If you’ve already downloaded the new Leopard update, you may or may not have right-clicked on your stacks yet. If you have, you would have noticed a huge improvement. Notice how my stacks are no longer represented by the first icon in the folder but rather by the folder icon itself. To make [...]

Just in case you can’t find where the new setting is to change the translucent setting in 10.5.2, it’s in System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver and uncheck “Translucent Menu Bar”.

This allows you to go from this:

to this:

This update includes minor bug fixes in Mail and iChat, as well as a bunch of other things. But most importantly, it provides you with the option of disabling the transparent menu bar!
To get the update, open System Preferences and click on Software Update, then click “Check Now”
[via Apple]

To block certain apps for certain users, go to System Preferences -> Parental Controls. Then highlight the user to be limited and select the “System” tab. Then check “Only allow selected applications”, and choose from the list (put a check next to each of the applications you wish to ALLOW them to use).

TimeMachineEditor is a great little application that allows you to optimize your Time Machine backups much more than the regular System Preferences pane does. It is quite lightweight and simply works. If you use Time Machine for your backups, you should definitely check it out.

TimeMachineEditor gives you the option to schedule Time Machine backups at [...]

It used to be that in order to look at files from the trash, you would have to drag everything out and open each file. It took Apple 4 iterations of OS X to get it right but they’ve finally fixed this glaring issue. As the title suggests, you can use Quick Look to look [...]

This is for those of you (like me) who tend to scratch disc media. To do this, you need a copy of Leopard, an external hard drive or old iPod (more than 6.4 GB) and Disk Utility (you have this, don’t worry).
First, insert the Leopard install DVD. Then open Disk utility. Click “Mac OS X [...]

All Growl and/or iPhone users will like this new Growl style named iPhonesque. Obviously by the name you can tell that it tries to emulate some of the looks of the iPhone. Here’s a screenshot (it also comes in Black, and lighter colors as well):

[Source:http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16783761]

For people who haven’t heard of Growl (how it been under [...]

Right around the time OS X 10.5, Leopard, was released, I discussed how to enable Application Binding in Spaces, a part of Spaces which forces OS X to switch to assigned spaces when new windows or applications are opened. The way enabling this feature was described was straightforward and easy, but slow. It turns out [...]

Linking files together have a lot of different uses. Here are some examples:
In my case I use MacVim and a lot of different programming languages. However I do frequently use the regular terminal Vim. The problem is you either stick with using the outdated built-in Vim version or you have to update through source. But [...]