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Open Links from Mail in the Background
Tired of switching back and forth between Mail and your Web browser every time you click a link in a TidBITS issue or other email message? Here's an easy workaround. Hold down the Command key when you click links in Mail to open them in your browser without switching away from Mail. That way you can keep reading in Mail and then read all the Web pages you've opened.
Last week in NetBITS-010 we looked at how you can add functionality to your Web site by using a service; this week we'll turn our attention to CGI (Common Gateway Interface) programs, which are often simple little applications or scripts that run on the Web server, and process information submitted from forms in your Web page.
There are hundreds of CGIs available; many are free, many others are low costRead more...
If you've been thinking about setting up a Web site, you may have felt overwhelmed by the complexity. Sure, creating a few pages is no big deal - everyone seems to be doing that these days, from fifth graders to grandmasRead more...
Few people know about Mail Drop, a great freeware mail client for the Mac. Mail Drop is an IMAP email client being developed by Carl W. Bell as a Baylor University projectRead more...
Peter Glaskowsky writes:
One day at the recent Microprocessor Forum, I sat next to Rick Doherty, who is Steve Wozniak's business partner at EnvisioneeringRead more...
Peter Lewis writes in regard to fingering for earthquake information:
You can also just paste Finger URLs into Finger 1.5.0 [Peter's Finger MacTCP-based Finger client], or, if you see them in a Usenet news posting that you're reading with NewsWatcher, you can just Command-click the URL to pass the URL to FingerRead more...
Peter Lewis comments regarding the heat-sensitive paper we mentioned in TidBITS-258:
Now what we really need is paper that changes colour when you run it through a laser printer, and then changes back after a few daysRead more...
