Blacktree Software has released Secrets 1.0.6, a Snow Leopard-compatible version of their preference pane which exposes hidden features on your Mac. Secrets provides handy checkboxes to turn these features on and off, and doubles as a menu of secret settings. If you've ever read a Mac tip that starts, "Open a Terminal window and type 'defaults write...'", it's highly likely that you can save yourself that effort with this preference pane.
A "Top Secrets" entry shows a list of popular options, but many more options for various applications can be selected from the application sidebar. A few caveats before you go too nuts with the Secrets features: many of the features in Mac OS X that aren't official remain "secret" because they're not entirely debugged. Clicking on any of the listed features will show you a short description of what it does in the bottom of the window; click on the More Info button for a detailed description. You can expect to see some odd behaviors if you turn some of these on, so don't tick every checkbox at once; try out a change to see if you like it (and can live with any side effects) before you go on to something else. If this is happening with several of your third-party preference panes, you can set System Preferences to stay in 32-bit mode by selecting the System Preferences.app in the Finder, choosing Get Info, and ticking the "Open in 32-bit mode" checkbox.
The Secrets preference pane requires System Preferences to run in 32-bit mode, and will prompt you to relaunch if, as per Snow Leopard default, it's in 64-bit mode when you launch it. All of your Apple 64-bit preference panes will work just fine. Secrets requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later and is a free download. [via TUAW]
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