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Animated Folder icons
From Peter A. Gøthgen Hi Charles, I stumbled across this by accident. Drag a file over a folder in icon view. Right before it pops open, the icon will change from a closed to an open folder. hence the animation. Just one of tons of little touches that have been added to Jaguar. Peter Andreas Gøthgen From Gene Steinberg Under Jaguar, it's PDF.
Peace,
Thanks Gene. I wonder if that DropJPEG will convert PDFs to JPEGs.
Charles Animated Folder Icons/Jaguar Screenshots From Jonathan Tyzack Hi Charles,
From Pixel
As you can see on the Apple X web site, there is mention of 'Animated Folder Icons' with Jagaur, there IS NO SUCH THING, nothing in HELP, nothing on apples help sites, and applecare knows nothing about them... And the apple rep at the launch event 'never heard of them'...
Also, you might wish to hear that the screenshot format has changed to .pdf in 10.2. Currently Tinkertool can't change this setting which is a real pain. However, the screenshot options are greatly improved:
Command-shift-3 = full screen capture
If you press control as well, the screenshot is captured to the clipboard for pasting (which diminishes the groan-worthiness of the default .pdf format a little). Snapz Pro does a lot more still, but this makes the in-built system much more useful. Overall, my initial impressions of Jaguar are that it is the little things like this that make it a good experience. I personally haven't really noticed any huge gains in speed (400MHz G3 indigo iMacDV), possibly because I had a nice chunk (640MB) of RAM already. It is slightly faster, but after a few days of use I can't really say that it is noticeable anymore (then again, I didn't really have any major problems with the speed of 10.1.5...). iDisk *is• much faster however... :-)
Cheers,
From Richard Namera (SweetMail) is now in beta6 on the Japanese site. Please give it a try in 10.2 and let your readers know what you think now Richard
Thanks Richard;
I'll try to get to it in the next few days.
Charles From Wayne Folta Charles, Sorry to hear Jaguar does not support the two-mouse method you use. Someone mentioned partitions and UNIX. I am from a UNIX background and finally decided to have separate partitions for various things, mounting them so that I can later resize/upgrade if I need more room. So, under 10.1.5, I partitioned my boot disk:
• Root: 3.26 GB
Then I mounted the three partitions into the Root -- as UNIX does easily -- and hid the disks from the desktop. This mounting scheme works better than symbolic links, since it's generally invisible to applications. (I modified /etc/rc to do this as it wasn't clear how to mess with /etc/fstab, etc, to make it happen in a more standard way.) I was a little apprehensive when upgrading to Jaguar. What would it do? Well, the installer created a /Applications directory on the Root partition and populated it with the new versions. No problem, since I could use ditto to copy the new stuff over the old -- leaving my other applications like Photoshop untouched. It also insisted on creating its own /Developer when I loaded the (free) Developer tools. OK, I left that on the Root partition since I really don't expect it to grow, unlike Applications. The install backed up some files, but not /etc/rc, so my mounts didn't happen. I worked with it for a while, but couldn't really get it to work again. But then I found a tip on the MacOS X Hints web site and created the following /etc/fstab: LABEL=Users /Users hfs rw 1 2 LABEL=Applications /Applications hfs rw 1 2 LABEL=Swap /private/var/vm hfs rw 1 2 And they now mount perfectly. That's the beauty of UNIX: mount a partition anywhere, not just on the desktop. If I'd need a huge /Applications directory or maybe a huge /Users, I could buy a separate hard drive and mount it on the directory. Space can grow as needed. I have encountered one other problem with a stupid (non-Apple) installer. Retrospect will only install on a partition that has a System on it (obviously, my Applications partition does not), so won't let me install the update. I may have to copy Retrospect to the Root partition, update it, then copy it back. Also, Classic has disappeared somehow. It was on there to begin with, but is now gone. SInce I never boot into it or run Classic apps anymore, I don't miss it. But it's strange. So Jaguar is getting more Mac-like and also more UNIX-like every release. Everything seems faster, except Mail which is pokey on my G3. (Then again, I have some mailboxes with over 6,000 emails in them.) Still, I'm using Mail because of the SPAM filter and the flexible rules system.
Hi Wayne;
Thanks for the report. The UNIX stuff is out of my league, although I have just a bit of UNIX partition experience from my experimentation with Linux. Sounds cool, though, if you know how to use it.
Somebody else mentioned the lack of Classic showing up in Jaguar, although that was on an unsupported, older, upgraded machine. I expect that it's not a widespread phenomenon, or there would be more discusion of it than there has been.
Charles From Christopher Kilner Hi Charles: I know you think I was brave (or insane?) for installing 10.2 on two Macs immediately after my copies arrived, but (i) I backed up everything, and (ii) enough developers had been using build 6C115 for the last few weeks that any *major• problems would have been publicized. To update you, our modest Macs (iBook 366, iMac 600) are faster at everything (except launching/using Help Viewer - which was glacial but might be indexing stuff because it appears to be getting faster) and I highly recommend the upgrade, even for those of us that can't use Quartz Extreme. As I mentioned before, booting X, booting Classic, and the Finder are all noticeably faster... and nothing (knock on wood) has "broken." The kids' games play much smoother in Classic. My 8x8x24 FireWire CD-RW can now burn at 8x (4x was the best I could burn reliably in 9.2 and 10.1). USB Printer Sharing (which I could never get to work over AirPort in OS 9) is back and Rendezvous makes it incredibly easy...just click the Printer Sharing box in the Sharing pref panel. Likewise, Rendezvous makes file sharing via "Public Folder" over AirPort incredibly easy. The improvements don't end there. The Command-F find function is back...and integrated with Finder and Mail toolbars; very useful. Sherlock 3 is quite nice (whereas Sherlock 2 was useless - unfortunately, I never used Watson, so I can't make a comparison). Mail's anti-spam filter continues to work great and the application now easily surpasses other basic clients like Sweetmail and Outlook Express for functionality (and always surpassed them on looks). QuickTime 6 is fantastic. The new Calculator is great (no need for add-on ones). Of course, spring loaded folders are back, but other OS 9 stuff has also returned. Energy Saver has separate AC and Battery settings and Zooming, etc. are back in Universal Access. The AirPort, Modem and Battery menu items have added features to bring back functions from the Control Strip (status, connect time, etc.) and a new Eject menu item is cool (after you drag Eject.menu there from Library/Application Support/CoreServices/MenuExtras or thereabouts). The Windows networking & file browsing built into 10.2 stunned the IT guy at my Office... he said Windows machines can't connect that easily (and he's right!). I don't have a graphic pad for Inkwell, I don't use IM clients (i.e., iChat) and won't import my addresses to Address Book from my Palm III until iSync is released, but my wife thinks iChat and the new Address Book on her iMac are great. As an experiment for your benefit, I hooked up a USB mouse to try clicking with one device and dragging with another (i.e., mouse & trackpad, two USB mice), but had no luck... so 10.2 hasn't fixed that "bug." My opinion of 10.2 might be skewed by the fact that our (AirPort) network allows us to use the file and printer sharing of Rendezvous, our Lexmark and Epson printers have great 10.2 drivers, we have modest e-mail needs, and use very few non-Apple applications (Word v.X, OmniWeb 4.1, McJanitor and SnapzProX are the only added applications in our Docks).
Peace,
Thanks for the follow up, Chris.
I'll stick with "brave." Sounds like you proceeded prudently. ;-)
Thanks also for the two-mouse experimentation. That shortcoming in Jaguar a major disappointment for me personally for sure.
Charles
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