Ted Leung on the air : Mac Tips and Tricks updated

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Sun, 08 Feb 2004

I've updated my list of Macintosh Tips and Tricks to include some new software packages and a section on tips. Leave a comment and let me know if you are finding this useful.

[23:19] | [computers/operating_systems/macosx] | # | TB | F | G | 6 Comments |

Thanks Ted, great list! I looked at it thinking that I might be able to contribute something but no luck, you already have everything that I know of ;-)

Just one question: I don't seem to have the "say" command on my macosx Jaguar 10.2.8, is that a Panther thing or something that must be installed?
Posted by Bertrand Delacretaz at Mon Feb 9 00:15:30 2004

Bertrand,

I think that say is Panther thing, since it's in /usr/bin and has a man page in /usr/man and I don't ever mess with /usr, except for /usr/local
Posted by Ted Leung at Mon Feb 9 00:24:52 2004

On other versions of OS X, you can do it through AppleScript:
osascript -e 'say "stuff"'
Posted by Bob Ippolito at Mon Feb 9 08:28:49 2004

Great resource, yet I have one suggestion for us lazy types. I checked out your original version and feel that it would be useful to put some sort of marker to indicate which items are new. Maybe a "New - Added 2004/02/08" snippet next to the title of new items or perhaps just the added date. This would help save time and enable me to scan through the article only looking at what I haven't seen yet.

Thanks for putting this together and updating it as you've found new and useful tips/tools.
Posted by Sean Abrahams at Mon Feb 9 10:31:37 2004

Good stuff. I hadn't heard of iPulse or xCHM. iPulse is just plain super cool. I need xCHM and am about to go install that. Thanks!
Posted by Chris Bailey at Tue Feb 10 15:28:42 2004

Free replacements: Desktop Manager and Colloquy
Posted by michele at Tue Feb 17 03:29:51 2004

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