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<h6>Mac OS X Zip Expanding Utility</h6>
<p><p>Firefox (and possibly other applications) may ask you what you want to do with .zip archives that you download from the Internet. If you want to expand them with Mac OS X (rather than StuffIt Expander), you may be unsure of which application actually does the job. You're looking for Archive Utility (in Leopard) or BOMArchiveHelper (in Tiger). In either case, the application is stored in Hard Drive/System/Library/Core Services/. Don't move it from there, though, or you'll confuse matters.</p></p>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=18" class="category">Blog Post</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 25 Oct 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9258"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9258', 'show')">TwitterWhere Illuminates California Fires</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9258" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9258">With the new TwitterWhere service, you can find tweets from people in specific locations, making it an interesting way to track important events like the Southern California fires.</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> | 24 Oct 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9252"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9252', 'show')">QuicKeys X3 3.2 Updated for Leopard</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9252" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9252">If you use QuicKeys and are planning to upgrade to Leopard, make sure to install QuicKeys X3 3.2 first to ensure compatibility. You'll also find some new features and welcome bug fixes.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=3" class="category">Home Macs</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 21 Oct 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9248"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9248', 'show')">Take Control News: Start Preparing for Leopard Now with New Ebooks</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9248" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9248">Now that Leopard's ship date has been announced, we can release "Take Control of Upgrading to Leopard: Early-Bird Edition" with 60 pages of advice on preparing for your Leopard upgrade and with a free update to the 100+ full ebook as soon as Leopard becomes available.</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> | 17 Oct 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9241" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9241">I just renewed my .Mac account with a copy of .Mac I purchased through Amazon.com for $74.99 (as opposed to the $99.95 that Apple charges for automatic renewal)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=18" class="category">Blog Post</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 15 Oct 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9242"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9242', 'show')">900 Issues and a Free Ebook on Wi-Fi</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9242" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9242">To commemorate our 900th issue of TidBITS, we're giving away a free ebook version of the "The Wireless Networking Starter Kit, Second Edition." Enjoy!</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> | 15 Oct 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9233"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9233', 'show')">GrandPerspective and WhatSize Identify Disk Pigs</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9233" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9233">When faced with the dreaded "The startup disk is almost full." error message, Adam turns to a pair of free tools for exploring how disk space is being used.</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> | 12 Oct 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9237" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9237">Apple has released Apple Remote Desktop 3.2 Admin and Client, fixing a variety of nagging bugs, improving performance in several situations, and adding Leopard compatibility.</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> | 12 Oct 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9229"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9229', 'show')">Seagate Hybrid Hard Drives Not Mac-Compatible</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9229" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9229">Much has been said about Seagate's new Momentus 5400 PSD "hybrid hard drives" that put 256 MB of flash RAM into notebook hard drives. But will you be able to install such a drive in your Mac? Adam digs beneath the surface of the press release to learn the answer.</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> | 10 Oct 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9228"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9228', 'show')">Confessions of a Twitter Convert</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9228" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9228">Is Twitter a truly inane waste of time, where people blather about trivialities, as Adam originally thought, or is it actually a useful service that can provide not just interesting commentary from interesting people, but also up-to-the-minute headline news? (Hint, it's the latter!)</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 Oct 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9217"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9217', 'show')">Take Control Lampooned on CARS</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9217" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9217">Crazy Apple Rumors Site announces their first two titles in the new "Take Control of ...: The Missing Manual for Dummies" series.</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> | 04 Oct 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9218" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9218">Our server survives its first Slashdotting, as 33,000 Slashdot readers check out my article on Amazon MP3 versus the iTunes Store.</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> | 04 Oct 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9219"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9219', 'show')">Leopard Slated for October 26th?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9219" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9219">So when is Apple going to ship Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard? Adam delves back into the TidBITS archives and Apple's press release library to determine exactly when previous versions of Mac OS X were announced and released, and then he puts it all together to declare that the most likely date is...</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> | 04 Oct 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9221"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9221', 'show')">Take Control News: New iPods Covered in Updated Take Control Ebook</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9221" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9221">We're pleased to announce a free update to "Take Control of Your iPod: Beyond the Music" 2.0.1, just a month after Apple released the new iPod nano, iPod classic, and iPod touch.</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> | 04 Oct 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9222"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9222', 'show')">Take Control News: All About 802.11n AirPort Extreme Networking</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9222" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9222">Glenn Fleishman has forgotten more about Wi-Fi than most people know, but luckily he wrote it all down in a pair of Take Control ebooks first. Both "Take Control of Your 802.11n AirPort Extreme Network" and "Take Control of Your Wi-Fi Security" have now been updated with the very latest information from the wireless world, and even better, both are free updates for our loyal readers. Can we grab a nap now?</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> | 04 Oct 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9216"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9216', 'show')">Radioshift TiVos Internet Radio</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9216" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9216">Did podcasting kill the radio star? No, it has merely been resting, and thanks to Rogue Amoeba's new Radioshift, which brings TiVo-like capabilities to Internet radio (and even AM/FM stations when coupled with a RadioShark), radio's star is once again rising.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=3" class="category">Home Macs</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 02 Oct 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9207"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9207', 'show')">Take Control News: Joe Kissell Talks Turkey</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9207" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9207">In this important update from Take Control, we address the pressing issue of candied sweet potato sauce compatibility with the 2007 Thanksgiving feasting season. No really. For a geekly approach, check out Joe Kissell's "Take Control of Thanksgiving Dinner," our most unusual ebook.</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> | 27 Sep 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9208"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9208', 'show')">Take Control News: The Latest Ways of Protecting Your Data </a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9208" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9208">Our best-selling Take Control ebook - Joe Kissell's "Take Control of Mac OS X Backups" - has just received a free update, bringing it current with the latest on Internet backup services, NDAS and Blu-ray devices, and CrashPlan. Remember, data loss is a question of "when," not "if."</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> | 27 Sep 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9201"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9201', 'show')">InterviewBITS: Love/Hate with the iPhone</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9201" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9201">Now that more than one million iPhones have been sold, we decided to see what real-world iPhone users love and hate about their new digital companions. Read on to find out what our panel loved and hated, and share your own opinions on TidBITS Talk.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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