Tiger Tips: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Can someone please help me get rid of the pop up that informs me that I am still connected to the internet and asks if I wish to stay connected. HELP ME!!!

While we're on the subject of annoyances, who was UI-ignorant enough to design the iTunes widget? The volume control on that thing is atrocious. I thought Apple realized that the whole "let's make applications look like real-world things" idea was a bad thing after QuickTime 4 Player.

Sure, I can change the image - just not the size or the location.

In response to "The Ugly" you can Change the Dashboard shelf's background image.

To address a few of the comments above, I said "If I disable the post-processing of "safe" files in Safari's general prefs, it will stop warning me. But it also won't expand anything - so instead of being nagged, I have to click a few more times. Neither is a good solution." The point is I WANT to open "safe" files after downloading. I want dmg files to mount and sit file to unstuff. I don't want to have to double-click them after they download, nor do I want to be warned or prompted every time I allow Safari to do it for me.

Remember the first Tiger preview? Instead of the Dashboard Dock, there was a black, repositionable plus sign that would expand into a small window-type thing that is very similar to Motion's Dashboards (the little semi-transparent mini-windows for changing settings of items. Here is a archived page of a video showing this: http://web.archive.org/web/20040630032524/www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/theater/dashboard.html I love this archiver site!!! If only they kept that design and allowed multiple widgets on that old design....

I think to get rid of the warning (atleast for me) is go to Safari -> Prefrences -> Uncheck open "safe" files after downloading. I haven't gotten one of those boxes after doing that.

Mail: Uhm... why is there no indicator letting me know when it's actually downloading messages? Why do I need to have sounds turned on to find out that I don't have any new messages? (Sorry, the Activity Window doesn't cut it -- having a second window open isn't reasonable.) Mail: why can I still NOT use Home/End to jump to the top/bottom of my Inbox? Automator: Incorporating iTunes-anything into a Workflow brings it to a halt. The app just sits there, spinning. Spotlight: Kudos to Apple for remembering us keyboard jockey-types... Command-Enter (opens the Top Hit) and Command-Arrow (jumps between groups) work great. AirPort: changing the meaning of the AirPort status menu item without saying so was mean. ;)

If you don't need to have your downloaded file opened or unzipped/expanded as soon as you download it, you could always: hold option while clicking on the download link and have your file(s) downloaded without any prompts (or warnings) whatsoever. I have been doing this since pre-Tiger and never get a warning message. Again, this will not open your files immediately (that's why the prompt doesn't come up), but I think it's worth it. Actually, I have my Kensington Expert Mouse set to "option+click" when chording the top two buttons.

Yes, please stop the nagging!