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TinkerTool is free so there’s no downside here. For example one could use Dark Mode but exempt the Finder and System Preferences.Ĭontrol save dialogues, screenshots and animations Control TimeMachine dialogues and whether to save docs on iCloud Exempt some system apps from Dark Mode

control font smoothing (important for non-Retina screens).

customise fonts for applications and font sizes for the system.

not prefer iCloud for saving documents (yes really it’s a default, I don’t use iCloud so I don’t run into this).

stop TimeMachine for asking to create backups on every drive you insert.

deactivate Dashboard (if it’s always popping up and getting in your way).

set Help window free to not sit on top in the foreground.

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Personally I find the small open/save dialogues almost useless so I’m happy to have a way to get the normal full size open/save dialogue by default.

set OS X to offer expanded open/save dialogues by default.

It’s less of an issue now on the current powerful graphic cards and processors but OS level animations used to steal a lot of GPU memory for no purpose and slow down basic operations.

disable animations in the Dock and Finder.

TinkerTool provides a consistent place to toggle What’s new to me is that in open and save dialogues one can see hidden files with Command-Shift. It’s also possible to write an automator script and make a contextual menu item to toggle hidden files.

show and hide hidden files (there’s lots of utilities to do this and the command line works nicely as well: defaults write AppleShowAllFiles -bool YES but also requires manually restarting finder.

What are the kind of things one can do with TinkerTool?

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For Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, use TinkerTool 4.For OS X 10.9 Mavericks, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, and OS X 10.11 El Capitan, use TinkerTool 5.For macOS 10.12 Sierra and macOS 10.13 High Sierra, use TinkerTool 6.For macOS 10.14 Mojave and macOS 10.15 Catalina, use TinkerTool 7.The program with the standard name TinkerTool is always designed to be compatible with the latest official version of Apple’s operating systems.

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You must download the version which matches your OS: TinkerTool as it directly works with system preferences is OS specific.

Many of the comments at MacUpdate suggest that TinkerTool is not compatible with their OS. I’ve used TinkerTool and TinkerTool System without adverse incident for over ten years. The other customisation utilities are mostly fly-by-night or built by marketers not engineers. In TinkerTool System it’s easier to break the OS but you’ll be warned several times before you do so. I recommend Bresink’s utilities over anything else as Bresink is dedicated just to these system level tweaking and is very careful to make sure the customisations he includes won’t break your OS. It’s companion TinkerTool System allows a user to easily perform advanced maintenance and is always an inexpensive purchase between €5 and €9. You can count on Marcel Bresink and his team to find and safely share ways to tweak and customize OS X. TinkerTool offers a consistent interface to tweak OS X hidden preferences for over a decade now across a dozen OS X versions. Almost all of them are rendered redundant by Marcel Bresink’s functionalist TinkerTool and TinkerTool System. There’s a proliferation of Mac OS X system and maintenance customisation utilities. Tinker Tool is free, so my best recommendation is to just download it and try it for yourself.People are obsessed with the latest and greatest and design tricks these days.

I also like the fact that Tinker Tool is its own application that I can get straight from the developer, without submitting to The Tyranny Of The App Store™, which takes version control and configurability away from the user.an intrusive abomination that stomps the Mac's traditional freedom of user choice into the dirt. I suspect most users don't need that feature, but when you do need it, it's mighty handy.

It's handy to be able to toggle visibility on hidden files.

One of the features I use most is 'Show hidden and system files' under Finder options in the Finder tab. I'm not afraid of using CLI, but I'd much rather use the graphical user interface (GUI), which is really what the Mac was supposed to be all about. Tinker Tool does just what it says it enables the user to access and tweak various under-the-hood features of OS X, many of which you'd have to otherwise control using the command line interface (CLI) in Terminal.app.

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