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TinkerTool is now available in Version 3.9.

Changelog:

• Added preference setting for the Leopard Finder to display UNIX paths in window titles.
• Added preference setting for the Leopard Finder to omit the striped background in list views.
• Added preference setting for the Leopard Dock to use the spring-loading feature of the Finder also for Dock tiles.
• Added preference setting for the Leopard Dock to highlight the current selection when working with stacks in grid view.
• Added preference setting for the Leopard Dock to display a stack for recent items.
• Added general preference setting for Tiger and Leopard to set expanded Save dialogs as default when using new applications.
• Added general preference settings for Leopard to set expanded Print dialogs as default when using new applications.
• Added Leopard preference setting not to include entries from the Dictionary application into Spotlight search results.
• Added Leopard preference setting not to use the calculator feature of Spotlight.
• Added Leopard preference setting not to keep the Help Viewer window always in the foreground.
• Added preference setting for Spaces not to wrap around when switching from the last or first space.
• Added preference setting for Time Machine not to ask for backup disks when connecting new drives.
• Added Leopard preference setting to include all system user groups in the Accounts pane of System Preferences.
• Added preference setting to enable the full feature set in the toolbar of the Leopard Screen Sharing client.
• Added preference setting to display the computer browser when opening the Leopard Screen Sharing client.
• The feature to reorder and temporarily disable login items has been reinstated for Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.2 or later.
• Added preference setting for Safari 3 not to show a warning when closing unsubmitted forms.
• Added preference setting for Safari 3.1 to redirect all links opening new windows into foreground tabs.
• Improved compatibility with Safari 3.0 and Safari 3.1.
• By user request, an additional explanation dialog was added when users switch off the Desktop background of the Finder.
• In order to avoid unintentional selection of options by mouse clicks resulting from window reordering bugs in Leopard, the empty spaces behind option texts have been made unsensitive to clicks when using certain languages.
• The documentation has been revised.
• The language packages for Swedish, and Traditional Chinese have been removed. They may be reinstated later.

Links:

• TinkerTool

till now i am using dockless to hide several app’s from my dock.

Best example is Namely, which is installed on all my macs, but i really dont want to see the application icon all day long.

Well, today i found an alternative to Dockless called: Dock Dodger

Friend of mine showed me Dockless.

Well title is enough, isnt it ?

Quote from the project page:

Dockless: Make running apps not show up in the Dock (or vice-a-versa)

long version:

Dockless is a little app that does what some people have always wanted - remove certain applications from their dock. Dock real estate can become precious, and some apps don’t make a whole lot of sense sitting there. That’s where Dockless comes in. With Dockless, any OS X application can be made to show in the Dock or not.

Versiontracker Mirror here

MacUpdate.com Mirror here

another information source about Dock Pinning can be found here

Basiclly its:

defaults write com.apple.dock pinning -string start ;
killall Dock

Turn off menubar transparency on 10.5:

sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.WindowServer EnvironmentVariables -dict CI_NO_BACKGROUND_IMAGE 1

and then reboot (logging out isn’t enough).

Just found a project called leoparddocks.com

The page collects custom Leopard Dock Design. Havent tested it, as i am happy with my dock.

Install instrcutions can be found here

Hurray !

Usually i need TinkerTool only once while installing & configuring my macs.

After my switch from 10.4 to 10.5 it was really annoying to see that Apple is still limiting the Users regarding Dock.apps position.

Dock Settings in Sys-Prefs are almost the same……still no pinning option. I really dont know why.

But ok TinkerTool was the solution in 10.4….and now we have a Leopard-ready TinkerTool-Release.

Some additional links to this topic:

• Dockswitcher
• comp.sys.mac.system