|
|
|
|
| Welcome, Guest | Home | Search | Login | Register | |
| Author | Delayed revelations (Read 11934 times) | ||||||||||||||
|
cantonjohn
16 MB  Posts: 26 System 7 Newcomer! 
|
on: February 16, 2023, 23:35
I recently watched a video yesterday on MacRumors.com, about "10 Mac Tips to Make Your Life Easier": https://www.macrumors.com/2023/02/14/10-macos-tips-make-life-easier/ One of the tips was about checking the Stationery Pad checkbox in a file's Get Info panel. This makes the file into a template - ie, when you open the file, it will copy it first, then open it. "That's great," I thought. Those clever guys at Cupertino have just solved another problem for us. Another time-saving improvement! And then today, I'm wrangling with my System 7 emulator setup, and I get info on a file. And the Stationery Pad checkbox is there! It was there all the time. I've been using a Mac for about 30 years - System 7 / Quark Express 3.3 etc... and I never knew it was there. |
||||||||||||||
|
Bolkonskij
|
Administrator 1024 MB  Posts: 2023
Reply #1 on: February 17, 2023, 09:48
|
haha, yes...there's plenty of such things to discover with Mac OS. I've been using Mac OS for 30+ years by now and I still discover keyboard shortcuts and stuff like that on a regular basis. Very often amazed at how much genius went into the functionality - and how little into its marketing :-) I'm really thinking of a good way on how to preserve these little tips on System 7 Today. That includes application tips too. Thus far I've put some into our Tutorials section but I feel it'll outgrow its bounds quickly if we continue to collect each and every tip there. Any ideas welcome ...
Last Edit: February 17, 2023, 09:55 by Bolkonskij
|
Neal_SE30
|
256 MB Posts: 401 System 7 Newcomer!
Reply #2 on: February 22, 2023, 20:17
|
Good work Sebastian:) great idea
|
68040
|
512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #3 on: February 22, 2023, 20:33
|
Just to give a nudge to blasphemy: A collection of tips on 8.1 would also be greatly appreciated. I just found out how ez it is to add modern day SSL to 8.1 - but you gotto get the tip4that, because its not very intuitive. Also, MacOS 8.1 on Basilisk-II can act as host of its own, with TCP/IP reverse tunneling activated. And so on and so on.
|
|
Pages: [1]
|
| ||||
|
© 2021 System7Today.com. |
