Set iCal default alarms well in advance

Learn how to make 10.5 iCal’s default alarms occur well before the event—as in days, not minutes.

How to fix Drop Box permissions issues in 10.5Some users have permissions issues—read-only files—when working with documents placed in their Drop Box folder. Learn how to fix the cause of the problem, and a simple workaround.
Bugs & Fixes: 10.5.5’s font display problemTed Landau reports on a problem that built-in OS X apps like Preview have displaying fonts in some PDFs in Mac OS X 10.5.5.

Set iCal default alarms well in advance
Learn how to make 10.5 iCal’s default alarms occur well before the event—as in days, not minutes.
How to fix Drop Box permissions issues in 10.5
Some users have permissions issues—read-only files—when working with documents placed in their Drop Box folder. Learn how to fix the cause of the problem, and a simple workaround.
Bugs & Fixes: 10.5.5’s font display problem
Ted Landau reports on a problem that built-in OS X apps like Preview have displaying fonts in some PDFs in Mac OS X 10.5.5.
Recover from a misplaced Character Palette window
Learn a couple of ways to force the Character Palette window back to its normal position -- this can be a problem if you occasionally use your laptop Mac with an external monitor, for instance.
Document switching shortcuts
Care to quickly move through open document windows? If you haven't learned these shortcuts by now, it's high time you did.

A market opportunity for Apple Remote Desktop
Apple's Remote Desktop 3 is a powerful, feature-rich program that’s only sold for use with 10 or more Macs. But where does that leave a home enthusiast with a network of three to five Macs?
Will Apple ever fully liberalize Mac OS X virtualization?
While you can run Windows on Intel-based Apple hardware, Apple has only grudgingly allowed Mac OS X to run on virtual machines.
Quickly reset a Finder view to defaults
Learn a simple way to reset a folder in 10.5’s Finder to its default settings.
How sound is Consumer Reports’ Safari advice?
Safari, the most popular OS X web browser, lacks anti-phishing tools. So should you dump it in favor of a browser that includes such tools? Consumer Reports thinks so.
Inside the OS X 10.5.4 update
A quick peek at some of the other things fixed—and not fixed—in the 10.5.4 update.

SoundSource 2.0
This simple utility adds a menu-bar item that lists all available Input, Output, and System audio options.
Name Mangler 2.0
If you’ve got a bunch of files that need renaming, Name Mangler is a great tool to use.
Warp 1.1
Warp 1.1 is a free system utility for Leopard. It adds more functionality to Spaces.
TimeMachineEditor 1.3
If you’ve ever wanted to change Time Machine’s schedule, Time Software's TimeMachineEditor lets you do just that. You can tweak the interval so that Time Machine backs up every, say, four hours, or you can choose to have Time Machine back up once a day, once a week, or once a month.
SuperDocker 2.2.0
If you don’t like Leopard’s 3-D dock, SuperDocker offers a number of variations that you can implement with a few mouse clicks.