TeraByte Unlimited - Freeware Utilities - Hard Drive Management. Hacking OpenOffice.org dictionaries. * { CSS:resetr } - Online CSS-Reset Tool. Top Mac OS X Utilities: Restoring Mac OS 9 Functionality. Everyone knows that the group that's by far the most important to Apple is composed of small utility developers. Several years back, Apple saw that the Mac market was stagnating because almost every conceivable utility had already been developed. Realizing drastic resuscitation measures were necessary, Apple moved quickly to replace the Mac OS with the NeXTstep-based Mac OS X, hoping to give Mac developers the opportunity to restore Mac OS 9 functionality to Mac OS X and further extend Mac OS X's limited interface, to draw Unix hackers into the Mac camp, and to provide a market for all seven NeXT utility developers.
Sarcasm aside, the number of utilities available for Mac OS X has indeed mushroomed of late. In preparing for this article, we turned to TidBITS Talk for recommendations, and the response was overwhelming - so much so that we've decided to publish a group of articles on the topic; this one will focus on utilities that restore Mac OS 9 functionality to Mac OS X. Marc Liyanage - Software - Mac OS X Packages - Tips and Documents - Mac OS X Customization. Here are some utility tips, application settings and other tweaks that I find indispensable or that make my Mac OS X experience even more pleasant than it already is. Feedback, corrections and suggestions to the material on this page is welcome. This is of course all a matter of personal taste, so things that work for me might suck for you... Cool Utilities LaunchBar Application and Document Launcher, USD 19.95 This is the single most important utility I use.
The utility stays active all the time and waits for you to press a hot key combination after which it displays a small tab in the upper right corner of the screen just below the menu bar. If you are a programmer, I highly recommend that you configure it so that it indexes the reference documentation for the programming languages and APIs you work with. Now I can just hit Cmd-Space, type stri , hit return and get the Javadoc page for java.lang.String which I use about a thousand times per day when I'm writing Java code...
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