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1. Date Created 9 5 04 11 41 2B j Edit 16x16 kon 33832 oa Dace Modified 95 04 LEE 29 PM See 134 Estes MindFortress Pyramid MindMap Pyramid released version 1 2 that addressed one of the major limitations we noted last column You can now export but not import via OPML to an outliner They also seem to have fixed the connection glitches noted ATPM 10 10 73 ATPO Deep Tinderbox NovaMind NovaMind has been bumped to version 2 2 adding exchange with the Windows Mind Manager application and providing additional adornments Inspiration The venerable writer s outliner and mindmapper Inspiration has introduced a syncable version for the Palm Roll Your Own Bare Bones has released BBEdit 8 which adds a tabs drawer Entries in that drawer cannot be hierarchical But check out Tactile Interrogator which is get this a cross platform Finder replacement It is unlike anything you have seen very visual It is somewhat in the spirit of Tinderbox s Map view especially regarding color tagging You can create a Finder hierarchy with BBEdit documents and come up with something like a bare bones sorry outliner Peas Documents 2 hidden fibeg Conspiracy iei hir Baig Unchled 1x1 Beard Euderm Emag Ling F rmFalded Keynotes ATPOI IT Tinderboay4 Languagret For WEM Trece pi POR Lists Book Proposal Carane RAIDS Comrasnss
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5. ATPM 10 10 96 Desktop Pictures Sunsets Frisky Freeware by Matt Johnson mjohnson atpm com Frisky Freeware HELLO TM FRISKY THE FREEWARE GUINEA HERE TO BRAVELY TEST FREE SOFTWARE FOR YOU FOR MY FIRST REVIEW WE LL REVIEW THAT THING YOU RE READING ME WITH WEB BROWSERS FIREFOX AND SHIIRA ARE ALL FREE AND GOOD BUT I LIKE CAMINO BEST IT S BUILT ON THE MOZILLA ENGINE RUNS ON APPLE COCOA AND HAS ALL THE FEATURES YOU NEED WHY ANYONE STILL USES THAT OTHER WEB BROWSER SEE YOU NEXT TIME Camino and CEP Copyright 2004 Matt Johnson mjohnson atpm com 10 10 97 Frisky Freeware Review AirPort Express by Eric Blair eblair atpm com Developer Apple Computer Price 129 Requirements Mac OS X 10 2 or Windows 2000 Recommended Mac OS X 10 3 to configure the AirPort Express share a USB printer and use Wi Fi Protected Access VERY NICE Over the last five or so years Apple has been one of the industry leaders in the push to get wireless Internet access into homes and small businesses The original AirPort Base Station wasn t the first wireless access point on the market but it was one of the first easy and affordable 802 11b units The AirPort Extreme Base Station was one of the first affordable high speed 802 11g access points Although the features in the AirPort family evolved over the years the shape of the base stations remained fairly unchanged The AirPort s
6. 2 Apooming i gt G Searches Renarts a 1 _ TB L _ eee Actionltems To have so many new outliners and each with a completely new take on things is really exciting The Mac is the place to be for these sorts of things right now I think the next ATPO might review task project and to do list managers that use outlining What do you think Process l m often on the inside know about these things but this one took me by surprise Process is another new task and to do list manager It has predefined unchangeable columns for priority etc These are not the user definable columns of the venerable OmniOutliner and the donationware MyMind ATPM 10 10 71 Deep Tinderbox It also supports tasks alarms and calendar items well It has a competent exploitation of Aqua conventions that looks great If it can it will display the linked file or Web page in a pane below the outline as shown in the screenshot which think is unique to this application Procons tent 0 d Tun Aid Lider dean DE Lu 1 8 Commend kan ATO 1 pan 5 Albiernjted_ J 1 950045 oO A PM 9 11 7 November 2003 I Velum 9 Number 11 Process It comes with a seven day demo which is far too short for serious evaluation It exports to OmniOutliner iPod and OPML but has no apparent syncing with a ha
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8. Architect of Tinderbox Comments A lot of software tries to help us do things that are easy but boring Tinderbox sets out to help tackle one of the most challenging tasks we face gathering organizing understanding and sharing information Tinderbox is a tool for learning for discovering structures we don t yet understand Over the years l ve worked with lots of brilliant creative people scientists engineers writers and artists If you look at their laboratories or their offices or their studios you ll find complex and clever strategies for managing input and capturing ideas Much of this is done today with scraps of paper and piles of photocopies It often ooks messy but it s actually very efficient the key problem of course is that you can t file things away until you understand what they mean and how they fit with the other things you re thinking about Meanwhile our powerful personal computers are often little more than typesetters and file drawers Right now computers make ideas look good but they don t give us much traction for organizing and relating them Tinderbox can be very simple to use as an outliner as a whiteboard and a collection of note cards And a lot of the time that s exactly how use it myself But Tinderbox also gives you ways of tying ideas together links agents templates that give you lots of expressive power when you need it It s not just ATPM 10 10 66 ATPO Deep Tinderbox about
9. the combination of the Ethernet cord USB cord and mini jack made this an untenable situation the cords reached the ground and ended up pulling the AirPort Express out of the power strip when was arranging my living room The beginning of a failed attempt at plugging the AirPort Express into a power strip ATPM 10 10 101 Review AirPort Express Eventually dug one of old PowerBook power cords out of a box and used this instead of the adapter Apple included with the AirPort Express With the additional flexibility provided by actually having a power cord was able to move the AirPort Express out from behind my television which had the side effect of increasing the signal strength in the far corner of my apartment Using a power cord to place the AirPort Express in a better location 10 10 102 Review AirPort Express really wish that Apple would just include the power cord the box with the AirPort Express Sure the AirPort Express looks a lot neater when it s connected directly to a power outlet but sometimes there just isn t an accessible power outlet in a location that s conducive to placing a wireless access point Just for kicks looked on the Apple Store Web site to find out how much the power cord would cost had purchased it separately wasn t able to locate one The only way could see to purchase the power cord for an AirPort Express was to purchase the AirPort Express Stereo Connecti
10. while operating the keyboard with my left I cringe when see people painstakingly move between keyboard and mouse with their right hand while their left arm lies in their lap like a dead log Anyway to avoid moving my left hand to the right side of the keyboard to press Enter key have been looking for a keyboard with an enter key on the left hand side Anyone seen one Kensington has one with programmable buttons but it doesn t say what you can program them to do Anyone used it ATPM 10 10 12 E Mail Here is my quick n easy home made solution Ya know am a freak but what else do you wish you can have on your keyboard Steven Seiller Ergokomfort makes a keyboard with the numeric keypad arrow buttons and cursor scroll buttons to the left of the typing area but the numeric keypad s Enter key may still not be in a good position and unfortunately it s only sold with a PS 2 connector Alternatively check out the Matias Corporation s products On that page toward the bottom you ll find a Half QWERTY Keyboard that can work as both a single handed or standard input device If you wish to save real estate on your desk you can even get a literal half keyboard There s even a wearable half keyboard The cheapest solution for what you desire might be to remap the keys on your keyboard You could simply swap the Caps Lock and Return key locations Lee Bennett Copyright 2004 the ATPM Staff editor atpm com We d love to
11. Examples Modeling Issues ad u Map Chart ATPM 10 10 bp eC Utility in Renresenta v v Outline So the normal matter is a huge stimulus the great person creating notions and a complex adaptive system of scientists adapting those abstractions propose looking at an alternative system af abstractions the one Suggest amp found in Film In film there are some great innovators but ne one who originated any substantial part The entire system ef abstractions is wholly generated from the bottom up by billions of viewers and hundreds of thousands of people including commentators like imn in the loose confederation that Explorer Pop up 25 Deep Tinderbox In this configuration it looks much like any other two pane outliner Alepin Caboodle FO NewNotePadPro Hog Bay Notebook NotePod Skinkhunt Notes Notes OmniOutliner PocketNotes Sh out and Shadow are the primary ones on our tracker list The screenshot shows Hog Bay Notebook E Task Do Hog Bay hbnk3 c3 r aq gt Lof 20 rows selected Catch up writings ALF Enter into database Combine all databases into Filemaker 7 b Generic Infrastructure Film reds ALICE Directors and lovers Fireworks with clips RUE ONDE Architectural water Buildings as characters Tinderbox Book References to Alice Absinthe aimed _ Figure pu
12. Parking She i Area Lr coutume Private Afterocon eBooks Cabinet Notes Eudora Arachenenes amp Process Cara prd FikmFolded Key Move hl key Radar Men from che Moon jou Folder 1 pdf B key Rakes hier m Microsoft User Data Robot Miansier Chite Chan and the Skydragon H Confemons of a Dangerous M nd 8 Triangle B Veeder Tactile Interrogator Such a hybrid will have terrific text editing and such true Finder integration and certain OS X windowing and search services Pricey but geeky cool ATPM 10 10 74 ATPO Deep Tinderbox ADM Windows get lots of welcome mail some from Windows users championing this outliner or that 1 dutifully check them out Some are very good but so far have found nothing on any operating system that you cannot get better on Mac OS X That excludes some of the legacy outliners from systems 7 and 8 Now ADM 3 has been released on Windows and a few readers with extensive Windows backgrounds but scant Mac exposure believe it to be uniquely powerful As with many Windows outliners its site has no useful information am soliciting help from an inclined reader to help me explore and report on this or any other if it proves to be interesting to ATPO readers If you are a developer and wish to have us survey your outliner please contact us Readers let us know your interest in specific uses categories
13. Squirrel were much like notes in Tinderbox It was cool but too hard to use in a market that was built on extreme simplicity Web Squirrel failed Interestingly Web Squirrel was scriptable by AppleScript and Frontier The whole idea was based on work done by Frank Shipman and Cathy Marshall on VIKI Because of my research management experience firmly believe that only a second generation tool can hit a home run You have to be able to afford that failure of the first try believe it is the only way to really blaze new territory Eastgate s second try Tinderbox started life under the code name Ceres the Roman name for the goddess of grain and also the first named asteroid Tinderbox today is something between what a grown up Storyspace and Web Squirrel would be though it has differing design purposes The key design notion of Tinderbox is to avoid premature commitment to structure and at the same time provide tools for deep structure One of those tools is the map view which we ve been avoiding until now The map view is a way of conveying structure by physical arrangement on the screen including containment of boxes within boxes The eye can discriminate extremely subtle variations of color so notes have that as a key attribute Compared to the mindmappers of the last column Tinderbox looks austere You have rectangles with color and titles the outline headers and their arrangement including their nesting in other rectangles
14. WHAT S YOUR BEEF WITH HIM I DUNNO IRA WORK HAS ALWAYS BEEN MY DOMAIN MY WORD WAS LAW THERE ATPM 10 10 81 Cartoon Cortland ATPM 10 10 Cartoon Cortland WELCOME RIXMLUD TO BEGIN CHOOSE A THE ONLINE ADVENTURE IN CHARACTER CLASS TO PLAY DEVELOPMENT SINCE 19857 y 1 d f L D I Ma 74 7 f FPN 2 Wise s 4 a USE SKILLS AND STATS TO CUSTOMIZE YOUR CHARACTER IN THE MEANTIME I HAVE A JOB TO DO ATPM 10 10 83 Cartoon Cortland Cartoon Cortland ATPM 10 10 THIS A SECURE NETWORK AND WE CAN NOT LET ANYONE IN WHO DOESN T KNOW OLIR TOP SECRET PASSWORD ATPM 10 10 85 Cartoon Cortland THE OPERAT ION CANNOT BE COMPLETED Cartoon Cortland ATPM 10 10 OK WHY 15 THAT STUPID IT TAKING ICOM HAS BEEN 50 LONG TO BOUNCING FOR LAUNCH ONE HAVE YOU LIPDATED THE ATPM 10 10 87 Cartoon Cortland NOW WHILE I RUN THE PLATES ATPM 10 10 88 Cartoon Cortland I DON T KNOW OK WHY DID YOU REPLACE ALL FONTS WITH COURIER ON THE 4 PLATES HERE GE AN m DD ET LISTEN YOU LITTLE FREAK YOU TLL BOOT YOU PRINT MY STUFF RIGHT INTO 05 4 OR TLL TLL ATPM 10 10 89 Cartoon Cortland MACHINE BUT YOU RE j RUNNING SLOWER THAN A QUADRA 2 I DON T YOU RE A UNDERSTAND TOP OF THE LINE d
15. and ther fractional text contents Al Agents haw qualities and relationships They can A Tools Scripted in different ways B Scripts views Tinderbox supports different classes of tools to create enrich view and export motes Making a Link 10 10 35 Deep Tinderbox On dropping the link you get a link specification dialog to determine certain characteristics of the link From Motes Process Specification Language untitled Definition Expansion agree URL clarify disagree example title exception nata class note Type Web links target prototype response update Delete Link Characteristics Dialog 10 10 36 Deep Tinderbox Here s where you specify the type and give direction if required about how you d like the link to behave once translated to the Web There are tools to easily modify links as well Two of these are way cool you can open a Link Browser for any note and see a list of all the links associated with that note and modify or delete them 8 B e 0 0 Links Relationships typa destination note Containers T container untitled Definition agree clarity Drag and drop to reorder links Double click to vigy disagree ete to delete link type example amp URL target title class Link Browser 10 10 37 Deep Tinderbox Or you see similar information in more graphical for
16. comment about portability It looks like the iRac would be rather bulky to fit into a computer case briefcase etc The ends might also damage the inside of the bag One good feature of the Podium Pad and some other stands is that they can be folded or disassembled to fit nicely into a bag Also for travelling would like a stand that can be used anywhere like on an airline seat tray on one s lap in the waiting area at an airport etc I d reverse your recommendations and suggest that the iRac is better for local use not for travel George Slusher Tactile Pro Review Great review covering exactly the criteria I m interested in too have been looking for a great replacement for my Apple Extended Keyboard which must say was even better than the Extended Keyboard Il and too settled on the Micro Connectors keyboard labeled something else after trying four others joke that the Micro Connectors product cost me 500 am curious if you have tried the Kensington StudioBoard Mechanical Keyboard which looks almost identical to the Matias product reviewed here they are clearly twins separated at birth ATPM 10 10 10 E Mail own judgement of it is similar to yours about the Matias product not quite the right feel not quite as good as the Micro Connectors Ballistic product which is itself not quite as good as the original Apple Extended Keyboard guess this is another example of a product so commodi
17. full blown outline We ll note that when describing various links Folding Several outliners NoteBook NoteTaker and Inspiration among them support simple folding That s a command that takes a note or paragraph and tucks it all under the first line It is like outline collapsing where children headers are tucked under their parents and useful for the same reason It helps reveal the structure of huge segments of the document for analysis and reorganization Full folding is not supported by any OS X outliner on our ATPO tracking list This is where any selected block or a complex array of predefined elements can be collapsed You can in theory create a Tinderbox style sheet that will do this but the Nakakoji view is read only You cannot edit the outline in such a view so it sort of defeats the purpose ATPM 10 10 29 ATPO Deep Tinderbox Other Graphical Layouts Tinderbox wins a prize of sorts here You have several built in views Aside from the outline and Nakakoji views we ve seen you can also produce a chart view which displays the structure in a hierarchical horizontal tree moo Chart FilmsFolded Furpose Types Folding Issues Redhead Folding Folding in Architecture gabout Jung The Film Mind c Underlying Fhilosophre a cience az Polity LE lolo linm canna Li a TG aee 4 Chart View Or a Map view in which each note is displayed as a rectangle The hierarchy
