The Mother List of Preferences for Your Mac (This is Awesome!)

Alcor (nickname for the developer of Quicksilver)
is
compiling a huge list of user defaults. User defaults
include things like if you want the Safari debug menu to show up, if you want the dock to auto-hide, or if you
want the dock to bounce icons, perhaps you want the arrows in iTunes to link to your Library instead of the
Online Store, if you use WebKit and don’t like having have the default WebKit start page you can change that,
if you want to add Login Scripts you can with it, and on and on and on.

Here’s the link to the site, and you can add your own
stuff that you know of. Download the Pref Pane, it will install a Preference Pane called Secrets (shown in picture below) which is
where you simply have to check a box on if you want the feature or not (not more command-line tricks!). I
don’t know about you but I’m ecstatic about this.

Currently there are preferences for all of the following applications:

• Colloquy
• Dashboard
• Disk utilty
• Dock
• Dvd player
• Finder
• Grab
• iCal
• iChat
• iTunes
• Mail
• Netnewswire
• Safari
• Screen sharing
• Spaces
• Spotlight
• System
• Terminal
• Textmate
• Time machine
• X11
• Xcode

Update: Based on reader comments, it seems this is Leopard only. It appears to crash on Tiger (10.4.11).

Update #2: It seems this has caused problems with crashing for some users. Please install with caution.

 
 

Submitted on February 26, 2008 at 5:35 pm - The Mother List of Preferences for Your Mac (This is Awesome!) was written by Travis Jeffery - There have been 15 comments - Categorized in Cool OS X Apps, Easy Tips, Finder Tips, General Tips, Mail Tips, NetNewsWire Tips, OS X Tips, Resources, Safari Tips, Spaces Tips, Terminal Tips, TextMate Tips, Time Machine Tips, iCal Tips - Tags: colloquy, dashboard, disk utilty, dock, dvd player, finder, grab, ical, ichat, itunes, mail, netnewswire, safari, screen sharing, space, spotlight, system, terminal, textmate, Time Machine, x11, xcode

15 Responses to “The Mother List of Preferences for Your Mac (This is Awesome!)”

1. 
   António Lopes
   I tried installing the preference pane, but every time I click on it on the System Preferences GUI, it crashes. I'm using Mac OS X Tiger. Is this for Leopard only? February 27th, 2008 at 2:41 am
   
   
2. 
   Corvid
   Not so awesome -- this pane crashes System Prefs upon installation and every time I try to use it thereafter (on a PB G4 running 10.4.11). February 27th, 2008 at 7:28 am
   
   
3. 
   Howard
   I too experienced the Crash described above.
   
   I'm running 10.4.11 February 27th, 2008 at 9:13 am
   
   
4. 
   Brad Jasper
   Based on the experiences above with Tiger, I think it's safe to say this is Leopard only. February 27th, 2008 at 9:48 am
   
   
5. 
   Trackback
   Applebloc » Secrets: modificar característiques mai ha sigut tant fàcil

   [...] Vist a: MacTips [...]

   February 27th, 2008 at 10:10 am
   
   
6. 
   Oman
   on leopard, and it seems to not do what it says it will, somethings are cool... but it reset some other things and now i cant get the hight light over stacks back... February 27th, 2008 at 11:03 am
   
   
7. 
   Travis Jeffery
   Oman; it does do exactly what it says; to get the highlight over the stacks: simply open up Secrets -> Dock and click on "Highlight stack items on hover", then either do the command: "killall Dock" or Logout and back in. February 27th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
   
   
8. 
   Chris
   May be I'm doing sth. wrong, but...
   
   I'm on 10.5.2 and all I get is an (almost) empty Pane. The bigger right side is just plain white, the left has a browser with two items "Secrets" and "Top Secrets."
   
   Clicking either does... nothing. February 29th, 2008 at 3:47 am
   
   
9. 
   Travis Jeffery
   Cris: Try clicking on the refresh button, reinstalling it or restarting. February 29th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
   
   
10. 
    Monkeyman
    This is the most annoying, frustrating piece of crap I've downloaded...!!
    
    It was so buggy that I had to restore my entire system from Time Machine -- and then I just started up my mac again and even though I've removed the stupid 'Secrets' pref panel and restored everything, now my dock is back to the flat dock, I can't see icons on my desktop, and I can't figure out how to get things back to normal. None of the buttons do what they say, the refresh button does nothing... it is a terrible bit of software and it's driving me CRAZY!
    
    Can anyone PLEASE tell me what to delete or whatever to get this piece of crap off of my computer and get things back to normal???!
    
    ANY help would be appreciated. Thank you. March 3rd, 2008 at 3:47 pm
    
    
11. 
    Monkeyman
    Never mind -- I downloaded Onyx and it cleaned it right up. It also provides many of the options the 'Secret' thing claims to unlock, but it actually works... March 3rd, 2008 at 6:54 pm
    
    
12. 
    ted.sptak
    I Installed the dam thing and my preferences keep crashing !!!
    How the hell do you uninstall the thing ? !!
    This isn't awsome it's crap !!
    And yes I'm running Leopard 10.5.2 to be exact !! March 4th, 2008 at 11:34 am
    
    
13. 
    Brad Jasper
    Ted,
    
    Try right clicking on the preference pane and clicking Delete.
    
    Monkeyman said he was able to undo many of the settings with Onyx.
    
    I'm going to add a warning to this post as it seems this is a big issue with many users. March 4th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
    
    
14. 
    Jeff
    This would be so awesome if it wouldn't crash every time I tried to open it. You can "uninstall" it by going to System -> Library -> PreferencePanes and just removing the file, although you do have to authenticate it. April 20th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
    
    
15. 
    Jeff
    Or just right click and delete, much easier April 20th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
    
    

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