Software Products

We make great software, and we even publish some of it from time to time. Here’s what’s available now.

Balthisar Tidy for Mac OS X is a flexible, highly-configurable HTML cleaning utility based on Dave Raggett’s original Tidy program. Balthisar Tidy is now open source!

Balthisar Cascade for Windows has the distinction of being the world’s very first CSS2 GUI editor! We’re at work trying to get it to compile and build in Lazarus. Why not help out? Balthisar Cascade is now open source!

And if you like to hack away at open source projects, you might take a look at our source code on github and consider contributing.

Setup OpenVPN client on your router

If you need an OpenVPN client on your dd-wrt router, then this guide will prove valuable. It covers basic and advanced configuration.

Note: coming soon!

This guide is target towards users of StrongVPN service, and although it shouldn’t matter who your OpenVPN provider is, there are no guarantees.

Show line numbers in your Cocoa text views

Mac OS X developer tools and Cocoa still don’t provide a native method of displaying line numbers in your text editors. Have a look at the solution that we developed for Balthisar Tidy.

This solution is rather old and unchanged. We’re not even really sure if there’s a better way to do things these days. Why not fork the project on github and help make it better?

Developer

Check out our sample code! If you’re a developer, there may be some things here that can be helpful to you. We currently have code for Cocoa, but keep checking back! CSS, HTML, and more is on the way!

How to add line numbers to your Cocoa text views
How to instantiate views from nib files on demand

Contribute to open source! If you’re looking for something more intensive than sample code, then please have a look at our open-source projects.

Balthisar Cascade is a Windows CSS editor
Balthisar Tidy is a Mac OS X HTML cleaner

Guides and Stuff

We here at balthisar.com believe in sharing — software, knowledge, and applications — it’s our tag line after all!

Balthisar’s Guide to Non-Supported Mac OS X Printing could help users on older Mac OS X systems. In its time it was the only way to print to networked printers. And it still gets enough unique visitors that we leave it online!

If you need to run the OpenVPN client on your dd-wrt router, then the OpenVPN dd-wrt guide should be a valuable resource. It even goes into some types of advanced configurations. It’s tailored to StrongVPN customers.

Dynamically instantiate views from nibs

Sometimes you don’t know when you’ll want to use a view. Instead of building and loading them statically, create your views dynamically from a nib! This example shows you how.

To be completely honest, we have no idea how relevant this is in today’s API, nor whether it even works as originally implemented. Go ahead and fork it on github, and check it out!

Balthisar’s Guide to Mac OS X Printing (legacy)

We still don’t believe how many hits this gets every month, but apparently a lot of you still want to print to network printers on legacy versions of Mac OS X. This guide will show you how!

Even though there’s no need for this guide on modern versions of Mac OS X, some of the tutorials and background information still make for an interesting read.

Balthisar Cascade CSS

Get to know the world’s first CSS2 editor! We know it’s a fossil, but when you use Balthisar Cascade for Windows, you’re taking a walk through the early history of the internet.

Cascade is now open source!

If you’re looking to contribute to an open source project, why not choose to help bring Cascade back to the cutting edge? Check out the product page for more information.

Balthisar Tidy HTML

Clean HTML reflects upon you as a developer. Why not clean it up before the whole world sees it? Balthisar Tidy for Mac OS X is the right tool for job!

Tidy is now open source!

Take a look at our product page here, and then consider visiting the project page on github. Fork the code, make changes, and pass it back!

Welcome to balthisar.com!

balthisar.com (né Balthisar Software) is a small project dedicated to sharing software, knowledge, and applications. Since its inception in 1997 by Jim Derry, balthisar.com has helped thousands of Windows and Macintosh users get things done.

If you’re not sure where to go while you’re here (or aren’t even really sure why you’re here), just browse around. If you can’t find something of interest here, then there’s a whole big internet out there waiting for you!