Webkit version 537.31.1 is out!

Webkit is the core of Safari and is an open source project.  For us PowerPC Mac owners and Intel Mac owners running Leopard, Webkit is our only way to stay more updated for web browsing through Safari and Webkit.

This Webkit can run as a standalone program.

Webkit version 537.31.1 was just released recently and it is a universal binary (meaning that it works with both PPC and Intel Macs).


the website is at:
http://code.google.com/p/leopard-webkit/downloads/list

Here is the download link:
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Got a PowerMac Dual Processor G4 MDD (Mirror Drive door) computer? I recomend CHUD 3.5.2 to keep your Mac cooler during the summer

If you are an owner of the PowerMac G4 MDD dual processor (mirror drive door) or PowerMac G4 FW800 dual processor series computers, you will obviously know the heat your Mac generates and the likelyhood of it overheating in the summer.  There is an answer to addressing the heat issue-- CHUD 3.5.2.  It is a free download from Apple. It adds a control panel "hardware" in the system preferences allowing for nap mode to be turned on in these PowerMac G4 MDD and PowerMac G4 FW800 series computers. Boy! It makes a big difference.  I have CHUD 3.5.2 installed for a few years now and my PowerMac G4 MDD doesn't overheat anymore!

Nap mode allows your dual processor CPUs to scale down in temperature when it isn't doing anything processor intensive.  Right now with room temperature at 88F degrees, my PowerMac G4 MDD dual processor computer is at 118F temperature while I am blogging.

It is a free download. you can get it here

It requires Mac OSX 10.4.11 Tiger or Mac OSX 10.5.8 Leopard and a PowerMac G4 MDD/Fw800 Dual Processor computer; Single Processor PowerMac G4 MDD/FW800 doesn't need CHUD 3.5.2 because nap mode is automatically on in the single processor PowerMac G4 MDD/Fw800 computers.

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G4 Fancontrol app for ibook g4 & powerbook g4 to fight against overheating and protect your mac notebook!

I have a iBook G4 1.2Ghz 1.25GB Ram running Mac OSX 10.5.8 Leopard for about one month now. Here in sunny Southern California, there is a heat wave going on and it gets hot here-- outdoors and indoors.  Temperatures gets up to almost 100F Degrees!  My iBook G4 and my PowerMacs and iMac G3 runs hotter too!  On my PowerMac G4 MDD I installed CHUD Tools 3.5.2 which allows for Nap mode to be turned on so CPU workload would scale down and the temperature goes down as well when it is not doing anything processor intensive.

On the iBook G4, the way to cool it down is to install a fan control program called, "G4 FanControl."  This program or should i say app, helps you set the u of when the fans kick in to cool your iBook G4.  Version 0.6.1 is the latest version and u operate it via gui (graphical user interface) rather than command line-- which makes it easy to use! You get 3 sensors with sliders to set the threshold of when to fans kick in. The app has temperature in Celsius only so you might want to ran a temperature converter from Fahrenheit to Celsius converter online if you are use to Fahrenheit as your temperature gauge. On my iBook G4, Sensor 1 is the Ram/memory slot, Sensor 2 is the CPU and Sensor 3 is the GPU (graphics chip.) I set Sensor 1 (Ram slot) to 50C, Sensor 2 (CPU) to 51C and Sensor 3 (GPU) to 52C-- with this setting, it works well for me and the fans kick in sooner than later.  This app really protects my iBook G4 from heat and overheating and it will prolong the life of my equipment.

It requires Mac OSX 10.4.x Tiger or Mac OSX 10.5.x Leopard and iBook G4 or PowerBook G4, and some people say that it works on the White iBook G3 dual usb model as well but I can't confirm that.

Version 0.5.0 is the free version but is glitchy and is hard to find online.

Version 0.6.1 is the latest version but it costs $14.99 but it is worth it to protect our iBook G4s and PowerBook G4s.

Version 0.6.1 G4 FanControl app can be bought and downloaded here:
http://www.andreafabrizi.it/?g4fancontrol

With G4FanControl app, i can be at ease and not worry about my iBook G4 overheating in the summer:)

I will post on my blog about my recommendation for a fancontrol program for intel based mac notebooks in the near future soon.

Apple sets the threshold too high for fans to kick in and that is why the Mac notebooks overheat and the fans don't turn on much-- probably due to the late Steve Jobs' insistence on quiet notebooks over practicality = overheating and burnt out notebooks.  With an app like G4FanControl, we can lower the threshold so the fans kick in earlier and we don't have to worry.

