OSX Tweaks
Here's some essential OSX tweaks / applications that I can never remember and always have to go searching for, so I thought I'd drop them into the one place. I'll update this with more as I remember and find them.
A Quake style terminal - Visor:
http://visor.binaryage.com/
(And you'll need SIMBL for this one)
An open-source package manager (apt-get etc):
Fink
Finder to display full path in title:
defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES
killall Finder
Change Login screen background:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow DesktopPicture "/Path/to/your/loginwindow.jpg"
Change Finder open to use the return key:
http://www.returnopen.com/
Monitoring system statistics application:
http://islayer.com/apps/istatmenus/
Essential toolbar calendar popup:
http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/magical
To stop Finder writing .DS_Store files on network volumes:
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
Quick look from the terminal add this line to .bashrc:
ql () { /usr/bin/qlmanage -p "$@" >& /dev/null & }
Search using Spotlight and show a "Quick Look" of matching files (again add this to .bashrc):
locateql ()
{
locatemd "$@" | enquote | xargs qlmanage -p >& /dev/null &
}