Buy Mac OS X Leopard: Beyond the Manual
If you’d like to change the dock when located at the bottom of the screen to resemble the dock when it’s at either side you may by running the following commands in the Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
killall Dock
If you like the style of the dock at the bottom, but want to tweak it’s background or the separator, you can find some hints here for that as well.
With Leopard releasing on Friday, over the weekend many reviews have been popping up. By far the most complete that I’ve seen thus far (and one which I tend to agree wholeheartedly with) is the Ars Technica review. The Ars review is 17 pages (though pages are a sort of unprecise way of measuring things on the web) and really digs down to comment on the underlying system improvements and developer tools (the sort of thing We’ve come to expect from Ars really). Ars, seems to be the first to catch the new “no-glass” look of the dock when positioned on the sides (which wasn’t present (or obvious anyway) in any of the developers releases).
Of course there are other reviews out there as well. The Macworld review is decent if you are more less interested in the inner workings of Leopard (though it misses even some user centric stuff that Ars catches).
Glad to see both reviews rightfully think Stacks stink.
Well, I’ve installed the GM of Leopard, and it looks a lot like the last pre release build, however there are a number of differences…
…and that’s all I can see at first glance. I haven’t really been doing to much digging since I’ve had a fairly busy weekend, plus when I install new release versions of OS’s I tend to wipe out the the old and start from scratch, which may or may not really do much, but after a few days of getting my system back up to normal I feel better about it (a bit of OCD on my part perhaps).
Now that’s the product is out I guess it’s safe to say, I think the Stacks feature blows. In Tiger when I put a folder on the dock I could navigate through subdirectories from the Dock, but Stacks replaces that most useful ability with some questionable eye-candy. Too bad… kind of a big ugly mark across an otherwise wonderful upgrade.
Welcome to the beyondmac blog. I originally was going to host this domain on .Mac with iWeb, but as cool as iWeb is, the blogging feature is a bit unwieldily, so I moved it over here.
The obvious thing you may notice is that the look at the moment isn’t nearly as slick as a iWeb Theme. It’s something I’m working on. I’ve managed to layout a basic theme for WordPress but the art still needs some work, and at the moment I’m doing most of my work on a temporary test drive running Leopard and all my nice graphic tools are on different drive. Soon this will situation will change and I’ll work at improving everything (especially the banner at the top… bleach!).