That's in the Keyboard Preferences as of 10.2. User configurable activation of different methods for accessing the menus and other things from the keyboard. Go take a look.
My company's default font is FuturaBook. I use that at 14 point (19" Studio Display) as my Application, browser (Mozilla) and email (Entourage has very nice mail composition features). And it is absolutely gorgeous.
I had to use TinkerTool to set the Application font and set double scroll arrows at both ends (essential, I paid for DoubleScroll exactly 10 minutes after the demo version expired and suffered while the check cleared) Apple is continuing to include features in their window managers that aren't exposed by the system preferences GUI. But they have always been addressable by 3rd party apps. When OS 8.1 came out, Prestissimo was written to configure Appearance Mananger by Applescript, I still have it on my public share at work. In OS X you can use 'defaults' on the command line, edit plist files in text (check out PlistEditor on the DevTools CD), or use TinkerTool to expose hidden features of the OS. Kind of like unlocking secrets in a video game...
I'm a Mac guy and I have the Purple Book 3rd ed on my desk.
That comment is a slap in the face to every state legislator out there, and is thus entirely unfair. There just might be a few state legislators out there who do NOT deserve a slap in the face.
Yes. I've been using it for three POP accounts and an IMAP account since December. I used Mozilla 1.0 RC1, and supported it, at a large biotech firm.
Stripping html from emails is possible. Importing mail from Netscape worked with the IMAP accounts, and it will convert the profiles. Nobody ever complained about missing any of their locally filed mail - so I'm guessing it works fine. YMMV.
Back up your Netscape mail (you do that anyway, right ?) and try and convert the profile to Moz. If it works, fantastic. If it doesn't you lost an hour and have a current backup of your mail 9which you wanted anyway).
Interface Builder has a very strong alignment toolset. While dragging widgets around you see a lot of alignment marks: with other elements, the standard distances from edges, everything the guidelines suggest is in there.
64x64 cursors will also be a boon to those trying to implement a game interface using as much of the basic APIs as you can (always a good idea if you can manange it).
.ttf files now recognized as fonts
This makes it a lot easier to use Windows fonts in OS X. It isn't a big deal, they're just checking off that last box on the list.
More idle speculation. This might get an "AI" dragged into court, and might even get it "standing before the law". That'd pre-empt a couple of TNG and Voyager episodes dealing with rights of artificial lifeforms.
NeXT had a distributed processing system. Making an autoconfing cluster available would be a big win for Apple. Any graphic design shop does a lot of CPU intensive work, making the LAN be the cluster would be so useful it would be scary. I'm thinking of our Splash server right now, but big Photoshop filters or 3D rendering would also benefit.
Time to invest in switches to the desktop if you haven't already, this will seriously increase your network utilization.
The Location Manager has made Apple laptops superior to Windows machines ever since it was introduced. All of the networking control panels, and a few other useful ones like the Extensions Manager toggles startup items), have had the ability to save and switch between configuration settings. Often without rebooting, like switching between dialup and ethernet.
What Location Manager does is make sets of configuration settings. At startup or after you can switch locations and have your system configured for what you're doing. It makes switching between office and remote locations completely painless and beats Hardware Profiles all hollow.
I'm thinking that the Enterprise crew will believe they've dealt with renegade Vulcans, while T'Pol and the High Command will know otherwise. Or they could go with the whole "sworn to secrecy" BS.
They certainly do. I'm supporting video editing machines and the Photoshop jockeys who do have to apply filters to billboard-sized files. They don't get super happy when you get them up a gig of RAM, because their machine can take another 512MB. These people would get all hot and bothered over the prospect of 64-bit SMP systems. Mine (god bless 'em) would want to use one as the rendering engine for our production Splash to chew on their 150MB Postscript files.
The sooner Apple starts on the mobos for these the happier I'll be. Besides, nobody ever got fired for buying IBM:-)
That's just the same as the first PowerPC Macs. The OS had to emulate the 68K instruction set. They managed it pretty well in software. The 32-bit to 64-bit transition will probbaly be even easier since the 64-bit chips will probably handle the 32-bit emulation and porting apps won't be a major hassle, certainly less than the OS 9 to OS X switch. And only those who need it will port, others will rely on 32-bit mode.
Incidentally, Connectix (who make VirtualPC) at one time had a faster 68k emulator on the market. They're Real Wizards at Connectix. VirtualPC doesn't emulate Windows, it emulates an x86 PC at the hardware level. Then you install a standard OEM copy of whichever version of Windows you got. Then you install drivers for the emulated PC hardware. You can also load it up with a basic DOS image, reformat the virtual drive and install Linux or a free BSD. Neat stuff.
A Mac can read pretty much any media created on a PC. And it's a safe bet that there's an application that can read the files, like oh let's say MS Office or any of the vast selection of OS 9, OS X and Unix freeware.
Basically, this creates a 64-bit option for Apple. Very important for a Unix vendor. All you'll lose is the smaller address space:-) If Motorolla really is focusing on the embedded market then letting IBM start producing AltiVec (or something much like it) is less of a shock than when they were looking at the desktop market. Likewise, IBM now sees Apple expanding both their desktop market and their new server line, and an AltiVec optimized GCC 3. Apple, looking onwards and upwards sees Motorolla losing interest, and a line of IBM chips that scale from their fast, cool G3s through the Power line for medium-to-big iron.
