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stevietheb

stevietheb

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Pittsax said:
How do you like Bookends? I'm currently using Endnote, but it's a little too finicky for me sometimes.
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I used EndNote for about a year, and then became very angry that they wanted me to pay $100 (that was my university price) so that the "Cite While You Write" feature would work with Word 2004.

At about the same time that that happened, I discovered Mellel. I do a lot of typing in Hebrew. It's well-known that unicode Hebrew in Word is terrible. Bookends became the natural choice with Mellel (though Sente has acquired a following for folks in the sciences).

Anyway, I love Bookends, though I admit that it's not the most stable piece of software. However, it is more stable and more responsive than Endnote 7 (which was sluggish, buggy, and prone to crash Word for me). I like being able to drag and drop citations into my paper. There are a few things about it that I wish were a little more EndNote-like, but I definitely prefer Bookends. Also, the forum is very helpful and the developers (headed up by "Jon" I believe) are extremely helpful and quick to respond.

All in all...I whole-heartedly recommend Bookends. But, it should be noted that my experience is based on having used it only with Mellel--I don't know how it behaves with other word processors.
 
FocusAndEarnIt

FocusAndEarnIt

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Here's my dock:
 

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Lacero

Lacero

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mikebatho said:
Nice, eh?
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Not really. Usability looks shot to death. Accidentally clicking on a Dock item when trying to access the menu and vice versa appears to make for one hell of a frustrating computing experience.
 
~Shard~

~Shard~

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Mine's pretty simple. I have a lot of other apps I use, however I just keep them in my Apps folder. The only reason I have IE on my Dock was for my fiancee when she was still "warming up" to Macs and needed something familiar. ;) I should probably get rid of it now that I think of it - she's hooked on Safari and will be getting a new iBook in the very near future! :cool:

 
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~Shard~

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w_parietti22 said:
whoa... weird icons... where's you get them?
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Thanks! I think I got most of them from InterfaceLIFT, but as for the others, I can't recall. If you would like any of them and can't find them, let me know, I can e-mail them to you or something. I always like to be unique and "think different". :cool:
 
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~Shard~

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w_parietti22 said:
This may seem like a stupid question... but how do you change the icon now?
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Not a stupid question at all. For most of them, just bring up the Properties pane for the App itself, and do a cut + paste on the actual icon depicted - it's that simple! Other ones like your Trash, Finder, etc. icons though, you need to do some minor hacking in your system files. I wouldn't recommend that you play around with those however, since you are unfamiliar with the basics. :cool:
 
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w_parietti22

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~Shard~ said:
Not a stupid question at all. For most of them, just bring up the Properties pane for the App itself, and do a cut + paste on the actual icon depicted - it's that simple! Other ones like your Trash, Finder, etc. icons though, you need to do some minor hacking in your system files. I wouldn't recommend that you play around with those however, since you are unfamiliar with the basics. :cool:
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Thanks. basics... um I just was trying to do it threw the preview pane thing in get info... I new that you had to do it there... I just didn't no you had to do the little icon at the top. Thanks for your help... I still need to fool around with my dock so that it looks really good before I post it again.

Where'd you get that iTunes icon??

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~Shard~

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w_parietti22 said:
Thanks. basics... um I just was trying to do it threw the preview pane thing in get info... I new that you had to do it there... I just didn't no you had to do the little icon at the top. Thanks for your help... I still need to fool around with my dock so that it looks really good before I post it again.
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Cool, glad I could help. Oh, and my apologies, after I re-read my post I realized it may have sounded a bit blunt with the whole "knowing the basics" thing, that wasn't my intent. :eek:

w_parietti22 said:
Where'd you get that iTunes icon??
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Check your e-mail. :cool:

w_parietti22 said:
Ok... this is what I have:
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Looks great! I love changing my icons every once and a while - there are so many great ones out there.

If you need anything else, let me know! :cool:
 
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ohcrap

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I really want to change my Dashboard icon, but I do not want to download any software to get the job done. Is there any way to do this without third-party apps? If so, can someone steer me in the right direction? Thanks.
 
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