Includes: APE, Archives, DivX, Flip4Mac, Front Row Trailers, Google Desktop, Growl, Hibernate, iStat Menus, MediaCentral, Perian, SANE/TWAIN, SwitchResX & Version Cue CS3.

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AutoPairs, BusySync, DivX, ExtFSManager, Flip4Mac WMV, Growl, Hazel, HotBox, iStat Menus, MisFox, MySQL, Perian, PlugSuit, Secrets, Shades, SmartSleep, Startup Sound, Tex Distribution, TextExpander, Witch

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I have heard of a few of these, but where can i see descriptions and download infor for these (and other) preference panes?

Thanks.
Roger Pyle

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you can browse the selection at http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/ . not all listed are prefpanes; some are apps.

you can also search have google search macupdate.com for prefpanes: 'prefpane site:macupdate.com'.

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A Better Finder, FinderPop, Flip4Mac, GeekTool, KeyAccess, Mouseworks, Perian, & Sophos Anti-Virus

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If you have Flip4Mac and Perian, do you need DivX?
Speaking from a read-only viewpoint, of course.

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If you have VLC and/or MPlayer, you don't need DivX. Not sure about Perian, but Flip4Mac is a WMV-Plugin, not a DivX.

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Here you can see all of them: Screenshot

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NT

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You're absolutely right… ;)

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I have Flip4Mac, LaCie Shortcut button (which I have yet to use) and SANE (which allows me to use my unsupported scanner).

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I have 32. Probably need to do some house keeping…

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ExtFSManager, Miredo, Flip4Mac WMV, NTFS for MacOS X, Perian
(ext2 fs driver, IPv6 tunnel, . . . . . . . . . . , Paragon NTFS,

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I have 16.
9 that are a MUST:
AppTrap, DoubleCommand, SmartSleep, teleport, Perian, MySQL, Growl, Flip4Mac, Default Apps

3 I hope to use someday:
DSW (DoSomethingWhen), PlugSuit, Desktoptopia

4 I just deleted cause I never use them:
Disctop, MenuMeters, Warp, Divx

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Really needed: 6
Flip4Mac, GeekTool, GnuPG, iStat Menus, SteerMouse, TeX Distribution

Nice to have: 5
Archives, MySQL, Perian, SmartSleep, teleport

Just noticed that I can delete: 4
DivX, Hazel, MenuMeters, MZoom (MouseZoom)


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β€” Useful
iKey, because I'm too lazy to port my shortcuts to Butler

β€” Not as useful as in the old days
FinderPop, out of nostalgia, mostly

β€” Somewhat useful
GeekTool
Secrets, because I managed to grab the database before the server went poof
Widgets
MisFox
Perian
Flip4Mac, who should really reconsider the stupid useless extra clutter they insist on installing in my *censored*ing Application folder

β€” Not really useful
Archives
Disk Images
Remote Wonder Control, no seriously ATI, nobody needs a "Remote Wonder Control" prefpane showing nothing but a big fat button to launch a bloody external "Remote Wonder Control" application, come on, and I don't mean we only need you to clutter our Utilities folder; quite the opposite, really

β€” Still testing
SneakPeek Pro

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AppTrap – Automatic uninstaller, not yet used/tested.
Archives – Archive Utility's preference pane.
Default Apps
Diablotin – Organises Library folders.
Disk Images – DiskImageMounter's preference pane.
DSW – Looks strangely like launchd, not yet used/tested.
Flip4Mac WMV – Plays WMVs in QuickTime.
Growl
iStat Menus – System info in menu bar.
MenuMeters – Not sure why I still have this...
MisFox
Perian – Not sure what this is, but I installed it for a reason...
PlugSuit – Makes more sense than SIMBL.
Screenshots – May no longer necessary, see next one.
Secrets – Change hidden settings (the server's back up!).
Startup Sound – Adjust the volume of the startup sound.
SteerMouse – Really pointless preference pane. Just a big icon in the middle to launch the application.
Warp – Spaces thingy.
Widget Manager – Strangely enough, this manages widgets.

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Perian is a Quicktime Component, although they recently added a PreferencePane as well... you can see every codec it supports at perian.org.

