Some of these you will notice aren't just things that are in the Terminal window but are actually things you can access in System Preferences but they are also here. You can also completely deactivate Dashboard here if you don't want to use that as well. If you need to access eject pretty often and you don't like moving over to the keyboard to do it there is an easy way to do it right there.
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If you are using a Mac that has an optical drive here is an option to add an eject button to the menu bar. So you can see that I have that one turned on. But this will turn it on by default so the first time you use it it is expanded. You can have the simplified Save options or expanded ones. So here under General settings there is some useful things but one I like is to turn on the expanded Save dialogs when using new applications.
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So it kind of gives me a nice visual indicator of what I have hidden here or what may actually just not have any windows open at the time. I'm going to use Command H to hide it and now you can see in the Dock it is hidden.
If I bring it to the front it is a normal icon. Down here in the Dock now you can see that TextEdit is semi-transparent there. So I've just turned on Use transparent icons for hidden applications and I've relaunched the Dock. You don't necessarily want to use all these but there are a few that are useful. A lot of these are just kind of cosmetic things. I do that and I relaunch the Dock and now I go down to the Dock and it looks like this instead. If you go down to my Dock you can see it looks normal now. It is not a very useful one but I am going to turn on Disable three-dimensional glass effect. So for instance I can go to another set here, I can go to the Dock set here and there are different things that I can do but I have to Relaunch Dock as well. For instance I can change something here and I won't see the change until I relaunch the Finder and usually there is a button there that makes it easy to do that. Now note that in a lot of cases you need to relaunch whatever it is you are effecting. You click on a tab, like Finder here, and you can see all the different things that you can change. So when you run TinkerTool you get a huge set here of different tabs at the top different categories of settings. So it doesn't really do anything you couldn't do without TinkerTool it just makes it easier to find and change these settings.
Instead of having to type this line in Terminal you can just check a box in TinkerTool. Well, all TinkerTool is, is it's easy access to these. Type this long line and it changes how your Mac works, changes some sort of setting. You know how every once in a while you see how you can change something in your Mac by typing in a long line in the Terminal window. This is going to give you the power to change how your Mac works and it can be very dangerous if you don't know what you are doing. Now I can only recommend using TinkerTool if you are an advanced Mac user. Put that in your Application/Utilities folder and then you can run it.
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TinkerTool is a utility that you download online, here is the URL to it, and you go to the download area, click the download button here, and it will give you a disk image. On today's episode let's look at customizing your Mac using TinkerTool. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with MacMost Now. Check out MacMost Now 827: Using TinkerTool To Customize Your Mac at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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