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Disable reply animation in OS X Mail

September 13, 2012 by Mr.W

If you use Mail you have probably seen the animation when replying to a message. The message seems to slide off the screen. It’s possible to disable this animation:

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Categories Mail Tags 10.7, 10.8 1 Comment

Change auto check interval Google Notifier

September 13, 2012 by Mr.W

When you use Google Notifier you will have noticed that your mailbox will be checked once every 15 minutes. You can change this interval with the following Terminal command.

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Categories 3rd party apps Tags 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8 1 Comment

Disable Google Chrome’s automatic software update

September 12, 2012 by Mr.W

Google Chrome automatically checks for software updates in the background. If you want to disable the automatic updates to reduce data traffic, you can do this with a defaults write command.

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Categories 3rd party apps Tags 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8 1 Comment

Display the Cover Flow frame rate

September 12, 2012September 12, 2012 by Mr.W

The following command will show the cover flow frame rate (as frames per second) within the Finder alongside each filename when flipping through files.

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Categories Finder Tags 10.6, 10.7, 10.8

Disable ‘Eject’ menu option in OS X Finder

September 11, 2012 by Mr.W

Disable the menu option: ‘File ▸ Eject [volume]’ (cmd⌘ + E) in the Mac OS X Finder menubar.

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Categories Finder Tags 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8

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
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