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<h6>Editing iCal Events in Snow Leopard</h6>
<p><p>Snow Leopard makes looking at event details in iCal easier. In the Leopard version of iCal, you had to double-click an event to reveal only some information in a pop-up box; you then needed to click the Edit button (or press Command-E) to edit an item's information. In Snow Leopard, choose Edit > Show Inspector (or press Command-Option-I) to bring up a floating inspector that provides an editable view of any items selected in your calendar.</p></p>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=2" class="category">Opinion</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 29 Oct 2009 | <a href="/article/10700#comments">11 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10692"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10692', 'show')">Free "Take Control of VMware Fusion 3" Simplifies Windows on a Mac</a></h4>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10684" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10684">In this two-part MacNotables podcast with host Chuck Joiner, Adam and Tonya pull out story after story of the early days of TidBITS, how TidBITS has managed to survive through some tough times, and lots more. Many of these stories have never before appeared in TidBITS itself, and we hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane with us.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<a href="/article/10685"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10685', 'show')">MacTech 25 Voting Through 31 October 2009</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10685" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10685">It's time once again to vote for your favorite geeks in the MacTech 25, a roundup of the people who contribute the most technical assistance to the Mac community.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=6" class="category">Tech News</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 26 Oct 2009</div></div>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10680" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10680">Dan Moren has an amusing piece in the MacUser blog discussing Apple's support article explaining the difference between "disk" and "disc." We haven't seen Apple Support weigh in on such matters of copy editing importance before, and Dan has big fun exploring the topic.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 23 Oct 2009</div></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10655" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10655">In honor of TidBITS 1,000, Adam joined Your Mac Life host Shawn King to talk briefly about where TidBITS came from and what sets it apart from other Internet publications. </div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<a href="/article/10673"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10673', 'show')">New Ebooks Explain Snow Leopard User Accounts and File Sharing</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10673" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10673">We've updated our popular ebooks about user accounts and file sharing to provide all the latest information about Snow Leopard.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 22 Oct 2009 | <a href="/article/10673#comments">4 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10653"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10653', 'show')">1,000 Issues of TidBITS: It's All about Our Readers</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10653" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10653">We've hit the decimal 1K of issues, enumerated as M in Roman numerals, 1111101000 in binary, and woo-hoo in English! Adam shares where we're at these days, and explains how we now determine success.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 18 Oct 2009 | <a href="/article/10653#comments">19 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10651" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10651">At long last, Apple has made it possible for iPhone developers to distribute a free version of an app and use the new In App Purchase feature to buy content and unlock features.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 16 Oct 2009 | <a href="/article/10651#comments">13 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10650"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10650', 'show')">WikiReader Puts Wikipedia in Your Pocket</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10650" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10650">Sure, it won't replace an iPhone or other PDA, but if all you want is a portable encyclopedia, the new WikiReader is cheap, cute, and chock full of Wikipedia.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=1" class="category">Entertainment</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 15 Oct 2009 | <a href="/article/10650#comments">8 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10633" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10633">CIO.com's Tom Kaneshige recounts the story of Kris Rowley, chief information security officer for the State of Vermont, who encountered a young bear while hiking. With nothing else at hand, she threw her iPhone at the bear to distract it, then made her escape. The end result? She recovered the iPhone two days later, but apparently, iPhones are not bear-resistant.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<a href="/article/10646"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10646', 'show')">Google Docs Adds Shared Folders for Easier Collaboration</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10646" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10646">Collaborating with others via Google Docs has just gotten a little easier, thanks to Google's addition of shared folders. Adam looks into the feature and finds a few odd behaviors for people accustomed to how folders work in Mac OS X.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=7" class="category">Business Apps</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 13 Oct 2009 | <a href="/article/10646#comments">5 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10634" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10634">In his "Ask Tog" column, human interface designer Bruce Tognazzini offers suggestions for how the iPhone home screen could be redesigned to scale fluidly to the large number of apps that many people have. His ideas are good, but also interesting are proposals that the iPhone should have an optional home screen that displays scrolling information from apps.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 09 Oct 2009</div></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10630" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10630">CIO.com interviews Carmine Gallo, author of "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0071636080/?tag=tidbitselectro00">The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience</a>." We haven't seen the book, but the interview makes a number of excellent points that will help you give better presentations and understand why Apple presentations work well.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 08 Oct 2009</div></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10623" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10623">The New York Times Green Inc. blog reports on Apple's resignation from the United States Chamber of Commerce over the chamber's opposition to efforts from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to limit greenhouse gases. Apple isn't alone in disagreeing with the chamber - three large utilities have resigned in recent weeks, and Nike withdrew from the chamber board, all for the same reason.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 06 Oct 2009</div></div></div>
<a href="/article/10615"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10615', 'show')">Images Now in TidBITS HTML Edition</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10615" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10615">As we've started to use screenshots in our articles more, we've decided that it's time we joined the 21st century and included the images in the HTML edition of TidBITS issues. </div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 05 Oct 2009 | <a href="/article/10615#comments">16 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10613" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10613">The popular Gorillapod, a Gumby-legged camera tripod designed to grip poles, handles, and other oddly shaped objects, now comes in a model designed for the iPhone. The $39.95 Gorillamobile for 3G/3GS enables you to affix your iPhone to a solid object for better still photography and video, or just for tying your iPhone onto something like a baby stroller handle. </div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 02 Oct 2009</div></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10614" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10614">TLA Systems has introduced an innovative new profanity filter in the latest version of PCalc for iPhone. No, really.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Oct 2009 | <a href="/article/10614#comments">6 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10609"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10609', 'show')">Use Find My iPhone from an iPhone</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10609" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10609">Although Apple prevents users from accessing the MobileMe Web site from Safari on an iPhone, Adam figured out a way around Apple's limitation, making it possible to use services like Find My iPhone from an iPhone.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 30 Sep 2009 | <a href="/article/10609#comments">7 comments</a></div></div>
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