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Enable debug menus in Address Book and DVD Player Apps
Open the Terminal and type:
defaults write com.apple.AddressBook ABShowDebugMenu -bool true
This will show a new Debug menu in the Address Book application with some options for enabling and printing logs. Also type:
defaults write com.apple.DVDPlayer EnableDebugging -bool true
To enable some new features in the DVD Player. After executing the command, launch DVD Player and look at the Window menu. There are now new options for showing the Inspector and the Performance Monitor.

[robg adds: Two new hidden feature hacks in one hint! I couldn't get the DVD Inspector window to appear, but the Performance Monitor definitely works. To disable either feature, just change true to false in the above commands.]
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Enable debug menus in Address Book and DVD Player
Authored by: smitty078 on Sep 23, '09 08:14:02PM
Those of us with case-sensitive file systems beware! The actual commands to use are
defaults write com.apple.AddressBook ABShowDebugMenu -bool true
defaults write com.apple.DVDPlayer EnableDebugging -bool true

Note the change of case in bold.

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Enable debug menus in Address Book and DVD Player
Authored by: robg on Sep 23, '09 09:13:20PM

Hint has been corrected - thanks.

-rob.



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