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Entries from November 2007

Real separators for the Mac OS X Leopard dock (howto)

November 21st, 2007 · 29 Comments

In examining the strings inside the Dock binary in Leopard, I found a way to add real separators to the dock, instead of adding dummy applications with empty or decorative icons, as commonly done.
This works only in Leopard (OSX 10.5):

Run the following commands from the Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add ‘{ “tile-type” = “spacer-tile”; }’
killall [...]

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Kirkville – Spotlight’s Secret Search Syntax – Some information about Spotlight’s search syntax (tags: leopard macosx spotlight tips reference @readlater )
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VectorMagic – A quite impressive bitmap-to-vector image conversion tool (tags: tools graphics cool useful vector interesting converter )
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The ten most addictive online flash games ever made – A good list of online games. (tags: fun flash games lists online free )
AFP548 – Leopard Server Part 2 – Local Directory Services – Description of the new Directory Service (replacement for Netinfo) in OSX 10.5 Leopard. (tags: leopard macosx directoryservice tools reference sysadmin )
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HEMA online store – An online store like no other (tags: fun Advertising animation cool )
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CopperExport and Leopard

November 2nd, 2007 · Comments Off

I just got my hands on Leopard, and it seems that CopperExport works fine with it! Please let me know if you find any problems.

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