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Product Description:
TinkerTool is an application that gives you access to additional preference settings Apple has built into Mac OS X. This allows to activate hidden features in the operating system and in some of the applications delivered with the system.
The tool makes sure that preference changes can only affect the current user. You don't need administrative privileges to use the tool. With this design, it is no problem to use TinkerTool in professional networks where users have restricted permissions. The program will never change any component of the operating system, so the integrity of your system is not put at risk, and there will be no negative effect on system updates.
All preference settings changed by TinkerTool can be reset to Apple's defaults, or to the state that existed before using the tool. No dangerous background processes are used for TinkerTool's operation.
Because TinkerTool only gives you access to settings already built into Mac OS X, its feature set varies greatly between different operating system versions. For details please refer to the feature table at the developer's site.
What's new in this version:
- Added preference setting for the Leopard Finder to display UNIX paths in window titles.
- Added preference setting for the Leopard Finder to omit the striped background in list views.
- Added preference setting for the Leopard Dock to use the spring-loading feature of the Finder also for Dock tiles.
- Added preference setting for the Leopard Dock to highlight the current selection when working with stacks in grid view.
- Added preference setting for the Leopard Dock to display a stack for recent items.
- Added general preference setting for Tiger and Leopard to set expanded Save dialogs as default when using new applications.
- Added general preference settings for Leopard to set expanded Print dialogs as default when using new applications.
- Added Leopard preference setting not to include entries from the Dictionary application into Spotlight search results.
- Added Leopard preference setting not to use the calculator feature of Spotlight.
- Added Leopard preference setting not to keep the Help Viewer window always in the foreground.
- Added preference setting for Spaces not to wrap around when switching from the last or first space.
- Added preference setting for Time Machine not to ask for backup disks when connecting new drives.
- Added Leopard preference setting to include all system user groups in the Accounts pane of System Preferences.
- Added preference setting to enable the full feature set in the toolbar of the Leopard Screen Sharing client.
- Added preference setting to display the computer browser when opening the Leopard Screen Sharing client.
- The feature to reorder and temporarily disable login items has been reinstated for Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.2 or later.
- Added preference setting for Safari 3 not to show a warning when closing unsubmitted forms.
- Added preference setting for Safari 3.1 to redirect all links opening new windows into foreground tabs.
- Improved compatibility with Safari 3.0 and Safari 3.1.
- By user request, an additional explanation dialog was added when users switch off the Desktop background of the Finder.
- In order to avoid unintentional selection of options by mouse clicks resulting from window reordering bugs in Leopard, the empty spaces behind option texts have been made unsensitive to clicks when using certain languages.
- The documentation has been revised.
- The language packages for Swedish, and Traditional Chinese have been removed. They may be reinstated later.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.3.8 or higher
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And can reorder (load) login items - Version: 3.9, 5/30/2008 09:18AM PST
(2 of 2 users found this comment useful)
pendragon
Is the a for alpha? - Version: 3.8a, 2/20/2008 12:00AM PST
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man de huMost Recent Replies: View All 1 Replies
- Is the a for alpha?
The icon is buggy - Version: 3.8a, 2/17/2008 12:00AM PST
(2 of 4 users found this comment useful)
satcomer
Indeed this product just gets better and better. No conflicts and rock solid. Bravo!