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<h6>Avoid Long Hierarchical Menus</h6>
<p><p>If you right-click (or Control-click) on some item, such as a file in the Finder, and one of the sub-menus has <i>many</i> options (Open With is a frequent culprit), it may take several seconds to open, even on a fast machine, which is annoying if you did not actually want that sub-menu.</p><p>The trick is to not pull the cursor <i>through</i> the menu, but in a curve <i>around</i> it, so the cursor does not touch any menu items until lower on the list where you wanted to go.</p></p>
<a href="/article/6080"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6080', 'show')">Anarchie Updated, Renamed to Interarchy 3.8</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6080" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6080">Anarchie Updated, Renamed to Interarchy 3.8 -- Stairways Software today released a significant update to their popular shareware FTP client Anarchie. In the process, Stairways decided to rename Anarchie to Interarchy and to use Interarchy as the company's new identity after failing to recover the anarchie.com domain from a cybersquatter</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 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6083"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6083', 'show')">Poll Preview: (Apple) Pie in the Sky</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6083" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6083">Poll Preview: (Apple) Pie in the Sky -- Matt Neuburg examines IBM's ViaVoice speech recognition software for the Macintosh below, and his review started us thinking about other futuristic aspects of system design</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 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6084"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6084', 'show')">Maximize Your Monitor</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6084" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6084">Last week's quiz presented various different possibilities for seeing more on your Mac's desktop. The correct answer was that all of the options enabled you to see more, although they work in different ways</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> | 21 Aug 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6073" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6073">MyFonts.com Sponsoring TidBITS -- In the information-scarce days before the Web, I pored over computer-related publications, and even though I've never been a designer, I especially liked font catalogs</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 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6076"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6076', 'show')">Poll Results: Rumor with a View</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6076" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6076">Poll Results: Rumor with a View -- The results of last week's poll, which asked if you thought the value to consumers of information published on rumor sites outweighed the potential damage done to the companies involved, proved mixed</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 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6077" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6077">As readers of TidBITS Talk know, I held a pair of informal events at Macworld Expo in New York last month. I chose not to announce them in TidBITS itself (though they were on the Hess Events List) to keep them to a manageable size.Ice Cream Social -- Tuesday night before the show, I coordinated the TidBITS Ice Cream Social, where everyone met in the lobby of the aggressively hip Paramount Hotel and then walked to a nearby Ben & Jerry's for ice cream</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 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6078"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6078', 'show')">Hacking the Press, Part 3: Types of Coverage</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6078" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6078">Welcome back to my series of articles on how the press works and how to work with the press. I first talked a bit about why you should care about press coverage, and I followed that up with a discussion of different types of publications</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 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6067"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6067', 'show')">Poll Preview: Rumor with a View</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6067" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6067">Poll Preview: Rumor with a View -- As you'll read below, Apple last week filed a lawsuit against an unknown individual to prevent future leaks of confidential information</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 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6068" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6068">Before I discuss the results of last week's quiz, let me briefly tell you what we hope to accomplish with our quizzes. First and foremost, we want to impart a little knowledge - there's no class, so we have to figure out ways of doing that with the quiz and quiz results</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 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6057"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6057', 'show')">Now Up-to-Date & Contact 3.9.2 Now Available</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6057" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6057">Now Up-to-Date & Contact 3.9.2 Now Available -- Power On Software has released a free update to Now Up-to-Date & Contact 3.9.2. The update changes the behavior of how Now Up-to-Date & Contact synchronize with Palm OS handhelds, fixes some bugs related to synchronizing, and fixes other bugs in the QuickContact and QuickDay control panels that provide fast access to your contact list and calendar even if the main programs aren't running</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 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6058"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6058', 'show')">Retrospect and Retrospect Express 4.3 Released</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6058" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6058">Retrospect and Retrospect Express 4.3 Released -- Dantz Development has released version 4.3 of both their Retrospect and Retrospect Express backup programs, adding support for numerous USB and FireWire storage devices and erasing the 2 GB limit on file backup sets when used with Mac OS 9 or later on HFS Plus-formatted hard disks</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 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6060"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6060', 'show')">Poll Results: Mac Attack!</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6060" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6060">Poll Results: Mac Attack! Last week's poll asked which of Apple's just-announced Macs you'd buy if you were going to buy one today, and the results seem to reflect what we've already knew - TidBITS readers are a high-end bunch</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 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6061" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6061">Poll Preview: Finder's Clickers -- Polls are easy - you can just register your opinion and be on your way. No one's getting off that easy with this week's quiz, which requires you to think a bit</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 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6050"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6050', 'show')">Can Innovation Become Business As Usual?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6050" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6050">In last week's Macworld Expo keynote, Steve Jobs walked on stage and, wasting no time on reviewing Apple's corporate position, launched into a long keynote address that was almost entirely full of new hardware announcements</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> | 24 Jul 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6033"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6033', 'show')">Macworld Expo Pocket Show Guide Changed</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6033" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6033">Macworld Expo Pocket Show Guide Changed -- Last week, in "Macworld NYC 2000 Events," I recommended that users of Palm OS-based handhelds download a copy of Palmtop Publishing's Macworld Expo Pocket Show Guide 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> | 17 Jul 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6034"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6034', 'show')">Poll Results: I Go, You Go, We All Go Expo</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6034" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6034">Poll Results: I Go, You Go, We All Go Expo -- Macworld Expo in New York City starts this week, but the results of last week's poll indicate most of you probably won't be there</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 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6035"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6035', 'show')">Poll Preview: Buy and Buy</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6035" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6035">Poll Preview: Buy and Buy -- In days of yore, Macworld Expo was the place to go for amazing deals on Macintosh hardware. Sales of Macs and peripherals at the show no longer catch the attention they once did, and the changing fortunes of local Macintosh dealers, computer superstores, mail order catalogs, and online retailers have all affected where we shop</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 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6037"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6037', 'show')">Hacking the Press, Part 2: Types of Publications</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6037" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6037">Last week I talked about the reasons you might want to work with the press; whether you're a developer looking for product exposure, or a non-profit looking for volunteers, knowing how to deal with the press can be a valuable tool</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 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6020"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6020', 'show')">Correction: IE 5.5b1 Not on MacHack CD</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6020" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6020">Correction: IE 5.5b1 Not on MacHack CD -- I screwed up! Contrary to what I said in "The MacHax Best Hack Contest 2000 Winners" in TidBITS-537, Internet Explorer 5.5b1 (the hack entry from the Microsoft Internet Explorer team) is not on the MacHack CD-ROM that's available for sale</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 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6021"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6021', 'show')">Poll Results: What A Tangled Web We Weave</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6021" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6021">Poll Results: What A Tangled Web We Weave -- Last week's poll asked what sort of tools you use when you create Web pages, and the results proved fascinating</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 2000</div></div>
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