Opening a Folder from the Dock
Sick of the dock on Mac OS X Leopard not being able to open folders with a simple click, like sanity demands and like it used to be in Tiger? You can, of course click it, and then click again on Open in Finder, but that's twice as many clicks as it used to be. (And while you're at it, Control-click the folder, and choose both Display as Folder and View Content as List from the contextual menu. Once you have the content displaying as a list, there's an Open command right there, but that requires Control-clicking and choosing a menu item.) The closest you can get to opening a docked folder with a single click is Command-click, which opens its enclosing folder. However, if you instead put a file from the docked folder in the Dock, and Command-click that file, you'll see the folder you want. Of course, if you forget to press Command when clicking, you'll open the file, which may be even more annoying.
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TidBITS#120/20-Apr-92
In the slime department, watch out for the new CODE 252 virus. The legal news of the week concerns the 36 items thrown out of the Apple/Microsoft suit; a number of people pass on more very important details about Tune-Up 1.1.1; and Jon Pugh reviews the super cool VideoSpigot. To close out the issue, we have articles on Apple putting the IIfx out to pasture and the AppleShare upgrade offer ending soon. Also, Happy 2nd Birthday to TidBITS!
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TidBITS 2.0
Happy Birthday! This issue marks TidBITS's second anniversary. As you can see, we've put out 120 issues, averaging 60 per year or slightly more than one per weekShow full article
Trash Trick
Trash Trick -- Dave Anderson writes with another method of tricking Nisus or similar applications into using the trash as a storage place for secondary backup filesShow full article
Code 252 Virus
Sigh. Trouble comes in threes, and this is the third virus in the last few months. Once again, the estimable virus team has done its work well, and most of the anti-virus tools should be up to date by the time you read thisShow full article
Tune-Up Notes
Robert Hess writes: Not that it matters, but System 7 Tune-Up is not just an extension. The first time you run it, it patches the System to fix the "disappearing files bug." Each boot after that, it checks the System to see if the patch needs to be re-applied (which would be the case if you reinstalled the System from scratch, thus losing the original patch); if not, it continues with the other RAM-only (INIT) patchesShow full article
Another Round to Microsoft
Last week Judge Vaughn Walker threw out a number of the issues in the long-standing suit between Apple and Microsoft. I don't feel that this is as important a decision as at least one article in the Wall Street Journal impliedShow full article
VideoSpigot Review
I thought QuickTime was obviously cool when it first came out. It's hard not get all goggle-eyed when you first see movies running on a computer screen without any special hardwareShow full article
Wicked Fast IIfx Retired
Of all the changes to Apple's product lineup that took place on 15-Apr-92, the quietest was the departure of the Macintosh IIfx. The high-end Macintosh II offering has never quite fit into the product line, thanks to some engineering oddities and, of course, the eventual appearance of the Quadra series. The IIfx remained on Apple's rolls this long probably because of its six NuBus slots as much as anything elseShow full article
AppleShare Upgrade Offer Ends
Apple has announced that its AppleShare 3.0 upgrade offer will be ending at the end of April. The offer, introduced last fall with the new version of the file server software, allows owners of previous versions to upgrade free or at a reduced price. The company plans to honor upgrade requests until 30-Apr-92, even though the offer was originally scheduled to end on 01-Apr-92Show full article