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How To: Change Mac Icons

Nothing says “Hands off! This is MY Mac” like a highly customized desktop. http://www.pixelgirlpresents.com/icons.php?page=4&cat=mac http://interfacelift.com/icons-mac/ Once you’ve chosen a Icon Set (or six,) unpack them to a folder on the desktop. Right click then Get Info on the new Icon. At the top will be a picture of the Icon, highlight this then use to [...]

How To: Fix Desktop Switching

One of the bugs introduced in Leopard is pretty small, but significant to those of us who highly enjoy our Apple Experience. If Aperture is installed, users are no longer able to change which folder pictures are pulled out of for Desktop Switching. Adding a new folder will show a second, inaccessible “Aperture” folder. Various [...]

5 Things I hate about Leopard

1.) Software update takes over the entire machine. While this isn’t that big of a deal, a large update on a slow connection could render the machine useless for several hours while it downloads the files. You could also manually pull down the update and run it. But one of my favorite tricks was to [...]