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- nanousr, on 12/31/2007, -6/+80"No matter how good Apple Mac OS X Leopard is, there will always be features that people dislike, and want to change. And while Apple may think they have the perfect recipe for a perfect OS, many power-users will want to tweak OS X to their liking. They want to change more than their desktop image, or the icons in their dock. Sometimes Apple doesn’t always make it easy to tweak your Mac, so Appletell has compiled a list of several ways to tweak your Leopard.
The Dock
Dock Doctor: Ever since Steve Jobs announced the 3D Leopard Dock at WWDC, there has been some mild skepticism to say the least. DockDoctor allows you to easily switch between the 2D and the 3D Leopard dock whether you have the dock on the bottom or the sides of your screen.
DockColor: If you actually like the 3D dock, there are many ways to tweak it exactly to your liking. DockColor is a small app with a very simple interface. It allows you to easily change the color of your 3D dock to suit your desire.
Leopardocks.com and Dockulicious.com: If you really want to go all the way, these two websites are for you. They are filled with hundreds of different docks (both vertical and horizontal), and allow you to easily install the docks, or even switch back to the original.
Stacks
Stack Drawers: Stacks are supposed to un-clutter your desktop, but sometimes, it is hard to distinguish one stack from another. Stack Drawers are little overlays, that help you to organize all of your stacks, and actualy make Stacks a whole lot more useful.
Stacks In Da Place: The perfect companion to Stack Drawers, Stacks In Da Place lets you make any icon of your choosing an overlay of any of your stacks. It automatically detects all your Stacks, and let you drag any icon to become a stack overlay.
Quay: Many Mac OS X users complained when Apple took away the functionality in Leopard of navigating a folders heirchy from the Dock. Quay is a little app that allows you to re-add this functionality in Leopard.
Recent Items Stack: This is a simple terminal command that adds a Stack to your Dock that has the 10 most recent documents, applications, or servers. Simply type the terminal cpmmand, and then type “killall Dock” and the Stack will be added to your Dock.
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add ‘{ “tile-data” = { “list-type” = 1; }; “tile-type” = “recents-tile”; }’
The Menu Bar
OpaqueMenuBar: One of the most controversial “features” of Leopard is the slightly transparent menu bar. Some find it distracting, and others find it pointless. OpaqueMenuBar makes your Leopard menu bar solid like back in Tiger.
Leo ColorBar: If you don’t want your menu bar a simple opaque, you can make it as colorful as you want. A red, green, blue, or yellow menu bar may now sound that appealing, but if you can do it, why not?
Icons
Candybar 3: Candybar is the greatest application for changing icons on the Mac. While it is shareware, there is a free, fully functional trial, and it is really worth the cost of admission.
IconFactory: Partnering with CandyBar, IconFactory is a great resource for free Mac icons that can be used to replace Apple’s defaults, or even for special folders. And it integrates seamlessly with CandyBar.
Login Window
Visage Login: This is a really cool app that allows you total customization over your login window. You can change the background image, add an icon, change the name, and even choose specific information to display.
DefaultDesktop.jpg: If you prefer to do things the old fashioned way, you can simple replace the image located at /System/Library/CoreServices/DeafaultDesktop.jpg and the next time you log in, it will be set to your background to your customized image.
iChat
Chax: Chax is the ultimate plugin for iChat. It adds a ton of functionality to iChat, like a unified Contact list, Screensaver away messages, Growl messages, and auto-accepting of chat invites. If you are a hard-core iChat user, Chax is really a must-have.
More iChat Effects: iChat comes with some pretty niffty effects, but if you want to be a hologram from Star Wars, or the Statue of Liberty, MoreiChatEffects is a fun addition to the many effects that come with iChat.
QuartzEffects.com: This website is a community dedicated to coming out with new iChat effects and plugins. They have some very active forums, with many users making Quartz designs for iChat effects.
QuickLook
Folder QuickLook Plugin: QuickLook is undoubtedly one of the coolest features in Leopard. This plugin is easy to install, and allows you to use QuickLook to see inside folders.
Zip QuickLook Plugin: Another QuickLook plugin that actually allows you to see the files inside Zip files without even opening them. Very handy.
Other
Displaperture: Another feature that was removed in Leopard, but was previously in Tiger was the rounded look of the corners. Dispalperture is a background process that allows you to round the corners of your screen to regain rounded look that was in Tiger.
fonts500: Not specifically a Leopard tweak, but handy nonetheless, fonts500.com is a great website with 500 high-quality free fonts. If you are ever looking for a way to jazz up a document on your Mac, fonts500 is a great place to look for some cool fonts.
InterfaceLift InterfaceLift is one of the greatest sites for tweaking your machine, whether you are on a PC or a Mac. They have thousands of free icons, desktops, and themes for Mac and PCs alike, and are constantly being updated.
Extra
Leopard Scripts [Direct Link]: As an extra, we have compiled over 30 Automator actions specifically designed to enhance your Leopard experience, and make Leopard work in exactly the way you want it to." - spdorsey, on 12/31/2007, -6/+40Congrats - enjoy your new Mac!!!
- turnlikeawheel, on 12/31/2007, -10/+39So why are you people still digging it if you can't even read it?
- SebHughes, on 12/31/2007, -13/+42I just ordered me a 24" iMac, 2.4GHz, 2GB RAM, 500GB HDD. This will be my first ever mac and I can't wait for it to arrive.
- Ramble, on 12/31/2007, -1/+28This isn't proper tweaking, it's just interface theming.
- ahvi, on 12/31/2007, -5/+31Apple...
- inactive, on 12/31/2007, -5/+27welcome to the family. :)
- Verdanic, on 12/31/2007, -1/+19Wow. This is the very first time I've ever seen show of sarcasm-free, positive, helpful, congratulatory comments having to do with.. anything.. that wasn't buried to hell.
