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my ISP, sonic.net, used to provide this, (10 years ago, when i signed up for non-AOL internet) but i just checked their sales page and it appears that service is no longer available. (ssh shell access is still available though their dial-up internet service though)
well since you are changing subjects from mice to trackpad, I'm quite happy with my 6 button trackpad on my iBook:)
as far as muscle memory/easy target acquisition, vs focus follows mouse goes, to each his own. i find infinitely tall menus 1000 times more productive than menus that are only 20 or 30 pixels tall. i also *personally* find that focus follows mouse to be quite antiproductive. however highlight to copy, mouse3 to paste makes up for quite a bit of my personal disadvantage - though not all of it.
ok, heres my way of redeeming myself (yes i know i'm also replying to myself)
Apple had this feature (save searches for later use) in the ill fated Copland preview in the mid 1990's. in fact i got the impression that apple was resurrecting many features from Copland during the WWDC keynote (see Automator)
Someone might want to tell Kensington, Microsoft, Logitech, Wacom, etc that their mice don't work with the Mac. Someone might also want to tell apple to stop selling those mice in their online and retail stores...
as for the global menubar, you and Paul Fitts should have a little talk.
Can't you use some bluetooth headset? My phone (Sony-Ericcson T616) only has problems talking to my computer when I'm in the garage, and the computer at the other end of the house. So maybe a bluetooth headset will do the trick? Just keep the phone in a central location.:)
802.11a running at 5.7 GHz is not compatible with either b or g, as they run at 2.4 GHz.
802.11b runs at 11 megabits per second, whereas both 802.11a and 802.11g both run at 54 megabits per second. since 802.11b, and 802.11g both run at the same frequency, they are mostly compatible, but once you get an 802.11b node on a g network, everything slows down to (near) 802.11b speeds for all the g nodes.
802.11a never really took off because it didn't work with existing infrastructure, but since b and g can interoperate, 802.11g is the future as 802.11b quickly becomes an also-ran.
802.11i is the new security protocol that is implemented ontop of 802.11g and presumably a and b. sadly, i'm not familiar with 802.11x so i can't comment on it.
i have had a DMR (no, not THAT kind of DMR) for a few years and have had mixed results. it works, and it's nice to fire off applescripts at the press of a button (it also works with JVC vcr remotes - which i have 2 of!) but it has poor support for Mac OS X. the software feels like a quick and dirty port, and it looks like one too. on top of that, if you have customized your OS config in any way, you are SOL. the software refuses to start. i don't recommend this antiquated product. instead, i do recommend the bluetooth solution. (which i am moving up to over the next week:D)
if he was "the mad, raving, lunatic of the high-tech industry," whoever publishes his tripe would just ignore him. it seems to me he's more the village drunk of the high-tech industry. someone can't help but to feel sorry for the fool, otherwise they'd quit publishing his trash that isn't even tabloid worthy...
he soils the name of my favorite keyboard layout too.
does anyone remember thinking that one floppy was "a lot of data"? Then 1 CD? Now 1 DVD? I don't flinch when I back up my files to 2 DVDs and 1 CD. yes, yes, no.
i remember having a double sided 5.25" floppy disk all to myself, and i never filled the 1st side! then i got a mac with a 20 Megabyte Hard drive. i was in heaven.
later i had a new mac with a whopping 120 Megabyte hard drive. this machine also had a bay for a CD-ROM! Well i won a copy of Myst so i had to get the CD-ROM drive to play it:) 750 Megabyte was amazing! and to be able to *write* that (i did it at school a coupled years later) as just mind boggling.
By the time 4.7 gigabyte writable DVD's came out we were already working with 30 or 40 gigabyte hard drives. by the time i got one, i already had a 120 gigabyte hard drive in my computer, so it wasn't that big of a deal, it was nice to be able to burn that much data in one go, but it was evolutionary rather than revolutionary.
Excel was actually quite the pioneer. it was the *first* spreadsheet program that had a full blown GUI. (which was later ported to windows ^_^) every spreadsheet program before was driven from a text based console. huge change. major progress. probably Microsoft's only first. (aside from Bob)
* Grouped sorting sorts the groups ascending or descending, depending on your settings, but it only sorts the items in the groups ascending. I haven't found an option to fix that. (Yet. Anyone have any suggestions?)
I figured out how to get the behavior I wanted, but it isn't as strait forward as it should be. First, I chose View -> Arrange By -> Edit Custom Arrangements. The Custom Arrangements: Mail window opens.
