Applications to Install

Flock – Personal Internet Browser.

Mozilla FireFox 2 (beta) – Internet Browser, version 2 has some enhancements for OS X.

Transmission – Very light bit torrent program.

Google Notifier – Gmail and Google Calendar Notifier for the Mac.

Adium X – Great Multi-protocol Chat Client.

Pacifist – Great for opening resources from applications.

Manually Change Screen Resolution

You will need to locate the file: /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

Copy it to your desktop.

Open it with TextEdit…it should look like this:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC “-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN” “http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd”>
<plist version=”1.0″>
<dict>
    <key>Kernel</key>
    <string>mach_kernel</string>
    <key>Kernel Flags</key>
    <string>-v</string>
    <key>Boot Graphics</key>
    <string>Yes</string>
    <key>Timeout</key>
    <string>10</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Add above Boot Graphics:

<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1280×1024x32</string>

Then put the file back into the folder…reboot.

No More Mouse Tearing – Mac OS x86 10.4.6

Ok, the first thing is the advanced patches and configurations AFTER install….

Since I have pretty bad mouse tearing on my ATI X300, I’m going to try JaS’s ATI fixer…

Instructions(from insanelymac forum):

download the archive

unzip the file
open terminal
do the following
sudo -s
enter your password
rm -r /System/Library/Extensions/ATI*
cp -r /Users/YOUR USER NAME HERE/Desktop/Ati/build/Debug/Ati.kext /System/Library/Extensions/
chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/Ati.kext
kextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions/
then you’re done!!!
reboot system