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What cool little OS X apps do you use?

I cannot for the life of me remember a program I used to use.

I can't believe I can't find it because this is where I stumbled upon it in the first place.

It is a program that stops other programs from phoning home or connecting to the internet. I remember the icon was a cartoon face or like a smiley face?
 
SBG88 said:
I cannot for the life of me remember a program I used to use.

I can't believe I can't find it because this is where I stumbled upon it in the first place.

It is a program that stops other programs from phoning home or connecting to the internet. I remember the icon was a cartoon face or like a smiley face?
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little snitch?
 
yes, thanks. that's a hard program to search when you can't think of any part of the name.
 
I have a few....
grab is great for screenshots of all sorts and sizes.
classic stickies are great for notes.
TextEdit is awesome... it's light, free, but has all the features I need for my typing.
R-Name changes the name/extension of a bunch of files at once.
 
Skywaterbanjo said:
Is there any utility that puts a small icon in the menu bar when the hard drive is being accessed?
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istat menu's puts an icon in the menu bar with drive capacity, and in it's dropdown box it shows drive activity.

not exactly what you want, but might help?

also menumeters might be able to do this, but i prefer istat menus, and havn't used menumeters for many versions.
 
.michael said:
Looking through I didn't see anyone put up Appcleaner.
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this is pretty cool. it beats paying for appzapper. i use apptrap. it's system pref pane that prompts you to remove the associated files from your system when you delete an app from the finder. although there are a few uninstaller apps out there for os x - does anyone know which one is the most thorough?
 
vandozza said:
istat menu's puts an icon in the menu bar with drive capacity, and in it's dropdown box it shows drive activity.

not exactly what you want, but might help?

also menumeters might be able to do this, but i prefer istat menus, and havn't used menumeters for many versions.
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Actually iStat can be adjusted in the preferences to show HD access as opposed to capacity/space left. So yes, iStat is the answer to his question. Menumeters is another alternative.
 
fivepoint said:
Actually iStat can be adjusted in the preferences to show HD access as opposed to capacity/space left. So yes, iStat is the answer to his question. Menumeters is another alternative.
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good find!

i had a quick look into the pref's but didn't see this option.

(if you check the mode dropdown, you can set the icon to display drive activity.)
 
I probably use at least a dozen of the .apps promoted in this thread. I've also probably contributed in the past, but I can't be sure if it was this one or another. Either way, these might be repeats...

Dockless allows for running applications to be removed from the Dock entirely. This program is perfect for people who like a super-clean dock but multiple programs running in the background. I use(d) it for MenuShade and Stattoo, among others.

The only mac os x souulseek client I could ever get to work properly, s o u l s e e X.

I use VLC, Quicksilver, Adium, SuperDuper, UnRar, X, and Speed Download as well. Those are pretty standard, though, as maybe half or more of this community seems to use those.

Also, I wouldn't link it here because some may say it's used for illegal intentions (although I did already link ssX, so maybe I'm just a hypocrite...) but Senuti is great for those who use their iPods as external hard drives/thumb drives.

I'm a big menubar fan, so Mail Status Control, iRun, Ejector, LogMeIn (while not a true "program," it is still a great tool), and finally EasyWMA, because for some reason the Windows version of iTunes converts .wma files but the Mac OS version cannot.
 
odog402 said:
Anyone recommend a good torrent app? I'm currently using Tomato.
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Transmission is the best that I've found. I know that some folks love Azureus, but it was just too bloated for me. uTorrent on XP is really good and full of features, on OS X I do think Transmission is the way to go.
 
FightTheFuture said:
azureus has been discontinued and is now vuze. i also didn't like that torrent app - felt very resource heavy. i agree that transmission is the best there is, make sure you open those ports and only download legal torrents.
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I and a couple of friends for some reason have a hard time running Transmission. It decides to close on its on, just when ever it feels like it. Which is frustrating.
 
Thanks for the suggestions. I guess I was just looking for a menubar addon that would just show when the disk was active. I used to have one for my mac IIe!
 
VLC, UnrarX, Adium and I swear by transmission. It is very very light. I loved uTorrent on my XP machine and this is a great alternative while they work on an OSX port (and they are). Also using Frostwire for file sharing.
 
Recently I found Miro to be useful.

It's a free Open Source internet TV app, but I mainly use it to organise videos on my hard drive in watched folders. Unlike iTunes, it doesn't care what format the files are in and seems to play anything.

Fluid Is also cool. It makes little apps out of webpages and even turns them into easily accessible menulets. Great if you listen to a lot of internet radio and want to have them all in one place, tucked out of the way on the menubar. Good for MoblileMe too.
 
Grand Perspective is a really cool free application, which shows you the size of all of you hard drive's individual files in relation to each other. Here is my 160Gb hard drive, and all of the orange blocks are videos:

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GrandPerpective2.png
 
Skitch - Awesome screen capturing and sharing program
PathFinder - A LOT better than Finder (but not free)
CoverSutra - global hotkeys for iTunes ;) Very handy
VLC - the best media player as it can play literally anything..

Also Transmission - the best torrent client and flickr uploader to upload pictures to my flickr account..
 
I just downloaded iRecordMusic. It's a great app for recording music off any website. It's basically a web browser that allows you to record any music being played off any website. Pretty nice for grabbing brand new singles and such. You can even save the music files as Apple Lossless files and have the option to automatically add them to iTunes. BTW, I just use the demo version. You just can't do recordings longer than 15 mins... not really that big of a deal.
 
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