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<a href="/article/10461"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10461', 'show')">Mac OS X 10.5.8 Fixes Bugs, Plugs Security Holes</a></h4>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=8" class="category">Macs & Mac OS X</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 05 Aug 2009 | <a href="/article/10461#comments">19 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10455"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10455', 'show')">Google CEO Leaves Apple Board, Signaling Increased Competition</a></h4>
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<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> | 03 Aug 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10451"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10451', 'show')">Boxcar Offers Push Notifications from Twitter</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10451" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10451">Tired of paying SMS message rates? Pick up a copy of Boxcar and get your friends to send you direct messages via Twitter instead - Boxcar pushes notification of Twitter messages to your 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> | 31 Jul 2009 | <a href="/article/10451#comments">3 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10449"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10449', 'show')">David Pogue's "Take Back the Beep" Campaign</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10449" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10449">New York Times columnist David Pogue has had it with the 15-second messages that cellular carriers add to voicemail messages - they waste our time and increase our bills. It's time to Take Back the Beep!</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> | 30 Jul 2009 | <a href="/article/10449#comments">5 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10436"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10436', 'show')">Apple: Web-enabled iPhone Apps Aren't for Kids</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10436" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10436">The latest App Store annoyance? If an iPhone app can open an arbitrary Web page, it must be rated as 17+ in the App Store, and is listed with all sorts of dire descriptions of the possible content that could be accessed.</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> | 28 Jul 2009 | <a href="/article/10436#comments">2 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10429"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10429', 'show')">"Take Control of MobileMe" Updated for iLife '09, iPhone</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10429" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10429">Using MobileMe? Joe Kissell's just-updated "Take Control of MobileMe" ebook has all the information you need to make the most of your $99-per-year MobileMe subscription fee.</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> | 24 Jul 2009 | <a href="/article/10429#comments">3 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10414" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10414">New York Times columnist David Pogue quickly dispenses with the question of why there isn't an iPhone that works with Verizon Wireless. Then he pulls no punches as he lays out five questionable business practices on the part of U.S. cellular carriers. Forward this one to your elected representatives!</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10404" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10404">As the anniversary of the App Store approaches, outspoken iPhone developer Craig Hockenberry touches on the things Apple has improved with the App Store in the last year and then goes in depth on the significant issues that he and other iPhone developers still face.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/10400"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10400', 'show')">Google Chrome OS to Power Netbooks in 2010</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10400" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10400">Google has announced - but not shipped - Google Chrome OS, a stripped-down operating system based on the Linux kernel and designed to give inexpensive netbook computers access to Web applications.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=2" class="category">Opinion</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> and <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 09 Jul 2009 | <a href="/article/10400#comments">7 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10392" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10392">Google has announced that the Google Apps suite - Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs - will finally lose the "beta" designation that had ceased to mean, well, much of anything. (Gmail alone was in beta for 5 years.) Just as Google's "beta" tag had become meaningless, coming out of beta is equally devoid of meaning, with the change happening because Google came to appreciate that large enterprises are uninterested in using software that sounds as though it's still being tested. Users fond of Gmail's beta logo can re-enable it via Gmail Labs.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/10399"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10399', 'show')">Take Control News: 50%-Off Sale Ending 07-Jul-09</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10399" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10399">If you haven't yet taken advantage of our week-long 50-percent-off sale on Take Control ebooks, you have until July 7th to fill out your Take Control library.</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> | 06 Jul 2009 | <a href="/article/10399#comments">1 comment</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10394"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10394', 'show')">Introducing the TidBITS Commenting System</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10394" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10394">You can now leave comments directly on TidBITS articles - give it a try!</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> | 03 Jul 2009 | <a href="/article/10394#comments">31 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10390"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10390', 'show')">Firefox 3.5 Improves Performance, Privacy, and Standards Support</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10390" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10390">A few short weeks after Apple shipped Safari 4, Mozilla has responded with Firefox 3.5, a significant upgrade that improves performance, offers additional privacy controls, and refines the overall browsing experience.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=5" class="category">Networking</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Jul 2009 | <a href="/article/10390#comments">33 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10387"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10387', 'show')">Apple: Jobs Back on the Job</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10387" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10387">After a scheduled six month medical leave, Apple's CEO Steve Jobs is back at work, splitting his time between the Cupertino campus and his home office. </div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<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> | 30 Jun 2009 | <a href="/article/10387#comments">9 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10381"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10381', 'show')">DealBITS Winners for DiscLabel 6</a></h4>
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<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> | 29 Jun 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10385"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10385', 'show')">TidBITS Mail Hub Change: Check Your Filters</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10385" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10385">We've made a small change in how we route email among our servers, which in turn can slightly modify our mailing list headers in ways that may require updating spam filters and other rules.</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> | 29 Jun 2009 | <a href="/article/10385#comments">2 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10354" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10354">Late on 19-Jun-09, The Wall Street Journal published a surprising article about Steve Jobs having a liver transplant, but even more surprisingly, cited no sources for the information. John Gruber of Daring Fireball follows the threads to suggest that perhaps the source was a member of Apple's Board of Directors.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<a href="/article/10367"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10367', 'show')">DealBITS Drawing: Win a Copy of DiscLabel 6</a></h4>
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<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 Jun 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10370"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10370', 'show')">Ding, Dong, the iPhone 3GS Space Is Dead</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10370" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10370">After two weeks of industry-wide copy editing misery, Apple has changed the common name of the latest iPhone model to "iPhone 3GS," losing the space before the trailing S. </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> | 22 Jun 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10345"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10345', 'show')">"Take Control of Safari 4" Guides Readers Beyond Basic Browsing</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10345" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10345">Safari 4 is a deceptively powerful program, with numerous subtle features and optional ways of working more efficiently, and Sharon Zardetto's new "Take Control of Safari 4" book takes beginning and intermediate users through a wide-ranging tour of Safari's new and most useful features.</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> | 19 Jun 2009</div></div>
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