Sebastian

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Flip4Mac, Perian, Growl, MenuMeters, SteerMouse, TextExpander

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1) Flip4Mac WMV
2) Growl
3) Perian
4) Secrets

Sebastian

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I have 16, two neat rows of 8!

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I have 15: Application Enhancer, AppTrap (very useful), Logitech Control Center, Default Apps, DiVX (I should remove it), Environment variables (never used, it, probably should delete it), Flip4Mac WMV, Growl, Perian, PlugSuit, SmartSleep, Startup Sound, Symantec Auto-Protect, Symantec QuickMenu (Symantec is required at work) and TeX Distribution.



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A Better Finder (which, upon examination, seems to do nothing for me but to serialize A Better Finder Rename)
APE
DivX (which I could probably delete, given that I've never touched it)
DoubleCommand (to turn my laptop's \ key into a forwards delete)
Flip4MacWMV (same as DivX)
GamePad Companion
Growl
Hibernate (which I could probably delete as I just shut my machine off when I take it on trips nowadays)
Little Snitch
MySQL
Perian
ShapeShifter (I still use 10.4 so it still works)
SharePoints
Spy (CPU/network load in the menu bar, now unavailable but still works fine)
Wacom Tablet
XBox 360 Controllers

I just deleted the Better Finder and Hibernate panels, and now have two nice rows of icons instead of those lonely two at the bottom. Thanks, OSX Hints!

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Logitech Control Center (old version before it started totally flaking out)
DivX (probably don't need this any more)
DoubleCommand
Flip4Mac WMV
GnuPG
Hazel
MouseWorks (travel wireless mouse)
PTHPasteboard (indispensable and free again!)
Spelling
TextExpander (tend not to use in favour of TypeIt4Me)
Textpander (ditto)
TypeIt4Me (can't live without it, I have over 400 abbreviations!)
Witch (also indispensable)



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ASM, DivX, Flip4Mac WMV, FruitMenu (can probably get rid of this), GeekTool (this too), GnuPG (and this... maybe), Growl, MenuMeters (haven't ever touched this), Perian

ASM... appears to not even load, I can probably chuck this.
It goes without saying that DivX isn't a <em>system</em> preference, it doesn't need to be there, but oh well.
Flip4Mac is very helpful.
FruitMenu... I don't even remember what the crap that is. Something about Menu Skinning or something? I've never touched it, probably got it at some tweakers recommendation. And apparently it doesn't work on Leopard anyways, ha. Total trash.
GeekTool looked interesting, but I haven't found a personal use for it.
I prefer command line interfaces to GnuPG (and SVN, but that's not in my sysprefs :P, so we don't have a problem).
Growl is <3
I used MenuMeters once, but I really don't care to continue to look at those stats, so they've long since been disabled.
Perian is also insanely helpful. But, if I have it, can't I kick Flip4Mac to the curb? Hmm, maybe not. I guess it gets to stay, <em>for now</em>.

So I nuked ASM, guess I got used to knowing my active App without the cute icon in the GMB, and FruitMenu, gooooooooooood riddance.

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3Dconnexion, Default Folder X, Flip4Mac WMV, Hazel, Perian, Synergy, USB Overdrive, Version Cue CS3, Wacom Tablet.

Version Cue and Hazel are disabled, but still sitting there. Hazel at least is useful...

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There should be another choice for "I have no idea" because I view in alphabetical rather than category ... yes I know how to change it ...

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3Dconnexion
Default Folder X
Flip4Mac
Perian
Teleport

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DefaultApps, Deja Vu, DivX, FilePathCM, Flip4Mac WMV, Font Reserve (ew!), iStat menus, Little Snitch, TextExpander (BEST PREFPANE EVAR), VC CS3.

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Default Apps, DivX, EDIROL UA-25, Environment Variables, Flip4Mac WMV, GarageRemote, Google Desktop, Growl, growliChat, MenuMeters, NuFile, Perian

yes i have DivX along w/ Flip4Mac and Perian... I paid for DivX pro. *shrug*

iMac 20" (Early 2006), 2GHz Intel Core Duo, 1.5GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, ATI Radeon X 1600, 128MB VRAM, Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.3 (9D34)

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