Some fun with the Dock: subliminal messages?

Mac OSX software

Newest additions:

• Connoisseur - Recipe manager that can parse plain text recipes from sites and has a big-screen view for using while cooking
  
• BluePhoneElite - Integrate BT phone with Mac
  
• Phone Agent - Manage all aspects of your Sony Ericsson phone (via Bluetooth)
  
• Salling Clicker - Control various apps via your bluetooth phone. It also has features that react to incoming calls, including muting/pausing music/movies and displaying Caller ID info from your Address Book (with picture)
  
• HyperEdit - Programmer's text editor. Features realtime rendering of your page in PHP ,CSS, or HTML
  

• Cronnix - Edit your crontab file in a GUI interface
• ManOpen - Gives you access to man pages for easy reading, printing, saving. A bit slow to launch, but very useful.
• ShellShell - GUI interface to various commands. You can make your own modules.

MP3/music

• ID3X - Edit multiple MP3 tags. Integrates with MP3 Info CMM
• MP3 Info CMM - Allows you to view stats of an mp3 while in the Finder. Also lets you quickly rename the file based on the tags, and edit tags in ID3X.
• MP3 Rage - Manage mp3's in many ways: change tags, file names, attributes; organize files; much more!
• netTunes - Allows you to control a copy of iTunes remotely through your network.
• PodMaster - Of all the apps that copy songs from an iPod (none of which I ever use), I'd say this is the best. iPod-like display, listing by artist and title, and easy copy button.
• Ripped? - Scans your iTunes Library for the Album of a selected track to detect and report if it has already been imported.

Palm

• Plucker - Download web sites for viewing ono your handheld...Like AvantGo (which has no OS X version), but is more UNIXy (and is a bit harder to set up). Once it's going though, it works well.

Interface

• CandyBar - Change System icons easily
• Finder Eye - Contextual menu item with tons of features: path copying, opening files with certain apps, change creator type
• TinkerTool - Tweak various settings of OS X
• Visage - Modify the bootup screen/background, login screen/background, etc.

Instant messaging

• Adium - Unoffiical Adium clone. Very customizable. What I used before iChat
• iChat - Apple's official AIM client, requires Jaguar

Hall of Famers

• LaunchBar - Launch anything by typing abbreviations

Communcation

• BluePhoneElite - Integrate BT phone with Mac
• Phone Agent - Manage all aspects of your Sony Ericsson phone (via Bluetooth)
• Salling Clicker - Control various apps via your bluetooth phone. It also has features that react to incoming calls, including muting/pausing music/movies and displaying Caller ID info from your Address Book (with picture)

Internet

• HyperEdit - Programmer's text editor. Features realtime rendering of your page in PHP ,CSS, or HTML
• MacReporter - Get news from tons of sites: slashdot, Versiontracker, macfixit, CNN, Drudge Report, PalmInfoCenter (you get the idea...just about any news site)
• SubEthaEdit - Programmer's text editor. Supports Rendezvous for collaboration.

Unclassified

• Connoisseur - Recipe manager that can parse plain text recipes from sites and has a big-screen view for using while cooking

Personal tweaks

My prompts look like this:

[Sat Apr 09 10:35:36| josh in ~] %

alias cls 'clear;ls'
clears the screen and runs 'ls' (directory listing)

bindkey -k down history-search-forward
bindkey -k up history-search-backward
Normally when you press up and down keys, it will cycle through the history. If you type a command (or any text), and press up/down while these lines are 'active', you will only see history items that start with that command.

bindkey "^F" beginning-of-line
bindkey "^G" end-of-line
Real easy: the caret means the control key, so you figure it out. (OK, OK...pressing control-F brings me to the beginning of the input line; control-G to the end.) I chose these because my text-based IRC client had these (and the two keys are next to each other.

set complete = enhance (tcsh)
set completion-ignore-case on (bash, put this in ~/.inputrc)
auto complete is now case-insensitive...to find /Applications, I had to type /A[tab], now I can just type /a[tab]

set cdpath=(~;/home/josh/public_html)
if you try changing to a directory and it doesn't exist in the current directory, tcsh will search the directories you specify for a matching dir and swich to it if found. In this case, it will search my home directory and my web site directory. (Autocomplete won't find it tho, you have to type the full dir name.)