All Of Snow Leopard's Hidden, Secret Settings Laid Bare

[Shayla]

Screencap formats, secret dock animations, previously unseen menu shortcuts, login screen backgrounds: These are the hidden settings the Apple doesn't want you to see (or just forgot about) and that Secrets, a free, super-simple app, helpfully wrangles into one place.

The hidden tweaks are a mix of features that didn't quite make the final cut or were deemed too slight to deserve their own tick-box, and deep system changes that normally call for terrifying terminal commands. And they don't stop at Snow Leopard: Secrets, which has been around in one form or another for a while now, has collected a huge library of "gray" settings for other apps too, from Apple's various software suites to civilian apps like Skype and NetNewsWire. The app is free, and installs as a PrefPane.

The preference panel (zip)

Secrets link

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Source : Gizmodo

[Elliott]

Secrets is pretty awesome. :D

[KoL Veteran]

That is nice :)

[blachole]

I downloaded this the other day, but haven't gotten too much time to go through all the options this exposes. Some are kind of pointless, but others are life savers.

[Rudy]

I quickly went through the list, I didn't end up changing much (removed the creation of metadata on network shares).

It would be nice if some people would post their favorite tweaks ;)

[Subject Delta]

Kinda like Windows, most of the advanced tweaking is cut for ease of use and stability reasons, but its good that it is getting so easy to tweak all platforms to your heart's content. Mac users have it good though, a tool of that quality would probably cost about $40 for Windows users :laugh:

[Raa]

Very handy!

[Alladaskill17]

So no negative or massive "**** up" settings that could be terrible? I am anxious to try this but am nowhere near capable of goofing off and fixing it on a MAC like I was on PC.

[giga Veteran]

It would be nice if some people would post their favorite tweaks ;)

Focus follow mouse in Terminal: http://secrets.blacktree.com/edit?id=2387

LCD font smoothing preference that was removed in 10.6: http://secrets.blacktree.com/edit?id=2297

Highlight stack items over hover: http://secrets.blacktree.com/edit?id=32761

Aligned my dock to the bottom left (muscle memory): http://secrets.blacktree.com/edit?id=2263

Path in Finder title bar (redundant, but it doesn't hurt): http://secrets.blacktree.com/edit?id=6361

Show size column in Spotlight searches: http://secrets.blacktree.com/edit?id=37777

X-ray folders in Quick Look (useless, but nice eyecandy): http://secrets.blacktree.com/edit?id=36787

iTunes arrow links point to library instead of iTMS: http://secrets.blacktree.com/edit?id=2385

[Xero]

Does this have anything extra? I normally used MacPilot for this kind of stuff. Preference Pane is a nice feature and free too :)

[Inklin]

hmm, This does look interesting and may be of some use when I get my mac mini :)