‘For most people today (9/27/2011) running a typical system, try not to go over 30,000 songs if you value the user experience. There is no doubt this will not be an issue in the future.’

Vital. ‘The Marked Bonus Pack is a collection of scripts, commands and services. Some work with multiple editors, some are specific to certain editors. The Services will generally work with any editor that has the necessary capabilities. The rest are organized in folders based on the application they work with.’

“Here’s what I did to set up a local mirror of my WordPress blog on Mac OS X.”

I should install this.

“Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like /etc/passwd, and lets you manage a system from the console or remotely.”

"A great Mac image editor built for humans." I would like to buy this at some point. Alternative to Photoshop.

Combine this small, easily customizable AppleScript with a keyboard shortcut utility (like FastScripts) to quickly toggle an application forward and back. I use this for Terminal and TaskPaper.

“Select a group and enter your preferred prefix for the shortcuts assigned to each snippet. The resulting url may be downloaded as a custom .textexpander file, or used with TextExpander’s ‘Install from URL’ feature. Using the latter will provide automatic updates if the group is added to or changed, custom prefixes are preserved.”

A TextMate mod. Maybe check this out at some point; I think Dean uses it.

Prevent security risks from stuff like Firesheep.

“When you connect to the Internet through an unprotected wireless network, such as at a coffeeshop or an airport, where you don’t have to enter a security key, you’re putting yourself at risk. Attackers connected to the same network can easily intercept your unencrypted traffic and log in as you to services such as Facebook, Amazon, and LinkedIn.”

For when an app has a keyboard shortcut symbol and you can't figure out which key they mean.

“The symbols below appear in menus and represent keys that are used in keyboard shortcuts. Some of these symbols also appear in the help and are referred to as ‘modifier keys.’”

So you can, for instance, have two free accounts, with your personal one unaffected by how much is in the dedicated shared folder of the other one.

Using Photo Booth and Automator to print out a strip of three photos. Neat.

"Matrix of fonts bundled with Mac and Windows operating systems, Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite."

Get your Dropbox variables right in the provided script, save it as a .sh file in your ~/Library/Scripts folder, assign it to a shortcut in FastScripts, and you're a keyboard shortcut and a few seconds away from taking a screenshot and having it automatically uploaded to a public folder. Awesome, and doesn't rely on imgur like csexton's captured (http://github.com/csexton/captured), which I was also investigating.

"Freedom is an application that disables networking on an Apple computer for up to eight hours at a time." Only restarting can circumvent the time limit you've sent.

Maybe useful at some point.

A very useful PDF workflow for OS X that allows you save a dated and custom-titled PDF of a receipt (for something you buy online) from the Print dialog.

"A Mac OS X Leopard developer tool for debugging HTTP services by graphically creating & inspecting complex HTTP messages."

"One of the great features of Mac OS X has aways been the built-in spelling checker. Unfortunately, there's no easy way to see what words you've added. But with Dictionary Cleaner, a convienient System Preferences pane for Mac OS X, now you can."

On the characteristic lack of usability in open source projects, and why. "The distributed, collaborative nature of open source software works for developer-level software, but works against user-level software. Imagine a motion picture produced like a large open source project. Different scenes written and directed by different people, spread across the world. Editing decisions forged by group consensus on mailing lists. The result would be unfocused, incoherent, and unenjoyable."

"DMG Canvas builds disk images from template documents that you create."

Spaced repetition! "Designed to help you remember facts (such as words and phrases in a foreign language) as easily, quickly and efficiently as possible. To do this, it tracks how well you remember each fact, and uses that info to schedule review times.

How to create an iPhone ringtone.

A variety of homespun video presentation software for all your art installation needs.

"The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system."

If, for some reason, FlickrExport ever fails me.

Firefox has more users, perhaps, than is commonly assumed. With Firefox 3 on the near horizon, this may shoot up even more.

Command to remove line breaks in TextMate.

Tags music in iTunes on a grid of Calm -> Intense, Sad -> Happy.

Run IE5, 5.5, 6, and 7 in OS X under X11 emulation. It actually works perfectly and installs in minutes with a few clicks.

Free Mac software for taking webpage screenshots. Can capture the entire length of a page (beyond the "fold").

An excellent resource for wireframing.

Like it says, a shell script to automatically install the perfect Ruby on Rails development environment on OS X. Useful!

Good collection of screensavers, if you're into that sort of thing. I'm partial to Fliqlo, a big stylish flip-clock.

Panic's graphic designer worked out a new design for the Coda toolbar that required the team to write a custom UI widget. Going the extra mile inspired Apple to do the same for Leopard.

On designing good icons.

Bouncing OSX dock icons to "The Blue Danube."

"HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows."

Some very useful utilities. Service Scrubber helps you manage OS X services, Witch turns command+tab into something that can access the windows of individual applications, not just the applications themselves.

Play Divx, AVI, and tons of other video formats in QuickTime.

"A Mac OS X bridge application between Adium IM and Address Book used to search, manage and keep your contacts in sync. "