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changes: 03.08.2011Tips for OS X.5 (Leopard) and X.6 (Snow Leopard):

Some tips here might work for 10.7 Lion, some not.
Please look at the OS X.7 Lion page.


Detailled Howtos and Skripts

iCal: sharing calendars without .me
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How to share your iCal-Calendars with Snow Leopards built-in apache.
(OS X.6)
Time Machine and (multiple) Volumes
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Howtos and Scripts for Time Machine
(OS X.5 / X.6 / X.7)

Customization

Dock: 2D-Dock
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Change the Dock to 2D
(OS X.5 / X.6)
Dock: Add spacer(s)
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To seperate icons in the Dock
(OS X.6)
Dock: effect "suck"
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Change the Minimize-Effect to the hidden "suck"
(OS X.5)
Tastatur-Layout: ² & ³
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Deutsches Tastaturlayout mit Quadrat- und Kubik-Zeichen (² und ³)
(OS X.5 / X.6)
Replacement: Icons
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How to replace system-icons in (Snow) Leopard.
(OS X.5 / X.6)
Replacement: Login Wallpaper
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Change the default wallpaper of the login-screen.
(OS X.5 / X.6)
Terminal: .profile
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Add the TERM-parameter to your profile to use commands like "nano" in your admin-account while logged in as unprivileged user.
Add customized commands and colours to your Terminal.
(OS X.5 / X.6)

Sharing

External drives: using ACLs
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Setting up permissions on external drives (Terminal, ACL)
(OS X.5 / X.6)
External drives: Automount on boot
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Normally external drives are only mounted if a user has logged in and the Finder has started. This plist-entry enables automount on boot.
(OS X.5 / X.6)
Fix external Sambaserver for (Snow) Leopard
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How to fix Leopards ignorance of forced filepermissions on a samba-share.
(OS X.5 / X.6)
Remove resourcefork-files
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How to remove resourcefork-files (._foo.bar) recursive on a non-HFS-volume.
(OS X.5 / X.6)
Samba: manual restart
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How to restart your Samba-Server in terminal.
(OS X.5 / X.6)
Windows-Partition
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How to set ACLs for the Windows-partition.
(OS X.6)

Miscellaneous

Boot-Sequence: 64bit
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Boot your Snow Leopard with 64bit-kernel everytime.
(OS X.6)
Boot-Sequence: Verbose
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Boot your Mac everytime in verbose-mode.
(OS X.5 / X.6)
ScreenSharing.app: Hidden settings
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Terminal-commands for hidden settings in the Screen Sharing App.
(OS X.5)
Sparseimage: Create in terminal
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Create a sparseimage via terminal.
(OS X.5 / X.6)
Sparseimage: repair corrupt
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Trying to repair a damaged encrypted sparseimage.
(OS X.5 / X.6)
Unquarantine files
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How to unquarantine downloaded files.
(OS X.6)
X.5 (Leopard): Hidden settings
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Terminal-commands for hidden settings in Leopard
(OS X.5)