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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read it again… it’s a story about a mug meeting where he walked through the thirty. Slow down people.
“There is much more in the Mac treasure chest and, as Long John Silver might have admitted while sheafing his cutlass and pouring a pot of porter, finding the gems is half the fun.”
“Hiddens gems buried in Apple’s Mac OS X”
There’s a ruby in Leopard.
Yes, but that makes it a pointless story. I’ve said a bunch of things today, is it news that I’ve said a bunch of things today? No. That would be pointless, just like this is pointless.
If only I could find a widget version of iPod Updater 2004-04-28.app, I’d leave it running all the time (kidding – I really got to clean out the dreck from my Utilities folder!)
Heheh… cutlass.
I was once a wooden boy.
@irritated
And the stupid website pops a popup that Safari doesn’t block.
Agreed. Stupid website. Stupid popup.
Thanks for the warning! I will not be popped at.
That was odd…
The article ended abruptly, without a closing statement, or an apparent thesis of any kind.
I found myself searching for page 3, and it was nowhere to be found.
It was almost as if it
Now I’m a wooden brain.
cubert – good call on dropcopy. i just installed it. great app!
“Move along nothing new to see there.”
There are alot of new Mac users here that might not know these things. You want people to switch to Mac and then when someone tries to offer some info you knock them down.
my mdn magic word is “woman”
yummmm….. woman!
They must be looking for hits. Unfortunately, they got one from me.
That article said nothing. Bascially, nothing.
If you want to get rid of pop ups once and for all get PithHelmet for Safari. I don’t know how people put up with all the pap-ups and little moving animation ditties on their screens like I read them complaining about on this forum. PithHelmet destroys almost all of that garbage.
>”pap-ups”
Never got one of those. What’s it like?
YAWN.. looks like their trolling for clicks
Wow, what an incredibly insightful article! I would not have been able to go on if I hadn’t seen this.
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Wow. first time I click on this page and looks like I have been here already. My name is all over the place.
Also looks like a little crybaby has his feelings hurt and can’t handle arguing like a man.
Now who could that be?……..
Oh, I see now. Wasn’t hard to figure out. Look at a couple of other stories and there he is!!!!
So apparently Stephen is drinking again.
MW:figures….hah!
I think the pop-up may have been a product of open cookies. Does anyone else know about this? Cookies and Java should be turned off unless specifically needed?
@Nothing New Here: “There are alot of new Mac users here that might not know these things. You want people to switch to Mac and then when someone tries to offer some info you knock them down.”
No, the problem was that the article was pointless and said nothing. A total waste of time. It had nothing to do with new users vs veteran users. It has to do with an article that is a total waste of time for anyone and was incredibly poorly written. Sure, I guess the author was trying his/her best to cover the meeting, but just happened to do a really awful job. Maybe this is the sort of thing that passes for journalism in the Windows world, but not here.
>”pap-ups” “Never got one of those. What’s it like?”
It’s when you watch ads with your legs in the air. And you may feel a little pressure. It helps to take deep breaths.