I just got a new Powerbook and had to re-remember all the bits I need/like:
- uControl — Capslock -> Ctrl key remapper
I also use it to remap the ‘enter’ key next to the arrow keys to be a ‘fn’ key, so I can do ‘fn+arrows’ to give me easy pgup,pgdown,home,end. - Codetek VirtualDesktop Pro — pager / virtual screen
Like any good Unix, this functionality should be part of OS X, but oh well. It also supports a hack to sorta give one Sloppy Focus. - WindowShade X — Windowshade functionality (window minimizer)
This was part of MacOS, but left with OS X. Here it is as a third-party app. Sigh. - Carbon Copy Cloner — disk backup and cloner
My backup solution is to clone my Powerbook’s disk to an external disk that I boot from in case of catastrophic disk failure. - MenuMeters — menubar stats
Gives you little graphs of CPU, net, disk, etc. - PDF Browser Plugin — view PDFs and .ps files in the browser
- Adium — multi-protocol IM client
Adium is based off of libGaim, and supports tabs. - Mozilla Firefox — Kick-ass fast browser
Sort of obvious, yeah, but Firefox still beats out Safari in terms of dealing with all the crazy pages out there
(especially forms-based broken-ness) - Fink — Unix program package manager
Fink can give you all the crap you can get on RedHat, if you want it.
Things I use:- gnuplot
- ncftp(get)
- nmap
- mtr
- unrar
- wget
All my other Unix needs, even X11, are (surprisingly) supplied by OS X itself.
- Media players
Sometimes you just gotta view the occasional .rpm or .avi:
– RealOne Player
– Windows Media Player - Network Beacon — Rendevous service publisher
Almost recommended:
- XBattery
— battery monitoring utility