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- Launchd (let's you automatically launch applications on startup, on disk mount, at certain times, etc)
- Zsh alternative powerful shell
On Leopard you can issue a simple Terminal command to flush the DNS cache, and have your host file changes to take immediate effect:
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$ dscacheutil -flushcache
How to edit the hosts file in Mac OS X – Leopard « Decoding the Web
