Hide Desktop Items With an AppleScript

Very quickly hide desktop items and bring them back with a command.

Terminal Commands to Kill Trojan in Pirate iWork Copies

Mac Rumors: If you’re into the iWork ‘09 for free thing, be careful.

Terminal Command: Show More Recent Places in Save Dialogs

OS X Hints: A terminal command to show more places in save dialogs. There’s some speculation in the post that the trick can work on a per application basis, but I haven’t tried.

Set some missing iTunes 8 preferences

Macworld with some useful terminal commands to customize the new iTunes 8. Remove genre when browsing, disable iTunes store links, play songs while converting or importing and load complete previews of songs before playing networked tracks. If you’re missing these preferences in the new iTunes, this article will set you up.

Set Help Viewer windows to non-floating mode

This tip on Mac OS X Hints gives you the Terminal command to revert Help Viewer’s behavior back to Tiger behavior. Personally I can’t stand how Leopard’s Help Viewer floats on top of all windows (probably a good thing for new users, though). Great tip.