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Six terminal commands to make 10.7 or 10.8 not suck & regain some privacy in OS X

Taken from Bryan Jones' Lion Tweaks.rtf

  1. Disable safe sleep
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
sudo nvram "use-nvramrc?"=false

(Then, delete '/private/var/vm/sleepimage' after a reboot.)

  1. Disable the glass dock
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
killall Dock
  1. Disable local Time Machine backups (only needed for laptops)
sudo tmutil disablelocal
  1. Disable recent items list for Preview
defaults delete com.apple.Preview.LSSharedFileList RecentDocuments
defaults write com.apple.Preview NSRecentDocumentsLimit 0
defaults write com.apple.Preview.LSSharedFileList RecentDocuments -dict-add MaxAmount 0
killall Dock
  1. Disable recent items list for Quicktime
defaults delete com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX.LSSharedFileList RecentDocuments
defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX NSRecentDocumentsLimit 0
defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX.LSSharedFileList RecentDocuments -dict-add MaxAmount 0
killall Dock
  1. Disable automatic app termination
defaults write -g NSDisableAutomaticTermination -bool YES
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