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Book Reviews

Wednesday, January 15, 2003

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Where We'll Go in 2003: "Almost everyone likes to make predictions. After looking into my crystal ball, this is what I see happening in 2003 -- or at least what I'd like to see happen. As the Chinese curse says, I expect that we'll find 2003 "interesting" regardless of the final outcome. For starters, this will be the year that we see Microsoft go into decline." [osOpinion]

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Setting folder view for spring loaded folders: "You can also do this by just command-double clicking on the folder to be set. It will open in a new window, and you can then set its view options. In addition to the view type, you can control the size of the window." [Mac OS X Hints]

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Directly access Safari bookmarks via keyboard: "You can open the bookmarks in the bookmarks bar by simply hitting Command-1, Command-2 etc. It will not work with bookmarks in a folder just single links." [Mac OS X Hints]

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Safari -- First Thoughts:

It's quite fast. The pages load much more quickly than with any other browser I've tried, period.
The user interface is elegant, as you'd expect from Apple.
In particular, the "go back to the beginning" button is fabulous. When you get deep into a site you sometimes want to get back to where you started rather than following the brower's bread crumbs.

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Now That Apple Has Started, It Had Better Finish The Safari: "If Apple's goal is to make Mac OS X the ultimate destination for both beginning as well as high end users who want to use the Mac as a digital hub then they need to think beyond the obvious first steps." (Mac Net Journal via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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Double your iBooks monitor space (via Raelity Bytes):

Monitor spanning in iBooks. The late-model dual-USB iBooks have the technical capacity to do "monitor spanning" -- plugging in an external display and showing different windows on each screen -- but they ship with the feature disabled. Not coincidentally, the higher-end Titanium laptops have this feature and use it as a selling-point. Anyway, a little judicious hackery-pokery will turn it on in your icebook, and "Hello, monitor-spanning!"

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Mac OS X Is Slow, But Safari Makes A Big Difference: "Safari has the best bookmarking system I?ve seen. This browser is a keeper." (Pionner Press via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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Is Microsoft Losing Control?: "A few well-aimed chinks in the armor that may, over time, begin to spread big time." (Mac Night Olw via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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Drawer Thumbnail Tabs in Safari: "Check out this great idea I found about how Safari should implement a "tab" system. That's just genius. I might use it then :-D. Tabs take up less space, but that thumbnail thing is totally Apple." [n3rd.net]

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c|net: Safari highlights Mozilla questions: "Mozilla project is facing new questions about quality after Apple's release of Safari browser based on rival open-source code--the KHTML rendering engine that is the core of Konqueror, an open-source file manager and Web browser for the KDE. The article notes a recent email from Safari's engineering manager touts the KHTML engine choice over Mozilla's Gecko engine and notes the release of WebCore and JavaScriptCore (also used in Sherlock) to the open-source community." [The Macintosh News Network]

X11 for Mac OS X Frequently Asked Questions -- Comment()
If you are using the X11 package recently provided by Apple, you should check the document X11 for Mac OS X Frequently Asked Questions. This contains a lot of useful tips and tricks.