Stuff

Macintosh/OS X

Various Mac OS X software, notes and tips.

• DefaultKeyBinding.dict – put this in ~/Library/KeyBindings and you’ll get you (more) emacs-like keybindings across all Cocoa apps, and makes Home and End behave like Home and End on Windows.
• Quicksilver (pdf documentation)
• TinkerTool – tweak configuration settings, like moving the dock to the left or right
• Increase Mail.app performance: sqlite3 "$HOME/Library/Mail/Envelope Index" vacuum. (source)
• iStat – system monitor
• Firefox themes - more OS X-like than the default (one version has Safari-style upside-down tabs)
• Verbose boot – sudo nvram boot-args="-v"
• Open new tabs instead of new windows in Safari: defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true

Decent list of open-source software for OS X.