Tiger Tips: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

The good: Tiger's built-in firewall includes a new "stealth mode" which makes your computer invisible to the outside world so that it can't even be pinged. To enable it go to System Preferences -> Sharing -> Firewall -> Advanced -> Enable Stealth Mode.

The bad: Virtually everything I download  in Safari – stuffit files, disk images, etc. – prompts me with a warning that it may contain an application and/or a virus and asks me repeatedly if I am positive I want to post-process it. Yes, I'm positive. Now stop bugging me, dammit! Is there really no way to turn that off? Or am I just being dense and blind about where to toggle it? If I disable the post-processing of "safe" files in Safari's general prefs, it will stop warning me. But it also won't expand anything – so instead of being nagged, I have to click a few more times. Neither is a good solution. If the files are "safe," why can't I make it stop prompting me?

The ugly: The Dashboard Widget "well" is way too big when you call it up. I'd rather have it resizable and relocatable like the OS X Dock.