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Synotic
11-12-2001, 05:13 PM
What are your favorite Mac OS X utilities?
applenut
11-12-2001, 05:27 PM
Launch Bar by FAR. Amazing piece of software that should be built into OS X
Logan Cale
11-12-2001, 08:39 PM
Application Switcher Menu, but only because it fixes OS X's layer handling.
kaboom
11-12-2001, 09:24 PM
ummmm, window shade X. Duh.
B@BO
11-12-2001, 09:25 PM
Launch Bar
ASM
MetamorphX ;)

-B@BO!
Brad
11-12-2001, 09:35 PM
Andrew Welch's classihack makes using most Classic apps a pleasant experience.
Nebrie
11-12-2001, 09:44 PM
[quote]Originally posted by starfleetX:
<strong>Andrew Welch's classihack makes using most Classic apps a pleasant experience.</strong><hr></blockquote>

What's Classihack? I don't see it on the Ambrosia page.
Brad
11-12-2001, 09:58 PM
[quote]Originally posted by Nebrie:
<strong>What's Classihack? I don't see it on the Ambrosia page.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Well, it's a hack for Classic that enables window buffering. Huh? That "saves" the convents of the windows in a buffer like other OSX apps so Quartz can play nice with them. I'm sure you've seen the white space and redraw over Classic apps caused by the Dock, menus, windows, and other OSX stuff. This hack makes that little problem go away. There are some bugs with it, but I find it a great boon when swapping between old and new apps.

I don't have the link handy, but if you look around the FTP server long enough, I'm sure you can find it.
dillyo1001
11-12-2001, 11:37 PM
this is really what you meant, but as far as i'm concerned, the terminal is hands down the best utility. it's indispensible. and it finally made mac os credible in the science community.
Michaelm8000
11-13-2001, 12:51 AM
windowshades X.x

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Trekkie
11-13-2001, 03:45 AM
ASM
WindowShade X
StuffIt CM
MetamorphX
Network Statistics dockling
Sinewave
11-13-2001, 05:03 AM
PTHpasteboard. I love haveing a history of my clipboard :)
flowerbob
11-13-2001, 06:04 AM
LaunchBar
ASM
Blacklight
WindowShade X
gordy
11-13-2001, 12:58 PM
WindowShade X, though, it's a bit buggy after trying to use it in Mail.app.

EDIT: Oh, and PPPMonitor, how could I forget that one.

[ 11-13-2001: Message edited by: gordy ]</p>
bradbower
11-13-2001, 01:21 PM
MetamorphX, iTunes Tool, Terminal, Preview, EightBall.dock :D
neutrino23
11-13-2001, 09:40 PM
ASM
seedy
11-13-2001, 10:28 PM
Finderpop....sob... :(
chromos
11-15-2001, 11:27 AM
ASM
DragThing
HotApp (better than DT since you can set say F2 instead of Cmd-F2 to launch an app, but it's buggier)
Moogs
11-15-2001, 04:18 PM
By far:

TinkerTool 2 (free)
Window Shade X ($7)
BatChmod (free)


Get 'em, live 'em, love 'em. <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />

BTW, with regards to ASM, one thing I don't get is why when you alt-tab through the applications, the icon/name that ASM displays doesn't change as you click through.

Really, about the only reason I found the Classic app switcher to be useful was as a visual indicator as I alt-tabbed through them...helped me to move between apps faster. And I would use ASM for that reason because the Dock is not very good at this...

...anyone know how to make ASM do this? I couldn't figure it out based on the minute or so that I tinkered with the preferences.

[ 11-15-2001: Message edited by: Moogs ™ ]</p>