From here I can click New, give it a title and set the group arrangement to Date Received. In the Third menu, I chose Newest On Top. This sets it to the way it has been all along - sorting the items in the group by Date Sent, Oldest on Top! When I tell it to sort the items in the group, Date Received is disabled. Why? Because I used it to sort the group.* Well I found an alternative that appears to give me the correct behavior - most of the time. Sort items in group by Priority, with Highest on top.
Now that I've created a custom Arrangement, I can choose View -> Arrange By -> <title of custom arrangement I set above>. Since I almost never get email with a non-normal priority, my email sorts as expected - most recently received email on top. If I do get a higher than normal priority email, it'll find itself sorted to the top of the group (not that big of a deal) and if it's a lower priority email, I'll never see it because it will jump to the bottom of the group.:)
That's 1 annoyance down... Here's a replacement;)
With HTML email, Entourage has inherited IE 5's Anti-Aliasing bugs! For this particular bug I've provided screenshots, click the links to see my examples.
* Microsoft just loves to provide me with roadblocks! I wonder what the logic is behind preventing me from sorting the items in a group in the same order as the group itself is...
[boots word 2004 for the second time] [use the Mac OS X Character Pallet to insert the random Unicode characters] yes, but it isn't as clean as TextEdit (some characters show up in word as a box, others show up as they are expected)
Don't forget that the Student/Teacher also comes with three CD Keys. Someone in your household is supposed to be a student or teacher if you want it though.
Anyway, after playing around with Entourage 2004 (to me the only reason I need office, the new word, and excel are just gravy) for a few hours, I just wanted to share my first impressions:
The Good:
I like the little popup notifications in the corner when I have new mail. Although now that I think about it, its a bit Windowsish - not that's a bad thing.
I like the grouped sorting. I always sort my messages in the order in which they are received, descending. Entourage groups them so I have little blue headings for Today, Yesterday, etc. This helps me organize my email better.
The other nice thing is that you can tell it to hide read messages. I have this set on all my mailing list filtered folders to keep track of things a bit better.
I'm quite happy to see that I can *easily* use certificates so that I can digitally sign my messages. (assuming that you can figure out how to import them in the first place, see below)
Unicode Support! (need i say more?)
The last new feature that I enjoy with the new Entourage is that you can finally control the autocorrect settings without waiting for word to boot.
The Bad:
The Entourage database is bigger than v.X.
Grouped sorting sorts the groups ascending or descending, depending on your settings, but it only sorts the items in the groups ascending. I haven't found an option to fix that. (Yet. Anyone have any suggestions?)
Changing folders with a lot of messages seems a bit slower, probably due to those Today, Yesterday etc. headers, and the hiding of read messages.
Entourage still doesn't have a grammar checker.
Creation and/or importing of certificates is anything but obvious. This isn't even made clear in Help. It took me 20 minutes just to find a link to the Microsoft website that than had links to several Certificate Authorities. Then the one I chose (because the page said that they are free and trusted) was anything but clear as to how to create a certificate (no longer Microsoft land I know) and Entourage doesn't trust them to boot, so I can only assume that neither does anyone else's email client.
The Ugly:
I think the new icons are a throwback to the Office 98 days. They are flat and ugly, I want my aqualicious icons back.:(
When I tried to install the new Handheld Sync Conduit, the authentication box said "Hendhel-" (with a cut off 'd') instead of OK. And than it turned out that it was the same old handheld conduit that shipped late in the Entourage X life.
I don't get enough information in that little popup notification box. I would like to see *who* the message is from, as well as the folder it was filtered to.
I can't move the little popup notification box. It is stuck in the lower right corner
The popup notification box only seems to appear when I get new mail and Entourage isn't the currently running application. Preview Pane on the right doesn't give me enough options on the mail list on the left. I want more than 2 columns of information!
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my ISP, sonic.net, used to provide this, (10 years ago, when i signed up for non-AOL internet) but i just checked their sales page and it appears that service is no longer available. (ssh shell access is still available though their dial-up internet service though)
maybe, but it didn't put it in your face like entourage and tiger do.
well since you are changing subjects from mice to trackpad, I'm quite happy with my 6 button trackpad on my iBook :)
as far as muscle memory/easy target acquisition, vs focus follows mouse goes, to each his own. i find infinitely tall menus 1000 times more productive than menus that are only 20 or 30 pixels tall. i also *personally* find that focus follows mouse to be quite antiproductive. however highlight to copy, mouse3 to paste makes up for quite a bit of my personal disadvantage - though not all of it.
ok, heres my way of redeeming myself (yes i know i'm also replying to myself)
Apple had this feature (save searches for later use) in the ill fated Copland preview in the mid 1990's. in fact i got the impression that apple was resurrecting many features from Copland during the WWDC keynote (see Automator)
old news.
