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It dawned on me this week that I've crossed a watershed of sorts on this Odyssey; I finally prefer working in OS X as opposed to OS 9. The speedier Finder response on my new iBook helps of course. OS 9 is faster on the iBook as well, but with Quartz Extreme, the difference is not nearly as dramatic. However, even when I'm using the Pismo, I now generally prefer working in the OS X, even with its sluggishness on that machine. The stability and ease of multitasking get addictive, and the OS X versions of several applications I use a lot are now substantially better, and some new favorites are only available in OS X -- Chimera and Safari for instance. Not to say that there are not still a lot of things, besides speed, that I like better in OS 9. A big one is having every open window of an application come forword when you click on one, although I will concede that once in a while the OS X way is convenient. And I still find that pointing device and keyboard response in OS X is, as I've complained before, "raggedy" compared with the solid, dead-reliable input response I get in OS 9. This is true on the iBook as well as the Pismo. I hope that aspect of performance will improve in future builds of OS X. Speaking of which, I'm still using OS 10.2.1 on both of my machines. I had OS 10.2.3 installed upon the iBook for a couple of weeks before I reformatted and partitioned the hard drive, but it was definitely flakier and buggier than 10.2.1 had been and is again. Here's keeping one's fingers crossed that 10.2.4 will be a nice, stable, unbuggy build. However, I'm at last making the transition to OS X as my main production OS. It's just happening a full year later than I originally anticipated, and it took buying a new computer to really with it work. Re: Where is my Disk Space? This Week's Crop Of Safari Hacks And Addons From: Mike Etun Hi Charles, Most software tryouts let you get a lot done in demo. Where Is My Disk Space? seems to tantalize, but allows almost nothing to be accomplished. Why should I even consider buying something that is broken in demo? Am I expected to believe that it will really work after payment? This software piracy nonsense is liable to drive away customers faster than a skunk in a dunnie. Mike Etun
Hi Mike;
The documentation is a bit vague, but to the best of my knowledge, Where Is My Disk Space? registration is free. I just sent the email, and received a registration key within hours. It seemed to be an automated response, so I don't think it was gratis because I'm a journalist.
Charles
From William Bentley Charles, Have you tried DiskSurveyor? (http://www.twilightsw.com) I find a graphic view much more vivid than a listing of file sizes. It really makes those disk hogging files stand out when I need to do a quick cleanup. Thanks for your articles. William Bentley
Hi William;
I haven't tried DiskSurveyer, but I'll try to check it out.
Glad you enjoy the articles.
Charles
This Week's Crop Of Safari Hacks And Addons
The PithHelmet adds some some basic but powerful content filtering to Apple's Safari browser. The basic purpose is to filter advertisements, but there are other potential uses as well (blocking Flash, Shockwave or horrible midi loops). This is just a quick hack on top of Apple's basic framework, but it seems to work rather effectively.
For more information, visit:
Safari Enhancer 1.4 Activates Safari Hidden Features
Safari Enhancer is a programme for enabling several hidden features of the Safari webbrowser beta.
Safari Toolkit 1.8 Improves Site Compatibility,Activates Hidden Features Using the Safari Toolkit, you can easily activate hidden features in Safari. Remove ugly underlines from hyperlinks and change the browser interface! You can also activate hidden debugging menus that will allow you to access many previously unreachable websites and login to so-called Internet Explorer only sites. Using the easy interface, you can personalize your browsing experience in mere seconds! Our easy-to-use update feature will keep your version of the Safari Toolkit up to date without ever typing in a URL - just double click on the updater icon!
Safari Toolkit is freeware
SafariCookieCutter 1.1 Cookie Editor For Safari Web Browser SafariCookieCutter is a simple cookie editor for Apple's new Safari Web browser. SafariCookieCutter allows any user to add cookies to Safari's cookie database, edit existing cookies, and delete cookies. SafariCookieCutter is useful for increasing the life of existing cookies, and manually importing your cookies into Safari from another browser. Cookies are persistent objects stored on your computer by the Web browser. Web servers use them to save data between sessions and then query the data back later. Cookies have some positive uses, such as remembering user names and passwords, but they can also be used for some sites (usually advertisers) to track your Web surfing habits. Cookie editors facilitate adding cookies to the system, and removing the ones you don't want. Now, some of you are probably saying by now: "But Safari does come with a cookie editor!" Actually, Safari, as of the public beta, comes with an integrated cookie browser, but it does not include a cookie editor. Currently, it is not possible to use Safari's "Show Cookies" command to add cookies to Safari (other than through normal browsing), or edit the cookies that are already there. SafariCookieCutter can do both, and it can also undo mistakes and much more.
New in this version:
iSafari 1.0 German Localization For Safari Die deutsche Uebersetzung fuer Safari. Installationshinweise beachten! Habe in den letzten Tagen Badges von Nexus und Klaus bekommen, die ich wie versprochen hier veröffentliche: Zuerst die beiden von Nexus: Vielen Dank an die beiden, ich denke die Ergebnisse können sich sehen lassen. Ich möchte hier noch was zu dem Text in den Badges sagen.
Einige von Euch haben vielleicht die Diskussion in den Kommentaren zum Artikel "Neue Badges braucht das Land!" verfolgt.
Ich möchte dazu anmerken, dass der Text "Optimized for Safari" nur ein Vorschlag von mir war.
Über weitere Zusendungen von Badges würde ich mich übrigens sehr freuen!
Hellenic Safari Localization 0.1 For Hellenic Safari users
This package adds localized files for the Hellenic Language. In specific it adds:
Serbian Safari 0.7 Serbian Localization For Safari Are you old enough to know better but young enough not to resist? Do you have ants in your pants? Are you looking for something extraordinary, something you've always wanted to have but never dared to ask? It's not Russian roulette. It's Serbian Safari. Total Madness. Off the cuff. Off the wall. Off the deep end.
The software you can download from the link will install a set of Serbian localization files for Safari, a new web browser from Apple Computer. This product is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but whithout any warranty
The OS X Odyssey archives may be accessed here: Note: Letters to Moore's Mailbag may or may not be published at the editor's discretion. Correspondents' email addresses will NOT be published unless the correspondent specifically requests publication. Letters may be edited for length and/or context. Opinions expressed in postings to Moore's MailBag are those of the respective correspondents and not necessarily shared or endorsed by the Editor and/or Applelinks management. If you would prefer that your message not appear in Moore's Mailbag, we would still like to hear from you. Just clearly mark your message "NOT FOR PUBLICATION," and it will not be published. CM
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