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<a href="/article/2176"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2176', 'show')">Apple Spins Out Newton</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2176" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2176">Apple Spins Out Newton -- Last week, Apple announced plans to form a subsidiary company based on the Newton group. The new company, which doesn't yet have a name or a CEO, will focus on "the computing and communications needs of mobile users." At the moment, that means the company has two products, the MessagePad 2000 (see TidBITS-379) and the eMate 300 (see TidBITS-361), although Apple will continue to support, sell, and market the eMate into the education market</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> | 26 May 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/2177"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2177', 'show')">TidBITS Still on ZDNet/Mac on CompuServe</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2177" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2177">TidBITS Still on ZDNet/Mac on CompuServe -- Kevin Norris of ZDNet/Mac tells us that they're continuing to upload TidBITS to the ZDNet/Mac Arts & Fun Forum's (GO ZMC:ZMACARTS) Electronic Pubs library (#11)</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> | 26 May 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/2171"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2171', 'show')">Internet Explorer Updated</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2171" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2171">Internet Explorer Updated -- Microsoft last week released Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0.1, which adds several welcome features. Most notable are the capability to monitor Web sites for changes, an AutoComplete feature that finishes typing URLs for you if you've visited that URL before; site password management that remembers cookies, usernames, and passwords; and a Download Manager that finally downloads files in a download window rather than the main browser window</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> | 19 May 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/2172"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2172', 'show')">Reduced Distribution on CompuServe</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2172" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2172">Reduced Distribution on CompuServe -- If you've become accustomed to downloading TidBITS from a CompuServe forum, the time has come to change your habits</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> | 19 May 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2173" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2173">Newton Connection Utilities 1.0 -- In TidBITS-379, David Gewirtz complained that a beta version of Newton Connection Utilities shipped with the MessagePad 2000 (and the eMate 300)</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> | 19 May 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/2175"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2175', 'show')">And Then There Was One...</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2175" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2175">First, a correction. While developing search engines for the TidBITS Search Engine Shootout, some entrants sent more than one URL as they changed configurations, or temporarily used different servers as test machines</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> | 19 May 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2168" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2168">Aladdin Revs Up -- Aladdin Systems has acquired publishing rights to 6prime's Rev, the $99.95 easy-to-use revision control software I reviewed back in TidBITS-362</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> | 12 May 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/2160"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2160', 'show')">Sex Wax Your Browser</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2160" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2160">Like many of you, I spend a lot of time in my Web browser each day. In my case, I'm researching topics for TidBITS, following URLs sent to me in email, or perhaps working on a book project</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 Apr 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/663"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('663', 'show')">DigitalThink and Electronic Courses</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_663" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_663">As most of you probably know, along with TidBITS, I also earn a living writing books, the best known of which is Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh. What's ironic for me as an Internet book author is that the Internet I've helped to popularize has seriously altered the market for computer books</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 Apr 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_665" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_665">FreePPP 2.5v3 Patcher -- Steve Dagley and the FreePPP Group have released a 36K patcher program that updates the FreePPP 2.5v2 extension to 2.5v3. It fixes a nasty bug that has long been lurking in the original MacPPP code</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 Apr 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/666"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('666', 'show')">Info-Mac Back Soon</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_666" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_666">Info-Mac Back Soon -- Worrying about the return of Info-Mac? Fear not, Info-Mac will return - the moderators continue to work hard at correctly setting up all the important scripts and Unix details</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 Apr 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_668" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_668">Eudora 3.1 Available -- Hot on the heels of the release of Claris Emailer 2.0, Qualcomm released version 3.1 of Eudora Light and Eudora Pro. The main new feature in both versions is a hierarchical Mailboxes window that provides a target for drag & drop of messages, quick access to mailboxes, and easy manipulation of your mailbox hierarchy</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 Apr 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_670" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_670">This week marks the seventh year of TidBITS, making us serious Internet geezers. If you're new to TidBITS (and many of you are!) I thought I'd take a moment to note where TidBITS is on this anniversary</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 Apr 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_672" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_672">StarNine Technologies Sponsoring TidBITS -- We're extremely pleased to welcome our latest sponsor, StarNine Technologies. As many of you know, StarNine makes the popular Macintosh Web and mailing list servers, WebSTAR and ListSTAR, along with some mail gateways and Quarterdeck Mail (nee Microsoft Mail)</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 Apr 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/691"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('691', 'show')">Express Yourself to Microsoft</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_691" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_691">Express Yourself to Microsoft -- Microsoft's new Macintosh Office development team (about 100 developers dedicated to working on the Macintosh version of Microsoft Office 97) has posted a set of survey questions on the Web, the answers to which they hope will help them make Office more Mac-like</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> | 31 Mar 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_694" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_694">We've spent a lot of time and energy in recent TidBITS issues looking at the moves Gil Amelio and Apple management made to bring the company back to profitability</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> | 31 Mar 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_696" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_696">I just finished another book, and the books I write require screenshots. Previously, I relied on a shareware screenshot utility called Flash-It. Written by Nobu Toge and last updated in 1993, Flash-It 3.0.2 continues to function today, surprising for a utility that works at such a low-level.That is, Flash-It continues to work well with one notable (if not surprising) exception: Microsoft applications</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> | 31 Mar 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/697"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('697', 'show')">CDA Goes to Washington</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_697" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_697">CDA Goes to Washington -- The U.S. Supreme Court has begun hearings on the Communications Decency Act. I won't pretend to analyze the results of the initial oral arguments, but I found reading the complete transcript to be fascinating</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> | 24 Mar 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/698"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('698', 'show')">About Those R&D Numbers</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_698" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_698">About Those R&D Numbers -- Several readers wrote into comment about the numbers Apple was bandying around in relation to the research and development budgets</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> | 24 Mar 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_699" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_699">Macromedia Fixes Shockwave Director -- On 19-Mar-97, Macromedia issued a fix for the security holes in Shockwave Director we reported on last week (see TidBITS-370)</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> | 24 Mar 1997</div></div>
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