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Ultra-customize your Mac

If you like tweaking your Mac, you absolutely MUST check out this application: http://blacktree-secrets.googlecode.com/files/Secrets_1.0b10.zip. It's called "secrets" and it gives you access to a ton of customization parameters that aren't normally available on your Mac. When you install it, it shows up as a new entry in your System Preferences pane called secrets.

The secret customizations are organized by application, and here's a screen shot so you can see all of the applications that you can get extra customization parameters for:

secret customization panel for the Mac secret customization panel for the Mac

If you are using a Mac, get this now. But make sure you have some free time. There are so many things you can tweak that you can easily spend an hour playing around with this.
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Rating: 100% positive, 6 total Votes
Categories: Mac customization
Added: on Feb 27, 2008 at 8:22 am
Added By: an anonymous user

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