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	<title>The Haiku/BeOS Tip Server</title>
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	<description>Tips and tricks for Haiku/BeOS users</description>
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		<title>Avoiding awkward file placements on Desktop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you use the desktop applet LaunchBox, or keep some other tool open at some fixed position on the screen, you may have experienced this: Newly created or re-ordered files on the Desktop can happen to appear below such a panel. Since these panels are just normal windows, there&#8217;s nothing you can do but at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://betips.net/2009/11/22/avoiding-awkward-file-placements-on-desktop/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t duplicate commands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you start working in Haiku, it is tempting to hit the repositories and download everything in sight. A lot of command-line files can be found there from the BeOS days. But you might want to check if you don&#8217;t already have them.
Take wget, for example: an excellent command-line utility that will reach out over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://betips.net/2009/10/05/dont-duplicate-commands/</link>
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		<title>Missing NetPositive?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are an old BeOS user, likely one of the things you miss about Haiku is NetPositive, the native BeOS browser. Let&#8217;s all agree that its days as an actual web browser are over, this still leaves it as a great little reader of HTML documentation. MUCH faster than Bon Echo.
You can get Net+ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://betips.net/2009/10/01/missing-netpositive/</link>
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		<title>Finger relief for the switcher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is bad enough to switch between a Windows  or Linux machine, where you copy text with Ctrl-C, to a Mac, where Command-C is used. Now throw in a Haiku setup  with its use of Alt-C and things get really confusing. Moreover, if you are running Haiku in VirtualBox with Mac OSX as the Host [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://betips.net/2009/09/26/finger-relief-for-the-switcher/</link>
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		<title>Use a filepanel in your script</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BeOS has long had the alert command. With alert, you can put up a little message on the screen with one to three buttons:
alert &#8220;Hello World&#8221; &#8220;go away&#8221; &#8220;hello&#8221; &#8220;ok&#8221;
With Haiku alpha1, the dev team seems to have slipped something else in quietly: filepanel
filepanel -d ~/Desktop -t &#8220;Open a File&#8221;

filepanel returns the full pathname of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://betips.net/2009/09/25/use-a-filepanel-in-your-script/</link>
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		<title>Synchronize Bon Echo bookmarks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you use Xmarks to synchronize your bookmarks across browsers and OS&#8217;s, you will know that life without your bookmarks is intolerable :-).


Xmarks requires Firefox 3 to run. But it used to be known as Foxmarks and the last available version (2.6.2) of that runs on the Bon Echo / BezillaBrowser included in Haiku alpha [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://betips.net/2009/09/25/synchronize-bon-echo-bookmarks/</link>
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		<title>Installing Haiku Alpha1 in VirtualBox under OS X</title>
		<description><![CDATA[VirtualBox is a Virtual Machine Manager. That means that it is a program that pretends to be a separate computer, onto which you can load different operating systems. Unlike Parallels or VMWare, it is free. Unlike Q, it has a gorgeous fullscreen display when running Haiku. Using VirtualBox enables you to try out Haiku Alpha1 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://betips.net/2009/09/25/installing-haiku-alpha1-in-virtualbox-under-os-x/</link>
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		<title>Haiku on a VMM: solve the mouse jitters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got Alpha1 working under both Q (Qemu for OSX) and Virtualbox. No networking and I haven&#8217;t tested sound yet. But the install (from physical CD) went buttery smooth in both cases.
However, both were unusable because the mouse pointer jumped erratically between Host and Guest OS.
However, the mouse I use on my iMac is the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://betips.net/2009/09/25/haiku-on-a-vmm-solve-the-mouse-jitters/</link>
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		<title>Haiku on Virtualbox: getting data in</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the release of Haiku R1Alpha1, VirtualBox is a great way to play around with the alpha without committing a real partition to it.
But VirtualBox tends to act like an island, entire unto itself. Your OS is sitting on a .VDI format virtual disk that no other OS or program has ever heard of. So [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://betips.net/2009/09/25/haiku-on-virtualbox-getting-data-in/</link>
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		<title>Mozilla, USB-keyboards and international issues.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mozilla has its own keyboard handling, and left keyboard control keys (Ctrl, Alt, Win) are reserved. So international users must use right controls in order to get some symbols, e.g. most important &#8220;@&#8221; symbol.
But by default USB keyboards in BeOS disallow some of those keys.
Problem solution is here:
http://bebits.com/app/630
This patch enables right-win key on USB keyboards.
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		<link>http://betips.net/1997/09/09/mozilla-usb-keyboards-and-international-issues/</link>
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