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Connecting... Welcome to Connect, our column for reader email! We want to hear your thoughts and opinions about things you've read in Mac OS Journal, about Apple, your computer, Mac OS X, and so on. So let us have it people! Send email to connect@macosjournal.com or use this form.
Trapped in the CNET
Henry A. Davis I hoped you wouldn't ask, but since you do, here's my response: I don't like CNET much. No, I'll change that. I hate CNET. True, there's a lot on it, and none of us can ignore it altogether. But, just as with ZDNet but more so, the Dark Side gets pushed at you very strongly. The best way of accessing CNET, as far as I can see, is just to go to www.cnet.com, and then do a search for "Mac". Yes, just as you would for Compaq or something. Then just try to click on a few links without getting bounced to PC-only pages; you'll soon get my point. There's a serviceable download section and some rather good Mac reviews, but it must drive the Mac writers crazy to work there. I go crazy, and I can, and do, get out of it all before it gets to me too badly. Well, you did ask. - Dennis
Stuffit Problems
Jenny Severio Yes Jenny. Not a problem with your Mac, nor with your System. It's Stuffit Expander that Aladdin Systems gives away with new Macs, System disks, magazine CD ROMs, and if you somehow managed to avoid having several copies already, by download from all the normal places. Wonderful piece of software, and you have to seriously question Aladdin's business sense when they give it to you for nothing. One of its best features is that it works in a very unobtrusive way and comes up when it's needed, and lots of folks only ever see it momentarily at the end of a download. When its job is done, it politely disappears until you need it again. Like it must have been put together by a ma---- [Dennis, I keep telling you not to do this - Editor]. Too polite really; because you never know it's there, you don't realize you can control it. Here's what to do. Find the Stuffit Expander app. Use Sherlock if you like, and while you're at it, you might as well delete all the copies but one. I found four on my drive. OK, now double click on the app's icon. Not much happens except to the menu bar, which shrinks to just two menus plus help. Go to the File menu, and click Preferences. You'll find Expander is very accommodating to your wishes, like most other male crea---- [One more like that and you're outta here - Editor]. There's quite a list of things you can change. First, go to the top option, called "Expanding". You'll see two boxes labeled "Delete after expanding". Check them both. Now only the expanded, useful version of your download will stay on your disk. Now to place all your downloads in one convenient place on your disk, first return to the Finder, make a New Folder (File Menu), and move it to wherever you like. Mine's on my desktop. Back to Stuffit Expander and its Preferences dialog; this time scroll down to the fifth option: Destinations. Hit the "Use" Radio Button, and then use the standard dialog boxes to navigate to the folder you just made in the Finder. Henceforth, that's where all your downloads will end up. Finally, go to the last option in the Preferences dialog, Internet Config. You get a list of all the kinds of file this wonderful app can deal with. I see no reason not to check them all; there's even a big button at the bottom that lets you do that. Why did Aladdin not make it so that these Preferences options don't get chosen by default, you ask. Search me. - Dennis [Editor's Note: While playing with Mac OS X Beta I witnessed that Stuffit Expander has made the jump too... but it can't hide as easily since all apps show up in the dock when they're running :) ]
Offline Reading Revisited
Jan Hoogterp No, at least not in the most recent version I downloaded a week or so ago. If Netscape wants to stay competitive with the hated Microsoft's Internet Explorer, it'll have to spruce itself up real soon now, in my view. Like lots of Mac Users, I'd go a fair way to avoid Microsoft's products (even the free ones), and I really hope Netscape will produce something that will help us do that. - Dennis
Dreamweaver 3 vs. Dreamweaver UltraDev
Grrreat review [Dreamweaver Ultradev Review - September Issue]! Thanks. One question you could have answered is: Do you need Dreamweaver if you have UltraDev? Macromedia says you do. But if they have rolled in all the Dreamweaver tools (to the point of including the manual), why waste the money? Or is there something I am missing? Janet Valentine Dreamweaver UltraDev is Dreamweaver 3 with database tools, and web application development included. So, if you have Dreamweaver Ultradev, you have no need to get Dreamweaver 3 separately... as it is "already included." Here's a page directly comparing the two products feature sets. I hope this answers all of your questions. - Marc
A Concerned Investor...
Ho ho ho, wojja say to that? Colin M Paq As your stockbroker shoulda toldya, Colin, it's not a setback at all. It's a buying opportunity. And by the way, I've seen through your pathetic disguise and I know who you are. - Dennis
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