My Geek Queen West
I rely on .sara for all the “this third party app is really freakin cool so go download it now, mr. athayde” moments in my life (note the lack of caps). Here’s some of the stuff she sent me recently that’s just “freakin cool”.
Taming the Dock
For those of you switching from windows, this might make it less painful to get used to the dock. It also obeys muscle memory rules better. Pretty sweet. I’m so in love with my current setup that I fear I might go mad.
Fruit Menu by Unsanity
This lets you tweak your menus, including the apple menu and your contextual menus (right click menus for you windows people). Sweet stuff. Talk about customization.
iChat Enahncer
Actually, I found this one myself, but she showed me Unsanity, so I guess it’s her fault. This lets you have more than one line of input space on iChat and send carraige returns in one message. So nice.
Well, there you have it. I need to get back to work. Got something you can’t live without in OS X? share with the class.
March 11, 2003 at 4:08 PM
a. <a href="http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/" rel="nofollow">launchbar</a>
b. <a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnioutliner" rel="nofollow">omnioutliner</a>
c. <a href="http://cerbero.thinkhost.com/neowin/quicksilver_jaguar.jpg" rel="nofollow">this</a> theme (not my screenshot, though)
d. <a href="http://perso.club-internet.fr/phupe/english/YKIndex.html" rel="nofollow">youpi key</a>, for mapping my most used apps (and itunes actions) to my ibook's f-keys and other key combos. clicking on the dock takes too much movement/time/effort
e. <a href="http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/" rel="nofollow">netnewswire</a>, which greatly enhances the speed of my news reading
f. <a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/php/dlpage.php?id=10688&kind=0&db=macos" rel="nofollow">black light</a> for inverting my ibook's display so that it doesn't bother people in a dark room. seems that the app is no longer, i can hook anyone up if needed.
that's all i can think of at the moment.
March 11, 2003 at 4:16 PM
I second launchbar. Highly, highly recommend it.
Also fun are meterologist (http://homepage.mac.com/fahrenba/meteo/meteo.html)
As well as show desktop (http://www.everydaysoftware.net/showdesktop/index.html)
March 11, 2003 at 4:24 PM
Hmm... the links made that look all weirdified. Something else for Nathan -- rather than using Black Light, why not just press "ctrl option cmd 8"
March 11, 2003 at 5:51 PM
because ctrl-opt-cmd-8 turns everything into greys, and stuff gets washed out. black light'ing it makes text much more legible to me.
and doing ctrl-opt-cmd requires me to move my left hand from the home keys, while cmd-space b l does not. :)
March 11, 2003 at 6:59 PM
i tried launchbar and didn't take to it very well. perhaps i should try it again, mostly it just felt In The Way to me.
<a href="http://homepage.mac.com/max_08/themes/milk.htm" rel="nofollow">milk</a> theme + <a href="http://www.unsanity.com/products.php" rel="nofollow">unsanity's</a> metallifizer = YUM.
pope: Show Desktop is just what i've been looking for. (:
March 11, 2003 at 8:15 PM
though it endears me to you, the extent of your geekdom has never been more apparent...
March 11, 2003 at 8:42 PM
i used milk for about 8 months straight, but just had to switch out of boredom. but yeah, milk is yum.
March 11, 2003 at 8:58 PM
i used milk for about 8 months straight, but just had to switch out of boredom. but yeah, milk is yum.
March 12, 2003 at 2:46 PM
WeatherPop <a href="http://www.glu.com/products/weatherpop/" rel="nofollow">http://www.glu.com/products/weatherpop/</a>
NetNewsWire <a href="http://www.ranchero.com/netnewswire/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ranchero.com/netnewswire/</a>
March 12, 2003 at 3:09 PM
.sara, there's a way to autohide the launchbar pane (http://storage.reforge.com/shot.jpg), as well as having it not display in either the menu or dock. This allows it only to appear when you press "cmd space"
March 13, 2003 at 1:13 AM
i'm up for anyone reading this buying me a mac... Help to save me from my evil ways? I take paypal...
March 13, 2003 at 3:50 PM
PTHiTunesNotifier and PTHPasteboard from (wouldn't you know it) PTH Consulting. (http://www.pth.com)
Konfabulator! (http://konfabulator.deskmod.com/)
Also check out WindowShade X from Unsanity.
March 14, 2003 at 11:38 PM
I'll second Konfabulator and PTHiTunesNotifier as "must-have" programs. its so cool being able to control iTunes from just 3 keys on my iBook no matter what app i'm using.
and you can also add Synergy (http://synergy.wincent.org) to the list. it adds three buttons to your toolbar a la iTunes to control your music. integrates very nicely, its not ugly and obvious.
peace out!