macfidelity

Um ehrlich zu sein verwende ich die Service-Option der einzelnen Programme unter Mac OS X so gut wie nie, weshalb ich dieses Menü vor langer Zeit auch via Service Scrubber minimiert habe.

Hier mal ein Screenshot von Service Scrubber:

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I stumbled upon SystemStarter while searching a way how to restart a service in Mac OS X.

Quote from the man page:

The SystemStarter utility may be used to start, stop, and restart the system services which are described in the /Library/StartupItems/ and /System/Library/StartupItems/ paths

Example:

1. Restart NetInfo: sudo SystemStarter restart NetInfo
2. Restart Printing / CUPS: sudo SystemStarter restart PrintingServices

I guess the missing part now is a full listing of the Services…lets see if i can find the time to collect them later.

Links:

• macosxhints.com with a similar post
• Apple Inc. � - Mac OS X Manual for SystemStarter

Stumbled upon Bonjour Browser for Mac OS X.

Quote from the project page:

An application that lets you browse all the Bonjour services available on your local network. This application will show you all the known Bonjour services available and what computers have them, along with any extra information given with the service. Comes complete with a list of known services and also lets you add your own.

Works great for me (using 10.5 and FreeNAS here)

Just found the notMac project.

About the project (quote):

Welcome to notMac, a free, open-source utility for using the client-side dotMac services provided by Apple. Since many people already operate their own servers and don’t require dotMac’s server-side featuresâ �� ��such as an @mac.com e-mail address or online access to their contactsâ �� ��the notMac Challenge was started to encourage the development of a method for using the other OS X and iLife integrated servicesâ �� ��like syncing and iDisk accessâ �� ��using one’s own hardware. Thanks to the generous contributions of people from around the world, and a dollar-for-dollar matching fund, the challenge raised $8,622.

Currently the solution requires a server running OS X, but efforts have already begun to create Linux and Windows compatible versions. The installer and source code can be downloaded from SourceForge by clicking the links above. For any questions or comments, please visit the forums. Again, congratulations to Ben Spink for winning the challenge. I’m sure the rest of the Mac community appreciates his hard work as much as I do.

Sounds great. Gonna test this application for sure.

Download here

Forums here