Essential Tools for OS X

I remembered the hard way (or rather I remembered while reading this post on Apple's discussion forums and a howto on macrumors.com) t...

Attending developers at this year's WWDC were given preview copies of Mac OS X's next major release 10.5 a.k.a. Leopard which was f...

Since Mac OS X 10.4.6 the built-in diskutil tool (Disk Utility.app's CLI brother) supports live repartitioning of the boot volume. The f...

Thanks to the wonderful Automator action Check for Disk made available from automator.us, you can setup an Automator workflow that will exe...

Most of today's Macs sport hard drives of 100+ gigs and more, which you'll be happy to fill with movies, audio songs, images and wha...

RBrowser ( www.rbrowser.com ) - afaik a unique remote GUI-enabled file system browser for the MacOS X. Supports various protocols, such as s...

OmniGraffle ( www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle ) - a diagram and charting tool with very easy, yet very powerful user interface, a...

KisMAC ( kismac.de ) - passive stumbler for MacOS X. It can put a WiFi adapter in passive mode, thus turning it completely invisible. Useful...

iStumbler ( istumbler.net ) - a wireless detection/scanner app, currently has plug-ins for Airport/WiFi networks, Bluetooth devices and Bonj...

Fugu ( rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu ) - sftp/scp client with GUI. In fact, the help page says that this is a sftp frontend to the client...

CocoaMySQL ( cocoamysql.sourceforge.net ) - an Objective-C (or Cocoa) based MySQL gui client, one of the first that were available. I'v...

Update: The good folks over at Microsoft's mac mojo blog have just posted info that a beta version of RDC v.2 is available for download...

Remote Desktop, or ARD( www.apple.com/remotedesktop ) - the must have remote management tool for MacOS X system/network administrators. You ...

Chicken of the VNC( cotvnc.sourceforge.net ) - best VNC client for the Mac I can think of. VNC clients allow you to connect to the screen of...