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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.
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...
