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Tog Takes on Mac OS X 10.3

Posted by pudge on from the go-get-em-tog dept.

Rick Zeman writes "Bruce 'Tog' Tognazzini, founder of Apple's Human Interface Group years ago, has finally pointed his electrons to Mac OS X 10.3. He's been dormant for while, and hasn't said anything since the early days of Mac OS X. His new articles include 'Panther: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly' and 'The Top Nine Reasons why the Dock Sucks,' all coming from A Guy Who Knows."

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  1. Mirror by delta407 · · Score: 5, Informative
    After 1 comment, the site is definitely very slow, but I managed to get a mirror before the server went down in flames.
  2. Re:Dock by oscast · · Score: 5, Informative

    "All documents look the same" Um, no they don't. "But for the most part he is right. All documents look the same, no tagging, trash can in the dock, dragging from the dock erases what you drag. It's dangerous." No it doesn't. Dragging to the dock creates an alias (shortcut for you Windows users). Dragging away from the dock simply d-letes the alias

  3. Re:Two simple changes to improve the dock by oscast · · Score: 5, Informative

    "If you notice in Windows XP, you can't change the size of the taskbar"

    When items get added to it... something's got to give. You either need to make the items smaller or show less image data. Apple chose the wiser of the two options before it. The ability to lock the dock would be a step backwards IMHO.

    "For the OS X dock this would be a good feature beacuse it is easy to accidentally remove programs from the dock by slightly dragging the mouse when you double click"

    You don't double click items in the dock to launch/activate them. Its all single-click. Second, you have to drag an item relatively far outside the dock to remove it. If you slightly move it... (as per your analogy) the item snaps back to its origional position.

    "and it is easy to change the size of the dock by accidentally dragging the mouse on the border."

    You don't resize the dock by dragging the mouse on its border. You have to command-click the line-seperator and drag... (a combination you wouldn't be using otherwise when at the dock and so it makes the chance of accidentally re-sizing the dock almost impossible.

  4. Re:Two simple changes to improve the dock by daeley · · Score: 5, Informative

    Enter in Terminal:

    defaults write com.apple.dock pinning end
    defaults write com.apple.dock orientation right

    Then restart the Dock. Enjoy!

    --
    I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
  5. Safari's hidden feature imports bookmarks! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Tog writes "The same problem is plaguing the Safari browser. You can't elect to import bookmarks into Safari, and there's no way to get them back out. No corporation would support a single-source supplier, and no individual should either"

    There's a hidden Safari feature which allows you to import bookmarks ...

    Type the following command in Terminal (while Safari is NOT running):

    Quit Safari. Enter the following command in Terminal ...

    defaults write com.apple.safari IncludeDebugMenu 1

    Launch Safari -- you'll have a Debug menu added to the application's bar. Amongst the Debug menu options are two ways to import bookmarks.

    To get rid of Debug, quit Safari and enter the following command in Terminal ...

    defaults write com.apple.safari IncludeDebugMenu 0