Geek Posted August 19, 2011 Posted August 19, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/lion-tweaks.jpg" alt="Lion Tweaks" title="lion-tweaks" width="620" height="398" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20025" /></p> <p>Tired of tweaking <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">OS X Lion</a> on your own with all the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/defaults-write/">defaults write commands</a>? Don’t want to manually <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/23/change-ical-leather-interface-back-to-aluminum-in-os-x-lion/">change iCals leather look back to aluminum</a>? What about older tips like turning the Dock into 2D? Lion Tweaks to the rescue! </p> <p>This little free app is an extremely easy GUI front-end to a ton of the customizations and tips that we’ve covered here on OSXDaily before, but since they can be activated from a central location at the click of a button, it’s very simple for even the most novice of users to change the way OS X Lion looks.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ifredrik.com/applications/LionTweaks.zip">You can download LionTweaks right now for free</a> (direct download link) or <a href="http://ifredrik.com/applications/">visit the developers website</a>, it’s freeware but the dev is asking for donations.</p> <p>Looking at what Lion Tweaks does is almost like reviewing our tip archives, with <strong>all of the tips below directly within the app</strong> and ready to use at the click of a yes/no button: <span id="more-20024"></span></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/22/access-user-library-folder-in-os-x-lion/">Showing and hiding the User Library folder</a></li> <li><a href="http://osxdaily.com/2007/12/24/change-the-105-leopard-dock-from-3d-to-2d/">Enable the 2D Dock</a> – from 10.5</li> <li><a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/25/disable-the-new-window-animation-in-mac-os-x-lion/">Remove the new window animation in Lion</a></li> <li><a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/27/disable-mail-animations-in-mac-os-x-lion/">Disable Mail animations</a></li> <li><a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/28/turn-off-auto-correct-in-mac-os-x-lion/">Disable spelling autocorrect</a></li> <li><a href="http://osxdaily.com/2009/09/30/enable-hidden-stacks-list-view/">Enable Stack list view</a> – from 10.6</li> <li><a href="http://osxdaily.com/2008/01/07/highlight-stack-items-on-hover/">Highlight Stack items on mouseover</a> – from 10.5</li> <li><a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/23/change-ical-leather-interface-back-to-aluminum-in-os-x-lion/">Change iCals leather to aluminum</a> – changes the image files for you</li> <li><a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/04/enable-key-repeat-mac-os-x-lion/">Enable repeating keys</a></li> <li><a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/03/show-scroll-bars-mac-os-x-lion/">Always show scroll bars</a></li> <li><a href="http://osxdaily.com/2009/02/25/show-hidden-files-in-os-x/">Show hidden files in Mac OS X</a> – since the dawn of OS X</li> <li><a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/02/15/disable-the-crash-reporter-dialog-in-mac-os-x/">Disable Crash Reporter dialog popup</a></li> <li>Change AddressBook to aluminum – great one if you don’t like the book-look</li> <li><a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/01/turn-off-resume-per-app-in-mac-os-x-lion/">Disable resume on a per app basis</a></li> <li>Enable FTP server – FTP server was pulled out of Lion but existed in Sharing prior to 10.7</li> <li><a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/03/change-launchpad-folder-background-image-mac-os-x-lion/">Customize Launchpad Folder background image</a></li> </ul> <p>Yes, some of the tips pre-date OS X 10.7 but who cares?</p> <p>If you like customizing your Mac, grab Lion Tweaks, it’s a great little app and having all of those tips in a single place is hard to beat. 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