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<h6>Wake On Demand in Snow Leopard</h6>
<p><p>Putting your Mac to sleep saves power, but it also disrupts using your Mac as a file server, among other purposes. Wake on Demand in Snow Leopard works in conjunction with an Apple base station to continue announcing Bonjour services that the sleeping computer offers.</p><p>While the requirements for this feature are complex, eligible users can toggle this feature in the Energy Saver preference pane. It's labeled Wake on Network Access for computers that can be roused either via Wi-Fi or Ethernet; Wake on Ethernet Network Access or Wake on AirPort Network Access for wired- or wireless-only machines, respectively. Uncheck the box to disable this feature.</p></p>
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<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> | 24 Jul 2008</div></div>
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<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> | 23 Jul 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9682"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9682', 'show')">Precipitate Shines Mac Spotlight into Google's Cloud</a></h4>
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<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> | 04 Jul 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9667"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9667', 'show')">Critical Updates for Microsoft Office 2008 and 2004</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9667" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9667">If you're using Microsoft Office 2008, run, don't walk, to download and install the 12.1.1 update, which fixes the problem with downloaded or attached Word and Excel documents not opening when double-clicked, along with other troublesome bugs in Word, Excel, and Entourage. Office 2004 also receives some important fixes for crashing bugs and interoperability with Office 2008 applications. </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> | 30 Jun 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9668"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9668', 'show')">TidBITS Watchlist: Notable Software Updates for 30-Jun-08</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> | 30 Jun 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9677"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9677', 'show')">TidBITS Issue Hiatus for 07-Jul-08</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9677" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9677">Although articles will continue to be published on the TidBITS Web site, there will be no email issue for 07-Jul-08, as we take a break to try out this newfangled concept of the "summer vacation."</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> | 30 Jun 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9678"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9678', 'show')">Bonus Stories for 30-Jun-08</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9678" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9678">Our issue is full up, but we have plenty of other great stories for you, including Glenn's look at new top-level domain names and a call for Microsoft to throw Windows out and start over like Apple did, Joe's explanation of sparse bundle disk images, Ted Landau's coverage of text messaging on the iPhone, and how to print a picture on an M&M.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=20" class="category">Email</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 30 Jun 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9672"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9672', 'show')">Print Custom Text and Photo M&M's</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9672" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9672">Who knew you could now print photos on custom M&M's? Well, you do now, but good luck getting a photo to print well in half the size of a dime.</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> | 27 Jun 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9670"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9670', 'show')">Take Control News: Better Backups with New Ebooks and Free Content</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9670" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9670">In conjunction with the third edition of Joe Kissell's best-selling "Take Control of Mac OS X Backups," we've released the biggest feature comparison of Mac backup apps ever, along with an update to "Take Control of Easy Backups in Leopard."</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=13" class="category">Safe Computing</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 26 Jun 2008</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9662" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9662">Firefox 3, the latest version of the Web's second most popular browser, looks like a significant upgrade, with features like bookmark tags and increased performance making Adam wonder if it deserves to be his default browser.</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> | 22 Jun 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9660"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9660', 'show')">TidBITS Watchlist: Notable Software Updates for 23-Jun-08</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9660" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9660">Notable software releases this week include CrossOver Mac 7.0, the Xserve EFI Firmware Update 1.1, ConceptDraw Office, and Growl 1.1.4.</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> | 18 Jun 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9658"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9658', 'show')">TidBITS Watchlist: Notable Software Updates for 16-Jun-08</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> | 16 Jun 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9656"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9656', 'show')">Take Control News: Ebooks about Screen Sharing and Back to My Mac</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9656" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9656">In a pair of new ebooks, TidBITS contributing editor Glenn Fleishman goes in-depth with Leopard screen sharing and Back to My Mac.
<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> | 12 Jun 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9653"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9653', 'show')">iPhone 3G Actually $160 More Expensive</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9653" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9653">Apple claims that the iPhone 3G is "Twice as fast. Half the price." But that's just the initial cost of the phone. By the time you factor in the increased price of AT&T's 3G data plan and the need to add a SMS text messaging plan, the iPhone 3G could end up costing $160 more than the original 8 GB iPhone. Adam runs down all the gory pricing details.</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> | 11 Jun 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9647"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9647', 'show')">Apple Announces iPhone 3G to Ship on 11-Jul-08</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9647" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9647">After months of speculation, Apple has announced the iPhone 3G with 3G cellular data networking and GPS capabilities, along with all sorts of software features. But don't head down to your local Apple Store just yet, since the iPhone 3G won't be available for sale until early July.</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> | 09 Jun 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9651"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9651', 'show')">Mac OS X Snow Leopard to Focus on Performance, Not Features</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9651" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9651">Although most of what was discussed during the WWDC keynote revolved around the iPhone, Apple did let slip a few details about the next version of Mac OS X - code-named Snow Leopard. Don't start looking for new features, though, since Snow Leopard is instead aimed at being one fast cat.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<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> | 09 Jun 2008</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9643" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9643">Has a service ever taken over an essential keyboard shortcut from one of your apps? Or, for that matter, has your Services menu become unusable because of all the unwanted items in it? The solution to both of these problems is Service Scrubber.</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> | 06 Jun 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9641"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9641', 'show')">No, David Pogue, Ebook Piracy is Not a Given</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9641" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9641">David Pogue recently wrote a widely read blog post in which he explains that piracy is the reason he doesn't make his books available in PDF format. But we disagree strongly with this sentiment - easy, inexpensive online distribution may be the best way of avoiding illicit sharing, as we've seen with Take Control. Read on for Adam's analysis of the business scenarios.</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> | 05 Jun 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9642"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9642', 'show')">TidBITS Watchlist: Notable Software Updates for 09-Jun-08</a></h4>
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