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I frequently download Web pages as plain text files to read later or file for future research. However, when these files are double-clicked on the Desktop, they open in the browser they were saved from -- usually not the best for reading plain, unformatted text. What I usually do is drag the document to Tex-Edit Plus, whiich will open almost anything, and is my mail text-crunching app. Then there are downloaded graphics files and screenshots, which usually open when double-clicked in OS X Preview or QuickTime Picture Viewer, which are fine for a quick look, but not what you want for editing or file conversions. With Mac OS X, file-application binding has changed. If you have older files generated in previous versions of the Mac OS, or files downloaded from the Internet, you'll often find that double-clicking on a file doesn't open the right application for your needs. There are frequently other reasons why you might want to open a document in an application other than the one it was created in. There are a variety of ways to do this, but one of the slickest is Zingg! Zingg! is a contextual menu for the Mac OS X Finder. Install it, control-click (or right-click if you have 2 mouse buttons) on any file in the Finder and you will be presented with a submenu containing all recognized applications that can open that particular file’s extension or type. Just select the application you want from the list, and the file will open in it. If you select several items, the list will show all applications that can open any of the selected items. 
To install Zingg!, run the Zingg! Installer from the disk image. It will install the contextual menu plugin into one of your “Contextual Menu Items” folders. That process is very fast. The documentation doesn't mention it as a requirement, but I found that I had to log out and log back in again in order to activate the contextual submenu. The default preferences configuration, works fine for me so far, but you can tune Zingg! to fit your needs, such as controlling the way Classic applications are inserted in the submenu, and several other criteria. 
The big scrolling list in the middle shows all applications that are presently recognized, with four columns. The first column in each row shows an icon that shows if it’s a Native or Classic application. The second column is a checkbox. Leave it alone and that application will appear in the submenu only if it claims the particular type or extension for the Finder item. Click once on the checkbox, and it will be marked to indicate that that application should always appear in the submenu — this is particularly useful for applications that can operate on any files or folders, like DropStuff or Resorcerer. At any later time, you can just select “Configure Zingg!...” from the contextual menu and change your preferences. This thing works. It's cool. New in Version 1.1
• Zingg! now resolves symbolic links prior to checking for duplicate entries in the application list. If you have moved or duplicated your Applications folder using symbolic links, only one copy of each application will show up.
System requirements:
Zingg! is freeware. The developer Rainer Brockerhoff, suggests that "Apple, please make Zingg! obsolete by incorporating it into the Finder." Great idea.
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Upgrading my WallStreet PB 233 to Mac OS X? Nisus Email for OS X Preferences Mystery Solved Las week I was complaining that I couldn't get the Preferences dialog in Nisus Email 1.6 for OS X to come up. It Preferences selection in the Nisus Email menu stubbornly remained grayed out. 
However, my friend Chris Long has solved the mystery. Chris writes:
"I stumbled on to the answer for this one since writing last: for some reason I can't fathom, Nisus has put TWO prefs menus (!?) in their email app -- looking in the standard location (under the leftmost pulldown) shows prefs grayed out. if you look under EDIT you'll see another (?!) WORKING Prefs menu. go figure." 
Thanks, Chris 
Upgrading my WallStreet PB 233 to Mac OS X? From Joe Cabrera (Fwd from John Farr) Hi John. All this talk lately of OS X and WallStreet PBs got me thinking: should I upgrade my wonderful WallStreet PowerBook 233 to Mac OS X? It's got a 14.1" screen and the Level II cache, 17gB hard drive, and 256mb RAM.
regards,
OS X should work on your WallStreet, but it won't be very fast. You have a pretty big hard drive, but if you want to use OS X on your WallStreet, you will have to back up your data and then partition the drive with the topmost partition of 8GB or less.rw Azrul Kevin Abdullah, a reader and Mac columnist in Malaysia, says: "I used a Wallstreet for ages (the same 233 model) and recently installed 10.1 on it with no glitches. I sold it off to a fellow journalist after replacing the 2GB drive with a 10GB one. Well, X does behave in a rather sluggish fashion on the old Wallstreet.... I've moved back to using 9.2.2 after a month on OS X. The lack of driver support and some other annoying glitches made me sick of it.... I would give it a miss on the Wallstreet since it's way too slow for comfort. Charles
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