samedi 17 mai 2003

OS X: minimiser sur place, restored. Hat off! Another beaut'. Another developer to add to my growing bookmarks of fine ones. A pity I already posted a temporary new desktop overnight, otherwise I'd bother with a screenshot or two. You can find Minimize in Place restored to the Jag by Loopware. Free if you want. It's compatible, after some minimal fiddling with prefs, with Transparent Dock ($8 I forked out to Free Range Mac long back) and with the phenomenal (free) TinkerTool. Tested and approved. And yet MiP is not at VersionTracker. Should OS Xers still not be with me, the Loopware people explain: "Minimize in place is a feature that was created at the early stages of Jaguar (Mac OS 10.2) in which windows could be minimized as floating smaller versions of the window then being dropped into the dock at the bottom or the sides of the screen (depending where you put your dock). Anyways, originally it seems (from sources around the net) that the original purpose of minimize in place was just for testing out badges (a new feature in Jaguar which places the original Apps icon in the corner of a minimized window). It was never intended to hit the retail version of Jaguar and was taken out after 6C48." So they put it back before Apple does. I found this in the latest AVosMac !. They say it's "indispensable"; I'll settle for darned useful. 12:21:55 PM  link   your views? [] Time for a change of scene With 'Matrix' in sight all over (apart from among Brits who must wait another week), today's most irritating spotted blognote was: "I have just seen 'Matrix Reloaded'. It wasn't as good as the first one." That was it. Thank you. It might be an equally bad idea to read Sean at Blogcritics (again). He does warn: "spoilers", which I avoided. But ... I learned that there's this book which looks like my kind of thing, maybe yours? We are going to win the lottery today! I know it. While waiting it was high time for a new desktop. And it's too long since I stopped by chez Markus Begann (some fabulous work) This month's 'Création numérique', meanwhile, partly ignores the 'Matrix' ... with a great story on Sylvain Despretz. Take a gander at this fellow's astounding track record. And work (Flash). The article begins: "He doesn't want to give his age. 'Age is a projection screen on which you put some a priori. Life is more simple when people disassociate age from the work done." There's some sense! 'Création numérique'? These people (in French, becoming part of my "required reading." Along with P I X E L - part of a broader portal site.) Know of others? 12:54:53 AM  link   your views? []

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