Then I stumbled upon a youtube video from a fellow PowerPC enthusiast, which sadly now seems to have been taken down or I'd post a link to it for reference. I thought Apple just locked all of that graphics stuff down tight to keep it away from those pesky end users. Honestly I never knew this tweak was possible in OS X. If I've just deeply insulted Al in Syracuse, who is still in love with his 21inch ViewSonic purchased for $1500 (no, for real) from MacMall back in 1997, I apologize. Lets face it, not many people are sitting in front of CRT's in 2013. I'm no expert, but on LCD monitors I've read the benefits afforded by v-sync are pretty much a non issue. Usually this was achieved by clicking a box deep within the bowels of compiz or editing a metacity preference file in nano. On x86 Linux I got used to doing all kinds of tweaks to get better video performance out of older machines, and one of the main ways was to set the v-sync to blank. Many argue the hit is minimal, and Leopard has so much more software and hardware compatibility that is more than worth it, a sentiment to which I firmly adhere. ââ?¬Å?Open Domain Quicklyââ?¬? window no longer allows you to delete the preferences of a running application, which could lead to that application crashing.This post falls under the heading of "maybe not the single greatest idea in the world, but perhaps not the worst either." As we all know, Apple, in its infinite wisdom put some (ok, lots of) extra eye candy into OS X when it leaped from 10.4 to 10.5, and as a result you and all your loved ones took a graphics hit moving from Tiger to Leopard.Fixed a bug that could lead to a crash when changing the class to a Boolean, Integer, Float, or Date class.Fixed a bug where pasting or dragging a ââ?¬Å?defaults writeââ?¬Â¦Ã¢â?¬? string of either the -array-add or -dict-add type would replace the entire array or dictionary with the new value rather than adding the new value.Fixed a bug where pasting or dragging a ââ?¬Å?defaults writeââ?¬Â¦Ã¢â?¬? string with a boolean type would always default to true.Pref Setter now requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.You can now change a class to a Data type (though you canââ?¬â?¢t change a Data type to another class).Font for the items in the ââ?¬Å?Open Domain Quicklyââ?¬? window is now separately set from the document font.ââ?¬Å?Open Domain Quicklyââ?¬? window now shows icons.Can now display dictionaries and arrays in a preference document in bold.If you copy/drag an item from a non-writable file, the ââ?¬Å?defaults writeââ?¬Â¦Ã¢â?¬? string generated will now have sudo written before it.Changed display of dates to show a formatted date string rather than the raw date.Added the Sparkle framework, for automatic updates.You can now use regular expressions when searching.If a value is too long to be shown entirely while editing, a separate window will now open to allow easier editing.Data items are now editable, in a separate hex editor window.New tool bar item and menu items in the contextual menus for the ââ?¬Å?Open Domain Quicklyââ?¬? window and Find panel which will allow you to launch or quit the application a property list belongs to.Pref Setter now uses the authorization frameworks to enable editing of system level plist files. ![]() And now, you can paste / drag a "defaults write" string into Pref Setter and have it take care of writing that for you. You can paste / drag an XML string (in property list format) onto a document window to create or change a value. Pref Setter also has comprehensive copy & paste / drag & drop support. Preferences are also easily searchable, with the Find panel that will search all your preference files for a term, or search individual plist files for a term with the search bar in the document windows. Pref Setter makes accessing your preferences easy with the "Open Domain Quickly" window, listing your preference files and those in the /Library/Preferences domain. While the emphasis is on editing preferences, Pref Setter is a general plist editor. Very useful for setting those "hidden" preference settings that aren't available directly in an application. ![]() Pref Setter is an application used to edit plist (Property LIST) files, geared towards viewing / editing Mac OS X's preference files.
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