Set Hidden Preferences In System Preferences AP101

Hey guys, this is Mac Head001. This is going to be a video on our new system preference pane. Now, um, you probably know about System Preferences; it's just the settings program on the Mac. And, um, when you don't have any other preferences installed or anything, it just looks like this: with Personal, Hardware, Internet, Network, and System. Those are all the preferences there.

But you might also know that there are more preferences you can't normally set in System Preferences that you can access through Mac Heads and one's Preferences application. I'll just demonstrate this to you by opening our Preferences application. It's um, pretty nice, but um, some of you wanted to be able to set those settings through System Preferences, and you think you should be able to.

So, my kids are going to sign their own System Preferences thing that lets you set them. First, you want to download, in the description of this video, ap101.zip. When it archives, it will look like this, um, and then you just open it up and click install for all users or for this user only. I'll just install for this user only, and now right here, you just saw it came under Other. AP101 is now installed, and here is the preference pane itself.

Now, basically, what can you do with this, you might ask? Um, well, you can make your dock 2D. It just makes it a nice 2D feel—cool gradients on stacks. When you have a stack with a bunch of files on it, but not too many, it will put this little square behind where you move your mouse, right here, so you can see it's this little box.

Um, Finder is quittable. This means that when you click Finder and you go to Finder, there's a quit button. I'll just click the Finder icon on my dock. Then, um, hidden apps transparent in the dock; this is just so that way you say I hide sets of preferences. Now it's semi-transparent in my dock.

And drag widgets onto desktop; this means that, um, you're able to drag widgets onto your desktop. Like right here, say I want to take this widget and drag it onto my desktop, or maybe this widget since back I don't want—made it. I'll just click this widget and press whatever key I have set up to open. Um, in my case, it's F4, and then I let go, and now it's here.

So now I can hold down on it again with my mouse and press F4 and then let go, and it's back up here. So, you can also turn all these things off with these buttons.

Okay, so I've set all that up! So, you can also set the dock zoom. Right now, my dock's zoom is zero; no zoom comes out. But if I click 100, that's, um, a pretty standard zoom right here. You'll notice in System Preferences you can make your dock zoom pretty big.

You might be wondering what's so great about our application if this application can do it. Well, our, um, preference pane is great because not only can I make it this big, but if you make it 500, it's this big! It's a lot bigger. Even 250 is just exactly, um, in the middle—still bigger than what you can set in System Preferences.

You can also disable dock zoom so that it's zero like it had it before by clicking reset dock zoom to one pixel. That basically makes your dock zoom absolutely nothing. Let me also show you, um, we have this little "About" thing, but um, basically, this is it! This is our entire system preference thing we should, soon, and I'm not saying we might, will, but we might be coming out with the System Preference thing for Mac Heads on the one that will have the news, the About, the picture—just another simpler way to get my kids into one.

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