My MacOS X

if you have your desktop wallpaper set to shuffle

between a number of images, and you don’t like the currently-selected picture, you can manually skip it:

• Just type the following into Terminal killall Dock When the Dock restarts, it will change to another desktop picture.
• If you find yourself doing this regularly, you could turn it into a simple Automator application

  tell application "System Events"
  set rotinterval to change interval of current desktop
  set change interval of current desktop to 1
  delay 1
  set change interval of current desktop to rotinterval
  end tell
  

  You can assign this script to a hotkey (using QuickSilver).

tags: desktop, do, dock, wallpaper

While not much of a hint, for those who do not like their minimized windows taking up so much space in the Dock, now you can have them minimize into the dock icon.

• Open the Dock System Preferences panel,
• Check the Minimize windows into application icon option.

Once you do that, minimized windows will disappear into their source application’s Dock icon.

tags: dock, system preferences