Superb, I didn’t even know there were such a thing….
Growl animated styles to add to Growl as fast as a double click.
Made by Christopher Lobay, Christopher Lobay is a designer and developer.
He is the co-founder and Creative Director of Handcraft, a boutique creative agency.
Previously, he co-founded Infinite Ammo, an indie game company.
These styles: Mono and Basic, can be downloaded from here.
For anybody missing the ability of Address Book.app to send SMS messages (Apple Kbase article), which was present in 10.4 but removed in 10.5 and has been missing ever since, there is now a free plugin I’ve written to provide some of the missing functionality.
It adapts the SMS sending code from the emitSMS Dashboard widget into an Address Book action plug-in, which should be compatible with 10.5 and 10.6. Unfortunately, SMS receiving and dialing numbers via Bluetooth aren’t supported, so it doesn’t replace everything Apple removed in the Leopard version of Address Book, but it should provide a little more ease of use.
Just download the plug-in (96KB), expand the zip file, and then drop it in /Library/Address Book Plug-Ins. You can find more instructions and usage notes on my site.
Whenever you want to open the Exposé view of an application, usually mac users will advice you on using Hot Corner. However, we have a new trick here for you.
Open ‘Application Switcher’ with Cmd-Tab
Press Tabs until the app you want to perform Exposé to is selected
Hit the arrow key < or > and the Exposé for that app will appear
It’s fast, quick, and totally free of mouse actions.
But unfortunately, this trick only works in Snow Leopard.
To turn Spotlight Indexing off and on in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and to remove the Menu Bar Icon, follow these steps…
To turn Spotlight Indexing off in open Terminal and run this command:
sudo mdutil -a -i off
To turn Spotlight Indexing back on, repeat the above command, but change off to on. To remove the menu bar icon, run this Terminal command:
sudo chmod 600 /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Search
You’ll then to restart the menu bar with killall SystemUIServer to see the icon vanish.
Want to have a 2D dock instead of the 3D one without installing any third party application.
- Start OS X Terminal,
- copy/paste this command:
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock
For those experiencing problems connecting to wireless networks after upgrading from 10.5 to 10.6.
Here’s the trick to solve this issue:
- open Library » Preferences » SystemConfiguration,
- trash the entire contents of that folder,
- also delete all locations in System Preferences » Network
- recreate the location Automatic,
- Reboot
This is a new trend it seems, most of the everyday application Mac lovers use have been updated to be Snow Leopard compatible through beta versions; as a result you won’t be notified of these released through your applications’ update menus.
For instance, Xtorrent has been released to a 2.0 beta v80, and CoverSutra to a 2.2 beta 5.
Even Appfresh won’t notify you of these updates. Solution? Visit developers’ blogs/sites.
Updated to OS 10.5.8 through the combo update? You may get a lot of permissions repaired every time you run disk utility. Some of them are “scaring” I must admit…
That’s the reason why I made some investigations to find a solution on how to fix them.
And the solution is easy but annoying: install the combo update twice in a row with no permission repairs in between.
Worked great on my Macs.
