Comments on: Random Tiger Notes

By: taktmann

taktmann — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 16:23:32 +0000

Michael: I see your points (but did you realize that mouse-scroll-wheel is supported?); but is there any other pop-up-dictionary available on os x?
But dont you have to admit: the panel does look good?!

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 14:15:08 +0000

taktmann: I don't like the small size, the special mode, the way it disappears when I do *anything*, or the lack of keyboard navigation.

By: taktmann

taktmann — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 14:08:26 +0000

Regarding the Dictionary I dare to disagree: I found the panel just awesome – what do you think is wrong with it: that you cannot resize the pop-up window-thingie? that it is not tolerant towards mispellings?
But: that is there and that quick and handy - that is, in my perspective, too cool.

Btw: is there a way to re-install dictionaries for other languages than the ones you have OS X installed for?
(I installed, for reasons of harddrive-capacity-issues, only the default English – can I now install some, say, german dictionary additonally?)

By: Bill Scott

Bill Scott — Mon, 09 May 2005 13:45:51 +0000

Re. Mail in Tiger:

Page up and page down move through the paragraphs of a long email, as they should. Home and end don't work. Up and Down arrows move from item to item in the email. Control-page up and control-page down jump from mail item to mail item of the same thread, i.e., from the same sender.

By: Juan de Dios Santander

Juan de Dios Santander — Thu, 05 May 2005 14:07:16 +0000

The way Spotlight works, if you copy files to a drive, it should be copying existing metadata. But if you create them for the first time, or copy them from a disk Spotlight hadn't seen before, it should index those files right away...

That's the same for content being decompressed.

With Mail, I've seen a tendency not to be able to actually see messages--but not only by Spotlight-- unless you Rebuild the mailbox..

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 04 May 2005 14:37:45 +0000

xbhoff: I know that's what the help says, but I couldn't get it to work. I filed a bug on this in December, which Apple hasn't closed yet.

By: xbhoff

xbhoff — Wed, 04 May 2005 14:30:12 +0000

you can assign custom keyboard shortcuts to scripts in the Script menu. how to do it is explained in Mail Help under:

Discover > Automating Mail > Using the Script Menu

By: dekay

dekay — Wed, 04 May 2005 11:07:23 +0000

So which files in ~/Library/Mail/ are obsolete then? I have about 800 MB of mbox files - are they ready for trash?

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 04 May 2005 02:37:50 +0000

DF: Page Up and Page Down work when you hold down Control. Home and End do not.

By: DF

DF — Wed, 04 May 2005 00:45:05 +0000

"It used to be that if you held down Command-Option, you could drop a Dock icon onto another Dock icon (e.g. dropping an application onto Script Debugger to view its dictionary). Now, this works if you first bring the receiving application to the front."

It was actually Command-drag, not Command-Option-drag -- evidently the "Option" just didn't break it ;-) And Command-dragging still works fine for me in Tiger.