Dec 19
Over at kuragari.com they figured out that you could make application stacks in the leopard beta, but that feature seems to have been killed in the final version. Imagine having an Office stack in the apps in your dock. Or a CS3 stack. Or a games stack. Right now, the only way to do this is with a bunch of aliases in a folder. Not quite the same as dragging a group of apps to the dock. Check out the video if you don’t get my meaning.
http://kuragari.com/2007/12/03/the-way-it-was-supposed-to-be/
“…This is not a hack, this Dock was taken from one of the Leopard beta installations that was seeded to developers and beta testers before the official release. Up until the final release of Leopard, this part of the feature was not only present in the beta versions, but was also included in the description of the new Dock features on Apple’s website…”
Someone needs to figure out how to implement this hack on a massively distributed scale. Maybe someone here at LeopardTricks.com?
written by thatnimrod
\\ tags: dock, Leopard, Stacks
Dec 19
As you know, when looking at files in Quick Look you can look at a single one or use the arrow keys to scroll through your list, or even look at thumbnails (an index sheet) of all files. Switching between single file view and index sheet view doesn’t require a click. Simply press command-return to toggle between the two views. Nice.
written by WhizzKid
Dec 16
There’s a lot of hidden features in Leopard, today I’ll show you a hidden details trick for your airport menu.
If you click the airport menu you will see a menu with a list of nearby wireless networks and of course the one you are connected to (if your connected to one). If you “option+click” the menu instead, you’ll see the menu displays more information than usual, including the MAC address of the access point, the channel, signal strength and transmit rate (Eg 54Mbps).
If there are multiple networks within your range, you can mouse-over them and press “option” it will display more information for those non-connected networks, including what security the network has in place. Very handy if your on the go!
written by James
\\ tags: airport, Leopard, wifi, wireless
Dec 13
In Tiger when I wanted to make icons of a folder I used a little script called ‘Icon Creator’. It didnt work anymore in Leopard. While experimenting I discovered a very fun and easy way to make icons in Leopard.
All you have to do is to open a jpeg (I believe any format that will open works) in PREVIEW.
Then (with the selection tool) you select the part of the picture you want as your icon. Now COPY it (press Comand + C)
Select a folder (or anything you want to change the icon of) and Right-click on this folder, bringing up the info pane. Go up to the top of the pane, click once on the icon to highlight it, and PASTE.
You now have your new icon.
written by Eddiebee
\\ tags: icons, Leopard, preview
Dec 12
Now this may be not so much a Leopard trick (in fact I’m sure its possible with Tiger) but pretty cool nonetheless.
Required:
Mac with built-in iSight or external webcam
Mira application; download from here http://twistedmelon.com/mira/
EvoCam application; download from here http://www.evological.com/evocam.html
(Both are small, streamlined apps. Mira is an unlimited trial, EvoCam has a 15 day trial)
Let’s start with EvoCam, open up the .dmg and install the app. Click through the trial screen and you’ll be up and running with your own beautiful smile coming right at you! Now, EvoCam is an incredibly powerful app but we’ll only be using a few of it’s features in this.
Continue reading »
written by bunts
\\ tags: iSight, motion, remote, security, webcam
Dec 11
If you haven’t tried the new “stationary” features of mail.app then you could be living in a cave (a cave that has no Mac with Leopard installed, hehe).
Here’s a neat stationary add-on called “Photo Cluster”. Here’s the “about” info as taken from the authors site:”
Photo Cluster is a Mail stationary I designed as a test of the drag-and-drop image wells embedded into some of the included stationaries.”
Get the info and the download at Pete’s site - http://pz2.ucls.uchicago.edu/photoCluster/
written by James
\\ tags: 10.5, hack, Leopard, mail, stationary
Dec 11
With leopard you have the ability to display a Mosaic screen saver from a group of pictures.
It’s a little bit hidden, just follow these steps:
-open system preferences
-switch to Desktop & Screensaver
-open the screensavertab
-select a picturefolder on the left
-under the previewwindow you can select mosaic as displayoption.
written by mrrossi
\\ tags: Leopard, mosaic, sreensaver
Dec 10
Revisiting Stacks Customisation:
I have been messing around with customization when I came to my dock… I love the new shelf, so there was no work to be done there then I looked at my stacks. There ugly with all those different icons that come to the front. So I sought out to fix this. Heres what I ended up with…
And heres how I did it… 1. I made a new folder within the stack 2. I renamed it 0 (zero) so it will sit at the front. (make sure the stacks are sorted by name) 3. That made some uniformity but I needed more so I used the icons from my computer. 4. this is done by copying the icon from its location in this case downloads, applications, and documents. Simply find the icon you want, open Info (right click get info or command + I) then click the icon in the upper left of get info and watch in highlight then copy it with command + C. Then go to the folder you want to change the icon (the stack folder named zero) then do the same (get info, highlight) and just paste with command + V.This may be a little confusing at first, if you need help changing the icon search changing icons on a mac in google it might help a little more. Leave comments and questions I can help there too.
written by Tim
\\ tags: stacks customizing
