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<h6>Disabling Dock Space-Making Feature</h6>
<p><p>Having a hard time dragging a file into a folder in the Dock without the Dock trying to make room for it? Holding down Command while dragging the item temporarily disables this Dock feature.</p></p>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5831" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5831">USB Overdrive 1.3 Released -- Alessandro Levi Montalcini has released version 1.3 of USB Overdrive, a universal driver for USB mice, joystick, and game pads</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 06 Mar 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5834"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5834', 'show')">Poll Preview: Long in the Tooth</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5834" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5834">Poll Preview: Long in the Tooth -- While talking to Sue Nail of CE Software at Macworld Expo in San Francisco, Matt Neuburg and I were surprised to learn that the Prairie Group's DiskTop, a Finder alternative originally written by CE Software and last updated in the early 1990s, was still being sold and supported with bug fixes, if not actively developed</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 06 Mar 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5835"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5835', 'show')">Poll Results: Travelling the Old Road</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5835" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5835">Last week's poll on which old-style hardware capabilities people have added to their new Macs provided interesting results. About 1,000 people weighed in with approximately 2,100 votes, which says that, roughly speaking, if someone added any adapters for old-style capabilities to a new Mac, they added two such capabilities on average.SCSI was by far the most commonly added, with 69 percent of the respondents saying that they'd added SCSI, usually to support external storage devices or scanners, although comments on TidBITS Talk also indicated that scanners have become sufficiently cheap that buying a new scanner was often an equally good option.Access to serial devices, such as modems and Palm cradles was the second most popular capability added, with 42 percent of respondents</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 06 Mar 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5836"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5836', 'show')">Have Your Serial and Eat It Too</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5836" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5836">Beginning with the first iMacs and progressing through blue and white G3s, PowerBooks, and the Power Macintosh G4, Apple has been quickly dropping floppy drives and legacy technologies like SCSI, ADB, and serial ports from the Macintosh line</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 06 Mar 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5819"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5819', 'show')">Macintosh Columnist Don Crabb Dies</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5819" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5819">Macintosh Columnist Don Crabb Dies -- Prolific Macintosh columnist Don Crabb has died at age 44 after having been hospitalized since December with a disease of the pancreas</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 28 Feb 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5820" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5820">Eudora 4.3.1 Updater Available -- Qualcomm has finally released the free updater that upgrades existing copies of Eudora Pro 4.x to Eudora 4.3 in Paid mode, which offers all of Eudora's features without displaying ads</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 28 Feb 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5823"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5823', 'show')">Poll Results: Color Me Pretty</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5823" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5823">Poll Results: Color Me Pretty -- In last week's poll we asked what colors you'd like to see Apple use in future Macs. Brushed metal came in as the most popular choice, scoring 27 percent of the vote</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 28 Feb 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5824"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5824', 'show')">Poll Preview: Travelling the Old Road</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5824" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5824">Poll Preview: Travelling the Old Road -- With the release of the iMac, Apple started down a path of eliminating ports and other capabilities that had been standard on Macs since 1987's Macintosh SE</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 28 Feb 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5825" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5825">Those of you who participate in our weekly polls and quizzes will notice some new functionality this week that should make our polls easier to take and easier to reference</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 28 Feb 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5806"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5806', 'show')">Eudora 4.3.1 Replaces Version 4.3</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5806" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5806">Eudora 4.3.1 Replaces Version 4.3 -- After an initial abortive release of Eudora 4.3, Qualcomm quickly uploaded version 4.3.1, which fixes a bug caused by a single line of code being inadvertently removed in the final compile</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 21 Feb 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5808" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5808">Farallon Announces 11 Mbps SkyLINE Card -- Farallon Communications has announced a version of the company's SkyLINE 802.11 wireless networking card that runs at 11 Mbps instead of the previous speed of 2 Mbps</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 21 Feb 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5809"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5809', 'show')">Microsoft Releases Windows 2000</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5809" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5809">Microsoft Releases Windows 2000 -- Microsoft last week officially released Windows 2000, the successor to the company's enterprise oriented server operating system Windows NT</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 21 Feb 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5813"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5813', 'show')">Virtual Game Station Shipping Again</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5813" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5813">After the January 1999 release of Connectix's Virtual Game Station, an emulator that enables a PowerPC G3 or better-based Macintosh to play many games designed for Sony's PlayStation (see "Meet Me at the Virtual Game Station" in TidBITS-471 for a full review), Sony promptly sued to force Connectix to stop selling the product</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 21 Feb 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5799"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5799', 'show')">Poll Preview: Ad-ing It Up</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5799" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5799">Poll Preview: Ad-ing It Up -- This week's release of Eudora 4.3 marks the first time a major program has essentially offered to let you use commercially available features for free in exchange for viewing ads</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 14 Feb 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5800"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5800', 'show')">InterviewBITS with Steve Dorner</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5800" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5800">By the time you read this article, Qualcomm will have released Eudora 4.3, which introduces a new business model for application software by adding an optional mode in which people can use all the features of the commercial version of the popular email program for free in exchange for viewing ads</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 14 Feb 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5790"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5790', 'show')">Sprechen Sie Deutsch?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5790" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5790">Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Our hard-working translation teams, and particularly the German team, are in need of some new volunteers to help spread the workload and make translating TidBITS issues easier for everyone</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 07 Feb 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5791"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5791', 'show')">Apple Revises iTools Terms of Service</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5791" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5791">Apple Revises iTools Terms of Service -- Quietly bowing to public concern over the legalese in the iTools user agreement (first reported in GCSF's MWJ back on 10-Jan-00), Apple has changed the wording to avoid criticisms that the agreement implied that all content posted in public areas of iTools (such as your public iDisk folder or on Web pages created with HomePage) belonged to Apple</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 07 Feb 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5792"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5792', 'show')">Poll Preview: Macintosh Ownership</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5792" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5792">Poll Preview: Macintosh Ownership -- In his Macworld Expo keynote last month in San Francisco, Steve Jobs made much of the fact that roughly a quarter of iBook buyers and half of iMac buyers were new to the Mac</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 07 Feb 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5793"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5793', 'show')">Poll Results: They Come in Colors</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5793" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5793">With last week's poll - "What program do you most often use to edit or create graphics?" - we knew we couldn't offer all possible responses, so we encouraged people to send notes to TidBITS Talk about what they use</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 07 Feb 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5794"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5794', 'show')">Email Attachments: Who Does What</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5794" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5794">The hubbub we caused with last week's "Email Attachment Format Explained" article is only just subsiding - indication, I think, that this topic creates strong feelings</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 07 Feb 2000</div></div>
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