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<p><p>In Expose mode in Snow Leopard, press the Tab key to view all windows belonging to one application (equivalent to pressing F10 or Control-F3 on recent laptops). Press Tab again to switch between applications while remaining in Expose. You can also click an icon in the dock.</p></p>
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<a href="/article/7680"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7680', 'show')">Explaining the URL-Based Mac OS X Vulnerability</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7680" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7680">Exactly what is it about Mac OS X that is responsible for the security vulnerability currently being discussed? The situation is a little confusing, and I may be muddling some of the details, but here's my current understanding of the situation.As you know, when you double-click a document in the Finder, the application that "owns" that document starts up and opens the document</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 24 May 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7654"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7654', 'show')">Beating a Path to Path Finder 3.2</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7654" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7654">Beating a Path to Path Finder 3.2 -- The folks at Cocoatech have released version 3.2 of their flagship Finder replacement, Path Finder. With Path Finder, you can navigate your hard disks, see invisible items, sort in many ways (including "smart" sorting, which distinguishes applications, folders, and packages from normal files), make a new file or folder (without its jumping around the window!), list files into a text file, copy a pathname, accumulate files from many locations to be moved or copied to a single location (the "Drop Stack"), get extensive information about items on disk, and loads of other things you wish you could do from the Finder</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 03 May 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7634"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7634', 'show')">Version 5.1: A DragThing of Beauty</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7634" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7634">Version 5.1: A DragThing of Beauty -- TLA Systems's DragThing, a launcher and Dock replacement that we've been covering since its inception, has been upgraded to version 5.1</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/7579"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7579', 'show')">The Devonian Age Continues</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7579" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7579">The Devonian Age Continues -- Hard on the heels of last week's review of DEVONthink 1.8 comes version 1.8.1, offering the capability to index a document on disk without also importing it into the database; this meets my criticisms that the database is unnecessarily large and that deleting an original document to save disk space risks losing the data</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 15 Mar 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7581"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7581', 'show')">The New Face of FaceSpan</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7581" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7581">The New Face of FaceSpan -- After a long hiatus, FaceSpan has returned in a new version completely rewritten for Mac OS X. FaceSpan 4.0 is an application construction kit with AppleScript as the programming language: you "draw" your interface, you write AppleScript code in scripts attached to the interface items, you compile, and presto, you've got a stand-alone application</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 15 Mar 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7582"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7582', 'show')">Perl Made Easy with Affrus 1.0</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7582" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7582">Perl Made Easy with Affrus 1.0 -- Late Night Software has a history of picking up where Apple leaves off. Mac OS X includes AppleScript, but Apple's own Script Editor isn't all that great as an editing environment, and it can't debug at all</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 15 Mar 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7583"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7583', 'show')">Style Master 3.5 Works Web Site Wizardry</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7583" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7583">Style Master 3.5 Works Web Site Wizardry -- Western Civilisation's Style Master has long been my favorite application for creating, editing, and previewing Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in Web pages (see "Precision Web Pages with Style Master" in TidBITS-501)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 15 Mar 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7584"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7584', 'show')">NoteTaker 1.8 Hits More High Notes</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7584" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7584">NoteTaker 1.8 Hits More High Notes -- AquaMinds has released version 1.8 of their flagship notebook/outliner program, NoteTaker (see "Take Note of NoteTaker" in TidBITS-677)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 15 Mar 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7575"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7575', 'show')">DEVONthink Thinks, So You Don't Have To</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7575" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7575">In case you've forgotten what a snippet keeper is or why you might need one, here's a case in point. Last week, a note appeared on TidBITS Talk, containing three URLs pointing to Web pages with information I found especially valuable</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 08 Mar 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7507"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7507', 'show')">Give Me Death and Give Me Liberty</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7507" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7507">Give Me Death and Give Me Liberty -- Research Software Design's bibliography and note-taking program Papyrus was reviewed four years ago in "Best Footnote Forward: Papyrus 8.0.7" in TidBITS-514; a couple of years later, development ceased</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 19 Jan 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7461"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7461', 'show')">AppleScript Gets a Truly Definitive Guide</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7461" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7461">AppleScript is Apple's system-level programming language for driving and automating applications. It was first made available as an option for the ill-fated System 7 Pro in late 1993; shortly thereafter Apple came to its senses and AppleScript has been present in every new system and on every new Mac since then</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 08 Dec 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7412"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7412', 'show')">Default Folder X & QuicKeys X: Upgrade Before Panther!</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7412" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7412">Default Folder X & QuicKeys X: Upgrade Before Panther! St. Clair Software has published version 1.9.1 of their popular Open/Save dialog enhancement utility, Default Folder X</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 27 Oct 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7402"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7402', 'show')">DragThing 5.0 Does Its Thing, Again</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7402" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7402">DragThing 5.0 Does Its Thing, Again -- TLA Systems has released version 5.0 of the launcher utility DragThing, adding Panther support (while keeping it compatible with Jaguar)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 20 Oct 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7372" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7372">Panther-Prepared PopChar Published -- Ergonis Software has released PopChar X version 2.1.2, an update to Gunther Blaschek's well-known utility for easily entering non-ASCII characters</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/7351"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7351', 'show')">Panorama V Goes Native</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7351" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7351">Panorama V Goes Native -- ProVUE Development has released a public preview of the Mac OS X-native version V of its flagship database program, Panorama, last reviewed in "Seeing the Light with Panorama" in TidBITS-606</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/7319"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7319', 'show')">Go Hog Wild with Hog Bay Notebook</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7319" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7319">Back in 2001, after I'd written several TidBITS articles about intriguing ways to store and retrieve information on your Mac, a number of readers attempted to impress upon me that for some folks, simpler is better</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 25 Aug 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7289"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7289', 'show')">True Confessions of a Mailsmith Switcher</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7289" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7289">Email clients are a lot like dogs. Why? Well, for one thing, their owners are in constant denial. The unfortunate passerby may have the dog's teeth embedded in her shin, with blood running down her leg - the owner will still look her right in the eye and deny that the dog is biting her</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/7276"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7276', 'show')">iData Pro X Opportunity</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7276" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7276">iData Pro X Opportunity -- If you were intrigued by our review of iData Pro X and have been thinking of trying out the software for yourself, now is a good time (see "The Digital Shoebox: iData Pro X 1.0.5" in TidBITS-675)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/7264"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7264', 'show')">New Life for Western Civilisation</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7264" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7264">New Life for Western Civilisation -- Style Master, Western Civilisation's flagship editor for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), has arrived on Mac OS X with version 3 (see "Precision Web Pages with Style Master" in TidBITS-501 for more details)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/7266"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7266', 'show')">Have a Nice Strip</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7266" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7266">Have a Nice Strip -- SoftChaos's WorkStrip 3 is a major upgrade to WorkStrip X (see TidBITS-647). WorkStrip is like having multiple Docks blended with the classic Now Menus; its hierarchical menus and file-list panels are excellent for file navigation and manipulation, and its workspace organization is great for assembling applications, documents, and folders specific to particular projects</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->