Comments on: Track down all startup & login script and application launches in Mac OS X

By: 10 steps to (really) speed up your mac | Everything is Everything

10 steps to (really) speed up your mac | Everything is Everything — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:28:05 +0000

[...] startup items – read these two guides for a rundown. (there are more than you think you have – google the items and [...]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:31:12 +0000

You forgot one of the most important…

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist

Any dock item that has the “Open At Login” option set will automatically be opened. Several applications use this mechanism to launch on login rather than the methods above.

By: tzs

tzs — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:15:32 +0000

“crontab -l” would be better than “crontab -e” for checking your crontab. The former lists the content of your crontab. The latter attempts to edit your crontab.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:33:53 +0000

When I’m tracking down shady files like these, I like to hit the “/” key in the File > Open dialog in my text editor… it let’s me type in a path very similar to *nix and even features tab auto-completion!

By: Tales of a Minnesota Geek » Blog Archive » links for 2010-02-21

Tales of a Minnesota Geek » Blog Archive » links for 2010-02-21 — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:02:56 +0000

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By: cory

cory — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:25:23 +0000

This is great! Thank you. I’ve been looking for something like this.