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Boost Your Mac's Capabilities
Mac Pilot lets you access and change hundreds of hidden OS X options to tune your Mac’s behavior and appearance. With over 225 tweaks available, the app provides straightforward controls to enable or disable features across the system and individual apps, helping you tailor your Mac to your workflow.
Areas You Can Tweak
- Lock and change visibility of specific files and folders
- Manage energy and power-related settings
- Inspect and configure mounted volume attributes
- Enable apps to launch automatically at login
- Modify Spotlight search behavior and indexing options
- Adjust Photo Booth and other media-related settings
- Customize Finder behavior and other system UI elements
How It Works and Best Practices
Enabling a tweak is usually as simple as checking a box. Each option includes a short description so you understand what the change does before applying it. Because it’s easy to toggle many options in quick succession, keep an eye on what you change — it’s possible to lose track of modifications if you don’t take care.
The app records actions in an internal log, so you can review the exact changes you’ve made and revert if necessary. If you think a useful tweak is missing, you can send suggestions to the developer, Koingosw.
Use the tool deliberately: when used responsibly, Mac Pilot helps optimize performance and behavior; used carelessly, it can cause unexpected results.
Release Notes
- Resolved an issue so Safari 5 can now be set to use custom site icon behavior
- Fixed a problem that triggered unnecessary admin authorization requests
- Removed iCal event duration option for Mac OS X 10.7 to match Apple’s removal of that capability
- Corrected several typographical errors throughout the interface
- Applied miscellaneous compatibility fixes for Lion
- Manual (man) pages now load reliably
- New capability: select multiple items at once in the lock/visibility utilities
Technical
- Mac
- Free
