Recovering Safari crash at startup

Found that Safari wasn't starting up after one of the annoying crashes I have had lately. Google turned up an article that proposed deleting a whole host of files. In the end I just had to delete com.apple.Safari.plist from ~/Library/Preferences/ and it came back to life. The file did look like it had non-ascii garbage at the front before it was deleted, but the fresh version didn't (though it had some at the end).

Had to reset home page, plus settings like opening up browser pages in a new tab, fill in usernames and passwords when known, in Safari->Preferences.

MacFuse

A while back I installed MacFuse from Google. Now I want SFTP installed. But after downloading binaries from googlecode's page as suggested, it was a bit tricky to get the right settings.

Macfusion helped, because it does it all via a GUI. I initially thought I had to do it by the command line using -p 2222 and adding the defer_permissions option, because when I didn't have that option it thought everything was unavailable. See this page. Then I found that I could add -o defer_permissions to the SSHFS options in MacFuse, for that connection. Now it works fine!

Image programs for OS X

Wanted The Gimp, downloaded binary package. Needs 10.5.7 to run best - I have been resisting this upgrade in case it breaks my install.

Installed Hugin, which works really nicely.