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Book Reviews

Tuesday, April 22, 2003

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iTerm - a terminal with tabbed windows: "iTerm is a terminal replacement program that supports multiple tabbed windows within one primary window [...] Using tabs, you can quickly jump from one task to the next (and there's a keyboard shortcut to making cycling both directions quick and easy). The tabs themselves also provide information on the status of each terminal window -- the two red tabs in the screenshot indicate that the particular window has new information for me to see or act on; the active tab is highlighted in blue." [macosxhints]

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Opening Safari tabs even more quickly: "If you have a three-button mouse or two-button with scroll wheel button [...], the scroll wheel works but the button has typically been useless. Not anymore. Click the scroll wheel button over a link and the link opens in a new tab. Excellent." [macosxhints]

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Mail.app's address history: "In today's Macintouch Reader Report, someone asks how to reset Mail.app's auto completion addresses. That can be done easily with Mail.app's address history window." [MacMegasite]

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Book Review: A History of Modern Computing, Second Edition: "[This book] is not a nail-biting page turner, but it offers a lot of interesting, well-researched information for those curious about the historical aspects of computers." [Linux Journal]

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Next Mac OS X Puts User At The Center: '[...] sources said Panther will finally mark the debut of the much-discussed "piles" GUI design concept, which Apple patented in June 2001. According to the patent, piles comprise collections of documents represented graphically in stacks. Users can browse the "piled" documents dynamically by pointing at them with the cursor; the filing system can then divide a pile into subpiles based on each document's content. At the user's request, the filing system can automatically file away documents into existing piles with similar content.' (eWeek via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]