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<a href="/article/4924"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4924', 'show')">Have You Backed Up Today? Part 2</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4924" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4924">In TidBITS-432 last week, I talked about the importance of backing up and offered some food for thought when considering different methods of safeguarding your important (and not-so-important) data</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> | 08 Jun 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4911" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4911">BYTE Bitten -- The pages of history will close temporarily on the venerable technology magazine BYTE. The 23-year-old magazine, which was recently sold by owner McGraw-Hill to CMP Media, will suspend publication for "several months" and undergo "refinement," according to a press release</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> | 01 Jun 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4912" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4912">Nitro PowerPlug Speeds WebSTAR -- ClearWay Technologies is shipping the $99 Nitro PowerPlug 1.0, a WebSTAR plug-in that accelerates the execution speed of all other WebSTAR plug-ins up to 200 percent or more in ClearWay's testing</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> | 01 Jun 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4914"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4914', 'show')">Mailsmith 1.0.1 More Polished</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4914" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4914">Mailsmith 1.0.1 More Polished -- With the release of version 1.0.1, Bare Bones Software has applied a bit of polish to Mailsmith, the company's new email client program (see "Mailsmith Emerges from the Forge" in TidBITS-428)</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> | 01 Jun 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4917"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4917', 'show')">Have You Backed Up Today? Part 1</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4917" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4917">Recent popular discussions on the TidBITS Talk list have orbited around the issue of backing up data - what's the best media to use, how often should one back up, what software works well, if backup devices should be built into computers, and how iMac users will back up their data</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> | 01 Jun 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4902" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4902">Minor Connectix Updates -- Connectix has released minor updates to Virtual PC and RAM Doubler. Virtual PC 2.01 addresses problems with Ethernet networks using 802.3 frame types, fixes some game installation problems by including CDROM.SYS 2.0.1, and offers a new SYSINI.EXE file</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> | 25 May 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4904" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4904">Last week, Apple completed a significant pruning of its extensive reseller network by "deauthorizing" about one-third of its 3,600 U.S. dealers, retailers, and value-added resellers</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> | 25 May 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4906"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4906', 'show')">Web Browsers, An Individual Choice</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4906" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4906">Although I've been writing about Internet software for years, I've never done a formal review of a Web browser. Why not? The reason are myriad. For one thing, with a piece of software, unlike a book or a movie, an individual impression isn't particularly relevant</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> | 25 May 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4889"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4889', 'show')">Antitrust Lawsuits Filed Against Microsoft</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4889" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4889">Antitrust Lawsuits Filed Against Microsoft -- After settlement talks collapsed this weekend, the United States Department of Justice and 20 states have filed closely related antitrust lawsuits against Microsoft</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> | 18 May 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4890" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4890">Farewell MacWEEK, Welcome e/media Weekly -- Mac Publishing announced that as of the 24-Aug-98 issue, MacWEEK will change its name to e/media Weekly (or Emedia Weekly, or EMedia Weekly, depending on the source you read)</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> | 18 May 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4891"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4891', 'show')">Internet Explorer 4.01: Faster, More Stable</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4891" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4891">Internet Explorer 4.01: Faster, More Stable -- Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 4.01, a must-have upgrade for Internet Explorer users. Although there's only a single new feature - support for Apple's ColorSync technology so specially created JPEG images are displayed exactly as their creators intended - Internet Explorer 4.01 incorporates numerous bug fixes and speed improvements</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> | 18 May 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4895" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4895">AutoShare 2.3 Released -- Mikael Hansen has released version 2.3 of AutoShare, his freeware mailing list manager and autoresponder. The main new feature is support for the "-on" and "-off" addresses that we helped popularize with the TidBITS list for easy subscribing and unsubscribing</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> | 18 May 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4875"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4875', 'show')">New Apple Storefronts Perform</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4875" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4875">New Apple Storefronts Perform -- Slightly lost within last week's hardware announcements were the openings of the Apple Store for Education and the Apple Store UK, the first step in making the Apple Store available to users in Sweden, Holland, France, Germany, Australia, and Japan</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> | 11 May 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4878"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4878', 'show')">The Final Word on Multiple Monitors</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4878" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4878">If the Mac's support for multiple monitors weren't one of my favorite bragging points, I'd have stopped these notes long ago. However, useful information continues to trickle in, much of it on TidBITS Talk, and it's of sufficient interest to pass on here as well.First, Tarik Sivonen comments that an article by Chris O'Malley in PC Computing's May 1998 issue reviews 17-inch and 19-inch monitors, and more importantly, includes the results of usability testing and return-on-investment analysis</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> | 11 May 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4879"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4879', 'show')">InformINIT: Your Personal Macintosh Informant</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4879" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4879">When I visit my parents, my father and I always sit down at their Macintosh and look at what's ended up in its System Folder since my last visit. I have a decent idea what many files are, but over the years, the possibilities have begun to overwhelm me</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> | 11 May 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4859"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4859', 'show')">Baby, You Can Drive My Tape</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4859" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4859">Baby, You Can Drive My Tape -- Dantz Development has released the free Retrospect 4.0 Driver Update 1.4, which adds support to Retrospect for a number of new CD-R drives, tape drives, and autoloaders (devices that swap among multiple tapes automatically)</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> | 04 May 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4860"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4860', 'show')">Mailsmith Emerges from the Forge</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4860" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4860">Mailsmith Emerges from the Forge -- Bare Bones Software today announced the release of Mailsmith 1.0, the company's long-awaited email client program. Although the market for email programs would appear crowded, what with Emailer, Eudora, Netscape Communicator, Outlook Express, QuickMail Pro, and others, Mailsmith promises some unusual features</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> | 04 May 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4862"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4862', 'show')">Add a VISE to Your Freeware or Shareware</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4862" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4862">Add a VISE to Your Freeware or Shareware -- MindVision Software has announced a free license that makes their Installer VISE installation software available for free to shareware and freeware developers</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> | 04 May 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4863"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4863', 'show')">Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.1 Released</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4863" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4863">Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.1 Released -- Qualcomm has released a free updater that takes Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.0 or 2.0.1 to version 2.1. Important new features include IP multihoming support under Open Transport 1.3, remote viewing and manipulation of the outgoing message queue, import and export of users, and assigning IP address restrictions on mail relaying</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> | 04 May 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4865"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4865', 'show')">The Death of Documentation</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4865" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4865">I have a song stuck in my head, only the words are slightly twisted. I keep hearing Pete Seeger singing, "Where have all the manuals gone, long time passing?" I'm worried that it will be a while before I stop mentally humming along.Aside from this week, when I pleasantly surprised by the excellent WebSTAR 3.0 manual written by Avi Rappoport, I can't remember the last time a product's documentation really impressed me</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> | 04 May 1998</div></div>
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