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Creating a Hackintosh: Installing Mac OS X on Netbooks from the Dell Mini 9, MSI Wind, Lenovo S10, and more

Creating your own cheap Mac Hackintosh out of a PC Netbook is pretty popular right now, so I compiled a list of various how-to guides mostly for myself but figured I would share it with our readers as well. The guides rank from reasonably easy (Dell Mini 9) to an arduous hack, and it’s [...]

Require a password on waking from sleep, but not when screensaver is active

Have you ever wanted to have your mac require a password on waking from system sleep, but not ask for a password when the screensaver is on? Well, me neither, but someone out there might and it’s kind of a nifty customization tip. I came across this nice trick on TUAW that I thought it [...]

Separate Backgrounds in OS X Spaces

Spaces. Personally, it is my favorite addition to Apple’s Leopard operating system. I have become very accustomed to working with Spaces and have long desired the ability to set a different background for each virtual “space”. That is now possible thanks to SpaceSuit. Installation of SpaceSuit is a breeze and setting your [...]

Screensaver as your Desktop Background in Mac OS X

Wallsaver is a freeware utility that allows you to easily take a screensaver and make it your desktop background. The application makes use of your Mac’s GPU (graphics processor) which leaves plenty of power left over to carry on with your desktop tasks. Removing the screensaver background and reverting to your previous choice [...]

Highlight Stack Items on Hover

Here’s a great tip that creates a nice hover effect when your mouse goes over an application (or folder) within a Leopard stack. Why this isn’t enabled by default in Leopard is beyond me, because it makes navigating within stacks a whole lot easier. Don’t miss out, here’s how to activate it:
Launch the Terminal [...]

Make Finder desktop icon sizes huge

The Mac OS X desktop is attractive, highly functional, and very customizable, but by default the maximum icon size is 128×128, which is pretty large but if you have a huge monitor or you’re visually impaired you may want larger icons. This is where the command line comes in, where you can force the [...]

Change the 10.5 Leopard Dock from 3D to 2D

The appearance of the new Dock in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard has caused somewhat of an uproar in the Mac community, some of whom even claim it looks like it belongs in Windows Vista. If you’re totally insulted by the new 3D dock, or if you just prefer the old Dock appearance, it’s [...]

Mac OS X Christmas & Holiday desktop app fun

It’s that time of the year again Mac users! The holiday season is now here in full force, and part of the fun is customizing your Mac to be with the season. Here’s our three favorite apps so you can deck out your Mac desktop in the holiday spirit.
Snowfall - a beautiful falling snow screensaver [...]

Show full directory path in Finder window title bars

The geekier amongst us and those familiar with Unix should really like this trick. You can have Mac OS X 10.5 display the full directory path in the Finder window title bar by issuing a simple command from the Terminal.
defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES
Then you’ll want to kill the Finder for [...]

Get iTunes style scrollbars in Mac OS X Leopard

The appearance of Mac OS X has slowly been drifting away from the old aqua style to a more modern and refined look that closely resembles iTunes. The change in this direction was really made obvious within Leopard with the introduction of the coverflow style finder and the removal of the brushed metal windows. [...]