www.appletell.com have collected a great guide to tweaking apps for Leopard:
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 [...]
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The web site Usingmac.com (tag line: Fun with Using A Mac) have coalesced most of the Leopard command line tips for changing preference files to fix some of the default nonsense, hurrah!
“Beautify your Leopard with single liner terminal codes.”read more | digg story
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…again.
I want to like XCode 3 I really do.
I like:
1/ The in-code error messages:
2/ erm…
3/ that’s it
I do not like:
1/ That code sense no longer auto-completes print to System.out.println(…), oh no now you have to type System.out.print before it will auto-complete wtf?! So, take one of the most commonly typed pieces of Java code [...]
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Following my rant [link], if you have upgraded to Leopard and you want your floating desktop clock back try the SpeakTime shareware software [link].
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This digg article winds me up: “I searched and searched for a handy list of Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts, being a Mac N00B and this widget is exactly what I needed. Since discovering neat shortcuts like COMMAND-SHIFT-3 (Screenshot) and COMMAND-SHIFT-4 (Select area of screen for screenshot) I have found many features of OS [...]
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Interesting news from macrumors. ZFS certainly looks good on wikipedia but I must confess that (perhaps after years of M$ product abuse) the shoe horning of a radically different file system into Leopard rather late in the development cycle gives me cause for concern. I will supress the desire to rush out an buy Leopard [...]
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This quote says it all – “Giving Apple users the chance to choose Windows Vista as well as Mac OS is like allowing people to vote for George W. Bush all over again.”
The reason I made the switch to Macs was because of Apple’s switch to Intel & the existence of Boot Camp. Further, [...]
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As a Mac noob (a Moob?) I have had my MacBook 1 month and Mac Mini 9 months now and after installing 10 Apps Every New Mac User Should Download and Setting Up The mac To Do Something Useful and checked out coolmacapps then these are next 3 most useful apps for my Mac Mini [...]
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After all that hypnotic Mac aqua eye candy I like this article from OSXDaily for the reminder about the command line and all that yummy Unix under the hood! [Brief history of Mac OS X]
“Ten OS X Command Line Utilities you might not know about: The Mac OS X command line interface is home [...]
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