Secrets: Another Way to Manage Secret Prefs in your Mac
From the makers of Quicksilver, the indispensible launcher for Mac OS X, comes Secrets. This preference pane add-on allows you to tweak hundreds of hidden or “secret” preferences on your Mac to make it work even better for you. Although we’ve mentioned many other apps that can do similar things, such as MacPilot and LeopardMOD, Secrets is a fresh take on the best way to customize your Mac.
The true usefulness of Secrets really shows through when you go to look through the catalogue of possible tweaks and changes. Similar to the way in which Quicksilver downloads plug-ins and other add-ons, Secrets connects to Blacktree’s server and checks to see if there are any new secrets for you to mess around with. It will then download them and automatically add them to the list.
Also very handy (and missing from some of the other similar apps I mentioned earlier) is that Secrets will look through your Applications folder and see what other third-party Applications you have downloaded. It will then search for secrets that pertain to those particular apps and tailor the list of secrets to fit the applications on your machine.
nother nice part of Secrets is that you, the regular user, can submit Secrets to be added to the database. Blacktree seems to be very open to suggestions and hints for new secrets and you can also let them know if something isn’t working properly.
Overall, Secrets is very useful and is very close to replacing one of the other apps “tweaks” apps. However, there is one issue with the current iteration of Secrets: to apply the secrets, you have to kill the process (ie “killall Dock” to get Dock changes to appear) or restart. Hopefully in the near future the folks over at Blacktree can work this out so that there is a button that will “Apply All Changes.” Other than this somewhat minor criticism, this Pref Pane seems to be very useful and is very close to being a big success. It should be noted that Secrets is only for OS X Leopard (10.5).
The Secrets Pref Pane is free and available from Blacktree. You can download it here.
I wish there could be more descriptions about some of those hints, because it’s sometimes hard to figure out what they do.
Other than that, thanks for pointing that out. Brilliant little thing.
I heard about this on MacBreakWeekly sounds cool
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