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LeopardTricks.com for sale

It’s with great regret that I announce the sale of that web site and domain. I just do not have duration to work on it any more, particularly now that we’ve just added a new addition to our family (which now makes two little tikes).
During it’s peak, LeopardTricks.com had by 25,000 subscribers, and very regular updates and contrib…

Sysprep for OS X

as taken from Mactalk
I confess it, for the last fifteen years or so I’ve been nearly exclusively Windows-centric. I’m certain there’s a Mac-specific term for that but I haven’t found it yet. So, I’ll use sysprep for now.
What do I mean? In Windows there’s a set of tools available that lets you build a reference computer with all the l…

Print directly from Finder

I received an attachment via E-mail and wanted to print it straight away.
1. So, I saved the document.
2. Selected it in Finder (not opened it) in Space 2
3. thereupon used the “File > Print” in Finder
4. The document was opened and printed
5. My word processor closed automatically again
In the meanwhile I was working on a document …

Hide the Dock

from Klara:
Alt+Cmd+D hides the dock and pressing the same brings it back.

Orginal post by James

Exposé Navigation Tricks for Snow Leopard

While clicking around in Exposé I noticed a couple useful features that might not be so obvious right away.  Once in Exposé you can navigate through your applications and windows in a variety of ways.
Lets explore!
Firstly, get into Exposé (for all windows).
Pressing the “tab” key will switch between Exposé windows for only the…

We’re networking!

Hey all, just a quick post to let you know that we’re keeping up to moment with technology and further networking leopardtricks.com to various social networking sites.
Firstly, we’re adding more and more video’s to the site (youtube). You can see them embedded right here on the site, or at www.youtube.com/somethingmac.
We’…

Gradient on mouse-by in Stacks.

I tested that in Leopard (10.5.8) but it should work with Snow Leopard (10.6.x). Please comment telling me whether it does work in 10.6.x.
In Terminal, type the following
defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilte-stack -boolean YES;killall Dock;killall Terminal
Terminal will close, and your Dock will flash. Open a stack, and you now have a gra…

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