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TinkerTool opens up a can of useful features
Laurie mentioned this briefly in her article on getting music off your iPod, but I had to try it myself. TinkerTool was back in the reccesses of my mind... I believe I first heard about it when I tried to squeeze a little more performance out of my aging (but still operational) 500 MHz G3 iBook. The simple app opens up a slew of system prefs that Apple never intended you to see. I think OS X should have an "advanced" user mode, one that you can enable after using the machine for a couple of days. Sort of the opposite of Simple Finder. Well TinkerTool anticipates this idea by going ahead and letting you control all this crazy GUI business and a whole lot more.Some of the things you can do with TinkerTool:
- Display the Dock with a shadow
- Control how the Finder scales the Desktop background image
- Enable extended options for conversion of disk images
- Set the maximum number of entries stored in the history list of Safari
- Enable the "Quit" menu item of the Finder
- Switch off font-smoothing in general
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Twist said 4:34PM on 9-07-2005
TinkerTool is awesome. I carry it around on my thumbdrive so that I can use it on every Mac I ever have to use for more than 5 minutes. Favorite feature: Place scroll arrows together at each end.
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