News for Wednesday, 30 November 2005

As indicated by the title of this news, version 1.5 of the popular web browser FireFox is available, you can download it from www.mozilla.fr.
This new version brings an optimized rendering engine, as well as an automatic update system, and many other new features while improving compatibility with web standards (SVG, CSS 2 and CSS 3, and JavaScript 1.6).

Thanks to Matthieu for this info and his work:

I have seen your previous news related to the scripts "Suspend Now". One additional good option would be to enter in Safe Sleep mode via a keyboard short cut.
So I modified my existing" utilities" based on a command line to start the Safe Sleep mode into a Dashboard widget. It has been submitted to dashboardwidgets.com and then to Apple.
After more than 300 users testing it without reporting any problem, I think that it is time to offer it to a larger community, to all readers of MacBidouille and Hardmac.
To download it :
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/mbeaumel/deepsleep
or here:
http://www.dashboardwidgets.com/showcase/details.php?wid=1352

XLR8yourmac has published a small article showing how to easily install a "Dip Switch" in the motherboard of a G4 AGP Sawtooth which enables the alteration of the front side bus speed.


It is now possible to choose frequencies between 66 and 133 MHz.
Only 120 is usable, as 133 crashes the machine. Additionally the system does not report the proper frequency :(
Keep in mind that processor will accelerate proportionally! So a 400 MHz CPU will run at 480 MHz with a bus speed of 120 MHz, if it can run that fast.
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/systems/sawtooth_bus_overclock/sawtooth_bus_overclock.html

Source : http://www.macosxhints.com

Thanks to VRic for the info.

Many users have noticed that selecting text, then dragging the selection somewhere, which was obvious on Mac OS9, is not always available on OSX. As a result they tend to not expect it rather than be disappointed and irritated. Some applications (like iCab) function normally and others (like Safari) don't work most of the time -- but not always. The first click for dragging and dropping deselects the text, forcing you to start over. Eventually, after the 3rd time, you give up and do a copy and paste instead.
The problem is actually with the preferences of Cocoa applications: the delay before a selection of text becomes draggable.
This is a stupid preference, in my opinion. A selection changing behavior suddenly without indicating any difference to the user (separate from the exasperating failure if you try) is bad enough, but not every selection is affected, only a text selection. The inconsistency is bad. Additionally only Cocoa applications experience this. As if that were not bad enough, each application can have its own preference. This is probably a record for inconsistency in OS X.
To modify this, type the following in the Terminal and then restart all Cocoa applications so they register the changes:
defaults write -g NSDragAndDropTextDelay -int 100
The 100 value is for 100 millisecondes (1/10th of a second, instead of the 1 second default)
-g stands for "global" (every Cocoa application)
You can put whatever value for the time you want in milliseconds, or you can put a negative value to deactivate the drag and drop of text in every Cocoa application (which is a funny idea).