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- basye, on 09/28/2008, -2/+50I'd be lost without Quicksilver.
- fezzasus, on 09/29/2008, -0/+20Appdelete - Free version of App Zapper. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ ...
Also, half of these hardly count as essential. - KSUdesigner, on 09/29/2008, -1/+14This is not the number one story on digg. Just because it's at the top of the page doesn't mean that it's number one, it means that it's the newest story promoted to the front page. The top stories are on the right side of the page. Learn how to use digg before you make yourself look like a moron next time.
- inactive, on 09/29/2008, -0/+10Yeah, but it's development has been pretty much abandoned :(
- MacParrot, on 09/29/2008, -0/+10Are you blind whining this article because you...
#1 Just hate Macs in general because (number 1 reason) it isn't what you use so it sucks?
#2 Are too stupid to figure out how to block articles related to Apple? - ErifNeerg, on 09/29/2008, -0/+9what no Growl? no skitch? Caffeine? slife? smcFanControl? GimmeSomeTune? Burn? RapidoStart? Disk Inventory X? (all of those are for free) and yea AppCleaner is a free version of AppZap without the zapping noise.
Witch, while not perfect, is great app switching... app. Pathfinder as well. Both of cost money but worth it. I'm sure i missed some more. - MacParrot, on 09/29/2008, -0/+8sparksalot
VMware requires you to install Windows as does Parallels. Neither allows you to do so on PPC Macs - Kelmon, on 09/29/2008, -0/+7To be honest, I used to use it a lot until Leopard and since then Spotlight has been fast enough to be a decent application launcher and ad-hoc calculator. Quicksilver does a lot more but that's all I really used to use if for.
- HamNCheese, on 09/29/2008, -3/+9...and last but not least....
#13 - /bin/bash - StuartGibson, on 06/14/2009, -1/+7AppTrap, and it works better too (IMO). Drag the app you want to lose to the recycle bin and it asks if you want to delete all the associated files. Means you're still working with the OSX paradigm and it gives you the option to keep settings if you want.
http://konstochvanligasaker.se/apptrap/ - xstarsprinklesx, on 09/29/2008, -0/+6Tweaking ≠ fixing. It's more like customization to the user's preferences.
- Millsee, on 09/29/2008, -3/+9No, not really.
Enjoy your wrists. - inactive, on 09/29/2008, -0/+6ur doin it wrong
- revjustin2, on 09/29/2008, -1/+7How about a tweak that makes my Macbook into a pizza? I'm hungry.
- beerbarron, on 09/29/2008, -0/+5Quicksilver is great, app zapper is also great, but there are free alternates.
- Millsee, on 09/29/2008, -1/+6Those are really handy - thanks and dugg.
- webzyne, on 09/29/2008, -1/+6Yeah, but it doesn't work without the *ZAPPOW!!* sound effect. Nice try though.
- BossKey, on 09/29/2008, -0/+4iStat Menus and MenuMeters are basically the same thing. I don't know why they put them both in such a short list. Nothing wrong with MenuMeters, but iStat Menus is newer and has a few additional features and now I prefer it.
They should have replaced Renamer4Mac (now shareware) with NameMangler (free). Renamer4Mac is great, but NameMangler is more than good enough. - Jimmerz, on 09/29/2008, -0/+4Quicksilver is free. What's the free alternative to App Zapper? (I already paid for it, but I'm curious...)
- inactive, on 09/29/2008, -0/+4Anyone use Onyx? I've been looking for a cleaning/maintenance program.
- surferjoemaui, on 09/29/2008, -1/+5turbo charge your clipboard with PTH Pasteboard.
- rstarr, on 09/29/2008, -0/+3Wait...am I accidentally on cnn.com?
I'm not?
Oh, then big ***** deal. Who wants to CONSTANTLY be reminded of that? I mean I like to remain as informed as the next guy, but I have interests other then cataclysms of epic proportions. - magus824, on 09/29/2008, -1/+4aw, man! I really thought that was going to be a website!
- BrendanSheehan, on 09/30/2008, -0/+3If Appdelete is 5/10; App Cleaner is 9/10, and AppZapper is 10/10. I used them all.
If you want to pay for quality get AppZapper, but if you want free get AppCleaner. - boneit, on 09/29/2008, -1/+4Apple let you install doze with bootcamp.
- Cattywampus, on 09/29/2008, -1/+4This same article from techradar was submitted a few days ago.
- NikZ, on 09/30/2008, -0/+3Growl is so incredibly useful, that it really should be a default part of the OS. As should GeekTool, another glaring omission from this list.
