🚀 go-pugleaf

Simon Slavin <slavins.at.hearsay.demon.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
> alan.frame@acm.org (Alan W. Frame) wrote:
> 
> > can anyone explain why some extensions (e.g. AppleScript)
> > have horizontally-oriented "jigsaw" icons , but others (Quicktime) are
> > vertically-oriented?
> > 
> > I don't know, honest!, but I reakon if there is a reason, then it's
> > a good bit of MacTrivia(tm).
> 
> The guidelines for creating such icons recommend that you choose
> whichever orientation best suits the graphic you want to display.
> They provide examples in each orientation so you can cut out the
> outlines.  In other words, Apple don't care which way one you use.

Ta - I must have missed that one.
It's worth getting to, or trying to get the video from APDA,
of the "Stump the Experts" session from the Apple DevCons - punters
(i.e. developers) try to outsmart Apple Engineers with MacTrivia...:-)
 
> > ObMoreSeriousd.t.m: I just replaced my old GeoPort with a GV 56K modem
> > tonight - 3 mins from box open to connect, including re-boot and choose
> > new modem in Modem Control Panel - it "just did it" :-)
> 
> Delighted to read something good about GV modems.  At last.

Well, I'd skimmed most of the stuff here about them, and assumed
(perhaps correctly) that most of the problems were caused by *not* using
OT/PPP - the scripting connects[1] are trivial, and the only thing
missing is not automatically opening a connection when I fire up
NutScrape 3.0.1[2], but I can live with that.

rgds, Alan
[1] MacShoup & Emailer 2[3][4]
[2] Yeah! Call me a Luddite, but *it works*. :-)
[3] Which dosn't do "send now" either, but 95% of the time I prefer
batch stuff anyway.
[4] I actually use Emailer to schedule the Applescripts to do the
connects - Even the almost free Lite or V1.3 are worth a look for
scheduling (even non-mail-related) things like shutting down database
servers for nightly backup etc.