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<h6>Copy Existing Filename to 'Save As' Field</h6>
<p><p>While many utilities provide file naming automation, they're mostly overkill for those cases when you need to make small variations in file content while ensuring the documents group together in a "by name" list.</p><p>In the Save As dialog, the default name is the current document name. You can quickly change this to match any existing file.</p><p>1. Make the list of files the active element. </p><p>2. Click on a grayed-out filename, which momentarily turns black.</p><p>3. The Save As field now contains the filename you just clicked.</p><p>You can modify the name (adding, say, "version 3") or overwrite that existing file you clicked.</p></p>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4753" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4753">FreePPP 2.6 Released -- Following a long period of public beta testing, Rockstar Studios, in conjunction with the FreePPP Group, has released a complete version of FreePPP 2.6, the popular free dialup software that lets Macs connect to the Internet</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 09 Mar 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4729"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4729', 'show')">No TidBITS Next Week</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4729" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4729">No TidBITS Next Week -- TidBITS will be taking a bit of a breather next week, so you won't see our next issue until 09-Mar-98. In part, we're taking a break because we're operating with about half our usual staff, but the time should also allow us to catch up on a bunch of administrative and other behind-the-scenes tasks</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 23 Feb 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4730"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4730', 'show')">French Mailing List Available</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4730" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4730">French Mailing List Available -- Thanks to the assiduous efforts of the French translation team, a separate mailing list is now available for people who want to receive TidBITS issues via email in French</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 23 Feb 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4733"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4733', 'show')">Personal Web Sharing</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4733" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4733">Personal Web Sharing -- Though it's been somewhat overlooked in recent hoopla regarding Apple and Claris, Apple recently released Personal Web Sharing 1.5, an update to the small-footprint Web server that ships as part of Mac OS 8</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 23 Feb 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4721"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4721', 'show')">Microsoft Expresses Explorer 4.0a</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4721" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4721">Microsoft Expresses Explorer 4.0a -- Microsoft has quietly released Internet Explorer 4.0a, which will also be available on the Microsoft Office 98 CD-ROM (currently in manufacturing)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 16 Feb 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4722" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4722">Netscape Increments Browsers -- Netscape Communications has released version 4.04.1 of both Netscape Communicator and the stand-alone version of Netscape Navigator, both of which are now available for free (see "Free Netscape" in TidBITS-414)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 16 Feb 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4724"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4724', 'show')">Apple Retreat or Focus (Followup)</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4724" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4724">Many TidBITS readers responded to Adam's article "Apple in 1998: Retreat or Focus?" that appeared last week in TidBITS-416 and covered some of Apple's recent business decisions and restructuring actions</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 16 Feb 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4686" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4686">Frontier 5.0 Ships -- UserLand Software, Inc., has finalized and released version 5.0 of Frontier, a free scripting environment which includes Web site management, CGI scripting, and network communications capabilities (Frontier's Web site features were reviewed in TidBITS-389)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 02 Feb 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4666"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4666', 'show')">Open Transport 1.3</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4666" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4666">Open Transport 1.3 -- Mac OS 8.1 includes Open Transport 1.3, an update to Apple's networking software. OT 1.3 offers general performance improvements, better recognition of serial ports - particularly in conjunction with PC Card modems - and numerous tweaks and bug fixes</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 26 Jan 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4667"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4667', 'show')">Mac OS 8.1 Delivers Under the Hood</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4667" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4667">Apple has released Mac OS 8.1, and the Macintosh community is buzzing with talk about the new components and trying to figure out the new (and optional) disk format, Macintosh Extended Format, also known as HFS Plus</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 26 Jan 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4668"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4668', 'show')">All About Macintosh Extended Format (HFS Plus)</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4668" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4668">The most talked-about but least understood feature of Mac OS 8.1 is an optional new file system known as Macintosh Extended Format (formerly known as HFS Plus)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 26 Jan 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4645"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4645', 'show')">Mac OS 8.1 Update Available</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4645" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4645">Mac OS 8.1 Update Available -- Today, Apple released Mac OS 8.1, an update to Mac OS 8.0 that includes support for Macintosh Extended Format disks, DVD-ROM and Universal Disk Format (UDF) disks, plus new versions of PC Exchange, Open Transport, the Location Manager, and the LaserWriter driver</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 19 Jan 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4625"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4625', 'show')">Jobs Announces $45 Million Profit</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4625" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4625">Jobs Announces $45 Million Profit -- Although Steve Jobs's keynote address at San Francisco's Macworld Expo didn't include much of his trademark showmanship - or news on Apple's ongoing search for a new CEO - he did end the presentation with a surprise: Apple expects to post a quarterly profit of $45 million on a total revenue of $1.575 billion</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 12 Jan 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4546" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4546">G3 Ethernet Update -- Apple has released an updated Ethernet driver (version 2.0.1) for its new Power Macintosh G3 systems (but, notably, not for the PowerBook G3)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 08 Dec 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4528" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4528">QuickTime 3.0 Preview -- Today, Apple released a much-awaited developer preview of QuickTime 3.0, also known as the QuickTime Media Layer. QuickTime is one of Apple's most successful technologies, and Apple hopes to extend its reach by making QuickTime 3.0 fully cross-platform</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 01 Dec 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4293"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4293', 'show')">Spare Keys for Your Mac</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4293" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4293">Like many people these days, I work from my home, though lately I've been spending more time protecting my possessions from a pair of unruly kittens. Kittens or no kittens, I don't have much face-to-face interaction with Mac users while I use my computer</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 24 Nov 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4246"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4246', 'show')">BBEdit 4.5.1... and 4.5.1a</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4246" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4246">BBEdit 4.5.1... and 4.5.1a -- Last week, Bare Bones Software released an update to BBEdit, a widely used text, HTML, and programming editor. According to the press release, the new BBEdit 4.5.1 supports HTML tags for style sheets, frames, scripts, and applets, plus provides enhanced HTML updating and validation</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 10 Nov 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4253"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4253', 'show')">Caching Your Chips</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4253" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4253">Beginning in TidBITS-334, we published a series of articles explaining the technical guts of a PowerPC-based Mac. We examined differences between PowerPC 601, 603, and 604 processors; Level 1 and Level 2 processor caches, the importance of the system bus, the 68K emulator, and other items.Since then, the PowerPC world has changed</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 10 Nov 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4226" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4226">During the last few weeks Apple has released two significant updates for Macs with ATA (IDE) hard disk drives. You may need one (or both) of these updates to correct problems that can lead to data loss or cause your Mac to fail to recognize its hard drive, resulting in the dreaded "flashing question mark" when you start your machine</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 03 Nov 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4209"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4209', 'show')">FileMaker Pro 4.0</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4209" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4209">FileMaker Pro 4.0 -- Claris has released FileMaker Pro 4.0, an update to their popular database that adds a Web server and technology acquired from Blue World Communications's Lasso to an established mix of easy-to-use relational database capabilities</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 27 Oct 1997</div></div>
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