DragonDrop is intended to reintroduce some of the functionality lost with the death of tabbed windows. We all remember tabbed windows, who trod the classic paths. We could drag an open window to the bottom of the screen, and a title-tab peeked up, readily

System Tool Kit X, is a graphical interface for Mac OSX, that provides GUI controls for various command line tools, some of which are: fsck, ipfw, top, ps, chown, chmod, cron, man and more...

Spy is a useless little tool that sucks up a tiny amount of the CPU time to display some info about your system load. Spy is as unobtrusive as possible. Its original goal was to take less screen space than the Mac OS X utility CPU Monitor. It does so by l

AquaLess is a text pager for Mac OS X. It allows you to browse plain text files and -- more importantly -- text output from Unix command line tools. AquaLess is a Cocoa replacement for the less command, which is constrained to the terminal window. AquaLes

AppLaunch is a MacOS X tool written in Objective-C/Cocoa to launch common Unix and MacOS commands using a â⊘graphical command lineâ⊘. You can say that it is the MacOS X version of Windows', KDEs, â⊘¦ â⊘Runâ⊘/â⊘Launchâ⊘ dialog.

ChangeDesktop is an application that will change your Desktop picture at random from any number of folders you choose. It is written in Cocoa, completely free and the source code is available.

shortcuts for managing windows in Aqua

FingaMIDI is a replacement driver for the ADB trackpad found in Apple G4 PowerBooks and second generation (white) iBooks. It allows the inbuilt trackpad to be used as a three-axis MIDI controller, sending x, y and z (pressure) data as parameter change mes

iTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa. We are aiming at providing users with best command line experience under OS X. The letter i represents a native Apple look and feel of the program interface, and an emphasis

Roxio Toast 5 and 6 for Mac OS X provide an extension to load a cd image (.iso) as a virtual drive on your desktop.
This is NOT the same as mounting with Disk Image Helper. Any normal application will see the disk as a real drive and you will not have to

Virtual workspaces for Mac OS X

uControl is a keyboard remapper and more. Meaning, those useless keys can now be reused, remapped, or reduced.

Battery and UPS Monitor for Mac OS X.

Open source key-remapper for Mac OS X

Jetzt kann man die schönen neuen Trackpad-Tricks auch mit alten REchnern machen

This page is a compendium of some programs you might come across while tinkering with Mac OS X. Documentation for most of these tools exists, therefore my aim is not to reproduce documentation, but simply to maintain a cache of relevant information.

An addition to Fast User Switching on OS X that allows you to use up less menu bar space.

TinkerTool is an application that gives you access to additional preference settings Apple has built into Mac OS X. This allows to activate hidden features in the operating system and in some of the applications delivered with the system.

This Contextual Menu "nudges" the Finder to update the information it displays about a file or folder. Use it on any item (or groups of items) if you suspect the Finder hasn't updated its view. This should work for most attribute changes, icon changes, si