- danielhoerr, on 09/29/2008, -0/+3Meh... Not all that exciting of an article, even for a Mac fiend like me. A few apps that duplicate functionality...
I didn't discover 1 new app that was "essential" like I'd hoped from the OP title. - serif69, on 09/29/2008, -0/+3I use Onyx. I maintain the computers in a small, all-Mac agency, and Onyx is the first thing I go to when things seem to go majorly wrong. More often than not, it's just an overloaded cache or bad file structure that takes a couple minutes for Onyx to rebuild. For those of us who aren't adept at the command line, it's a great tool.
- returnofthemac, on 09/29/2008, -0/+3i stand corrected.
I dunno though. I still don't know if thats worth $10. To each is own. - BossKey, on 09/29/2008, -0/+3Just because it just works doesn't mean you won't want it to do more than what it does.
In fact, the more a system "just works," the easier it is to add these toys without worrying about them bringing down the system! - rstarr, on 09/29/2008, -0/+3On a MacBook Pro smc is more essential for the safety of my junk then of my Mac.
- saddino, on 09/29/2008, -0/+3Uh wrong. The devmode trick leaves the widgets floating over all your apps -- hardly the same thing. Singles lets you choose the window level, auto-refresh rate and more for widgets you convert.
- adriaaan, on 10/12/2008, -0/+3I find Xslimmer to be quite useful as well, it's saved me 3gb of space in total which I think is quite nice. Mail.app for example can be slimmed from 289mb down to just 24.7mb (Removes unnessecary PowerPC binaries and keeps just the one language, you can select to keep more if you wish). Actually many of the original Apple apps can be slimmed quite heavily, iTunes 130mb>35mb, GarageBand 176mb>60.7mb. Check it out is space is valuable to you, I can imagine some MacBook Air or MacBook users finding it useful.
P.S. Yarr harr fiddle di dee... if you catch my drift ;-) (it limits you to 50mb otherwise). - digitalpencil, on 09/29/2008, -0/+3most of these are hardly essential.. quicksilver, menumeters and iStat are quite handy though, the rest however you can live without.
- reclusivemonkey, on 09/29/2008, -0/+2AppCleaner is another one
- robzthird, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2Spotlight and quicksilver is faster.
- fezzasus, on 09/29/2008, -1/+3"ZAPPOW" Isn't worth $13 unless Steve Jobs pops out and says it himself... and if that happened, id rather the free one anyway.
- NikZ, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2How about a free, built-in-to-OS X batch renamer? Create a new custom workflow in Automator and add these steps (it's easiest to find them by name using the search field):
1) "Get Selected Finder Items"
2) "Rename Finder Items". On this step, click "Options" and check "Show this action when workflow runs".
Save the workflow as file format "Workflow" (ie: not "Application"), in:
~Users > [youraccount] > Library > Workflows > Applications > Finder
(if the directory doesn't exist, just create it)
And voilà, now when you right-click a selection of files or folders in Finder, you can select this workflow in the "More > Automator" menu and run batch renaming.
It's a simpler utility than the ones mentioned above, but it's free, built right into the OS and very convenient when all you have to do is right-click your file selection. - Edition, on 09/29/2008, -2/+4What? No Pathfinder?
- robzthird, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2Listen to him. I tortured myself for a little bit forcing myself to learn Quicksilver but it was worth it and I use it happily now =D
- fezzasus, on 09/29/2008, -1/+3The fact that the majority of apps change how the OS looks, rather than behaves, suggests that there's nothing wrong.
- foofiejnooner, on 09/29/2008, -0/+2personally i think the only news for the past 8 years should've been about the stock market crashing
- davidwasman, on 09/29/2008, -0/+2Why are Menu Meters and Temperature Monitor on this list? They do the same thing as iStat menus.
Also, many of these don;t play well with Leopard. Especially TinkerTool. - pingudownunder, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1Thats how Hazel does it as well. I find a combination of AppZapper with Hazel gets rid of most things!
- brendon2020, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1agreed, and the number of apps it works with just make it the most valuable tool for the mac (Bookmarks, music, applications, documents, contacts).
- aircool, on 09/30/2008, -1/+2haha, tweaking OSX bloody hell... after all the rubbish MS has taken from these guys.
Stick to windows if you want something perfect out of the box. - jasonh1234, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1Lame list saved by the inclusion of Quicksilver
- inactive, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1Same old same old
- AppleMacStud, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1Mac OS X Rules!
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