18. get rich That s why NoteBook and NoteTaker have NBML and NTML respectively Tinderbox and hypertext maven Marc Antoine Parent has created TinderToolBox an open source Python facility for translating Tinderbox XML a useful thing and also direct manipulation of Tinderbox files a very big deal TinderToolBox also allows importing data into Tinderbox files but this is on the advanced side He currently exports to LaTeX via HTML which is bound to be of interest to many No other outliner is open in this way Forget wanting open access to the source code if we can supplement Tinderbox functionality in this way and on the TinderToolBox list are some pretty clever and heavy ideas On the negative side saving in Tinderbox would likely be a lot faster if it used a compact proprietary format like the other guys Some users have remarked on the long save times of large documents Tinderbox also exports to HTML In fact it does this so well leveraging note attributes and actions that many users purchase it purely as a blogging tool think Tinderbox may be unique in its approach to blog management everything is maintained on your desktop and published or updated to the server I m completely skipping over this very interesting strong capability because it isn t central to outlining per se but will note that of blogging tools the two most capable and flexible seem to be Frontier and Tinderbox with radically differing approaches
19. hear your thoughts about our publication We always welcome your comments criticisms suggestions and praise Or if you have an opinion or announcement about the Macintosh platform in general that s OK too Send your e mail to editor atpm com All mail becomes the property of ATPM ATPM 10 10 13 E Mail The Candy Apple by Ellyn Ritterskamp eritterskamp atpm com In Which a Loss Comes With a Gain finally did it finally got myself up to OS X The upgrade itself was painless except for two losses did not know how to save our address books and stored e mail messages and did not know needed to save our bookmarks That part could have done if I d known needed to l d seen a way to save all of them one file as HTML The e mail messages still don t know how would have saved just thought the newer versions of the software would find that information or could import it But it s gone Or maybe I m just not smart enough to figure out how to see it have not lost hope that all that stuff is still on the drive somewhere if just knew how to look for it copied my System Folder to a second drive plus the Documents folder but bet the Documents folder should have included some stuff besides the stuff copied bet there was a Microsoft User Data folder should have copied and didn t But I think it s still on the main drive perhaps written over with new information by now though will be very s
20. help and the best of the user contributed hints that appear on the wiki The final category of complaints is about the user interface ATPO has generally celebrated certain elements of the Tinderbox interface like the icon that shows note size and age and the animation of the live link assignment but others are a bit quirky or disappointing l Il divide these into the ugly the incomplete and annoyances from design decisions ATPM 10 10 53 ATPO Deep Tinderbox The Ugly I ll underscore that the functionality is elegant But the actual appearance of some elements looks temporary like the icons in the toolbar or the active triangle in the outline view or seem barebones as in the rudimentary displays in graphic views Icon Ugliness mm p om Unified Divi m Foundations of Tinde m International Societ of a cont TinderBox Help E Introduction Contain E Notes contain Tinder be view whe mple Agent Containe El Process Specificatil fractiona fete nae dnas The Active Indicator ATPM 10 10 54 Deep Tinderbox The Incomplete There a few baseline features that give the impression of unnecessary austerity For an example check out the Color Attribute Editor e Attributes 4 User System Stamps Link Types Macros black n CMM 0 bright blue Colar 0000 bright green bright red coo gray co
21. is shown as colored rectangles within parent rectangles This map view is the core view for advanced Tinderboxers and we revisit it below Links are displayed Boxes can be dragged opened hoisted and linked just as in the outline view ATPM 10 10 30 Deep Tinderbox Also you also have something that is a hybrid of and Chart called a treemap which combines both the notion of a tree and layered containment e oo Treemap FilmsFolded The Modeling Praject TreeMap View All these views plus individual panes for notes can be open and live if you wish Snipping Input and Drag and Drop This is the ability to easily input items from other applications or the Web usually by snipping There s no question about this Tinderbox is designed for people who write stuff rather than snip it from elsewhere It has no special service for snipping from other applications like DEVONthink which is intended as a drop box database for varied forms of borrowed stuff in all forms NoteTaker Circus Ponies NoteBook and Hog Bay Notebook have good facilities for grabbing and placing stuff as well understand that many Tinderboxers combine their boxing with a good snipper database 10 10 31 Deep Tinderbox It supports text drag well enough dragging a Finder icon of any to the box creates a link to that file but it doesn t show in the note On the other hand if the material is available
22. making lists or diagrams it s about really understanding your ideas Tinderbox offers a rich toolkit for working with ideas to get them down and get things done Where will Tinderbox go next One active area of research both within Eastgate and in the hypertext research community is finding ways to make our maps even more expressive The interplay between Tinderbox and the Web and the way Tinderbox can work as a presentation and working tool in meetings offer plenty of food for thought We re looking at ways to get more leverage from Web services like Google and Amazon and from RSS feeds Not all of these ideas will work that s why it s research but think it s important research to undertake Working with ideas is hard but it s terribly important work and it s vital that we get better at doing it The ATPO Tracker Now we turn from Tinderbox to report important events elsewhere in the outliner world Mellel Folks we have a new outliner Mellel is a word processor that is worth checking out It has four things to commend it it is built from the ground up for OS X it is inexpensive 29 it has superb support for non Roman languages and most importantly to me it has a great paradigm for named styles ATPM 10 10 67 ATPO Deep Tinderbox can t overstate how useful named styles can be for metadata management though I ve been trying and Mellel has the best implementation on the Mac one that combines with var
23. many times you will get a response of non association and unfamiliarity Writing If a potential partner isn t willing to adhere to the established principles of grammar and spelling you shouldn t waste your time No more than 1096 of an article should need correction and or editing and that is being generous The more you let partners get away with the more work you and your competent staff will suffer by being forced to compensate ATPM 10 10 18 Segments Internet Democracy Gone Bad Language is Not a Problem Don t let anyone fool you with providing excuses like I didn t understand your request or Forgive me do not speak well If she can manage to express those sentiments she can also understand everything else perfectly While the Web language translation engines are far from perfect they can usually give clear enough translation for most people Pay Attention to Presentation Professionalism translates to e mails just as much as it does with other media If someone professing to be a designer doesn t present you with images and examples that indicates an understanding of line shape negative space composition type and color then he is not a professional designer Beware of Forums amp Forum presented Content A large number of people want their name in lights but are too lazy to present their materials properly It is enough for them to have their artwork their articles or other content posted in forums becaus
24. problem is the keys wobble when typing probably can t describe the exact issue but it just doesn t feel right got the Kensington a few weeks after the Matias and thought was in for the same problems However the Kensington keyboard feels right think the keyboards are made in the same factory but they must use different keyswitches ATPM 10 10 11 E Mail did eventually replace my beloved Northgate with the Kensington and my opinion that s the Mac keyboard to get Its not perfect but think its better then all the mush that s out there The two big problems with the Kensington are that it s too light which means it slides around a lot and there are issues with pushing some key combinations The Matias has the same problems above though different key combinations plus the weird feeling to me keys On the other hand it s got the different key combos printed on the keys which is probably nice for the 1 2 times a year need those Oh and the Kensington one is a bit cheaper then the Matias Sorry for the rambling but it s hard to describe a keyboard s feel in words Paul Haddad too hate the mushy keyboards Apple use these days I m using an Extended Keyboard II bought brand new at a show on my iMac G4 using a Griffin iMate Works like a charm Shame about the grey color which doesn t look right with the white iMac Jay Wanted Left handed Keyboard am ambidextrous and mouse with my right hand
25. public domain It just ain t gonna happen So let s keep the mouse safe along with the rest of the Disney Vault but free the hundreds of thousands of other works to the public domain Dave Reed So you re saying Disney is exempt just because it s Disney but Joe Schmoe s cartoon character one of those hundreds of thousands of other works is not Sorry but copyright laws should not give preferential treatment based on popular culture or anything else Yes copyrighted works that are owned by deceased individuals and or nonexistent organizations things from which absolutely no one is or could be ATPM 10 10 9 E Mail profiting should be considered for release to the public domain But should not lose copyright just because live longer than a certain number of years or just because chose to give oversight of the copyright to a particular organization that will be around for a long time Bennett DEVONnote Review You can import images into DEVONnote It took me a while to figure it out but DEVONnote can handle RTFD files which is a NeXT file format that includes images or other attachments So you can just create an RTF document from the menu and then drag an image into the document It will then be stored and shown as an image use this application for writing It helps me organize characters and plot lines easily wish the backup was all one file as well instead of six Jeff iRac Review A question
26. s the real bottom line what other outliner can host a party of users and have them fly all over the country to attend Eastgate had a Tinderbox weekend in Boston this May is hosting one in San Francisco in October and has one planned in Europe Good times hear ATPM 10 10 64 ATPO Deep Tinderbox Eastgate has set up special limited offer for ATPO readers It fits the demographic in that it offers what is probably the best paper based notebook together with Tinderbox and an introductory subscription to their TEKKA publication Ted s TinderGarden Tips As with all the great applications we discuss you should try out the demo But you might consider a few suggestions from your ATPO lifeguard Join the Tinderbox e mail list Read the entire PDF help without the application open Really it s not long e Stick with the outline view until you are familiar with the internal machinery It is too frustrating to learn a new application while you also learn a new manner of information visualization Before you write any notes noodle about with the default note and outline font until you are happy Use a variety of colors for notes and links even though you won t see them until later Realize that the color of the note s background text title background and title text and the color of the note name text have nothing to do with the note s color which is really the color of the note s envelope In other words keep
27. to prevent further changes ATPM 10 10 Networks in Action Mac to Windows Theoretically seeing the files from Windows is pretty easy Click Start select Run enter the address Sometimes however you see this error There are Currently no logon servers available to service the logon request Zounds what a vague error message Logon server Is that in System Preferences It s not Its hard to even know where to start looking for solutions On the Mac In Windows In your other pants pocket What s Going On The error is a case of mistaken identity When it looks for the network share Windows gives your Windows account name If that name doesn t exist as an account on your Mac however the Windows system is kept out On being rejected Windows reports the above error The easiest solution Change the network mount to an account that already has sharing access on the Mac such as the Mac s owner 1 Go to the Desktop and right click on the My Computer icon 2 Select Map Network Drive and its window appears 3 Enter your 5 address and shared directory as the folder 4 Select Connect using a different user name 5 Enter the Mac owner s user name and password or another account with access to the shared files 6 Select OK to close the window then Finish 7 A window showing the shared Mac files should appear Check the Reconnect on login check box to look for these files each time you start Wind
28. visited regularly and those was saving for a specific endeavor It was a chance to shorten the list The sites I visit regularly were pretty easy to re mark The others study sites for a game show can gradually rebuild if want to With many of them already printed out the important information so there is no need to re bookmark them If have occasion to wander into a US Presidents site l Il save it but I m not upset about losing all those sites It was a good time to trim that list I m not so good with clutter anyway still have a slim hope that my e mail messages are hidden somewhere asked a work friend who knows far more about Mac stuff than I do to look at it and he couldn t find anything was cussing the upgrade process and complaining that thought Apple made everything so easy He pointed out that the trouble is not with Apple but with Microsoft as both pieces of software was using were made by them That shut me up suppose this tale could serve as a warning to those who have yet to upgrade Figure out how to save your stuff before you do it would have cut and pasted each individual message if that had been the only way It would have been worth it have gotten past most of the first two stages of grief denial and anger There is no one to bargain with so am skipping stage three Depression went with anger so now guess am working my way through acceptance The first big step was acknowledging th
29. your work as you weed through the responses Demand Original Files You might be surprised at the number of people who present work from others as their own Anyone can copy images 3D graphics or other content from the millions of Web sites available There is no way to check to see whether a person has stolen content from other sources without spending months searching the millions of Web sites worldwide By demanding original works in original formats from the application used for creation you can increase the chances that you are actually seeing work that represents the person in question A designer who copied a graphic photo or other material from another Web site will have no supporting material Listen to Your Gut Reaction Listening to your gut sums up everything above Many times when people are in need of services they have a tendency to look for what they want rather than what is actually being presented Be as objective as possible in your determinations and your communications with people over the Web Do not worry about having to turn away people you feel are questionable The people who truly offer something will shine though the mire You may get thousands of e mails and only end up with a half dozen people to work with but at least the ones you pick are more likely to come through Remember the scene from Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade He chose poorly By not paying attention to what is in front of you and i
30. 37 characters here Prototyp one tJ can be a prototype May attributes nemal reverse Sort by don t sort o and by don t sort Caneel Rename Note Title Dialog Box And then you have that little tiny box within which to edit your text which gives you about 37 characters before it begins to scroll Once it is changed you might still be unhappy That s because the outline headers don t wrap so you if they are longish you ATPM 10 10 56 ATPO Deep Tinderbox won t be able to read them in the outline view The screenshot shows this and another problem how the anti aliasing gets messed up when the header is highlighted This problem is fixed in version 2 3 which may be available when you read this column This line is too long to read tthe Bevin rid This line is too long to read Outline Headers Don t Wrap Ordinarily outliners focus on support for writing and arranging headers with lesser support for notes For instance it is common to have named styles for headers but ordinary TextEdit functionality in the notes field As you ll see below the emphasis in Tinderbox is on creating notes and the headers just go along for the ride So the extreme focus on header operations in other outliners isn t matched here for instance split and join commands don t exist in Tinderbox But as noted in the very beginning except for direct editing Tinderbox has all the rapid fire entry commands you ex
