Leopard users have been experiencing problems with the "Login Items" system preferences pane, where the preferences pane will appear to be corrupted, with some items not being shown properly. When ...

If you frequently access the same System Preferences pane on your Mac, you can add a shortcut directly to your Dock. Here’s how: If you want to add shortcuts for third-party panes, those are found in ...

System Preferences is easy to use: open it, click here, click there—whoops, not there, over here instead… wait, where is that setting? My point is: System Preferences could be easier to use. And it is ...

The Apple's Developer Connection site has recently posted a large number of new and revised development materials, which reflect changes introduced with Mac OS X v10.1. Highlights include: Inside Mac ...

Here’s how you can use keyboard shortcuts to quickly open preference panes in OS X. 1. Use the Option key in combination with various keys on your Apple keyboard. 2. Here’s a list of preference panes ...

If you want to change the default format and location for screenshots without having to mess around in Terminal, Screenshots Preference Pane 1.0 adds a useful pane for doing just that to OS X’s System ...

We give all of our users admin rights on their Macs. This is a policy that I cannot change, and it's not a policy that I'm against. However, I would like to limit some of the changes that an admin ...

Mac OS X ships with a lot of default system preference panes and I have about 30 of these on my MacBook Air running Mac OS X Lion. There are an extra 11 preference panes that I’ve added by installing ...

Blacktree Software has released Secrets 1.0.6, a Snow Leopard-compatible version of their preference pane which exposes hidden features on your Mac. If you’ve ever read a Mac tip that starts, “Open a ...