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#26 2005-06-22 4:53 pm
- freakoutjackson
- Neo-Con Nightmare
- From: The Jet City
- Registered: 2002-12-16
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Re: Indispensible hacks/utilities
Menu meters
Candy Bar
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#27 2005-06-22 8:30 pm
Re: Indispensible hacks/utilities
Let's start adding desriptions. I'll give some for the ones I know:
MenuMeters
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#28 2005-06-22 10:54 pm
- Beattie
- Member
- From: New Jersey
- Registered: 2002-07-23
- Posts: 273
Re: Indispensible hacks/utilities
titok16 wrote:
resedit wrote:
emacs
could you expand on why emacs is great? I've used it for a few weeks and don't yet see what all the hubub is about
tito
Because it's an extremely powerful text editor/Operating System.
I am trying to think of a good way to explain it, but I cant. There are no words. So I will just say this, like with zombo.com you can do anything with emacs.
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#29 2005-06-22 11:23 pm
- nerdbunnie
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Re: Indispensible hacks/utilities
I definitely use Menu Meters. I cannot go without keeping tabs on my up/down network connections...
I am rabbit. Hear me roar!
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#30 2005-06-23 12:26 am
Re: Indispensible hacks/utilities
maxintosh wrote:
And what's YourTunes? I tried a google search, but it brought up yourtunes.com and then a lot of crap, and yourtunes.com didn't load.
Maybe it's this one here: YouControl:Tunes. They're giving away 100,000 free licenses, not bad.
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#31 2005-06-23 12:46 am
- mahakali
- anti-razor
- From: easter egg
- Registered: 2002-11-06
- Posts: 5584
Re: Indispensible hacks/utilities
Utilities
iKey: typer, launcher, automator, etc.
OnMyCommand: adds teminal commands and applescripts on contextual menu
Menumeters: adds memory, disk, processor, network monitor on your menubar
SyncX Plus: for backup
Cool sharewares I can't live without
DEVONthink: scrapbook
URLManager Pro: manage urls
OmniOutliner: multi column outliner
Transmit: FTP client
NetNewsWire: RSS browser
1. Instill fear.
2. ???????? (use your imagination)
3. Profit!
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#32 2005-06-23 2:14 am
Re: Indispensible hacks/utilities
bcdynamic wrote:
maxintosh wrote:
And what's YourTunes? I tried a google search, but it brought up yourtunes.com and then a lot of crap, and yourtunes.com didn't load.
Maybe it's this one here: YouControl:Tunes. They're giving away 100,000 free licenses, not bad.
Sorry. Yea, that's the one.
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#33 2005-06-23 3:05 am
- TheConfuzed1
- Faking Sanity
- Registered: 2000-04-19
- Posts: 20194
Re: Indispensible hacks/utilities
MacTheRipper
DVD2OneX
Toast
Okay so those are applications, but they work together as a hack. 
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#34 2005-06-23 3:52 am
- Mymac4ever
- Aaaa...
- From: SWEDEN
- Registered: 2000-05-01
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Re: Indispensible hacks/utilities
Ok I add descriptions too
Macaroni:
Works as a controlpanel that takes over the maintanence [ooh spelling?] scripts from OSX and runs them whenever the Mac is turned on
Dragthing:
Lets you add additional "docks" which you can place where ever you want
Bytecontroller, Menumeters, Candybar (Described above)
Meteorologist:
Displays you current wheather in the menubar
Other very useful apps that I couldn't live without:
APODGrabber:
Grabbs images from NASA's "Astronomy Picture Of the Day" webpage and lets you either save it to your disk and/or put it on the desktop
StreamRipper:
Records internetradio and saves each track separately
Zebra Scanner:
Detects trojan viruses
AdiumX:
IM client
All these apps with the exception of Candybar, Macaroni and DragThing are Freeware or Donationware.
Now, where in the name of... did I put that thing that I forgot what it was and why I was looking for it?
