hacking into osx...

This is probably old for most people...but im new to it so here it goes...


Im really interested in hacking into osx. I found out about http://www.missingmanuals.com that deals with doing this sort of stuff. I went there to look for Tinker Tool. I got it. So now Im suppose to be able to make my doc background transparent right? Well I cant find that option anywhere with tiner tool. Where is it at? If it does have that option. I really want to do this without unix code..root user. If there is no other way other than enabling root ...then how does one do it succesfully ..step by step...with root?

Also... One is suppose to be able to change up the apperance of the dock backround to whatever picture you like ...by booting up in os9...bringing up photoshop...>file->open system->library->coreservices->dock.app->contents->resources.... then go to the folder of mac osx and open ....then you bring up...middle.pdf in photoshop and manipulating it there.

however when i try that i cant even get into dock.app....since it is not an 0s9 file or whatever....how the hell am i suppose to do this? i cant do it in osx because it does not allow you to do it for some reason...or is there another way?

im sorry.... how can you make that dock background...simply disappear? i saw the dock this way on the screensavers show on tech tv.

but man im really trying to figure out this dock thing about changing the whole dock background to another image.

this is cool.

SMOOTH!


much thanks beej...to you to irmongoose for trying to help...by the way did you know about this?

wow! you have a lot of icons in your dock...cool!

fully transparent aye!


so you have the new microsoft office huh.... do you like it?

mine...plain...

anybody know anything about using pdf images for the background in the dock?


im trying to do this....but im having trouble.

okay when im doing that pdf changing the background of the dock picture i cant get into ...dock.app!!! It wont allow me it open it in os9. How do I open it. It says that my currnet os version does not allow me to view it or whatever. Must one open this in 9.0 only because im doing this in 9.2?

what gives?

yeah i got tinker tool. the terminal..im not even going to touch unless i get step by step code on how to do soemthing i want.

nah ...i got the transparency thing down. i just need to figure out this pdf picture in the dock thing. dock.app cant be opened in 0s9 for some reason on my puter.