LeopardMOD: End-User Mods for Leopard

We’ve covered Leopard modifications and mods many times before, (culminating in the Ultimate Leopard Customization Guide) but LeopardMOD is worth posting about, even almost 3 months after Leopard’s release.

For those of you who haven’t seen it before, LepardMOD is basically a preference pane for those “hidden features” in Leopard. LeopardMOD is the ultimate leopard customization app.

It does everything that the smaller apps do, only all together and in one place. It doesn’t just change the dock from 3D to 2D, it also does other common and not-so common modifications to the Finder, Dashboard, Menu Bar, and more. Here’s what LeopardMOD does:

Finder:
Enable/Disable list view stripes
Enable/Disable full path names in Finder

Dock:
Choice of 2D or 3D dock
Add a cool “stack rollover” effect to grid stacks
Drag empty spacers to the dock to better organize applications

Dashboard:
Enable/Disable Dashboard
Enable/Disable Dashboard “sticky mode” to remove dashboard widgets from the confines of the dashboard

Safari:
Enable/Disable Page Inspector
Enable/Disable Debug Menu
Enable/Disable Pie Chart loader (as opposed to regular loading bar)

Menu Bar:
There are three choices for the Menu Bar: The default Leopard translucent look, a high-contrast solid “White” look, and a slightly darker but much easier on the eyes gray look.

Expose:
Adds an option to add a blue blob in the top right corner of the screen that, when clicked, activates Expose

The list isn’t extremely long, certainly not when compared to the full-fledged preference panes like TinkerTool and Cocktail, but LeopardMOD is great because if focuses on simple end-user customizations generally having to do with new features in Leopard. For me, it has been the best customization tool I’ve seen so far, and the developer seems responsive to suggestions for new customizations. You can download LeopardMOD over at MacUpdate for free.