Applications, either provided by Apple or third-party, which facilitate administrative functions that usually involve working with the operating system or file system
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What Window Management Options exist for OS X?
I'd like to do something with my windows on OS X, where something includes options like re-arranging, moving, re-sizing, remembering positions, cloning across Spaces, etc. What options exist?
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Is there a utility for mac that shows the information of an SSD like the health etc…?
I am wondering if there is a utility for the mac that allows you to see the details of an SSD like the health of the drive, TBW (total bites written), how many running hours etc... In researching for ...
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Is there a file copy utility for OS X that's similar to TeraCopy for Windows?
On Windows, I use TeraCopy for improved file copying. Are there any similar equivalents for OS X?
In particular, I'd like to see things like copy speed.
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How to replace Mac OS X utilities with GNU core utilities?
I found there is some differences between the utility command I used on the mac OSX and linux. I want to make my experience united.
How could I replace all my mac utilities with GNU utilities?
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What utilities should I put on an emergency recovery drive or SD card?
I've recently made an emergency recovery SD card for my MacBook Pro. Right now, all it has is a clone of the internal drive's recovery partition, and an encrypted sparsebundle with my 1Password file. ...
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Why would you choose Alfred over Spotlight?
Mac OS X is already loaded with Apple Spotlight, why use Alfred?
What does Alfred bring to the table that Spotlight doesn't?
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OS X Terminal “must have” utilities
I've just read with pleasure, and learned a lot from these questions :
OS X Terminal Tips and Tricks
OS X Hidden features and nice tips & tricks
OS X Applications you can't live without
But I ...
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Do any OS X apps ease Search and Replace across multiple files?
I'm looking for an OS X tool which allows me to search and replace a search string in multiple files. The requirements are the following:
Search and Replace
Search by regular expression
Search ...
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Is their a GUI SSH client for OS X?
I know that SSH from the command line is easy enough, but would like to give my students that use OS X a GUI option.
Is there a PuTTY equivalent for the Mac?
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How to completely remove Folx on Mac OS X?
I installed Folx download manager on my MacBook Pro. I didn't like it, so I removed it from the Applications folder. I also searched for its dependent files in /Library/Preferences, but I found ...
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Good simple Clipboard manager
I'm used to using Ditto on windows, and need something similar on my mac mini.
Any Suggestions?
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What program can print source code well on OS X?
I am looking for an OS X application to nicely format and print source code from a variety of programming languages.
Line numbers would be nice
Constant width font
Printing the contents of the ...
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How do I copy Chrome to TmpDisk on startup/RAMDisk creation?
I have set up TmpDisk to create a 1GB RAM Disk on startup.
This works fine.
How do I get it to automatically copy Chrome onto the RAM Disk every time it starts up?
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What is the quickest Mac OS X app to use to remove the background of an image to make it transparent?
I followed the instructions in How to use Preview for Basic Image Editing: Remove Backgrounds and Extract Shapes to use the Preview app to remove backgrounds with an image. The problem is that the ...
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What programs exist to find and delete “orphan files” left after deleting an Application?
I have transferred my system from Mac to Mac for over 15 years. I have preference files and other plists lurking around in my system for programs I tested years ago.
Is there a smart program that ...
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1answer
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What screen capture tools can copy the image path to the clipboard after a snap?
Can anyone recommend a screen capture tool that can:
save a capture as a file, and...
copy the path to that file to the clipboard?
The first part is easy, but I can't find a utility that does the ...
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Is otool removed in Mountain Lion?
I can't find /usr/bin/otool any more in Mountain Lion.
Does anybody know why otool is removed?
Is there any alternative for otool in Mountain Lion.
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2answers
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NeO outliner by d-lit forums/users
I recently bought NeO and I am having a bit of trouble understanding it. I have tried googeling for resources, but NeO does not seem to have that many users. I am looking for a place to discuss NeO ...
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Open terminal window on a particular folder [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I open a Terminal window directly from my current Finder location?
On Windows there is a utility which opens the command prompt on a particular folder. Basically ...
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Make the desktop report the OS X version
I have to maintain several different versions of OS X for testing, and it would be nice to know at a glance which version of OS X is on a machine.
I've previously created custom backgrounds with the ...
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Learn about basic OS X applications
I have been a Windows user and have recently started using OS X (I have Snow Leopard on my machine).
I wanted to learn about the basic applications in OS X (e.g. Terminal) and other commonly or some ...
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Monitoring network usage of individual applications?
I want to monitor each application's network/internet usage on my Mac.
Sort of like how Activity Indicator shows total upload/download usage -- but I also want to know particular application usages.
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2answers
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App for analyzing installers
Is there an app which shows contents of a .pkg file and shows which files an installer copies to my mac, what scripts it runs and so on?
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What's the tool that can do some actions when a file is copied?
I use Cmd+L to make a alias, and the alias has "alia" appended to the original file name. I move the link to a directory, then remove the "alias" part manually.
Is there a tool that can do this kind ...
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What are “dmgpart” files and what tools can create, merge, or manage them?
I downloaded something that came as three large files: One was a *.dmg (a disk image file, which I expected) and two more were *.dmgpart files, which I haven't happened to see before – I never ...
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Howto merge files after using split command from terminal?
I've split a large file with the split command from a terminal and copied it from a usb-stick to my macbook.
This results in couple of files named 'xaa', 'xab', 'xac'.
How do I merge them together ...
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Freeware for tiling windows [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What Window Management Options exist for OS X?
I've seen many, many utilities for resizing windows (BST, Moom, Divvy, SizeUp...) but I wanted to know if there were any ...
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Is there a (free) graphical SSH file transfer client for Mac? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What's a good graphical SFTP utility for OS X?
I'm looking for an SSH client that includes drag and drop file transfer functionality. I'm aware of CyberDuck, but ...
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How do I find my CPU's temperature?
There are a number of posts that talk about CPU temperature. Is there a utility built in to Mac OSX that I can use to determine the current temperature of the CPU?
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Silencing the Memory slot utility
I recently upgraded my Mac Pro with 24Gb of ram, quite the nice feeling.
When I booted up the system again, I got this message :
Quite nice I thought, seems the memory is working as it should. And ...
