The Recent Items entry in the Apple menu tracks recently-used applications, documents, and servers. At the bottom of the menu is an entry to clear all of your recent activity. But what if you want a more fine-grained control over removing entries from these lists? For example, say you want to remove one or more individual entries. Christopher Breen explains how to do just that by editing a plist file (with the help of a free tool).
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- Most OS X users never venture near the command line, so the age of the bundled tools won't make any difference to them. As long as the GUI side of the OS does what they want, they'll be happy. Taking off the generalist's hat, I'm curious as to how Apple handles security fixes for the older versions of these tools.
The following is a collection of demonstrations performed on digital audio workstations most popular among blind users: Reaper and Samplitude on Windows, and Logic and Pro Tools on the Mac. Various tasks are executed by experienced users in each DAW, illustrating the level of accessibility, degree of feedback and general user experience. Learn how to cancel subscriptions that you purchased with an app from the App Store. You can also cancel Apple TV+, Apple News+, Apple Fitness+, and other subscriptions from Apple.
Between the two extremes of clearing all and clearing individual items, though, lies a simple method of clearing one or more categories (Applications, Documents, or Servers) without affecting the others. Simply open the Appearance System Preferences panel, and change the Number of Recent Items pop-up menu to zero for the category you wish to clear. Then set it back to whatever your preferred count is, and check the Apple menu's Recent Items entry. The category you zeroed out will be blank, while the other two will still show your recent activity.
Note that if you've enabled the Recent Items Dock Stack, and you clear the category that that Stack, the Stack will vanish, but leave an invisible space behind in its wake. If you click the empty space, your Dock may restart, but this won't do any harm (other than changing your Desktop picture, if you've got it set to rotate).
Thanks to Mac OS X Hints contributor Philip Rink Jr. The shopkeeper of ghost island mac os. for this easy-to-use tip.
Mac Musings
Daniel Knight - 2001.12.19
The Recent Items entry in the Apple menu tracks recently-used applications, documents, and servers. At the bottom of the menu is an entry to clear all of your recent activity. But what if you want a more fine-grained control over removing entries from these lists? For example, say you want to remove one or more individual entries. Christopher Breen explains how to do just that by editing a plist file (with the help of a free tool).
- Play as female, gay, straight or bi. Become part of the Parisian nightlife, where seduction and good wine, lies and kisses go hand in hand. Choose a sweetheart – or get involved with more than one – between a rival duelist, a lady of the night and the shy bartender who pours your drinks.
- Most OS X users never venture near the command line, so the age of the bundled tools won't make any difference to them. As long as the GUI side of the OS does what they want, they'll be happy. Taking off the generalist's hat, I'm curious as to how Apple handles security fixes for the older versions of these tools.
The following is a collection of demonstrations performed on digital audio workstations most popular among blind users: Reaper and Samplitude on Windows, and Logic and Pro Tools on the Mac. Various tasks are executed by experienced users in each DAW, illustrating the level of accessibility, degree of feedback and general user experience. Learn how to cancel subscriptions that you purchased with an app from the App Store. You can also cancel Apple TV+, Apple News+, Apple Fitness+, and other subscriptions from Apple.
Between the two extremes of clearing all and clearing individual items, though, lies a simple method of clearing one or more categories (Applications, Documents, or Servers) without affecting the others. Simply open the Appearance System Preferences panel, and change the Number of Recent Items pop-up menu to zero for the category you wish to clear. Then set it back to whatever your preferred count is, and check the Apple menu's Recent Items entry. The category you zeroed out will be blank, while the other two will still show your recent activity.
Note that if you've enabled the Recent Items Dock Stack, and you clear the category that that Stack, the Stack will vanish, but leave an invisible space behind in its wake. If you click the empty space, your Dock may restart, but this won't do any harm (other than changing your Desktop picture, if you've got it set to rotate).
Thanks to Mac OS X Hints contributor Philip Rink Jr. The shopkeeper of ghost island mac os. for this easy-to-use tip.
