Enable Tiger “Classic” Style Dock In Leopard and Snow Leopard

Posted on September 26, 2010 by Thomas Maurer

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean NO; killall DockIf you like the old or classic Dock Style from Mac OS X 10.4 you can enable this in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and in Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).

Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Dock:

Mac OS X 10.6 (Leopard) Dock:

Open Mac OS X Terminal in the Utilities folder
Run the following command in the Terminal
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock
Now you have the classic Dock activated

If you want to activate the new glass Dock again, you can use the following command:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean NO; killall Dock

How to use Adium on every Mac OS X Space

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Thomas Maurer

Since Mac OS X Leopard I use Spaces a lot. In the System Preferences, Expose & Spaces you can configure Spaces. You can also configure Applications to use everytime the same Space. So for example my iCal always opens on Space 3, Tweetie always on Space 1 and so on. This is nothing new but it is pretty usefull to arrange your workspace like that.

I also use Adium a lot so, often I copy past something form Safari, Evernote, Mail or another program to the Adium Message Window. But with Spaces I always had to drag the Adium Message Window to the Space of the Application or the other way round. But there is a pretty cool setting in Spaces. You can set an Application be on “Every Space”. So I set Adium to “Every Space” and I don’t have to move the Adium Message Window or a Application.

I know this is nothing new, but I just didn’t know about this function.

Snow Leopard

Posted on August 29, 2009 by Thomas Maurer

Mac OS X Snow Leopard

I just upgraded all my mac at home and at work… everything runs just fine, and without any problem during the upgrade from Mac OS X Leopard to Snow Leopard. I really love the performance of snow leopard, just everything looks faster than in leopard. I really hope VMware gets Fusion running under Snow Leopard with the 64-bit kernel (btw. Fusion runs fine with the 32bit kernel.

You can boot your mac os x snow leopard with the 64bit kernel, by holding down the key “6″ and “4″.

VMware Fusion: wouldn’t it be great…

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Thomas Maurer

As a Windows System Administrator who works on Macs, Virtualization is a really esencial thing. I love to work with VMware Fusion and his Unity Mode, and I of course some other great features Fusion provides. So I had some thoughts about the next version of VMware Fusion.

Wouldn’t it be great if…

there would be an iPhone App to start and shut down VM’s and maybe some other small things like watching the performance… (really interessting feature if you use VMware Fusion for Server Virtualization)

Something like an Advanced View for some administrator features…

One of the Advanced things could be a monitoring for the performace of the virtual maschines

SNMP and SMTP features for monitoring maybe also something for the iPhone App and the Push notificationservice of Apple.

better performace, especially if you run more than one VM at the same time and of course the overall performace of Fusion.

visual effects, I really loved the turn around effect in Fusion 1 or was it paralles 3?

V2P and P2V, creat a Bootcamp Partition out of a VM and back with some simple clicks

Support for Microsoft VHD Files, maybe not best performance but working…

Templates, creat templates for diffrend Operating Systems, so you can setup a new VM really fast

Screen-Capture Tool for creating documentations

OpenGL Support

A powersafe mode for VM’s on a notebook

Mounting virtual disks in OS X

cloning VM’s (not just copy past)

up to 8 processors per VM (Mac Pro’s and Xserve)

creating virtual networks, closed from the real networks, for test environments

Change Settings on a running virtual machine, and take these settings after reboot

OpenCL, CUDA, ATI Stream Support (Snow Leopard)

OpenCL, CUDA, ATI Stream could be great for Import VM’s

Don’t get me wrong, I really love the easy and simple view of VMware Fusion, but I would love to see more advanced features.