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  Favorite Desktop Tweeks TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> - 2013-08-02 23:05 -0500
    Re: Favorite Desktop Tweeks Erik <spam@this.com> - 2013-08-02 23:01 -0700
    Re: Favorite Desktop Tweeks Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-08-03 01:03 -0700
    Re: Favorite Desktop Tweeks Howard.not@home.com (Howard) - 2013-08-06 20:27 +0100

#15 — Favorite Desktop Tweeks

I'm curious as to what "desktop tweeks" others are using. Here are mine….

Docker - which allows one to choose from a number of menu appearances 
in case you are not, as I am, particularly happy with Apple's default.

Menu Eclipse 2 - which allows the menu bar to be hidden when not in 
use, something I find pleasing as the continuously visible, to me, 
conflicts with my desktop background.

MenuEverywhere - which allows you to bring up the menu without you 
having to go up to the top of the screen, particularly useful with 
large screens.

MouseLocaterAgent - which helps you to locate the mouse, again quite 
useful when one has a very large display.

So, I'd be interested in what others might find as part of their daily 
computing experience.
-- 
James Leo Ryan - Austin, Texas

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#16

In article <b63dsnF3oirU1@mid.individual.net>,
 TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> wrote:

> I'm curious as to what "desktop tweeks" others are using. Here are mine….
> 
> Docker - which allows one to choose from a number of menu appearances 
> in case you are not, as I am, particularly happy with Apple's default.
> 
> Menu Eclipse 2 - which allows the menu bar to be hidden when not in 
> use, something I find pleasing as the continuously visible, to me, 
> conflicts with my desktop background.
> 
> MenuEverywhere - which allows you to bring up the menu without you 
> having to go up to the top of the screen, particularly useful with 
> large screens.
> 
> MouseLocaterAgent - which helps you to locate the mouse, again quite 
> useful when one has a very large display.
> 
> So, I'd be interested in what others might find as part of their daily 
> computing experience.


One big one for me was the simple act of disabling the caps lock key:

In the keyboard prefs, click the 'Modifier Keys' button, and change the 
Caps Lock pull down menu to 'No Action'. Of course it can be reactivated 
just as easily, but couldn't imagine anyone ever actually doing so.

The free 'Tinker Tool' app offers a host of interesting tweaks as well.

http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html

Erik

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In article <b63dsnF3oirU1@mid.individual.net>,
 TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> wrote:

> I'm curious as to what "desktop tweeks" others are using. Here are mineŠ.
> 
> Docker - which allows one to choose from a number of menu appearances 
> in case you are not, as I am, particularly happy with Apple's default.
> 
> Menu Eclipse 2 - which allows the menu bar to be hidden when not in 
> use, something I find pleasing as the continuously visible, to me, 
> conflicts with my desktop background.
> 
> MenuEverywhere - which allows you to bring up the menu without you 
> having to go up to the top of the screen, particularly useful with 
> large screens.
> 
> MouseLocaterAgent - which helps you to locate the mouse, again quite 
> useful when one has a very large display.
> 
> So, I'd be interested in what others might find as part of their daily 
> computing experience.

I use the Dock for things I use daily--Mail, Chrome, BusyCal, BBEdit, 
Interarchie, Cuppa Timer, a Twitter client, iTunes.  I use Hyperdock to 
display transparent windows over the dock icons.

I start up XRG and Surplus Meter on login to show performance metrics 
and track my bandwidth.  Still haven't come close to my 250GB/month cap.

I use BOINC Manager to for a screen saver and contribute to 3 
distributed compute projects.

I startup Dropbox, Google Drive, a replacement for Quickey, a clipboard 
manager, a Hyperspaces replacement and I replaced the date/time display 
with iClock Pro because it was the only clock/calendar that integrated 
with Google Calendar.

I display CPU, HD space, and most importantly network bandwidth in a 
history bar in the menu.  I use Little Snitch to track connections.

I use DragThing to give me a retractible side pallet of folders, 
documents, and applications that I use almost weekly.  I use Classic 
Menu to emulate the Apple Menu from OS 9 where I put applications and 
documents I don't access as often.

-- 
DeeDee, don't press that button!  DeeDee!  NO!  Dee...
[I filter all Goggle Groups posts, so any reply may be automatically ignored]

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TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> wrote:

> I'm curious as to what "desktop tweeks" others are using. Here are mine….

M favourite is "PresenterMate".

It disappears ALL of the icons on the desktop and allows me to see my
beautiful desktop images.

It sits in the top menubar and I can reinstate them all with a click.

-- 
Howard

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