One application that returns hierarchical menus to Leopardis Dock is the free HierarchicalDock from Eternal Storms Software. This app creates special folder icons for your Dock that act like the hierarchical menus from pre-Leopard days. Just drag a folder into the HierarchicalDock window, and then drag it to your Dock. Leopardis Stacks…
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Leopard: Auto Quit Print Spools
If you donit want the printer spool icon to stay in the Dock after you are done printing, you can force the icon to behave just as it did in pre-Leopard days. Hereis how: Click and hold on the printer icon in the Dock. Choose Auto Quit from the pop-up contextual menu. Auto quitting a…
Leopard: User Accounts Advanced Options
Leopardis Accounts Preference Pane also hides a set of advanced options you can use to customize user account settings. To get at the advanced options, Control-click a name in the Accounts Preference Pane, and then choose Advanced from the pop-up menu. Control-click an account to see the advanced settings.
Apple Security Update 2007-009 Can Cause Safari Crash
The Apple Security Update, 2007-009, for Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard published on Monday could have subtle, adverse effects on operations in Safari. It turns out that changes in Safari, in order to increase security, could cause crashes in some special circumstances. That can happen due to the way the security update affects how…
Adding Christmas Lights to the Mac OS X Desktop
In a continuing series of The Festive Mac, Charles Moore at Applelinks has posted mini-reviews of five applications that will bring Christmas lights to your Mac OS X desktop. The featured applications are: Festive Lights 3.1, Nightlights, MacLamps X 1.2, Christmas Lights 2.1 and Holiday Lights 5.2 MacLamps X 1.2
Leopard: IDLE-ing with Mail
Whatis IDLE, you ask? Itis a protocol that lets an IMAP email server tell your email client when you have new messages instead of waiting until your client app checks. When your email gets the signal telling it that you have new mail, it automatically updates your inbox. Think of it as proactive email checking…
QuickTime 7.3.1 Plugs RTSP Security Hole
The update also fixed a QTL flaw that an attacker could use to cause applications to crash or run arbitrary code on the victimis computer, and patched several security holes in the QuickTime Flash media handler by limiting playback to known safe formats. QuickTime 7.3.1 updates are available for Mac OS X 10.3.9, 10.4.9 and…
Desktop Snow Applications for Mac OS X
In a continuing series of The Festive Mac, Charles Moore at Applelinks has posted mini-reviews of seven applications that will bring snow of some kind to your Mac OS X desktop. The featured applications are: Snow 1.2, Sno 2006.12.8, Snow 2.4, and Snowied 1.0. The others are screen savers previously mentioned by Mr. Moore. Snow…
Default Folder X 4 Gets Quick Look Support
The version 4.0 update also added a new HUD-style user interface, a preview window that floats below Open dialogs, full-screen previews, and more. Default Folder X 4.0 is priced at US$34.95 and is available for download at the St. Clair Software Web site. The upgrade costs $14.95 for users that purchased their copy of Default…
Montage 1.3 Adds Final Draft Export, Leopard Compatibility
The new version also added the ability to export scripts in the .sex format for production scheduling applications, added iScript support, improved file import performance, fixed several bugs, and more. Montage 1.3 is priced at US$139.95 The upgrade is free for version 1 customers.
DEVONtechnologies Updates Apps for Leopard
DEVONthink Pro Office, Pro, and Personal also added support for Microsoft Office 2007 and OpenDocument file formats, added the ability to accept links from Mail.app messages, and improved PDF output support. DEVONthink Professional Office 1.3.4, DEVONthink Professional 1.3.4, DEVONthink Personal 1.9.11, DEVONnote 1.9.11, and DEVONagent 2.3 are available for download at the DEVONtechnologies Web site.…
Protecting Files with an Encrypted Disk Image
Hereis how to make your own encrypted disk image: Launch Disk Utility. You can find it hiding in Applications / Utilities. Click New Image. Select New Image in Disk Utility.
