I’m sure there are quite a few Mac users who like the 3D Dock in Leopard but can’t stand the glowing dot indicating application that is running. I’m also sure that quite a few users would love to see the return of the black triangle indicator to the Dock.

It’s possible, and in fact [...]

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There is a simple way of changing the login screen in OS X (10.5 only), just replace the DefaultDesktop.jpg in /System/Library/CoreServices Thanks to FHKE for the tip.

I just changed mine to the one used as Time Machine background and it looks awesome. You can download the Time Machine background image here.

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There are a few ways of using built-in Dictionary in Mac OS X
You can simply open the Dictionary from Applications folder and key in your search criteria:

When in Cocoa applications, such as Safari or Mail (but not Firefox, Camino, Thunderbird), you can hold Ctrl+Cmnd+D on your

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Some users have experienced the blue screen of death while installing Mac OS X Leopard. Installation goes fine until your Mac reboots, but then you are stuck with the blue screen, with your mouse pointer being the only thing working.
A cold restart doesn’t help either, you come back to the blue screen again. [...]

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If you don’t like the new 3D look of the Mac OS X Dock in Leopard there is always a way to change it to 2D. If you move your Dock to the side of your screen, the Dock will change to 2D but while on the bottom of the screen - it’s still 3D.

One [...]

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Unfortunately Finder has no option to show hidden files. But if you open the Terminal and ask your computer nicely - it will display the hidden files. This is how you do it.
Open ~/Applications/Utilities/Terminal and type the following:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool true
and press return. Then restart the Finder by either typing
killall Finder
and pressing [...]

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