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From: Nick Naym on 31 Mar 2010 22:37 In article timstreater-012307.15481831032010(a)news.individual.net, Tim Streater at timstreater(a)waitrose.com wrote on 3/31/10 10:48 AM: > In article <1jg6dxw.1lixip21vrir3cN%nospam(a)see.signature>, > nospam(a)see.signature (Richard Maine) wrote: > >> Jamie Kahn Genet <jamiekg(a)wizardling.geek.nz> wrote: >> >>> Alright, why not just put the settings file permanently in your Dock >>> instead of the MacSOUP app (assuming you do so, otherwise subsitute the >>> settings file for the MacSOUP app in whatever other lancher you prefer)? >>> Problem solved. Easy :-) >> >> Maybe it is easy for you. I'm obviously not as bright. :-) >> >> Just for kicks, I just tried to drag the settings file to the dock. It >> doesn't want to go there. In fact, no kind of document that I tried >> seems to want to go there, not that I have otherwise tried to do that >> before. > > Then you're not doing it right. I have my Eudora settings file in the > Dock. All I did was drag it there. Tim, he dragged it to the wrong side of the Dock. -- iMac (27", 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD) � OS X (10.6.3)
From: Steen on 3 Apr 2010 11:57 In article <1jg4kq5.165gkbf1urewzjN%jamiekg(a)wizardling.geek.nz>, jamiekg(a)wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) wrote: > > > > Yes...but what does NewsWatcher have that you prefer to Soup? > > > > > > It's quite a bit faster switching articles than MacSoup in my > > > experience. > > > > And MTNW supports multiple servers > > FYI: MacSOUP can as well, it just can't have more than one open at a > time. Since eternal-september is having some hickups today, this might be a feature I'd like to know more about. In MTNW you can type in a bunch of newsreaders, and quickly switch between various servers. In MacSOUP you can only punch in one newsserver. If you want to switch server one day, you will have to type in a new server. Correct?
From: Jamie Kahn Genet on 4 Apr 2010 22:48 Steen <isteen(a)gmail.com> wrote: > In article <1jg4kq5.165gkbf1urewzjN%jamiekg(a)wizardling.geek.nz>, > jamiekg(a)wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) wrote: > > > > > > Yes...but what does NewsWatcher have that you prefer to Soup? > > > > > > > > It's quite a bit faster switching articles than MacSoup in my > > > > experience. > > > > > > And MTNW supports multiple servers > > > > FYI: MacSOUP can as well, it just can't have more than one open at a > > time. > > Since eternal-september is having some hickups today, this might be a > feature I'd like to know more about. > In MTNW you can type in a bunch of newsreaders, and quickly switch > between various servers. > In MacSOUP you can only punch in one newsserver. If you want to switch > server one day, you will have to type in a new server. > Correct? No, just create multiple settings files. -- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
From: Walter Bushell on 13 Apr 2010 14:13 In article <C7D3D325.56202%nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid>, Nick Naym <nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid> wrote: > Thanks, Lewis. For some reason Steen was unwilling/unable to state what > distinguished Newswatcher from MacSOUP. MT Newswatcher has spell check. -- A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard.
From: Jamie Kahn Genet on 13 Apr 2010 15:05
Walter Bushell <proto(a)panix.com> wrote: > In article <C7D3D325.56202%nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid>, > Nick Naym <nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid> wrote: > > > Thanks, Lewis. For some reason Steen was unwilling/unable to state what > > distinguished Newswatcher from MacSOUP. > > MT Newswatcher has spell check. I use Excalibur <http://excalibur.sourceforge.net/> to cover that base. No, it's not as nice as integrated spellcheck, but it's easy enough I get by - I just copy the text in MacSOUP, switch to Excalibur, Command-T to spellcheck, save changes to clipboard, paste changes (if any mistakes were corrected) back into MacSOUP. Heh - that sounds more laborious than it really is. Or am I just so used to quickly doing it before every post? Maybe so. The real advantage of Excalibur, though, is I can have multiple custom dictionaries, of which there are many ready made: <http://excalibur.sourceforge.net/dictionaries.html>. -- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. |