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I think I'd be pretty damn tempted to switch to... 2,897 Views / 53 Replies  
I think I'd be pretty damn tempted to switch to firefox on the mac if it supported just one thing: ctrl-cmd-d to show the definition of a word when the mouse cursor is over it. That really is the...
Posted by parsec, on Jun 25, 2008 at 11:37 PM, in Applications
office 2008 scripting question 412 Views / 0 Replies  
Hi,

This question might be more suited to the developer forum, but I figure it's not too out of place here and may get a slightly wider audience. I'm an experienced software developer (mostly Java...
Posted by parsec, on Jun 25, 2008 at 11:20 PM, in Applications
just figured i'd mention for anyone interested... 880 Views / 5 Replies  
just figured i'd mention for anyone interested that there's a safari 3 / leopard beta version of sogudi available now

KitzKikz: SogudiBeta (http://www.kitzkikz.com/SogudiBeta)

haven't actually...
Posted by parsec, on Nov 5, 2007 at 11:49 PM, in Applications
thanks for the tip, erik. i tried it out but... 880 Views / 5 Replies  
thanks for the tip, erik. i tried it out but unfortunately safari just crashed on startup. i guess it's not just the inputmanager / simbl stuff that's busted, but something more fundamental about how...
Posted by parsec, on Oct 28, 2007 at 09:47 PM, in Applications
sogudi replacement for safari 3? 880 Views / 5 Replies  
does anybody know of any safari 3 add-ons that do what sogudi does for safari 2? i'm having a pretty hard time getting used to not having these shortcuts. i'd use firefox or camino except that they...
Posted by parsec, on Oct 28, 2007 at 09:18 PM, in Applications
thanks 7,419 Views / 164 Replies  
grabbed the new version from softpedia and it fixed the problems i was having. thanks :)
Posted by parsec, on Oct 27, 2007 at 01:25 PM, in Applications
i'll second the request for a mirror.. my itunes... 7,419 Views / 164 Replies  
i'll second the request for a mirror.. my itunes triggers seem to be broken in leopard, maybe the new version fixes that?
Posted by parsec, on Oct 27, 2007 at 12:40 PM, in Applications
thanks for the response. unfortunately, the... 641 Views / 2 Replies  
thanks for the response.

unfortunately, the shortcut behaviour is what i need. i use the program slickrun and slickjot (Bayden Systems - SlickRun (http://bayden.com/SlickRun/)) at work and have...
Posted by parsec, on Feb 15, 2007 at 09:52 AM, in Applications
using windows key under microsoft rdc 641 Views / 2 Replies  
does anyone know how to send the windows key via ms remote desktop client? it seems to allow you to specify a key combination for alt, but that's all.

thanks
-parsec
Posted by parsec, on Feb 12, 2007 at 12:23 AM, in Applications
firewire pcmcia card not seen after 10.4.7 update 646 Views / 2 Replies  
I've got a 1ghz titanium powerbook. Due to some issues I was having plugging my external firewire drive into the firewire port of the laptop (the drive would overheat or something.. smell like...
Posted by parsec, on Jul 1, 2006 at 08:43 AM, in macOS
I use MenuMeters... 1,518 Views / 36 Replies  
I use MenuMeters (http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/) with the memory meter (I also use the CPU and network meters) in the menubar. It gives information about memory usage.
Posted by parsec, on May 6, 2006 at 09:12 AM, in macOS
edit: scratch what i said about having figured it... 1,659 Views / 1 Replies  
edit: scratch what i said about having figured it out. simply popping nstextcontainer subclass into the field editor kind of worked while editing but once editing stopped i lost the layout. i also...
Posted by parsec, on Mar 27, 2006 at 08:24 PM, in Developer Center
customizing layout in nstextfield? 1,659 Views / 1 Replies  
Hi,

I would like to customize the text layout in some of my nstextfields. Normally, the fields are just one line but they wrap text and if more than one line is being used, they grow vertically to...
Posted by parsec, on Mar 25, 2006 at 06:24 AM, in Developer Center
Try Beej's Guide to Network Programming ... 930 Views / 7 Replies  
Try Beej's Guide to Network Programming
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/guide/net/

It's pretty well written, and how I learned. And best of all, freely available on the net.
Posted by parsec, on Jun 13, 2005 at 01:11 PM, in Developer Center
Re: G3 Beige 233 and serial ports 770 Views / 3 Replies  
i've got a beige 233 as well. Along with the floppy drive, the serial ports aren't
supported under os x. pretty annoying, but what can you do aside from dual
boot. (except bitch)
Posted by parsec, on Sep 13, 2004 at 08:56 PM, in macOS
joining xvid files into single movie 630 Views / 3 Replies  
Hi

I downloaded a movie from bittorrent, and instead of it just being a divx avi as it
usually is it downloaded a folder full of files named dmt-xvid-sor.r00 through to .r48

There is also a...
Posted by parsec, on Feb 20, 2004 at 02:21 PM, in Applications
keys switching characters 480 Views / 1 Replies  
I have this intermittent issue on my 1ghz tibook running 10.3.2. Sometimes
the keys on my keyboard change what character gets sent to an application. This happened with Mail.app the other day, and...
Posted by parsec, on Feb 17, 2004 at 12:56 PM, in macOS
Re: iTunes 4.2... way to tab to file names? 564 Views / 1 Replies  
Cmd-I to get info for a track. Cmd-2 to get to the info tab.

