Free swap software for mac

When I first bought my Powerbook (with 6 GB hard drive), I had a great idea. Partition the hard-drive into three sections, one each for MacOS 9, LinuxPPC, and (for the future) OS X (with a few extra utility partitions for Linux swap space, etc.). But then OS X came along, and so did an MP3 collection.

I removed Linux, since I could SSH, emacs, and perl perfectly fine in OS X, and the old Linux directory became an MP3 disk. But OS X is huge, and I felt a little cramped in the 1.7 GB partition, and backing up all the data I had would be too difficult, so repartitioning was out of the question.

But even that was not enough. I saw that there was a swap disk that was taking up a minimum of 80 MB, and more likely 160 MB or more (increasing in size as you use OS X). So why not move it to my MP3 partition (where space wasnt as much an issue), and reclaim the space on my main disk. Thus Swap Cop was born.

Why would you want to do this? Perhaps you are in the same position with an ill-arranged partitioning scheme like I was.

Or maybe you have a small disk that you would like to dedicate to swapping, to increase your OS performance. I originally made the change by hand, but realized that it wouldnt be too hard to have a user friendly software that would take care of it.

Swap Relocator is a Startup Item. On every boot it will kill and relaunch the Darwin Virtual Memory Manager so that the Swap files will be placed in a different (choosen by the user) partition. Disabling Swap Relocator is simple. Just edit the /etc/hostconfig file.
Enhancements:
- Fixed an error preventing a correct installation with Mac OS X 10.2.5
- Swap RElocator now dont start if SWAPVOLUME directive is set to -NO- in /etc/hostconfig
- Dynamic_pager has been prioritized ... now it should be faster !
- Other bug fixes.

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.1 or later, iTunes 3.0 or later.

EntourageX Swap Home and Work is an AppleScript that swaps Home and Work addresses in the Entourage address book.

You have the choice of swapping addresses of only currently selected contacts, or of all contacts. In either case, the script will ask for confirmation before it executes.

There used to be a Microsoft script that did this for Ev2001. The installer refuses to work with EvX, so I wrote this. Hope its useful.

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2.8. or later.

DesktopID will display all sorts of machine information right on the desktop. The information is superimposed on the desktop pattern and cant be removed by the user.
What can be displayed?
Computer Name, OS Version, User name, ID, Group membership, Classic running or not.
Network interface, Location, IP Address, Netmask, Default Gateway, DNS Server, Domain, Broadcast Address, MAC Address.
Machine, CPU, Serial Number (10.3 only), MAC Address, RAM, Uptime, Load Average.
Apple Remote Desktop (if installed), Information fields 1-4.
Custom shell commands
DesktopID is fully configurable, although there is no GUI admin tool available at this time. Check out the documentation on how to modify the settings.
Enhancements:
- v1.86 introduces a new mechanism for detecting the primary active hardware network interface. Previous versions would only display the information for Built-in Ethernet (en0). Version 1.86 will now be able to swap between interfaces as they become active.
- The primary reason for this new feature is for users with laptops who connect in different ways at different locations.
- Note: This new feature only works under 10.4. Users of older revsions of the OS will be restricted to displaying the data from en0.