Comments on: Save As Replace Trick

By: charles stuart

charles stuart — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 03:12:48 +0000

You can also attach an image straight from Safari into a “new message” window in Mail. No need to save and then attach.

By: Snake Eyes

Snake Eyes — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 20:36:47 +0000

I personally love this feature, but some of my clients do not. They complain that they are accidentally overwriting important files, and would liek to remove this feature.
Does anyone know of a way to disable this feature in Panther?

By: Davezilla

Davezilla — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 03:46:47 +0000

OK, that was hilarious, Eric! I just spewed my Coke all over my screen.

By: Eric TF Bat

Eric TF Bat — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 04:48:09 +0000

Yeah, Davezilla. I hear you Apple guys have a command shell now too. Cool! At this rate, by the end of the decade you’ll be discovering binary toggle switches and vaccuum tubes…
(And Longhorn STILL won’t be out… <sigh>)

By: Anton Andreasson

Anton Andreasson — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 02:26:33 +0000

Dan, try this: Start dragging a file from, say, the desktop. Hit Cmd-tab and switch to your email app (or move the mouse onto the app in the list that pops up), then hit the shortcut for making a new message, and NOW release the mouse button and drop the file in there. Cool, huh? Works with Expos

By: Pete Prodoehl

Pete Prodoehl — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 23:09:46 +0000

Well, if I wanted to “repeatedly save a file to overwrite an already existing one” on Mac OS X, I’d just write a shell script to do it. But I’m weird like that… I suppose you could do it in AppleScript too, if that’s your thing. ;)
Oh, I just tested this ‘feature’ with a Java app running on Jaguar, and it seems the Java folks have it too…

By: Davezilla

Davezilla — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 20:50:04 +0000

Isn’t it cute when Windows users find one or two small features that they’ve had longer than Mac and jump all over them in mock surprise?
Seems to me that major features Macs have had for over a decade have STILL not made it to Windows, like true gamma control, proper font aliasing (this is getting better), ligatures, complete font sets (no, you don’t have them), full drag and drop of everything including dropping files onto the Terminal…
I could go on and on but I need to reboot my XP box. Dreamweaver MX on XP = bad. Constant freezes.

By: BrunoUsesBBEdit

BrunoUsesBBEdit — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 18:05:55 +0000

I was forced to use a Mac OS 7 machine when I joined a graphic firm years ago. I was the only person at the company who violently complained daily about hating Apple. I begged for years for a PC, and was refused because of the minor problems that used to crop up from editing AI, Freehand, and especially Quark files on different platforms.
I then went back to my first love Application Development. My first day on the job at my new web application development company they handed me a G3 PowerBook with OS 9. NOOOOO!!!!!
I was also issued an HP which I tried my best to use exclusively, but team workflow made that difficult.
And then there was the OS X Beta release… I was amazed. By the time BBEdit was released as OS X native, I had eradicated all Windows machines from my life. Now even my 2 Compaq iPaq PocketPCs are sitting in a drawer.
I am a changed man.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 07:47:45 +0000

I really do need to get a Mac one of these days. I love my iPod so much and the desktops can only be better. Grr.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 00:12:12 +0000

“I am still a firm believer that Mac OS is the better overall though – plus it looks so much nicer”
Ahh the benchmark of every great OS – as long as it looks good eh? Mac and Windows user here, functionality wise I think Windows still shades Mac, so that’s enough reason for me. As for how it looks? Have you seen what people are doing on the skinning scene with Windows? (Ohh yes, making PCs look like Macs… dammit.. ;-)