Link: macosxhints.com – 10.5: Install a number of bundled screen savers

Whole bunches ‘a screensavers. Sounds like a bunch of wasted time, coming right up. :)

Link: 10.5: Get locate to index the Time Machine drive

I’m a big fan of locate, even in this day and age of Spotlight; it’s a super-fast way to find things in Terminal (with the downside that it needs updates to remain current, as it’s a static index of file names). By default in…

Link: 10.5: Use Quick Look from the command line

For all you Leopard users out there, here’s a handy tip on how to use Quick Look from the command line.
Leopard ships with a command called qlmanage. The -p option shows a preview of the file passed to the command. In the ter…

Link: TUAW Tutorial: Custom Stack Drawer icons

Filed under: Features, How-tos, Mods

Many folks commented on our recent post about adding those gorgeous drawer icons to your Stacks. As great as the originals are, however, a lot of you also wanted to know how to customize them. Fortunately, the original author was kind enough to make the blank drawer PNG available, so in this little tutorial I’ll show you how to make your own customized drawer icons using nothing more than Preview. Obviously you can get much…

Link: Proper Gmail IMAP for iPhone and Apple Mail

Much more complete setup instructions than Google’s own. By mapping Apple Mail’s special folders (Drafts, Trash, Spam) to Gmail’s built-in special folders, the “right thing” just happens. E.g., all of your sent mail goes into the same Sent Mail mailbox, whether you sent it from Mail on your Mac, MobileMail on your iPhone, or Gmail’s web interface.

Link: 10.5: Create multi-page PDFs from images in Preview

The new Leopard Preview has some great features, including editing and rearranging pages in a PDF file. However, what you might not know is that you can take some number of images and create a single PDF out of those images. …