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Open Files with Finder's App Switcher
Say you're in the Finder looking at a file and you want to open it with an application that's already running but which doesn't own that particular document. How? Switch to that app and choose File > Open? Too many steps. Choose Open With from the file's contextual menu? Takes too long, and the app might not be listed. Drag the file to the Dock and drop it onto the app's icon? The icon might be hard to find; worse, you might miss.
In Leopard there's a new solution: use the Command-Tab switcher. Yes, the Command-Tab switcher accepts drag-and-drop! The gesture required is a bit tricky. Start dragging the file in the Finder: move the file, but don't let up on the mouse button. With your other hand, press Command-Tab to summon the switcher, and don't let up on the Command key. Drag the file onto the application's icon in the switcher and let go of the mouse. (Now you can let go of the Command key too.) Extra tip: If you switch to the app beforehand, its icon in the Command-Tab switcher will be easy to find; it will be first (or second).
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| Question: What's the difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web?
Question: What's the difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web? Michael Battig <jbattig@efn.org> writes from Glenn's home town of Eugene, Oregon, with that surprisingly common question.
Answer: The Internet is a set of networks that exchange data with each other using a standard set of protocols - languages that each machine can speak. In previous issues of NetBITS, we've addressed how the protocols talk to each other, with high-level protocols (like the languages spoken by mail servers and Web servers) broken down into pieces and delivered by lower-level protocols over physical media, like copper wire and fiber optic cable.
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The Internet is both the physical set of machines that are interconnected (inter-network is the source of the term Internet) and - in the form of the Internet networking model - the protocols that drive traffic around it.
The World Wide Web is not so much a thing as it is a protocol. There is no "set" of machines that are the Web; rather, there are millions of individual machines that all use the same technology to deliver information. The Web is made up of HTML, a markup language for formatting pages, and a number of scripting and programming languages and security methods that any given site might or might not use, like Java, JavaScript, Active Server Pages (ASP), SSL, SHTML, and others.
All Web servers talk to Web browsers using HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol). HTTP defines how a Web server and browser interact; we discuss this in some depth in Jeff Carlson's cookies article in NetBITS-006. HTTP is just one of several high-level protocols that applications use to talk to each other, like SMTP, the language that mail servers use to exchange email. [GF]
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