Comments on: My Login Items http://gigaom.com/apple/my-login-items/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:37:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Revisit: Overflow vs Login Items at The Apple Blog http://gigaom.com/apple/my-login-items/#comment-316375 Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:03:56 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/01/03/my-login-items/#comment-316375 [...] few weeks ago I covered Login Items and there was a little discussion that arose over better ways to launch some of those services. The [...]

]]> By: Ben http://gigaom.com/apple/my-login-items/#comment-316374 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:29:08 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/01/03/my-login-items/#comment-316374 “USB Overdrive Helper – Helper – Assists USB Overdrive in allowing my MX1000 to do tons of crazy stuff”

I have the same mouse and was wondering what extra features you get over the Logitech driver?

]]> By: Nick Santilli http://gigaom.com/apple/my-login-items/#comment-316373 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 03:54:14 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/01/03/my-login-items/#comment-316373 Glad to be of help Don. There’s always someone new, or someone who doesn’t know all the tricks yet (I’ve been on a mac for 4 years and just stumbled on that one). So I guess it never hurts to put them up there eh?

cheers.

]]> By: Don Parr http://gigaom.com/apple/my-login-items/#comment-316372 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:44:53 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/01/03/my-login-items/#comment-316372 Nick, I just wanted to Thank You for taking the time to post the “tip about quickly adding items to your Login process.” There are constantly new people coming to the Apple / Mac platform that, I’m sure, are more than grateful for your efforts as well as the information, to include myself. So, Thanks Nick!

]]> By: Nick Santilli http://gigaom.com/apple/my-login-items/#comment-316371 Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:58:46 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/01/03/my-login-items/#comment-316371 Peter -
I’m not a big Overflow user. I got it for free from from MyDreamApp – or one of the recent Mac Software Marketing things. Anyway, I’ve been playing with it and not much more. The nice thing is if I’m going to be doing web work, I’ve got the 3 or 4 apps I generally use for that, which can all be launched at once. It’s kinda nice. But other than that it’s a one trick pony. Quicksilver rules all of course. :)

]]> By: Dave M. http://gigaom.com/apple/my-login-items/#comment-316370 Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:25:09 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/01/03/my-login-items/#comment-316370 Peter: Less typing. :)

My list has way more items in it I’m embarrassed to say. Here is my list:
PTHPasteboard
Google Notifier
GrowlHelperApp
Net Monitor
Quicksilver
iCalAlarmScheduler
MicrosoftMouseHelper
System Events
TextExpanderd
KeyCue
iStat
OverFlow
GeekTool
Huevos
DragThing
Rogue Amoeba Schedule Helper
Snapz Pro X
Keyboard Maestro Engine
iTunes
MainMenu
MenuCalendarClock iCal
VirtueDesktops

I know, I have OverFlow and DragThing. I haven’t had a chance to merge the items from OverFlow into DragThing. I use DragThing as a Dock replacement and hide the Dock under the Menubar using Mac Pilot.

I’m glad I listed my login items. I removed about 5 “unknowns” and 5 more that were either duplicates or items I’m not using or demo’s that have run out of time.

]]> By: Phil Bowell http://gigaom.com/apple/my-login-items/#comment-316369 Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:10:49 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/01/03/my-login-items/#comment-316369 I seem to have a lot of things in my Login items as well. I seem to have 2 GrowlHelperApp’s one is unknown with a blank icon, guess I can remove that one.

Is it safe to remove things like Helpers?

What do people recomend to have in their Login’s? My iMac CoreDuo seems to take a while before I can use it due to all the stuff I have in their coming a live.

]]> By: Peter Jones http://gigaom.com/apple/my-login-items/#comment-316368 Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:00:55 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/01/03/my-login-items/#comment-316368 What do you gain by using overflow instead of quicksilver for launching applications?

]]> By: ziv kitaro http://gigaom.com/apple/my-login-items/#comment-316367 Wed, 03 Jan 2007 22:20:33 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/01/03/my-login-items/#comment-316367 While it is great to add things to the login and not bother running them by hand.
BUT
I find that putting many things in the login gets my macbook pro start to slow.

Why not use automator to create a start-workflow that you run after you login?

This way the startup runs swiftly and you runs all your apps in one click

]]> By: Julian Bennett Holmes http://gigaom.com/apple/my-login-items/#comment-316366 Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:26:22 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/01/03/my-login-items/#comment-316366 I used to have a ton of login items. At the time, I believed that having all these items would only slow down my login. However, I realized that having all these things slow down overall performance, too. So I narrowed down my list to these four:
GrowlHelperApp
iScrobbler
Quicksilver
textexpanderd

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