July 06, 2004
TigerLaunch
Yet another cool app for OS X. A really basic one now that I think about how much time I spend searching through folders for apps I have just added.
It puts a drop down in the menubar that lists all your apps. You can configure as you choose. So a lot of that lesser-used stuff that was crowding my dock can now go away. Leaving room/attention for the important stuff.
I'm trying to clean up space on my 40Gb drive (before moving to a 7200rpm 60Gb) and I'm find all kinds of stuff I've downloaded but haven't had the time to play with yet.
This will undoubtedly help me with those frequently lost apps.
Posted by artandscience at July 6, 2004 06:21 AMI think you'll find that drive a big improvement: laptops drives are always slow (a tradeoff in favor of power consumption/battery life).
Posted by: paul at July 6, 2004 06:45 AMYep. I'm looking at the Hitachi Travelstar 7K60. 7200 rpm (as opposed to the 4200rpm of the stock drive) and an 8Mb buffer. Tests and anecdotal reports seem to suggest that it is much superior. Only problem is that it's only 20Gb larger.
Posted by: stefan at July 6, 2004 11:49 AM