31. 5 9 x Go to the Appearance control panel Click on the Desktop tab at the top of the window Press the Place Picture button in the bottom right corner then select the desired image By default it will show you the images in the Desktop Pictures subfolder of your Appearance folder in the System Folder however you can select images from anywhere on your hard disk After you select the desired image file and press Choose a preview will appear in the Appearance window The Position Automatically selection is usually fine You can play with the settings to see if you like the others better You will see the result in the little preview screen Once you are satisfied with the selection click on Set Desktop in the lower right corner of the window That s it Should you ever want to get rid of it just go to the desktop settings again and press Remove Picture ATPM 10 10 95 Desktop Pictures Sunsets Mac OS 8 0 and 8 1 Go to the Desktop Patterns control panel Click on Desktop Pictures in the list on the left of the window and follow steps similar to the ones above Random Desktop Pictures If you drag a folder of pictures onto the miniature desktop in the Appearance or Desktop Pictures control panel your Mac will choose one from the folder at random when it starts up DeskPicture An alternative to Mac 055 Appearance control panel is Pierce Software s DeskPicture reviewed in issue 5 10 and available for download
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33. ATPM 10 10 44 ATPO Deep Tinderbox Events When we put events on the feature list we had in mind the ability to track time as a component of task management Most outliners don t understand time Tinderbox does at least its agents do in a simple sense You can trigger an agent to perform a task on a given day or after so many days think you would be hard pressed to choose Tinderbox primarily as an ordinary to do list or task manager especially with so many good special purpose outliners out there But you can use its capabilities to roll your own credible task manager if you ve committed for other reasons Tagging Keywords and Indexing OK now we can talk about metadata Metadata is information about your information In NoteBook it can be stuff like a text highlight a keyword or graphic sticker even date created In OmniOutliner it could be any value you put in one of the columns In the old Nisus Writer Classic it could be a named style or variable In Tinderbox there are two sources of metadata note attributes and note links with their own link attribute Most people stick to the note attributes Some note attributes are determined by the system like who created the note and when Some are always there but user editable such as note color title and location in the hierarchy And then you have a third category of any attribute and value you can make up like draft status or public viewable ATPM 10 10 45 ATPO De
34. ML storage format There s another one ATPM 10 10 68 Deep Tinderbox If you buy it tell em sent TAO The two pane outliner formerly known in public betas as FO is now available as TAO It enters the power outliner class currently occupied by Hog Bay NoteBook NoteTaker OmniOutliner and Tinderbox Its power features are unlimited undo header styles really cool stylesheets multiple file search OPML export but apparently not import links and clones together with numerous but more common OS X niceties haven t seen the final release it is supposed to appear concurrent with this column but betas have potentially irritating palette design and behavior Some users compare it to MORE which they intend as the highest compliment ATPM 10 10 69 ATPO Deep Tinderbox Its clones are like Hog 5 you can delete the original and the clone survives You display note attributes in the lower window border Clones links and styles alone make TAO worth checking out if you have not already enn c mm amp m I Se 06 Header Level One Faring Fante eee l Header Level One LucidaGrance 12 26 Clone Matice small red dot indicator Clione Notice small red dot indicator h m Text LunigaGrande 112 pz LucigaGrande 17 n 1 Lucstatzrande 1 1 Note pane down herd Dig
35. Multilevels and Distinct Meta Levels The title of this section is so long because it combines several similar features having to do with layered outlines none of which are really supported in Tinderbox By multilevels mean outlines where the notes are themselves outlines where levels can be promoted between a lower outline and a higher At present only Circus Ponies NoteBook does this and even then this feature has its limits highly recommend playing with this useful technique 10 10 28 ATPO Deep Tinderbox Finder integration recognizes that the Finder is the 800 pound gorilla of outliners at least so far as folders serving as headers and documents as notes An ideal outliner will span different documents and integrate at the top level with the Finder In previous columns we ve noted some such integration in other outliners Integration among levels is when you can move elements seamlessly from one level s outline to the next Tinderbox supports none of these features but in fairness few outliner developers so far seem as excited about them as am Distinct metalevels are when you can have an outline out of the main flow You might want to do this if your outline is a long document and your side outlines are to do lists about various sections of that document Tinderbox does support something like this because its linking strategy can support all sorts of annotation and comment strategies where an annotation can be a
36. PowerBook was the difference between roaming throughout my apartment and rearranging my bedroom so the desk was inside the wireless network Basically Apple went out and made a very nice device at a reasonable price then they skimped on what s likely an inconsequential part If you re building a wireless network and you want either a wireless print server or wireless music streaming the AirPort Express is certainly a competitive option If you want all three of these things don t believe there s anything on the market that competes with the AirPort Express Copyright 2004 Eric Blair eblair atpm com Reviewing in ATPM is open to anyone If you re interested write to us at reviews atpm com e ATPM 10 10 108 Review AirPort Express Review Optipix 3 0 by Lee Bennett Ibennett atpm com Developer Reindeer Graphics Price 150 75 upgrades Requirements Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X 10 2 128 MB RAM Adobe Photoshop 5 5 Trial Time limited one week VERY NICE As increasing numbers of professional photographers have turned to entirely digital solutions those photographers encounter the problems inherent with digital photography and need professional solutions Reindeer Graphics offers tools to solve those problems tools that even operate in 16 bit mode There are at least 15 tools available in Optipix 3 far too many to completely detail in this space considering the user manual is 78 page PDF with step by step example
37. The downside of this was that earlier versions of Photoshop could not do this 16 bit mode But even now that Photoshop CS has greater functionality in 16 bit operation Optipixs Layer Modes is still the better choice First it allows for subpixel nudging important if you re trying to align extremely fine detail In addition Optipix has included six additional blending modes to compare the two images Highlight Shadow Subtract Remove Ratio and Compare To perform the Layer Modes operation the bottom layer is selected and Optipix s Setup 2nd Image command is run This buffers the first image Next the upper layer is selected and the Layer Modes panel is accessed Align two images with layer modes f Layer Mode Difference ale Oya Nudge Alignment X Shift 3 00000 Y Shift 11 7000 teft Right E 200 E While I still like using the Difference blending mode for comparison found that toggling though other modes helps make my final choice for alignment You can see above that I nudged the upper layer three pixels horizontally and 11 7 pixels vertically ATPM 10 10 112 Review Optipix 3 0 Once the images are aligned be sure to change the mode back to Normal When you click OK to act on your adjustment whichever mode was selected in this window is applied to the newly aligned image With the upper layer still selected the final step is to simply run the Blend Exposure command Normall
38. The map view can display any and all links as well with their names The screenshot shows a view of a trivial example outline We are already in a first level header as you can see from the faint watermark in the back We named that header Header First Level There are two children under this header the one you saw in the styles example named Header Second Level and the beginning of an outline on my notes on Paul Graham s Hackers and Painters ATPM 10 10 61 ATPO Deep Tinderbox You can see the colors of the notes red and black here is where the header styles would show font colors You can see that each of these headers has children as shown in the bottom halves of their boxes ATPM This is an adornment used to define a neighborhood Above is a picture adornment Header Second Level Graham Notes Map View Note that the map has two elements that show on no other view the adornment This can be a decorative image here the logo but usually is an additional rectangular container or zone that provides for a third type of nesting adding to prototypes and hierarchy Zooming or hoisting is natural in this view Zooming into a parent by just clicking gives you a view with just its children In the next screenshot we ve zoomed into the Graham box indicated by the Paul Graham Notes watermark This has three children and a 10 10 62 ATPO Deep Tinderbox coupl
39. UFO shape made it one of the most recognizable access points on the market It was also larger than a number of competing access points AirPort Express is the first major body redesign in the history of the AirPort family Replacing the hang on a wall sit on a shelf UFO casing of the previous models is something that looks like an older sibling of the PowerBook and iPod power supplies Small in stature the AirPort Express lacks some of the features of the larger AirPort Extreme Some of the notable omissions include a lower maximum user count 10 users instead of 50 no second Ethernet port no modem and no support for Power over Ethernet In addition to inheriting the AirPort Extreme s 802 11g chipset the AirPort Express also features a USB port for wirelessly sharing a printer Also like seemingly many younger siblings the AirPort Express has something that it s older sibling lacks AirTunes ATPM 10 10 98 Review AirPort Express Setup Setting up an AirPort Express is a fairly easy Plug up to three cords into the AirPort Express plug the unit into the wall install the AirPort software on your computer and follow the instructions in the AirPort Express Assistant that pops up when your computer finishes rebooting The AirPort Express Assistant walks you through all the steps you need to configure your network After you ve selected an AirPort Express the Network Setup screen prompts you for all the necessary information to h
40. ad if those stored e mail messages are lost forever had a moment of realization that they were probably gone and it surprised me how wrenching it was have four years of letters to and from friends and used to re read them sometimes It reminded me of how two friendships evolved and still are evolving was desolate for a day or two while we tried to find those files Then realized that those friends are still in my heart and the words we said are not as important as that fact The e mails about hotel reservations and plane tickets can reconstruct by returning to those Web sites As for the receipts from online book and clothing orders if wait long enough the items will be delivered and would have tossed those e mails anyway The messages wrote to my friends and they to me will mourn for a few more days Then will get over it and remember that our connections are not based on only words ATPM 10 10 14 Candy Apple A Loss Comes With a Gain As for the bookmark situation I ve approached it like did when I used to move every year or so in my early 20s Back then would use every move as a chance to get rid of a third of my stuff Clothes got donated furniture pared down never trimmed my book collection though It is still out of control But didn t start letting it get that way until finally stopped moving Once started recreating a list of the bookmarks I d saved realized there were two sorts those
41. all the insides the same to start with and vary the outsides Write simple agents to create header styles based on outline level Also before you start download one of the preformatted Web or blog templates and associated style sheet for exporting This part of Tinderbox is among the coolest but surely the most frustrating and if you just use the defaults you won t get mad But you have to begin with a prefab template Use prototypes where you can instead of stamps Make aliases of them and keep them in a separate outline area for reference You ll thank me even though this is the hard way to do things Similarly make an annotation or to do outline section within the outline for stuff you need to do with links to the notes or areas you need to do them to ATPM 10 10 65 ATPO Deep Tinderbox e Name your links Make all links from note to note unless you really want HTML link when published to the Web mentioned above that you can use links for metadata assignment don t try this Stick with attributes initially Keep your notes short Add and display your own attributes e Make an agent in addition to the header styles agents even though you don t have to possibly one that collects aliases of draft notes You ll get addicted e When you do explore the map view don t immediately go to a huge virtual desktop Try the zooming in like hoisting instead Have fun Joy isn t always lickable Mark Bernstein
42. anslate all this if you are exporting to a less capable environment like the Web Later you ll read my grousing about some user interface ugliness but the functionality is near orgasmically elegant with a great example being how links are assigned You select text if your link is from a text selection or don t select text if your origin is the entire note Hit a key combo or select the make link button at the bottom of the window or a similar button on the toolbar or of course from the menu bar and you literally get the beginning of a link one end of which is attached to the origin the other end attached to ATPM 10 10 34 ATPO Deep Tinderbox the cursor You simply drag the loose end to the target If the target is currently not visible or doesn t yet exist you can park the unattached link in one of three parking spaces on the toolbar e e0 Notes Technologies a People and Cent B Projects TB has only one first class citizen the note FI xi mote has two components the container and the bere contents b tr Unified En m Containers are of two types ordinary notes and ramas a TinderBox Help Introduction Contents are Ge and for some images E Notes as well Other notes c can have a child Contents relationship which appears as a sort of Containers containment B Relationships Qualities Containers
43. as an RSS newsfeed Tinderbox can fetch and display it as a simple RSS reader External Links and References By this we mean the ability to handle URLs of various types in a number of ways There aren t many outliners that won t let you put a live URL in a note and most outliners support links or aliases to files as well Now that OS X has Web rendering built into the operating system outliners on our tracking list are starting to allow the display of a Web page right in the note field Here s how Tinderbox handles URLs Each note has a large number of built in attributes and you can add any others you like You access these from the FF pop up on the upper right of the window Selecting one displays that attribute in a line at the top of the note If the attribute is editable you can change it right in that field Some of these are URL AutoFetch ViewlnBrowser ReadOnly LastFetched Process Specification Language 28 aS TU Process Specification Language AutoFetch presenta Last etehed newer g Project URL http ev 10 087 f Interest View InBrowser ologies PSL was developed by a coalition led by the US FF og and Cent National Institute of Science and Technology PSL is a proposed standard ontology for the exchange of 18 process models Legacy projects are PIF and KIF rocess 5 Knowledge Interchange Format which provide some Jni
44. at had lost something important to me If had not done that would still be banging my head against the wall trying to recover my files We lose stuff It happens This is one of those rare events that 10 years from now may actually remember Mostly though the stuff we get worked up about isn t that big a deal It s good to be able to move on Fresh starts are good really do like the OS It s likability doesn t yet outweigh my loss but it will after some time has passed ATPM 10 10 15 Candy Apple A Loss Comes With Gain Onward Copyright 2004 Ellyn Ritterskamp eritterskamp atpm com e ATPM 10 10 16 Candy Apple Loss Comes With a Gain Segments Slices from the Macintosh Life by Andrew Kator akator atpm com Internet Democracy Gone Bad We are all working in a more interconnected world with unprecedented access to information and other people with skills You might think that having a pool of thousands of new and skilled people working with you on a project would be a bonus Unfortunately the same accessibility that makes great people accessible also makes questionable people just as likely to contact you The same democratic principles that make the Internet a great thing also mean that you may be democratically exposed to con artists and incompetent people claiming great skills The following information may appear to be common sense and most of these suggestions are the same things you might do if
