Mac OS X

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A personal list of software, configuration and tweaks to make Mac OS X even better.

Configuration

Screen Sharing

The following only applies to Screen Sharing 1.0 (which came with 10.5.0). Unfortunately, apple removed much of this functionality in Screen Sharing 1.1 with the update to 10.5.5. If you saved (or otherwise extracted) Screen Sharing 1.0 from the plain 10.5.0, you could still uses these features. However, Screen Sharing 1.0 crashes on 10.6, so you have to make do with the bundled version 1.1 and it's (lack of) features. TUAW post about this

Screen Sharing is normally hidden in the library folder, so I like to drag it to the Dock for easy access. Use the Finder's Go To command to go to /System/Library/CoreServices and drag Screen Sharing to the Dock, or create an alias to it and put it in Applications.

Also, Screen Sharing has some hidden features that come it quite handy (thanks to this Macworld hint):

Enable a network browser for machines offering Screen Sharing session:

defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing ShowBonjourBrowser_Debug 1

Enable a toolbar with additional functions:

defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing \
'NSToolbar Configuration ControlToolbar' -dict-add 'TB Item Identifiers' \
'(Scale,Control,Share,Curtain,Capture,FullScreen,GetClipboard,SendClipboard,Quality)

Additional Software

Things I like to add:

VMware