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Originally Posted by Brad Dock/Exposé: Hide the Dock. Pin the Dock to the end and enable transparent icons for hidden apps. Get rid of the iLife and Dashboard icons from the Dock; add QuickTime Player, TextEdit, and SubEthaEdit. 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.

Yes to all of them except for the hot corners. I havent gotten used to that and just customize the buttons on my MX1000 to do the same things.

Finder: Turn on snap to grid for the desktop. Turn on "keep arranged by name" as the default. Give the hard drive a custom name and icon.

I dont keep the icons arranged automatically. I also make the icons on the desktop a little smaller than default. Otherwise, yes to everything.

TextEdit: Set "Ignore rich text commands in HTML files" in TextEdit. New document format: plain text. Enable spell checking.

I dont use TextEdit, but I do similar things in Pages and Appleworks.

Safari: Enable status bar. Enable tab browsing, always show tab bar, don't select as created. Disable all autofill. New windows open with blank page. Remove the hordes of useless bookmarks. Enable spell checking.

Yes to all of the above.

Mail: Use MailStamps to replace those hideous icons with the better ones (better for shape and color recognition, better for clickable area, better for UI consistency) from 10.3.

I did this for a while but then changed back. The original buttons have grown on me I guess. Either that or I dont look at them enough to care.

Others: Enable Universal Access zoom. Set key repeat to maximum and delay to minimum. Set mouse and trackpad speed to highest. Set full keyboard access to "all controls." Show seconds and flash time separators for clock. Disable "play feedback when volume is changed." Disable Spotlight keyboard shortcuts.

Yes to all except for the Spotlight keyboard shortcuts. I use the default one every now and then.