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Enable the debug menu in Disk Utility

September 11, 2012 by Mr.R

OS X Disk Utility has a hidden debug-menu that, when enabled, can give you access to more advanced Disk Utility features. The debug-menu gives you access to the restore partition (OS X 10.7 and above). The ‘Debug’ option will appear after applying this command in OS X Terminal:

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Categories Disk Utility Tags 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8 2 Comments

Enable the 2D Dock

September 10, 2012September 10, 2012 by Mr.W

If the 3D Dock isn’t your taste, you can use Terminal to switch to the 2D visual implementation.

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Categories Dock Tags 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8 1 Comment

Enable the secret settings in Twitter for OS X

September 8, 2012 by Mr.W

The Twitter for Mac OS X application has a secret preferences tab. This gives you access to options like: Show full names, Compose windows float over all windows, type anywhere and munch more.

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Categories 3rd party apps Tags 10.6, 10.7, 10.8

Enable hidden Stacks list view in OS X Dock

September 7, 2012September 7, 2012 by Mr.W

This terminal tweak will enable a hidden list view for your stacks that is way better then the default one that comes with OS X. Enable hidden Stacks list view with the following command:

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Categories Dock Tags 10.6, 10.7, 10.8 1 Comment

Stop icons from bouncing in OS X Dock

September 6, 2012 by Mr.W

When applications first open or need to alert the user of some new update, the icons in the dock bounce. Very helpful when you are multitasking, but some users find it distracting. Use following command to stop the icons from bouncing.

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Categories Dock Tags 10.6, 10.7, 10.8 5 Comments

Disable new disks requests for Time Machine

September 7, 2012September 6, 2012 by Mr.R

If you don’t use Time Machine, you might notice that every time you attach a empty hard disk to your Mac, you get asked if you want to use this hard disk Time Machine backups. Disable this dialog box with the following command:

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Categories Time Machine Tags 10.6, 10.7, 10.8

Disable ‘Empty trash’ options in OS X Finder

September 4, 2012 by Mr.R

Disable the menu option: ‘Empty trash’ and ‘Secure Empty trash’ in the Mac OS X Finder menubar and command + click trash contextual menu.

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Categories Finder Tags 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8
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