Tips and Tricks for Cyberdog

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Name: Eric Anderson

E-mail Address: dea2e@virginia.edu

Category: Browser

Tip: Actually, this one comes in from Chris Johnson via the cyberdog.general newsgroup. I thought I'd get the ball rolling, though. This covers how to set up Cyberdog's browser disk cache on a RAM Disk. Useful for speeding things up and fending off disk corruption.

You make an alias to the RAM Disk, move it to where the Cyberdog Cache is, throw away the Cyberdog Cache (not with Cd running please! ;) ) and rename the Ram Disk 'Cyberdog Cache'. Then if you doubleclick on 'Cyberdog Cache' the RAM Disk opens up. If you end up booting from a floppy or something and have to 'initialise' the RAM Disk, remember to put it back when you're done- it'll be left with the name 'Untitled', and it needs (I think) to be called RAM Disk for the alias to still work :)

Then set your cache preferences to about the same size as the RAM disk :)

Name: Kevin Avoy

E-mail Address: avoy@apple.com

Category: General

Tip: Option-clicking a link (actually a CyberItem, since it works in FTP and Gopher as well) will temporarily switch the 'Browse in Place' setting.

Name: Kevin Avoy

E-mail Address: avoy@apple.com

Category: General

Tip: Dragging a CyberItem (or a link in the web browser) to the Finder will download data (or the HTML). Option dragging will download a reference to the data (or a CyberItem). If you option drag several links, a notebook containing CyberItems for each link will be created.

Name: Eric Anderson

E-mail Address: dea2e@virginia.edu

Category: Browser

Tip: If you select several cyberitems, and drag them all to an open browser window, one cyberitem will open up in the original window, while the others will open in their own windows.

Name: Tom Keyes

E-mail Address: keyes@chem.bu.edu

Category: General

Tip:

1. Use multi-threaded Cyberdog to browse the web without waiting for pages to load. When reading a page of links, with browse-in-place selected, option-click all the links you want to open new windows. When you're done with the first page some new pages will be already loaded and so on...
2. Use Notebook as a 'Launcher', it can hold Cyberitems for apps and docs - with CD everything is a URL. Get around the lack of hierarchical folders by putting Notebooks in Notebooks. The file URL is file:///diskname/foldername/notebookname, or drag the closed Notebook into a rich text mail msg and drag the resulting icon into Notebook.
3. Drag ftp cyberitems of docs on remote systems into Notebook. Double-click then opens the file as if it were right on your own HD. Desktop-internet integration, anyone?

Name: Bruce Gimble

E-mail Address: bruceg33@swbell.net

Category: General

Tip: Save references to files to your hard drive for true internet integration. For example, open you mail trays, go to file and choose save a copy. I saved my mailbox to the desktop - just like powertalk!

Also, I've saved all my web pages using drag & drop to a local folder and organized them in subfolders. Making an alias of this folder in the apple menu items folder gives me a hierarchical bookmarks menu. I've also saved e-mail addresses by just dragging and dropping onto the desktop.

The only bad thing is these little files can take up a lot of hard drive space, but it's worth it in comparison to the 1 meg of memory the notebook swallows when launched.

Bruce.