OmniFocus screenshot and feature overview. The last time I posted about OmniFocus, I mentioned we were thinking about potential early betas and the like—ways to share what we've built so far, without hosing your data or giving you a terrible first impression of our newest app. Some of us feel pretty strongly that it's time for you to have more information about OmniFocus, so you have a clearer picture of its features. We want you to be able to make informed decisions about whether OmniFocus has some of the capabilities you're looking for, because none of us want you to wait in limbo for our software when another solution may potentially fit your needs right now. There are other productivity systems out there, and while I would surely lose my Marketing Weasel badge if I encouraged you to evaluate them, I definitely don't want you to avoid doing so out of inaccurate expectations about OmniFocus—expectations we may have unwittingly helped create by talking openly about OmniFocus's development process over these last months.
AppleJack Project Page. CoconutBattery. Partimage. Analytics. Rdiff-backup. A remote incremental backup of all your files could be as easy as "rdiff-backup / host.net::/target-dir"[disclaimer] What is it? Rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network. The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are stored in a special subdirectory of that target directory, so you can still recover files lost some time ago.
The idea is to combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup. rdiff-backup also preserves subdirectories, hard links, dev files, permissions, uid/gid ownership, modification times, extended attributes, acls, and resource forks. Also, rdiff-backup can operate in a bandwidth efficient manner over a pipe, like rsync. Download: rdiff-backup is GPLed (anyone can download it, redistribute it, etc.). The keys used to sign the releases are available in the project members' keyring. Current Status: The earliest releases of rdiff-backup are more than seven years old. Help: Requirements: Sonar. MBS: TinkerTool. TinkerTool is an application that gives you access to additional preference settings Apple has built into OS X. This allows to activate hidden features in the operating system and in some of the applications delivered with the system.
The tool makes sure that preference changes can only affect the current user. You don't need administrative privileges to use the tool. With this design, it is no problem to use TinkerTool in professional networks where users have restricted permissions. The program will never change any component of the operating system, so the integrity of your system is not put at risk, and there will be no negative effect on system updates. Compliance with these security rules is additionally guaranteed by the application sandbox of OS X. All preference settings changed by TinkerTool can be reset to Apple's defaults, or to the state that existed before using the tool.
TinkerTool is electronically distributed software. Raging Menace - MenuMeters. MenuMeters cannot be used on 10.11 El Capitan, please see "System Requirements" below. Introduction MenuMeters is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for Mac OS X. Although there are numerous other programs which do the same thing, none had quite the feature set I was looking for. Most were windows that sat in a corner or on the desktop, which are inevitably obscured by document windows on a laptop's small screen.
Those monitors which used the menubar mostly used the NSStatusItem API, which has the annoying tendency to totally reorder my menubar on every login. The MenuMeters monitors are true SystemUIServer plugins (also known as Menu Extras). The CPU Meter can display system load both as a total percentage, or broken out as user and system time. MenuMeters comes without warranty or support. Screenshots License MenuMeters is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). See the "GNU General Public License.rtf" file for full license terms. Donations. Schubert|it - PDF Browser Plugin. PDF Browser Plugin turns your web browser into the best PDF viewer available. With the help of PDF Browser Plugin you can view PDF documents directly in your web browser, print them, and save them to disk if you'd like to keep them.
The Schubert|it PDF Browser Plugin perfectly integrates into your web browser and with its great Mac look & feel it looks like it always belonged into it. Easy to use and intuitive toolbar buttons give you quick access to the most common features, and a standard Action menu lets you access everything else – even while the toolbar is hidden in cases when you need the maximum screen real estate. PDF Browser Plugin takes advantage of the Quartz technology that is built into Mac OS X.
That means you are viewing PDF documents with the same crisp and high quality graphics you are used to from other modern Mac OS X applications. And of course it also profits from the high speed of Quartz when displaying PDF documents. Sophisticated Viewing Options. Create a Tab-completion-capable GUI app launcher. Inspired by the last comment on this hint, I created the ultimate (to me, at least) command-line application launcher.
Using my solution, I can now launch GUI apps from the command line, complete with Tab completion. For instance, I type iMov[Tab][Enter], and iMovie HD launches; iTu[Tab][Return] for iTunes, etc. Here's how I did it. First, I created an Apps directory in my user's home directory, and added it to the $PATH variable. Then I placed the following script in the new Apps directory. . #! I then ran the script, and it generated a link for each application in /Applications to the following script in the same Apps directory. . #! Once the generatelinks.sh script has run, you're done -- you can now launch anything in /Applications by just typing a portion of its name and hitting Tab then Return. [robg adds: I tested this, and it does indeed work as described.
Find -E /Applications/ /Volumes/Apps/Utils -regex ".*\.app$" -print | SCPlugin. Synergy. SuperDuper. SuperDuper is the wildly acclaimed program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless. Its incredibly clear, friendly interface is understandable, easy to use, and SuperDuper's built-in scheduler makes it trivial to back up automatically. It's the perfect complement to Time Machine, allowing you to store a bootable backup alongside your Time Machine volume—and it runs beautifully on your Mac!
SuperDuper's interface confirms all your actions in simple, clear language to ensure that the end result is exactly what you intended. Take a look, and click for additional screen shots! We all know that using the Macintosh is usually a trouble-free experience. Except when it's not. It happens to all of us, eventually. Carbon copies. SuperDuper is the most advanced, yet easy to use disk copying program available for macOS. Faster than a speeding bullet – and more accurate! Expertise not required. Doveryai no Proveryai. But we're not going to do that. SynergyKM: The Missing GUI. Share your keyboard and mouse in realtime with Synergy. Synergy is an open source and free software project that allows one to share a keyboard and mouse across multiple monitors on separate computers and even between different operating systems.
You may be a prime candidate for Synergy's superb um... synergy if you code multi-platform software, use more than one computer at home such as a laptop and a tower, or if your computers have different functions (media server, net machine, etc.). Personally we do all of the above and were in dire need of a swift way to dispose of our old keyboards and mice to make way for all sorts of fun new usb gadgetry. Step 1: Installing Synergy Step 2: Collecting the Screen Name of each Computer Step 3: Setting up the Server Step 4: Setting up the Clients Step 5: Testing Synergy Step 6: Auto-launching a Synergy server or Synergy clients Step 7: Tips and Tricks (W) = Windows instructions (M) = Macintosh OS X instructions (U) = Unix-like system (*nix) instructions Step 1: Installing Synergy .
Step 5: Testing Synergy. PictureSync. RsyncBackup.