Hi Jude, Josh and others,
I think the application that Jude wants is iTool, which is available
from the Apple Downloads site at:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/itool.html
This is a freeware maintenance product with a GUI interface that only
works under Leopard. It was discussed on this list a few weeks ago,
and its advantages are that it has menus for quite a lot of the
maintenance tasks that we regularly do in one place, including some
functions that we usually run from the command line in terminal. This
includes actions like repair permissions, and clearing out caches from
the web browser. There are even a few options (from the menu bar) to
change preferences like the default action of Safari (to download PDF
files instead of display them in Safari). The other thing people may
like is the ability to schedule periodic maintenance actions (when you
are using a laptop that may not be connected or active at the default
times these are run). However, I would point out that when you run
some functions through the iTool GUI you can't query progress (the way
that you can when you go directly to Disk Utility to repair
permissions). Also, you are better off monitoring processes
accessibly with the Activity Monitor under the Utilities menu -- iTool
uses the unix/linux "top" command that runs in terminal. A novice
user who tries that out will not only have problems reading the
output, but also won't know how to get out of top's reporting mode
with a Control-C command. This tool will ask you to quite other
applications and log in as an Administrator in order to use it. So a
few caveats are in order on top of the kudos for putting most of the
maintenance functions that you want in one place.
Cheers,
Esther
On Sep 28, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
iTools is the old name and set of services that became .Mac which is
now MObileMe. So far as I know, there was no iTools app to download.
Josh de Lioncourt
...my other mail provider is an owl...
On Sep 28, 2008, at 7:41 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
What section of apple downloads is iTools in? I found stuff that
was labeled as itools but it was bible software and of no general
use beyond that peculiar and particular belief system.
