Another cool Safari tweak
In complete contrast to the odd Transparent Page tweak in Safari 1.3, here's something that's actually incredibly useful, epecially if you are studying CSS, or just want to see how a particular web page is put together. Safari WebDevAdditions 1.0b4 (from VersionTracker, of course) adds some new features to the Edit menu: 1. Show CSS Styles opens a window displaying all of the CSS styles for the page. 2. Disable allows you to toggle the display of Images, Links, Tables, Divs, Objects, Custom, and Styles 3. Outline actually outlines, with rectangles, the following page elements: Tables, Images (and displays their dimensions), Block level elements, Forms, Links, Space table mode (not complete sure what this shows yet, since I have yet to find a page where it works) and Custom, which lets you define your own element description to display. Obviously, all of this will be of little use to you if you find HTML and CSS as boring as used bus tickets, but if you have any interest at all in web design, WebDevAdditions shows some fascinating stuff. Works only in Safari though, so don't expect it do anything in, say, Internet Explorer... -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.
A pat on back I think?
Morning, Found this interesting article this morning. Not sure if it is a call for arms, for Apple to be attacked, or a I am happy to be a Mac user? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/21/apples_big_virus/ Cheers! Rob Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is the world which makes known to us our belonging to a subject-communtiy, especially the existence in the world of the manufactured objects. Sartre.
Interesting Article (Light Reading)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4464735.stm Thought others might enjoy this article -- Duncan Hardman
Beta testers wanted
Hi All, The local micro-ISV (you know who I'm talking about if you came to the WWDC Roadshow talk :-) ) is thinking of releasing a new product for Tiger, round about the date of Tiger release. I need about 3-5 people who are willing to be beta testers, any volunteers? Conditions: 1. You must have official access to a Tiger seed. (Or if I'm late with my release, be ready with a Tiger system on April 29 or thereabouts.) That means at least you have to quote me your ADC membership #. 2. You should have a Paypal account, and be able to make small purchases. 3. Some knowledge of the UNIX command line. Don't need to be guru-level or a scripting fiend, just have used it enough to know your way around. 4. Some time in the next 1-2 week's to do testing. What's in it for you: Get to try out new software. Might change the world. Might sink like a stone. Who knows? If it works, you get it for free. And I'm always open to suggestions, so your input will make into the final product. Apologies for the mild secrecy -- email me privately if you are seriously interested, and I'll tell you what it is. Cheers, Glen Low --- pixelglow software | simply brilliant stuff www.pixelglow.com aim: pixglen
Opening an iMac
Can someone tell me the trick how to remove the top cover of a blue G3 slot load iMac please. I've looked on the web without success. Cheers, Paul. -- Dr Paul R. Weaver http://www.livejournal.com/users/fremantlebiz/2004/
Re: Opening an iMac
On Friday, Apr 22, 2005, at 09:17 Australia/Perth, Paul Weaver wrote: Can someone tell me the trick how to remove the top cover of a blue G3 slot load iMac please. I've looked on the web without success. You don't. You remove the bottom cover. Roll it over on a towel and remove its soft underbelly. (should just need three screws undone and a bit of gentle prying). This page may assist: http://www.macworld.com/2001/10/bc/howtoimac/ HTH Steve.
