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<p><p>When you open a .dmg file, a disk image is mounted. You are then generally supposed to copy the contents of that disk image to your hard drive (to your Desktop, your Applications folder, or wherever). But what if you want to copy the whole disk image, including all its contents, as a folder? Hold the Option key, and drag the "proxy icon" in the title bar of the disk image window to the destination in the Finder.</p></p>
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<a href="/article/4269"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4269', 'show')">Web Reading Requires More than Just Character(s)</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4269" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4269">As I discussed in my article about onscreen typography in TidBITS-403, the Web has sparked renewed interest in fonts that are easier to read onscreen. Most of the responses I received either concurred with using typefaces such as New York or Georgia in place of the standard Times, or suggested alternatives such as Utopia</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 17 Nov 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4451"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4451', 'show')">Speed Jockeys on the Internet: Flying at 56K</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4451" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4451">When jet test pilots first sought to break the sound barrier, they did so without knowing exactly what was on the other side. Some believed the goal was impossible, that mankind had reached its speed limit</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 13 Nov 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4245" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4245">QuarkXPress 4.0 Released -- More than two years after the last release of QuarkXPress, Quark is shipping version 4.0 of the popular desktop publishing application</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 10 Nov 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4249" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4249">Connectix Updates Speed Doubler -- Connectix has posted an English updater for Speed Doubler that takes the recently released Speed Doubler 8.0 to 8.0.1A (see our MailBIT in TidBITS-402 for more Speed Doubler 8 information)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 10 Nov 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4228"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4228', 'show')">Better Typography Coming to a Screen Near You</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4228" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4228">Despite the many advantages of electronic publishing - it's relatively cheap, the potential audience is vast, content delivery can happen instantaneously - I am continually surprised at how many people still print hard copies of their email and Web pages</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 03 Nov 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4466"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4466', 'show')">Toss Your Cookies?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4466" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4466">I've been on the Internet for a while, so it didn't surprise me when I retrieved email for the webmaster address of one of my clients and had a message waiting with shouting, capital letters."STOP ALL THE COOKIES!!! Email me when you take out some of them, and then I and everyone else I told not to got to this site might come back."If you're not familiar with the term, a "cookie" or "magic cookie" is a short stream of text that a Web server can send to your Web browser</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 30 Oct 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4499" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4499">Web Design -- NetBITS managing editor Jeff Carlson will be winging his way to Orlando, Florida, next week to provide on-site email reports from the Web Design '97 conference run by Thunder Lizard Productions</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 02 Oct 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4105"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4105', 'show')">Clones Stood Up by Apple for "Date"</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4105" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4105">Clones Stood Up by Apple for "Date" -- Last week Apple restricted the terms of its Mac OS Up-to-Date program, offering discounted OS 8 upgrade paths only to people who purchase Apple Macintosh computers</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/4094"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4094', 'show')">Would I Belie to You?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4094" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4094">Would I Belie to You? The number of wordsmiths among the TidBITS readership revealed itself in response to last week's Macworld Expo article (see TidBITS-392)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 18 Aug 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4096"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4096', 'show')">Macworld Boston '97 Superlatives</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4096" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4096">One of the most enjoyable aspects of Macworld Expo is looking for items, products, and events that draw attention for unusual reasons. My search this year was rewarded with several that were out of the ordinary.Most Creative Use of a Pickle -- David Pogue, hawking his book, The Weird Wide Web, made a pickle glow and flash using a contraption he made from a wood frame, two nails to skewer the pickle, and a power cord from an old lamp</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 18 Aug 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4092"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4092', 'show')">Boston Macworld: Less Flash, Less Trash, More Questions</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4092" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4092">As I sat in my Boston hotel room on the first night of Macworld Expo, the local public television station was running "Triumph of the Nerds," a somewhat silly documentary about the history of the personal computer industry.When asked by the interviewer about Apple's historical arch-rival, Steve Jobs replied, "Microsoft has no taste, and I don't mean that in a small way; I mean it in a big way." With Jobs's surprise keynote announcement of a broad deal with the software giant, his sentiment seems to have changed to, "Microsoft may have no taste, but it's got cash and clout." (See Adam's article in this issue for more on the Apple-Microsoft deal.)A Bombshell Keynote in Plain Brown Wrapping -- After enduring the celebrity-heavy, effects-laden, razzle-dazzle keynote of Gil Amelio's Macworld keynote last January, I was surprised by the lack of flash in Jobs's performance</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 11 Aug 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2695" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2695">Apple Posts Lower-than-Expected Q3 Loss -- After the drama surrounding the departures of Gil Amelio and Ellen Hancock (see TidBITS-388), Apple's third fiscal quarter report came and went quietly</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/2223"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2223', 'show')">Driving Through Trees: Using GPSy</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2223" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2223">Karen Nakamura, who wrote the GPS overview article in this issue, contacted TidBITS with an interesting proposition: Would we be interested in testing some GPS units in tandem with her software, GPSy?Although none of us on staff have a good reason to use a GPS unit in the near future, we were tantalized by three factors: the futuristic ability to pinpoint one's position on Earth using orbiting satellites, the fact that Karen offered to write an article about a subject that interested us, and the chance to play with cool toys.Preparing to Race Satellites -- Karen shipped us a copy of GPSy and DeLorme's Street Atlas 3.0, along with two GPS units, a Garmin GPS 12XL and a DeLorme TripMate</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2190" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2190">As the newest member of the TidBITS staff, I haven't yet adjusted to the increased load of email that arrives after an article or review appears in an issue</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 09 Jun 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2187" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2187">I'm surprised at how much I rely on electronic mail. What used to be just another method of communicating has become my main link to the outside world, my to-do list, and a searchable database of projects</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 02 Jun 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/2174"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2174', 'show')">Apple Revamps Support Options</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2174" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2174">For the last several years, for those with 800-number access, if you experienced problems with your Mac, you could call Apple toll-free at 800/SOS-APPL</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 19 May 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/2167"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2167', 'show')">A PowerBook for Tiny Fingers</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2167" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2167">A PowerBook for Tiny Fingers -- Apple and IBM officially introduced the PowerBook 2400c last week, filling the sub-notebook category left vacant by the discontinued Duo line</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 12 May 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2162" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2162">Feeling Pushy? PointCast, Inc. and Marimba, Inc. this week released new Mac versions of their much-hyped "push technology" receivers. PointCast's Network (PowerPC only) has been pushed up to version 1.0.1, offering six additional channels including the Wall Street Journal, TechWeb, and the Chicago Tribune</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 05 May 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/2164"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2164', 'show')">Crowds of Clones</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2164" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2164">For years, one of the main laments about the Macintosh was Apple's failure early on to license the Macintosh and/or Mac OS to outside vendors. Now, Mac OS clone manufacturers like Power Computing and Motorola are prompting users to choose not only which model to buy, but from which vendor</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 05 May 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2156" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2156">Apple's Level 2 Cache Fix -- Last week, Apple released the 54xx/64xx L2 Cache Reset extension, fixing a bug that disabled the Level 2 processor cache in machines using Apple's "Alchemy" motherboard design</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
