March 2003
Beginner
432 pages
11h 30m
English
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Tinkering with Your User Interface
Beautify your Mac’s look-and-feel with the freeware TinkerTool Preference Pane.
Despite the plethora of built-in customizations, tweaks, beautifications, and alterations to the look-and-feel of your Mac, there are times when you want to take things just that little bit further.
TinkerTool (http://www.bresink.de/osx/TinkerTool2.html) (freeware) gives you much to tinker with. While some of its functionality has been subsumed into Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar), there’s still much you can do with TinkerTool that simply can’t be done otherwise. The latest version has, in turn, pulled in some more of Jaguar’s functionality, providing a one-stop customization shop for your Mac GUI.
TinkerTool’s Preference Pane Installer (see Figure 4-13) drops the app into place simply and cleanly, allowing you to choose whether it’s available to all users or just you.
Figure 4-13. Running the Preference Pane Installer
There are several areas of settings that TinkerTool allows you to customize:
Features related to the Finder, such as the effects of opening files, number of lines shown for filenames, and so forth (see Figure 4-14)
Dock placement, drop-shadows, transparent hidden applications
General positioning of scrollbar arrows, startup/login language
Fonts and font smoothing used by the system and applications
Figure 4-14. Using TinkerTool
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