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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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| MRJ 2.1 Runs Faster, Works with Explorer
Apple has released Macintosh Runtime for Java 2.1, which offers substantial performance improvements over previous versions of MRJ and can be used with Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser. (Microsoft dropped support for their own Java virtual machine immediately after Sun won a preliminary injunction against Microsoft's Java implementations; see TidBITS 456.) MRJ 2.1 complies with Sun's Java JDK 1.1.6 specification, optionally supports Sun's Java Foundation Classes and Swing interface toolkit (versions 1.0.3 and 1.1), and adds support for AppleScript (although we don't know how useful this will be in the short term). Although MRJ 2.1 still doesn't run every Java applet under the sun (in fact, the release notes warn users away from Yahoo Games while Apple investigates problems), MRJ 2.1 works with Internet Explorer - just make sure MRJ is selected as Explorer's Java virtual machine - and Java development environments for the Macintosh. Netscape browsers use their own Java implementation and can't currently use MRJ.
MRJ 2.1 requires a PowerPC-based Mac running Mac OS 7.6.1 or later (Mac OS 8.1 or later recommended) with at least 24 MB of RAM, 20 MB of free disk space, and Open Transport 1.1 or better. MRJ 2.1 installs Text Encoding Converter 1.4.2 on all systems, and if you're using Mac OS 7.6.1, it installs version 1.0.3 of the Appearance control panel. Note that MRJ 2.1 does not ship with the Apple Applet Runner; you can use Apple's Applet Runner 2.0 (which shipped with MRJ 2.0, and hence with Mac OS 8.1 and higher) or download it with the MRJ SDK from Apple's developer Web site. MRJ 2.1 is a 7.8 MB download from Apple's FTP site; Apple hasn't updated its MRJ Web pages as of this writing.
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