Hidden Preferences

Mac Kads 101 here. Today I'm going to be showing you how to use our settings application. Right now, it's just a beta, so there are only four settings, but there are sure to be more settings to come.

First of all, I'm going to have to download our settings application by going into Safari and going to the following web address. I'll put it on the screen, as well as it being in the description. So, if you want to, you can just click the link in the description as I type. So, I'm going to do a cut here.

Okay, so as you see, I've typed in the web address here, and I'm just going to hit enter. It will automatically download this file for me, and I'm just going to click the "View in Finder" button, which looks like a little magnifying glass. It'll come up in Finder looking like settings. I just double-click it, and it'll ask me an error or a warning, asking whether I want to open it. I just open it, and now right here, nothing will seem to happen.

But you have to click, sometimes you have to click the little terminal icon in your dock to make Terminal come to the front and make it the active application. So now at the top here, you see it says "Type Y for yes and N for no in the following" and then hit enter. What that means is, for each of these, type Y or N and then hit enter to set that setting.

So, Dock is 2D. This just makes the dock go out like being a 3D dock, like mine is in Leopard. This only works for Leopard. This 2D thing will make it transparent, so I'm going to say yes.

And use gradient on Stacks; I'm going to say yes. Can quit Finder? That's annoying because with Finder, normally you can't quit it. But if you say yes to this, when you click Finder and you go up to the Finder menu, you can quit Finder like I have right here. The "Quit Finder" button will be right there, and that's sort of like if you quit Finder, all your icons go away and stuff, so that's something you might not want to enable. That's for developing use only, but I'm going to enable it.

Then, widgets onto your desktop—that's very cool! So I'm going to enable all of these. Now all of these are enabled. So now all this setting stuff will come up, and it says "Made cool gradients"; everything it does, all settings complete. Now you can just quit Terminal if you want to.

Right now, I'm going to quit Safari here, and I'm just going to go right to—look at my dock. First of all, I'm going to go into Dashboard, and I'm going to show you what it means by dragging stuff onto your desktop, dragging widgets onto your desktop here. So I just click F12 right here on my widgets like normal, I can just grab one and click on it. While my mouse is down, I press F12, and now it's on my desktop. How cool is that?

You can switch spaces, and it's always there. It goes on top of every window. When you want it back, hold your mouse down on it again and press F12, and it'll go back onto your widgets. Wait, yeah, so that's cool.

Another thing, of course, is the quitting the Finder. Just click there and quit Finder or Apple Q. Now my icons are gone. I just click the little Finder icon on the dock, and they come back. So that's just for future panics.

Another thing is the gradient on Stacks. Right here, you see I have the "Programs" thing; it's a stack that's a bunch of stuff. Now with the gradient, when I move my mouse around, that nice little grey thing moves around with my mouse. Normally, that wouldn't happen. Like if I open settings again, that won't happen if I turn that off.

So that's nice! Those are a few settings, and there will be sure to be more. So every few days, delete it from your downloads and download a new one just with the same link, and that way you're sure to be up to date with all our new cool settings and stuff.

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