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<h6>Disabling Dock Space-Making Feature</h6>
<p><p>Having a hard time dragging a file into a folder in the Dock without the Dock trying to make room for it? Holding down Command while dragging the item temporarily disables this Dock feature.</p></p>
<a href="/article/1682"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1682', 'show')">QuickDraw GX at the Expo</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1682" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1682">After writing about QuickDraw GX in TidBITS-243 , I settled in to wait for Macworld Expo, where I hoped to see the wonders of GX fonts in action. GX has gobs of practical problems, but I thought (and still think) that the fonts are compelling enough to make some abandon practicality and to make others improve the practicality.Mainstream vendors of the feature-laden monstrosities we consider "popular" programs appear to be taking a wait-and-see approach to supporting GX fonts (though support for the GX printing architecture is more common)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 09 Jan 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1694"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1694', 'show')">Putting DOS in the Machine</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1694" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1694">If you've ever worked in a "mixed-platform environment" (MIS speak for an organization having different computers running different operating systems), you've probably experienced frustration over file conversion, not to mention general angst over the fact that some programs only run on one operating system.The cold, hard, business facts of life currently state that some people (who would otherwise happily use Macintoshes) simply must use DOS or Windows software</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 02 Jan 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1719" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1719">About twenty years ago, I enjoyed playing with colorforms. Colorforms came with shapes made of rubbery material, which could be placed on a smooth surface to create scenes</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 05 Dec 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/1744"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1744', 'show')">Why meet in person?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1744" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1744">Why meet in person? Bittco Solutions is now shipping Co-motion 1.5 and the new Co-motion Lite. Co-motion enables users at different locations to engage in brainstorming and decision-making sessions, using most any network as a communication conduit (including the Internet over a TCP connection)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 14 Nov 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1773" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1773">LaserWriter 8.2 was recently released by Apple, and they recommend using it instead of any previous 8.x driver. Fixes and changes mentioned include: improved printing of PICTs containing rotated objects, improved Chooser setup routine, and a change in the default output device - the 8.2 driver always defaults back to the printer as the print job destination</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 24 Oct 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1774" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1774">QuickDraw GX -- In preparing the three part series about QuickDraw GX (starting in TidBITS-243), I found the Peirce Guide to QuickDraw GX Printing quite helpful</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 24 Oct 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1785" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1785">Financial Software Shake-Up -- In the continuing merger merry-go-round, Microsoft and Intuit announced amicable merger plans at a joint press conference on 12-Oct-94</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 17 Oct 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/1798"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1798', 'show')">New versions of Quicken</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1798" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1798">New versions of Quicken -- Quicken 5.0 for Macintosh should be available on shelves on 13-Oct-94. New features noted in the Intuit propaganda include a Financial Calendar, which helps with entering repetitive expenses and scheduling recurring transactions, such as computer loans and car payments</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 10 Oct 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1810" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1810">QuickDraw GX Printer Drivers -- It will take time before all printers and fax modems have GX drivers, but Andy Ihlenfeldt passed on some encouraging thoughts</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 03 Oct 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1812" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1812">System 7.5 -- The TidBITS-243 article about upgrading to System 7.5 provoked commentary from several readers. Carsten Klapp wrote, "I for one am not going to rush out and buy System 7.5 right away, as I did when System 7.1 came out, because Apple does not yet recognize the importance of the people who are the first to buy a new product</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 03 Oct 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1816" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1816">After I quit my job as a Word Support Engineer at Microsoft last spring, I ignored Word for a few weeks and then plunged into the task of writing a book about Word 6</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 03 Oct 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/1819"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1819', 'show')">Adobe Type Manager 3.8</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1819" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1819">Adobe Type Manager 3.8 -- Although Adobe Type Manager 3.7 comes free with any QuickDraw GX product (including both System 7.5 and Peirce Print Tools), you can upgrade any version of ATM to version 3.8 for $29.95</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1820" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1820">QuickDraw GX correction -- I regrettably and erroneously wrote in TidBITS-244 that you cannot generate a PostScript file by printing to disk through the Print dialog box</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/1821"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1821', 'show')">Speed Disk Fix</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1821" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1821">Speed Disk Fix -- In TidBITS-243, Mark reported that serious problems with the Speed Disk 3.0 portion of Norton Utilities 3.0 had caused Symantec to suspend Norton Utilities shipments</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/1827"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1827', 'show')">Preliminary Practical Primer to QuickDraw GX, Part III</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1827" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1827">This article is the third and last in the TidBITS QuickDraw GX mini-series. This part introduces QuickDraw GX fonts, pointing out amazing features and potential problems.If you've owned a Mac forever, you probably remember the old-style font world of bitmapped fonts, downloadable PostScript fonts, and (toward the end of the 80s) DeskWriter fonts</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/1835"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1835', 'show')">Preliminary Practical Primer to QuickDraw GX, Part II</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1835" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1835">What a week! The more I learn about GX, the less it turns out that I (or other people) know. I had hoped to explain GX fonts this week, but I'm holding off for next week in hopes of presenting more complete information</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1836" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1836">"OK," you may be thinking, "I read parts I and II of the QuickDraw GX article, and I now know a lot about printing with QuickDraw GX. I run five programs regularly and only one of them even supports the GX printing architecture</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1840" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1840">BBEdit T-Shirts -- Like many vendors, Bare Bones Software had a T-shirt done for the Macworld Expo, and their BBEdit "It Doesn't Suck" T-shirts experienced such popularity that Bare Bones Software has announced that the T-shirts are officially for sale</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/1844"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1844', 'show')">Where to Buy System 7.5</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1844" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1844">Someday Apple will set up an affordable software subscription service. In exchange for a nominal fee, Apple will automatically send users new software on a biannual basis</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/1845"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1845', 'show')">Preliminary Practical Primer to QuickDraw GX, Part I</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1845" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1845">QuickDraw GX had a great deal of advance press, which isn't surprising given that it was originally supposed to ship with the first release of System 7 three years ago</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