Put those three viewpoints together and it looks like Jobs has found that Motorolla alternative he has been talking about.
Slashdot Mirror
Or clicking the Cancel button...
That's in the Keyboard Preferences as of 10.2. User configurable activation of different methods for accessing the menus and other things from the keyboard. Go take a look.
And I thought you were happy to see me :-(
My company's default font is FuturaBook. I use that at 14 point (19" Studio Display) as my Application, browser (Mozilla) and email (Entourage has very nice mail composition features). And it is absolutely gorgeous.
I had to use TinkerTool to set the Application font and set double scroll arrows at both ends (essential, I paid for DoubleScroll exactly 10 minutes after the demo version expired and suffered while the check cleared) Apple is continuing to include features in their window managers that aren't exposed by the system preferences GUI. But they have always been addressable by 3rd party apps. When OS 8.1 came out, Prestissimo was written to configure Appearance Mananger by Applescript, I still have it on my public share at work. In OS X you can use 'defaults' on the command line, edit plist files in text (check out PlistEditor on the DevTools CD), or use TinkerTool to expose hidden features of the OS. Kind of like unlocking secrets in a video game...
I'm a Mac guy and I have the Purple Book 3rd ed on my desk.
That comment is a slap in the face to every state legislator out there, and is thus entirely unfair. There just might be a few state legislators out there who do NOT deserve a slap in the face.
Was her phone number in the story ?
Rigmort, would you be so kind as to drop me a line with contact info for that Quark>InDesign migration shop ?
dontspammike@yahoo.com
Thanks !
Death to Quark ! Sloooooooooooooooooow
That's really funny. Really, really, really funny.
a Sc am.html
Specifically,
http://www.geocities.com/scamjokepage/KelvinTuw
Stripping html from emails is possible. Importing mail from Netscape worked with the IMAP accounts, and it will convert the profiles. Nobody ever complained about missing any of their locally filed mail - so I'm guessing it works fine. YMMV.
Back up your Netscape mail (you do that anyway, right ?) and try and convert the profile to Moz. If it works, fantastic. If it doesn't you lost an hour and have a current backup of your mail 9which you wanted anyway).
Interface Builder has a very strong alignment toolset. While dragging widgets around you see a lot of alignment marks: with other elements, the standard distances from edges, everything the guidelines suggest is in there.
In the second case, you're nuts if you eat some random donut sitting in a box in the park.
It's back. I'm not sure if anything changed in the TN, but it's there again.
Large cursor support
64x64 cursors will also be a boon to those trying to implement a game interface using as much of the basic APIs as you can (always a good idea if you can manange it).
This makes it a lot easier to use Windows fonts in OS X. It isn't a big deal, they're just checking off that last box on the list.
Double Ugh. I paid for a copy of SoundJam right before iTunes was announced.
More idle speculation. This might get an "AI" dragged into court, and might even get it "standing before the law". That'd pre-empt a couple of TNG and Voyager episodes dealing with rights of artificial lifeforms.
NeXT had a distributed processing system. Making an autoconfing cluster available would be a big win for Apple. Any graphic design shop does a lot of CPU intensive work, making the LAN be the cluster would be so useful it would be scary. I'm thinking of our Splash server right now, but big Photoshop filters or 3D rendering would also benefit.
Time to invest in switches to the desktop if you haven't already, this will seriously increase your network utilization.
What Location Manager does is make sets of configuration settings. At startup or after you can switch locations and have your system configured for what you're doing. It makes switching between office and remote locations completely painless and beats Hardware Profiles all hollow.
To be perfectly honest, I haven't hit the close button by mistake in months. And OS X is my daily desktop.
I'm thinking that the Enterprise crew will believe they've dealt with renegade Vulcans, while T'Pol and the High Command will know otherwise. Or they could go with the whole "sworn to secrecy" BS.
Terry, that $50 fee might be the best idea ever posted on Slashdot. Simple, pointed and brutal. I like it.
Hmmm, if it looked like this it was an eMate. NewtonOS, keyboard. Small, light, and very kewl.
Heh. If the Apple ][ had had hardware sprites, then Aztec wouldn't have been nearly as surreal a game as it was.
The sooner Apple starts on the mobos for these the happier I'll be. Besides, nobody ever got fired for buying IBM :-)
Incidentally, Connectix (who make VirtualPC) at one time had a faster 68k emulator on the market. They're Real Wizards at Connectix. VirtualPC doesn't emulate Windows, it emulates an x86 PC at the hardware level. Then you install a standard OEM copy of whichever version of Windows you got. Then you install drivers for the emulated PC hardware. You can also load it up with a basic DOS image, reformat the virtual drive and install Linux or a free BSD. Neat stuff.
Basically, this creates a 64-bit option for Apple. Very important for a Unix vendor. All you'll lose is the smaller address space :-) If Motorolla really is focusing on the embedded market then letting IBM start producing AltiVec (or something much like it) is less of a shock than when they were looking at the desktop market. Likewise, IBM now sees Apple expanding both their desktop market and their new server line, and an AltiVec optimized GCC 3. Apple, looking onwards and upwards sees Motorolla losing interest, and a line of IBM chips that scale from their fast, cool G3s through the Power line for medium-to-big iron.
Put those three viewpoints together and it looks like Jobs has found that Motorolla alternative he has been talking about.