Mac Hints & Tips

Plugged Up About Pug-Ins

Q: I’ve heard about “plug-ins” for Netscape. What are they and what are they for? A: Plug-ins are modules that expand the capabilities of a program. In this case, Netscape plug-ins let the user access special features that are available on some Web pages. Among the examples available from www.exploratorium.edu is one that shows the dissection [...]

Internet Bookmarks

If you have more than one browser you use on a regular basis, such as MS Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator, and don’t want to maintain two sets of bookmarks you might find this useful. It is possible to make an alias of one bookmarks file (I used the IE Favorites.html) and place it in the [...]

It’s Enough to Make You Toss Your Cookies

Many Web sites use files called “cookies” to either track visitors at their sites or to tailor unique pages for their visitors. For example, Amazon.com uses cookies to customize its pages for each user every time they visit. If you weren’t aware that you might be receiving such files, or if you have your browser [...]

The Scrolls of Wisdom

There are a lot of ways to scroll up and down in a window. Mostly people just use the scroll bars. I get particularly annoyed when someone scrolls down to the next page using the down arrow clicked repeatedly. 1 ) they could just hold the mouse button down and get faster scrolling and 2) [...]

Tech Support Tall Tales

Netscape Bookmarks

In Netscape, you can save time by setting your home page to open your bookmarks file. Then all your favorite Web pages are just a click away. Here’s how: Under the File menu, choose Open File to locate the html version of your Netscape bookmarks, titled bookmark.html (it’s probably on your hard drive in the System/Preferences [...]

Bookmarks

Lose a bookmark, or forget to bookmark an interesting Web page? You can view information on the entire cache or Netscape’s global history in a browser window by typing about:cache or about:global.

Reload (for Power Users)

It seems the Mac development team at Netscape forgot the Reload keyboard shortcut in Communicator version 4.0.1. No problem. This is a job for ResEdit. Open Communicator with ResEdit. Select the MENU resource. Open IDs 302, 402, and 502. Click on the Reload item in the left-hand window. Then create whatever keyboard shortcut you want [...]

Netscape’s Preferences File

Netscape can find its preferences file no matter where you try to hide it. If you want to save an old copy, compress it or Netscape will not make a new preferences file, but will find your old copy.

Naming Bookmarks

If you need to add a number of bookmarks to Netscape and you want to name them intelligently, press Command/B and leave the Bookmarks window open. Now you can add bookmarks and immediately change the title a lot easier.