December 2007
Beginner
912 pages
31h 8m
English
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Your Bright Hacking Future
Someone could write a whole book on hacking Leopard, and somebody probably will (or has). Plenty more little recipes are floating around the Web. Lots of them involve typing a few commands into Terminal (Chapter 16), but that's really not so bad if you type carefully.
Here, for example, is a representative baker's dozen of the hacks that you'll find with a quick search at www.macosxhints.com:
How to create turn a group of images in Preview into a multi-page PDF file
How to change the Dock's colors with Automator
How to remove Spotlight from the menu bar
How to disable Spotlight completely
How to make the menu bar stop being translucent
How to change the Dictionary's font
How to remove the outer-space imagery from Time Machine's background
How to change Time Machine's backup interval
How to install Leopard on an older Mac
How to eliminate the blue-and-white stripes from Finder list views
How to bring back rounded window corners
How to disable certain Front Row menu items
How to modify the gray startup Apple logo
Happy hacking!
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