Dear WeatherCat OS-X tinkerers,
While trying to hunt down the odd source of my new MacBook Pro's excessive fan noise, I came across an unusual utility that I immediately took a liking to. It is called
LaunchControl and is basically a front-end to
launchd the OS-X system to automatically start and stop utilities.
http://www.soma-zone.com/LaunchControl/Now messing around with your computers internal configuration is a great way to get yourself into deep trouble in hurry. But just have I fired-up
LaunchControl, I found two annoyances that I eagerly turned on. I found the automatic update system that Google inflicted on my Mac to keep Chrome up to date, and I also found that Amazon had set up process to run their darn pesky cloud-player. Since I don't use either, I promptly disabled both in less than a minute.
Without destroying your system,
LaunchControl is very handy. You can use it simply to see if everything is running as it should be. If you see a system daemon in red, that means something is probably wrong. It turned out there was an OS-10.6 bug in the current version of
LaunchControl that I helped the developer uncover. As a result, the
CrashReporter on my Mac had itself crashed. Because of the display in
LaunchControl, I realized I had no
CrashReporter running. Otherwise my computer could have been without this essential utility until my next reboot. Particularly for those of us doing
"sekret agent" stuff . . .
, we need the
CrashReporter running. Even for the rest of us, if WeatherCat has a crash, not having the crash report basically means Stu won't be able to do any troubleshooting.
The fellow wants $10 for it. At least for me it was money well spent.
Cheers, Edouard
P.S. There should be a new version of
LaunchControl next week with the fix for the OS-10.6 bug.