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<h6>Expand Finder Columns Quickly</h6>
<p><p>Column view in the Finder is great for navigating through your disk's hierarchy, but the columns often aren't wide enough to show the full names of all the files. To expand a column to a width that will show all file names in their entirety, double-click the handle that you would normally drag to expand or shrink the column. To expand all the visible columns to that width, Option-double-click the handle.</p></p>
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<a href="/article/6780"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6780', 'show')">Two Bytes of the Cherry: Unicode and Mac OS X, Part 2</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6780" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6780">In the first part of this article, I introduced you to Unicode, a grand unification scheme whereby every character in every writing system would be represented by a unique value, up to a potential one million distinct characters and symbols</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6767" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6767">In a surprise joint press conference Saturday morning in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates, along with the legal representatives of nine U.S</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 01 Apr 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6774"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6774', 'show')">Two Bytes of the Cherry: Unicode and Mac OS X, Part 1</a></h4>
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<a href="/article/6751"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6751', 'show')">Font Reserve Moves to Mac OS X</a></h4>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6708" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6708">The goal of a continuous speech recognition program is to let you dictate what your computer should type. In December 1999, when IBM shipped the first Mac version of such a program, the sound from most users wasn't dictation but a groan</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<a href="/article/6600"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6600', 'show')">Grep Better with BBEdit 6.5</a></h4>
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<a href="/article/6594"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6594', 'show')">Apple's Dirty Little Secret</a></h4>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6555" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6555">Western Civilisation Offers Style Master 2.0 -- For webmasters who write their own HTML, Western Civilisation has long been the source of the best instruction and information on the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) protocol, as well as the best utility for editing it, Style Master (see "Precision Web Pages with Style Master" in TidBITS-501)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 04 Jun 2001</div></div>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 04 Jun 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6441"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6441', 'show')">Boswell: A Text Motel</a></h4>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6297" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6297">REALbasic 3.0 Ships -- REAL Software has released REALbasic 3.0, the first major upgrade since April 2000. REALbasic is a tool for building applications: you draw your interface (windows, buttons, text fields and so on), fill in the code using an easy but powerful object-oriented BASIC dialect, and compile</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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