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<h6>Option-Click in Scroll Bars for Jump Scrolling</h6>
<p><p>In Mac OS X in general, and thus in most native Mac OS X applications, hold down the Option key and click anywhere in a window's scroll bar to jump to that spot (rather than scrolling one screen). If you like this behavior, you can make it the default in the Appearance preference pane. For "Click in the scroll bar to:" select "Jump to here."</p></p>
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<a href="/article/1319"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1319', 'show')">StarNine Rescues Microsoft Mail</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1319" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1319">StarNine and Microsoft jointly announced last week that StarNine will assume all responsibilities for the moribund Microsoft Mail (now called StarNine Mail), including development, marketing, sales, and support</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> | 25 Sep 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1323"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1323', 'show')">This is a test. This is only a test.</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1323" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1323">This is a test. This is only a test. The folks behind the book WebMaster Macintosh have set up a contest to determine how secure Macintosh web servers really are</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> | 18 Sep 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1330"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1330', 'show')">Asleep at the Wheel</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1330" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1330">Asleep at the Wheel -- A number of folks commented last week that you can approximate some of the sleep features in the new PCI Power Macs with Sleeper, a $20 shareware control panel from St</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> | 11 Sep 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1337" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1337">Today is Labor Day, a U.S. national holiday, but we self-employed types ended up spending the day, well, working. Along with putting together this issue of TidBITS, we completely moved all of our Internet servers from our venerable SE/30 to a shiny new Apple Internet Server 6150, which means that performance should be a good bit better</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> | 04 Sep 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1341"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1341', 'show')">Open Mouth, Insert PowerBook, Go to Sleep, Drool</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1341" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1341">My article about the new PowerPC-based PowerBooks in TidBITS-292 had a few omissions and errors. First, I forgot to include information about upgrades from the 500-series</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> | 04 Sep 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1343"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1343', 'show')">Rating The List</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1343" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1343">I just ran into an interesting service on the Web that I thought was worth some discussion. The List, provided by a company called Colossus, is a large list of Internet access providers around the world</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> | 04 Sep 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1352" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1352">Today Apple announced the long-awaited upgrades to its well-designed but aging line of PowerBooks in the form of the PowerBook 5000-series, the PowerBook 2000-series, and the PowerBook 190</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> | 28 Aug 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1360" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1360">Several readers commented on our review in TidBITS-290 of AOL and CompuServe's internal FTP clients, mostly to note that AOL's recently released Web browser also provides FTP features</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> | 21 Aug 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1367" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1367">Another MacWorld Expo has come and gone, and I was heartened by some changes from previous years. First, and pleasant for those attendees who don't hail from the tropics, both the temperature and humidity were reasonable for most of the 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> | 14 Aug 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1371" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1371">Power Computing Sponsoring -- We're extremely pleased to welcome our latest sponsor, Power Computing, makers of some of the first Macintosh compatible computers</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> | 07 Aug 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1377"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1377', 'show')">Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh, Third Edition Available</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1377" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1377">After a few months of my work, and another month of work by Hayden Books, the third edition of my book, Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh, is available (ISBN 1-56830-197-9)</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> | 07 Aug 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1389" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1389">[Claris announced last week that it has released Emailer, an all-in-one email application. The following text is excerpted and edited from Adam's just-released Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh, Third Edition</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> | 31 Jul 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1399" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1399">Open Mouth, Insert MacPPP -- Our short deadline bit us last week. We published Orren Merton's note about Open Transport problems in which he noted originally that MacPPP 2.1.1SD included some fixes for problems that MacPPP has with Open Transport</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> | 17 Jul 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1401"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1401', 'show')">Open Transport vs. QuarkXPress</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1401" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1401">Open Transport vs. QuarkXPress -- I've heard reports of two conflicts between Open Transport 1.0 (shipped only on the Power Mac 9500s) and QuarkXPress</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> | 17 Jul 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1406" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1406">I attended Mactivity in San Jose last week and came away with a good feeling about the Mac's role in networks and specifically in the Internet. Desktop publishing certainly gets credit as the application that put the Macintosh on the map, but in many ways, the Mac's networking capabilities are more impressive</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> | 17 Jul 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1412"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1412', 'show')">OpenDoc & Netscape</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1412" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1412">Dave Martin made an interesting comment in regard to the MailBIT about how future versions of Netscape Navigator will integrate Macromedia Director's Shockwave playback technology (see TidBITS-281)</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> and <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 10 Jul 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1413"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1413', 'show')">More Mac Web Sites</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1413" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1413">I don't want to continually list Web sites that contain Macintosh information, since for the most part, they're all linked on the Web itself. We'll make this the last time for a while...Well Connected Mac Moving -- Elliotte Harold informs us that his Well Connected Mac site is moving to:http://www.macfaq.com/The old URL will server as a mirror for a while, but will eventually disappear.Elliotte said the move was prompted in part by the fact that the old URL was almost impossible to remember and hard to type properly</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 Jul 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1416" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1416">I never scoff at the occasional bit of serendipity, but I may laugh heartily at it. After Cary Lu's article, "Computing's Holy War," in TidBITS-283, the online version of Dilbert began to cover much the same topic</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 Jul 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1422" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1422">As I'm sure most of you have noticed, and a couple of you have commented upon, we've been publishing more articles about the Internet in TidBITS over the last few months</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 Jul 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1427" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1427">Apple Design Keyboard Conflict -- Thanks to Jim Mueller for posting the details of the conflict between the Apple Design Keyboard and the DOS Compatible card for the Power Mac 6100 (Steven Lee mentioned this briefly in his article in TidBITS-282)</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 Jun 1995</div></div>
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