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overkill is now a native Mac app

Head over to overkill-for-mac for more details


overkill πŸ’₯🎡

Twitter: @KrauseFx

Did iTunes ever launch without you opening the app?

Use overkill to instantly kill iTunes once it opened itself, so your workflow isn't interrupted.

Reasons why iTunes launches:

  • You connect an iPhone or iPad to your Mac
  • You click play/pause while listening to a web-based music player (e.g. SoundCloud)
  • You launch iTunes by clicking on the icon by mistake
  • Someone sent you a link to an iOS app
  • You click on a link on the web, and didn't expect it to be an Music link
  • You updated iTunes
  • You open a file in Finder, and forgot to change the default app to VLC
  • You connect Bluetooth headphones

Another nice benefit of this is that you don't have to manually close iTunes when you update your Xcode installation.

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I first tweeted about this idea over a year ago.

Many of iTunes' popups require you to click them away, unless you want to manually force quit iTunes.

Video Demo:

iTunes usually launches as soon as you plugin your iPhone. With overkill running, the iTunes process is killed immediately, so your workflow isn't interrupted.

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Usage

ruby overkill.rb

To launch process in the background use

ruby overkill.rb &

Disclaimer

Although this tool works perfectly fine, the repo is meant as a joke. The script uses polling to monitor the active processes. The script is in no way meant to be a serious application.

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