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<h6>Set Per-Folder Views in the Finder</h6>
<p><p>Tired of navigating to a particular folder and having to switch to List View every time? With Finder in Leopard, you can set viewing preference for each individual folder. Just navigate to it, and set the view the way you want (Column, List, Icon, or Cover Flow). Then choose View > Show View Options (Command-J) and in the window that appears, select the Always Open In... checkbox.</p></p>
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<a href="/article/901"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('901', 'show')">Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh, Fourth Edition</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_901" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_901">As I noted briefly in a few previous TidBITS issues, the fourth edition of Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh (ISBN 1-56830-294-0, Hayden Books, $39.99) is available and should be appearing in bookstores now</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 26 Aug 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_902" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_902">Assuming everything goes as it should, this is the first TidBITS issue distributed via our new ListSTAR setup. Let's hope it works! [ACE]</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 19 Aug 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_904" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_904">A Daily Fix -- If you think the main problem with TidBITS is that it doesn't arrive often enough, check out the free beta test of a new Internet publication, the Macintosh Daily Journal (MDJ)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 19 Aug 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_906" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_906">I've noticed a trend worth watching recently. More and more products are putting databases under their hoods. Two Web servers, Web Server 4D and NetWings, are based on ACIUS's 4th Dimension database</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 19 Aug 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/914"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('914', 'show')">Fire In The Belly</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_914" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_914">A saying claims that you can never be too rich or too thin, but the modern equivalent is that you can never have too much bandwidth (and all of you with T3 connections to the Internet can just keep quiet)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 12 Aug 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/915"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('915', 'show')">Milling Around the Internet</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_915" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_915">After every Macworld Expo, we attempt to pull the overriding theme out of the hype and chaos of the show. At the last Macworld Expo in San Francisco, it seemed as though every company had an Internet product, or they had at least managed to put the word "Internet" into their products' names</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 12 Aug 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_916" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_916">As you may have noticed last Friday, we sent out the first test message to almost the entire TidBITS mailing list. It was quite successful, as was the release of DealBITS that day as well, which was the first stress-testing of ListSTAR/SMTP</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 05 Aug 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_923" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_923">We plan to test our ListSTAR-based mailing list for TidBITS in the next week (and we'll be sending the next DealBITS issue out a few days early for testing purposes), so don't worry (and please don't respond) if you get a test message from us</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 29 Jul 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/927"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('927', 'show')">PWS now Web for One</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_927" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_927">PWS now Web for One -- ResNova has renamed its personal Web server mentioned in TidBITS-337 from PWS to Web for One (apparently due to trademark issues), and made a new pre-release version available</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 29 Jul 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/928"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('928', 'show')">EvangeList Expands Web Presence</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_928" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_928">EvangeList Expands Web Presence -- Guy Kawasaki's 30,000-person EvangeList, a high-volume mailing list carrying Apple propaganda for the Macintosh faithful, now has its own full Web site (a number of other Web sites carried selections from EvangeList or provided search tools)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 29 Jul 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/937"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('937', 'show')">The Big Mailing List Move!</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_937" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_937">Consider this an alert from your TidBITS early warning system. Sometime in the next few weeks, we're going to move the TidBITS mailing list from the LISTSERV at Rice University to a Power Mac 7100/80 running ListSTAR/SMTP and FileMaker Pro 3.0 with some glue provided by other tools and applications</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 22 Jul 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/938"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('938', 'show')">More New Net Announcements</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_938" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_938">Last week we wrote about a couple of new programs that were announced for the Mactivity show down in San Jose last week. That was just the tip of the iceberg, though, and we've looked at a number of other announcements in the meantime.LogDoor Clarification -- First, a clarification from last week</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 22 Jul 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_942" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_942">Retrospect 3.0A Updater -- Dantz has finally released the 3.0A update to its popular backup program Retrospect. The new version adds support for Windows Remotes, so you can now back up Windows machines on your network using Retrospect</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 15 Jul 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/943"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('943', 'show')">Web Updates and Utilities</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_943" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_943">With the Mactivity conference happening this week, there has been a ton of Web-related activity in the Macintosh world. Here are a few of the early announcements along with some news about security issues in MacHTTP and WebSTAR</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 15 Jul 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_945" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_945">Claris OfficeMail is an interesting solution to the email problems of many small offices and schools. These groups want and need to use email to communicate within their organizations and, given the undeniable utility of Internet email, they also want to be able to send and receive mail from the Internet</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 15 Jul 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/950"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('950', 'show')">Presenting the Internet</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_950" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_950">I've been giving a number of talks recently at conferences like the Adobe Internet Solutions Conference, and I thought I'd share some of the tricks and techniques that I've worked up for Internet presentations.While I was a student at Cornell, my part time job involved managing a seminar room with a projector</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 08 Jul 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_967" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_967">It has been a hard week for TidBITS. I'm barely keeping my head above water while in the final throes of finishing the fourth edition of Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh, and if that wasn't enough, both Geoff and I have had major disk problems (at one point, four of my five main machines were causing significant trouble simultaneously, and Geoff's problems destroyed several MailBITS and articles he was working on that day)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 10 Jun 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/971"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('971', 'show')">The Process of Publishing</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_971" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_971">Many of you have probably seen my email signature recently, modified to warn that my email responses may be short or delayed because I'm working on the fourth edition of Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 10 Jun 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/973"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('973', 'show')">Cyberspace Law for Non-Lawyers</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_973" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_973">Cyberspace Law for Non-Lawyers -- If you've wondered about legal issues that relate to the Internet and wondered about the validity of free legal advice from people who play lawyers on the net, check out a free electronic course being presented by the Cyberspace Law Institute and Counsel Connect</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 03 Jun 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_984" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_984">Last month, Aladdin Systems released version 4.0 of the venerable StuffIt Deluxe, increasing both functionality and ease-of-use. Most important for many of us, Aladdin has added features that help Internet users work with the compressed and encoded files that are so prevalent.New Features -- Most of StuffIt's new features come from the True Finder Integration (TFI) control panel, which helps you manage the TFI extensions that do the work</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 27 May 1996</div></div>
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