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To: HerbVic who wrote (39153)	1/21/2004 12:53:11 PM
From: Doren	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

ahhh. That did it... I hope... duh

To: HerbVic who wrote (39153)	1/21/2004 9:07:18 PM
From: HerbVic	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

Doren, I can't take credit for bringing you up to snuff on Fetch. TG from Colorado State University emailed me the answer as a concerned citizen. Since he's a non-member of SI, he had to Google up my email address to get his message across. I almost missed it, because I wasn't following the thread or my email very closely. Cheers! - HerbVic TG's Message to the Thread I almost paid the fee yesterday just so I could post a response to the "Fetch" thread. Perhaps you could pass this on if you think it might help. Fetch (and other app) bouncing icons in the dock are turned off in the application preferences. Launch Fetch, go to the Preferences command in the Fetch menu, go to the General panel and UNCHECK the "Bounce icon in Dock" option under Background Notification. Eudora (another bouncy app) has a similar option. We're Mac users right...let's click around and find out what options and customizations are available. Even in Mac OS 9 Windowshade wasn't the default setting, if I remember correctly. <insert> That's what I remember too. I think I used the version with Windowshade for over a year before I even found it. Didn't use it much after that. Face it. The concept is just a little clumsy in an desktop metaphor with overlapping windows. Some people just get stuck on something and don't want to give it up. I think they call the character trait, "Averse to Change." - HerbVic <insert> The answer that someone gave had to do with a finder preference that allows you to turn off bouncing icons when an app starts up. The thread was left hanging with the belief that you can't turn off the bouncing dock icon in fetch. Nonsense! I'm a big Mac fan and we are very Mac oriented here in the chemistry department. We even do Quantum Mechanics on Macs. We're very excited about the UNIX, Mac OS combination (and with the ability to run VPC, we get three platforms all in one box. We are getting outstanding number crunching performance out the dual G4's and dual G5's that we have. I've been on a PowerBook G4 for 3 years now and maintain our whole network seamlessly (with only an occasional need for a Windows app). Can't say that's true for the broader university campus, but we do represent a significant presence on campus that keeps the IT folks from going completely to the dark side. Thankfully our IT folks have a UNIX orientation, but they are fighting "the mainstream" as well. For example, we had to switch our entire campus domain name server from the UNIX box it was on to a Windows 2000 server box, because the MS version wouldn't play nicely with the UNIX version where the UNIX version would place nicely with the MS version. TG