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the newest webkit leopard web brower for 10.5 PPC & Intel users is the most stable and best version yet!

The latest version of Webkit Leopard is : Webkit 537.3.1 and it is the most stable version yet! And the problem with crashing on full screen html5 video has been resolved.  This version is very stable and less crash prone.

So if you haven't already, I suggest you head over to:
http://code.google.com/p/leopard-webkit/downloads/list

and download WebKit-537.3.1-Leopard.dmg

This is for Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard users running PPC or Intel based Macs.

Enjoy!
 

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Leopard Assist: Installing and running Mac OSX Leopard on a PowerMac G4 below system requirements

I upgraded and installed Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8 on 2 PowerMac G4s in my house.  They are both below the system requirements; one is 400 Mhz and the other is dual 450 Mhz.  I was able to install it via a hack called Leopard assist.  Leopard Assist tricks the installer into thinking it is a 933Mhz machine and reverts back to normal after installation.  You HAVE to run Leopard Assist from an Admin account.

I have to say, Leopard is a lot snappier and more responsive on both the PowerMac G4s than Tiger for some reason.  Leopard on these PowerMac G4s work well! The key is to max out the ram with 2 GB and install a decent GPU; both these machines have Nvidia G4MX 64mb GPU- which is ok-- Rage 128 won't work or run in Leopard.

Leopard Assist is available here @ Macupdate.com:
https://www.macupdate.com/download/26562/la233.zip

All you have to do is provide the Mac OSX Leopard Install DVD and run Leopard Assist and that is it.

With Leopard, we get the benefit of having Safari 5.06-- remember to install the clicktoflash safari extenstion, and set the html 5 player setting resolution to 240p and this will allow a 400Mhz PowerMac G4 to play youtube videos smoothly! Ofcourse flash player has to be installed too but the clicktoflash will default the video playback to 240p html 5 video.

Leopard has breathed new life into these G4s!

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VLC Player 2.02 releases and fixes a lot of bugs and finally works as should on PPC G4 Macs w/ radeon 9000 gpu

Wow! the Mac developers of VLC Player has been updated to version 2.02 and it fixes a lot of bugs and finally works with PPC G4 Macs w. Radeon 7500/8500/9000/9200 and Nvidia Geforce 2MX/4MX! The performance issues has also been fixed.

VLC 2.02 for the Mac requires Mac OSX Leopard and up for both PPC Macs and Intel Macs.

VLC Media Player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Mac ppc VLC PLAYER 2.02:Download for OS 10.5

Mac INTEL 32BIT VLC PLAYER 2.02: Download for OS 10.5+ 

Mac INTEL 64BIT VLC PLAYER 2.02: Download for OS 10.5+

WHAT'S NEW

Version 2.0.2:

Video Output:

• More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
• Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
• Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
• Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
• Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500, an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
• Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
• Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called Retina Displays.

Access:

• Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
• Fixes for RAR compressed files
• Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
• Improve PulseAudio input latency
• Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
• v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
• Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
• IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
• Accept more extensions for DVD images
• Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
• Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
• Improvements and fixes in HLS support

Codec:

• Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
• Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
• Fix G726 support
• Fix MP3 free format support

Demuxers:

• Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
• Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
• Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
• Fix for DVB channels file support
• Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4

Encoders:

• Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
• Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots

Audio filters and output:

• Limitation of spatializer volume output
• Fix DirectSound device selection
• Correct PulseAudio volume control
• Do not apply volume in file output
• Fix sampling rate in JACK output
• Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers

Mac OS X:

• Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and the persistant media library
• Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules to the media library or the temporary playlist
• Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
• Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer press on the Play/Pause button
• Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup. This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
• Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
• Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
• Many Fullscreen fixes
• Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
• Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track Synchronization panel
• Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
• Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
• Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
• Fix crashes on exit
• Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while VLC is running
• Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
• Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be automatically reset on the first launch.- This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
• Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
• Miscellaneous minor interface improvements

Lua Scripts:

• Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
• Fixes for icecast SD

Qt:

• Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
• Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
• Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
• Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
• Fix tags and file names display
• Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues

Skins2:

• Fix mousewheel on Windows
• Fix for key events and focus loss

Web interface:

• Fix display of some buttons
• Fix listing of files in the Open interface
• Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog

Security:

• Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
• Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
• Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries

Translation:

• Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer, Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish, Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukranian, Thai translations update
• New Scottish Gaelic translation

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