Crosswalks to Nowhere

Note: Mac geekiness to follow...

This month's MacAddict has a nice tip for turning the dashboard on and off in Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). This is useful if you find things running slowly due to memory issues, like I did on my iBook. I'm putting it here because I know I'll misplace the magazine at some point.

Turning off Dashboard
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Open a terminal window and enter this:

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES

and then enter:

killall Dock

Turning on Dashboard
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defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO

and then enter:

killall Dock

Enjoy.