Comments on: macalicious

By: willo

willo — Sun, 14 Mar 2004 11:48:56 +0000

thank you for all your suggestions! I’ll have to go through all those one by one :)

By: asan102

asan102 — Sat, 13 Mar 2004 15:01:40 +0000

I second leen’s recommendation of Butler. ( http://petermaurer.de ) If you’re interested in LaunchBar Butler lets you do the same thing (And with a more customizable, and IMO prettier interface). Plus, it does so many other things that it’s just in believable. You can set it up to provide as little or as much functionality as you want, but once you start using it I think you’ll be hooked. Just make sure to get the most recent Butler Beta it seems perfectly stable for me, and has lots of new features.

You can use it to control iTunes from the menu bar, screen corners or hot-keys as well as showing current track info (if you listen to music a lot, assigning iTunes play/back/forward to the F-Keys ms mighty handy). It can let you navigate any folder or your entire HD from a menu, it gives you a pasteboard history menu or contextual-menu at the touch of a hot key (Apple-Shift-V for me), it’ll replace the Apple fast user switching menu with a smaller one (if you use FUS), You can access system preferences and a list of open applications (ala OS 9’s Application Switcher) from a menu, you can look up address book contacts merely by navigating through the sub-menus it even magnifies their phone # or address for you to see from across the room), you can search any different website you want from a hot-key this list goes on, but as you can see it does tons of things to make your experience more enjoyable. Even if you just use one part of it, it’s still an excellent application, and the price is right.

By: eoin

eoin — Sat, 13 Mar 2004 12:01:21 +0000

willo

To tab through buttons you need to “Turn On Full KeyBoard Access” in System Preferences –>Keyboard & Mouse –> Keyboard Shortcuts

(Apps have to be compliant, as well)

By: willo

willo — Sat, 13 Mar 2004 02:28:43 +0000

sweeeeeeeeet

By: leen

leen — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 23:02:31 +0000

macjournal taco html edit cyberduck fuzzyclock butler autohide cleverkeys toyviewer

By: zxcv

zxcv — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 16:31:31 +0000

grab ucontrol to make the funtion keys usable.

By: willo

willo — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:13:03 +0000

i’m over at a friends geeking out
taking notes:
camino
firefox
omniweb (pay/commercial)

clutter

::::

can anyone tell me how to tab through to the ok button down below??

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:58:57 +0000

cocktail –
http://www.macosxcocktail.com/

By: willo

willo — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:57:15 +0000

one from matt
http://www.acquisitionx.com/

By: Slim

Slim — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:15:24 +0000

Willo,

I don’t what you’ve researched as far as maintenence routines for os X but the nice nerds at the apple discussion forums insist that you must repair permissions regularly and run mac janitor.

I just keep the disk repair application in the dock (to repair permissions) along with mac janitor and run them weekly. macjanitor is available at http://www.versiontracker.com

Note that if you computer is on 24/7 you don’t need mac janitor because these scripts run automatically in the middle of the night.

Also if you back your files up to another drive. Carbon copy clone is awesome. It creates a bootable copy of your os with all of your files. ccc can also be found at versiontracker. The scheduler allows you to back up automatically at specified intervals.

Finally, the discussion forums at http://www.apple.com are great. They can help you with anything. If you have any basic questions feel free to email me. would love to hear more about your experience with the mac.

Cheers,

Slim