![]() This is again easily enough done via terminal but it’s nice to have a reliable GUI. TinkerTool 2 also allows users to create portable install disks for OS X. There’s a screen to show which of your SSD are using trim. Advanced control over Spotlight is a care feature. Control over cache can be very important to repair system performance. TinkerTool System allows an advanced user some control over colour schemes as well as the ability to flush persistent caches. Thank you Marcel Bresink for making computing on Apple better! Tinker Tool System In case you’re ever not happy with your customisation, there’s even a full reset button which will set all these preferences back to OS X defaults. As Apple continues to lower the bar for the average expected IQ of its users, being able to make the OS behave in an intelligent way with fewer silly animations and more advanced functionality is important. If there’s even one thing on the list above you’d like to be able to customise (and I’ve only listed about a quarter of the features), TinkerTool makes it free and easy to have OS X behave the way you want your OS to behave, not Tim Cook. TinkerTool is free so there’s no downside here. For example one could use Dark Mode but exempt the Finder and System Preferences.Ĭontrol save dialogues, screenshots and animations Control TimeMachine dialogues and whether to save docs on iCloud Exempt some system apps from Dark Mode control font smoothing (important for non-Retina screens).customise fonts for applications and font sizes for the system.not prefer iCloud for saving documents (yes really it’s a default, I don’t use iCloud so I don’t run into this).stop TimeMachine for asking to create backups on every drive you insert.deactivate Dashboard (if it’s always popping up and getting in your way).set Help window free to not sit on top in the foreground.Personally I find the small open/save dialogues almost useless so I’m happy to have a way to get the normal full size open/save dialogue by default. ![]() set OS X to offer expanded open/save dialogues by default.It’s less of an issue now on the current powerful graphic cards and processors but OS level animations used to steal a lot of GPU memory for no purpose and slow down basic operations. disable animations in the Dock and Finder.TinkerTool provides a consistent place to toggle ![]() What’s new to me is that in open and save dialogues one can see hidden files with Command-Shift. It’s also possible to write an automator script and make a contextual menu item to toggle hidden files.
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