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One feature I really miss when not using the GNOME desktop is the nifty little feature where ALT+click anywhere on a window is the same as clicking on the title bar of that window -- you can drag the window by grabbing anywhere. Particularly on a laptop, this is a nice addition. Mondomouse gives you this feature, but at a cost. Its key bindings do not always interact with the standard key bindings in the ideal fashion, for one thing. The other, which is why I probably won't buy it, is that it's kind of a hog. Watching my GeekTool top output shows some pretty serious memory usage, and I saw an immediately noticeable bite out of my battery life on my 17" MacBook Pro when I had it running. So the ability to sling windows around my desktop more easily with the touchpad comes with the fact that I can do so for approximately 8% less time before having to plug back in. |
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Every Mac should have Growl. Like Quicksilver, it's one of those apps that's free, fundamentally Mac-like, and yet somehow transformative of the user experience. Download it without a second thought. |
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I have had no trouble whatsoever with Transmission (this is my first version number of the software), and although it is obviously less feature-packed than Azureus, that matters little to me since I had no occasion to use 90% of Azureus's features. Transmission does everything I want. I think the way that one schedules bandwidth restrictions, and the way that restrictions will override default settings, could be more intuitive. I've got it set up satisfactorily now, but it took some tinkering that I generally don't think appropriate for a Mac app, where "set it and forget it" should be the Golden Rule. |
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Wow. This is the best use of the dock's "eye candy" features EVER. One glance at the dock icon tells me current conditions, plus tomorrow's forecast (although it could tell me other things if I so desired). And a single click pops open the full rundown. Very, very nice. |
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These sorts of information manager applications are very personal choices, I think. For me, the programs that enforce a page or outline model are not what I want. I prefer products like Yojimbo and DevonThink that operate on a file model. That being said, Circus Ponies has made a very, very good product for those who like the page model. There's one feature that's so good, I almost decided to go with Notebook anyway: the "clipping services" allow you to set up a page in any given notebook where you can dump any idea you find from any Services-aware application (get on the ball, Firefox!), and then circle around later to that page and put the stuff where it belongs. It's a great, great feature that every other information manager should steal. |
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If you have the chance, install Hazel very early in the process of setting up a new computer. If you put twenty minutes into thinking about where (and when) you want certain types of items to go in your workflow, and another fifteen minutes setting up Hazel to manage that workflow, you can really resist the natural tendencies of the Finder to have you build up undifferentiated piles of crap. I've got it sorting and prioritizing different document types upon download, color-coding items that are starting to get stale (that need my intervention), dispatching .torrent files to the appropriate directory where they will be processed by the BT client automatically, etc. A very useful program. |
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