Mentioned 3 of these already. ClickToFlash is a must-have. (Make sure you disable invisible flash.) ScreenSharingMenulet is very handy if you VNC frequently. Growl is very nice. I particularly like it paired with the Facebook Desktop Notifications app.
Just found out about this via the Boxee blog… It’s perfect for me! Usually Shaya’s using my iPhone to play Scramble so I’m rarely able to get to the Boxee app expediently.
If you’ve ever wanted to keep an application “on top” in Mac OS, Afloat is what you need. For awhile I’ve wanted a way to keep Quicktime X on top so I can watch TV while doing other stuff. Finally went looking and found this. It’s free, works with Snow Leopard and integrates nicely into every application’s Window menu. It also does window transparency!
Been using this for a long time and it comes in handy from time to time. It’s a System Preference pane that allows Spotlight to index your Google Documents and Picasa Web Albums. Works in Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard.
Here’s an (admittedly rare from me) tip for windows users: One of the really nice features of the Mac OS Terminal app is tabbed “shelling.” Once you get used to having several shell tabs open in one window it’s hard to tolerate anything less. So far, when I’m at work I have just been dealing with it. But today I went looking and found this solution for windows users.. It’s called PuTTY Connection Manager and it’s an add-on application that lets you spawn multiple PuTTY shells in the same window. Pretty nifty (and might I add something that comes built-in to Mac OS!)
Haven’t used this yet but it looks pretty nifty.. Turn your iPhone or iTouch into a keypad for when you’re on your laptop or numpad-less keyboard. Supports windows but requires a desktop app and a shared wifi connection. There’s a free version in the app store to try.
I don’t tweet from the desktop that often but still not sure how I missed Tweetie for Mac. It is really nice.
The best of both worlds here. In my case I do need a native Windows install once in a while but most of the time I can get by with virtualization. With this method you can use your Boot Camp partition in Mac OS!
I had to refer to the VirtualBox User’s Manual but I did get this to work. Since I have my Boot Camp partition on a 2nd drive I used:
sudo chmod 777 /dev/disk1
sudo chmod 777 /dev/disk1s1
VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -rawdisk /dev/disk1 -filename Win7-BootCamp.vmdk -partitions 1
Also, a commenter pointed out that if your Win7 install blue screen’s, change the IDE controller type to ICH6. To do that click on your Win7 virtual machine, then click Settings, Storage.
A few days ago I blogged about an iPhone app called Wifi Touchpad that I use to remote control my media center machine. It’s great but I just discovered a better app called TouchPad. It doesn’t require a receiver application because it works over the VNC protocol or Apple’s built in screen sharing. It’s more polished, works in horizontal mode and supports 1-3 finger gestures. And it has a built-in media controller screen that mimics the Apple remote. But the main feature I want to try is the wake support with Snow Leopard and an AirPort Extreme Base Station since it connects via Bonjour.
Old but recently discovered and so true. One-word answer would be SBSettings. Two-word answer would be SBSettings and MusicControls. Get all the jailbreak info you need at the Dev Team blog.
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