Essential Mac software
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Hi guys, very useful thread coming from a year old mac user with no regrets whatsoever. Do any of you use your machines for home movies? Ive made do with imovie til now but its awful if you ask me and i am ready to bin it....Can anyone recommend a more intuitive program? Im not into movie making just want something with a nice tree so i can store movies of the kids in a sensible manner!
NIIKME said:
Im not into movie making just want something with a nice tree so i can store movies of the kids in a sensible manner!
There is Usher, which bils itself as an iTunes for movies. I haven't used it myself, but window resizing app Moom from the same company is excellent, and certainly worthy of inclusion in an "Essential Mac Software" thread.JonnyFive said:
Is there anything for the Mac like.. CCleaner for Windows?
I've seen theres a Beta of it, has anyone tried it..
There's AppCleaner, which tidies up preferences and other doodads installed by applications; handy for apps that install frameworks, which get left behind when you drag the application to the trash. There's also AppleJack, which provides an automated script for tidying things up from the single-user prompt (i.e. starting up your Mac and not running any of the graphical wossnames, so you can do low-level system stuff; hold down ⌘-S when the system starts to access it, type CTRL-D to exit it and start your Mac normally).I've seen theres a Beta of it, has anyone tried it..
Other than that, all you really need are the following commands, which, in order do:
- Runs the regular maintenance scripts to tidy up system logs etc
- Deletes the contents of the current user's Caches directory
- Repairs permissions - the way some Mac sites go on about this, you'd be forgiven for thinking it's a magic bullet that fixes all ills. Whilst it can fix some bizarre application behaviour, its most usual effect is to soothe one's OCD
sudo periodic daily weekly monthly
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches
sudo diskutil repairPermissions /
Edited by CommanderJameson on Sunday 1st January 09:20
http://www.macdentro.com/ - IceClean
DiskSweeper is another useful freebie, from OmniSoft.
Secrets Preference panel is another if you want to (de)activate hidden functions or change certain parameters.
DiskSweeper is another useful freebie, from OmniSoft.
Secrets Preference panel is another if you want to (de)activate hidden functions or change certain parameters.
Here's a nifty one. It's like Disk Inventory X, but with a much more OS X-ified interface.
GrandPerspective: http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
GrandPerspective: http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
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