Be aware - after troubleshooting an IE/QuickTime problem I had, I noticed that the AOL X Client installed two old Quicktime 5.0b11 plug-ins in my "Internet Plug-ins" folder, inside the "Library" folder.
It completely screwed up all QuickTime content, along with making IE screwy every now and then. I think that there are some other old files lurking in plug-ins (Shockwave or Flash?) or maybe elsewhere, so if you know of any or find any, reply!
Just to be safe, check both your user/Library/Internet Plug-ins Folder and the /Library/Internet Plug-ins Folder.
If you paste pictures into your Address Book, and then receive an email from someone with an address book picture, that image shows up with the email - quite nifty! You get the images into the address book by dragging the file containing the image into the right-hand square on the Edit screen of the Address book.
And if you don't have handy pictures of all your email acquaintances, just pick your favorite cartoon characters, download some icons, and create some stand-ins!!
Thanks to Resexcellence, you can now add more items to your 'Applications' and 'Documents' areas of the 'Recent Items' menu. This article explains how do do so, but makes it a bit more complicated than it need be.
The way I did it ... navigate to:
/Users/username/Library/Preferences
through the Terminal. Then type: pico com.apple.recentitems.plist
Now just add more apps and docs between the 'string' tags in the 'apps' and 'docs' sections until you think you have enough (I have 12). You'll need the full path to the apps, as well as their full name (most end in '.app'), in order for this to work. Do not repeat any apps or docs, save the .plist and logout/login and you'll have your extended 'Recent Items' list! Now as you add more items, the canned ones you used to lengthen the list will be replaced with the apps you're opening, but you'll always have more than five!
If your Sherlock screen has a "Can't Index" message next to your OS X volume, this is actually normal. The reasons why are detailed in Apple's Tech Info Library, in this article:
The gist of the article is that Sherlock can't index the entire drive, since OS X is a multi-user system. If it were to index the entire drive, you'd be able to see files and folders that may not be yours. So it indexes your home directory (which shows up as a separate, indexed "volume" in Sherlock), and blocks you from searching portions of the OS X drive that you may not have rights to examine.
Like many OS X users, I really love the fit and finish of Omnigroup's OmniWeb browser. It's very stable and so far has rendered every page I've thrown at it.
However, it does occasionally lock up at start-up, freezing the UI with it, forcing me to reboot. This is where a previous hint I reported here shows a practical value.
Read the rest of the article for a primer on "fsck", the file system check utility in Mac OS X.
This must be common knowledge by now but since no-one has mentioned it ... after you install the Developer Tools, the generic *nix distribution of Tomcat (an environment for working with Java Server Pages) works fine on MOSX.
The one you want is in this directory on the Jakarta Tomcat site, and the particular file you want is jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1.tar.gz. The 'Mac-ported' .sea & .hqx versions seem to have a classpath issue & look as if they are actually running in MRJ, not under OSX (sorry, I haven't had a really good look yet).
The version above runs exactly like on Linux - ie. started & stopped with the command-line, so you get to see errors & messages. One problem, with http on MOSX generally though, I simply can't access localhost from browsers running under Classic!
As many of you know well, PostgreSQL is a yet another open source SQL DBMS [Editor: ala mySQL, but a bit more robust, from what I've read]. Although they claimed compatibility of the database with OS X as of v7.1 and certainly it compiled, a few regression tests had always failed up until recently.
But, not any more. I grabbed the RC-4 source and it compiled just out of the box. Now, you have another choice for your database solutions.
Now, if I could only get its perl interface working...
The Address Book application reads and writes from a single pool of addresses each user owns. (Library/Addresses/...). There are a bunch of them that get added, by Mail, I assume. You can view them by adding a new category called TEMPORARY (uppercase is important), then viewing the Temporary addresses category that's already listed in the main window. (That you can't see them already may be some kind of bug.)
Here's the step by step:
In Address Book, create a new item. Then, click on the Categories button. You should see a dialog to set the categories. Click on the round plus (+) button. For the new category, name it "TEMPORARY" - no quotes, all caps. Click OK to save it. Then, cancel the new item. That's it.
Go back to the main screen and change the popdown to Temporary Items. The new all-caps Temporary category won't show up anymore, and you'll get to see more entries here than you did previously. That's why I think this is some kind of bug in Address Book.
In some Cocoa applications, if you command-click the toolbar button in the upper-right corner of the title bar, the toolbar will switch between Icon Only, Icon & Text, and Text Only modes.
I haven't had the chance to test this in many applications yet (primarily because there are still so few available), but it does seem to function in Mail, OmniWeb, Address Book, and Project Builder so far.
Unfortunately, it does not work in the Finder, where it would probably be the most useful.
OS X may be the world?s most advanced operating system, but tonight, I took it back into the early 80?s. In the early days of the internet (or Arpanet, back then), a text-based game known as Zork was all the rage. I remember playing it on a TI Silent 700 dumb terminal with thermal paper, connected to the net at a whopping 300 baud.
Zork was the second big computer adventure game (after Adventure, of course), and it featured an amazingly detailed universe, and a slick English-language command parser. Infocom eventually published the Zork games for the PC, but my memories are strictly from the dumb terminal era. The first three Zork games are available freely on the web; more recent versions are still owned and protected by Activision.
Zork was originally coded in MDL (pronounced muddle), but over the years, it was rewritten in C, so I set out on a mission to get it running on OS X. After some searching, and a little bit of editing, I got it to work (as the screenshot shows; click here for a larger version). It turns out the hardest part was finding all the pieces. Read the rest of this article if you?d like to know how it works, and for step-by-step installation instructions.
If you don't want all the details and just want to play, grab the binary download of a UNIX Zork engine (Jzip), the first three Zork game data files, and a Read Me from my "Griffman's OS Collection" page.
And yes, I know about (and own) "The Lost Treasures of Infocom" I & II for the Mac; that's not the point -- I wanted to see if Zork could be run in a terminal window on OS X -- and it can!
OS X may be the world?s most advanced operating system, but tonight, I took it back into the early 80?s. In the early days of the internet (or Arpanet, back then), a text-based game known as Zork was all the rage. I remember playing it on a TI Silent 700 dumb terminal with thermal paper, connected to the net at a whopping 300 baud.
