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Here's something someone mentioned to me, really useful tools and utilities for your mac - the kind of things that keep your machine ship shape, easy to use and dig you out of a hole when everything goes pear shaped - or indeed preventing things from going pear shaped.
The Basic "Must-Have"
Quicksilver - Total ease of use, it's not just an app launcher check out the documention.
Growl - System wide notification, hardware and applications integration.
MainMenu - System maintenance application that sits in your notification area in finder. One click batch task performance or just do what you need to do.
Something Useful
Desktop Manager - Virtual desktops.
Diablotion - Preference pane to manage system library items.
FolderGlance - A contextual menu addition tha allows you to see, open and examine the contents of sub-folders.
MuCommander - Old style file manager application like Norton Commander with a wealth of features.
NetGrowler - displays notifications of network events.
RCDefaultApp - Preference pane that allows the user to set the default application used for various file types.
UEX - UNIXExplorer, Windows like file management.
System Monitoring
XRG - Allows real time monitoring of CPU activity, memory usage, battery status, machine temperature, network activity and disk I/O data on your desktop.
Geektool - Display system logs, Unix commands output, images from your hard drive as well as from the internet.
Basleline - Baseline disk analyser.
Disk Inventory X- Disk usage monitoring tool.
Something More Technical
WaterRoof - firewall frontend for Mac OS X with a easy interface and many options. Features include dynamic rules, bandwidth management, NAT configuration and port redirection.
Chicken of the VNC - VNC Client.
SMART Reporter - Polls the SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) status of your hard drive, an early warning system on the health of your hard drive.
IceClean - Unix based system maintenance toolset to help keep your mac running smoothly.
Carbon Copy Cloner - Clone synchronize and backup your drives.
SuperDuper - Backup and recovery tool.
Just sharing and hope they come in useful.
Ian
The Basic "Must-Have"
Quicksilver - Total ease of use, it's not just an app launcher check out the documention.
Growl - System wide notification, hardware and applications integration.
MainMenu - System maintenance application that sits in your notification area in finder. One click batch task performance or just do what you need to do.
Something Useful
Desktop Manager - Virtual desktops.
Diablotion - Preference pane to manage system library items.
FolderGlance - A contextual menu addition tha allows you to see, open and examine the contents of sub-folders.
MuCommander - Old style file manager application like Norton Commander with a wealth of features.
NetGrowler - displays notifications of network events.
RCDefaultApp - Preference pane that allows the user to set the default application used for various file types.
UEX - UNIXExplorer, Windows like file management.
System Monitoring
XRG - Allows real time monitoring of CPU activity, memory usage, battery status, machine temperature, network activity and disk I/O data on your desktop.
Geektool - Display system logs, Unix commands output, images from your hard drive as well as from the internet.
Basleline - Baseline disk analyser.
Disk Inventory X- Disk usage monitoring tool.
Something More Technical
WaterRoof - firewall frontend for Mac OS X with a easy interface and many options. Features include dynamic rules, bandwidth management, NAT configuration and port redirection.
Chicken of the VNC - VNC Client.
SMART Reporter - Polls the SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) status of your hard drive, an early warning system on the health of your hard drive.
IceClean - Unix based system maintenance toolset to help keep your mac running smoothly.
Carbon Copy Cloner - Clone synchronize and backup your drives.
SuperDuper - Backup and recovery tool.
Just sharing and hope they come in useful.
Ian
