Awarded with an Apple Design Award in 2007 for the Best Mac OS X Leopard application, Delicious Monster is back with a new version of Delicious Library, and all I can say is this version is PHENOMENAL!

Let’s make a tour of the new features of Delicious Library 2.

As a reminder for the few of you who doesn’t know this application, Delicious Library is a Media Cataloguing application, the first version that ended with a very stable version 1.6.6 allowed you to only catalogue: CDs, Movies, Books and Softwares.

The application has a modern and slick interface, easy to use and learn for everybody, but DL2 is more than a beautifully designed application.

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I hate it when Safari opens a new window while I’m browsing like always (tabs only).
It seems Apple has heard me by adding a terminal command to Safari 3.1 that will definitely fix the issue of some pages that opens in a new window (like Gmail’s).
Close Safari, Open Terminal and copy/paste this command line:

defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true

Once that’s done you must restart Safari in order for this to take effect.

This trick solved many of the problems I had with Leopard: the 10 secs delay for Mail to check my email, slow connection on MSN Messenger, Adium won’t connect to MSN at all…
Two steps to fix this(these) issue(s):

1. go to Network > Advanced > DNS, and add these DNS: 4.2.2.2 & 141.1.1.1, click on “Apply” and close system preferences.
   
2. open Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal.app), and type this command: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache

Now you can start your applications and you’ll feel the change!

Even if it’s not listed in the supported devices by BluePhoneElite 2, I told myself why not giving it a try (I purchase a serial number after all) and the license I want to use!

So, after a painful pairing process: the trick is patience + do not leave the Bluetooth settings menu of your iPhone, BPE 2 finally detected, recognized and added support for the iPhone of the great “Talk-Thru” feature.

Did a test to call myself, and… it works! Beautiful!

With the bezel window turned on… Even better! (Screenshot after the jump)…
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Set up Screen Sharing in Leopard

1. Go to System Preferences on the machine you want to share.
2. Click on the Sharing Preference Pane.
3. Check the box beside Screen Sharing.
4. Close the System Preferences widow if you wish.

To use Screen Sharing

1. On a different Mac using Leopard go to the Finder and create a New Window (Command N). A Finder window appears.
2. Look in the Sidebar for the name of the machine whose screen you want to view. Select that machine. The screenshot shows I’ve selected terra-firma, my Mac mini.
3. Click the Share Screen … button near the top of the Finder window. A Screen Sharing window appears displaying the screen on the machine you wish to control.

Here’s the how to for a password reset under Leopard.

1. Boot into single user mode (press Command-S at power on)
2. Type fsck -fy
3. Type mount -uw /
4. Type launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServices.plist
5. Type dscl . -passwd /Users/username password, replacing username with the targeted user and password with the desired password.
6. Reboot

This allows you to reset the password in single user mode without booting from the install media.

Leopard’s Allow All Incoming Connections option is the functional equivalent of the old Stop button: it turns your firewall off. I wouldn’t recommend this setting to anyone.

The Allow Only Essential Services option will block anything except a few default networking services, such as Bonjour. It prevents file sharing, remote access, and other optional services. You should use this option only if you really want to block everything. I use this option when I’m on potentially hostile networks, such as those in hotels or public hotspots, and don’t want to bother with manually turning off all my shared services (see “Firewalls on the Road”).

The third option, Set Access For Specific Services And Applications, is the one I recommend for everyday use. It’s actually a new kind of firewall for OS X. It’s what’s known as an applicationfirewall. Previous versions of OS X used a technology known as stateful packet inspection—a fancy way of saying the firewall blocked ports that weren’t being held open for use by approved applications. An application firewall like the one in Leopard blocks traffic targeting specific applications, not specific ports.

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• Clever uses for your iPhone camera
• Saving reference material as web pages
• Making “fake podcasts” of audio and video material
• Using “fake contacts” to sync notes with your Mac
• Using the iPhone’s backlight as a flashlight

Tired of the default Leopard’s 3D dock background image?
To install a custom backgrounds for your dock:

1. Just go into System/Library/CoreServices/ right-click on Dock and select “show package contents”. 
2. Once here go into Contents and then resources. Copy the image files here, but be sure to back up the original files if you want to revert back to the default leopard appearance.
3. Once the images are in place, go into terminal and type killall dock - this will close the dock and restart it. 
4. When it comes back up your new background should be in place.

Download some backgrounds here and even more here.