September 2005
Beginner to intermediate
528 pages
23h 55m
English
Content preview from Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition
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124 switching to the mac: the missing manual
How to Use Classic, If You Must
If only we could move into Mac OS X and live there! Unfortunately, software makes
the world go ’round, and it could be a while before every program you’d ever want
to use has been written or rewritten for Mac OS X.
That doesn’t mean you can’t use them at all, though. You can certainly run your old
favorites within Mac OS X—by flipping back into Mac OS 9. (Note: The following
pages apply to Macs that do not contain an Intel chip. Intel Macs can’t run Classic.)
Figure 4-18:
Use the Summarize
command to create a
one-paragraph sum-
mary (bottom) of a
longer passage (top).
Once the summary ap-
pears in the Summary
Service program, you
can make the summary
more or less concise by
dragging the Summary
Size slider. You can
also ask it to display
the most statistically
relevant paragraphs
instead of sentences,
just by clicking the ap-
propriate radio button
at the lower left. (Bear
in mind that Sum-
mary Service doesn’t
actually do any creative
rewriting; even Mac OS
X can’t come up with
something coherent
if the original wasn’t.
Instead, Summary Ser-
vice chooses the most
statistically significant
sentences to include in
the summary.)
How to Use Classic,
If You Must
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