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<h6>Disabling Dock Space-Making Feature</h6>
<p><p>Having a hard time dragging a file into a folder in the Dock without the Dock trying to make room for it? Holding down Command while dragging the item temporarily disables this Dock feature.</p></p>
<a href="/article/9098"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9098', 'show')">Microsoft Office 2008 Slips to January</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9098" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9098">Office 2008 for the Mac will ship in mid-January 2008 in the United States, a delay from the previous date in the second half of 2007.</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> | 06 Aug 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9100"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9100', 'show')">Freecycle: Disposing of Good Old Stuff</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9100" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9100">Get rid of elderly but still functional hardware by posting a note to your local Freecycle list.</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> | 06 Aug 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9104" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9104">BBEdit 8.7 improves text factories, AppleScript, file groups, disk browsers, and both Python and Lua language support.</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> | 06 Aug 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9105"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9105', 'show')">Fake Steve Jobs Finally Unmasked</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9105" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9105">Investigative reporter Brad Stone of the New York Times finally does what had eluded so many for so long: he uncovers the mystery of the Fake Steve Jobs.</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> | 06 Aug 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9106" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9106">Apple releases a new version of iTunes, once again without specifying what changed, although there is some speculation that it's related to the iPhone.</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> | 06 Aug 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9086"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9086', 'show')">Take Control News/30-Jul-07</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9086" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9086">If you've ever felt uncertain about what a technical term actually means, help is here in the latest Take Control ebook: "Take Control: The Mac OS X Lexicon," a mad romp through over 500 Macintosh- and Internet-related terms. Also released this week: our iPhone and Apple TV update to "Take Control of Syncing in Tiger."</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 Jul 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9089"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9089', 'show')">Accessing Bare Hard Drives</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9089" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9089">Several different products make it easy to work with bare hard drive mechanisms for backup, troubleshooting, or disk recovery.</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> | 30 Jul 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9080"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9080', 'show')">MyFirstMac: Help For Mac Newbies</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9080" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9080">Long-standing publications like TidBITS face the problem of an ever-evolving audience. After all, most of you have been using Macs (and reading TidBITS) for years, and we use that fact when writing to tailor our choice of articles and our assumptions of what you already know</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> | 23 Jul 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9084" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9084">We're pleased to welcome our latest long-term sponsor, Parallels, makers of the popular Parallels Desktop virtualization software that enables an Intel-based Mac to run Windows XP, Windows Vista, and other PC operating systems</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> | 23 Jul 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9074"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9074', 'show')">An iPhone in a Blender?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9074" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9074">Who would be so bold as to put an iPhone into a blender? A firm that makes a high-powered blender, that's who.</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> | 16 Jul 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9075" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9075">We've been busy with other things, but we haven't forgotten the results of our recent reader survey, which garnered responses from over 3,500 people. In the first installment (see "TidBITS 2007 Reader Survey Results: Who Are You?," 2007-03-12), I looked at what the results said about who reads TidBITS</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> | 16 Jul 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9076"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9076', 'show')">Take Control News/16-Jul-07</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9076" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9076">Run Windows on a Mac with Up-to-Date Advice -- We've just released version 2.5 of "Take Control of Running Windows on a Mac," bringing this essential 148-page book completely up-to-date</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> | 16 Jul 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9059"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9059', 'show')">ChangeShortName Simplifies Name Changing</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9059" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9059">Unsatisfied with your identity in Mac OS X? Bothered that the person being asked to provide an administrator password isn't really you? You can always open the Accounts pane of System Preferences and change the Name field that holds your full name</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> | 09 Jul 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9068"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9068', 'show')">Apple Silences Mac OS X 10.4.10 Popping Sounds</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9068" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9068">If you installed Mac OS X 10.4.10 before 02-Jul-07, you probably got version 1.0 of the update, which caused some Intel-based Macs with external speakers to experience "popping" sounds</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 Jul 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9070" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9070">We're pleased to welcome our latest long-term sponsor, VMware, the company that is not just the latest entrant into the virtualization market for Intel-based Macs, but also the overall market leader in virtualization</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> | 09 Jul 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9053"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9053', 'show')">DealBITS Discount: 4 GB iPod nano from Small Dog</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9053" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9053">Congratulations to Barbara LHeureux of charter.net, whose entry was chosen randomly in last week's DealBITS drawing and who received a blue 4 GB iPod nano (refurbished) along with a Mophie case, worth a total of $136.99</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> | 02 Jul 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9057" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9057">For many of us, editing on paper seems like something that went out with the arrival of the word processor. And it's true - the need to edit on paper has been drastically reduced by the ease of creating and sharing digital documents</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> | 02 Jul 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9066"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9066', 'show')">Universal Rejects Long-Term Apple iTunes Contract</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9066" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9066">The New York Times is reporting that Universal Music Group (owned by the French media giant Vivendi), the largest of the record companies, has refused to renew its two-year contract to sell downloadable music through Apple's iTunes Store</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> | 02 Jul 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9048"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9048', 'show')">Snapz Pro X 2.1 Goes Universal</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9048" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9048">Ambrosia Software has released Snapz Pro X 2.1, making the popular still image and video screen capture utility a universal binary for native performance on Intel-based Macs</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> | 25 Jun 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9052"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9052', 'show')">DealBITS Drawing: Win a 4 GB iPod nano from Small Dog</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9052" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9052">If you haven't been reading the top of each TidBITS issue carefully, you may not realize that our sponsor Small Dog Electronics regularly offers an exclusive deal for TidBITS readers</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> | 25 Jun 2007</div></div>
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