Mac Pilot is an “under the hood” tweaking utility in the style of Onyx, Cocktail and TinkerTool.

It offers users the ability to modify over 110 hidden settings in Finder, the Dock, Safari, Networking and more without the need to wrestle with the Terminal.

The developer outlines some of the reasons why he believes the app is superior to the other options mentioned above:

Enable the “cut” option in the Finder, disable menu items for security, disable icon caches, set history limits, erase recently used files, prevent your dock from being modified, turn off all system animations, increase the speed at which windows resize, change which format screenshots are taken in, set a default name and location for screenshots, disable a secondary processor, the startup chime, and even change the login window picture!

For Apple Mail users, it offers a pane full of extra options. It allows you to set a “Prefer Plain Text” option (which saves you having to do this) but most of the check boxes enable the logging of various events in Mail.app:

Obviously a record of these events is interesting in itself (to me anyway!), but it might also be useful in troubleshooting.

Mac Pilot is shareware (USD 9.95) and a 15-day trial version is available from the developer’s web site.

[Via MacMinute via TUAW]

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Tags: Apple Mail, Mac Pilot, mail.app

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