MacBook Pro

• Add more effects to Photo Booth and iChat

Apps

I use Alfred as my launcher.

I use Bartender to keep my menu bar clean.

I recently installed Notational Velocity. I love the concept, and I especially love the notion of using the search bar for both searching and creating docs. It's very similar to Collab:Link As You Think. However, Evernote seems to play the same role, and WriteRoom (or Aquamacs in full-screen mode, which is what I use) is better for distraction-free writing.

Mountain Lion eliminated a useful feature: The ability to show time remaining on my battery charge. I replaced that functionality with SlimBatteryMonitor.

Investigating:

• Adapter for video ripping and media file conversion. I'm currently using Handbrake.

My Hacks

• Remove Finder from the Application Switcher in Mac OSX. This turned out to be more trouble than it's worth
• Turn off Dashboard

PDF

Mac OS X has built-in support for generating PDFs via the print dialog. Sadly, not all apps use this. In the old days, Adobe provided a PDF printer driver, but that no longer is available as of 10.6 (Snow Leopard). CUPS-PDF is an open source alternative based on CUPS, but it's not clear how possible it is to customize. For example, I would like to have different options for paper size, but it's not clear / easy how to do that.

Mac OS X

• How to rebuild LaunchServices to remove duplicates from "Open with" menu
• Managing OS X's downloaded file warning system
• Database of hidden settings
• dotfiles

Experimenting with f.lux for better lighting management, but not seeing or appreciating the impact.

Window Management

• Afloat
• xnomad (tiling window manager)