Highlight Stacks
Remember the good old days of Leopard? You’d click on a stack, and a lengthy while later, it would pop-up a list of your documents, apps or what have you, with a nice halo around the hovered item.
Come Snow Leopard, and Apple has fixed many of the endearing waits for the stacks to open/render, but in so doing, they got rid of the highlighted object. You can select items alright, but where’s the highlight?
Worry not, here’s how-to. Open the terminal on your Macs and do the following (after sudo -s).
defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilite-stack -boolean TRUE
killall Dock
And voila, you have a halo.
Leopard – Desktop Wallpaper Location
I have often wondered where Leopard (OSX) stores the stock Wallpapers available in the Desktop Option in System Preferences. A bit of digging led me to the location.
/Volumes/’YourMacHD’/Library/Desktop Pictures/
Where ‘YourMacHD’ is the volume on which OSX is installed. I was rather surprised at first that it wasn’t under the ~ set of folders. But yeah it does make sense, it is after all a systemwide implementation/feature.