45. ave a properly configured AirPort Express network the network name the encryption type and passwords and the AirPort Express name and password used by the AirPort Admin Utility and AirTunes CB AirPort Expires Network Setup NaPort Express ix configured with the settings bried below You can make changes here you can click Start Again to change ether setis lt set more advanced options use the AirPort Utility Wieelexs Network Nace grippa Wirelexs Securn y WPA Personal A Wireless Network Password Verby Passwoed AirPort Experi Mame Living AirPort Exprexs seeeeees Verify Passwoed penne A Un Start Again Continue AirPort Express Assistant s Network Setup Screen For more complex networks you ll need to use the AirPort Admin Utility and the Network Preference Pane to configure your network and your computer For instance wanted to manually assign the IP address for my computer and share my Internet connection via a ATPM 10 10 99 Review AirPort Express wired router instead of the AirPort was able to do all of this through the Admin Utility fairly simply Additionally the Admin Utility also allows you to change the AirTunes settings map publicly accessible ports to private ports on your wireless network access additional security preferences and change profiles The Admin Utilit
46. blishing probably through GoLive Misc website and LassoStudio YF House etc Buy Y To Do T Shed Shad 4 Hog Bay Notebook You can shuffle the order and hierarchy of the outline in several ways It has a the basics of an outliner Regular readers will recall that in our second and third ATPO columns we listed outliner features with the intent of recalling them to examine specific outliners You might want to refer to those columns for more definition and examples of a particular feature So let s look at how Tinderbox addresses this collection of features ATPM 10 10 26 ATPO Deep Tinderbox The Feature List Ordinary Nesting Promote Demote Collapsing We start out with the basics of outlining This first feature is a freebie because we wouldn t be discussing it at all if it didn t support robust outlines You can create headers Tinderbox calls them note titles and move them about readily as you would expect Collapsing and expanding is perhaps not as well supported as in some of our ATPO outliners for instance you cannot display only the top three levels of the hierarchy And for reasons we note below it is not feasible to support header splitting and joining Styles There are no named styles We ll note why in our complaints section below No outliner at all does a good job at this in the note field except Word which has its own share of problems Some outliners such as Circus Po
47. ceive digital images from other photographers who don t know better than to set their cameras at a higher quality Like Safe Sharpen there is no user interface needed It s a directly applied filter ATPM 10 10 114 Review Optipix 3 0 As most people know the more highly compressed JPEG image is the more visible the 8x8 pixel block boundaries inherent in JPEGs become Before JPEG Cleaner Click to enlarge ATPM 10 10 Review Optipix 3 0 After JPEG Cleaner applied twice Click to enlarge In the first image above a 40096 zoom on the stripes of an American flag the characteristic JPEG block artifacts are plainly visible On the right the same image has had JPEG Cleaner applied In severe cases of block artifacts applying the JPEG Cleaner two or three times in succession can make a big difference ATPM 10 10 Review Optipix 3 0 If JPEG Cleaners effects aren t exactly what you re looking for Optipix also comes with a tool that simply selects the 8x8 pixel boundaries without performing any action on the image You can then perform your own steps on the artifacts nues View Window Help g All XA XD Inverse Color Range Feather Modify Grow Similar Transtorm Selection Save Selection Store Selection in 2nd Recall Selection fram znd Select PEG Tile Ecundaries OPTIFIX ATPM 10 10 117 Review Optipix 3 0 Actions Optipix also comes with severa
48. ch Mark and Gather The title of this feature group is influenced by a capability in MORE In that abandoned outliner you could mark headers manually or by a find operation and then gather the results under a header either by moving them or making clones It was a much celebrated capability ATPM 10 10 40 ATPO Deep Tinderbox Something like this is addressed in our current flock of power outliners NoteBook NoteTaker have some attribute marking facilities and auto gathering that in some ways exceed MORE Hog Bay has an ordinary gather command similar to MORE and really novel Assemble Document command that goes much farther Outliners with columns can use the columns to assign tags A gather in this regime is a sort Tinderbox of course does not support columns But Tinderbox bests them all because it supports agents We ll get to the agents themselves in a moment Let s just note here that agents can see all the metadata of a note all its text attributes and links and can do so automatically It can find notes that have certain combinations of characteristics and gather them in special agent containers These containers appear in the outline as headers but are identifiable by having the bar in the icon at the bottom rather than the top ono Outline FilmsFolded LAPIS Containers Relationships Example Agent Process Specification Language troduction About the Fim Mind About Jong Sci
49. content and enrichment It assumes that export for presentation or publishing is an option and that you will specify styles at that point So it has a Nakakoji view that displays a note or document according to style sheets that you specify So you could if you wanted have an inline styled view or many views The novelty of the Nakakoji view is that it can unravel links so they display in different ways Only text is displayed ie o Text Science as Polity oh j Entire document wstesportwithhedes Export fe Science ax Polty and contents E Choose template C Selected aoras CO Path 1 basic text export Created by Ted Gor anaen ion Dat itd 6 03 NEN text export with headers Creed with 22 Dateexported 3 20 04 Section 42 Tithe Science az Polity All Goeth hame a ere dere political phikesophny This myke oat lires mime This wie of politics ie rame in derignieg scientific theories cine and palificr are dence ibe thee Soe note The taris of thir political philerophor ir three layers tons eleerenks that are a remt of natural low result from the andi thee jui make econsmi Esch of Huge form the basis Tor ther ef A Nakakoji View Multilevels Multilevel Finder Integration Integrated
50. e position and employer A potential contributor may profess to be many things but he should be able to back it up For example if she claims to be a video camera operator and video editor she should be able to give proof of both skills and not just one Simply providing proof of camera work does not prove editing skills and vice versa Also beware of people who state I would like to such as I am cameraman who would like to be involved in production This person is telling you that while he may have video experience he wants to be something else that he has no proven skills with He will refrain from doing his proven work video camera work and will instead try to only do what he imagines as his proper position and title What he is really saying is I am a cameraman but don t want to do that anymore and want to be a Producer even though have no experience Ask for References The same things that apply in the rest of world apply on the Internet Someone with false claims will be unable to present corroborating references Of course it is also important to check the validity of references to make sure they are legitimate If someone gives you a reference that is extremely impressive example Steve Jobs then don t be impressed yet E mail the person in the reference no matter how important If the reference in question no matter how lofty responds favorably then you are in good shape You might be surprised at how
51. e example links The two red notes have no children Also shown is the locator list used so you don t have to wander through outlines and zoomed maps looking for a specific note Consider it an alphabetical list view Locate BEEN Great insights Header First Level Header Second Level EN Header Style Agents Bl teaver frre iever Header Third Level 2 Graham Notes EB o6 This i an adornment used EN Totally Bogus ATP Exemgle Link A Zoomed Map The map view window commonly becomes a virtual desktop within which you scroll around Once you get used to it you will spend as much time in the map as in the outline guarantee That s because so many subtle indicators are leveraged One of these of course is position which you ll fiddle with quite a bit at first Alas you cannot build multiple map views for different purposes But you can fake it with clones 10 10 63 Deep Tinderbox Here s side rant what brought me to the Mac many years ago wasn t at all the ease of use nor the admittedly cool desktop publishing stuff No it was because everything was spatial could arrange windows however wished was an early Frontier power scripter you know what did wrote scripts that arranged icons within windows and pasted icons on them according to certain attributes Spatial arrangement is an extremely powerful aid to thinking and c
52. e this gives them the attention they desire Even decent articles and artwork are not best represented by a forum presentation If someone proudly displays her work in that format she is unlikely to understand the demands of a professional organization These days it is too easy to set up a Web site even for free for anyone to use the excuse that her only option is displaying work in forums on another Web site If the forum presented work is exceptional you can judge the work based upon the exact content but not on other abilities Judge the work in the forum and realize the person cannot show you examples of how she is competent to present her excellent works Judging Web design design and presentation skills based on forums is impossible because forums are easily had For example someone who has set up a PHP Nuke forum Web site does not necessarily know Web design Installing PHP Nuke or any equivalent forum technology is easy and there are hundreds of free templates available to present the site well A poorly presented PHP Nuke Web site demonstrates a lack of understanding or outright laziness about proper presentation design and merchandising Having a PHP Nuke Web site means she installed PHP Nuke but nothing more ATPM 10 10 19 Segments Internet Democracy Gone Bad As tempting as it may be you should also avoid advertising for new contributors and staff on forums based Web sites If you advertise this way you will only increase
53. ence as Pality The Process End and ALF Agen ysrems Category Theory Concept Lattices Concept Federated Models Functional Systems Haskell Normal 5 Agent Container U Le rs 3 L5 10 10 41 Deep Tinderbox Hoist Hoist is a simple feature one that matters more when the notes are inline rather than in two panes But it is still useful when the outline is large It simply allows you to zoom into an area of the outline and display it by itself Tinderbox supports this in the map mode as well as an interesting little sister in the outline mode you have nine levels of zoom so far as the font size of the outline headers A handy little touch e eoo Contents Process Specificatic p Unified Enterprise Tinderbox is m Foundations of Infor designed to maximize the 1 International Societ t utility of the F TinderBox Help semantics contained D E Introduction in a note without E Notes understanding that semantics of the 2 text within it Certain modeling 17 or gt HTI g Normal 1 2 3 4 Outline Text Size Pop up Standards Based Export If Tinderbox hasn t yet impressed here s a killer XML Tinderbox s storage format is XML Let s make it clear that we are not talking about exporting XML the files themsel
54. end your e mail to editor atpm com We often publish the e mail that comes our way Do You Answer Technical Support Questions Of course E mail our Help Department at helo atom com How Can I Contribute to ATPM There are several sections of ATPM to which readers frequently contribute Segments Slices from the Macintosh Life This is one of our most successful spaces and one of our favorite places We think of it as kind of the ATPM guest room This is where we will publish that sentimental Macintosh story that you promised yourself you would one day write It s that special place in that s specifically designated for your stories We d really like to hear from you Several Segments contributors have gone on to become columnists Send your stuff to editorGatpm com Hardware and Software Reviews ATPM publishes hardware and software reviews However we do things in a rather unique way Techno jargon can be useful to engineers but is not always a help to most Mac users We like reviews that inform our readers about how a particular piece of hardware or software will help their Macintosh lives We want them to know what works how it may help them in their work and how enthusiastic they are about recommending it to others If you have a new piece of hardware or software that you d like to review contact our reviews editor at reviews atpm com for more information ATPM 10 10 125 Frequently Asked Questions Shareware Revi
55. entation for a few dozen command line utilities and describe a number of included development tools Considering the depth of information given on each topic in Panther for Unix Geeks it is all too easy to compare this depth with the range of topics covered and find this range lacking Also sometimes this depth gives the casual reader the impression that the book is divulging everything there is to know on the subject when in reality it offers just enough information to supplement existing knowledge while at the same time opening up many more areas to explore once the basics have been learnt ATPM 10 10 121 Review Panther for Unix Geeks There is not a lot to be said about this book other than it accomplishes what it sets out to do and does it in full The knowledge assumed by the book is great and the diversity of topics will probably mean that certain chapters will go unread simply because the reader is not interested in using a certain technology or accomplishing a certain task A cover to cover read this is not however if you are planning on making the switch and enough of the application areas fuel your interest then this book is probably the most appropriate starting point for you Copyright 2004 Johann Campbell jcampbell atpm com Reviewing in ATPM is open to anyone If you re interested write to us at reviewsGatpm com e ATPM 10 10 122 Review Panther for Unix Geeks FAQ Frequently Asked Questions What Is ATPM
56. ep Tinderbox You can Get Info on note and get a complete report of every attribute You can edit attributes right there if you wish Info Notes Notes Created Friday December 27 2002 By system Medhed Waodeesday October 29 2003 Characters 525 Lins D inbound 1 outbound Contains D children D descendants Words B4 wands including descendants Prototype rue P Modified AM Hare Notes p On Add ruined 2 Sol entire 57 Prototyp Read ny false Texct xportTemplate FiknzFolded Textlength 525 Ei bs the HTTALOGnAE x pir E fake HTMILE tities true HTFALExpart par tEefore rue HTPALEsportExtenzion html New Edit The Get Info Window Delete We ve already shown one way to access these and display them as database fields at the top of the note Any attribute can be displayed this way and edited there When I said everything is an accessible attribute meant it these displayed attributes are called key attributes Their list is itself an attribute ATPM 10 10 46 ATPO Deep Tinderbox For a long time wondered why that pop up menu the upper right of the window is labelled FE Actually it is supposed to represent a table The text content of a note is itself an attribute and you can create another attribute to put other note text in but y
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58. fied theoretical foundation ALF uses PSL in a broader oundatior way than originally intended using PSL like nternatioi constructs for higher level business processes in a c multilevel agent system ALF imports or federates lelp wia PS infermaon YM regnr irt inme A Note Showing Attributes ATPM 10 10 32 ATPO Deep Tinderbox If you enter a URL in the URL attribute the note will consist of the text from that page if AutoFetch is set AutoFetch tells Tinderbox to update the note based on the latest version of the page ViewInBrowser tells Tinderbox to display the note in the system specified browser Dragging a URL to an outline or map view creates a note with those defaults minus AutoFetch making Tinderbox an extremely powerful bookmark manager Agents which we ll outline in a moment can update pages automatically and sort them according to a variety of criteria For example could set Tinderbox to monitor some key pages not sites Tinderbox won t follow links from tracked pages and look for pages that have Goranson and idiot or genius in the same text make clones of them and put them under the strokes or whacks headers accordingly for my perusal Tinderbox s handling of RSS feeds is even more advanced as we ve already noted Tinderbox is set up as an authoring publishing tool so as with HTML all the various RSS standards are supported It publishes RSS feeds and can be used as a simp
59. g out of sync I m not putting it beyond Apple to solve this issue For the first release of a product though I don t think it s inappropriate to make a single popular case work and work well think the remote control argument falls flat for similar reasons None of us really have any idea where Apple plans to take the AirPort Express product line If there were a remote control designed for use with AirTunes today it wouldn t be an AirPort Express remote it would be an iTunes remote What happens if Apple makes AirTunes integration available ATPM 10 10 105 Review AirPort Express to third party developers and they take the feature off in directions previously unimagined You would still have an iTunes remote but now you would want a remote that worked with all these other applications Printer Sharing Printer Sharing is one of the AirPort Express features that sometimes makes people scratch their heads Most people want to use the AirPort Express as a wireless access point and as a music streaming device To also use Printer Sharing they d need to put the printer next to the stereo In some households putting the printer in the middle of the living room might not go over so well That is one of the advantages of being a bachelor you can do stupid things like put a laser printer on the bookshelf next to the television It might also be one of the things that helps keep you a bachelor but that s another issue for another day As
