Tweaks Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Chromebook 101: How to make your new toy more Apple-y

by Erica Sadun (Feb 1st, 2013)

Steve is a deeply bad influence. He started the trend, which prompted me to order my own Chromebook (although I had been waiting to pull the trigger for several weeks). Slowly this US$250 MacBook-wannabe has been infiltrating TUAW households. It's great for kids. It's a unit you don't mind ...

How to enable iCal's debug menu

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Feb 24th, 2012)

ZDNet (via Macgasm) has posted a couple of neat iCal tweaks that should make your life a bit easier: Enabling the debug menu and showing two weeks worth of appointments at once. The trick involves a couple of Terminal commands. To enter debug mode, use the following: defaults write com.apple.iCal ...

Three ways to change Lion's Finder window sidebar

by Mike Schramm (Sep 9th, 2011)

It took me a little while, but I finally last weekend updated to Lion, and so far ... I think I like it. I kind of miss my old Spaces feature, and I did turn off reverse scrolling right away, but it does seem to run better than Snow Leopard, and Mission Control is pretty sweet. Another thing ...

Cydia Search lets you search for jailbreak apps from your desktop

by Samuel Gibbs (May 6th, 2011)

Searching for the perfect Jailbreak app in Cydia on the iPhone can be a frustratingly slow experience. Cydia Search from Planet-iPhones.com eases your pain by allowing you to browse through the plethora of Cydia apps by category, repository or author, all from the comfort of a desktop browser. ...

Pixelmator releases version 1.1.2

by Mike Schramm (Jan 22nd, 2008)

I nabbed Pixelmator last week as part of the Macheist bundle, and I have to say that it's quickly become my photo editor of choice for blogging-- it's quick, beautiful, simple, and perfect for what I need. Of course, what I need is mostly just resizing and cropping (with the occasional color fills ...

New Leopard Build Introduces New Feature, Tweaks

by Dan Lurie (Nov 23rd, 2006)

The latest build of Leopard, (9A303) introduced some small but nifty features to the list of enhancements that will ship with the new OS next year. Lets take a look: QuickLook is a new feature which allows users to view a full size preview of any image by right clicking on it, without having to ...

Make your PC more Maclike

by Scott McNulty (May 27th, 2005)

There have been numerous blog entries about making Windows look more like OS X, and frankly I never saw the point. I'm more of a defaults kinda guy when it comes to look and feel, about the only thing I do when I am using a PC is to set Windows XP to look like 'Classic Windows.'I have no need for a ...