Mac OS X Utilities

Presented here is a collection of utilities, plug-ins, services, and other minor but useful pieces of software for your Mac.

All of this software is © 2006-2009 by David Reed and is made available under the BSD License.

Bug reports, comments, code contributions to David Reed <david@ktema.org>.

FileInfoCMM

Access file information and attributes (including creator code/file type and resource fork information) from the contextual menu.

Type Contextual menu plug-in Version 1.01 System 10.4/10.5 (UB) Size 140KB

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AdminLaunch

Open GUI applications with root privileges (very much not safe, but occasionally useful).

Type Application Version 1.01 System 10.4/10.5 (UB) Size 150KB

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WordCountService

Provides system-wide word/line/character count function via the Services menu.

Type System service Version 1.01 System 10.4/10.5 (UB) Size 112KB

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PercentEncodeService

Provides system-wide percent-encode/decoding (like%20this) via the Services menu.

Type System service Version 1.01 System 10.4/10.5 (UB) Size 92KB

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