60. graphers by John Ross is a 217 page guide for using Photoshop to work with digital images The Digital Fine Print Workshop by George DeWolfe is a 76 page guide to producing the highest possible quality in a final print and was updated this year to include techniques that utilize Optipix s tools Final Thoughts Optipixs control windows could use the handiwork of a user interface expert Some controls seem haphazardly positioned with lots of wasted space Also whenever an image is larger than a tool s preview window the only way to move around the image is to use the scroll bars Adding a hand tool to slide the image around in the preview window would be extremely helpful This should occur whenever the pointer is positioned over the preview It should not be necessary to have to hold a key down while sliding Experienced Photoshop users should find Optipix s tools well suited for their needs Novice users may at first be a bit intimidated by the controls for some tools but some experimentation should wean them rather quickly Novices may also be intimidated by Optipix s price tag but should realize this is a professional tool not an off the shelf wannabe Copyright 2004 Lee Bennett bennett atpm com Reviewing ATPM is open to anyone If you re interested write to us at reviews atpm com 6 ATPM 10 10 119 Review Optipix 3 0 Review Mac OS X Panther for UNIX Geeks book by Johann Campbell jcampbell atpm com Author Br
61. howing note attributes through header font style Note font color and background color are similarly programmable you can set them up to indicate whatever you like and change as the note changes And if like me you really want to satisfy your named character style fetish there are several macro programs you can use to apply named styles Or you can use the attached AppleScript function to open your notes in the styled text editor of your choice 10 10 59 ATPO Deep Tinderbox Tinderbox agents could not see named character styles easily and in any case Microsoft has patents with broad claims on styled text in documents including metadata search Bummer Flat notes are well flat Eastgate obviously knew this and decided to emphasize the arguably more manageable path to metadata metadata at the note level Tinderbox Blox We ve said that you have to have a feel for how Tinderbox is put together That s true but it is true of all applications if you understand the design goals and implementation philosophy behind the product it becomes easier to know if this product fits within your creative activity My own feeling is that you have to judge a product on features of course but also on the level of philosophical symaptico And you have to have confidence that the developers will continue to evolve the product Tinderbox is a note creator and manager After the note the important citizens are attributes and links Attribute
62. iables and supports Now that s leveraged to provide an outline pane for documents AAA Mellel mel 7 ER f Paragraph Small Ti Char Small Title B Outline Y Structure Introduction Now we turn from Tinderbox to repor Tinderbox as an The Feature Mellel Styles Folks we have a new outliner Mellel Head i i 7 word processor that is worth checkin built from the ground up for OS X it i lii chy AN roman languages if you need it and Other Graphical Paradigm for named styles Snipping Input a External Links can t overstate how useful named s nterna Mellel has best implementation o Il Now they ve leveraged that to provid Poist 5 5 XX Mellel s Outliner gt Events Mellel s Outliner In that outliner pane you can add rearrange rename promote demote and delete headers and have the subservient paragraph text with tables and images follow suit in the document window Finally we have an alternative to the clunky outliner in Word to which Mellel pretty seamlessly imports and exports The outline cannot span multiple Mellel documents yet Too bad but a minor complaint considering the achievement Oh and RedleX advises that they are migrating to a native X
63. ian Jepson and Ernest E Rothman Publisher O Reilly Price 25 Trial Table of Contents Index Sample Chapter VERY NICE At first was horrified Looking at the cover couldn t help but think that the publisher was at the least misguided at most alienating its target audience entirely Unfortunately nine years of Internet experiences had left me unaware that unlike the word nerd the word geek is not actually a derogatary term at least when used amongst friends A quick search or two later and was satisfied that there was nothing untoward about this book at least in its title anther for RELLY Baar emm gt iram b ma Apprehension cast aside O Reillys OS X Panther for Unix Geeks starts off by acknowledging that the depth and nature of the material covered makes it unsuitable for even those existing OS X users who perhaps know their way around the Terminal Indeed a lot of its content would leave this group of users searching for more interesting and ATPM 10 10 120 Review Panther for Unix Geeks perhaps more relevant tutorials The primary goal of this book is to assist with the transition to Mac OS X for those advanced users of Linux and Unix flavoured operating systems with a particular developer or system administration interest To this end a lot of the book ends up describing the differences between what users might be used to on more standard Unix distributions and what they will have t
64. icular Macintosh has been free since 1995 we intend to keep it that way Our editors and staff are volunteers with real jobs who believe in the Macintosh way of computing We don t make a profit nor do we plan to As such we rely on advertisers and readers like you to help us pay for our Web site and other expenses This issue of ATPM is sponsored by Bare Bones Software makers of BBEdit Mailsmith Super Get Info and TextWrangler suec unc We ve partnered with CafePress com to bring you high quality ATPM merchandise For each item you buy 1 goes towards keeping the atpm com server running You can also help support by buying from online retailers using our links If you re going to buy from them anyway why not help us at the same time We also accept direct contributions using PayPal and Amazon s Honor System We suggest 10 for students and 20 for individuals but we greatly appreciate contributions of any size Finally we are accepting inquiries from interested sponsors and advertisers We have a variety of programs available to tailor to your needs Please contact us at advertise atpm com for more information ATPM 10 10 6 Sponsors Welcome This issue of ATPM includes The Candy Apple In Which a Loss Comes With a Gain There s a reason we resist change Segments Internet Democracy Gone Bad The same democratic principles that make the Internet a great thing also mean that y
65. inder more in the spirit and advanced vision of the original Xerox PARC concept than the OS X Finder and you couldn t read an issue of Macworld without tripping over it But this could be done by collecting the Mac file information in AppleScript or by many other means and folding it into the Tinderbox XML files Here s another example you can t escape though if it were scriptable you could integrate it in useful ways with a media friendly freeform database like NoteTaker and or a special purpose task manager There is a long announced version of Tinderbox for Windows that is forthcoming Perhaps the reason for no AppleScript is why build in something for a cross platform application that is a Mac advantage ATPM 10 10 51 ATPO Deep Tinderbox is the only qualm have about Eastgate s apparent reluctance to leverage technologies sincerely wish them well and if future sales to Windows customers make them stronger thats good for us too But l ve seen many of my treasured applications my trusted lovers make visits to Windows with promises of fidelity that were all broken every one All of those now lack even a passing nod to Mac unique features and some like FrameMaker have abandoned us completely Eastgate s dual platform Storyspace for instance still hasn t fully made the leap to OS X On the other hand the recent updates to Tinderbox have been frequent even while Windows porting is underway Outliner Co
66. ing turned off and so on Profiles One of the other features of the AirPort Express is support for up to five profiles It seems to me that this feature gets lost in the shuffle from time to time Since the AirPort Express is so small Apple pitches it as a portable solution for creating wireless networks Running a wireless network in different locations often requires reconfiguring your access point so it s compatible with its surroundings For instance at home you use the AirPort Express as a wireless access point at work you use it as a wireless bridge to the main network and on business trips you use a different password that you don t mind giving out to your co workers ATPM 10 10 107 Review AirPort Express Profiles let you setup and save these settings so you can quickly reconfigure your AirPort Express without needing to toggle 17 different settings Conclusion really like the whole AirPort Express package wanted a replacement for my flaky 802 11b access point wanted a wireless print server wanted something to stream music to my stereo got all that The decreased reception concerns me a bit Right now have coverage where need it but what happens if move to some place larger Will need a second access point to cover the entire domicile mentioned this already but the thing that I m most unhappy with is the seeming inability to get a power cord for the AirPort Express Using the spare cord from my
67. inkTypes ID 3150262496 Creators windows 1 reattribute namez WindowPlace m macros cattribula names Created gt 29 0 attribute names Modified gt 29 C a attribute name Name gt prolix attribute names Xpos Q Jattrit name attributo attribute namez Y pos gt 0 noma Nama item ID 31 50262506 Creatorz eattribula name WindowPlace lt attribute namas Craated gt 27 Ji lt attribute name Modified 27 J Tinderbox Data in Editix ATPM 10 10 43 Deep Tinderbox This alone is one reason for serious users to consider Tinderbox XML is essentially the only open standard we have for rich documents If you want to ensure that your thousands of hours aren t wasted when the market shifts you may want to take this into account I ve been seriously burned in the past and I m sure as heck not going to trust Microsoft or Adobe again Are you If for some reason your machine explodes in some way and corrupts the file XML may be the easiest of all so far as being able to repair or recover ATPO is a champion of OPML which is an XML specification for simple outline structure It was created by Dave Winer to allow sharing of information among Frontier users It is terrific for tying together suites that deal with straight simple outlines like merging OmniOutliner s outlining tools with NovaMind s mindmapping But it just doesn t cut the mustard when things
68. it Character S194 11 49 29 PM creaped Descendant Wierd 4 9719704 11 54 40 PM modified lewigible TAO Actionltems Here is a clever tack on task management and outlining Usually these things are based on a single outline where each header is a task Everything flows from that notion Actionltems is different a consolidated database of outlines based on templates people projects groups etc and a daily journal which is an outline entries in which can be action items and to which people and projects can be linked Outlines appear all over the place as notes and also as tasks In other words it supports the outline of outlines features but in a matrixed way ATPM 10 10 70 Deep Tinderbox This is pretty novel check it out 425 PF Actioniterms aqu jjj Write arPO12 Ted Goranson People I o a X le Wednesday September 08 2004 September 2004 T Ordinary Nowa here per day SMT wT FS Projects can have people and notes 1234 People have projects and moses hea 52 4 em n Pty report feature October 2004 MTWITIFS 1 S45 6 7 R3 M0 1i H2 13 14 15 16 b m m gt Name A HetKey Hot Text Pending Assigned People al Grocery list gl 12 zs 2 A Projects 5 Home mns hi 3 i Croups San Francisco Trip if a 1 eu IE Write ATPO12 Task Man
69. l actions you can optionally install These include 1 3 pixel nudge commands most helpful if a keyboard shortcut is assigned to them an action to automate blending exposures one that reduces the dynamic range of a photo to a state that is better for commercial printing and two different actions for image optimization one for general use and another designed to enhance portraits Lia Before Optimize Image action Click to enlarge After Optimize Image action Click to enlarge The Optipix manual says that the Optimize Image action makes marked improvements to well exposed original digital images so don t assume that this action will fix sloppy exposure In the example above the first photo represents a shot straight from my digital camera with absolutely no adjustment Other than having a slight red cast was very happy with how it came out After applying the optimization action and making a slight color adjustment to remove the red cast could see detail didn t even realize existed in the photo Note the upper tip of the fresnel lens inside the lighthouse This tip is virtually invisible in the unadjusted photo The action also brought out detail in the bricks of the lighthouse and in the shadows of the tree bark on the extreme right edge of the photo ATPM 10 10 118 Review Optipix 3 0 Bundled Perks Those who are serious about digital photography will be pleased to find two PDFs on the Optipix CD Photoshop for Digital Photo
70. le RSS reader Internal Links and References Judging by the large number of outliners that support linking to external files and Internet resources this feature must be relatively easy to program Slightly more difficult are hypertext links that provide hot navigation from marked text blocks to notes elsewhere in the document like the Web But why stop there Web type hyperlinks are pretty limited there are lots of other types of hyperlinks Real hypertext theory existed well before the experiment that stuck us with HTML Its entirely possible to have different kinds of links and Tinderbox thankfully supports some of them This is not the only thing that discriminates it but it may well be the most mind bending ATPM 10 10 ATPO Deep Tinderbox You can have links of different types as many as you wish or you can apply a vanilla link The screenshot shows the type definition dialog where you also specify color and visibility useful for the map view e Attributes User System Colors Stamps Link Types Macros D9 untitled Definition disagree Expansion agree Celer 0000800 clarity 84 visti example exception nate nate prototype response update Link Type Editor Links can be from notes or text blocks to notes or text blocks Multiple links can be assigned even to overlapping text selections Naturally you ll have to think about how to tr
71. mat the Roadmap dialog Roadmap Relationships Bl Relationships Relationships E Containers amnium k dy rmn aln oF aie dai Tata ian ey he dee D ralis n or ne amni bole i mam dm Peu mad gor anim ndn riii bg mp nimios p linm aer vnlg aram EE Bebe prp ede vh eee Ro ek ie pm hoe 5 E nr p eee rire tect Lester aem ahh gt teer Bu ase cron LT mak eee coe mip Tuis atria Fr rmi biy as Mabina B alid Ba asa Rd ui hitti b kai dil d ip Wo 1 rmm ee TH m p Ara b Roadmap Dialog ATPM 10 10 38 ATPO Deep Tinderbox If the links are specified as visible you see and follow them the map mindmapping like mode something we ll get to in a moment In the outliner mode you can open a pop up at the bottom of a note to see all the links and follow one if you wish These kinds of links only can be made within the current Tinderbox docu
72. ment Naturally you can follow a hyperlink Relationships Relationships Projects i Modified 3 20 04 1 03 E Process 5 Color red fabric of not es i5 supported Tinderbox by relationships of several types These are used for structuring and navigating the document b nm Unified Internatio TinderBox Help Links are relationships between containers B introduction and or text fragments A link is a structural and Notes navigational relationship Each can have oniy one Bl Contents quality cabled in Tinderbox a link type Any E 5 container or text fragment can orignate or be targeted by number of links Links are Qualities P i E URL links are ordinary links with additional 00 power An ordinary text URL link simply takes you Scripts to the linked web page A URL link ona container F views however imports the contents of that web page into the note Bw ert rina ai nualty the Make link Browse links gt Relationships gt Containers gt Tools Link Pop up Tinderbox s handling of links by itself puts it above all the alternatives 10 10 39 Deep Tinderbox Clones don t know why clones are so hard to do but few outliners support them currently only Tinderbox Hog Bay Noteb
