Posts Tagged ‘system-preferences

Do you know how to display the date in your menu bar or how to reorder your Spotlight results? Kirk McElhearn shows you these fundamental System Preferences tweaks and more.

In the Sync pane in MobileMe System Preferences, there is an option named “Show status in menu bar.” This option activates or deactivates the Sync menu extra. When you activate this menu extra, you can sync certain items from the Mac OS X menu bar, monitor sync status, and access advanced features like Sync Diagnostics.

The Desktop & Screen Saver pane of System Preferences may become unresponsive, if the issue described in this article is occurring.

In Mac OS X 10.5.3 or later, the Back to My Mac tab of MobileMe preferences (in System Preferences) includes a visual status indicator.  Back to My Mac’s status is represented by a green, yellow, or red status light (”dot”) next to “Back to My Mac: On” or “Back to My Mac: Off.” This can be a useful tool for diagnosing issues that might occur when connecting to other supported computers via Back to My Mac.

In Mac OS X 10.5.3 or later, the Back to My Mac tab of MobileMe preferences (in System Preferences) includes a visual status indicator.  Back to My Mac’s status is represented by a green, yellow, or red status light (”dot”) next to “Back to My Mac: On” or “Back to My Mac: Off.” This can be a useful tool for diagnosing issues that might occur when connecting to other supported computers via Back to My Mac.

When you type your MobileMe password in the .Mac System Preferences pane in Mac OS X v10.4, it may seem to save it with too many dots or bullets.

If you use iChat with a proxy, and both HTTP and HTTPS proxies are defined in Network preferences (in System Preferences), iChat may always use the HTTPS proxy. Learn how you can use iChat with an HTTP proxy in this advanced article.

Portable Mac computers (introduced before Late 2008 models) have sets of custom and pre-defined energy settings in the Energy Saver System Preferences pane. These settings cannot be changed from the battery status icon on the menu bar after updating to Mac OS X v10.5.6.

Filed under: Leopard , Snow Leopard John Gruber mentioned in a recent post about Apple’s Snow Leopard list of Enhancements and Refinements that one of the small adjustments to Snow Leopard will be that the default gamma on displays will switch from the typical 1.8 value to 2.2, which is what is used on TVs as well as being the long-standing default gamma value in Windows. Gamma affects the visual contrast you see on your screen, and a higher value indicates a higher level of contrast.


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