All Things Mac

• It's being annoying right now. Won't sync and stuck on iPhone screen! http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/ios-apps/115356-updated-my-iphone-now-wont-show-itunes-3.html

• The hinge started squeaking and cracking-ish noises when I closed it in intervals after a while. Turns out the fix is just tightening the screws on the underside near to the hinge. Good to go :)

• http://www.askdavetaylor.com/dashboard_widgets_on_my_mac_os_x_desktop.htmlMake Dashboard items always stay on screen: (turn on dev mode and hold F4 (or F12 on ext keyboard) whilst clicking the app and set it where you want to)

• Skitch seems like a really good quick photo / screenshot editing program.
• PreyProject, free, and very similar to Hidden.
• Hidden App, great for finding a lost Mac-only computer. Takes photo of user and uses SkyHook for localization.
• Running (and installing) Wine on Mac! 600 diggs
• Cronnix Quick GUI Cron Script editing! (great for autosaving stuff like git commits)
• Seashore is a good quick image editing app (easier than GIMP in my opinion)
• Thumbs Up image resizing app
• Disk Inventory X (shows graphically disk usage by folder)

• Setting up PHP 5 in Mac OS X

• Consultant's Canary. Shows all loaded stuff.
• Show *all* running processes sorted by cpu

top -o cpu

• Apple Developer Tools: Shark (hard-core thread monitoring). Quartz Composer.

• kernel_task taking 30% CPU? Penryn Solution
  • Reset SMC? Doesn't work for me :(
• Windows 7 Style Window Resizing –> jiTouch 2 or HyperDock
• Stop Spotlight from indexing external drives:

touch /Volumes/NOLAN_FLASH/.metadata_never_index

• Tell Chrome to not open PDF's (corrupts them when you “save page”): Disable PDF Viewer plugin in Chrome plugins…

• AdBlock, FlashControl, YouTube Downloader

–Git, CrossPack –CoolTerm –FileZilla

–Dock: TotalFinder, Flux, Droplr, Dropbox, Menu Meters, Caffeine –Editing: Smultron / TextMate, –Documents: Office for Mac (especially Word, need to port that over to dokuwiki), iWork –FlowChart Software? –VLC, Steam, Skype, Matlab

• Mac has great built in diff tool called FileMerge

• See Scripts

–Install Wine, Arduino, Processing, –Re-Install Windows 7 with VirtualBox? –Remote Desktop with CoRD –MindMapping with Dia? –Disk Scanning with Disk Inventory X