- Readers Like You!
- Web Crossing
- Circus Ponies
- Bare Bones Software
- Microsoft
- CS Odessa
- Mark/Space, Inc.
- MacSpeech
- Fetch Softworks
- VMware
Expand Finder Columns Quickly
Column view in the Finder is great for navigating through your disk's hierarchy, but the columns often aren't wide enough to show the full names of all the files. To expand a column to a width that will show all file names in their entirety, double-click the handle that you would normally drag to expand or shrink the column. To expand all the visible columns to that width, Option-double-click the handle.
Written by Adam C. Engst
Recent TidBITS Talk Discussions
- Minimize Desktop Distractions (1 message)
- Fix Your Clicks With Klicko (5 messages)
- Print Classy Discs with the Dymo DiscPainter (6 messages)
- IMAP out of control (5 messages)
Published in TidBITS 564. Subscribe today to receive TidBITS in email every Monday.
- Apple Announces Less of a Loss
- Poll Results: Embracing the Digital Lifestyle?
- German Translators Needed
- SETI Sucks Power
- New Power Mac G4s Debut with SuperDrive
- Macworld SF 2001 Trend: User Groups Hold On
- Macworld SF 2001 Trend: Cool Utilities
- Macworld SF 2001 Trend: Personal Firewalls
| The Other Garage
The Other Garage -- Although the Macintosh industry reveres the Silicon Valley garage in which Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built the first Apple I computers, it was the other Palo Alto garage duo, William Hewlett and David Packard, who are credited with much of the modern computing revolution. In 1939, the two founded Hewlett-Packard in a one-car garage in Palo Alto, making the foundation of Apple possible for the Steves nearly four decades later. In fact, Hewlett-Packard's role in the creation of Apple was more specific than just helping in the evolution of modern computing. After all, Steve Wozniak was employed at HP when he created the prototype of the Apple I in his spare time, and HP explicitly passed on the opportunity he gave them to develop the Apple I before giving him a release letter. Fast-forwarding to the present, on 12-Jan-01, as tens of thousands of Macintosh fans gathered for the final day of the Macworld Expo, William Hewlett died at home in his sleep. He was 87 years old. (David Packard died in 1996.) [MHA]
<http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/hist_30s.htm>
<http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/hewlett/ index2.htm>
Fetch Softworks: Fetch 5.3 makes FTP and SFTP easy!Upload, download, mirror, and manage your Web site. Dozens of
new features to make file transfers easier and more reliable.
Get your free trial version at <http://fetchsoftworks.com/>!