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Yonzie
Mac Mini Maniac
 
Join Date: Sep 2005
 
2005-12-12, 18:11

  • Dock/Exposé:
    • Enable borderless dock.
    • Enable transparent icons for hidden apps. (didn't even know this. thanks)
    • Get rid of the Dashboard icon from the Dock; add QuickTime Player, TextEdit, many others.
  • Finder:
    • Turn on snap to grid for the desktop and all folders.
    • Give the hard drive a custom name.
  • Safari:
    • Enable status bar.
    • Disable all autofill.
    • New windows open with blank page.
    • Remove the hordes of useless bookmarks.
    • Enable tabs.
  • Others:
    • Set key repeat to maximum and delay close to minimum.
    • Increase mouse speed.
    • Set mouse scroll speed to max.
    • Set full keyboard access to "all controls."
    • Software update: Daily. Download updates in background.
    • Universal Access: Flash screen on alert sound
The thing about OS X that pisses me off the most is the scrolling... When scrolling slowly, it scrolls ~2 pixels at a time even with scroll speed set to maximum... Freaking annoying...

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Originally Posted by Brad
  • Dock/Exposé:
    • Hide the Dock.
    • Set "application windows" to top left, "all windows" to top right, "desktop" to bottom right, and "Dashboard" to bottom left corner. Set "all windows" to mouse button 5 and "desktop" to mouse button 4.
  • Finder:
    • Turn on "keep arranged by name" as the default.
  • Safari, TextEdit:
    • Enable spell checking.
  • Others:
    • Show seconds and flash time separators for clock.
Hiding the dock is annoying to me... It's just extra latency in a "open new program" process, but it might also partly be because I haven't yet fully embraced Exposé.
I cannot handle active screen corners. When going to a corner it's because I want the apple menu, Finder, the Trash or spotlight.
Keep arranged by name moves my icons around so I can't find them anymore...
Spellchecking may be a good thing, but it won't catch you writing which instead of witch... Also, it focuses my mind on the spelling error instead of the process of writing out my thoughts, thereby derailing my train of thoughts. So I disable it.
If I enable the seconds on the clock I end up just sitting and staring at them... bad...
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