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QuicKalendar gives you quick and easy access to a calendar whenever you need it. You can view the calendar on screen, or print it out to jot down notes and appointments. 
QuicKalendar Features
• QuicKalendar supports both the American Calendar Format, where each week starts on a Sunday and the European Calendar Format, where the each week starts on a Monday. QuicKalendar was easy to install; just drag the application from the mounted disk image to the Applecations Folder. It's a simple application -- a basic calendar that can display the current month, or the previous/next months. You can also display any month of any year from 1904 to 2040, or jump to any date, and you can print out calendar pagesCool. Not so cool is the fact that notwithstanding it's modest functions, QuicKalendar gobbled up more than 15 MB of RAM -- the same as Eudora 5.2 and the NotePad Deluxe database program on my PowerBook. It was also pretty slow launching. 
However, it works well, and I didn't discern any bugginess. 
System Requirements
QuicKalendar is freeware.
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http://liphou.arsware.org/ LifTP - Yet Another OSX FTP Client LifTP is a new Mac OS X FTP client that is currently still in alpha. If you're adventurous, you might want to try it out, The interface, which is modeled on the interface to the Windows CuteFTP application -- suitably Aquafied -- looks very interesting. 
The developer warns that the current version is far from full featured. You can find out more about and or downlaod LifTP here: ftp in OS X Finder FTP from Finder only works on some sites Dock usage V: OS9 ways Pinning the Dock to a corner Re: pinning down the Dock! Dock Pin Clock Problem - FYI OS X Odyssey 272 - Memory Usage Getter And Memory Leaks (Or Not? From Rich Love I am having exactly the same problem with memory. I have a G4/450 with 640 megs of RAM. After a few hours of use, it is using 90% of memory and my Mac is slowing way down. I just ordered a 512 meg module to bump me up to 1 gig of memory. Will install that tomorrow to see if it maxes out that memory also. OS 10.2.4
Rich Love
Hi Rich;
Please let me know how you fare with a GB of RAM.
My provisional suspicion is that OS X will gradually eat up all the free RAM, but it will take longer with a GB than with 640 MB.
At this writing I'm into my third day since my last restart, and Memory Stick/Memory Usage Getter have indicated that I've been essentially maxed out since the end of the first day. Performance is now very sluggish -- probably about 30%-40% slower for some things (eg: window resizing; window opening; document saves) than it was when I first rebooted.
It isn't entirely due to pageouts either. The pageout chime in Memory Stick has been sounding from time to time, but response is now dog-slow, pageouts or not.
I have a lot of windows open, and the WindowServer is using 57+MB.
Charles From Gareth Hello, Charles Victor Sandrasagra, among others, have written about how to connect to an ftp server from the "Go" menu in the Finder. Now, I'm not running Jaguar, but 10.1.5, so the names are slightly changed. If I select "Connect to Server..." from the Go menu and type, for example, ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu, I get an error. If I type the same thing in my web browser, it works. Is this something that only works in Jaguar, or am I missing something obvious here? -Gareth
Hi Gareth;
I confess that I haven't tried it.
However, your answer may be in the next letter.
Charles FTP from Finder only works on some sites From Anonymous Charles, I wish this weren't the case, and have been consulting with Apple on this for awhile now. http://www.applelinks.com/articles/2003/03/20030304122513.shtml
your reader said:
FTP Quick and easily:
Drop the Go Menu, Select Connect to, enter the ftp address and hit enter. Command K will get you there too, and you can always add an address to your Favorites.
Hiding Applications from the Dock:
That's it that's all.
Ciao Ciao.
I've tried with all versions of Mac OS X. Presently I use Rbrowser and BBEdit depending on how many files I'm uploading or downloading. It would be really nice to use the Finder directly. Thank you.
Sincerely,
From Richard Dalziel-Sharpe Hi Charles, I have been reading your recent articles and the various replies about the viability or not of the Dock as a replacement for the old ways of OS9. I have been a Mac user since 1992 and never used the Application menu at all until it became a tear off and I could put it where I wanted it. The Trash always annoyed me in it old position because it was such a long way from the action. Now, I will preface the following description of my present desktop set up by telling you that I am left handed. Does this have any bearing on the following......... who knows? Most of the real action on a Mac desktop is on the upper left hand side of the screen so to me it seems logical to put as much as I can on that side of the screen( to save mouse mileage). So I have the Dock on the left hand side of my screen anchored at the bottom so that the Trash is always at the bottom left hand corner of the screen. The Finder is at the top of the Dock and I use it as I used to use the Apple menu and tear off Application menu. I have most of my most frequently used Apps permanently in the Dock and have frequently used folders along the top of the Finder window (in column view). I have most of my folders in list view except the ones with sub folders, these are all in column view. I find that column view is a great boon and although we now have pop open folders back, in most circumstances column view is a more elegant solution to burrowing down through layers. I don't have any permanent drives mounted on my desktop, having them all at one click of the blue smiley face away is more useful in keeping my desktop clear. The only thing I have permanently on my Desktop is a blank Microsoft Word document with its page setup to A4 size. I always use this to startup Word for a new document as MS Word for OS10 still cannot remember that I am in Australia where we use A4 paper, this saves me having go to page setup every time I print from Word. I have a little app. called TransparentDock which allows the Dock itself to be transparent and lets the Dock icons hang down the screen unattached. TransparentDock does not affect the operation of the Dock in any way. One last word about Dock placement. I suspect that those who are having difficulty with it are thinking it is something it isn't ; that it is a hangover from OS9; they aren't quite getting the message. Putting the Dock on the right hand side of the screen to have the Trash where it always was and then complaining that its not like the tear off Applications Menu that you could put anywhere is simply asking it to do something it wasn't designed to do. Putting it along the bottom of the screen and then complaining that it jumps around all the time is just not looking at the preferences. I have a few more arguments justifying my placement of the Dock. But then as you well know there is no one better at justifying his beliefs than a true believer. Thanks as always for your fascinating reports on your progress into the brave new world of OSX Kind regards, Richard Dalziel-Sharpe Australia where it is 22 degrees Celsius and 12.08 AM Good morning time I hit the sack.
