Got a few icons in your Menu Bar and you’d like to change the order they’re displayed in? You’re in luck, they’re fairly easy to move around. Just hold your Command key and drag them into the order you prefer.
Want to get rid of an icon? Hold the Command key and drag it off the menu bar. Gone!
This method doesn’t work with the Apple icons, but not with all apps. Some exceptions to this method are Google Notifier, Tweeie, and Adium. To rearrange these, exit the apps and relaunch them in the order you’d like them to appear from right to left. If they are apps in your Startup Items, you can change the order they launch in to reorder them in the menu bar.
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I’ve never been a big fan of the Leopard 3D glass dock effect, preferring the 2D dock effect that you see if you place the dock on the sides of your screen. While I personally keep my dock on the left side of the screen, you can get the same 2D effect at the bottom of your screen using a fairly simple terminal command.
Just open your Terminal app (located in Applications:Utilities), then paste in the following command and hit enter:
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock
Your dock will exit and reopen in 2D mode, as shown in the image below.
To disable the 2D effect, simply paste the same command into Terminal, replacing “YES” with “NO”.
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This afternoon, Apple released Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update. It is now available via Software Update and as a standalone installer in the Downloads section of the Apple website.
From the Apple website: The Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update is recommended for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac. For detailed information about security updates, please visit this website.
I started to download the update via Software Update, but the download was fairly slow—it would have taken roughly 2 hours to download. I quickly gave up on Software Update and grabbed the update from the Apple Downloads site. This download was very quick. I averaged 2.0MB/s—yes, that’s Megabytes—on my 20Mbps cable modem. The update from 10.5.6 to 10.5.7 weighs in around 440MB, so if you’d like to get it installed this evening, I’d suggest using the Apple Downloads site. Links provided below.
About the Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3397
Standalone Update (from 10.5.6):
http://support.apple.com/downloads/Mac_OS_X_10_5_7_Update
Standalone Combo Update (from any previous 10.5 version):
http://support.apple.com/downloads/Mac_OS_X_10_5_7_Combo_Update
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