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Notational Velocity is an application that stores and retrieves notes, and does it extremely well. This is a beguiling little application, elegant in its simplicity. It doesn't try to wow you with interface aesthetics or a lot of gimmicky features, but focuses directly on the business at hand -- archiving and access to information. 
Notational Velocity's developer Zachary Schneirov, cites itsadvantages are as follows:
Features: • The same area is used for both searching for existing notes and entering the descriptions of new notes. As one types the description of a new note, related notes immediately appear below, providing one the chance to file information into an existing note instead of a new one. Likewise, if a search for some piece of information turns up negative, one need simply press return to create a new note with the appropriate description. • In conformity the with the dual purpose of the search/description area, typing the beginning of the description of an existing note will trigger the "auto-completion" of that description. Accordingly, selecting an existing note will place that note's description in the search/description area, and deselecting the note will restore the previously typed text. • Notational Velocity has no explicit "save" command; all modifications to a note take effect immediately. • There are several ways of getting information into Notational Velocity; from system-wide services to drag-and-drop in the Dock. You can also qucikly export notes in either Plain Text or RTF format, and note deletion is efficient and straightforward. Basic text editing functions are supported, including spell checking. • Notational Velocity secures its database via the 128-bit International Data Encryption Algorithm (IDEA), and it provides the option of securing one's password in the Mac OS Keychain, thereby relieving the user from entering it at every application launch. 
Usage Tips:
To add a new note:
To search for or edit an existing note:
Note that the first step in either operation is the same. To use Notational Velocity as efficiently as possible, try to ensure that the description of a note applies to its entire contents. Notational Velocity's strength lies in its search capabilities. If a very small number of notes contain a great deal of unrelated information, the application becomes only slightly more efficient than something like TextEdit.
New in Notational Velocity 1.1:
There are getting to be a lot of database and notepad applications for OS X, with levels of simplicity/complexity to suit every taste. If yours runs to the simplicity end of the spectrum, Notational Velocity is well worth checking out. But don't let the uncluttered (almost System 6 - esque) user interface fool you. Notational Velocity works extreme;y well at waht its designed to do. I encountered no obvious bugginess during my test drive.
System requirements:
Easier way to empty the Trash Trash redux Re: How do I? Little Office Safari MaxiMice Quirks MaxiMouse Another Easier way to empty the Trash From dxtr Hi Charles, To get rid of that pesky trash without having to resort to Terminal, open Cocktail and clock on the Misc. tab. Then click on the Empty Trash button, smile as the Trash is emptied. :-)
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PS I have to remember to send the author some cash for this great little program..... From Jonathan Boyd Hey Charles,
The suggestions provided in 307 work fine, but a better way perhaps for someone more familiar with a GUI would be to type 'sudo rm -r ' and then drag the files/folders to be deleted into the terminal window. They will then be added to the list of files to be deleted. After you press return, you'll be prompted for your administrator password and they files will disappear in a virtual puff of smoke. This saves you having to remember where the files are stored and therefore what path to type in.
From Michael Snider Charles, Andy Hector wrote "An even easier way to empty the trash is to open up a terminal window and type this in: sudo rm -r .Trash" and that works fine if you have no partitions or external drives. If you do have any, the Trash represents the hidden .Trash directories on all connected volumes. Terminal commands ordinarily affect only the current working directory, and, if the item was put in the trash from some volume other than the one which contains your home directory, it will actually live somewhere like /Volumes/volName/.Trash/.501/itemToDelete, and unless you to navigate to the correct partition or drive before executing the command, the item will not be deleted. If the item was put in the trash some time ago, you may not remember where that was. Fortunately, Trash violates the normal rule that dragging from one volume to another copies rather than moves, so when you move something in or out of the Trash it really is moved and you know where it is. That's why I suggested dragging them out of the Trash first. It should always work to drag the stubborn items out of the trash to the desktop, then drag them back to the Trash, then execute sudo rm -r .Trash.
Peace,
From John Dennis Just to let you know I went back into OS 9 so I could move the file from the Trash back to OS X. I then decided to try and empty the Trash again. This time it emptied just fine in OS 9. I am not sure why it was giving me so many problems. Oh well the file is deleted and that is all I care about. From Darren Varner Just read your review. I downloaded it to check for a feature that just seems to missing from so many of these kinds of apps and what do you know? Missing from Little office. Apple's Addressbook is set up so that it can act as the central repository for all contacts. It is very rare indeed when you find an app that takes advantage of this framework. I just refuse to buy or use any more apps that have to do with contacts until they take advantage of it.
Good point, Darren.
Charles
From John Dennis I tried to mess around with Safari and I can not connect to any secure websites. I went to do a port scan to see with the firewall that comes with OS 10.2 if I could be seen and I could not even connect to this site using Safari. I even changed how Safari identifies itself with no luck. I think it probably has to do with how I connect to the internet. I have a filtered connection, but with Camino as well as Mozilla I do not have problems. From Richard Smykla Charles, Thought I'd share a few observations regarding your problems with MaxiMice. I assume you did quit and restart your Cocoa apps after doing the Maximice install? Otherwise, here is a portion of my email to the author after my quick test of the utility: My own results are mixed - successful, but somewhat quirky in response, with some limitations that weren't mentioned in the short FAQ or readme files. Modifier scrolling and modifier window dragging, both worked relatively well, with the following anomalies: 1 - At first, it seemed the modifier scrolling only worked along the right side of windows, not anywhere else in the window. After a bit more playtime, it began to work everywhere - maybe I just needed to get the hang of it? 2 - Modifier window dragging works anywhere in the window, as it should be - no complaints here. 3 - At first I thought the utility wasn't working at all in 'edge scroll' mode, as I was trying to get Safari's screen to scroll by moving my mouse cursor vertically along the right edge of the window. In fact, this type of scroll doesn't work at all near the left or right sides of the window. This is different from what I was expecting, in comparison to what I remember of Scrollability. Edge scrolling seems only to work along the top and bottom edges, and (at least in Safari) only when the mouse pointer scroll *begins* within about the center 90% of the window (not near the corners, in other words). If a scroll is begun within the center 90%, and then dragged toward the corner, the scroll does continue properly, but it must begin within that 90% to start the scroll. If this is the intended behavior, you should document it better in the readme file. Otherwise, a nice effort to restore the capability that Scrollability gave the classic MacOS - just fix those corners and you'll have a believer! Also, (just a niggling that warrants a suggestion) is it possible to use some kind of 'double-buffering' to smooth out a slow scroll? Even at the slowest scrolling speed, there is a bit of stutter to the text, despite the presence of a Radeon 8500 doing the rendering. Thanks. PS. Charles, hope you and your wrists can get this working soon. Best, Rick From John Dennis In limited testing it seems to work OK. I did not use it much as I only up the read file that came with it and got close to the top edge and it started to scroll up the page. I then got down to the lower right of the page and it started to scroll down the page. I have not tried moving the page around though as that would be nice. It would be nice to be able to do these things with just the keyboard. I will try and play around more with it as I am sure it does a lot more then what I have done with it. I did finally get it to work, sort of, with Safari, although still no joy in TextEdit. However, response is slow and somewhat erratic, certainly a far cry from the lag-free slickness of Scrollability. It really "stutters" on a 500 MHz G3 with a RAGE 128 card. And for me, an auto-scroll application that does not support Carbon applications is not that useful, since about 80 percent of the time I'm working in Tex Edit Plus. Charles
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