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The latest book to cross my desk for review is “Mac OS X Hints: Jaguar Edition” By Rob Griffiths, which contains 500 power tips for working with OS X 10.2. This new volume form O'Reilly Press is edited by “MacOS X: The Missing Manual” author David Pogue 
Both Mac and Windows fans have spent years collecting bits of lore -- a keyboard shortcut here, an undocumented double-click there -- and then Mac OS X 10.2 came along. It may be the world's best operating system, but it has a personality all its own. Mac OS X harbors just as many secrets as any system that came before. You just have to know where to find themPowerBook In Mac OS X Hints: Jaguar Edition, you'll find 560 secrets in every conceivable category including: the Desktop and Finder, iApps, Mac OS X programs, Mastering the system and Terminal, and more: Desktop and Finder. How to shut down using only the keyboard; use an animated screen saver as a desktop picture; and jump to System Preferences with a keystroke. iApps. How to burn six hours of iTunes music onto a single CD; merge calendars in iCal; and prevent iMovie 3 from applying the Ken Burns effect. Mac OS X programs. How unlock 32,000 secret Unicode symbols in each font; rename the System Preferences panels; add an "Email this page" button to Safari; and make Mail announce, in a cute British accent: "Mail has arrived, O all-wise master." Mastering the system. How to share Web bookmarks between Mac OS X and Classic; connect to your Mac from the road; and make your iDisk work ten times faster; and. Terminal. Unix fiends have never seen anything like the 105 pages of Terminal brilliance in this book. They explain how to save Terminal commands as Finder icons; put background programs to sleep; wake a sleeping Mac via the Internet; unearth the secret emacs adventure game; set up a message board on your Apache-based Web site; and more. Thr hints in this book are based on text published in the Mac OS X Hints Web site (http://www,macosxhints,com), but Griffiths says “it’s not just a rehash of what’s there. Every hint has been rewritten, expanded, organized, indexed, tested for compatibility with the latest edition of Mac OS X 10.2, and in many cases illustrated, making the book an even better resource than the Web site.” The book reminds me a lot of the excellent series of MacWorld Mac Secrets books David Pogue co-authored with Joseph Schorr, although it’s a thinner and more concise volume formatted to harmonize with the Pogue Press/O’Reilly “Missing Manuals” series, and it will make an excellent companion reference to “OSX: The Missing Manual.” Look for a full review soon here on Applelinks in Moore's Views & Reviews.
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OS X Odyssey 342 - Strange fax problem PDF Viewer 1.01 I have determined that the non-support for tandem mousing - - dragging with one mouse while clicking with another -- only my iBookis definitely an OS X issue. Yesterday I booted the i \Book into OS 9.2.2 for the first time in quite a while in order to trash a half-downloaded application file on the OS X Desktop that the system insisted I didn’t have authority to dump in the Trash. (Yes I know there is probably a workaround to get rid of it OS X, even withoutrebooting as Root, but I wasn’t in the mood for research on that topic at the time). Anyway, while I had 9.2.2 up and running, I checked to see how mouse support was working. No problem. Using an Apple USB mouse and a Quil mouse, I could highlight and drag/drop text, move icons around on the Desktop, scroll down menus, and move window scroll thumbs by clicking was one mouse and dragging with the other, none of which will work in OS X. Pity, but it’s not the iBook’s fault. OS X Odyssey 342 - Strange fax problem From Jonathan Tyzack Hi Charles, before Bob Hannah re-installs his OS, he can try two things first: 1) Create a new User account with admin capabilities and see if the problem persists for that account (if it doesn't, then there is an issue with his preferences for his main account - most likely his networking ones) 2) If that doesn't help, he needs to delete his global networking preferences (before starting this below, make a hard copy of all the details you have in Networking preferences!!). There are other ways to do this, but here is how with the Terminal (N.B. you need to have your root password enabled - search at MacOSXhints.com to find out how): A) Open Terminal.app and either type or copy/paste in: cd /var/db/SystemConfiguration/ Press enter and the prompt should reflect that you are now in the /var/db/SystemConfiguration directory. B) type ls and press enter. You should see something like:
com.apple.PowerManagement.xml preferences.xml
The problem file is likely to be preferences.xml which contains the global networking preferences. If you want to take a look at its contents, type: more preferences.xml and press enter. (Hit the space bar to see more of the info if only a proportion fits your Terminal window, control-c to regain the prompt at any time). C) Make a copy of this file by typing or copy/pasting: sudo cp preferences.xml preferences.xml.copy Press enter and you will be asked for your password, enter it and then re-type ls followed by enter. You should now see:
com.apple.PowerManagement.xml preferences.xml
D) Then sudo rm preferences.xml This will delete the original file. Reboot the computer. WARNING - this will delete all your networking preferences!! E) Re-enter your networking preferences from your hard copy and see if this solves the problem. F) If for any reason you want to regain the old preferences file repeat parts A) and B) above, then type: sudo rm preferences.xml sudo mv preferences.xml.copy preferences.xml (the mv command will rename the first file "preferences.xml.copy" as the second file "preferences.xml") then reboot. It isn't as complex as it seems. Be careful with punctuation (which is why copy/pasting is advisable). HTH Cheers, Jonathan P.S. Your brief review of OW 4.5b1. Although they share the same engine, WebCore, Safari and OW actually render text and images differently which is why you will see some speed differences between the two. E.g. OW is much more threaded for image display and consequently is likely to load image heavy pages faster than Safari. Thus, they are roughly on a par but Safari will be faster at some, OW at others and the same on many. Also, Tabs or a Tab like feature are slated for OW 5. The purpose of OW 4.5 is to give the 4.x users the benefit of the new faster, more compatible rendering engine without the cost of an upgrade to make up for the lack of performance we have experienced during OW's "darker days" (paraphrasing OmniGroup).
Thanks for the excellent and helpful tutorial and the expository notes on OmniWeb, Jonathan.
Charles From: Alan Whatley Sorry Charles, Just opened a PDF with PDF Viewer and the new Adobe reader 6.0 app and to my mind the Adobe reader is faster...
I have read such conflicting reports on performance for Adobe reader 6 it
The new reader takes a few bounces longer to launch but scrolling
I am running on a 667Mhz G4 PB with 500MB of Ram and OSX 10.2.6 Just my 2 cents worth.
Cheers
Hi Alan;
No need to apologize. As I implied in the article, I haven’t used Acrobat Reader 6 yet. It is the startup speed or lack of that has been the focus of most of the performance complaints I’ve seen, so we seem to be on the same page, so to speak.
I must get around to checking it out.
Thanks for the report.
Charles
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