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Macabinet is a simple Desktop "drawer" application that provides a convenient, out-of-sight place to park files, thus helping to clean up a messy Desktop. Mine can certainly use some help. Macabinet also supports a variety of appearance themes. 
Uses for Macabinet:
To install Macabinet, copy the "Macabinet" folder to any location (eg: your Applications folder). Any new themes you download should be placed in the "Themes" folder in the Macabinet application folder. These themes will be available to you the next time you open the Macabinet Preferences. In order for Macabinet to function there must always be at least one theme available in this folder. 
Macabinet features:
• Slides out of view when not in use. • Drag any file (or group of files) to Macabinet and they are moved into Macabinet. • Drag any file from Macabinet to any other location (such as your desktop) and it is moved there. • Double click on any item in Macabinet and it is opened (folders are opened in the Finder, Applications are launched and documents are opened with their associated application). • All files in Macabinet are located in the "Macabinet" folder in your Home folder (so you can interact with those files in any way you like and easily back them up). 
• Customize just about every aspect of Macabinet (font size, icon size, the speed at which Macabinet slides into view, the distance from the screen side your mouse must be for Macabinet to appear, etc).
New in version 1.1:
I found that Macabinet works very well, and does contribute to a less crowded Desktop. I still prefer to keep stuff I'm currently working on out in plain sight, but Macabinet is a great place to put les frequently accessed items, and I like the fact that they are also easily available in the Macabinet folder in my Home folder if Macabinet is not running. My wish list for future versions would include making Macabinet work from the bottom of the screen as well as the left or right. I keep my Dock on the right, and find that I often open Macabinet from the left inadvertantly when working with documents which are kept to the left. Having a screen bottom option would make Macabinet more like the popup folder function in OS 8 and OS 9. Actually, I would like to have a tab-actuation "handle" for the Maccabinet drawer rather than just having it pop open when mousing anywhere at the extreme edge of the screen. Then there could probably be a multiple drawers option.
System requirements:
Macabinet is $10.00 shareware. The trial version is fully fuctional and limited to 10 files in Macabinet at a time (registering removes this limitation).
For more information, visit:
The Macabinet support forum can be found at :
Odyssey 386 and Note Pad From Heller, Stephen Hey Charles, Your article on Escapepod was nice and inspired me to go to the Ambrosia website via the link you provided. I have been unable, however, to find any mention of Escapepod anywhere on the website. What gives? Stephen Heller
Hi Stephen;
Try this URL.
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/freebies/
Second item down the page.
Charles
From dxtr Hi Charles, I have tried a few NotePad replacements and keep coming back to Notes, a freeware program by Richard Schreyer. It has a component in the Services Menu and is very versatile. I know from your writings that you often take information from more than one site and then combine it into the wonderfully useful articles on Applelinks and MacOPINION, among others. I think you should take an indepth look at Notes. It can be found here, http://ayanamichan.com/richard/notes/ It really makes the collection of diverse pieces of information very easy. Allows you to import all your System 9 notes in a straight forward manner... "Import From Note Pad: If you used Apple's Note Pad a lot, you probably have a lot of information in Note Pad that would be tedious to transfer by hand. Notes makes importing from NotePad easy. Select 'Import from Note Pad..." from the File menu. Notes needs to find out where your Note Pad File is. Note Pad stores it's information in the file 'Note Pad File' which is located inside your Mac OS 9 System Folder." Notes has behaved very well since X v1.0. All in all entirely worth your time and the price can't be beat!
seeya
Hi dxtr;
Thanks for the info. I'll check out Notes.
Actually, however, I find NotePad to be almost exactly what I was looking for in terms of an OS X replacement for the old Classic Note Pad. It's simple, small, starts up almost instantly, and isn;t cumbered with features I don't want ot need for the particular use I put it to.
For data gathering, I also use NotePad Deluxe, which is a slick little mini database, and DEVONThink, which is a much more richly featured database application and more.
For info on several more of this sort of application, see Shareware Beat today.
Charles
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