Since I'm without my own computer tonight, I borrowed one and remarked on twitter that I love that I can pretty easily recreate my laptop's basic setup with tools I use anyway. These few easy steps mean that at best I can be ultra portable if need be and save myself from a disaster in the worst case scenario.
After having been on OS X for 5 or so years, I have collected a bunch of little helper apps that do one specific thing very well. It never fails that I have someone sitting next to me that sees me using one and is thrilled to know such a thing exists. Here is my list of current favorites:
I've been trying to speed up my macbookpro because it seems to have slowed down lately. I talked to Matt Gauger and he suggested turning off my dashboard if I wasn't using it.
How to disable your dashboard in OSX
Open terminal and paste this command in.
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
Attempt to launch dashboard. If it doesn't, you win!
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