73. menters give up on the demo before they get it hope this column does the job of introducing Tinderbox with little pain because though it Clearly is not for everyone it may be just what you are looking for Tinderbox Icon One problem is that Tinderbox is partly a tool and partly an environment for creating your own tool In either case it can bend pretty far toward your own working style if you lean toward lots of metadata information about your information or notes It isn t something you buy and just use it is something you adapt and invent over time Some potential users have a lot of trouble with this idea they like to be presented with a tool that does a very specific or a well understood thing Then they can learn it or not but they at least know what it is What we re going to do here is provide only one of two possible passes over the application This first pass will look at Tinderbox as an outliner Tinderbox is not really an outliner at all it is more of an environment for annotation rich information architectures Eastgate probably doesn t like it to be considered a mere outliner but it can surely be used as one Shocker of shockers in this mode Tinderbox is the most powerful outliner available by many measures believe that you can buy it and use it as an outliner and be supremely happy with it never having explored its more extraordinary side At the very least it is the ideal way to begin using it before adven
74. menu click the Desktop amp Screen Saver button then choose the Desktop tab In the left side menu select the desktop pictures folder you want to use ATPM 10 10 94 Desktop Pictures Sunsets You can also use the pictures with Mac OS 5 built in screen saver Select the Screen Saver tab which is also in the Desktop amp Screen Saver System Preferences pane If you put the ATPM pictures in your Pictures folder click on the Pictures Folder in the list of screen savers Otherwise click Choose Folder to tell the screen saver which pictures to use Mac OS X 10 1 x and 10 2 x Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu and click the Desktop button With the popup menu select the desktop pictures folder you want to use You can also use the pictures with Mac OS X s built in screen saver Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu Click the Screen Saver 10 1 x or Screen Effects 10 2 x button Then click on Custom Slide Show in the list of screen savers If you put the ATPM pictures in your Pictures folder you re all set Otherwise click Configure to tell the screen saver which pictures to use Mac OS X 10 0 x Switch to the Finder Choose Preferences from the Finder menu Click on the Select Picture button on the right In the Open Panel select the desktop picture you want to use The panel defaults to your Library Desktop Pictures folder Close the Finder Preferences window when you are done Mac OS 8
75. ministration interest ATPM 10 10 8 Welcome Desktop Muse have always promoted the idea of a renewable copyright suggest a renewal fee that s small but real Say 100 The idea is to sort the economically viable works from the rest of the herd You see the copyright extension act is brought forth every 20 years so that corporations won t loose their profitable properties The Disney Corp is the most obvious example Their vault of classic animation is far more valuable than gold But if the copyright ran out it would be worthless to Disney anyway To avoid this disaster Disney and the rest of the entertainment industry goes to Congress every 20 years and arranges for an extension But they also extend the copyright on every other work in the country at the same time Books music and movies that have no commercial value left but that may have value as the basis of new works As a recent example look at The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen All those characters are in the public domain So they could be used to create a new work of art OK there is some disagreement about how much art was in that movie but the graphic novel was brilliant Without material falling into the public domain we lose the intellectual equivalent of fertilizer We lose the ability to build on the works that have gone before We must reinvent the wheel for every work created But realistically we are never going to see Mickey Mouse in the
76. mplaints Complaining about Tinderbox as an outliner is a bit graceless It is as if one went to the store for a broom bought a vacuum cleaner for about the same price and complained about the noise The negative feedback l ve gotten is in three categories One of these dismiss early At 145 regular price it is among the priciest outliners we track Some ATPO readers balk at this My own attitude is that compared to your hardware investment the difference between 20 and 200 is insignificant in the shadow of unleashing your mind Tinderbox is a Photoshop scale application that is underpriced A common complaint is about the Tinderbox documentation This is one that do concede the included documentation is inadequate But am prepared to cut Eastgate some slack After all you can noodle about in most applications and never need to look at the documentation unless you want to do something unusual In Tinderbox s case you can t really get past the simple outliner use without understanding how the thing is put together a requirement that ordinary applications don t have The documentation doesn t address this well It is mostly clear and complete but there is no index or task based how to so finding what you need is unnecessarily hard Beyond that there are problems in explaining core concepts In fact it don t really explain how Tinderbox really works under the hood Instead it does what ordinary application help does tell you h
77. n t get from Photoshop s Levels and Curves tools Flagged U g Blend Exposures and Layer Modes The tools l ve probably benefitted from most are the Blend Exposures and Layer Modes tools often find myself shooting the exact same photo with two different exposures with the intent of later combining the images in Photoshop A common example of this is a photo with a bright sky and a shadowed foreground ATPM 10 10 110 Review Optipix 3 0 Because these two tools my most favorite l m going to depict the process of using them Besides demonstrating how to use these tools this should adequately describe the overall process and simplicity of all the tools 4 In this first image we see two shots of the Luxor hotel in Las Vegas at night One photo was exposed for the pyramid against the night sky at the expense of blowing out the sphinx in the foreground A second photo was exposed for the sphinx making the pyramid nearly indistinguishable against the sky After combining the two shots into the same document on separate layers it was apparent that even though I recomposed the second shot fairly accurately there was an inevitable misalignment Normally this would be corrected by changing the upper layer s blending mode to Difference or perhaps dropping the upper layer s opacity then nudging ATPM 10 10 111 Review Optipix 3 0 the upper layer around until it matched the bottom layer
78. ndheld Task items can have short comments and links to URLs and files Your evaluation will likely be on user interface and ease of use plus the utility of the source display The help is rudimentary We ll add it to the ATPO tracker list ATPM 10 10 72 Deep Tinderbox MindFortress MindFortress is another one that came out of the blue at least for me Perhaps it recently added an outline capability It is a structured repository for your information Each note is a card with predefined data fields for instance serial number Web page and so on You can select the general template to make notes The idea here is that it is a consolidated ordered encrypted storage system You can create your own templates and the whole thing is AppleScriptable No export currently exists so whatever you put in there stays at least for now P P 0 MindFaortress c AQ Emea O Add Cad Add Category Delete Fonti Colon Search Feedback User ATP Tale Date AlGen v ATPO ltem 9 5 04 11 35 49 PM 17 bytes A Frequent fyer 3 5 04 11 43 10 PM 20 bytes subitem 9 5 04 11 38 35 PM 146 bytes General 11 4629 134 bytes Sies e Spacing EEE t t r cam use the general card style to make notes Agua text Since the outline view above is a real au with promote collapse and relocate well add it ta the tracker list
79. nies NoteBook currently support styles for header levels which is good but a lesser good Tinderbox does neither through a simple specification preference or dialog except you can customize some header styles in a way we ll indicate later We note some new outliners in the ATPO tracker below two do styled headers another named styles throughout Headers and Non headers Views and View Templates This characteristic is exhibited by all two pane outliners by definition It means that the outliner keeps text notes separate from the outline Many simple outliners are designed as list or task managers and cannot do this Having these separate is essential to writers and is the equivalent of keeping section headers separate from paragraph text After all for writers the main advantage of outlining is to be able to literally see a document s structure the relationships of the components as headers and manipulate it Tinderbox does this as well as any two pane outliner and has several organizational views that no other product has as we will see On the other hand outliners that display inline notes where the notes are placed under the headers as a continuous flow give special power Inspiration and Word do this and the forthcoming OmniOutliner 3 will as well ATPM 10 10 27 ATPO Deep Tinderbox This matter of inline notes and styles is example of how Tinderbox takes a different approach than the familiar Tinderbox is all about
80. nstead picking what you envision you will most likely choose poorly and destroy everything you intended to create Copyright 2004 Andrew Kator akator atpm com The Segments section is open to anyone If you have something interesting to say about life with your Mac write us 6 ATPM 10 10 20 Segments Internet Democracy Gone Bad About This Particular Outliner by Ted Goranson tgoranson atpm com Deep Tinderbox For those new to ATPO this is a column about outlining Each column examines some corner of outlining We don t do reviews ATPM reviewers and others do a great job of that elsewhere Instead when we look at specific outliners we want to tell you how they work We hope it will help you understand some of the issues concerned with arranging ideas and possibly make a product choice In this column we attempt to survey Tinderbox with an overview that includes a special offer for ATPO readers At the end of the column is our outline tracker which introduces some new outliners to the corral Tinderbox here s something of a polarizing application I ve gotten lots of mail about it Much of the mail calls it a paradigm busting application sometimes life altering or uniquely empowering Other correspondents call it inscrutable ugly or too complex to use 10 10 21 Deep Tinderbox It is at the very least something that its creators have trouble explaining to potential buyers and indeed many experi
81. o gray dark cyan areen Delete Change Color Attribute Editor You ll see from the screenshot that you can edit the color of the note This is something you will want to play with when you extend your use of Tinderbox to see notes when you advance to using the very advantageous map view To choose a color you can either select from the list or type in the hexadecimal code for a color No simple calling of several Apple supplied color pickers here Oh how we get spoiled Notice however that there are some samples of other shades three on either side of the selection Guess what They don t work They are indicators of lighter and darker shades that you can select but in a different dialog The Annoyances These are fair complaints only if you are comparing Tinderbox to other power outliners and they revolve around the eminence of notes over the outline hierarchy In many other outliners you get to choose how much information you put into the header text as opposed to the note For example in Hog Bay Notebook and OmniOutliner you could literally treat some headers as paragraphs and the note field as your comments to yourself ATPM 10 10 55 ATPO Deep Tinderbox Not so Tinderbox The title of a note is actually an attribute of that note You cannot edit it directly as a text field like you might in any other outliner Instead you have to open a Rename dialog box Rename Name You can type about
82. o get used to when using OS X Logically the first place to start when doing this would be the Terminal application itself where the vast majority of command line activity occurs and indeed this is what the first chapter covers The rest of the chapters in this first Getting Around part of the book deal with among other topics using Directory Services to manage users groups and so on printing using the Common Unix Printing System CUPS installing and using the X Window system and working with various forms of multimedia Intriguingly chapter two contains a full and detailed run through of the OS X boot process right from when the power key is pressed to when the login window is displayed Also of particular note is the wide range of third party applications mentioned or explained in some detail within various chapters although as one might expect Fink takes pride of place with its own chapter in the Packages section Those users who create or build their own applications will find three chapters explaining the various routes available including compiling applications from source code working with Perl and what to do when encountering porting errors due to library header and framework differences System administrators will learn about the available monitoring tools about using MySQL and PostgreSQL and about using OS X as a server Finally the appendices serve to map out a typical OS X file system provide otherwise missing docum
83. on Kit with Monster Cables for 39 In addition to the power cord you get a Monster Cable mini jack to RCA jack cable and a Monster Cable mini jack to optical digital Toslink cable Knowing how much Monster cables cost I m willing to bet most of the cost of the kit comes from the two audio cables of which you likely only need one didn t try going to one of the retail Apple Stores nor did contact any independent Apple dealers Perhaps would have had more luck through one of those avenues but find it fairly annoying that such an inexpensive part is so hard to acquire especially when it s use can substantially increase the usefulness of the AirPort Express Wireless Networking As said earlier the AirPort Express is an 802 110 device meaning it can provide speeds up to 54 Mbps when used with other 802 110 equipment like the AirPort Extreme cards offered on late model Macs I m using an older PowerBook with AirPort card As 802 11g device AirPort Express is backwards compatible with 802 11b equipment like the original AirPort cards As a result I m able to connect to the wireless network at speeds up to 11 Mbps the same as was using my older 802 11b access point According to Apple s documentation the AirPort Express allows you to connect at high speeds 802 119 from up to 50 feet away and at lower speeds 802 11b from up to 150 feet away l m not sure what the 802 11b range is on my old SMC access point but it
84. oncept assembly Alas the Mac has moved away from this with the one window columnar Finder views and the possibly ill advised rush of applications to tabs what we used to do with stacked windows While much of the rest of the world seems to be drifting away from spatial leverage Tinderbox stands out all the more To me it seems more Mac like than much of the Mac these days The Bottom Line Tinderbox is as powerful an outliner as you will find so long as you don t need an editable inline view or large numbers of graphics As an information management assistant it exploits techniques you will find in no other non research software and really can be life altering It is easy to use as an outliner but has a daunting learning curve for advanced features on the order of Photoshop or FileMaker And it doesn t quite fit modern OS X services If you are a regular ATPO reader you will likely find it engaging leading you to confront whether to make the investment in serious software It is a Carbon application and runs well on OS 9 Tinderbox s architect Mark Bernstein has a huge Web presence including his own blog and the Tinderbox development peekhole That latter is a great asset to users and says a lot about Eastgate s relationship to users As much as I like and support Mac boutique developers like Bare Bones and Omni Group their Apple like policy of just surprising us is a bit patronizing appreciate Eastgate s openness Here
85. ook to some extent DEVONthink and now TAO which you ll meet way below Clones are essential to most advanced outlining simply because trees are handy but not ideal Sometimes you need something in two or more places The Finder addressed this shortcoming eons ago The late MORE led the way for desktop outliners well before that We need more clones in outliners Developers arise Making a clone which Tinderbox reasonably calls an alias manually is a matter of selecting a note and choosing a menu item or hitting a key combo The new header appears in italics to designate it as a clone It can be moved wherever you like Changes in the clone are reflected in the original including changes to the title This is unlike the Aliases in the Finder which can be renamed But watch out When you make a clone of a parent in the Finder or Hog Bay Notebook it is exactly like the original and includes children In fact in Hog Bay once a clone is created the distinction between the original and the clone goes away both are displayed exactly the same Not so in Tinderbox the clone is an image of the note only children are not included It is one of the consequences of the focus on notes as the beings with souls rather than the header outline itself As we ll see Tinderbox clones can be created and moved automatically by agents When you are moving stuff around by agents it is not feasible to carry the children Group Operations Sort and Sear
