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Tired of leeching tons of megabytes on updates after re-installing your system? Here is the solution!

Who does not know this problem. After re-installing your system there are a huge amount of updates to download and install. Even for those having a fast Internet access it takes a while. And what to do if you have to keep more than one system up-2-date.

The German computer magazine c’t came up with a neat solution (Artikel aus c’t 10/07, S. 192). They created a little application based on AppleScript that does the work for you.

It is called OliU (OfflineUpdates). You can download it here. The archive contains three files

• OliU.zip The application OliU, which you have to copy to your hard disk
• ctOliU.src.zip The XCode-project, to customize it
• wget-1.10.2.tar.gz The source code of wget, that was used to create wget, whis is part of OliU.

The application will do the download for you and create a disk image. You can store that then either on DVD-R(W) or on an external drive like your Apple iPod. Or you can put it in your “Web-Sites”-folder and distribute it over the local network.

The OliU works for both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs. Even the application updates are included. The only restriction is, that Mac OS X earlier than 10.4 are, due to update mechanism, unsopperted.

A little legal information: The application is copyright protected and not Public Domain. It is not meant to be used as commercial.
You are encouraged to copy and distribute the tool or parts of it as long as

• you do not charge money for it and
• keep the user informed about the origin of it.

More information (in German) you find on the c’t Web site

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The front-end application for GNU wget, CocoaWget is now available in German.

Shinichiro Hirama released version 2.6.3 on 29th April which comes with my German localization.

Now go and get it.

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Since CocoaWget is just a small, simple but sweet application the translation work was pretty easy and fast.

The harder part was to get a valid e-mail address of the developer.

But even that barrier I took and sent him the translation files.
He responded to me already and he is going to release the localized Version by next weekend.

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CocoaWget is a front-end application for GNU wget. You can use it to download entire websites or parts of websites for offline viewing.

The little program Gnu Wget is already included in CocoaWget, so there is not need to install it seperately.

The application comes in English and Japanese. Maybe I should translate it into German?

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Today Jean-Matthieu Schaffhauser, the developer of gDisk sent me a mail stating he is integrating the German localization into the next build.
Hopefully we will have a German version of gDisk very soon.

Today I finished the translation of gDisk. I sent the developer a mail with the localized files.

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Today I finished the localization of FlatPress.
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Right now I have half of the translation done. Hopefully I will find the time next week to finish it.

After two days of using gDisk I thought it would be nice to have a German localized version of gDisk and since the tool is Open Source Software I downloaded the code and wrote a mail to the developer.

Today I found another useful tool for my Mac. It is called gDisk.

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