Author: Steve Riggins

Where did the Internet System Preference go? How do I set my default Mail client, Web Browser, etc? Believe it or not, Apple moved these into the preferences of the respective Apple applications. You can find the default mail viewer application preference in yep, Apple’s Mail.app preferences panel. You can likewise find the Default Browser… Continue reading Internet – Where did the Internet System Preferences go?

If you have a mouse with a scroll wheel that is also a button, pressing and holding down on the mouse wheel will bring up the Application switcher bar and you can then scroll through to another app (while holding the wheel down) and then release over the application you want to switch to.

If Stuffit Expander insists on opening the zips you make with the Finder’s new Archive command, select said Zip file and choose Get Info. Then turn down the “Open With” panel and click the popup menu and choose “Other” Now, click your hard disk in the left sidebar, then select System, then Library, then CoreServices… Continue reading Finder – Reset the Finder to open Zips

You can quickly resize all finder columns to the same width by double clicking on the column resize widget while holding down the Option key. The column resize widget is located in each column below the scroll arrows.

The Finder’s search field, located in the toolbar, is hot searchable now. This means that the Finder starts finding as you type. It also defaults to all local disks, so this can get pretty slow if you have a ton of files. In a Finder browser window, click the magnifying class icon to the left… Continue reading Finder – Default search mode can be time consuming

I use an external Linksys 802.11g wireless card. Apple added support for these cards in June of 2003 in 10.2 (Jaguar) which was great, but less than pefect. You could experience kernel panics if you removed the card while the Mac was asleep, or inserted one after waking up the Mac. I am happy to… Continue reading Panther is 802.11 PCMCIA friendly

I took some time to test compiling an app of mine on several configurations with CodeWarrior Pro 8.3: TiBook 500 1GB RAM10.2.85 minutes TiBook 500 1GB RAM10.33 minutes G5/Dual 2ghz 1GB RAM10.31 minute

In Preview, you can use the handy scroll wheel on your mouse (you do have a scroll wheel mouse, right?) to scroll horizontally by holding down the shift key when scrolling the wheel. Wouldn’t it be cool if holding down option caused Preview to zoom in and out with the wheel?

If you are a Snapz Pro X user like myself, you know that it is an invaluable tool for taking screeshots. Couple that with OS X using PDF as the default format and you end up with using Snapz Pro X a lot, and using funky shortcuts that don’t conflict with the built in shortcuts.… Continue reading Use Keyboard Shortcuts to disable built in screen shots

If you would like to see the Exposé screen effects in slow motion, hold down the shift key while activating Exposé! Cool!

Here is a list of applications I have run successfully on Panther: Apple Developed: Mail.app Safari iPhoto Address Book iCal iChat A/V iSync (with Palm conduit) iTunes w/ iTunes music store Backup Beta 2 Scheduled back ups do not work Third Party: TK3 (Pre-release) Quicken 2004 NetNewsWire 1.0.5 LaunchBar 3.2.12 Fire 0.32f Snak 4.9.6 ICQ… Continue reading Panther – Applications/Hardware I have run

Update Joar has posted a very nice page on this at: Getting a certificate for Mail Panther’s Mail.app supports certificate based signing and encryption of email. Mail’s help mentions this and the fact that you need a certificate on your keychain, but no instructions on how to get a certificate. So after some research and… Continue reading Mail – Getting a certificate for Mail Encryption