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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10347" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10347">In this three-part MacNotables video podcast, Adam and host Chuck Joiner talk with the members of the Cowtown Macintosh User Group in Fort Worth, Texas, about Apple's announcements at the Worldwide Developers Conference. (It's in three parts to make the downloads more manageable.)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 15 Jun 2009</div></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10353" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10353">According to a TUAW article by Erica Sadun, anyone using AT&T's prepaid GoPhone plan to avoid the 2-year contract will be forced to switch to a normal contract to maintain 3G data access. It's unclear how many iPhone users have jumped through the necessary hoops to use a GoPhone plan, but if you're among that group, you might want to upgrade to an iPhone 3G S just so there's some upside to being forced into a 2-year contract.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 15 Jun 2009</div></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10346" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10346">Listen in as Glenn Fleishman and Adam Engst chat with MacVoices host Chuck Joiner about both the latest developments with Apple's AirPort wireless networking devices and what's new in the world of Wi-Fi security.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 12 Jun 2009</div></div></div>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10342" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10342">Tune into to this week's Your Mac Life show to listen to Adam and host Shawn King talk through all of what went down at the Worldwide Developers Conference. And yes, the Twitter hype is real - Shawn did get Adam to swear on the air.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 11 Jun 2009</div></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10338" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10338">Want to post the occasional photo to Twitter directly from within iPhoto? Check out the new iPhoto2Twitter.</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> | 09 Jun 2009</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10328" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10328">Apple has pushed out bug fix updates to nearly the entire iLife '09 suite.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=4" class="category">Media Creation</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 04 Jun 2009</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10313" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10313">A picture may be valued at a thousand words, but a single misplaced comma turned out to be worth $2.13 million in a recent contract dispute in Canada. The Globe and Mail has the details.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 02 Jun 2009</div></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10317" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10317">Fetch 5.5 extends the long-standing FTP client with support for Leopard's Quick Look feature, improved editing of remote files, and even better transfer reliability.</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> | 02 Jun 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10311"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10311', 'show')">TheMacBundles.com Offers Alternative Approach to Bundle Deals</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> | 01 Jun 2009</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10300" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10300">By day, TidBITS Security Editor Rich Mogull runs the Securosis site, which is hosting an article by the pseudonymous Macalope that dissects ComputerWorld's recent troll bait article about Mac security. Read it, it's funny.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 28 May 2009</div></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10306" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10306">For complete documentation of iPhoto '09, you can now turn to Adam's latest book: "iPhoto '09: Visual QuickStart Guide," available in both ebook and print forms. It has full coverage of all of iPhoto's features, both the new (Faces, Places, slideshows, Web publishing) and the old (importing, editing, printing).</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> | 28 May 2009</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10296" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10296">Need to expand a password-protected Zip archive? Mac OS X's built-in Archive Utility won't do it, but several free utilities will.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=12" class="category">Problem Solving</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 22 May 2009</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10293" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10293">Shawn King was curious about our coverage of the possible GPS accuracy problems, so Adam joined him on the Your Mac Life radio show to talk about how the problem came about and how it might be solved. Toward the end, the conversation turned slightly into issues of privacy, due to the mistaken impression some people have that they can be tracked by GPS satellites.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 21 May 2009</div></div></div>
<a href="/article/10294"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10294', 'show')">Two New Ebooks on Maintaining and Troubleshooting Your Mac</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10294" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10294">There's no lack of advice available for how to run your Mac efficiently and solve pesky problems, but it's scattered all over the Internet. Our latest Take Control ebooks, both by Joe Kissell, provide a well-organized, go-to source for a comprehensive Mac maintenance plan and effective advice for handling any problems that might arise.</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> | 21 May 2009</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10295" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10295">Come on, Apple, this is getting ridiculous. Eucalyptus is an app that allows users to download free ebooks from the Internet, specifically from the venerable Project Gutenberg. To reject the app entirely purely because it could be used to access what you consider naughty bits from the Internet is indefensible - Mobile Safari is just as culpable in that scenario.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 21 May 2009</div></div></div>
<a href="/article/10281"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10281', 'show')">DealBITS Discount: Save 30% on SuperSync</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10281" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10281">See who won copies of SuperSync and save 30 percent on SuperSync for a limited time.</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 May 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10285"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10285', 'show')">No Email Issue 25-May-09 for Memorial Day</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10285" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10285">We're taking a brief break from building an email issue of TidBITS next week in honor of the Memorial Day holiday in the United States, so look for the next issue in your mailbox on 01-Jun-09.</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 May 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10276"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10276', 'show')">GPS Accuracy Could Start Dropping in 2010</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10276" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10276">A U.S. Government Accountability Office report raises concerns about the Air Force's ability to modernize and maintain the constellation of satellites necessary to provide GPS services to military and civilian users.</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> | 14 May 2009</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10277" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10277">The first paid update to MacSpeech Dictate brings improved accuracy, interface tweaks, improved documentation, and, most notably, a vocabulary editor.</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> | 14 May 2009</div></div>
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