- meatmcguffin, on 12/31/2007, -2/+18That was a joke?
- GOVStooge, on 12/31/2007, -6/+22so we can find it later... DUH!! :P
- naonao, on 12/31/2007, -4/+18Congrats, you won't regret it, they're lovely machines :)
- dagamer34, on 12/31/2007, -7/+19Think of it as a bookmark for later.
- GOVStooge, on 12/31/2007, -3/+14It's called the "Gimme a virus" Button
- thunderer, on 12/31/2007, -4/+15You see, that's the beauty of bookmarks. You can bookmark things by, well, bookmarking them.
- inactive, on 12/31/2007, -1/+11Give me the ***** "tweak" I want --- the .2 update!!!!
- chesscat, on 12/31/2007, -4/+14Welcome. Glad to see you've come over from the dark side.
- rootnik, on 12/31/2007, -6/+15The site is down, but here is my contribution of the day:
http://www.macworld.com/article/53471/2006/10/slee ...
Free up about 2gb of hard drive space (its actually equal to the amount of ram installed), and improve the the speed of sleep/wake by changing the sleep mode with terminal.
There are some down sides to this (losing unsaved data during a power loss), read the article for more info. - Snakedal337, on 12/31/2007, -3/+12oh ***** off
- Tippis, on 12/31/2007, -1/+10Welcome to the internet, where "supposed to" has long been supplanted by "I do what works for me". Have a nice stay.
- tyywebb, on 12/31/2007, -1/+9Here's a couple sites that should be helpful when it arrives : )
http://www.thinkmac.net/blog/archives/switchers-gu ...
http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/ - Tippis, on 12/31/2007, -3/+11To read it later.
- samssf, on 12/31/2007, -2/+10Congrats! I made the switch a few months ago and couldn't be happier. You'll love it =)
- virtualball, on 12/31/2007, -3/+11Well, they could be digging it for later, and then undigging it if they don't like it after reading it ;)
- djh816, on 12/31/2007, -1/+7***** you. spymac fails.
- max1018, on 12/31/2007, -0/+6No, I want .2 to fix my wireless :(
- kryptocaine, on 12/31/2007, -1/+7basically i'm sorry for you. all this work posting the same thing getting over and over, and getting dugg down over and over. that isn't it, though.
- robdiggity, on 12/31/2007, -3/+9Does ANYBODY have a link to some zdnet blog that might be the same thing?
- Canuck, on 12/31/2007, -3/+9So we can find it later. If Digg had an option to flag a site as "read it later" which would add it to my list so that I can read it when I'm at home I would use that.
- SirBotchness, on 12/31/2007, -0/+6Yea cause anything derogatory toward apple means your immediate expulsion from the cult. Wouldn't want that to happen.
- tian2992, on 12/31/2007, -0/+5Gee, I cant't guess how that program looks or smells...
- Dubbsacc, on 12/31/2007, -2/+7I guess I need my /sarcasm tag.
Definitely not a fanboy, but I do understand that everything needs to be tweaked to everyone's liking. I was picking on blind fanboy's with my comment, yet I get painted as one. :( - rojano17, on 12/31/2007, -2/+7Congrats mate, this is one decision you won't regret
- TheWorm, on 12/31/2007, -7/+12I have 3 macs, and love them, but could you guys PLEASE stop circle jerking each other?
- puddi, on 12/31/2007, -3/+7DuggMirror didn't catch it, dead at 50 diggs... lame.
- bertdevriese, on 12/31/2007, -5/+9Dead already... Any mirrors?
- Tippis, on 12/31/2007, -0/+4Yes. God forbit that Apple release bugfixes and feature updates.
Idiot. - cwa107, on 12/31/2007, -1/+5Right next to your anal lube bookmark.
- luchid, on 12/31/2007, -0/+4Tweaking... not "fixing"... you can tweak certain aspects of it to better suit your needs...
- falafelkiosken, on 12/31/2007, -0/+4Digg is the most successful tool for DDoSing ever ;(
- inactive, on 01/02/2008, -0/+4Site's down, just go to http://www.macosxhints.com/ , seams to be where most of these blogs rip their tweaks from anyway.
- KidVicious, on 12/31/2007, -2/+5Digg *is* a "social bookmarking" site...
- ORBAT, on 12/31/2007, -0/+3Excommunicated, that is.
- myztero, on 12/31/2007, -2/+5Bought the same configuration as yours back in August. It was my first Mac. Based on my experience, you have made an excellent computing choice. I love my iMac!
- NikZ, on 01/01/2008, -1/+4nanousr ≠ naonao
- Smift, on 01/01/2008, -0/+3Why the ***** does it mean that you have too much time on your hands because you want to make your mac work better and SAVE time.. god those are the most useless comments on the ***** intarnets.. it is starting to annoy me so much.. i mean every time someone has put a little effort into something there are immedeately 10 posts about their lack of meaningful useage of time, ***** man what meaningful thing did you do today anyhoo? bah..
- DiggBelfast, on 12/31/2007, -0/+2Dance, Monkey Boy. Dance...
- oneoverzero, on 12/31/2007, -0/+2We saw it the first time. Shut up.
- 2shae, on 12/31/2007, -2/+4It's not funny anymore you dick
- ripdog, on 01/01/2008, -0/+2Mac users everywhere /facepalmed upon reading that junk. I don't know who to blame, Apple for the BS advertising or Maddox (and Mac haters everywhere) for deliberately acting retarded.
- inactive, on 01/01/2008, -0/+2Well, if you have to do anything powerful, then No. But if you need simply a _good_ office suite with good features then yes. You can get the trial here, see if you like it: http://www.apple.com/iwork/trial/
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