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TextForge is a text editor for Mac OS X, written using the Cocoa API, built from scratch to provide a reliable, powerful, fast, efficient, and Mac OS X native solution for editing text documents. TextForge seems to be a good little basic text editor, and being a Cocoa app., it supports the Cocoa conveniences like Services and the built-in OS X spellchecker. 
Some intresting wrinkles in the preferences are an option to go with white text on a blue background, and a slider to adjust the transparency of the TextForge document window. 
Speaking of the latter, if you like simplicity, it won’t offend you. No toolbars or buttons. Just a plain vanilla window. The essential text editing tools are found in the menus.
TexrForge’s features include:
There is also a find & replace function. 
New in this version:
Some of those features will no doubt have special appeal to certain users, and TextForge seemed quick, solid, and stable. However, I didn’t find anything that would even come close to tempting me to forsake Tex-Edit Plus, which is the benchmark by which I measure text editors. Tex Edit Plus has a shareware fee three times that of TextForge, but with its superb integration of AppleScript technology, many built-in keyboard commands, optional floating tool palette, and rich feature set, it has the versatility and capacity to be a real “Swiss Army Knife” application, and even to displace full-featured word processors for users who don’t require complex formatting features. TextForge has the makings of a fine little word processing application, but it’s a bit light features-wise, although what’s there appears to work well.
System requirements:
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Re :Quartz Extreme From Frank Vu Mr. Moore, How do I deactivate and remove the applescript icon from my menu bar in OSX?
Hi Frank;
Hold the Command key, click the menu item with the mouse and drag the item away from the menu bar. You can also rearrange items this way (command-click, then drag and drop at the new location).
Charles
From Andy Hector
Or more specifically Warcraft 3 performance.
"I've played it a few times with friends using my (now ancient) Pismo PowerBook 400 and I'd say performance wasn't all that bad, considering the Pismo is now the ripe old age of 3. Granted I was playing at 640x480 (the lowest resolution) and only using 16-bit colour, but it was under Jaguar and I didn't notice the cursor jerking around or units appearing out of nowhere (although you could tell a few frames of animation were being dropped). Most importantly, performance was good enough for me to win a few rounds, so it couldn't have been that much of a handicap.
"Perhaps performance was improved by the fact that my graphics card isn't supported by Quartz Extreme and therefore free to 'concentrate' on the game ?"
I'm not sure why Warcraft III runs so slow for me (it could be due to many things-- the game itself, the OS, my machine, etc.), but OS 9, with its -lack- of Quartz extreme, is much faster for this game. I don't play a lot of games other than this one, but I have noticed similar performance boosts in other games (i.e. faster graphics in OS 9) in the past. Not to mention that Quartz extreme shouldn't have (to the best of my knowledge) anything to do with anything other than standard OS X GUI elements (from both Carbon and Cocoa, I believe), of which Warcraft III (or just about any game for that matter) uses none. By the way, this is what I am running: PowerMac G4 533, 640mb RAM, GeForce3
-- Andy
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