Wednesday, February 13, 2002

For a month or so everything was hunky with OS X. But for the last few days I've been in hell. The machine hangs. I can't bring up a terminal. Even the three-finger salute that brings up the force quit dialog doesn't work. I can only restart. [Doc] 10:40:28 PM

On April 23rd, a few short weeks before the release of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, Hasbro will debut their all new Star Wars Saga line with new figures... [Rebelscum] 10:39:47 PM

I'm worried about overworking the programmers, when do we bring in the new partner, how do we align things to make the most money, and what should we concentrate on selling... [Eric Norlin] 10:39:16 PM

BROWSE - Opera is cool. Version 6.0 of Opera for Windows introduces Hotclick, which lets you double-click on any word to get information from Lycos' dictionary, encyclopedia or language translator. 10:37:35 PM

Here's how the Windows Messenger virus works (as far as I can tell): When you click the link, a blank web page comes up, which mines all the buddy list information, sends it to another web page, which sends them to a hotmail account and also sends the same virus IMs to all these buddies. These Web sites are shutdown and the hotmail account is now closed. [Scobleizer] 10:37:29 PM

Renaming with the desktop toolbar. When I sit down to sort through content for upcoming issues, I often use my desktop as a temporary staging area. Before too long, I have 50+ icons arranged in an area (having a resolution of 1600x1200 helps). Outlook messages, Internet shortcuts, text files - all mixed together. Yesterday, I hit a problem. I wanted to drag and drop an Outlook message from the mail client onto the desktop, but it had the same file name as something already sitting there. Oops. I canceled the copy. Instead of manually sorting through all of those desktop objects to rename just one, I used my desktop toolbar (add it to your taskbar by right-clicking an open area, selecting Toolbars | Desktop. Now, push it to one side of your taskbar. Click the double-arrows, right-click on a listed object, select the "Sort by Name" option, locate the file in question, right-click it, then select "Rename." Likewise, I could have placed all of those items into a separate folder and sorted them by a different parameter. But I didn't want to do that; the desktop toolbar was already there. 10:37:14 PM

Photopoint Users. There seems to have been some activity from Photopoint, the short message they're now displaying is to assure people that their photos are still safe but due to bandwidth, hardware and labor costs they can not be... 10:37:05 PM