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When an app crashes what you usually really want to do is just reopen the darn thing. The error message tossed out to the user includes that option now. In fact it gets the default button. Unlike many other people I actually like the idea that the whole tool bar (apart from the buttons) in Mail can be used to drag windows around. I also love smart folders in Mail. I have a folder of them called Action and inside are Flagged, Unseen, and Today. Spotlight. But I don't quite have a handle on it yet. Why does it not find things in the Library for example? Ditto for Smart Folders. Perhaps I need to read some more. The Translator Widget. And the Dictionary functionality. In Mail or Safari try command-option-D while hovering over a word. Move your mouse around. Sweet! Safari is faster now, so much so that I've stopped using Firefox. Actually this happened a couple of weeks before Tiger came out with a Safari update. Nice! Snappier, smoother. I find the system more responsive in general and dragging and dropping in Mail, for example, is much smoother. Fantastic. I'm on a 1.5 Gig G4 15" Powerbook by the way. Birthdays. A calendar is automatically generated in iCal (if you turn on the pref) from info in your Address Book. Time for some data entry!
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So to add your favorite font to the Stick... A quick visit to Google Mac helps. There was a very groovy Service which worked wonders on text which I've just realized is missing. macosxhints tipped me off in the first place and that's how I found it again. Malformed link there. Here's what we want: WordService from Devon Technologies. I had a contextual menu item which would appear in the Finder that allowed me to convert any graphic file from one format to another. Also MIA. Here is is. Take Pixture Studio's free QuickImage CM. I first heard about it from Rob Griffith's macosxhints. Interesting . . . the first photo in the ReadMe is of the skyline of Toronto. Stuffit Expander will not boot. I had to reinstall. Download here. No need to enter contact info. There will be more but that's it for this evening. Much cooler than this simple description would imply. . .< 12:10:52 AM  >Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Review Apple, Mac OS X, and Mac users everywhere. Tiger has arrived. Let's see what this baby can do. A major league review of the capabilities of the new OS from Apple. . .< 12:10:26 AM >Build a Dashboard Widget A little HTML, a dash of JavaScript, and a sprinkle of CSS and you can create your own Dashboard widget. Andrew Anderson shows you how. [Via Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: MacDevCenter.com] . .< 12:10:20 AM >iSync Tip I've always gotten a "Device Full" error when trying to sync my Sony Ericsson T637. I don't have that problem solved yet. I gather from reading in Apple Discussions that this may have to do with old To Do items. I don't want to transfer any of my To Do items but there doesn't appear to be an option to opt out of this. And I don't want to delete my old To Do items because I find it useful to search through these from time to time. But I said this was a tip. OK. In an attempt to reduce the amount of data going to my phone I've chosen to select only certain calendars to sync. The problem is that in iSync I can only see the first 4 calendars and there's no scroll bar! How do I deselect the other calendars? On a hunch I moved my mouse over list of calendars and moved the scroll wheel on the mouse. Ta da! |
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