This is a page full of changes, additions, programs, and preferences that I like to often set on my mac platforms. Refer to it when you get a new mac, or have recently reinstalled the OS.
Safari or Firefox - Interweb
; free open source
Apple Mail or Thunderbird - email galore; free open source
VLC - plays all movies; free open source; thought now I use Plex
Dropbox - Cloud file system, synced everywhere you go
Firefox Add-ons
Clipboard integration
Jumpcut -
KISS - Nothing beats it yet for simple text clipboard mgmt
Clyppan
iTerm - terminal / shell client for mac - nothings beats it
Mercury Mover - Sizes and moves windows with keyboard; no more constant mouse dragging
Image editing - Photoshop rules, but takes too long to load for little repairs; Here are alternatives:
UnRarX - RAR utility; free open source
Transmit - sFTP,
FTP, etc, really fast; pay
SwitchResX - use non-standard resolutions; free
DashQuit - shows dashboard-widget ram usage and allows you to stop dashboard; free
CD Burning
Parallels - Win XP on mac intel; pay
OnyX - Preventive system maintenance for
OS X; free
To easily switch between sleep and hibernation enter the following commands:
Hibernate On
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 1
Normal Sleep
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
Weird Mode - save to disk but use RAM if possible. If you lose power you are not dead in the water, but if you are powered up it is still fast.
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 3
Show settings
pmset -g
Puts key components off, but keeps RAM in RAM and power to many components.
Saves RAM to HDD and turns off entire computer. When it boots back up, it loads the RAM image from disk and you start from where you were.