There are “treasures buried in Mac OS X; a lot of small but important applications that most users seldom touch or may not know are there for the taking,” Garry Barker reports for The Sydney Morning Herald.
“Joel Gladman, of Apple dealer NextByte, took his shovel to the electronic sandhill last week at a joint multimedia meeting of iMUG and AUSOM, Melbourne’s two Macintosh clubs, to reveal what he said was a treasure trove of almost 30 applications buried in the operating system,” Barker reports.
Barker reports, “We are not talking about the applications bundled with each Mac, such as iPhoto and iMovie. That’s in the obvious and big treasure chest.”
“We’re talking about the many less well-known but still useful applications, many of them hidden in the Utilities folder in the Finder,” Barker reports.
Full article here.
Move along nothing new to see there.
Disk utility has always been useful and is a breeze.
Mmmmm – Pixie.
Always on… always useful… never lets me down.
Cripes that was dull. Must be a slow news day.
Now that was a worthless click. No treasure at all.
no mention on calculator. no wonder M$ is ruling the OS world.
wtf? They say “almost 30”, then how many were actually in there? Like 5? Seriously, this is the stupidest article ever.
And the stupid website pops a popup that Safari doesn’t block.
I’m pretty sure the author is ADHD. Eventually tangents to Airport Express and AirFoil (neither of which are part of OS X!) then just fades off.
I take it that they shall remain hidden then…
I agree. The article was pathetic. In no way did they mention 30+ apps.
I want my click back.
Well, that was a worthless piece of crap article with only 3-4 free apps that come with the OS mentioned. WTF?!?!??!
My favorite free utility is “Dropcopy”. This little gem allows you to send files between two or more Macs without having to mount one on your desktop. It manages the networking for you. It is dropdead simple to use and setup. It’s how I keep my Powerbook and desktop in sync (until Leopard brings a better syncing utility, I hope).
Well, that sucked.
I was hoping there would be a hidden naked woman. Ohhh, urrr, titties. Maybe a “bigotted comment utility” – so I won’t run out of things to write on MDN.
TextEdit, an often overlooked mini word processor that can do more that MacWrite, read and write simple Word docs, pops up faster than the old classic Note Pad, and accounts for 90% of my typing. (not counting that little box at the bottom of each MDN article)
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