It’s Just Poison…

just found out that you can change the look and feel of the dock in OS X 10.5 (Leopard). Here’s what it looks like out of the box:

I do like it, but I’m also a little attached to this “other” version:

Just nice to know that you have an option =)

To change the doc to the other version, open up Terminal (Applications > Utilities) and type in these commands:

To change it back to the shelf one, just change the YES to NO:

‘killall Dock’ resets the dock.

If you’re doing a clean install from Tiger to Leopard on OS X, obviously make a backup of your current system. There’s a gotcha though. Your Address Book and iCal data have to be backed up separately! For address book, open up the app and then do an Export of all the data. For iCal, DO NOT BACKUP DATABASE! You have to individually select each category in your iCal and do an EXPORT of them to an ICS file one at a time.

Found this out the hard way… thankfully I had another mac to import my old data and export it for me. For some reason, iCal and Address Book in Leopard don’t read / can’t import the Tiger files.

Welp, I’ve upgraded my laptop / main computer to OS X 10.5 Leopard, and I must say that it’s a great improvement. Lots of fun new toys and features. I have to give it to the apple design team. They’re amazing. Also, check out the size of the image:

;o)

As I find new things that I like about it, I may post them here. Could be OS X overload though.