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Re; Safari Shortcomings
Importing bookmark favorites into Safari
Why is it?
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This was interesting
From Dan Johnson
Morning Charles,
I just thought I'd share something interesting that happened to me this past Monday.
I have a Pismo, now mostly used to send faxes for my curling club, and a 12in AL PB as my main computer. Both are connected to the Internet wireless via a Netgear router. Monday I had MS Word up and running, Page Sender had taken the print command and was faxing out news release's to our local media via my telephone. Over on the 12in. PB I was trying to run MS Word to revise the news release for something later in the week. but it kept quitting, MS Word kept telling me it was already running and my license didn't allow for two to run at the same time.
I figured it was time to reboot the PB and did, but it didn't make any difference, I kept getting the same message. Now I have never set up a network in the house. I have no idea how to really do such a thing, even tho I looked at the System Preferences and all of that and maybe fooled around with it once, I never got it to work and gave up and that was that.
It did occur to me that I had never had MS Word Running on both machines at the same time, usually I save the word file as a PDF and then use Preview/Page Sender. So out of curiosity more than anything else I clicked off the Airport card in the 12in PB...........VOILA ! Everything was fine, Word running on both machines, somehow and I don't know how, it detected the other machine and the other Word.
Kind of funny, Kind of interesting and very strange.
Cheers
Dan
Hi Dan;
I don't use Word, but I know my Finder aliases often get confused when I have my iBook and PowerBook networked, since the file and partition names, and contents are essentially mirrored on both drives.
On the other hand, two copies of well-behaved Twx Edit Plus will run happily and simultaneously on the same drive.
Charles
Re: This was interesting
From Dan Johnson
Charles,
My daughter now tells me that MS Word will connect via the internet to Microsoft to check the serial number and make sure it isn't already being used somewhere else. The fix, of course, is to disconnect from the internet.
I'd make a derogatory comment but I don't think it's needed. If Apple's version of PowerPoint were more reliable I'd switch.
Dan
Re; Safari Shortcomings
From Brent Bielema
To Eric Matthieu: Thanks for the input. I will have to try using the tabbed browsing on Safari, and see how that works. I guess I really meant that the cursor didn't launch a spinning wheel (like Netscape or Mozilla does). Perhaps to put more "bite" in the new Tiger, they could make the cursor launch a little running cat to show that the page is actually loading. I was aware of the "thin blue line" and lower bar "progress report." Maybe I just need a little more positive reinforcement than the average bear. Plus my vintage Flower Power iMac (don't laugh -- I originally ordered a Sage DV+) could probably use an upgrade.
Thanks for the tips!
Hi Brent;
Try Shiira 0.9.3 (see OS X Odyssey today.
It has a nice progress bar simlilar to Netscape/Mozilla.
Charles
Importing bookmark favorites into Safari
From Kevin
The answer to importing bookmark favorites into Safari is to get and use OnyX because it has a good feature that allows most other favorites to be found from Netscape and Explorer; even if they are not from the computer.
I couldn't get IE 5.2.3 to find manually imported bookmarks from my old computer running IE 5.2.2; eventually, after trying a new download of 5.2.3 and still nothing, I removed all of 5.2.3 that I could and use Opera, Netscape 7.2 and Safari.
They all have bookmarked my favorites from my imported IE 5.2.2 file.
Why is it?
From Michael Leggett
That one can buy a Mac, a few years old, & find it better than a new Windows Machine?
"As The Storm Clouds Gather, all across The Sea...God Bless America, Land That I Love!"
Hi Michael;
Is that a rhetorical question?
I would say that Apple's innovation superiority and the inherent advantages of its integrated hardware/software development keep it several years ahead of the PC platform in many respects.
Charles
A way to mount your iPod.
From John M. Dennis
Here is a way to mount your iPod.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040913/nym122_1.html
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