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We're at Macworld Expo 2009 in San Francisco with the latest news about the show. Check back often this week for updates!
- Phil Schiller Delivers Lackluster Keynote
- iPhoto '09 Adds Faces and Places
- iMovie '09 Seems to Fix Everything from iMovie '08
- GarageBand '09 Adds Music Lessons
- iWork Turns '09
- Apple Moves to Unprotected Music, Tiered Prices
- Apple Pioneers New Battery Tech with 17-inch MacBook Pro
- Jobs Clears the Air on Health Issue
- Welcome to Macintosh Movie to Screen at Macworld Expo
- MacHEADS Movie to Premiere at Macworld Expo
- TidBITS Events at Macworld SF 2009
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 Doubler 8 adds Mac OS 8 Compatibility
Connectix has shipped Speed Doubler 8, a long-awaited upgrade that's compatible with Mac OS 8 and adds a few new features. Speed Doubler 8 improves performance of local and network file copies, disk caching, and (on PowerPC systems) includes a dynamic recompilation 68K emulator that can be almost twice as fast as Apple's - handy when using 68K programs and system components, like AppleScript. Speed Doubler 8 can now schedule file copies and folder synchronizations, plus (perhaps trying to fill the gap created by Now Utilities' absence under Mac OS 8, or to enhance Speed Doubler's utility to 68K users) navigate menus of many applications without a mouse and assign hot keys to common tasks, such as opening a file or typing a block of text. Speed Doubler 8 requires System 7.5.5 or later (some features require Mac OS 8), and a 68030 processor or better. Speed Doubler 8 costs about $50, and Connectix says it should be available in quantity by mid-October. Speed Doubler 8 includes a $25 mail-in rebate for current Speed Doubler owners; if you bought Speed Doubler between 01-Jun-97 and 30-Oct-97 and live in North America, Connectix will ship you an update for just shipping and handling charges if you download and send in an update coupon. Connectix expects to release German and French versions of Speed Doubler 8 this fall.
Fetch Softworks: Fetch 5.3 has WebView, the easy wayto view files in a browser and copy Web addresses from Fetch.
Also a new look for Leopard, droplet shortcuts, and more.
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