5 System Preferences Features You Don't Know About

5 System Preferences Features You Don't Know About -

If the various applications Apple built into Mac OS X are the spokes of the big wheel that makes up our computers, then the System Preferences window would have to be the hub that connects them. But how much do you really know about what goes on in that window?

While not every Mac OS X application takes advantage of it, an increasing number of software programs have started calling System Preferences their home. The most notable recent addition to the family is the much-maligned Adobe Flash Player 10.3, which now consolidates its settings into the same place as MobileMe, Time Machine and many others.

But what secrets might lie deep within the walls of the System Preferences window? As it turns out, there are a few -- and we’ll be happy to share them with you right now.

(Via Mac|Life all.)