Lion / Leopard Tricks Tips and Tools

Hey all, just a quick post to let you know that we’re keeping up to date with technology and further networking leopardtricks.com to various social networking sites.

Firstly, we’re adding more and more video’s to the site (youtube). You can see them embedded right here on the site, or at www.youtube.com/somethingmac.

We’re in the process of creating a facebook page. Make sure if you are on facebook that you “become a fan”.

I’ve been using twitter for a while now, and I’ve had my personal account linked to the front of this site. I’ve finally set up a dedicated leopardtricks account. Be sure to follow it!

You can chat to me any time on Skype. (text chat, I don’t do much voice or video)
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written by James \\ tags: facebook, feedburner, skype, social networking, twitter, youtube

I tested this in Leopard (10.5.8) but it should work with Snow Leopard (10.6.x). Please comment telling me if it does work in 10.6.x.

In Terminal, type the following

defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilte-stack -boolean YES;killall Dock;killall Terminal

Terminal will close, and your Dock will flash. Open a stack, and you now have a gradient when you mouse over an icon.

I know it’s old. Just thought I would post it here. Also, to reverse it, copy and paste the same code, but replace YES with NO.

written by colbyludwig

Ever get sick of the boring glass “3D” dock?

Try this simple trick to change it to 2D:

open “terminal” and type:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock

written by James \\ tags: dock, Leopard, OS X, Snow Leopard, visual

The 10.6.2 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes for:

- an issue that might cause your system to logout unexpectedly
- a graphics distortion in Safari Top Sites
- Spotlight search results not showing Exchange contacts
- a problem that prevented authenticating as an administrative user
- issues when using NTFS and WebDAV file servers
- the reliability of menu extras
- an issue with the 4-finger swipe gesture
- an issue that causes Mail to quit unexpectedly when setting up an Exchange server
- Address Book becoming unresponsive when editing
- a problem adding images to contacts in Address Book
- an issue that prevented opening files downloaded from the Internet
- Safari plug-in reliability
- general reliability improvements for iWork, iLife, Aperture, Final Cut Studio, MobileMe, and iDisk
- an issue that caused data to be deleted when using a guest account

For detailed information on this update, please visit this website: About the Mac OS X v10.6.2 Update.
For information on the security content of this update, please visit: Apple security updates.

Combo Update: http://support.apple.com/downloads/D…ombo10.6.2.dmg

Update: http://support.apple.com/downloads/D…XUpd10.6.2.dmg

written by James \\ tags: 10.6.2, OS X, Snow Leopard, Update

* from mrsir2009

(ALL VERSIONS OF MAC OSX) Open Script Editor which can be found by typing “Script Editor” into spotlight.  This works for any version of OSX, even the BETA I think but no one uses that anymore, so full of glitches, features you take for granted just aren’t there…  Anyway, when you go into script editor type in:   say “Hello, how are you doing today?”  Copy and paste that, you can replace the text inside the speech marks with anything you want the computer to say, then click the green play button.

I’m new here so I’m not sure if you have this tip or not but it is quite funny to listen to the computer say things that you type…

written by mrsir2009