If you dislike the blue and white stripes on your Finder list view, you can use following line of Terminal command to make the background display plain white.
defaults write com.apple.finder FXListViewStripes -bool FALSE killall Finder
When you want to check the size of a single file, highlighting the file followed by pressing 
I (Get Info) is enough to extract out the file size.
Do you want to use your Finder's toolbar as your additional Dock?
Usually, what will you do when you want to start new search with Google search bar on the top-right corner of your web browser? There are three ways to do that.
This is the least advanced way. However, most of my friends still use this way. First, you open new tab (shortcut : , followed by typing in the url address "www.google.com", filling in the search term and Google will return you the result.
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The advantage of using this way is that you can see Google homepage which in special occasion, the logo is changed.
It's quite surprising that when I open my MacBook today, I saw a globe instead of Apple logo. Anyone knows why?
Ok. Let's talk about Private Browsing of Safari. We all know that with private browsing, whatever we browse won't come out at the History section of our Safari browser. It's quite a nice feature that Safari has.
In Terminal.app, execute the command for number of times you want to create spacer.
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{"tile-type"="spacer-tile";}'
Then restart Dock. execute this command in Terminal.
killall Dock
Spacer can move with drag, can remove by context menu or drag outside. Another alternative, you also can download divider docks from Dock Dividers.
In Tiger, Expose is very essential feature that most of Mac user need. Upgrading to Leopard, you also get the access to more Spaces. To use these great features easily, you could use Hot Corners.
Hot corners help you activate one of those features whenever you move your mouse to the corner of the screen. And you can easily set up your hot corners. How to set up hot corners?
First of all, go inside 
▸ System Preferences... Go to your search box, the one with magnifier at the left, and type in "hot corner" to look for this feature. You will see 2 items highlighted. Choosing either one has the same result.
Preference panes are dynamically loaded plug-ins that provide a graphical user interface to the system’s or an application’s user preferences - Apple
In System Preferences, each icon represents an individual preference pane plug-in which can be used to change or modify the setting for each application.
Most of preference panes contain generally used application. We can also create our own preference panes that will be able to be used by System Preferences or even by your application. The link above contains the details, if you're interested.
Would you mind decreasing your volume a bit please..?
Yeah, of course. Most of the people will just use the volume key on their laptop (F4 or worst, F3). It results in your one block of sound bar disappear.
Playing around with Skype recently drawing out my curiosity to discover more and more of its emoticons.
At first, I think Skype's emoticons are limited only to 72 default emoticons. Who knows that Skype actually has more hidden in depth.
Shown above : 72 Skype default visible emoticons.
Initially, Leopard Finder has 6 pre-defined smart folders on it sidebar. Actually, there are 11 of them provided. How to activate all 11 of them?
First of all, you should spot them first. If you follow these simple steps, spotting them won't be hard :
Show Package Contents
Trackpad plays the most important role on using MacBook, especially when mouse isn't present. How to adjust Trackpad behavior?
Note : It's obvious that reading this article won't be useful for those Macs without trackpad. And, I'm not discussing MacBook Air's smart trackpad here.
It's really easy to find this pane. These simple steps will do.
▸ System Preferences...Keyboard & Mouse under Hardware sectionTrackpad
There is an update for Mac OS X to 10.5.2 which they claim can improve the stability and performance of current version of Mac OS X 10.5.1. together with security update.
Found this video from youtube, very creative idea, cool. Please go to this website to download the pdf to create your very own MacBook Paper! Enjoy!
Probably some of you guys like to use leopard default features, but some of you may want to do some modification to the current look and feel, theme, the way it works, so that we can increase our productivity, fun and also mood. There is one software that can do most of the stuffs as what I have posted earlier here by using some terminal command line. LeopardMod is the name of this software. It has functionality to tweak finder, dock, dashboard, safari, menu bar, and also expose.