Mac Musings
Daniel Knight - 2001.12.19Whether is was Mark Twain or Benjamin Disraeli who coined thephrase, the time has come to talk of 'lies, damned lies, andstatistics' once again.
I first saw the headline on MacCentral: Linux desktop marketshare less than .25 percent. 'Yeah,right,' I said to myself, clicked the link, and found yet anotherbit of bad research from WebSideStory. According to their methodology, 'Linuxhas failed to gain market share from Microsoft and Apple operatingsystems. As of December 17, 2001, Linux held a global usage shareof only 0.24 percent..' Get off! mac os.
Right.
According to Linux More Bark Than Bite With Web Users, According toWebSideStory's StatMarket, Windows and Macintosh users accountfor 98% of all Web users. Of the remaining two percent, only asmall minority surf with Linux. Or so WebSideStory claims.
As we noted in Statistical Lies two-and-a-half years ago, 'The problemisn't the numbers, but how they were derived.' Only sites using'HitBox' software (HitBox is a division of WebSideStory, as isStatMarket) are polled. They may represent 125,000 sites among themillions on the Web, but they are invariably sites created on andoften served on Windows machines. You can bet your bottom dollarthat Slashdot and Low End Mac are not among these sites.
So I had to check my stats. If anything, a Mac oriented sitecould expect to draw more Mac users than other sites, which shouldmean a lower proportion of Windows and Linux users. Here are somenumbers based on the percentage of pages served by OS:
Odd, isn't it, that HitBox sites only attract 0.24% of theiraudience among Linux users. Maybe their subject matter just doesn'tattract computer geeks, the kind of people most likely to berunning anything besides Windows and the Mac OS.
Industrial petting mac os. We've said it before, and let's hope we don't have to say itagain, but WebSideStory's conclusions don't seem to fit reality. Aswe noted in Statistical Lies, their results always come up with ahigher percentage of Windows users and a lower population of Mac,Linux, and other OS users than anybody else.
Microsoft lackeys? Maybe.
We certainly wouldn't want to take the data from 50-100 Macsites and pretend they represent the broader Web population. Norwould we give any credence to a study that extrapolated Web usagebased on visitors to Slashdot and other *nix-related sites.
Why trust a Windows-centric study?
Yet they get coverage on MacCentral, Insanely-Great, and whoknows how many other sites. Sorry, but flawed studies don't deserveto be treated as real research.
What do we know? That Unix variants make up the #3 platform forvisitors to our site and most others, and that a majority of thosevisitors use Linux. The percentage of Linux users seems quitestable, even on our site. The pattern WebSideStory discerns appearsright, but we put no credence in their numbers. After all, whywould Linux users visit a pro-Mac site at about 5x the level theyvisit general sites? It just doesn't sound right.
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In fact, we suggest you go the the StatMarket homepage and read the scrolling customer list - a lot are companiesvery much tied to Windows and/or Mac software development, such asAdobe. Another is Sun, which has nothing to gain from a growingLinux market.
Curiously missing from the list is Microsoft, which isn't to saythat they may not be a client and may not be funding studies likethis. After all, Microsoft has stated for the record that theyconsider Linux the greatest threat to Windows hegemony - even morethan the Mac OS. Whether funded by Microsoft or not, the results ofthis study certainly reach conclusions that will make Bill Gateshappy.
Our only real question for WebSideStory is what percentage ofWeb users are using Mac OS X - more or less than use Linux?
Further Reading
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- Statistical Lies, DanKnight, Mac Musings, 1999.04.14. 'The problem isn't the numbers,but how they were derived.'
- Linux on the desktop: 0.24 percent?, Slashdot, 2001.12.20.Linux users look at the study - and our article.
- The Slashdot Effect, DanKnight, Mac Musings, 2001.12.20. A look at the effect a simple linkfrom Slashdot can have on site traffic.
