Tips n Tricks for Mac OS X

As my hard drive has failed, I was able to eventually read the whole thing with dd, but I'm not too sure what I'm not going to do with that image unless I can get an 80GB drive to dd it back onto.
I'm now going to be doing a lot of things to get a clean install of OS X up and usable, and as I come across handy hints, I'll be posting them.



First cab off the rank (after actually installing OS X and applying all Software Updates) is disabling the Dashboard.
This is pretty easy to do, and easy to undo as well. It saves me from accidentally activating the dashboard and then having all the widgets unnecessarily use up valuable RAM.
To disable dashboard:

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
killall Dock

To undo it, simply type:

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO
killall Dock

Easy!