Helpful OS X Utils

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Permalink Reply by Shawn Drost on October 29, 2008 at 5:36am

If you're a keyboard junkie and you're not using quicksilver, you're sinning against god :) It's like Spotlight, but better. Also, Spaces is handy if you do lots of stuff at one time (Leopard only).

Permalink Reply by Branden Tanga on October 29, 2008 at 9:04am

If you have a notebook that supports multitouch, get multiclutch. It allows you to assign custom keyboard shortcuts to different multitouch gestures on an app by app basis. That way you can add multitouch to nearly any osx app, including those with no multitouch support out of the box.

Permalink Reply by Ken Mayer on October 29, 2008 at 9:41am

There are tons, here are some of my favs:

• 1Password for consolidated password management
• Skitch for screen caps
• Growl for general notification management
• iStumbler for finding just the right WiFi network
• Visor for a Quake like console just when you need it
• Things & Anxiety for to do lists
• Twitterific to satisfy your Tweet jones
• Flip4Mac & Perian for viewing all sorts of media formats
• PandoraBoy to keep me in my coding groove (and now Last.fm)

Permalink Reply by Truman Leung on October 30, 2008 at 10:53am

Only eight hours left on a 50% off 1Password sale. I just picked up a copy because I'm tired of going back and forth with my spreadsheet to get passwords. Just bought it and installed it. Seems to work great so far.

http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/10/30/snag-mac-passw...

Permalink Reply by Ken Mayer on October 30, 2008 at 2:17pm

Oh, my recent discovery: Mail Act-On -- one key tagging of messages in the Apple Mail app. (http://www.indev.ca/MailActOn.html)