Free preference software for mac

PreferencePane is a cool Aqualicious control for showing your applications preferences.
PreferencePane is a REALbasic control presented in Aqua that simply shows application preferences.
Main features:
- Easy Object-Based system for create sections and preference items.
- Sections can be expanded and collapsed, focusing your attention only to what you want to do.
- PreferencePaneItem Class can be subclassed giving you a complete freedom of customization.

Make a script from the script source below using the Script Editor in Mac OS X. You can put the script in ~/Library/Scripts and run it using the Script Runner in /Applications/Applescript or you can save it as in application from the Script Editor and just double-click it.
DockPreferencePanes allows you to make dock preference panes.

It finds all your System Preference panes in the various places where they may be installed locally and makes a folder in ~/Documents that you can drag to your Dock, so when you control-click that folders icon in the Dock, you can select the individual preference pane of your choice.

You can run the script again if you install something that adds new preference panes, and aliases will be added to the docked folder without your being prompted to do anything else. There are a couple of freeware applications that make the individual panes available from the dock, but this Applescript method requires a very slight degree of use of system resources.

OS X Preferences Example is a REALbasic example that demonstrates the enabling of the Application menus Preferences menu item ONLY when in an OS X application (not OS 9/8, or the IDE).

Completly freeware for non-commercial use.

24U Preferences+Globals Plug-In is a FileMaker Pro plug-in which allows for storing and reading application-wide global variables and persistent system-wide preferences. Preferences remain stored on the users hard disk, so they can be accessed by multiple applications.
24U Preferences+Globals Plug-In is very useful especially for solutions created to be launched directly from CD-ROM.
Global variables created with this plug-in are shared by all databases within one application, so you dont have to use any special global fields or relationships. Useful also for indication of multiple copies of the same database being opened.
Main features:
- Create your own global variables on-the-fly
- Access your globals from any database within the same application
- No need for global fields and relationships
- Prevent opening multiple copies of the same database
- Save your custom preferences on users hard disk even when running from CD-ROM
- Share the same preferences across multiple applications
- Let your customers to keep their preferences when upgrading to new versions of your solution
- Implement serial number protection in minutes

Building on a discussion at www.macintouch.com, Preferential Treatment will check your preference files (both in your users preference folder and the systems preference folder) for corruption by using the "plutil" command line tool.
If it finds suspect files, it will list the files and allow you to reveal them in the Finder or move them to the trash. You may also double-click on a file in the found files table to open it in the application of your choice (you can designate the default application from the preferences). There is also an option to save the results of a scan to a text file.
Enhancements:
- Updated to Universal Binary.
- Italian localization by Creative Shield.
- Vietnamese localization by Clytie Siddall.
- Minor code & interface improvements.