Mac-BiDDET Trips &Ticks

Scared of the terminal or can’t be bothered to remember those commands to customize your system the way you want?

Mac Pilot is your digital savior. Easily enable and disable hidden features in Mac OS X, optimize and repair your system, and perform numerous routine maintenance operati-ons with the click of a button!

Pro user or not, you can now increase computer performance with only a few clicks of the mouse. Optimize your network for broadband connectivity, completely customize Apple File Sharing, perform essential maintenance without having to remember mind boggling acronyms, and much more.

However, those are just a few of the many reasons why Mac Pilot is your choice over Cocktail, TinkerTool and Onyx!

Enable the “cut” option in the Finder, disable menu items for security, disable icon caches, set history limits, erase recently used files, prevent your dock from being modified, turn off all system animations, increase the speed at which windows resize, change which format screenshots are taken in, set a default name and location for screenshots, disable a secondary processor, disable the startup chime, and even change the login window picture!

We welcome you to put Mac Pilot to the test against our competitors. Features, stability and interface say it all - but why don’t you be the judge?

Finder

• Toggle Finder visual effects
• Hide & disable Finder menu items
• Enable the Cut Finder menuitem
• Change the Finder Label Line Count
• Add a Quit menu item to the Finder
• Disable Desktop Icons
• Show invisible files
• Enable slow-motion visual effect mode

Dock

• Toggle the Dock Shadow
• Toggle feature to turn icons for hidden applications transparent
• Lock the size, position, orientation, contents, magnification, and effect of the dock
• Show invisible files in Dock menus
• Add a Quit menu item to the Finder
• Change the orientation, pinning, and effect

Safari

• Forget that Netscape, Mozilla or IE bookmarks were imported
• Show the Safari build number in the window title
• Enable tool-tip mouse overs for links
• Change logging options
• Show the Debug menu
• Disable PDF support
• Change cache & history limits and options

Mail

• Use Plain Text message content by default instead of HTML
• Show invisible control characters in message source
• Change bundle compatibility version
• Enable numerous logging options
• Enable or disable bundles

Disks

• Automatically mount disks without user login
• View detailed disk information such as partition type, free space, boot flags, and more.
• Verify disk permissions
• Repair disk permissions
• Change UPS and Battery disk spindown time
• Enable or disable journaling

Login Window

• Disable console access
• Hide admin, network, and/or local users
• Kiosk mode
• Disable the restart, shutdown, or sleep buttons
• Use text fields instead of user icons
• Show input panel
• Show “Other” users button
• Change the background picture
• Modify the welcome text and size
• Adjust the startup delay after login
• Show admin host information such as host name, system verison, ip address, etc.
• Increase/decrease the count of retries given on a password until the hint is shown

System

• Change the startup mode to Normal, Verbose, Safe or Single
• Specify custom boot arguements
• Change the default umask for file permissions
• Disable the secondary processor (if applicable)
• Show kernel panics on screen
• Disable the startup chime
• Limit RAM available to the system
• Turn power button into Programmer’s Button

Network

• Disable .DS_Store file creation across networks
• View detailed network statistics and setting information for each device
• Change over 10 advanced network settings such as buffer size, RFC compliance, and NewReno.
• Optimize connection for Broadband

Sharing

• Advertise Apple Personal File Sharing on AppleTalk & Bonjour
• Allow SSH tunneling
• Grant admin users root access
• Automatically create home directories for file sharing users
• Enforce quotas on home folders
• Use home directories
• Limit Mac OS X admins to only seeing share points
• Limit Mac OS 9 users to only seeing share points
• Allow root login
• Allow clients to sleep
• Allow admins to masquerade as other users
• Auto restart server after crash
• Notify client if the server is full
• Send login greeting only once to users
• Enable Logging
• Disconnect idle users
• Change the login message
• Change the warning message when disconnected for being idle
• Modify the maximum allowed sleep and idle time
• Adjust log retention based on size and/or age
• Set a maximum connections limit
• Limit number of concurrent threads
• Limit number of allowed guests
• Change the AFS port

Tools

• Update locate database
• Verify preferences integrity
• Update/Rebuild prebinding
• Erase Spotlight index
• Erase unused preferences
• Erase .DS_Store files
• Repair classic permissions
• Erase icon cache
• Update whatis database
• Rebuild Launch Services database
• Lock & Unlock files & folders
• Force empty trash(es)
• Create Symbolic Links
• Force delete files and folders
• Erase recently used file records
• Recreate Mac OS 9 desktop link
• Clear user cache
• Run all, daily, weekly, or monthly cron jobs.

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