86. or applications for future columns visualization and model abstraction field He is slowly beginning a new user interface project Copyright 2004 Ted Goranson tgoransonGatpm com Ted Goranson has been thirty years in the 6 ATPM 10 10 75 ATPO Deep Tinderbox Networks in Action by Matthew Glidden mglidden atpm com Mac to Windows Troubleshooting the No Logon Serv ers Available File Sharing Error The Error If you ve shared files from your Mac to networked Windows users you know how easy it is Open the Sharing preferences pane enable Windows File Sharing and click Apply Now The Mac even tells you what address to use 10 1 1 1 sevans in this example eo Sharing e mae Jg s 9 Show All Displays Sound Network Startup Disk Sharing Software Update Computer Name Steve Rendezvous Name Steve Network Address 10 1 1 1 tdi Services Firewall Internet Select service to change its settings On Service Windows File Sharing On Personal File Sharin 4 9 Stop Windows File Sharing o Personal Web Sharing Click Stop to prevent Windows users from accessing shared folders on this computer Remote Login FTP Access Remote Apple Events Printer Sharing pum Windows users can access your computer at 10 1 1 1 sevans To choose which Windows users can log in open Accounts preferences and edit their user information Click the lock
87. or receiver When iTunes detects the presence of an AirTunes enabled AirPort Express a new pop up menu appears in iTunes bottom status bar just to the left of the equalizer button This menu allows you to select where iTunes audio will be sent There is an entry for your computer and entries for any AirTunes enabled AirPort Expresses If a given AirPort Express has password protection enabled for iTunes playback a lock icon appears next to the AirPort Express name Select a locked AirPort Express and you will be prompted for the password Once you re connected to an AirTunes enabled AirPort Express the experience of playing music is essentially identical to playing music through your computer speakers The only noticeable difference is that system and iTunes volume controls no longer change the volume of the music that functionality is delegated to whatever device is connected to the AirPort Express In this way AirTunes is sort of like the wireless equivalent of a line out jack This metaphor doesn t hold with regards to the equalizer though If your equalizer is turned on iTunes transmits the modified audio This could be useful if you are ATPM 10 10 104 Review AirPort Express transmitting to device without its own but it could also lead you to equalizing the audio twice It would be nice if each output in the AirTunes menu could remember independent equalizer settings think the user interface gets a little flaky when it
88. ou have a small editing window for this Attribute management is eased by two tools One is the poorly named stamp tool A stamp is a collection of attribute values that you can apply to a note in one whack It is like a style template you may want to have one stamp for draft stuff another for ideas another for ready to publish and so on Stamping a note changes attributes wholesale e Attributes User System Colors Stamps Link Types Macros n Draft Frivate Name Publish Value 0 The Stamp Editor A more sophisticated tool is the prototype This is a note possibly an empty note Assigning a note to a prototype note via a special kind of link makes that note inherit all the prototype s attribute values As your document evolves you can change the prototype and all the linked notes change Don t be fooled into thinking the prototype is a trivial tool just because we mentioned it in association with stamps The idea here is one common in programming that of inheritance Attribute inheritance is an extremely deep deal especially with cascading prototypes and can form the basis of a capable knowledge representation system This ATPM 10 10 47 ATPO Deep Tinderbox feature leans itself more towards the artificial intelligence end of the spectrum Tinderbox may be the first desktop software to expose inheritance as a user leverageable concept out
89. ou may be democratically exposed to con artists and incompetent people claiming great skills About This Particular Outliner Deep Tinderbox After taking a break last month in this About This Particular Outliner Ted Goranson zeros in on Tinderbox Networks In Action Mac to Windows Troubleshooting the No Logon Serv ers Available File Sharing Error Don t let this error stop you from sharing your Mac files with your Windows using friends Cartoon Cortland Chad mires about losing his last customer to Cortland Meanwhile Cortland discovers an all too familiar acquaintance in Todd s iMaximum Desktop Pictures Sunsets Sunsets by Lee Bennett Frisky Freeware Camino Matt Johnson introduces Frisky the Freeware Guinea Pig who will bravely test free software for you ATPM 10 10 7 Welcome Review AirPort Express Eric Blair takes us along for the ride as he installs an AirPort Express and makes an insightful observation regarding the lack of a remote control often discussed by AirPort Express critics Review Optipix 3 0 This professional set of tools to aid digital photography enhancements in Photoshop is like getting more than 15 tools in one and they all can work with 16 bit images Review Mac OS X Panther for UNIX Geeks book The primary goal of this book is to assist with the transition to Mac OS X for those advanced users of Linux and Unix flavoured operating systems with a particular developer or system ad
90. ow to do certain things or what specific commands or dialogs do ATPM 10 10 52 ATPO Deep Tinderbox This is somewhat petty complaint compared to the problem Tinderbox is sophisticated knowledge representation system wrapped in an accessible form What it really needs are two sets of documents one that is precise technically daunting and complete and a second that is task oriented and user friendly Both need good indexes Speaking of indexes that list of note attributes can get pretty long too long to manage well with the current user interface Maybe the next view will be a column view or TinderToolBox will help us view Tinderbox files in a columned outliner sincerely hope that this modest column helps new users see the underlying machinery l ve used my own decomposition and understanding in what I present here The Tinderbox Web site used to have a help forum but that has been replaced by a wiki which has a ton of great stuff from some expert users But it is hard to find what you are looking for and all but impossible to know when and where the latest killer new tip is posted A moderately active independent mailing list exists as well l Il say that direct e mail support and the mailing list are both impressive and you ll be hard pressed to find a more expert helpful community tolerant of beginner queries But I just cannot fathom why Eastgate doesn t support a frequently updated downloadable Tinderbox document of the
91. ows This also preserves the name change ATPM 10 10 77 Networks in Action Mac to Windows If you re using a wireless network and still see the error connect the computers with physical Ethernet cable and try again Sometimes the distance between computers and the wireless switch makes sharing files impossible or impractically slow Direct Ethernet is much faster Summary Fixing the Windows to Mac account issues will get your computers working agreeably again The No logon servers available error is annoying but shouldn t stop you from talking to your friends Or yourself but we won t dwell on that Threemacs com a guide to constructing and maintaining home and small office Macintosh Copyright 2004 Matthew Glidden mglidden atpm com Matthew Glidden is the webmaster of networks He can also tango and juggle not necessarily at the same time e ATPM 10 10 Networks in Action Mac to Windows Cartoon Cortland by Matt Johnson mjohnson atpm com 6 ZZ ENS WM UT kA Md il Pr 1 LT 7 6625 CORT YOLI ue ARE YOU KIDDING WOW SOUND LIKE YOU DON T WITH THE MACHINE YOU RE EVEN MIND WORKING ME LISE YOU 10 10 Cartoon Cortland 10 10 CORTLAND ST EALING MY LAST CUSTOMER SOMEDAY SOME WAY LL SHOW HIM HEY FRIEND Cartoon Cortland SO WHAT IS IT YOU HAVE AGAINST THIS CORTLAND GUY ANYWAY
92. pect in an outliner sibling Return and child Shift Return plus Command Return to open the attribute editor for the current note and Tab and Shift Tab for promote demote The final but relatively weak complaint is about the support for styles This is only a complaint for beginners and is one of the things you would never discover from noodling with the demo or even reading the docs It seems at first as if there is no support for header styles that s where level one headers display one way and level two differently changing styles when levels change And it also appears that Tinderbox notes are pretty darned flat meaning that there are no named styles in the note itself You are limited in the note field to rudimentary local styling of the type you d see in HTML bold italics size font and color This ain t bad and is the best you ll find in pretty much any outliner But I m used to the halcyon days of the old Nisus Writer where could assign meta attributes to text blocks through named 10 10 57 Deep Tinderbox character styles sort of like some outliners allow you to tag text by highlighting or bookmarking In Nisus you could leverage that style based metadata and write a macro that found gathered and or modified the marked text The style didn t even need to have a visible attribute Tinderbox has no named styles whatever If Tinderbox is the ultimate in support for metadata this lack of metadata by s
93. ptimized for printing It may be viewed online in a browser or downloaded and viewed in Adobe s free Acrobat Reader on Macintosh or Windows PDFs may be magnified to any size and searched with ease ATPM 10 10 123 Frequently Asked Questions The Screen PDF edition is also saved in Adobe Acrobat format It s a one column layout with larger text that s optimized for reading on screen It may be viewed online in a browser or downloaded and viewed in Adobe s free Acrobat Reader on Macintosh or Windows PDFs may be magnified to any size and searched with ease What Are Some Tips for Viewing PDFs e You can download Adobe Acrobat Reader for free If you have a Power Macintosh Acrobat Reader 5 has better quality and performance is also compatible with Acrobat Reader 3 for those with 680x0 Macs e You can zoom the PDF to full window width and scroll through articles simply by single clicking anywhere in the article text except underlined links e You can quickly navigate between articles using the bookmarks pane at the left of the main viewing window For best results on small screens be sure to hide the bookmarks pane that way you ll be able to see the entire page width at 10096 e Try turning Font Smoothing on and off in Acrobat Reader s preferences to see which setting you prefer All blue underlined links are clickable You can hold down option while hovering over a link to see where it will lead For best res
94. s screen captures to help you learn how to use each tool Reindeer Graphics offers an online quide that showcases each tool and gives examples of its use Since the examples utilize pictures that specifically benefit from each tool perusing this guide is the best way to see how the tools can improve a digital photo The available tools are Auto Contrast Blending Exposures Interactive Interpolation Layer Modes Image Averaging Edge Enhancer Photoshop Actions Detail Sharpener Grain Maker JPEG Cleaner Safe Sharpen Safe Median Power Median Refocus and Selection Tools have a small confession to make When I requested to be the one to review this product had only been exposed to a few of the Optipix tools and did not understand it to be the professional workflow utility that it is Admittedly there are some tools or specific controls inside some of the tools that are above my skill level Since the online guide provides excellent descriptions and examples of each tool I ll simply show examples of how a few of the tools helped even an experienced amateur photographer such as myself I m not yet willing to call myself an advanced photographer These are my favorite Optipix tools ATPM 10 10 109 Review Optipix 3 0 Auto Contrast Auto Contrast is what Reindeer Graphics calls a mini enhancer letting you improve exposure in a photo Since the tool contains an interactive histogram it affords a degree of feedback that you do
95. s amazingly rudimentary when seen by itself more like a notation for setting attributes It understands boolean expressions That s where you can ask it find text patterns like where Goranson and jerk but not isn t are found in the same sentence ATPM 10 10 49 ATPO Deep Tinderbox One could hardly guess that this by itself would be useful but it is Agent Name Example Agent Query Test or ties contre P amp linkedTao MNatesx amp T exti Mameli Case sensitive Action reverse Sort by ChildCount and by ID 44 Cancel J C Action Editor Eastgate seems open to adding any new command that makes sense Naturally they have some clear ideas about what makes sense ideas that may differ from yours For instance an agent can collect items as children but not as grandchildren It s a design thing There s a similar constraint that aliases cannot have children as we ve already mentioned Logical ways for Tinderbox to grow its internal scripting abilities would be to provide greater scripting control over prototypes like conditional inheritance and support plug ins that can use external scripts in any language that conforms to a plug in architecture Also it would be nice to assign multiple attributes to links ATPM 10 10 50 ATPO Deep Tinderbox Scripting We at make a big deal abo
96. s are what gives it meaningful metadata to allow for note management and are extremely well supported Links are conceived in a more sophisticated manner than you will find anywhere else and are a really novel thing Prototypes and clones are special sorts of links The outline hierarchy is a type of link that also appears as an attribute Agents operate on attributes Everything else is a tool including the visualization tools Tinderbox s heritage is in hypertext theory In my experience the cleverest ideas about life and tools are rousted about by this community it s been that way for years Eastgate publishes Storyspace the clear leader for authoring and publishing hypertext fiction Eastgate is also a facilitator in the several communities of fiction theorists and users They sponsor conferences they are the leading publisher of hypertext fiction they know a lot about hypertext that on beyond zero type of hypertext that isn t constrained by the Web They even publish an intelligent online periodical about hypertext ideas and tools and other interesting things know of no other software house that is as engaged in the real matter of advancing their user base ATPM 10 10 60 ATPO Deep Tinderbox In 1996 at the height of the mad Internet rush Eastgate introduced Web Squirrel It was an advanced visual tool for bookmark management which had the map view supporting information farms and agents more or less like Tinderbox Web pages In
97. se in designing m The Film Mind scientific theories since science and 0 v Underlying Philosophi politics are siblings describe the Jung science side in a parallel nate i Science as Polit Folding Examples The basis of this political philosophy is Modeling Issues in three layers those elements that are iiir in fab a result of natural law those that result b Utility in Representa from the social compact and those that The Modeling Project just make economc sense Each of these b Elements of Interest form the basis for the one below TinderBox Help Introduction s _ 4a Normal 4 Natural Law bbb nnn nan The Two Pane Outliner 10 10 24 Deep Tinderbox The screenshot shows one of Tinderbox s several views the one we ll stick with for a while It is what Eastgate calls an explorer view with a navigator on the left and a selected note on the right The navigator in this case is the outline though that outline pop up on the lower left of the window allows you to shift to a mindmap tree view called a chart or the hypertext map view AAA About the Film Mind About the Film Mind Background Introduction Relationship to The Enterprise Relationship to Purpose 8 About the Film Folding Issues Film Issues The Film Mind Underlying Philosophi c Jung Science as Polit Folding
98. seems like the signal strength on the AirPort Express is lacking when compared to the SMC Using the highly accurate walk around the apartment with the PowerBook and watch the signal strength in the menu bar technique it appeared that the signal from the AirPort Express would drop off prior to that of the SMC Where I had 4 bars with the SMC ATPM 10 10 103 Review AirPort Express had 3 with the AirPort Express When I carried the PowerBook into my bathroom not that make a habit of computing from the bathroom but it was the furthest point in the apartment from the two access points had 2 bars with the SMC and fluctuated between 1 bar and no signal with the AirPort Express don t know why there were differences in the signal strength Was it the 802 11g chipset in the AirPort Express Was it the small antennas on the SMC Was it something in my walls Who knows If signal strength was all cared about could probably reposition the AirPort Express so it was closer to the middle of my apartment to get better coverage However it also needs to be positioned close to a stereo and if you so desire a printer Although the additional functionality opens up a number of possibilities it can limit you to some degree AirTunes When people think about AirPort Express AirTunes is often one of the first things that comes to mind AirTunes is the technology that allows you to broadcast music from iTunes to almost any type of radio
