macfidelity

Seit gestern gibt es Tinker Tool 3.91 (Build 080917)

Es handelt sich dabei nur um ein kleines Update mit relativ wenigen Änderungen (iTunes 8 spezifisch) im Vergleich zur vorherigen Version 3.9:

By user request, access to some lost preference settings of iTunes 8 has been added:

• Disable the display of the genre column in the iTunes browser.
• Disable display of links to the iTunes Store.
• Enable playing songs while importing or converting.

These settings are available for users of Mac OS X Leopard only.

Links:

• Bresink.com

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

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

Short list:

• Onyx
• TinkerTool
• Tweak Freak
• Cocktail
• MainMenu

Many similar functions….i guess its an user-specific choice. I prefer using:

1. TinkerTool while setting-up the OS
2. MainMenu & Onyx for monthlx cleaning actions.

There are several application available for OS-X which offer some System management functions, i.e.:

• OnyX
• Tinker Tool

Today i found another one called MainMenu. The interesting part is that you can access this software via your Apple OS-X menu bar. Lets take a look:

Application description from the project page:

Don’t have time to run all the various tools and scripts to keep your Mac running smoothly? MainMenu makes these tasks quick and easy, right from your menu bar. Rebuilding your Spotlight library for faster searching, repairing permissions, cleaning caches to improve application performance, and even more advanced settings ï ¿ ½ such as enabling and disabling the Dashboard ï ¿ ½ are no more than two clicks away. MainMenu is full of powerful maintenance tools to keep your Mac running like new, within a slick, simple interface.

After installing the .app you have the option to add it automaticly to your Login Items. Lets take a look on the functions/categories:

• Maintenance Scripts
• Disk Utility
• Rebuilds
• Cleaning
• Finder
• Others

Give it a try

Best regards
fidel

Question: Howto change the visibility of hidden files and folders in OS X as easy as possible.

I guess many people use TinkerTool to switch the files visibility.
Its a working way, but the easiest ?

I have just found a nice little application which offers at least a faster method if you need to switch this setting more then once in a year, called: Wizzard

Here some quick testimonial-pastes from Macupdate:

- “I thought it was a pretty neat script.” -> Macupdate
- “Right on. This is exactly what I was looking for - no more, no less.”
- “Works great.”
- “Awesome, thanks! Does the Job.”

Get the wizzard and its just 2 mouse-clicks to toggle between visible and hidden.
Great from my point of view.

From technical aspect the author just uses 2 basic Apple command lines

- defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles Yes
- defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles No

Maybe interesting if you want to play around yourself with AppleScript.

Best regards
fidel

Edit: MainMenu can be used to to toggle visibility.