Lion Tweaks is a freeware utility from Fredrik Wiker. Version 2 added support for Mountain Lion and Gatekeeper. The idea is to put back some of the features that were discontinued with Lion.
Features that you can turn on are:
- Show the user Library folder
- Enable the 2D-Dock
- Remove system Window animation
- Remove Mail Window animation
- Remove Reading List icon in Safari
- Disable Spelling Correction
- Get a new Stack (Dock) List View
- Highlight Stack items on mouseover
- Change iCal Leather to Aluminium
- Disable local Time Machine Backup
- Enable color in the Finder-sidebar (Lion only) and comes with warning
- Enable TRIM-support in Lion
- Hide Spotlight-search
- Enable repeating keys
- Enable permanent scrollbars
- Show hidden files
- Disable the Crash Dialog Popup
- Change Addressbook Leather to Aluminum
- Diable resume for a single app
- Enable the hidden FTP-server
- Customize Launchpad folder background
- Enable Airdrop on old hardware
- Enable iTunes Dock animation
- Enable iCal debug-member
There is a button to Reset all to system defaults. Additionally the Default Settings are marked with a bold front. While the download is free, the author, Fredrik Wiker does ask for a $3 donation.
You can download the app here: http://ifredrik.com/applications/
I can see why some and perhaps even most of these can be useful at times, but there are a few that I am not sure about ever wanting to use.