SE/30: 16Mhz/8MB/34MB/PussyCat
PM8600: G3@550Mhz/768MB/110GB/Radeon7000/Usb2&FW/Jaguar
PMG5: DC2.3Ghz/4GB/570GB/NVidia6600/Leopard ShufflePod, iPod Touch
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#35 2005-06-23 12:25 pm
- bloomsday
- Mmber
- From: edge of ledge
- Registered: 2001-04-13
- Posts: 4040
Re: Indispensible hacks/utilities
You Control
Cocktail
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#36 2005-06-23 5:06 pm
- smilr
- Soldering Iron Savvy
- From: The Dalles OR, U. S. of Apple
- Registered: 2000-06-21
- Posts: 2869
Re: Indispensible hacks/utilities
maxintosh wrote:
Let's start adding desriptions. I'll give some for the ones I know:
<snip>
Quicksilver
There is some solace in knowing that some things just can't be attained by throwing piles of money at them in the name of corporate greed. --CaptKevMan
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#37 2005-06-23 5:37 pm
- Freezer mac
- iPod scroll wheel
- From: next to a big cold lake.
- Registered: 2001-01-06
- Posts: 7370
Re: Indispensible hacks/utilities
smilr wrote:
...snip..
PTHItunesNotifier (THE BEST itunes controller/visual overlay I've seen - the text, font, color, size and whatnot of the overlay is completely customizable, and it has the lightest footprint of any iTunes hotkey enabler I've seen. Unfortunately it is abandonware - very out of date, you have to jump through hoops to get at it's preferences in anything newer than 10.2 and predated iTunes supporting album artwork - so it can't display such in the overlay. It also appears to rely on some depreciated system calls that Tiger keeps warning me are going to be removed someday - so while it works for now, in the future it will break completely on methe author signed on with a software company and is selling the newer versions of this shareware, whereas the older version I cling to was freeware )
youControl: itunes is a freebie made by the same person... freeware.
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#38 2005-06-24 8:13 am
Re: Indispensible hacks/utilities
smilr wrote:
maxintosh wrote:
Let's start adding desriptions. I'll give some for the ones I know:
<snip>
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#39 2005-06-24 10:31 am
- smilr
- Soldering Iron Savvy
- From: The Dalles OR, U. S. of Apple
- Registered: 2000-06-21
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Re: Indispensible hacks/utilities
maxintosh wrote:
smilr wrote:
maxintosh wrote:
Let's start adding desriptions. I'll give some for the ones I know:
<snip>
Quicksilver
There is some solace in knowing that some things just can't be attained by throwing piles of money at them in the name of corporate greed. --CaptKevManOffline
#40 2005-06-26 11:49 am
Re: Indispensible hacks/utilities
Add SoundFlower to mine.
SoundFlower is a little thing that lets you reroute the audio out of any application to the audio in of another.
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#42 2005-06-30 1:56 am
- TheConfuzed1
- Faking Sanity
- Registered: 2000-04-19
- Posts: 20194
Re: Indispensible hacks/utilities
After reading about You Control for ilTunes, here in this thread, I decided to give it a shot. I downloaded it, and I entered my information. I got the message that an email would be sent to me with an activation code. After doing this twice, I have yet to receive an email. 
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#43 2005-06-30 6:04 am
- Freezer mac
- iPod scroll wheel
- From: next to a big cold lake.
- Registered: 2001-01-06
- Posts: 7370
Re: Indispensible hacks/utilities
TheConfuzed1 wrote:
After reading about You Control for ilTunes, here in this thread, I decided to give it a shot. I downloaded it, and I entered my information. I got the message that an email would be sent to me with an activation code. After doing this twice, I have yet to receive an email.
mail flagged the activation email as spam for me, so you probably got it in your spam box.
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#44 2005-06-30 7:45 am
- Mr. T
- Best of both worlds
- From: omnipresent
- Registered: 2002-04-02
- Posts: 4219
Re: Indispensible hacks/utilities
MattElmore wrote:
resedit wrote:
emacs
emacs is god-awful. so is vi.
