Mac alternative: TeamViewer

by Steven Sande (May 30th, 2008)

Back To My Mac got you down? After the 10.5.3 update, all BTMM is telling me is what I already know -- my Comcast-supplied router is old and doesn't support NAT-PMP or UPnP. iChat Screen Sharing works, but really needs someone on the other end of the connection to activate it. Yeah, Timbuktu has ...

iChat video now cross-platform in 10.4.9?

by Michael Rose (Mar 19th, 2007)

Loyal reader Nik spotted this interesting tidbit on the .Mac tips page last week: You can also chat with anyone who has an AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) screen name and uses a chat client that supports AIM, whether on a Mac or PC. (For audio or video chats with PC users, you need Mac OS X v10.4.9 ...

MacDrive 6 - read/write Mac-formatted drives and discs on Windows

by Alberto Escarlate (Mar 26th, 2006)

If, for one reason or another, you just can't get around having to work on a PC either at school, in the office or elsewhere, MacDrive for Windows 98 - XP might alleviate some of those daily headaches you've been having. Recently updated to version 6, MacDrive enables Windows to open, read from, ...

Buy an ad here