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| • Panther & Jaguar MacJanitor is designed to be used on a periodic basis by Mac OS X users who don't leave their computer on (and awake) 24 hours a day. MacJanitor is provided as freeware as a service to laptop and energy-conscious home users. The Unix subsystems on Mac OS X were originally written for machines that were typically never shut off. Mac OS X inherits this assumption in version 1.x, and has many system maintenance tasks that are scheduled to run between 3 am and 5 am. In addition, there are scripts designed to run weekly on weekends, and once a month in the middle of the night. If these maintenance tasks are never run (such as on a laptop that is always shut off at night), many log files and system database will grow extremely large or fail to get backed up. MacJanitor provides a way to run these system tasks at the click of a button. Laptop users could click the 'daily' button every morning (or every few days), or office workers could click the 'weekly' button on Mondays. If you've been leaving your machine off at night without allowing the maintenance tasks to run for several weeks or more, the first time you run them using MacJanitor may take several minutes. Also, if your log files have grown extremely large and you are low on disk space, the tasks may have problems moving the files around and compressing them. After that, it typically takes less than a minute for each task. The output of the task is displayed in the scrolling view in the bottom part of the window. If for some reason you feel the need, you may print the output of the system maintenance tasks (but why?...). You can't really hurt anything by running the tasks more frequently than is intended, and they don't need to be run on a strict schedule. Just run them periodically when you get a free minute every few days or weeks. Hopefully, this will be addressed in a future update of Mac OS X. To download MacJanitor go to:http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/macjanitor.html |
| •Jaguar & Panther: Customizing the Finder Toolbar You can customize the Finder window Toolbar in a number of ways. Choose Customize Toolbar from the View menu and drag items to the Toolbar. To arrange icons in the Toolbar, drag them. To display only the icon or the name, choose an option from the Show pop-up menu. To add icons for disks, servers, folders, and other items, drag them from a Finder window to the Toolbar. To remove icons from the Toolbar, drag them out. To use the default Toolbar, drag the default Toolbar at the bottom of the pane to the window's Toolbar. Create a Downloads Folder Internet Explorer is a rather messy application. It automatically tosses all new downloads on your desktop, leaving quite a mess. Thankfully, you can fix this without much fuss. Go to the Finder and create a new folder called "Downloads." Now, launch Internet Explorer. Select Preferences from the Explorer menu and click Download Options listed at the left. A new set of options appears to the right. Click the topmost button called Change Location to pick a new spot for downloads. Select the Downloads folder you just created, click Choose, and then Click OK. Your downloads will now automatically be stored in the Downloads folder, minimizing the mess on the desktop. To quickly access the Downloads folder, you can drop it into the Dock.. |
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8 Perk Up OS 9 Is your poor Mac feeling a tad sluggish? Done individually, these tips for perking up OS 9 won't make much of a difference. But combine them all and you'll put the snap back in your Mac. Adjust your keyboard settings. Go to the Keyboard control panel, and set the Key Repeat Rate to fast and the Delay Until Repeat to short. These settings will make keys repeat faster when you hold them down. Adjust your memory settings. Open up the Memory control panel, and select the default setting for the disk cache and turn off virtual memory. These settings will force your Mac to retrieve information from RAM as quickly as possible. Turn off menu blinking. You'll find this on/off option in the General Controls control panel. Adjust your mouse settings. Go to the Mouse or Track pad control panel and set tracking to fast. This will make your cursor whiz across the screen as you move the mouse. Turn off folder size calculation. Go to the Finder and choose Preferences from the Edit menu. Next, click on the Views tab and then choose List from the "Standard View Options for" pop-up. Now just deselect the "Calculate folder sizes" option. Free up some disk space. Try to keep at least ten percent of your hard drive size empty. Some applications will need to use some of this space to store information. For a faster BOOT - OS 9.x will boot up quicker if the memory control panel is set to not check the RAM on startup... This option only shows up in the Memory panel if you hold down the Option & Command keys down when you open the memory control panel... When the window opens it will have added a new feature that will let you either turn the Memory Check feature on, or off... (There really isn't a reason to check the RAM each time you boot but should one seem to have a RAM problem, they can turn the check back on using the same keys to once again open the Memory control panel and then they can changing their choice for the check before rebooting... |
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9: Desktop Pictures One of my favorite features has to be the upgrade from Desktop Patterns to Desktop Pictures. You can now use all kinds of image files as backgrounds for the Desktop. The Desktop Patterns are still there with lots of new tiles but I'm sure the Pictures will be more popular. Already there are sites offering Desktop Picture collections at $5 - $10 Shareware for up to 20 images. Here are some tips for using Pictures effectively • The Desktop Pictures folder on your hard drive contains a number of photo images. • On the Mac OS 8 CD you can find a folder called Additional Desktop Pictures in the CD Extras folder. • The System 8.5 CD has even more if you can find them, and they're quite nice. • The Desktop Pictures folder is now in System Folder/Appearance/Desktop Pictures/. • To have a Desktop Picture appear randomly at startup: 1. Drag as many pictures as you want into the Desktop Pictures folder on your hard drive (at last count I had 100 difference photos in there). 2. Open the Desktop Pictures control panel (control-click on the desktop and select Change Desktop Background...). 3. Click the Picture button on the left of the panel. 4. Drag the Desktop Pictures folder onto the area representing your monitor. 5. Press Set Desktop and close the control panel. • Note: System 8.5 replaces the Desktop Pictures control panel with the Appearance control panel. You need to click on the 'Desktop' tab in this control panel and then go to point 4. • Now when you restart you will see a random picture from that folder as your background and you won't have the problem of getting bored by the same image every day. Download desktop pictures. http://www.paintedmatter.com/deskpix/pages/aurdwld.html http://www.webcom.com/~carn/carnation/desktop_pictures.html http://www.blueskyheart.com/ http://www.macdesktops.com/ |