Type the name of the track

Cmd-N to go to the next track. The focus will be on the field the cursor was previously on, which comes...
Posted by parsec, on Feb 7, 2004 at 08:53 PM, in Applications
poisoned 1,778 Views / 27 Replies  
How has no one mentioned Poisoned (http://gottsilla.net/) ?!?!

Taps into the same network kazaa uses, like mlnet (though mlnet can access more networks), but I like it's integration better (adds...
Posted by parsec, on Jan 20, 2004 at 01:11 PM, in Applications
Re: Move Application Folder To Separate Partition 1,245 Views / 2 Replies  
I've run a setup like this on a beige g3 from 10.1 to 10.2.6 or so. I don't recommend it.
Apple's Installer program doesn't play nicely with symlinks (at least 10.2 and lower didn't.. I don't know...
Posted by parsec, on Dec 24, 2003 at 09:18 PM, in macOS
custom emoticons in msn messenger 826 Views / 0 Replies  
Is there any way to add custom icons to msn messenger? I'm running version 3.5, I assume that's the latest since it's not constantly harassing me to upgrade.

My friends running the windows version...
Posted by parsec, on Dec 17, 2003 at 03:21 PM, in Applications
Re: What's the equivalent to MS Access? 1,266 Views / 17 Replies  
Haven't used it much myself, but I've heard that FileMaker Pro (http://www.filemaker.com/products/fm_home.html) is probably the reason MS doesn't have access for macs.. filemaker is too entrenched....
Posted by parsec, on Dec 8, 2003 at 09:45 PM, in Applications
no suitcase. I did do an upgrade as opposed... 837 Views / 10 Replies  
no suitcase.

I did do an upgrade as opposed to clean install though.
Maybe that has something to do with it.
Posted by parsec, on Dec 4, 2003 at 02:39 PM, in macOS
Re: php resources 714 Views / 4 Replies  
http://php.net is all I've ever used, and I've done some sizeable projects with php.
Posted by parsec, on Dec 4, 2003 at 02:17 PM, in Developer Center
panther: increased login times 837 Views / 10 Replies  
Has anyone else noticed that logging in takes longer under panther than it did under jaguar?
I'm not overly concerned about this, since I don't have to log out as often anymore with fast user...
Posted by parsec, on Dec 4, 2003 at 02:06 PM, in macOS
Argh.. just upgraded to panther last night and... 913 Views / 9 Replies  
Argh.. just upgraded to panther last night and discovered that I'm missing the man pages.

So I just grabbed Pacifist 1.6 (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12743) and installed...
Posted by parsec, on Nov 29, 2003 at 07:11 PM, in macOS
torifile and cpac: Thanks for the suggestion, I... 884 Views / 6 Replies  
torifile and cpac: Thanks for the suggestion, I also think omnioutliner kicks ass, but she needs to leave all kinds of spaces for diagrams she's going to draw in after, and wants to be able to...
Posted by parsec, on Nov 4, 2003 at 02:23 PM, in Applications
Word - weird indentation of lists 884 Views / 6 Replies  
My girlfriend is using Word in Office X to type up some notes and is getting severely pissed off at the way it's doing its lists.

There are a lot of numbered lists that need to be typed out, but...
Posted by parsec, on Nov 4, 2003 at 12:35 AM, in Applications
Re: It works great! 1,643 Views / 10 Replies  
no experience, except having worked for several months researching windows PKI solutions and having taken a university level applied cryptography course.
I've never used Entourage, but PGP is...
Posted by parsec, on Nov 2, 2003 at 09:32 PM, in macOS
panther on beige g3? 779 Views / 1 Replies  
Apple isn't supporting panther on beige g3's, but I know that there have been projects ever since the early days of os x to get unsupported systems to boot os x. Does anybody know of such projects to...
Posted by parsec, on Oct 26, 2003 at 03:36 PM, in Mac Desktops
gigahertz tibook. I unplugged after seeing this... 17,646 Views / 151 Replies  
gigahertz tibook. I unplugged after seeing this thread, and started at about 2.5 hours.
I don't often use the battery, so I'm not sure what I'd normally get, but I think it's probably higher.
It...
Posted by parsec, on Sep 23, 2003 at 12:16 PM, in macOS
Did you remember to make the class... 943 Views / 15 Replies  
Did you remember to make the class NSApplication's delegate?
Posted by parsec, on Sep 4, 2003 at 08:09 PM, in Developer Center
I'll second this recommendation. Definitely go... 949 Views / 4 Replies  
I'll second this recommendation.
Definitely go with Hillegass

http://www.bignerdranch.com/book
Posted by parsec, on Sep 3, 2003 at 01:03 PM, in Developer Center
Hey, that's great! Thank you! 742 Views / 2 Replies  
Hey, that's great! Thank you!
Posted by parsec, on Aug 10, 2003 at 09:53 PM, in Applications
font editor / creation utility 742 Views / 2 Replies  
Hello

I'm looking to create a new font, or maybe just tweak an existing one. Are there any good os x utilities (preferably freeware or shareware) to create or edit fonts?

