Mods/custard For Mac
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I'm not normally a big fan of modifications. I find many mods to cause far more problems than they're worth, and rarely do they make you more efficient. But then I started paying attention to how I work, and the tools I used, and I realized that while I don't have tons of system hacks, there are quite a few things I do to make the Mac OS X work the way I want it to. In writing this article, I had to create some ground rules for what constitutes a Mac mod, otherwise I'd end up writing about 'any old app I use a lot.' So for software, I decided a mod is something that either alters OS behavior, or overrides common OS functions.
Mods/custard For Mac Os
Hardware was easier, because really, any time you crack the case open on a laptop, you're doing a mod. However, again, I didn't want to talk about stuff you're supposed to do. That's not a mod, that's tinkering with user-upgradeable parts, and where's the fun in that? Also, I don't use a desktop much, other than some test Minis, so, the hardware stuff is all about the laptop.
What's not in here? To be blunt, stuff that relies on Input Managers and the like. I have yet to see anything relying on Input Managers that did not cause problems. The logic of the developers of Input Manager hacks, goes like this: 'If our code makes an application go wrong, yay us, we found a bug in insert application name here.' This always struck me as a bit specious.
It is the mod developers' job to ensure their mods never do any harm, especially when code is being injected into another application. It is not the job of every application developer to ensure his or her code works with any random injected code from every random mod. Plus, after the nth time that some application sneaks yet another copy of Smart Crash Reports on to my system, let's just say that I have issues with Input Managers, and leave it at that. At heart, I am a sysadmin. I skew towards safety and system reliability first, because if my base system is not reliable, then I'm not gaining much by the modding.
Also, this is limited to things I use, because well, I use them. I know what they do, and that makes it easier for me to talk about their use.
TinkerTool And TinkerTool System, from Marcel Bresink, was one of the first system mod tools for Mac OS X, and has always stood out because it doesn't do anything the OS can't do by itself. Instead of modifying how the OS and applications work, or injecting code into other applications, it provides a good UI for the various system options. For example, on my MacBook Pro, TinkerTool makes it easier to avoid sending.DSStore files to servers, sets my Mac OS X 10.5 Dock to the 2-D version, lets me have both scroll arrows together at both ends of the scrollbar area, enables the diagnostic menu in Address Book, and enables the Debug Menu in Safari. It can do quite a bit more, but that's all I need it to do. I've been using TinkerTool since it first appeared, and it's never caused me a lick of trouble.
Marcel is fast to update it when a new OS release comes out, and he's done a great job of making sure it's safe to use. Is TinkerTool's big brother. It's not free, but. It can clean up all your cache files, remove resource fork emulation files, (aka.files), set files and folders invisible, set MTUs, screen scaling factors, manage ACLs, modify the login window, manage various plugins, etc. Neither of these tools is unique in its feature set, but they each have a rock-solid reputation, and Marcel's concern for safety makes using his applications much easier.