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Opening a Folder from the Dock

Sick of the dock on Mac OS X Leopard not being able to open folders with a simple click, like sanity demands and like it used to be in Tiger? You can, of course click it, and then click again on Open in Finder, but that's twice as many clicks as it used to be. (And while you're at it, Control-click the folder, and choose both Display as Folder and View Content as List from the contextual menu. Once you have the content displaying as a list, there's an Open command right there, but that requires Control-clicking and choosing a menu item.) The closest you can get to opening a docked folder with a single click is Command-click, which opens its enclosing folder. However, if you instead put a file from the docked folder in the Dock, and Command-click that file, you'll see the folder you want. Of course, if you forget to press Command when clicking, you'll open the file, which may be even more annoying.

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Speed Tables

by Adam C. Engst 

                           comp(s)  decomp(s)    size    % saved
     Text (single file - 342K)
     SuperDisk! tight       3.5       2.7       278       18.71
     SuperDisk! tighter     5.8       6.3       182       46.78
     DiskDoubler A         11.3       8.7       170       50.29
     DiskDoubler B         37.3      14.3       154       54.97
 
     Text (97 files - 548K)
     SuperDisk! tight      17.0      15.5       450       17.88
     SuperDisk! tighter    21.5      19.8       372       32.12
     DiskDoubler A        101        98         356       35.04
     DiskDoubler B        160       148         344       37.23
 
     Database (4 FMPro - 180K)
     SuperDisk! tight       2.2       1.7       124       31.11
     SuperDisk! tighter     3.5       3.4        98       45.56
     DiskDoubler A          9.2       8.3        86       52.22
     DiskDoubler B         21.8      10.6        68       62.22
 
     Quicken (17 files - 266K)
     SuperDisk! tight       4.3       4.2       110       58.65
     SuperDisk! tighter     6.0       5.6        88       66.92
     DiskDoubler A         22.1      20.3        84       68.42
     DiskDoubler B         39.7      28.7        70       73.68
 
     PICT files (9 files - 2MB)
     SuperDisk! tight      22.2      14.9       1.9MB      6.40
     SuperDisk! tighter    37.8      36.2       1.4       28.80
     DiskDoubler A        108        58.6       1.2       37.90
     DiskDoubler B        327       102         1.1       43.10
 
                        avg. comp. total time (s)   thruput (K/s)
     SuperDisk! tight     26.55        39.00            86.77
     SuperDisk! tighter   44.03        71.35            47.43
     DiskDoubler A        48.77       193.90            17.45
     DiskDoubler B        54.24       303.60            11.15
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