- Microsoft
- Circus Ponies
- Web Crossing
- VMware
- CS Odessa
- Mark/Space, Inc.
- Fetch Softworks
- Readers Like You!
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
- Mac Recipe Software Comparisons (31 messages)
- Apple and the Economy (7 messages)
- Why no keyboard support for the iPhone/touch (18 messages)
- Peering Inside a Mobile Phone Network (5 messages)
Published in TidBITS 809. Subscribe today to receive TidBITS in email every Monday.
- Firefox 1.5 Released
- SETI@home Moves to BOINC Client
- DealBITS Drawing: GarageSale Winners
- DealBITS Drawing: Classic Solitaire
- Prograph Spelled Backwards Is Marten
- NBC Universal Brings More TV to iTunes
- Non-Apple Wi-Fi Options Expand for Mac Users
- Reality and Digital Pictures
- Take Control News/12-Dec-05
- Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/12-Dec-05
| Flashblock Update for Firefox 1.5
The Flashblock extension for Firefox lets you control whether Flash animations automatically start playing on Web pages (see "Firefox Flash Blocker" in TidBITS-794). With the release of Firefox 1.5, I was bereft! No update! Andrew Lawrence pointed out via iChat that Flashblock had an update - the extension has forked into two separate versions. For Firefox 1.0.x, you can use Flashblock 1.3.3; for Firefox 1.5, Flashblock 1.5.
<http://flashblock.mozdev.org/>
<http://db.tidbits.com/article/08225>
Installing extensions within Firefox is a breeze:
- Visit the Web page containing the extension.
- Find the install link.
- The extension should download (if it's blocked, see below); click Install.
- Quit Firefox and launch it again to load the extension.
If the extension doesn't download in Step 3, that's due to Firefox's clever way of disallowing software installations from sites you haven't approved.
Here's how to approve the site:
- Click the download button or install button on the Web site.
- A gray bar appears across the top of the Firefox browser warning you the installation was blocked.
- Click the Edit Options button at the far right of this gray bar.
- The domain name is prefilled in the pop-up window; click Allow to add the domain to an approved list.
- Click the Close button.
- Try Step 1 again; if it works, go to Step 4 in the installation steps.
MARK/SPACE, INC: Take it with you! The Missing Sync makesit easy to synchronize contacts, calendars, notes, photos
and more from your Mac to your BlackBerry, Palm OS, or
Windows Mobile phone. <http://www.markspace.com/bits>