Now that those extra system panes have been installed, here's how I have iBook Swan set up.



Change that pesky blue aqua crap into something good. Currently, I have Gir, which you can find in its original boot image form at ResExcellence. The image is Centered and, because it is a transparent PDF, changing the background colour shows around its edges. I make no use of the automatic change picture facility.

I like mine stuck on the right, Option-Dragged to use icons 32x32 pixels, magnification switched off. Minimising using the Scale Effect makes everything faster, the dock is not hidden and opening applications bounce their little hearts out.

Double blueness continues the Aqua tradition. Scroll arrows are placed at top and bottom and click in the scroll bar jumps to next page. Ten recent applications and ten recent documents in the Apple menu. Standard font smoothing, turned off for fonts size 8 and below.

I speak English and only English. I like leading zeros for my Short Dates, but not for the Long. Said Long Dates are in the format Weekday, Day Month, Year, whilst Short Dates are in the format Year.Month.Day, the Separator is a period, the century is shown. A 24-Hour clock, again with the leading zero and a period as the separator. U.K. Numbers and only one keyboard layout, British; I have no need for a little flag in my menu bar.

Cornerfix, iKey, Keyboard Maestro Engine, SpeechSynthesisServer. LiteSwitch X and uControlHelper are added to my Login Items, since I need them running all of the time.

My name is Caleb Newcastle and I am Gir again.

With my iBook going to sleep when I close it, I rarely use a screen saver. When I do, it's Flurry, base configuration. However, if you want to use some of the pictures from the other built in screen savers, as desktop images maybe, the JPEGs are all located in the /System/Library/Screen Savers/ directory. Show the Package Contents of one of the .slideSaver files, open Contents and then Resources. Copy the JPEGs elsewhere and enjoy.



Not having a CD-RW drive, if a blank CD or DVD were ever to be inserted into iBook Swan, it would ask what to do. Music CDs evoke iTunes, picture CDs are ignored, and DVDs, surprisingly enough, make DVD Player start up.

Nothing changed from base.

1024x768, millions of colours, a cute menu extra, and the sRGB Profile.

iBook Swan's battery is completely dead, and so, since it has to be plugged in all of the time anyway, I have chosen the Highest Performance settings.

Full Keyboard Access is turned on, for Any Control, and pressing Control-A brings up the menu bar, Control-D the dock.

The Tracking Speed is set to Fast and the trackpad behaves as a locked dragging button, ignored whilst I type but not when another mouse is present. Double-Click Speed is set at 6/7.

The Alert Sound is Funk, and, though user interface sound effects are played, there is no audible feedback when the volume keys are pressed. Volume is shown in the menu bar.



Microsoft Entourage is my Default Email Reader, Internet Explorer my Default Web Browser. http://127.0.0.1/ is my Home Page, and all files are downloaded to ~/Downloads.

A location for each different ISP that I use, only the Internal Modem is On. A dial tone is heard when connecting and modem status is shown in the menu bar.

Nothing special with regards these settings, but, if you don't want to pony up the cash for the 'Pro' version, here's something rather cunning you can do with the application itself. When QuickTime is usually opened, it reminds you that Apple want your money for the aforementioned Pro version. To stop this pestering you for the next twenty years, simply close the application, change the year on your Mac to 2019 (Blade Runner? Aye.) in the Date & Time Preference Pane and then open QuickTime again. Click Later on that annoying popup and quit QuickTime. Change the year back to the present and, from now on, QuickTime will behave like a proper application, not some stupid nagware. Yay.

I enter the Computer Name as iBook Swan, since that's what I call it. The Rendezvous name is megasad, so that http://megasad.local/ leads to my locally served website. Speaking of which, Personal Web Sharing is turned on, the appropriate FireWall too, all the better to develop my websites.



Caleb Newcastle AKA megasad, the Admin, and also an Emergency account, also with administrator powers. You can't automatically log in to iBook Swan, you need to fill in the name and password fields correctly. The Restart and Shut Down buttons are dimmed and no password hint is shown, even if you get it wrong three times.

Classic doesn't start on login since I don't have it installed in the first place. I am warned if it wants to start however.

My time zone is currently BST and the menu bar clock, a 24-hour clock, is viewed as text, the time displayed with seconds, nothing else. Every so often I set the time using time.euro.apple.com.

Only when I want it to does this check for new software from Apple.

Pressing F10 speaks the currently selected text. Said text is spoken in the voice of good ol' Victoria.

This pane is used less and less often. Set to Mac OS X, 10.2.6 on iBook, obviously.

Zoom is turned on, the screen is flashed whenever an alert sound occurs and access is Enabled for assistive devices. Otherwise most all of these settings are turned off.



Tells me what FruitMenu is doing to what, that Full Screen Safari is installed also.

Both the Apple and Contextual Menus are enabled. Application Menus do not appear as icons, Submenus are listed in the standard font, and In-Menu Picture Previews are disabled. A "Clear Menu" option is present at the bottom of the Recent Items submenus, Animated Menu Fadeouts are disabled and you can't Click and Hold the Mouse to Access Contextual Menu in the Finder. There are no File/Folder Icons in the Menu and FruitMenu Items Scan 1 Level Deep. The only excluded applications are those in the list by default and all Contextual Menu Modules are Loaded Early in Application Startup.

Launched automatically at start up, no icon is displayed in the menu bar.

Option-Tab switches between open applications, windows are handled as Mac OS X says they should be. The switcher does not fade out after use, switching sends a re-open event, application names are hidden and hidden applications are greyed out.

No rectangle effect when opening files, the Finder can be Quit, there can be only two label lines. Transparent icons are used for hidden applications.

Loaded at startup, Enter is converted into Option.