Re: Interesting Article (Light Reading)
I think there is something in this, speaking as a person who is drawn to communitarian values, and though raised as a Protestant, feels affinity with people raised as Catholics... Feel that this list has communitarian (rather than individualistic) values, even though many of us are quite eccentric individuals! On 22/4/05 8:45 AM, Duncan Hardman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4464735.stm Thought others might enjoy this article -- Duncan Hardman -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Apple's Big Virus and Apple Mythology and Desktop Security
These are a couple of interesting article posted today. Apple's Big Virus in The Register no less. Written by the content editor for Symantec's independent online magazine, SecurityFocus, who states that she and most of the SecurityFocus team use Mac OS X to avoid all of the security issues they themselves write about by day: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/21/apples_big_virus/ Just as Windows users have become accustomed to 140,000 viruses, Apple users have become accustomed to none. It's a major cultural difference that admittedly, sometimes causes Apple users to do stupid things -- and get away with them. It's hard to describe the freedom of using a system with no malware known to have spread. It's liberating. And then there is Apple Mythology and Desktop Security by Paul Murphy, a CIO Today columnist (who wrote and published The Unix Guide to Defenestration): http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyncid=1211e=3u=/nf/20050421/tc_ nf/33272sid=95609565 In other words, if security concerns are your most important driver for desktop change, and Microsoft Office compatibility is your most significant barrier, then switching to Macs actually offers you the best of all possible worlds. Microsoft Office on Unix/Risc with a better GUI, longer product life, some cash savings and a performance bonus thrown in. -Mart -- Martin Hill mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] homepages: http://mart.ozmac.com Mb: 0417-967-969 hm: (08)9314-5242
help viewer very slow
on a 1.25G4MDD, OS 10.3.8 Help viewer is very slow, is this normal, ie takes atleast a minute of spining wheel/ballon -- Gary Dorn Architect Perth, Australia
Re: help viewer very slow
GARY I had this problem. I deleted the pref files com.apple.help.plist And I think com.apple.helpviewer.plist And this solved the problem. Rod on 22/4/05 10:32 AM, gary dorn at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on a 1.25G4MDD, OS 10.3.8 Help viewer is very slow, is this normal, ie takes atleast a minute of spining wheel/ballon -- Rod BLITVICH Head of Learning Technologies Balcatta Senior High School Apple Educator of Excellence 2002 - 2003 Amy and Sam's Dad [EMAIL PROTECTED]0409 681 256 http://www.apple.com.au/education/hed/products/ibook/balcatta.html --- Support bacteria -- it's the only culture some people have.
Paperport 2.0
Do any of you vintage Mac - Ophiles out there own a Paperport 2.0 scanner? I'm trying to acquire a serial cable for this machine (The standard Mac serial cable will not work as I believe the pin configuration is slightly different at the Paperport end). If anyone has one that I could beg/ borrow/ buy (I could possibly get a techo to make me one up if he had a Copy) Ever hopeful -Bob Miller-Eves
Re: help viewer very slow
Hi Gary, Also try this: (1) Quit Help Viewer if it is open. (2) Open your Home Library Caches folder. (3) Trash the com.apple.helpui folder. (4) Empty the Trash. (5) Restart. The first time you launch Help for your Mac or a given application, you may still notice a slight delay in Help Viewer performance displaying the Help. This is due to the building of a new Help Viewer cache. Help Viewer performance will be considerably improved in subsequent launches of the specific Help information. Cheers, Ronni On 22/04/2005, at 10:38 AM, Rod Blitvich wrote: GARY I had this problem. I deleted the pref files com.apple.help.plist And I think com.apple.helpviewer.plist And this solved the problem. Rod on 22/4/05 10:32 AM, gary dorn at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on a 1.25G4MDD, OS 10.3.8 Help viewer is very slow, is this normal, ie takes atleast a minute of spining wheel/ballon
Safari crashing
Help After installing 10.3.9 and the new Safari 1.3 (and then following Peter Hinchliffe's tip for a cool Safari tweak), I find I can no longer open my bookmarks. Safari crashes everytime I try, even after completely resetting it and deleting the bookmarks.plist file. Any ideas anyone? Rob -- --- Dr Rob Phillips, Educational Designer,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Room 4.38 Teaching and Learning Centre, Library North Wing Murdoch University, South St, Murdoch, 6150, Perth, Australia Phone: +61 8 9360 6054 Mobile: 0416 065 054 Executive Member, Australasian Council on Open, Distance and E-learning (ACODE) Join ascilite! http://www.ascilite.org.au ---
Re: help viewer very slow
