Jon Stovell’s Software

Current software

Modification packages for SMF

These modifications enhance the functionality of Simple Machines Forum, an Internet forum software platorm.

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Keep Drive Spinning

Makes sure that a selected drive does not go to sleep unexpectedly. For use with certain external drives that don’t respect Mac OS X’s power management settings.

Current version: 3.0

For Mac OS X 10.6 or later

Version 3.0 is a major rewrite to support macOS 10.15 (Catalina).

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You can post questions and report problems on the support forum.

Quit

A command line tool to politely quit applications. Unlike killall, quit lets an application do a proper quitting procedure instead of forcibly terminating it.

Current version: 1.9.2

For Mac OS X 10.5 or later

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Generate Index of PDF

Helps you to generate indices of PDF documents, such as you would find in the back of an academic book. It is primarily designed to help book authors/editors to create indices (e.g. subject, author, Scripture reference, etc.) from the final, typeset proofs of a manuscript for publication.

Current version: 0.8

For Mac OS X 10.10 or later

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StickiesSync

Keep your Stickies.app sticky notes in sync across your Macs.

Current version: 1.3

For Mac OS X 10.4 or later

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Older software

Simple, flexible, powerful file tagging, right in Finder.

Current version: 2.6

For Mac OS X 10.5–10.8

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Go to Tag Folders page

Apple finally introduced its own, thorough integration of tagging in Finder in OS X 10.9. It is definitely better to use that than Tag Folders on OS X 10.9 and above. Users of older versions of OS X may still find Tag Folders useful.

New Sticky

Make a new Dashboard sticky note in one click from the Dock.

Current version: 1.0

For Mac OS X 10.5–10.9

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In recent versions of OS X, Apple changed the behaviour this relied upon. You’ll just have to do the task from within Dashboard.

Front Row on the Big Screen

Complete control over which display Front Row plays on.

Current version: 1.2

For Mac OS X 10.5–10.6

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Front Row was removed in OS X 10.7.

JournlerSync

Keep your Journler journal in sync across your Macs.

Current version: 1.0

For Mac OS X 10.4 or later

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Journler has been discontinued.