On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 11:14:13AM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote:
> Other tips to Mac software or tweaks welcome. :)
Not free software, but I happen to prefer Path Finder to Apple Finder any
day of the week.
The rest is at least freeware and at best open source. I'll prefer open
source options below unless they truly are inferior to the alternatives:
QuickSilver. You will never use finder to run a program again. Or eject
a memory card. Or a lot of other things. Keyboards rock!
Cyberduck beats the crap out of UO-recommended Fugu.
defaults write com.apple.dock pinning start && killall Dock
Now move your dock to the side of the screen, set it to magnify and
autohide. You can use defaults delete com.apple.dock pinning and restart
the Dock to undo.
Find a copy of Glider Pro. It's just fun, and is now free.
I think it's called Taboo. Cmd-Q and such in Safari will no longer close
multiple windows and tabs without asking.
Formulate. Very standard "Application" icon, but it will let you put text
on top of a PDF directly without printing and scanning.
Mousepose. A spotlight for your mouse cursor. Great on laptops or for
presentations.
iFile will convert textish formats, including from RTFD to RTF. Good to
have around.
CocoaCookies, a cookie manager for Safari, since Safari doesn't HAVE one!
TNEF's Enough can undo winmail.dat silliness.
VoodooPad Lite is basically a thought collector that works like a wiki.
Advice: DON'T use Carbon Copy Cloner. It puts passwds on command lines to
the cmdline tool ditto. Just RTFM instead.
Chmox is free if you ever find yourself stuck needing to read a CHM file.
SubEthaEdit.
Platypus idiotifies the process of turning a UNIX command, script,
whatever, into a GUI-able thing.
Disk Inventory X tells you what files are eating your disk.
ClamXav. There's one almost-virus for MacOS X. Presumably as wintel
people start using MacOS X they'll find ways to make more. Besides, you
should scan for Windows viruses anyway since it's a great way to combat
spam. You'd prefer Norton or McAffee?
MacTheRipper does useful stuff with DVDs that the DVD CCA doesn't want you
doing. It has some minor niggles designed to help keep honest people
honest. It doesn't recompress, and I still don't have a great solution
for that end of things.
Witch turns Cmd-Tab (like Alt-Tab) into something cool. It's a little
more predictable than using Expose, but not as pretty.
Iceberg is good for making your own installers. Or remaking other
people's.
Senuti is my favorite iPod song extractor.
SMARTReporter will spit out SMART status. Apple's own software can report
this, but you'd have to actually dig for the info in System Profiler.
QuickTime FS. Why on earth would you pay $30 for fullscreen quicktime?
freemacware.com lists most of these and others. Useful site, though I
tend to search it with google rather than their own search engine.
--
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act,
but a habit."
-- Aristotle
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