GARY I had this problem. I deleted the pref files com.apple.help.plist And I think com.apple.helpviewer.plist And this solved the problem. Also try this: (1) Quit Help Viewer if it is open. (2) Open your Home Library Caches folder. (3) Trash the com.apple.helpui folder. (4) Empty the Trash. (5) Restart. The first time you launch Help for your Mac or a given application, you may still notice a slight delay in Help Viewer performance displaying the Help. This is due to the building of a new Help Viewer cache. Help Viewer performance will be considerably improved in subsequent launches of the specific Help information. did both, much snappier now thanks all for quick accurate responce -- Gary Dorn Architect Perth, Australia
Re: Safari crashing
On 22/04/2005, at 12:13 PM, Rob Phillips wrote: Help After installing 10.3.9 and the new Safari 1.3 (and then following Peter Hinchliffe's tip for a cool Safari tweak), I find I can no longer open my bookmarks. Safari crashes everytime I try, even after completely resetting it and deleting the bookmarks.plist file. Any ideas anyone? This may help :- http://www.macintouch.com/safari06.html#apr18 Bob Rob -- --- Dr Rob Phillips, Educational Designer,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Room 4.38 Teaching and Learning Centre, Library North Wing Murdoch University, South St, Murdoch, 6150, Perth, Australia Phone: +61 8 9360 6054 Mobile: 0416 065 054 Executive Member, Australasian Council on Open, Distance and E-learning (ACODE) Join ascilite! http://www.ascilite.org.au --- -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
java update for OS X 10.3.9
Howdy, The update description here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301382 describes the procedure for restoring the Java Shared Archive. I am not an intensive Java user - just a plain vanilla few tabs mainly text surfer and don't use it otherwise. Can someone geek condense the rather dense article into a recommendation whether to open Terminal or not please?
What is it?
A zero-byte file ViewpointLog.log keeps materialising on my boot drive and I regularly trash it. Can anyone tell me where it comes from please? Severin Crisp Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web pages http://www.JennyCrisp.com.au http://members.westnet.com.au/Crisp
Re: What is it?
A zero-byte file ViewpointLog.log keeps materialising on my boot drive and I regularly trash it. Can anyone tell me where it comes from please? Severin Crisp I believe it's created by ViewPoint media player. Try removing it or adjusting its preferences. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: java update for OS X 10.3.9
On 22 Apr 2005, at 4:06 PM, Nancy McIntyre wrote: Howdy, The update description here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301382 describes the procedure for restoring the Java Shared Archive. I am not an intensive Java user - just a plain vanilla few tabs mainly text surfer and don't use it otherwise. Can someone geek condense the rather dense article into a recommendation whether to open Terminal or not please? This will provide you with the current version of Java, if installed on your system. The next part of the exercise will update your Java configuration in relation to Safari's problems. So, if this is an issue which one assumes it possibly is for most users then do the upgrade via software upgrade or the download, if it is not then do not do it. Part two requires you choose which version, then run commands to clean up the archive so as to remove the errors or those creating the errors and then reset. Their is also the Security Update in Software update, I have applied both and yes Java works slightly better than it did. Cheers! Rob Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is the world which makes known to us our belonging to a subject-communtiy, especially the existence in the world of the manufactured objects. Sartre.
OS 8.5
Hi, I've been ringing around various retail outlets to try and find a copy of OS 8.5 only to be told it's no longer being sold. Does anyone know where old system software can still be found. I could update to 9.xx (I think my poor old 7300 would handle it) but no one seems to stock that either. Cheers, Graham
Fwd: Re: java update for OS X 10.3.9
At 4:53 PM +0800 22/4/05, Rob Davies wrote: This will provide you with the current version of Java, if installed on your system. The next part of the exercise will update your Java configuration in relation to Safari's problems. So, if this is an issue which one assumes it possibly is for most users then do the upgrade via software upgrade or the download, if it is not then do not do it. Thanks for the advice Rob. I got the Java Update advice via the Software Update flag today, so I ran the 'install now' routine. - even though I hadn't experienced any of the problems described. I should have made my actions clearer in the inital post. Part two requires you choose which version, then run commands to clean up the archive so as to remove the errors or those creating the errors and then reset. So I read your advice as: now that I've done the part one update, I should do the part 2. Their is also the Security Update in Software update, I have applied both and yes Java works slightly better than it did. I got no flag, via 'Software Update', of any Security Update beyond the 10.3.9 delta installation but I guess that's a minor issue if I always keep step with recommended updates. I do note that some java dialogues are**too** fast for my old reflexes now :-)) thanks again for replying Nancy M
