
ScreenSharingMenulet: Using OS X’s Screen Sharing feature between my Macs has become a regular part of my daily routine, and ScreenSharingMenulet has made making those Screen Sharing connections simple. MondoMouse: I use MondoMouse dozens of times each day to move and resize windows without having to grab a thin title bar or a tiny resize box-heck, without even having to click a mouse button.

For example, by pressing Mercury Mover’s keyboard shortcut followed by S, my Safari window is instantly placed in my favorite location with my favorite dimensions. Mercury Mover: Among this add-on’s many features, the one I use the most is the capability to quickly restore windows to particular sizes and positions. MagiCal: Snow Leopard finally lets you put the date in the menu bar, but I still prefer MagiCal, which instead uses a tiny calendar icon for the date clicking on the icon displays a useful monthly calendar. When I use a Mac that doesn’t have LaunchBar running, I simply feel naked.” LaunchBar: Jason Snell put it best: “If I could have only one Mac utility, a solitary piece of software that I could use to improve using my Mac and all its programs as I went about my daily business, it would be Objective Development’s LaunchBar. Jumpcut: As a writer, I consider a multiple-Clipboard utility to be a must, and Jumpcut remains my personal favorite for its ease of use and elegant interface. HardwareGrower, a Growl add-on that informs me of hardware and network connections and disconnections, and my Mac feels lacking without this utility. Growl: More and more of my favorite programs take adantage of Growl to provide notifications and updates. I just press a keyboard shortcut and provide the event details. Dropbox, with its Finder integration and automatic syncing, makes it easy.įlexCal: Flexcal lets me create new iCal (orīus圜al) events without having to open my calendar program.


DocumentPalette: I use DocumentPalette many times each day to create a new document in the current folder via a keyboard shortcut-I just choose the type of document from the palette that appears.ĭropbox: Over the years, I’ve tried many methods for keeping particular files in sync between my computers, and for sharing files with friends and family.
