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Posts tagged with utilities.
A typing shortcut expansion1 utility for OS X.
It doesn’t quite match the mighty TextExpander feature for feature, but the essentials are there. Definitely worth checking out (it’s free) if you aren’t already wedded to one of its rivals.
Apologies for the ungainly phrase—I can’t think of a snappy way to describe these things. ↩
multicd.sh is a shell script designed to build a multiboot CD image containing many different Linux distributions and/or utilities.
Launch apps and trigger actions from a quick, easy to use app! Call a friend, start an email, send a text, post to Twitter, turn on a flashlight — get to where you’re going faster than ever before.
I’ve been using Launch Center as a simple launcher and scheduler, but with a bit of tinkering and some tricks with app URLs the app becomes a genuinely powerful utility.
See Dave Caolo’s trio of Launch Centre posts for more details:
Isolator is a small menu bar application that helps you concentrate. When you’re working on a document, and don’t want to be distracted, turn on Isolator. It will cover up your desktop and all the icons on it, as well as the windows of all your other applications, so you can concentrate on the task in hand.
broom is a simple utility that helps developers regaining disk space. It recursively looks for projects inside a directory and cleans them by removing build artifacts, optimizing version control system files, etc.
broom cleans up after make, python, ant, mvn, gradle and git
A screen measuring tool that can automatically snap to edges and corners on screen, and lets you copy measurements to the clipboard in CSS-, HTML- or Objective-C-friendly formats.
sysdiagnose — gathers system-wide diagnostic information helpful in investigating system performance issues.
On OS X.
Via Forkbomber
Go2Shell opens a terminal window to the current directory in Finder.
Designed to sit in your Finder toolbar.
TouchCursor lets you use the home keys as cursor keys – in all Windows programs – keeping your fingers in the best position for fast typing. It’s free and open-source.
GrandPerspective is a small utility application for Mac OS X that graphically shows the disk usage within a file system. It can help you to manage your disk, as you can easily spot which files and folders take up the most space.
A free alternative to the recently posted DaisyDisk—not quite so pretty, but it does the job.
Thanks, @djthread
On Dir is a program that automatically executes scripts as you traverse directories at a terminal.
Via /r/linux
DaisyDisk scans your disks and presents their content as interactive maps where you can easily spot unusually large files and remove them to get more free space. The map gives you an overview of your data, so you always know what your hard disks are filled with.
Speaking as someone with a dinky 48 GB boot drive, this is a great way to hunt down chunky files occupying precious space.
