PreferencePanes Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Learn a language with the Finder's Desktop

by Dave Caolo (Sep 5th, 2008)

Here's a nifty little application. DesktopLyrics is a free utility that displays the lyrics of the song that's currently playing in iTunes on your desktop. You can position it where ever you like, choose your font and then just let it run. Pretty neat, right? Here's the catch. The lyrics must be in ...

Manage secret preferences with Secrets

by Dave Caolo (Mar 1st, 2008)

Here's a clever utility from the creator of Quicksilver. Secrets (no, not the Van Halen song) is a preference pane that lets you fiddle with the hidden defaults of nearly all your applications. For instance, show the iPhoto toobar in full screen mode and make those iTunes arrows link to your library ...