Mac Pilot 3.0 adds 200 new features

I got Mac Pilot way back when as a heist reward in MacHeist. (I believe it was MH1, I kick it old-school.)

It was a pretty good app, although between it, Onyx (freeware utility that covers much of the same functionality), and Cocktail (got it as part of the MacUpdate/MacHeist SkunkWorks bundle, and they even gave me a free upgrade to the Leopard-compatible version), I think I have enough hidden feature tweakers to go around, unless MP3.0 brings some insanely great feature that I've never seen before.

(I'd like to find a way to recover my original side-screen Dock throbbers, I tried out Leopard Dock skinning back when it involved messing around with the Dock.app/Resources folder, and I lost the active app throbber image for when the Dock is on the side of the screen - now I have no idea what is running... Before you say it - my Time Machine is set to exclude System Files, and I'm too lazy to reinstall Leopard, although given how long I've been running this install I should. Maybe I'll just do an Archive and Install over my current install, worked fine for the upgrade from 10.4 to 10.5...)

All I need to know is this: Can it turn of the @#$*ing annoying tooltips in the Finder? That's all I want. I'd pay $20 to be able to do that.

Computers are, by nature, so complex that anything the user can do to simplify is to his (or her) advantage. In my experience, users who install glitzy add-ons like this one end up with System problems that require professional assistance. Pimp your car, not your computer!

Does this provide $19.95 worth of modifications that the recently released Secrets does for free?

See, now there is a worthwhile piece of software for $19.95. The authors that charge similar prices (or for that reason, any price over $free.99) for just a few little configuration changes. Thanks for passing this along.