The text command line is usually under-appreciated. Even Microsoft recognized it and introduced PowerShell for Windows XP and Vista. However, unless you spent the last decade or more on a UNIX or Linux box (lots of fun, btw), you may not feel comfortable opening Terminal on a Mac to make use of all the power of the command line. Rixstep has a free tool to help you reduce your anxiety and start using the command line with...

CLIX

The CLIX package includes a starter command database with over 1000 (yes, you read that right) system commands for investigating your system status, for cleaning out the junk files, for getting at secret settings for the Dock, the Finder, Spotlight, Dashboard, Exposé, and all of your most used applications, and all sorted for easy access, any way you wish.