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Hate the new mirror Dock? turn it back to 2D with the following:\n\ndefaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES\nkillall Dock\n\nin the terminal.\nReverse the boolean value to change it back!

Hidden Preference Panel for 10.5's built-in Archive Utility:\nGo to /System/Library/CoreServices/\nopen Archive Utility.app package, you will find Archive.prefPane inside Contents/Resources\nJust double click to install, then you have control over behavior after creation or extraction of archives.\n\nInstallation will create a copy of the prefPane in either ./Library or user's library folder.\n\nNote: Not confirmed for Tiger

1) Ensure you have OSX installed one 1 partition only (ie you have not partitioned with Bootcamp) reinstall if you have to\n\n2) Run bootcamp\n\nDO NOT PARTITION WITH BOOTCAMP\n\n3) Create the Driver disk\n\n4) In terminal window type ‘diskutil list’, note the OSX disk name.\n\n5) Run the following (the OSX partition, Data & XP partition MUST be in this order)\n\nsudo diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 21G "HFS+" Data 50G "MS-DOS FAT32" XP 21G\n\nChange ‘disk0s2’ for the name of your disk.\nChange the sizes to suit your disk.\n\n(The trick with this install is to format the ‘Data’ volume to be a format that windows doesn't recognize during install, hence the data volume is "HFS+" volume, trust me)\n\n6) Insert the Windows XP (ensure you have serial number)\n\n7) Reboot and hold down “C” to select the windows CD\n\n8) Install windows (formatting volume to NTFS. Halfway through it will reboot, use the option key as it reboots AND reselect the windows CD.\n\n9) After Windows has installed, swap the CD's so OSX Install Disk is back in the drive.\n\n10) Reboot and hold "C" to boot into the OSX set up.\n\n11) Using Disk Utility (Utilities menu) select the 'Data' partition, select "MS-DOS FAT32" from the drop down and click 'Erase'

Even though there are 512x512 pixel icon representations for all Apple apps, the Dock stays at 128 pixels maximum when using the Sie slider in the Dock's System Preferences panel. This old hint explains how to set the magnification level to up to 512 pixels \n\n(using the largesize key; \n\ndefaults write com.apple.dock largesize -int 512). \n\nHere's how to change the tile size (the maximum non-magnified dock icon size) to go along with the supersized zoomed icons. In Terminal, enter this command:\n\ndefaults write com.apple.dock tilesize -int 256\nkillall Dock\n\nThe tile size may be up to 256 pixels, so don't go any higher than that. Note that icons above 128 pixels are scaled, and you can notice some pixelation.

To follow up on my previous post, I've found a way to make it work. It's ugly and strange, but still. Here's how:\n\n1. Format a USB stick with a FAT file system (you can use any volume really, but it needs to be FAT).\n\n2. In Mac OS X, set a custom volume icon using the Finder's "More info" window or any tool of your choice.\n\n3. Open a Terminal window, enter "cd /Volumes" and "ls -la". You'll see a file listed that has the same name as the FAT volume, but with a "._" prepended. For example, "._USBSTICK". Copy that file to the equivalent name for the Windows XP NTFS partition, e.g. "cp ._USBSTICK ._WinXP".\n\n4. Transfer the ".VolumeIcon.icns" file created on the FAT file system to the root of the NTFS partition, using Windows.\n\nWith both pieces in place, OS X shows the volume icon on the NTFS partition.\n\nThis process was covered for Tiger previously, but things have changed in Leopard; it's now a bit easier:\nPaste your icon (in the Get Info window) onto a USB thumb drive formatted as FAT32. The name of the drive doesn't matter.\nLaunch Windows through Boot Camp, Parallels Desktop, or VMware Fusion.\nOpen the thumb drive in Windows.\nSelect Folder Options… from the Tools menu, and set it to show invisible files.\nCopy the two files .VolumeIcon.icns and ._[cr]File, where [cr] is a carriage return, to the NTFS drive.\nThat's it! The icon will appear nicely in Leopard.

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In Leopard, after activating Exposé in All Windows mode with the keyboard or mouse button, you can view all the window title overlays by holding down the Option key, instead of seeing them one at a time on mouseover.

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You can add a Recent Applications stack to the Dock. To do so, open Terminal and type this command:\n\ndefaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }'

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Create empty file named ".metadata_never_index" at the root of the volume.\n(Type "touch .metadata_never_index" in terminal)\n\nThis will stop spotlight indexing of the volume (HFS+, NTFS or FAT32), and will stop spotlight to return any results, i.e. you will not be able to search the volume at all with spotlight. You might be able to search

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defaults write -g NSUseLeopardWindowValues NO\nthen log off and log in\n\nTo turn off transparency in Menubar, (even more ugly)\ndefaults write -g HIUseLeopard2MenuValues NO\ndefaults write -g HIUseLeopardMenuValues NO\n\nThen open Quartz debug and turn off QE.\n\nNote: Settings are user specific and reversible.

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