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<h6>Opening a Folder from the Dock</h6>
<p>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.
<a href="/article/7532"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7532', 'show')">Text Wrangler 1.5.1 and Mailsmith 2.1.1 Available</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7532" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7532">Text Wrangler 1.5.1 and Mailsmith 2.1.1 Available -- Hot on the heels of last week's release of BBEdit 7.1.2, Bare Bones Software has shipped two more maintenance upgrades</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> | 09 Feb 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7534"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7534', 'show')">Take Control User Group Discount</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7534" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7534">Take Control User Group Discount -- User groups have long been one of the mainstays of the Macintosh community, which is why we've always encouraged user group newsletters to reprint TidBITS articles for free</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> | 09 Feb 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7536"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7536', 'show')">Evaluating New Revenue Sources</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7536" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7536">Back in September 2003, I wrote about several new revenue sources we were testing in an attempt to supplement our waning income stream. I want to report back on how well they and some other projects have performed, particularly since a number of people had inquired.DealBITS Drawings -- We've done five DealBITS drawings so far, and overall, I'm quite pleased</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> | 09 Feb 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7525" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7525">Security Update 2004-01-26 Released -- Apple has released Security Update 2004-01-26 for Mac OS X 10.1.5, Mac OS X 10.2.8 Jaguar, and Mac OS X 10.3.2 Panther (both normal and server versions)</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> | 02 Feb 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7526"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7526', 'show')">10 Percent Off Your Next Take Control Order</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7526" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7526">10 Percent Off Your Next Take Control Order -- I messed up big time. At Macworld Expo a few weeks ago, we wanted to give Take Control cards to people we talked to about our electronic book series, and we thought it would be helpful to have the cards be coupons, so people would have additional incentive to hang on to them</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> | 02 Feb 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7514" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7514">DealBITS Drawing: Cocoatech Winner -- Congratulations to Gloria Harman of yahoo.com and Richard I. Levine of pobox.com, whose entries were chosen randomly in last week's DealBITS drawing and who will be receiving a copy of Cocoatech's Path Finder</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 Jan 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7516"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7516', 'show')">The Mac at 20: An Interview with Bruce Horn</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7516" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7516">Twenty years of Macintosh. At this year's Macworld Expo, Steve Jobs played a version of the famous "1984" ad that launched the Mac, and Alan Oppenheimer, who was responsible in large part for AppleTalk, gave a fabulous talk about the history of networking on the Mac</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 Jan 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7503"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7503', 'show')">Celebrating Martin Luther King Day</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7503" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7503">Celebrating Martin Luther King Day -- Here in the U.S., it's a national holiday - Martin Luther King Day. Despite the fact that offices and schools are closed, it's not a holiday that invites the drawing inward of many other holidays</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 Jan 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7508" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7508">Could there be a more difficult program to compete with than the Finder? After all, it's not just ubiquitous, but for most people, it is the Macintosh interface</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 Jan 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7509" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7509">The volume of spam I receive has continued to rise inexorably, to the point where I'm averaging between 500 and 600 spam messages per day, and that's just what's getting past our rather conservative server-side filters (including the MAPS RBL+)</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 Jan 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7498" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7498">Tristan Turns Five -- At Macworld Expo in San Francisco five years ago, I had to leave a day earlier than planned to make it home in time for Tristan to be born</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 Jan 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7499"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7499', 'show')">Macworld Expo SF 2004: Enter the Musical Trojan Horse</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7499" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7499">Before last July's Macworld Expo in New York City, everyone was wondering what sort of a show it would be without a Steve Jobs keynote and without many of the high-profile exhibitors who pulled out</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 Jan 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7484"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7484', 'show')">Tinderbox 2.1 Enhances HTML Export, Text Display</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7484" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7484">Tinderbox 2.1 Enhances HTML Export, Text Display -- Eastgate Systems has released a minor update to their personal content manager Tinderbox (see "Light Your Fire with Tinderbox" in TidBITS-651)</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 Jan 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7485" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7485">DealBITS Drawing: Insider Software Winner -- Congratulations to David Graham of grahams.net, whose entry was chosen randomly in our fourth DealBITS drawing and who will be receiving a boxed copy of FontAgent Pro from Insider Software</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 Jan 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7486"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7486', 'show')">A Slew of Apple Software Updates</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7486" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7486">We weren't the only ones in a mad rush toward the end of the year, and some of Apple's engineers probably enjoyed their holiday breaks more after shipping a variety of updates</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 Jan 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7488"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7488', 'show')">The Web Crossing Begins</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7488" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7488">Over the last few weeks, I've been taking a break from visions of sugar plums to delve into the great mysteries of completely new server software. As I noted a few months ago in "Seven Hundred Issues, a CMS, and Creative Commons" in TidBITS-700, we're in the lengthy process of switching all of our Internet services over to the industrial-strength Web Crossing running on a dual-processor Xserve hosted at digital.forest.Making such a major switch while keeping everything running is tricky, but I've started by moving most of our local email users over and converted some of our internal mailing lists to Web Crossing</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 Jan 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7489"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7489', 'show')">Apple Computer, Going Forward into 2004</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7489" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7489">In the first issue of the new year in past years, I've attempted to predict some of the big stories of the coming months with varying degrees of success</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 Jan 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7472" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7472">TidBITS 2003 Holiday Hiatus -- It's been a mad rush to the end of the year, but you're reading our last TidBITS issue for 2003, and we're all anticipating some well-deserved relaxation with friends and family over the next few weeks of the holiday season</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 Dec 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7473"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7473', 'show')">DealBITS Drawing: Bare Bones Software Winners</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7473" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7473">DealBITS Drawing: Bare Bones Software Winners -- Congratulations to Andre Bloch of free.fr, Wayne Clodfelter of troutnc.com, and Mary of sympatico.ca, whose entries were chosen randomly in our third DealBITS drawing</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 Dec 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7476"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7476', 'show')">Take Control of Users & Accounts Released</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7476" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7476">For many of us who were accustomed to the classic Mac OS, the multi-user aspects of Mac OS X have been the most confusing. My parents are still dubious about why I set up separate accounts for them on their Cube, and even those of us who have adopted Mac OS X heartily have found the quirks and repercussions of a multi-user operating system frustrating to overcome at times</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 Dec 2003</div></div>
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