{"id":1754,"date":"2009-04-23T18:50:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T22:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2009-04-23T18:50:26","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T22:50:26","slug":"free-mac-programs-i-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/04\/23\/free-mac-programs-i-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Mac Programs I Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been running a Mac as my work machine for a while now. (And, since it&#8217;s a laptop, it tends to become my personal machine somewhat, too.) Excluding things that are specific to programming, here are a few tools I don&#8217;t think I could live without&#8211;and they&#8217;re all free!<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eidac.de\/?p=134\">smcFanControl<\/a>. (Wow, my version is way out of date.) My machine can hit 75 degrees Celsius, at which point parts of the laptop are too hot to touch, and things inside can&#8217;t be happy. Apple seems to have designed the machine to stay quiet: even as I&#8217;m at 75 degrees, the fans don&#8217;t ever exceed 1,000rpm. But they go to 6,000 rpm, and smcFanControl will take you there. It&#8217;s not until somewhere around 3,000rpm that I even start to hear the fan, and it makes a big difference. (6,000 rpm can bring the CPU and chassis down 20 degrees Celsius in under a minute.)<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.islayer.com\/apps\/istatmenus\/\">iStat Menus<\/a>, which place helpful (and customizable) things like network speed, memory utilization, and CPU graphs in the Apple bar (whatever it&#8217;s called: the menu bar across the top of the screen). With 2GB RAM (and a tendancy to have way too much stuff open), it&#8217;s handy to keep an eye on its usage, and it takes maybe 20&#215;20 pixels to do so. Clicking on the graph brings up a spiffy graph and a breakdown of the top processes using RAM.<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.blacktree.com\/quicksilver\/what_is_quicksilver\">QuickSilver<\/a>, and I don&#8217;t even use it for half its potential. Ctrl+Space and start typing, and it&#8217;ll match things. &#8220;fir[Enter]&#8221; and I&#8217;m in Firefox, &#8220;ter[Enter]&#8221; and I&#8217;m in the terminal, &#8220;tex[Enter]&#8221; and I&#8217;m in TextMate&#8230; It&#8217;s actually capable of much more, too.<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/firefox\/firefox.html\">Firefox<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozillamessaging.com\/en-US\/thunderbird\/\">Thunderbird<\/a>. Even though the Mac comes with Safari and a pretty slick mail client, I think power users will feel most comfortable with these. And both are quite customized (and plugin-ized) just to my liking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been running a Mac as my work machine for a while now. (And, since it&#8217;s a laptop, it tends to become my personal machine somewhat, too.) Excluding things that are specific to programming, here are a few tools I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/04\/23\/free-mac-programs-i-love\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}