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Open URLs Quickly from BBEdit

If you're working on a bit of text (HTML or otherwise) in BBEdit, and you see a URL that you'd like to open, the fastest way is to Command-click it. Most BBEdit users probably already know this tip, but if you don't, it's a huge time-saver. (The same trick works in BBEdit's free little brother, TextWrangler.)

Written by Adam C. Engst

 
 

Subscribe Your Browser to TidBITS

If you use a recent Web browser and like to try new features, you've probably "subscribed" to a few Web pages. By subscribing, you receive a notification when the page changes, and in some browsers (such as the preview release of Microsoft Internet Explorer 4), the updated page can be downloaded for later offline reading. If you've tried to subscribe in this manner to TidBITS so you're notified when a new issue is available, you probably had trouble figuring out what page to subscribe to. For the record, the page you want is at the URL below - we update that URL each week with the latest issue. Note that this sort of subscription is simply a connection between your browser and one Web page; it's not a "channel" subscription, which we're still investigating.

<http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS- current.html>

If you haven't yet tried subscriptions, in Microsoft Internet Explorer 3 or 4, you can subscribe to a "favorite" page by opening the Favorites window and clicking in the margin left of the page's entry. A newspaper icon appears indicating that the subscription is active. You can then customize subscription options by double-clicking the newspaper icon.

In Netscape Navigator 3, if you have the Bookmarks window open, you can learn which bookmarked pages have changed since you last visited them by choosing What's New from the File menu. The command operates either on all bookmarks or only on selected bookmarks. In Netscape Communicator and Navigator 4, the What's New command has moved to the View menu.

Of course, we haven't done away with email subscriptions to TidBITS; to subscribe, send email to <tidbits-on@tidbits.com>. There's also more detailed subscription information on our Web site.

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