Hi Richard;
One of the great things about the Mac OS has always been that you could set it up to work the way that suits you best.
Never thought about the LH/RH issue before. I'm a special case because while I'm right-handed, I mouse ambidextrously, and I actually use the left mouse more than the right these days.
I'm of the messy Desktop school, and usually have 100 or so icons, including the four HD partition icons, cluttering my Desktop.
I always kept the Application Switcher palette at the extreme right of the scren, and now do the same with the Dock.
Snowing and about -3° C here today.
Charles From Dan B I also keep the Dock vertically oriented on the right edge of the screen. However I use Tinkertool to keep the dock pinned to the lower right corner. This has been rock stable under 10.2.3 http://www.bresink.de/osx/TinkerTool2.html This arrangement keeps the Trash in the "proper place," a corner which is easy to mouse to. The trash never tries to "move out of the way" when you are dragging an item over to it. This also preserves a glimpse of the desktop in the upper right, which seems to be the default position for the finder to place icons of mounted volumes, etc. Spacial orientation is also preserved (something that I didn't realize bugged me about the Dock until I did this) An image of the hard drive in the dock allows you to control click and easily navigate to any folder via nested file lists just like the Windows "start" menu. I also have created an "Apple Menu" folder, complete with apple icon, that sits in the dock. This contains aliases to my most commonly used programs and files, just like my old OS 9 Apple menu. I keep only running apps in the Dock. I also keep MemoryStick running. It's image, in the dock, tells me how much free RAM I have left. -- Dan B.
Hi Dan;
Sounds like a good setup. You HAVE free RAM??? ;-)
Charles From Peter J. Pedersen Dear Charles W. Moore, The option to pin the Dock to either end of an edge (and the dreaded middle, of course) does not appear in the Systems Preferences. I find it by Ctrl-clicking the divider between the Wastebasket and the other icons in the Dock. However, it MIGHT be one of the hidden options in OSX, laid bare by the shareware Preference pane TinkerTool - I hesitate to uninstall TinkerTool to find out... Suffice it to say that this is yet another useful option in OSX which has been hidden by Apple for UI political rather than for practical or stability reasons. Which brings me back to the Minimize-in-Place: I have previously suggested that using WindowShade X doesn't preclude using MiP - they actually complement each other perfectly. MiP enables you to tuck away any windows so it just peeps out from the screen edge, each window takes far less screen space than WSX and is slightly more easily identifiable by the icon shape and its app emblem. WSX, on the other hand, is perfect if you quickly want to flip up a window to consult the window just below it, and it is slightly faster to use due both to a shorter distance to activation, larger target area and quicker animation. I can't do without either, but then again: The best UIs are "layered", ie, it is easy and intuitive for the beginner to activate basic functions, but as her user experience increases the UI offers her more and more advanced options (in the macro- as well as micro-functionality part of the scale of usage). That is why Apple's ideas about "standardizing" the UI will never enhance usability: every power user has built up a unique set of function activation procedures, through her choice of which standard interaction options to use AND by adding extra functionality. In short: your MOP is as good as mine because it is the most functional for you. :-)
Regards,
PS - Oh, and with regards to the discussions about the "new" feature of being able to Cmd-X/C/V chosen files or folders in the Finder in order to copy or move them to other parts of the disks: this functionality may break the paradigms behind MacOS user interaction (it was, after all, a MS Windows invention), but it is vital for easy use of the Finder's new Column View. Otherwise, one needs to use utilities like XShelf to avoid bodily wear and tear. From Chris Long C: From today's Applelinks: I've always kept the Dock oriented vertically on the right, where I keep the AS tear-off palette in OS 9, however, how do you pin it at the Start? I see no option for that in the Dock Preferences. answer: get TinkerTool. it's free. --C
Hi Peter and Chris;
Ah; I should study the TinkerTool (which I've had for eons) preferences more carefully. It's now pinned.
Thanks;
From: Frank Falcone Hi Charles, I was just getting ready to install a new PRAM battery when I came across this in the XList Digest. Frank P.S. This is ludicrous!!!
You can use Pacifist to install individual files from your OS X CD-ROM http://www.charlessoft.com/
Apple has this KnowledgeBase article about the problem: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n25374
Randy B. Singer
Hi Frank; Yes, Apple has now acknowledged this problem (and the modem dialup bug afflicting some users). Here's hoping 10.2.5 will fix them soon. Charles
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 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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