Follow these steps in order to change your fonts’ size in the Finder or Mail sidebar:

1. Launch System Preferences by clicking the System Preferences icon in the Dock, selecting the System Preferences item from the Apple menu, or opening Launchpad and selecting the System Preferences icon.
2. Select the General preference pane from the System Preferences window.
3. Use the drop-down menu next to the “Sidebar icon size” item to set the size to Small, Medium, or Large. This drop-down menu controls the icon and font size for both the sidebar in Mail and the sidebar in a Finder window. The default size is Medium.

When you’ve made your selection, just close System Preferences.

An error message that I don’t wish none of you to meet, but it’s happening to me these days on two Mac’s.
This post comes after the one I announced in the OS X update, not sure it’s OS 10.5.6 but I have some doubts on that.
Solution 1 is the following:

1. Turn off iDisk Sync (click the Stop button in the iDisk pane of MobileMe preferences, in System Preferences).
2. Restart your computer.
3. From the Go menu, choose Home.
4. Open the Library folder.
   • For Mac OS X 10.4 or earlier: Remove the Mirrors folder
   • For Mac OS X 10.5: Remove the FileSync folder
5. Restart your computer.
6. Re-enable iDisk Sync.

Solution 2:

Solution 3:

Tiger users were able to use and download the widget from MacAmour.
But it seems it stopped working.
So here’s the how to fix it, then you’ll never get the “invalid zip code” error message again.
Recently the Leopard Movies widget, which Steve demoed along with Leopard, stopped working in Tiger. Leopard’s built-in Movies widget continues to function, while in Tiger, it gives an error of “invalid zip code.” You can make this widget function once again in 10.4.

Navigate to /Library/Widgets and find the Movies widget. Control-click on the widget and choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. Then open parser.js in your favorite text editor, and replace all occurrences of A99D3D1A-774C-4914-9E3B-18645117428A with DE7E251E-7758-40A4-98E0-87557E9F31F0 and save. Close any open movie widget in Dashboard, then re-open it. Now it works.

Source: Mac OS X Hints

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.

I’m surprised to see many people complaining about the look of the new Leopard dock, most of them complaining on the fact it is very distractive, anyway, there’s a solution to revert to the previous looking version of the dock, just follow these steps to make it:
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This post is intended to people like me who won’t install Leopard on an empty, clean Hard Drive.
I won’t have the courage to back up my 80 gigs + iTunes library or my movies and documents, so all I’m going to do is preparing my Mac to be updated to Leopard from Tiger.

It is Highly recommended to backup all of your datas before upgrading to Leopard anyways, there is a great article at Apple’s website on How to back up and restore your files.

Here are some advices I have to give and some others I collected here and there on some Mac sites.

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According to AppleInsider, OS 10.5 Leopard’s is now “finalized” to the point where Apple has begun to provide Leopard-related support training materials to its support staff.
When it comes to the release date:

All signs have pointed to a public release of Leopard during the business week of Oct 22nd, with sources specifically singling out Oct 26 for the official launch.

AppleInsider also confirms the fact Apple will release a last update for Tiger (10.4.11):

The new builds focus primarily on Dashboard, according to some of the people testing the releases. This reportedly includes a fix for the software’s underlying Webkit foundation and word of two existing issues with number-oriented widgets.

Read full article from AppleInsider

According to this exhaustive FAQ on OS X kernel panic, it seems there are 5 main causes to that:

1. Directory
2. Drivers and Preference Panels
3. Widgets
4. Data corruption
5. Permissions
6. RAM and motherboards

I find this FAQ very useful especially because of the fact its author didn’t forget any of them (for the moment), for example the famous OS 10.2.5 USB hub caused KP.

Read the FAQ here.