Microsoft Entourage has been able to save searches for later use (a smart folder) since its debut in 2001.
hmm... thats twice in as many weeks that i've put microsoft in better light... whats happening to me?!
on one end of the spectrom, i have HitchHikers Guide To The Galaxy.
:)
on the other i have 1984.
take your pick
Someone might want to tell Kensington, Microsoft, Logitech, Wacom, etc that their mice don't work with the Mac. Someone might also want to tell apple to stop selling those mice in their online and retail stores...
as for the global menubar, you and Paul Fitts should have a little talk.
Can't you use some bluetooth headset? My phone (Sony-Ericcson T616) only has problems talking to my computer when I'm in the garage, and the computer at the other end of the house. So maybe a bluetooth headset will do the trick? Just keep the phone in a central location. :)
bzzz
802.11a running at 5.7 GHz is not compatible with either b or g, as they run at 2.4 GHz.
802.11b runs at 11 megabits per second, whereas both 802.11a and 802.11g both run at 54 megabits per second. since 802.11b, and 802.11g both run at the same frequency, they are mostly compatible, but once you get an 802.11b node on a g network, everything slows down to (near) 802.11b speeds for all the g nodes.
802.11a never really took off because it didn't work with existing infrastructure, but since b and g can interoperate, 802.11g is the future as 802.11b quickly becomes an also-ran.
802.11i is the new security protocol that is implemented ontop of 802.11g and presumably a and b. sadly, i'm not familiar with 802.11x so i can't comment on it.
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well, since he (she?!) obviously doesn't want it, you can send one my way ;)
:)
spambait@ForgottenNewbies.com - since i run the server, i know it isn't going to disappear into the void like hotmail and yahoo appear to be doing
is is too late to put in a me too?
spambait@ForgottenNewbies.com
send off an invite to spambait@ForgottenNewbies.com and i'll try to take advantage of it :D
i have had a DMR (no, not THAT kind of DMR) for a few years and have had mixed results. it works, and it's nice to fire off applescripts at the press of a button (it also works with JVC vcr remotes - which i have 2 of!) but it has poor support for Mac OS X. the software feels like a quick and dirty port, and it looks like one too. on top of that, if you have customized your OS config in any way, you are SOL. the software refuses to start. i don't recommend this antiquated product. instead, i do recommend the bluetooth solution. (which i am moving up to over the next week :D)
if he was "the mad, raving, lunatic of the high-tech industry," whoever publishes his tripe would just ignore him. it seems to me he's more the village drunk of the high-tech industry. someone can't help but to feel sorry for the fool, otherwise they'd quit publishing his trash that isn't even tabloid worthy...
he soils the name of my favorite keyboard layout too.
You might as well mod your dishwasher with a plexiglass window in front, and neon lights that catch the water sprays while it's running.
:P
i wouldn't be surprised if someone has already don that
750 Megabyte was amazing
especially considering that the biggest discs at the time were 650 MB! (read "D'oh!")
does anyone remember thinking that one floppy was "a lot of data"? Then 1 CD? Now 1 DVD?
:) 750 Megabyte was amazing! and to be able to *write* that (i did it at school a coupled years later) as just mind boggling.
I don't flinch when I back up my files to 2 DVDs and 1 CD.
yes, yes, no.
i remember having a double sided 5.25" floppy disk all to myself, and i never filled the 1st side! then i got a mac with a 20 Megabyte Hard drive. i was in heaven.
later i had a new mac with a whopping 120 Megabyte hard drive. this machine also had a bay for a CD-ROM! Well i won a copy of Myst so i had to get the CD-ROM drive to play it
By the time 4.7 gigabyte writable DVD's came out we were already working with 30 or 40 gigabyte hard drives. by the time i got one, i already had a 120 gigabyte hard drive in my computer, so it wasn't that big of a deal, it was nice to be able to burn that much data in one go, but it was evolutionary rather than revolutionary.
Excel was actually quite the pioneer. it was the *first* spreadsheet program that had a full blown GUI. (which was later ported to windows ^_^) every spreadsheet program before was driven from a text based console. huge change. major progress. probably Microsoft's only first. (aside from Bob)
Ahh the joys of self replies :)
:)
;)
:)
* Grouped sorting sorts the groups ascending or descending, depending on your settings, but it only sorts the items in the groups ascending. I haven't found an option to fix that. (Yet. Anyone have any suggestions?)
I figured out how to get the behavior I wanted, but it isn't as strait forward as it should be. First, I chose View -> Arrange By -> Edit Custom Arrangements. The Custom Arrangements: Mail window opens.
