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xMod Tweaks Leopard's Hidden Settings
Posted by Adam Pash at 8:00 AM on June 4, 2008
Mac OS X only: Freeware application xMod tweaks OS X Leopard system settings through a easy-to-use—albeit clunky—interface. Similar to previously mentioned LeopardMOD, xMod tweaks everything from Finder to Safari, and offers tools to check the status of your hard drives or change the default screenshot behaviour. xMod is freeware, Mac OS X only. For more obscure but arguably cooler set of hidden tweaks, check out previously mentioned Secrets.
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kisskisskiss
Posted 9:15 AM 4/6/08
How is this better than TinkerTool??
kisskisskiss
iamse7en
Posted 9:02 AM 4/6/08
How 'bout Spotlight being able to search the 'hidden' folders, like preferences, application enhancers, etc... This was taken out in 10.5, and it's quite annoying.
iamse7en
Barron
Posted 9:01 AM 4/6/08
I should learn to read dates - it has only been a few months, not more than a year. The site is still down, though.
Barron
Barron
Posted 8:59 AM 4/6/08
As several commenters pointed out in the Secrets thread - the site just returns a 500 error. You can download from an alternate link, but since the app has to phone home to get the list of secrets, this doesn't help. I was hoping this had been fixed in the year-plus since the article was written, but alas no. Surely, Adam, you didn't get my hopes up for an app that is no longer available...
Barron
DoubleFelix
Posted 10:55 AM 4/6/08
@DoubleFelix: Argh. Apparently the comments don't like angle bracket tags. >_>
defaults [some corresponding variable name] [some value]
DoubleFelix
DoubleFelix
Posted 10:54 AM 4/6/08
@Peter Cavan: Basically all they do is, when you check a certain box does a corresponding thing in the terminal: defaults
DoubleFelix
DoubleFelix
Posted 10:54 AM 4/6/08
or Deeper?
DoubleFelix
Peter Cavan
Posted 10:49 AM 4/6/08
In the 4 months since I bought my first Mac, I've seen about a half-dozen tools that all do the same thing: adjust the "hidden" preferences and options in OS X. I use OnyX, but except for different interfaces they all seem the same.
I don't really have a point, other than that programs to adjust hidden preferences must be easy to develop or extremely popular for so many coders to reinvent the wheel.
Peter Cavan
Collaboratory
Posted 2:30 PM 4/6/08
@iamse7en: omg, i know. it's bloody annoying. that's one of the most retarded mods.
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Myles
Posted 10:47 PM 4/6/08
I'm with Peter, it seems there are just a handful of apps that do the exact same thing, just as good as the next one.
Myles
mannyotr
Posted 1:48 AM 5/6/08
@DoubleFelix:
Do you, or anyone, know where I could find a list of the actual terminal commands to do the things that these apps are doing. Looking at the picture above, I am interested in:
- disable creation of .DS_Store files
- show hidden files
- show list view stripes
But that's just from what I see. I would like to know what else is available and how I can manually turn it on or off via terminal.
mannyotr