iTunes Wakeup Call Do you have your Mac in your bedroom? Using iTunes and OS 9's Energy Saver control panel, you can turn your computer into the world's most customizable (and most expensive) alarm clock. Go into your iTunes Music folder, fine one of your favorite MP3 tracks, and select "Make Alias" from the Finder's File menu. Now, drag that alias into the System Folder's Startup Items folder. Each time your computer starts up, iTunes will launch and play tracks in your library, beginning with the aliases tune. This can be a headache if you restart your Macintosh several times a day, but it shouldn't be an issue for most users. The next task is to initiate Energy Saver's automatic start-up routine. Open the Energy Saver control panel and click the Schedule tab at the top. The first item listed is Schedule Options, and you'll need to check off the option for "Scheduled shut down instead of scheduled sleep." This tells the computer you want your Mac to automatically start up or shut down instead of simply waking up or going to sleep. The next item listed allows you set a time to start up the computer. Here's where you set your alarm clock. Check off the option to start up the computer and select your repetition preferences from the pop up menu--weekdays, weekends, every day, or a specific day each week. Now, set the wake up time desired (for example, 7:30 AM). Once you close the Energy Saver control panel, select an appropriate volume, and you're all set! The computer automatically starts up the next morning and play tracks in your music library to wake you up. Just don't forget to shutdown your Mac the night before--your Mac can't automatically start up if it's already on. |
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you of the tips and hints that can be found online. TEXT STRIPPING Q: My wife is still using OS 9 because she can use SimpleText to "wash" her text before she uploads to websites. Otherwise, she ends up with lots of odd characters. Can you recommend an application that does this effectively in OS X? I'd really like for her to upgrade to OS X. A: There are a number of utilities that will clean text in OS X. Among them are 1 - TextSoap 4.0 ($25; http://www.unmarked.com/ Have her give each one a try to see which one works best. (I downloaded this one and it looks like it too is shareware and can be used with to paying the sharewarefee... I think reminders may pop up though), 2 - Tex-Edit Plus 4.8 ($15; http://www.tex-edit.com/ Text- Edit Plus is shareware and at the bottom of the above page it says the following (Everyone can use it without paying the shareware fee)... About Our Shareware - Please note that there are no annoying Shareware messages or "unlock codes" embedded in our programs. You may use these programs for as long as you wish (i.e., there is no time limit on the trial period). You are under no moral obligation to send in the Shareware fee and you are under no obligation to erase the program if you don't pay the fee. Simply think of the Shareware fee as a much-appreciated way to encourage future development and to say "thank you!" -You have our permission to distribute these files freely, as long as the documentation remains intact and you don't alter the programs themselves. (Please do not post the beta versions to any other sites, since that might confuse folks.) 3 Text Wrangler ($49; http://www.barebones.com/ ) this one has a 30 day Demo available here: http://ftp.barebones.com/pub/demos/TextWrangler_1.5.1_Demo.dmg SO MANY WAYS TO EJECT Most long-time users will recall that dragging a disk to the trash can was the foremost (if nonsensical) way to eject a disk on a Mac. And although it continues to be a primary method of ejecting a disk, it's certainly not the only one. Here are a number of other (and possibly faster) ways to eject a disk: 1. Click the disk once to highlight it and press Command-E. 2. Control-click the disk and choose Eject from the contextual menu. 3. Click the eject icon next to the disk in OS 10.3's Finder windows. 4. Press the eject key on the keyboard to eject a CD or DVD. 5. iPods can also be ejected from within iTunes, or by choosing Eject "So-and-so's iPod" from the iTunes Dock menu. BOOKMARK MESS Q: Is there a way to create folders in the bookmark bar in Safari, instead of having just the website names? I have a whole roster of bookmarks that spill off the bar, and I'd really like to put them in folder. Is there a tip or trick I am missing? -- Joe Mecham A: Yes, you can easily add folders to the bookmark bar to help keep things organized. At any point in time, you can choose Add Bookmark Folder from the Bookmarks menu, and clicking the Bookmark icon at the left of the Bookmark Bar allows you to organize your bookmarks. Here, you can drag and drop your many bookmarks into folders, and arrange them in a logical order. It's really quite simple! |
| • Online Sites
To Explore : Personalize your MacDesktops http://www.macdesktops.com/index.phtml?Picture=3735&res=TRUE Links To Some Of The Coolest SIites On The Web!!! http://www.tapeball.iwarp.com/links.html ~ Favorite Sites ~ Awesome Sites ~ Best Sites ~ ~ Fun Sites ~ Spiritual Sites ~ Mandalas ~ Saints http://www.geocities.com/www0db0www/FavoriteSites.html Awesome Sites for Everyone http://www.bristolvaschools.org/mwarren/awesome_sites_for_everyone.htm |
• Freeware & Shareware : New downloads -- http://www.jumbo.com/ Freebyte! Your guide... to the Web http://www.freebyte.com/ Program Files http://www.programfiles.com/ The File Transit http://www.filetransit.com/ |
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