From here I can click New, give it a title and set the group arrangement to Date Received. In the Third menu, I chose Newest On Top. This sets it to the way it has been all along - sorting the items in the group by Date Sent, Oldest on Top! When I tell it to sort the items in the group, Date Received
is disabled. Why? Because I used it to sort the group.* Well I found an alternative that appears to give me the correct behavior - most of the time. Sort items in group by Priority, with Highest on top.
Now that I've created a custom Arrangement, I can choose View -> Arrange By -> <title of custom arrangement I set above>. Since I almost never get email with a non-normal priority, my email sorts as expected - most recently received email on top. If I do get a higher than normal priority email, it'll find itself sorted to the top of the group (not that big of a deal) and if it's a lower priority email, I'll never see it because it will jump to the bottom of the group.
That's 1 annoyance down... Here's a replacement
With HTML email, Entourage has inherited IE 5's Anti-Aliasing bugs! For this particular bug I've provided screenshots, click the links to see my examples.
Notice that the bold text is not AA'd, and the text after Apple Computer, Inc. is not AA'd
Now it gets worse!
In IE 5, I used to select text to fix the AA glitch, but now, it just throws the layout around for bold, and the fixed glitch does stick for the line after Apple.
I'm off to give my list of gripes to Microsoft
* Microsoft just loves to provide me with roadblocks! I wonder what the logic is behind preventing me from sorting the items in a group in the same order as the group itself is...
Sadly, i don't know how i would test this, so i'll leave it up to someone else to figure out. However, my gut says "no" :\
[boots word 2004 for the second time]
[use the Mac OS X Character Pallet to insert the random Unicode characters]
yes, but it isn't as clean as TextEdit (some characters show up in word as a box, others show up as they are expected)
Don't forget that the Student/Teacher also comes with three CD Keys. Someone in your household is supposed to be a student or teacher if you want it though.
:(
Anyway, after playing around with Entourage 2004 (to me the only reason I need office, the new word, and excel are just gravy) for a few hours, I just wanted to share my first impressions:
The Good:
I like the little popup notifications in the corner when I have new mail. Although now that I think about it, its a bit Windowsish - not that's a bad thing.
I like the grouped sorting. I always sort my messages in the order in which they are received, descending. Entourage groups them so I have little blue headings for Today, Yesterday, etc. This helps me organize my email better.
The other nice thing is that you can tell it to hide read messages. I have this set on all my mailing list filtered folders to keep track of things a bit better.
I'm quite happy to see that I can *easily* use certificates so that I can digitally sign my messages. (assuming that you can figure out how to import them in the first place, see below)
Unicode Support! (need i say more?)
The last new feature that I enjoy with the new Entourage is that you can finally control the autocorrect settings without waiting for word to boot.
The Bad:
The Entourage database is bigger than v.X.
Grouped sorting sorts the groups ascending or descending, depending on your settings, but it only sorts the items in the groups ascending. I haven't found an option to fix that. (Yet. Anyone have any suggestions?)
Changing folders with a lot of messages seems a bit slower, probably due to those Today, Yesterday etc. headers, and the hiding of read messages.
Entourage still doesn't have a grammar checker.
Creation and/or importing of certificates is anything but obvious. This isn't even made clear in Help. It took me 20 minutes just to find a link to the Microsoft website that than had links to several Certificate Authorities. Then the one I chose (because the page said that they are free and trusted) was anything but clear as to how to create a certificate (no longer Microsoft land I know) and Entourage doesn't trust them to boot, so I can only assume that neither does anyone else's email client.
The Ugly:
I think the new icons are a throwback to the Office 98 days. They are flat and ugly, I want my aqualicious icons back.
When I tried to install the new Handheld Sync Conduit, the authentication box said "Hendhel-" (with a cut off 'd') instead of OK. And than it turned out that it was the same old handheld conduit that shipped late in the Entourage X life.
I don't get enough information in that little popup notification box. I would like to see *who* the message is from, as well as the folder it was filtered to.
I can't move the little popup notification box. It is stuck in the lower right corner
The popup notification box only seems to appear when I get new mail and Entourage isn't the currently running application.
Preview Pane on the right doesn't give me enough options on the mail list on the left. I want more than 2 columns of information!
I think I've run out of first impressions.
wow, you used the same alternate shortcut as i did!
;)
you know what they say.. Great minds think alike, but idiots seldom differ.
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you forgot the "Woooo!" as Linus pushes Steve into the chasm
as long as all 5 of those machines reside in the same household. if they are business machines, or one of them is kept away from home, your SOL.