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<h6>How to Change a Bunch of Fetch Shortcut Passwords Quickly</h6>
<p><p>Do you have a dozen - or more - Fetch shortcuts that all use the same password? Did that password just change? If you can manage a simple AppleScript, you can use this one to change all the passwords at once. <br><br>
<code>set password of shortcut "my shortcut" to "my new password"</code><br></p></p>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1619" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1619">Net Valentines -- It's undoubtedly too late for people to use this Internet site to send a paper Valentine's Day card, since by the time you read this Valentine's Day should be in full swing or even over - at least in those parts of the world that celebrate the holiday</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> | 13 Feb 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1623"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1623', 'show')">A number of Mac programming wizards</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1623" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1623">A number of Mac programming wizards (their names are on some of the most well-known Macintosh programs available) have banded together to form The Mac Group</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> | 13 Feb 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1630"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1630', 'show')">AOL Mirror Site Opens</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1630" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1630">AOL Mirror Site Opens -- America Online continues to show that it intends to be a serious member of the Internet community with its latest service, a large FTP mirror site</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 Feb 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1634"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1634', 'show')">Customer Service Tales</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1634" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1634">We don't like to continually pass on tales of customer service bliss and woe, but we do receive a fair number of them, and every now and then it seems appropriate to pass on the more interesting ones.Chad Magendanz writes:I recently received 50 copies of the MacZone catalog</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 Feb 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1636" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1636">There certainly seems to be plenty of interest in earthquakes and the Internet. I received a number of requests to reprint last weeks article about earthquakes (TidBITS-261), along with a "Nice Timing!" note from Carl Bowser of the University of Wisconsin, who used the article as a handout about what could be done on the Internet for a class in "Computer Applications in the Earth Sciences." Here then, are some of the more interesting comments and pointers.Stefan Kukula writes:Thanks for your description of what you did after your earthquake</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 Feb 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1640" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1640">Robert Hess wins the "I'll never think about it in quite the same way again" Quote of the Week award. In response to our comment about the little joystick device IBM uses in the ThinkPads and other PC manufacturers use in various other laptops, Robert noted, "It always makes me feel like I'm manipulating someone's nipple." Of course, this could turn into a major selling point for ThinkPads, and the PR folks could have a field day: "The IBM ThinkPad: Power and stimulation wherever you go." [ACE]</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> | 30 Jan 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1642" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1642">ResNova Software announced that the next version of their NovaLink Professional BBS software will support the World-Wide Web along with the already-supported (assuming a dedicated Internet connection) Internet email, Usenet news, and Telnet in and out of the BBS</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> | 30 Jan 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1644" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1644">It's closing in on that oh-so-stressful time of year for U.S. residents when taxes are due. A number of notes regarding taxes have come in this last week, so we figured that we'd bundle them all together where U.S</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> | 30 Jan 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1647"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1647', 'show')">Earthquakes on the Net</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1647" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1647">Around 7 PM last Saturday night, just as our furnace kicked on, the house started to roll. We have a relatively old house, definitely too old to learn new tricks like rolling over and playing dead, so - luckily - the house decided to stop after 10 or 15 seconds</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> | 30 Jan 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1650" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1650">Congratulations are in order for Australian developer Peter N. Lewis (not the Peter Lewis who writes for the New York Times). At Macworld Expo in San Francisco this year, MacUser Magazine awarded him the Derek Van Alstyne Rising Star Award</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> | 23 Jan 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1652"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1652', 'show')">MacUser and MacWEEK</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1652" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1652">MacUser and MacWEEK have made their appearance on the World-Wide Web. The MacUser home page contains selected articles from the most recent issue, article archives, and links to Apple and other Macintosh sites and resources</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> | 23 Jan 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1653"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1653', 'show')">Connection Machine WAIS Server Down</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1653" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1653">Connection Machine WAIS Server Down -- Unfortunately, due to financial troubles, Thinking Machines has taken down the vastly useful Connection Machine WAIS server, effective 27-Dec-94</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> | 23 Jan 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1656" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1656">Last week, Geoff and I went on a road trip last week to Vancouver for the Comdex/PacRim conference. Frankly, the trip was more an excuse to go to Vancouver (a three hour drive) with our friend Cary Lu and a friend of his, David Coder</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> | 23 Jan 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1658" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1658">We've been using URLs in TidBITS for over a year now, and I don't think an issue goes by without us pointing at some resource or another with a URL. I wrote a little about URLs back when we first started, but with our readership growing so quickly I think it's worthwhile to talk about URLs some more</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> | 23 Jan 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1660" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1660">Today is a national holiday in the U.S. - Martin Luther King Day. For those in other countries who don't know, Martin Luther King, Jr. was among the most well-known of the civil rights leaders in the 1960s and winner of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize.Why do I bring up this holiday? Because, in a moment of reflection, I think King would have approved of the Internet as a medium of communication, one in which race has no impact</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> | 16 Jan 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1664"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1664', 'show')">J. J. Lodder</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1664" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1664">J. J. Lodder comments that in addition to Open Door Networks (see TidBITS-258), knoware, a Dutch non-profit foundation, has been providing dial-up Internet access via ARA for almost a year</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> | 16 Jan 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1666" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1666">Marathon, the popular Doom-like game for the Macintosh, now has an "official" World-Wide Web site. So those of you who can't get enough of the game can get a little more while you're on the Web</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> | 16 Jan 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1675" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1675">We're all back from Macworld San Francisco, where we had a good time despite gusty wind and rain and a somewhat ho-hum show. Our personal high points came when playing country mice riding up the multiple floors of semi-circular escalators at the Nordstrom store on Market Street and riding up the 32-floor-high external glass elevators at the Westin St</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> | 09 Jan 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1676" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1676">Hayden Sponsoring -- We'd like to welcome our latest sponsor, Hayden Books, the company that publishes Tonya's and my books, along with many other titles</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> | 09 Jan 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1677" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1677">PowerCity Notes -- PowerCity, which started sponsoring TidBITS last week, was briefly overwhelmed by the unexpectedly enthusiastic response. Unfortunately, their response time increased significantly during the peak load times</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> | 09 Jan 1995</div></div>
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