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<h6>Sleep (and Lock) Your Screen</h6>
<p><p>When you are walking away from your computer, it's fairly common practice to start your screen saver and lock your screen. But did you know that there is a built-in keyboard shortcut in Mac OS X to sleep the screen?</p><p>Press Control-Shift-Eject and your monitor sleeps without engaging the screen saver.</p></p>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2713" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2713">StyleWriter II driver -- Dieder Bylsma wrote to tell us that he tried the head cleaning option from the StyleWriter II driver on his StyleWriter I, and although the printer itself seems OK, the process ruined the ink cartridge</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 Feb 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2714" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2714">Apple has released new versions of the System 7.1 Enablers for the IIvx and the PowerBook 160 and 180. They're available on AppleLink, so your dealer should be able to snag them for you</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 Feb 1993</div></div>
<a href="/article/2716"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2716', 'show')">Canadian System 7.1 Upgrade</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2716" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2716">Macintosh users were outraged when not only did Apple charge for System 7.1 upgrades, but also they offered upgrades in the United States only. Users in other countries had to buy the System 7.1 Personal Upgrade Kit, which retailed for $99 in the US</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 Feb 1993</div></div>
<a href="/article/2717"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2717', 'show')">ATM Hack, Part 2</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2717" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2717">Jonathan Jacobs writes:In TidBITS-157 Jim Burmeister reposted the hack that you can perform on ATM 2.0.2, 2.0.3, and 2.0.4 to make it work correctly with System 7.1</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 Feb 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2718" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2718">You've heard about the new LaserWriter Pro 610 and 630, and the latest news is that Apple will ship the 610 with 8 MB of RAM all the time, which allows the 610 to print at 600 dpi</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 Feb 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2720" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2720">Perhaps the most impressive upgrade I saw at Macworld was Aldus PageMaker 5.0. On the whole, PageMaker's enhancements fall in the category of "It's about time," but it's not worth complaining now that they're here</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 Feb 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2721" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2721">Like the little train that chugs along as their motto, Thought I Could doesn't give up. To judge from president Linda Kaplan's postings on CompuServe, a small company like Thought I Could faces innumerable obstacles in creating a successful mass market utility</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 Feb 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2723" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2723">This week I'll make like a toggle switch and flip-flop. First I said the AppleCD 300 was impossible to find, then I heard from a bunch of people who had seen them and my local dealer had some, but this past week I've received agonized requests asking what strings I pulled to buy one</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 Feb 1993</div></div>
<a href="/article/2724"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2724', 'show')">Adam as information server</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2724" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2724">Adam as information server -- I like providing useful and timely information to people - that's why I write TidBITS. However, recently I've been hammered by email from readers searching for information that may exist in back issues of TidBITS</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 Feb 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2725" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2725">Thanks to Neil Shapiro and MAUG, we now have our own message section and file library on CompuServe. The new section is #5 in the just-opened Macintosh D Vendors Forum (GO MACDVEN), and in a week or so you should be able to use GO TIDBITS</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 Feb 1993</div></div>
<a href="/article/2727"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2727', 'show')">HyperCard Folded Back Into Apple</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2727" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2727">A month or so ago, a friend implored me to try and find the dirt on what was happening with HyperCard. I hadn't heard much of anything in a long time, which meant to me that the program was dying a slow and unnecessary death</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 Feb 1993</div></div>
<a href="/article/2728"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2728', 'show')">Why The Lame Apple Color Printer?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2728" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2728">Pythaeus recently explained why the new Apple Color Printer is so lame. Apple realized they lacked a color printer, but didn't have one ready internally</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 Feb 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2729" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2729">On January 4th, Roger Heinen, senior vice president and general manager of Apple's Macintosh Software Architecture Division, resigned to take a position at Microsoft as vice president of Database and Development Tools</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 Feb 1993</div></div>
<a href="/article/2731"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2731', 'show')">Pumping The New Macs Out</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2731" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2731">Apple doesn't stop. They keep introducing new models of the Macintosh at an increasingly fast rate. If only they could ship those new models in quantity when they announce the fool things</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 Feb 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2733" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2733">Boy, that rumor about the AppleCD 300 being in short supply was a bum steer (financially disadvantaged, reproductively challenged male bovine?). Numerous people wrote to tell me that they had seen units around, and I have one sitting on my desk right now</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 Jan 1993</div></div>
<a href="/article/2734"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2734', 'show')">Word 5.x Not 32-bit Clean</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2734" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2734">Chuck Levine wrote an apt response to our comment in TidBITS-157 that Word 5.x-related items flagged by Compatibility Checker 2.0 are compatible with System 7:"I have found that a few of the Save As translators are NOT 32-bit clean (namely Text with Layout) Using these translators in 32-bit mode will crash systems</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 Jan 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2735" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2735">Craig O'Donnell passes on some notes on Macintosh audio as of Macworld Expo in San Francisco:I verified that the IIvx, Performa 600, and Duo 210/230 do NOT reproduce the right channel of a stereo sound file, for example, a stereo System Beep or a stereo QuickTime soundtrack</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 Jan 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2739" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2739">At Macworld, Connectix showed their newly-released version 3.0 of Virtual, which implements virtual memory on the Mac. Although Connectix has had versions of Virtual 3.0 running on various accelerators that are incompatible with System 7's built-in VM (virtual memory), the generic version of Virtual 3.0 had been plagued by delays.Now that it's out, why would you want it? Frankly, because it works the way virtual memory should work, quickly and without using a ton of disk space</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 Jan 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2740" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2740">One of the more interesting previews of programs that I saw at Macworld was of Mainstay's new object-oriented database, Phyla. Unlike traditional databases, Phyla is neither flat-file (with a simple one-to-one relationship between all types of data, such as Person, Father, and Mother) nor precisely relational (with a one-to-many relationship between data, such as Company and Phone Numbers), although you can accomplish most everything in Phyla that you could in a relational database</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 Jan 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2741" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2741">A number of people wrote in regard to our articles on booth bimbos and CD-ROM pornography. Several suggested that booth bimbos are used to attract people to a booth, much like a flashy demonstration or clever freebies</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 Jan 1993</div></div>
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