My main reason for...
Posted by parsec, on Aug 9, 2003 at 07:58 PM, in Applications
Has anyone else had any trouble loading up ssl... 2,807 Views / 59 Replies  
Has anyone else had any trouble loading up ssl pages? I can't get any of my normal bank pages to go past the login screen.. it just sort of sits there like it's loading but the page never loads.
...
Posted by parsec, on Aug 8, 2003 at 06:41 PM, in Applications
One of my favourite things about google, that... 621 Views / 3 Replies  
One of my favourite things about google, that gives some (very slight) indication of directions they're at least thinking about, is

labs.google.com (http://labs.google.com)

My favourite is...
Posted by parsec, on Jun 28, 2003 at 02:26 AM, in MacNN Lounge
OK, Thanks guys. Nice to know I can use the dvd's... 655 Views / 6 Replies  
OK, Thanks guys. Nice to know I can use the dvd's I bought.
Posted by parsec, on May 17, 2003 at 05:38 PM, in Mac Notebooks
If I can use it at all I know I can't burn... 655 Views / 6 Replies  
If I can use it at all

I know I can't burn at 2x with this drive, but I remember hearing about drive overheating issues with higher speed media or something like that..
Posted by parsec, on May 17, 2003 at 03:40 PM, in Mac Notebooks
TiBook SD D0C4 - Can I burn with 2x DVD-R media? 655 Views / 6 Replies  
Quick question.. I just got some Verbatim 2x speed DVD-R media, and I just remembered that there may be an issue with this? I did a search, and I seemed to find that if my superdrive was a pioneer, I...
Posted by parsec, on May 17, 2003 at 03:28 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Re: iTunes 4 GUI bug! 1,228 Views / 7 Replies  
Happens to almost everyone.

Go to General preferences (of System Preferences) and set it to not smooth fonts less than 8 pts (instead of 9).
Posted by parsec, on Apr 28, 2003 at 07:17 PM, in macOS
Selecting multiple songs, and then dragging the... 3,192 Views / 62 Replies  
Selecting multiple songs, and then dragging the image to the well definitely updates them all. I get the little dialog box popping up, saying it's processing all the songs.

My exact steps:
1....
Posted by parsec, on Apr 28, 2003 at 05:53 PM, in Applications
I've found that checking 'crossfade playback'... 835 Views / 8 Replies  
I've found that checking 'crossfade playback' under the effects preference in itunes with a value of 0 seconds kind of helps.

Also, I haven't tried it but would it help to alter the stop time of a...
Posted by parsec, on Apr 28, 2003 at 05:20 PM, in Applications
Actually, I just found where clutter stores the... 3,192 Views / 62 Replies  
Actually, I just found where clutter stores the images it downloads:

~/Library/Images/com.sprote.clutter/CDs

sweet. Just drag the appropriate image file from the finder into the itunes well.
Posted by parsec, on Apr 28, 2003 at 04:53 PM, in Applications
Re: Re: Best site for Album Covers? 3,192 Views / 62 Replies  
Yeah, amazon is probably the best bet, followed by a google search if amazon doesn't have it.

Unfortunately clutter (http://sprote.com/clutter/) puts each image into it's own window, and I can't...
Posted by parsec, on Apr 28, 2003 at 03:19 PM, in Applications
hehe, I like the dialog that comes up after... 2,448 Views / 52 Replies  
hehe, I like the dialog that comes up after you've turned sharing on:

"Reminder: Sharing music is for personal use only."

And of course with a checkbox to not show the message again ;)
Posted by parsec, on Apr 28, 2003 at 03:13 PM, in Applications
Seems most are 9.99, but I've seen some that are... 824 Views / 11 Replies  
Seems most are 9.99, but I've seen some that are 11.99
Posted by parsec, on Apr 28, 2003 at 02:56 PM, in Applications
Re: Re: Re: iTunes 4 is Up 2,448 Views / 52 Replies  
Yeah, I'm getting a lot of errors to, on a cable modem (behind a d-link switch, but I wouldn't think that should affect anything).

Trying to click on artists from the main page (e.g. massive...
Posted by parsec, on Apr 28, 2003 at 02:46 PM, in Applications
Re: What does NS mean? 6,902 Views / 20 Replies  
NeXTSTEP

Incidentally, nib stands for NeXT Interface Builder.

Source: p. 12 of Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass.
Posted by parsec, on Apr 19, 2003 at 11:47 PM, in Developer Center
Re: WinXp, very slooow 2,469 Views / 41 Replies  
get more ram, definitely. It's the single best thing you can do for a computer.

and xp, like os x, is a ram hog.
Posted by parsec, on Apr 19, 2003 at 11:32 PM, in macOS
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