I use emacs all the time (for convenience, believe it or not). I've used Xemacs on Sun boxes, also out of convenience. It's sorta grown on me. I've been meaning to download the native OS X version for a while now. Oh well, I guess it's not that indespensible after all.
while (1) {fork();}
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#45 2005-12-07 9:59 pm
- mrreet2001
- Member
- From: NW Ohio
- Registered: 2005-05-25
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Re: Indispensible hacks/utilities
lord funk wrote:
stoned wrote:
SHAREPOINTS.
without sharepoints networking in OSX would be a complete bitch (unless all you care about is connecting to another computer's drop-box or home folder).This, sadly, is true. I couldn't believe that I couldn't set sharepoints with OS X alone. Shame, Apple.
I wonder if OSX server will allow you to do gawd intended sharing without sharepoint
Adium,
Mactracker,
MacStumbler,
Thunderbird,
accessTunes
GraphicConverter (I know it comes with tiger, but we finaly get MS PAINT lol)
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Dual 2.3Ghz G5 (4G Ram, 2x 250G HD)(10.5 server)--- 400Mhz G4 PM (10.4 Server)
1.5GHz Powerbook---1.6Ghz G5 iMac
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#46 2005-12-07 10:14 pm
- Jack Sparrow
- It was a bug Dave.
- From: UP. Wisconsin to be specific.
- Registered: 2005-06-25
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Re: Indispensible hacks/utilities
Moses wrote:
That hack where you tilt you laptop to change songs on iTunes.
iSync
Wha???? If you can find the name, or a link, I would love you. I love lamp. I love desk. Ok, really, do you know, or does anyone know what it is?
Friend: Apple’s gay
Me: I’m not quite sure that a company can be sexually oriented in that way, but if they are, what does that make Microsoft?
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#47 2005-12-08 12:00 am
- bloomsday
- Mmber
- From: edge of ledge
- Registered: 2001-04-13
- Posts: 4040
Re: Indispensible hacks/utilities
Touque Guy wrote:
hax is a good hax
tato
hax kicks ax.
i also use You Control.
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#48 2005-12-08 12:01 am
- jb
- Member
- From: Melbourne, Australia.
- Registered: 2004-01-04
- Posts: 2179
Re: Indispensible hacks/utilities
pico.
They say that the most secure computer is the one not connected to the internet.
That's why security experts recommend Telstra BigPond.
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#49 2005-12-08 1:15 am
- The Cynic
- Member
- Registered: 2004-01-25
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Re: Indispensible hacks/utilities
heh, i just play adventure or tetris in emacs
to hell with low-level text editors
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#50 2005-12-08 2:32 pm
- MysticCow
- Junior Assistant Poobah (Probationary)
- From: Somewhere
- Registered: 2002-07-29
- Posts: 3940
Re: Indispensible hacks/utilities
OK, here I go:
Adium
ClamXAV (free virus scanner)
Cocktail
Delocalizer (so I can get rid of those localization files and save space)
Drop2DV (convert VOB files to DV)
EasyWMA convert WMA's to MP3)
iLuxo (where would I be without eye candy???)
Konfabulator (because Dashboard is a resource piggy)
MacTheRipper (rip DVD's that I legally own)
Mactracker (for info on any Mac)
MoviesForMyPod (convert movies to iPod compatible files)
Pseudo (so I can GUI my way around as root)
Skype (voice and text chat)
TinkerTool
TimeOut (tells me when to take a break from the computer)
Now to the preference panes:
Application Enhancer Framework with ClearDock, Dock Detox, and Slider
Diablotin (akin to the old extension manager)
Disctop (pure eye candy)
FolderGlance (easy access to package contents)
growl (system notification)
MoreInternet (to assign helper applications)
TextPander (this one's new to me, so I'm still playing with it)
Widgets (this is how I turned Dashboard off without Terminal)
Witch (window switching as opposed to app switching)
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