I don't know if any of the GUI utilities still work in 10.1, but I was able to pin my dock to one side (or top/bottom) by taking the original code for pinning from the 10.0.4 version of DockMenus.plist and adding it to the DockMenus.plist file in 10.1. Refer to the original instructions for editing this file in "Move and Corner your Dock".

The code I added to the 10.1 DockMenus.plist file (~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist) after the closing [/dict] tag for key 1013 (as this was its original position) is as follows:

[dict]
    [key]command[/key]
    [integer]1014[/integer]
    [key]name[/key]
    [string]Pin[/string]
    [key]sub[/key]
    [array]
        [dict]
            [key]command[/key]
            [integer]1020[/integer]
            [key]name[/key]
            [string]Start[/string]
        [/dict]
        [dict]
            [key]command[/key]
            [integer]1021[/integer]
            [key]name[/key]
            [string]Center[/string]
        [/dict]
        [dict]
            [key]command[/key]
            [integer]1022[/integer]
            [key]name[/key]
            [string]End[/string]
        [/dict]
    [/array]
[/dict]

Happy pinning!

[Editor's note: The easy way to do this (but what fun is that?) is to get TinkerTool 2.0 Preview Release. Under 10.1, it installs as an additional preference panel - quite slick, actually, and still free!]

I've been using MAYA for MAC for the past few weeks, and was pretty miffed Saturday when I realized that the install Procedure does not work in X.1 (MAYA is only qualified to work in X.04). So I figured out how to make it work ... here is the install procedure:

1. Install OS X.04
   
2. Follow the MAYA for Mac install procedure.
   
3. Install the X.1 upgrade over X.04

You will now have MAYA running in X.1!

If you haven't had the chance yet, check out SNAX from CocoaTech. SNAX is a shareware Finder-replacement written entirely in Cocoa, and it has a number of interesting features, including:

• A customizable toolbar
  
• Contextual menus
  
• Multiple Get Info windows
  
• A preview pane which can be shown or hidden
  
• Full keyboard navigation
  
• Spring-loaded folders
  
• A global menu showing running processes

Take a look at this screenshot of the main SNAX window to get an idea of some of SNAX' features. I've played with it for a couple of hours now, and I'm quite impressed. The speed is good, and it seems to offer most of the Finder's features and more without quite so much overhead.

UPDATE: On Friday, 10/5/2001, Snax 1.1 was released. This release is optimized for OS X 10.1, and includes numerous bug fixes, speed tweaks, and a few new features. It's notably faster than the previous version on my 10.1 installation...

If you like SNAX, you can do something even more interesting with it. I snapped this screenshot of my OS X 10.1 box earlier tonight. Notice that Snax is running but the Finder is not. That's because Snax is my Finder. It's relatively trivial to replace the Finder with any program you wish, and I replaced it with SNAX for this screenshot.

Read the rest of this article if you'd like to find out how to make SNAX your permanent Finder...

From the X4U mailing list, it appears there's a bug in mail.app in 10.1 that only affects some users who run mail.app with no rules enabled. In some circumstances, mail.app will not delete the messages on the server, leading to repetitive downloads of the same email over and over (even those that have been deleted and emptied from the trash). Cricket (an Apple software engineer) writes to the list with the solution:

"Do you have any Mail rules set up? If not, delete your MessageSorting.plist (from ~/Library/Mail) and restart Mail. That should take care of the problem, which should only affect some POP users that have no rules set up. We plan to fix this in a Software Update."

[Editor's note: Tickingtimebomb contributed a tip on DVD screen grabs, which I wasn't able to test prior to posting. When I was able to test it, I had trouble replicating the results. In my haste to correct the tip, I chose to delete the posting and replaced it with the following. That was a mistake; I should have left the original posting in place and corrected the information. Sorry for the error in judgement, and credit for the following tip goes to Tickingtimebomb! -rob.]

It IS possible to take screenshots of DVD's, at least on some Macs. I was only successful when using SnapzPro for OS X and a bit of a contrived process on a machine with an NVidia GeForce3. I could not take snapshots on an ATI-equipped G4/350. If you've got an NVidia card, however, here's how it worked for me...

To take a DVD screenshot, launch the DVD player first, and find the image in the film you wish to capture. Pause the DVD player, and make sure the window is positioned such that no Finder windows will cover any portion of the image. Now activate the Finder and launch SnapzPro (even if it's already running) from your Applications folder. Once it's launched, immediately press the SnapzPro activation keys (shift-command-3 by default, but I switched them in 10.1 to shift-command-5). Do NOT click on the DVD player again, or you will have to re-launch SnapzPro. If you've done this right, the SnapzPro window capture menu will come up, and you can then capture a region or the whole screen, and the DVD output will be included.

This worked on the three movies I tried it on, but if anyone knows of an easier method, please let us know via the comments!

I was curious if anyone knows where the OS X Mail App keeps attachments/documents that you are working on when you open them from a mail message? I was working on a Word doc and saved consistently, but soon realized that it was just saving the open Word document to some ether land and not to an actual apparent location.. Is there any way to recover this document?

Thanks

Apparently the Toast preview release from Roxio had some sort of expiration date buried in the code - people are finding themselves suddenly unable to burn with Toast, as of sometime last weekend. From one of the various forums (I can't recall which one), the simple workaround is to set your clock backwards a week or so. Although this will mess up modification and creation dates on other files, the Toast Preview Release will be able to burn again.

Roxio's Toast beta site claims that Preview #2 is "coming soon", so this should be a short-lived workaround.

Pierre Igot figured out how to modify Internet Explorer's menu shortcut keys, and wrote up a how-to in this thread on the MacFixIt forums.

Pierre's method involves modifying the Localized.rsrc file, which consists of binary data used by the application. Note that his method can be expanded to modify nearly any application by doing the same thing - editing the Localized.rsrc file for the application in question. Be careful, however, as these are binary files. They look like gibberish (for the most part) in your editor, and if you change the length of the file, it may not run when you're done. Work on a copy of the application, just to be safe!

If you'd like to modify IE's menu shortcuts, head over to MacFixIt for the scoop!

-rob.

I am using an AirPort network at home, and want to use a more secure way of sending mail. My mail server accepts connections over SSH, SSH2, TSL and SSL, but I can't find a way to configure Mail.app to use these protocols.

Does anyone have an idea on how to accomplish a change of protocols in Mail.app? Or is this something that is best done in NetInfo Manager? I'd rather not remap the ports, since I have more than one mail account on different servers, and not all of them accept the secure protocols...

this might not be new to OS X, and/or this might be common knowledge - but it suprised the heck out of me... holding down the OPTION key while scrolling through a text window speeds up the scroll considerably (tested in BBEdit + TextEdit). great for code or getting through logs...

[Editor: I'm not sure when this was added, but it was news to me, too! Thanks for the tip, Anonymous!]