Mac Annoyances

John Rizzo bought his first Mac in 1984, which he still has in his garage somewhere, and been writing about Macs since 1987. He is the author of many books, including Mac Annoyances. John writes about Mac hardware and software for CNET.com and for various magazines, including Macworld, MacHome, and Mac Addict. He has been a regular columnist for CNET, MacWeek and eMedia Weekly, MacUser, and Computer Currents. A staff editor for the now defunct MacUser magazine for eight years. John also publishes MacWindows.com, a news and information web site devoted to helping Macs users get along in a Windows world since 1997.

Introduction; Chapter 1 Mac OS X Annoyances Upgrade to a Modern Mac OS More Useful Mac Help Turn on Toolbar Titles When Dragged Folders Disappear Panther Ate My Favourites Hey, Dock! Make Way for Classic Apps Dump the Dock Application Switching a la Mac OS; 9 Replace Brushed Metal with Aqua Bring Back Computer View Decipher Keyboard Symbols Don't Search Without Me Force Quit Faster Streamline System Preferences Enlarge Tiny Movies Fax Multiple Files with One Phone Call Remove Auto-Startup Applications Type a Path in Open and Save Dialogs Easy Naming in Save Dialog Panther Ate My Key Caps, Too Repair Permissions to Fix File Glitches More Unix Maintenance Fix a Pooped-out Port Mount File Servers on the Desktop Browse the Connect to Server Dialog Delete Outgoing Mail Accounts Turn Off HTML Images in Mail Save Your Mail for Posterity Fix Mail Crash with HP Printer Software Upgrade Mail's SpellChecker Upgrade Your Mail Program Entourage Speed Up Entourage Remove Recently Deleted Addresses Create a Reminder for a Message Sync Entourage with Apple Address Book Eudora Tools to Help the Eudora's Toolbar Sorting Out Sorting Delete Old Eudora's Mailboxes AOL Gag the Talking Mailbox Deal with Overactive AOL Spam Filtering Download Email from Multiple Email Accounts Internet Annoyances Web Browsing Consider Your Browser Options Change Your Default Browser Bookmark All Tabs Stay Connected with DSL Blocking Banner Ads Selectively Block Pop-ups Flash Be Gone Site-Specific Cookie Blocking Visit Sites that Safari Can't Handle Force Internet Explorer to Reload a Page Force Safari and Camino to Render Legible Text Check Spelling with Your Browser Alphabetize Your Booksmarks Clear Dead Links from Bookmarks One Bookmark File to Rule Them All Post a Spambot-Proof Email Address Print Web Pages Clearly Google Mac-Specific Googling Expand Safari's Googling and Beyond Expand Camino's Googling and Beyond Google Search Field in Camino Keep the Original Search Field in Camino Keep the Original Search Results While Viewing the Links Remove Yourself from Google's Phone Book Get Better Search Results Sherlock Bring Back Missing Apple Channels in Panther Get More Sherlock Channels Go Directly to a Sherlock Channel Create a Browser Link to a Sherlock Channel iChat and AIM Messaging Move ig Files with iChat Fixing iSight Problems with iChat Browse and Search saved iChat Logs One Menu for Mulitple Chat Settings Video Chat with Your DV Camcorder Microsoft Office Annoyances Word Remove Office; 2004 Test Drive When Track Changes Goes Bad Turn Off Hyperlinks Spellcheck Words That Get Skipped Spellcheck a Single Word Supplement Word's SpellChecker Remove Items from the Work Menu Deep Six Office Assistant Add a Keyboard Command to Color Text Add Keyboard Commands for Word; 2004 Audio Copy and Paste Formatting Discontinuously Select and Format When Word Refuses to Save Make Vertical Text Selections Stop Word from Capitalizing iWords Reclaim Word's F9 from Panther Stop Sloppy Searches Custom Fo