99. side the software development community Agents can see and take action based on these attributes typically cloning and collecting notes But an agent can change an attribute value as well Agents can similarly see links and act according to them so you can use links to add metadata For instance you might link certain notes to a high priority note which exists only to allow that tagging You might want to do this because placement in the hierarchy is something of a hybrid between a link and an attribute and you can exploit the different behavior of each For instance you cannot create a new attribute by using an agent but you can create a new child relationship that can be treated like an attribute This here is powerful stuff which creates a somewhat difficult learning curve Metaphors and Header Relationships An outline is a pretty abstract thing by itself But it is conducive to metaphors For instance the Finder uses the folder metaphor where a file is in a folder Our last ATPO dealt with mindmappers many of which use images to create other useful metaphors Tinderbox is brazenly metaphor free austere in this regard except for the name of course A tinderbox was an essential technology in days past before matches It contained the stuff tinder you used to build a fire Header Relationships is a technique that advanced outliners use to denote more meaning in the parent child relationship It is used in many modeling con
100. someone were applying in person to work with you at a business or on a project Apply the same principles to working with people on the Internet that you would in real life Beware of Lofty Claims Someone who claims great things should be able to prove it If she teaches at an internationally renowned institution she will give you equivalent material to back up the claim Additionally most institutions list their affiliations and employees on the Web If you visit the institution Web site and she is nowhere to be found something is probably wrong If an applicant is really known for her work in a particular area there is a high chance of finding corroborating evidence on the Web Beware of Inconsistencies Someone who claims to be a teacher and a week later claims to be an Art Director is misrepresenting something If he were both a teacher and Art Director he would have presented that information to you in the first place You want nothing to do with him have never found an exception in which someone accidentally forgot to mention all the important information ATPM 10 10 17 Segments Internet Democracy Gone Bad Look out for backtracking with information If a potential partner or applicant claims to work somewhere and upon being questioned changes the employer something is wrong After all don t we all know who we work for There is no example can give in which someone legitimately misrepresented his current job titl
101. suming you ve got a printer that supports Rendezvous and the appropriate driver setting up the printer is a snap If you plan ahead you launch Printer Setup Utility click Add and select Rendezvous from pop up menu Your printer will show up in the list printer list where you will select it and click Add nee Prinber Lis c Eb o Rendezvous HH Add Hephaestus ic Stylus COL 71 eih ti cali Liig Kan k Prieser Model Fe Laserjet 1 1 3 n 5 Adding your AirPort Express shared printer the Printer Setup Utility 10 10 106 Review AirPort Express If you don t plan ahead you ll try to print something and realize that you haven t yet added the necessary printer Not to worry the printer pop up menu in the Print dialog contains an item name Rendezvous Printers which has a submenu listing any Rendezvous enabled printers Selecting your AirPort Express shared printer adds it to the list of installed printers Bacchus Hephaestus v Stylus COLOR 777 Rendezvous Printers hp LaserJet 1012 Edit Printer List Adding you AirPort shared printer through the Print dialog Both of these methods set your newly added printer as the default printer on your system Once you ve gotten this far it seems like the only potential gotchas are the same ones you d run into printing via USB Ethernet or some other wired connection paper jams the printer gett
102. texts and depends on different symbols being used for parents Then when an entry is under a parent it carries that context as well Tinderbox can do something like this with agents and clones and separately with links and associated agents to change header styles but without the graphic symbols We ll give an example in a moment that uses header fonts Multimedia You can import graphics However users report that documents get slow when they contain too many images Eastgate says that performance in this regard has improved but the tool clearly prefers text and pointers You can create a URL that points to media file on your disk or network but Tinderbox is eclipsed by some other outliners in the ease with ATPM 10 10 48 ATPO Deep Tinderbox which you can just drag a to a note and get a linked reference You can only do that in Tinderbox by linking through the file icon at the bottom of the note window which is a real shame We would hope that at some point soon we ll see support for SVG the Adobe created specification for XML vector graphics and the ability to use or at least reference data in external files directly within the note If you need lots of multimedia or full drag and drop support another tool is your best bet Actions and Action Hierarchies Internal Scripting We ve already touched on this Tinderbox adds its marvelous attribute and link assignment capability to an internal scripting language That language i
103. tized that it s impossible to make money selling it and so it s impossible to find a quality version any more Mlichael Alderete enjoyed your article very much went to a yard sale about a year ago and they had three of these Micro Connectors keyboards for 2 each two Blueberrys and one Graphite 1 bought them all sold two of them but kept one for a backup recently bought G4 Dual 533 that didn t have a keyboard so pulled the old Graphite Micro Connectors out and hooked it up My son and love it can tell when I ve actually hit a key and when haven t Craig Parks Because of some miscommunication between me and the wife ended up with both the Matias and Kensington keyboards also have a Micro Connectors a Northgate Ultra keyboard and a Ortek MCK 142 Pro Yes l m a keyboard snob and for me the louder and springier the better if they had a keyboard with hydraulics I d be right in line for that The Micro Connectors keyboard is pretty good but had an early model that had weird firmware issues with the USB would stop working every so often The Northgate and Ortek are very similar and both are awesome The Ortek 15 too tall for my keyboard drawers so haven t used it much The Northgate is a perfect fit but spilled some Coke on it a while back and it killed some of the keys When I got the Matias keyboard was very disappointed Its nice enough looking but just doesn t feel right think the main
104. tries to deal with AirPort Expresses that iTunes can no longer detect If an AirPort Express network goes away for a bried period of time while it is selected in iTunes the selected AirPort Express name is displayed in italics Aside from this minor change there s no visual indication that something s gone wrong If you try to play something iTunes just sits there waiting for you change the audio output setting If you attempt to play via an AirPort Express that has been unavailable for an extended period you at least get an error message that the selected network is unavailable and that you should double check the audio output settings Since the release of AirPort Express I ve heard two main complaints about limitations in AirTunes First it only works with iTunes not My Favorite Application Second there s no remote control Given that AirPort Express is still fairly new don t think either of these are real problems Given how AirTunes is implemented sending time dependent audio data would likely be problematic Prior to sending the audio your computer needs to compress and encrypt the audio with the Apple Lossloss Encoder Once the AirPort Express receives the audio it needs to decompress and decrypt the Apple Lossless compressed audio prior to outputting it via the audio mini jack If you tried to use this process with the sound from a DVD or a video game I think it s quite likely that the audio and video would end up gettin
105. turing into more unfamiliar territory ATPM 10 10 22 ATPO Deep Tinderbox The second pass is just inferred This would be a survey of Tinderbox as what it really is spatial hypertext environment more in the spirit of the mindmappers we looked at in the last column You don t need to know all the stuff we survey to start using Tinderbox productively But you will want to be exposed to most of it to know what distinguishes this application from others After all you want to be educated voters right Speaking of which if you are an eligible US voter please register and vote Consider it payment for ATPO Tinderbox as an Outliner think the best way to be introduced to Tinderbox is as a two pane outliner Later on we ll discuss some of the basic design decisions For now what you need to know is the basic design stance familiar outliners use the header structure as the main citizen of their world and header manipulation is something of a fetish for traditional outline users ATPM 10 10 23 ATPO Deep Tinderbox In this paradigm a note or comment is something that is attached In Tinderbox it is the other way around a situation that will produce some unfamiliar behavior for experienced outliner users AAA Science as Polity meii Lu cg Science as Polity Purpose About the Film M All governed people should have a well Folding Issues developed political philosophy This politics is the same u
106. tyle assignment is noticeable Also regular ATPO readers know that like to use Quartz s text shadowing Hey you bought a Mac right This isn t supported in Tinderbox another cost of OS 9 compatibility But all that isn t as bad as it sounds Header styles are supported in an interesting way much more cleverly than just assigning a style to a level it is just hidden The font color and justification of a header is an attribute of a note That means you can write a simple agent that converts the header to a style based on the note s outline level attribute Voila styled headers like everyone else sorta ATPM 10 10 58 ATPO Deep Tinderbox As it turns out the changed font only shows in the outline view with the color justification showing only in the graphical views But with a smart selection of fonts you can get some header styling as the screenshot shows Han Header First Level Header First Leve El Header SecondLe ea O Header Th int right NameColor green b Header Style Agents NameFont ChollaSansWide TitleBackgroundColor E warm gray Cholla used for Header Fond 434 TT 6 Styled Headers Or you can go far beyond assigning a font to high priority or draft notes or however you wish to tag your headers with fonts You cannot adjust the size individually except by choosing smaller fonts of course and italics are reserved for aliases But beyond that anything goes in terms of s
107. ults turn off Acrobat s Fit to Page option before printing Why Are Some Links Double Underlined In the PDF editions of ATPM links that are double underlined lead to other pages in the same PDF Links that are single underlined will open in your Web browser What If Get Errors Decoding ATPM and MacFixlt readers have reported problems decoding MacBinary files using early versions of Stufflt Expander 5 x If you encounter problems decoding ATPM we recommend upgrading to Stufflt Expander 5 1 4 or later How Can I Submit Cover Art We enjoy the opportunity to display new original cover art every month We re also very proud of the people who have come forward to offer us cover art for each issue If you re a Macintosh artist and interested in preparing a cover for ATPM please e mail us The way ATPM 10 10 124 Frequently Asked Questions the process works is pretty simple As soon as we a topic or theme for the upcoming issue we let you know about it Then it s up to you We do not pay for cover art but we are an international publication with a broad readership and we give appropriate credit alongside your work There s space for an e mail address and a Web page URL too Write to editor atpm com for more information How Can I Send a Letter to the Editor Got a comment about an article that you read Is there something you d like us to write about in a future issue We d love to hear from you S
108. ut AppleScriptability OmniOutliner and Hog Bay Notebook do it well and NoteTaker will soon AppleScript is the first resort of the Mac power user though many do so with reluctance as it is notably less elegant than say Tinderbox in its design After you get past user interface gloss AppleScript and its newly arrived cousin shell scripting are what makes a Mac a Mac just couldn t believe Tinderbox eschewed it Tinderbox does support AppleScript in one powerful way you can drag a script to the icon in the bottom of a note s window and thereafter that script will be executed when the note is opened That means that you can have a note s text open in BBEdit and perform a scripted text dance if you wish to have a power editor You ll need QuicKeys or something similar to paste the text back and you ll have to avoid links from text blocks Eastgate s lack of enthusiasm for AppleScript comes from the desire to only introduce complexity where there s a big payoff there doesn t seem to be much that AppleScript is needed for so far as Eastgate can see If we have the internal scripting language and access to open XML plus tools like TinderToolBox there isn t much left over it seems to them Here s one example if Tinderbox supported AppleScript someone clever could write some collection scripts to enter documents so that local files were supported like Web pages and RSS feeds Then Tinderbox would also be a spatial substitute for the F
109. ves are XML ATPM 10 10 42 Deep Tinderbox That means that you can open and edit a Tinderbox in any XML editor or a text editor if you have the guts You can perform all sorts of transforms and mappings on the native file and there are lots of tools including many open source tools to help you do this color names or ecolor Colors Fit MXN color name poppy color fict a inderbox 8 2 color names red colors 9909 attrib 2 anything ecolor namez warm gray colorz pi wenn color name warm gray dark cx Ta lecolor name white color iiti attrib User color name yellow calore foo Jcolorg c 1 9 manu name Value kind star menu Value linkT 12 lt gt o elink Type namez untitled label hem 7 3150262496 lt linkType namez agree visiblez pe attribute 1 WedowPlace linkType namez clarify visible pe lt linkType names disagree visib b m attribute 1 Created lt linkType name exampla visibl b attribute 1 Modified linkType names exception visit geo linkType name note visible 1 al ien clinkType name note visibles b attribute 1 Xpos Welink Type name prototype visit m ji linkType names responsa visit pou c PET clinkType name testioss visible b m item 21 3150262506 linkType name update visible M
110. y you would first set up the second image as described above but since the second image was already buffered for the Layer Modes operation you do not need to repeat this step Safe Sharpen For the final exposure blended image above also increased the color saturation slightly and adjusted the color balance since the image was a little reddish then applied Optipix s Safe Sharpen Safe Sharpen is a single punch command with no settings interface ATPM 10 10 113 Review Optipix 3 0 Generally I ve always applied an Unsharp Mask of 50 a radius of 1 pixel and zero levels of threshold to my final images if felt they were a bit soft These days I m using Safe Sharpen Besides yielding pleasing sharpness it tries to maintain color information around contrasted edges areas that often suffer after being sharpened Safe Sharpen can in some cases even repair previously damaged edges Like any other sharpening filter Safe sharpen will also enhance noise in a photo Unlike other filters however color noise is usually not affected According to the online guide The blue noise that is so typical in a digital image is reduced while the edges in the images are enhanced JPEG Cleaner Since professional digital photographers generally only deal with maximum quality JPEGs uncompressed TIFFs and RAW format images it may be desktop publishers such as myself who will most benefit from Optipix s JPEG Cleaner people who often re
111. y contains a number of options many of which don t apply to the average user I m willing to bet this is why Apple created the AirPort Express Assistant That being said the Admin Utility is light years ahead of the Windows only tool used to configure my last wireless access point was able to figure out all but one of the options without referring to the help the only item that stumped me whether or not the AirPort Express supported a DMZ forwarding all ports to a single computer quite useful for Internet gaming According to the Designing AirPort Extreme Networks PDF the AirPort Admin Utility supports this feature but couldn t find any information about enabling it either for the AirPort Express or the AirPort Extreme For the physical setup of the AirPort Extreme had some difficulty with the plug the unit into the wall portion of the directions wanted the AirPort Express near my speakers but the only free electrical outlet was connected to a light switch didn t want to use that outlet as was concerned that might turn off the wireless network when I was trying to turn off a light At first tried plugging the AirPort Express into my power strip still had a few outlets available and the design of the AirPort Express allowed me to plug it in without covering adjacent outlets this may vary depending on the orientation of the outlets on your power ATPM 10 10 100 Review AirPort Express strip Unfortunately

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