Hi All,
Correction: In my description of the freeware maintenance program,
iTool, I said that you could change the default action of Safari to
download instead of display PDF files. This is incorrect; you'd need
another utility program such as OnyX or Tinkertool (to name some
freeware programs) to make this change. iTool does let you make some
changes, such as displaying dot files that normally remain hidden in
Finder. This is in the Tweak > Files > Hidden Files submenu of the
menu bar, and you can set these to "Show" or "Hide".
Also note that while I think this may be the application Jude wants,
it's spelled iTool (with no "s" at the end).
Cheers,
Esther
On Sep 29, 2008, at 5:34 PM, Esther wrote:
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.