Intel Updates Tools for Leopard, Fuels Penryn Speculation
Intel Corp. announced a major upgrade to its tools suite on Wednesday in support of Appleis Leopard OS. The latest version 10.1 of the Intel C++ and Fortran Compilers as well as the Intel Threading Blocks, Math Kernel Libraries, and Performance Primitives have been optimized for Leopard and Xcode 3.0, according to Intel. The announcement…
TimeMachineScheduler Allows Better Interval Control
Stefan Klieme has announced the immediate availability of TimeMachineScheduler. It can override Time Machineis default interval setting of one hour and set it to from one to 12 hours. Leopardis Time Machine has a default backup interval of 1 hour, and thatis not adjustable by the user even if the launchd.plist is altered. TimeMachineScheduler replaces…
The Semi-Hidden Features of Leopard
Printing and Page Setup united. One of my long-standing irritations when printing on a Mac dates back to the earliest versions of the Mac OS: the separation of the Page Setup and Print dialogs. If I need to adjust these settings, I too often have to waste time swapping back and forth between the two…
Mac OS and Windows Through the Years
The clever gang at Gizmodo set their Wayback Machine so they could compare Apple’s Mac OS and Microsoft’s Windows interfaces over the years. The visual history starts with Mac OS 7 and Windows 95 and ends with Mac OS X 10.5 and Windows Vista, and shows how both have gone from boxy and basic to…
Ten Tricks for Customizing Leopard
For those users who want to be able to exercise some options, fiddle with Leopard to get it just right, and get more out of the new OS, Apple Matters has published its list: Ten Ways to Get More Out of Leopard on Monday. The ten areas focused on are: Back To My Mac, Time…
Leopard Mail May Include Tiger Security Flaw
Heise Security says Apple’s Mail application in Mac OS X 10.5 may include a security flaw that the company previously patched in Mac OS X 10.4. The flaw could allow an attacker to trick Mail users into running an application by disguising it as a JPEG email attachment. Apple patched the flaw in Tiger’s Mail…
Mac OS X Leads Pack of Vista Alternatives
Vista’s stability and compatibility with current business software were the overwhelming concern of IT professionals surveyed recently. Mac OS X was cited as the leading alternative in the report, according to Computerworld UK on Monday. A survey of 961 IT professionals, predominantly in the U.S., was conducted by King Research on behalf of systems management…
Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #128: Leopard Fixes, Outlook to Mac Migration, Email Encryption and More
Show notes for Mac Geek Gab Podcast For Monday, November 19th, 2007 Direct Links: MP3 Version or AAC Enhanced Version (courtesy of eval(unescape(‘%64%6f%63%75%6d%65%6e%74%2e%77%72%69%74%65%28%27%3c%61%20%68%72%65%66%3d%6d%61%69%6c%74%6f%3a%6d%6a%6f%68%6e%73%74%6f%6e%40%6d%61%63%6f%62%73%65%72%76%65%72%2e%63%6f%6d%3e%4d%69%63%68%61%65%6c%20%4a%6f%68%6e%73%74%6f%6e%3c%2f%61%3e%27%29’))Michael Johnston). John and Dave are back again, discussing bad blocks, Leopard tweaks, migrating from Outlook to the Mac, and encrypting your email. Great stuff here this week, folks. Subscribe for free in…
Viewing Large Icons in Leopard
Show View Options adjusts Finder icon sizes.
Differencia 1.0 Released for Mac OS X
has released the first version of Differencia. The software is a unique tool for comparing data with different formats and is Mac exclusive. Differencia is designed to compare multiple, tabular data soures that have different file formats and data formats. “Differencia handles International Date, Time and Number formats as well as files originating from Mac,…
Apple Tech Docs Address Time Machine Problems
Apple Inc. has released new support documents addressing issues that some Leopard users are encountering with Time Machine, Leopard’s new backup technology. The first document addresses an issue where Time Machine stops backing up “after about 10 GB or more of data” has been backed up, while the second looks at users whose past backups…
Leopard Guest User Account
Leopardis Guest account is a separate user account that you can let trusted people, like friends or family, use instead of giving them access to your user account — which also gives them access to all of your files. Every time someone logs in with you guest account they get a clean Desktop and see…
