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Have you ever to get rid of Dashboard, because you think it's annoying? Or is Spotlight a waste of disk space? Using DisableTigerFeatures, it's easy to get rid of those features! Having second thoughts? You can easily turn them back on, as well!
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PPC, Mac OS X 10.4 or later, administrator access. Mac OS X 10.4.1 is highly recommended.
PPC, Mac OS X 10.4 or later, administrator access. Mac OS X 10.4.1 is highly recommended.
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| Downloads:13,356 |
| Version Downloads:7,440 |
| Type:Utilities : AppleScript |
| License:Free |
| Date:19 Dec 2005 |
| Platform:PPC 32 / OS X |
| Price:Free |
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Have you ever to get rid of Dashboard, because you think it's annoying? Or is Spotlight a waste of disk space? Using DisableTigerFeatures, it's easy to get rid of those features! Having second thoughts? You can easily turn them back on, as well!
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grumpytico reviewed on 05 Nov 2006
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1. Widgets don't take up any space on your screen unless you choose. A little black circle on your dock is all that exists, unless you desire otherwise.
2. Spotlight can be very useful and, if you don't want to use it don't. What's a little blue circle on you menu bar hurt?
Tampering with system software is what gets most of us in to trouble, especially when updating to the latest Apple versions of their software or security upgrades.
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As far as finding a program stupid because YOU do find any use for it - no comment.
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Whereas, EasyFind (for all it's limitations) has never missed yet.
I'd get rid of the blue dot simply because space on my 12" iBook's menubar is precious, only essential items are allowed there.
However, I do take your point about dicking around with OS items, especially when updates come thick and fast.
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http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/17111
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(My email is invaderblue AT gmail DOT com)
Anonymous reviewed on 01 Nov 2005
anyone have a working link for this?
http://download.excite.it/lista.php?id=146&p=3
(in italian but easy to guess where to click)
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Sorry about the delay, I'm just waiting until MacUpdate re-associates me with this program.
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Anonymous reviewed on 08 Jul 2005
Anonymous reviewed on 15 Jun 2005
Other features of Tiger that I like: the new Mail.app's smart folders, savable searches, automator, RSS in Safari.
Being able to disable some features is a good thing. It helps with debugging and system tuning and performance.
Dashboard appears to be another attempt at Sherlock -- ad placement, like cigarettes in movies. Marketers and advertising agencies are slimy no matter who they work for.
The 2nd law of business states -- maximize and smooth cash flows. This is called "building share holder value" = pumping share price. Enron forever!
The only thing I can do is skip a release: going from 10.4x to 10.6x.
When are the Apple folks going to run out of names of big cats? I think that Chimera would be a good one for 10.5
I don't need or want the Dashboard (or Konfabulator for that matter), and while Spotlight is nifty, it's hardly a reason to upgrade from the most solid and stable OS Apple has released since 2001. But extended hardware support...well, that's a horse of a differen colour.
Anonymous reviewed on 14 Jun 2005
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The author added the feature that deletes the /etc/hostconfig file.. if you use this, you -might- have this file deleted from your system without a new one placed in! when you reboot, you may not have any way to mount your hard drive!!
This happened to me, and I had to create my /etc/hostconfig from scratch. I've emailed the author about this.
I recommend you backup your hostconfig file before using 1.01, and be prepared to copy it back in single user mode (this will restore boot function if this happens to you.).
Before everyone overreacts, bear in mind that some of the other utils (like Applejack) had growing pains too. I hope InvaderBlue can debug this..
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If you use Version 1.01, you -might- want to open a terminal and type the following command:
sudo chmod 744 /etc/hostconfig
then all is well. For the technically inclined, after running DTF 1.01, this is what you'd see in /etc:
THORIN:/etc leoofborg$ ls -la | grep host
---x--x--x 1 root wheel 247 May 24 07:50 hostconfig
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 247 May 24 07:49 hostconfig.bak
Note that root and wheel don't have read permission to the file. Ooops. config files are not executed, they are -read- as far as I know.
The point is that the hostconfig should have the same permissions as hostconfig.bak (the copy I made before running DTF 1.01). Running the chmod command should fix this.