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<p><p>In Leopard, Apple fixed an annoying aspect of working with the Finder in Tiger. Previously, if you changed a file's extension, the Finder prompted for confirmation. But since no one has ever accidentally changed a filename extension, Apple thankfully added an option to turn that warning off in the Leopard Finder's preferences. Choose Finder > Preferences, and in the Advanced screen, deselect Show Warning Before Changing an Extension.</p></p>
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<a href="/article/8850"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8850', 'show')">Take Control News/05-Feb-07</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8850" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8850">Month of Apple Sales: Getting Around to It -- We're tired of the childish "Hey, look at me while I break this!" Month of Apple Bugs project, so here's a constructive alternative: four weekly "Month of Apple Sales" offers on our Mac-specific Take Control ebooks throughout the month of February</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> | 05 Feb 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/8837"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8837', 'show')">Take Control News/29-Jan-07</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8837" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8837">How Old Is Your Most Recent Backup? If you don't have a good answer to the title's question, we hope you'll check out the second edition of "Take Control of Mac OS X Backups," by Joe Kissell, since it explains how to set up, use, and restore from a backup system that fits your budget and lifestyle.
We've thoroughly updated this new edition to cover current topics: what you should know before installing Windows on a Mac (and how to back up Windows-related files); expanded info on special cases like backing up photos and movies, backing up installed applications, and backing up while traveling; and a look at how Leopard's Time Machine might play into a backup strategy</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> | 29 Jan 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/8836"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8836', 'show')">CSSEdit 2 to the Rescue!</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8836" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8836">I had to work with some automatically generated CSS code in a Web Crossing blog the other day, and I was having a devil of a time figuring exactly what styles were controlling the CSS box I wanted to manage</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> | 29 Jan 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/8830"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8830', 'show')">Security Holes: Two Closed, One Opened</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8830" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8830">Apple last week released AirPort Extreme Update 2007-001, fixing a problem on Core Duo-based Mac minis, MacBooks, and MacBook Pros that could cause crashes or worse</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> | 29 Jan 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8829" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8829">18 years ago, before Tonya and I started TidBITS, I was working as a Mac consultant and tracking my time with a program called Timeslips (see "Slip Slidin' Away," 1992-02-17)</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> | 29 Jan 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/8828"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8828', 'show')">Manage Your TidBITS Subscriptions</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8828" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8828">Would you like to change the address at which you receive TidBITS each week? Perhaps you'd like to switch from the plain text to the HTML edition? Maybe you're tired of reading in your Web browser and would prefer to have TidBITS delivered to you automatically each week? All that is now easily done with our integrated Manage Mailing List Subscriptions page</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> | 29 Jan 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8827" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8827">Our second MacNotables presentation of Macworld Expo is now available, and I strongly encourage everyone to listen to this one. It was big fun, with the panel giving host Chuck Joiner a hard time about his recommendation of Adobe Soundbooth, which as he so obligingly told us, helped him "clean up dirty audio." Talk about being given a line! I also moderated a panel of Take Control authors talking about what they'd seen at the show in relation to their Take Control titles</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> | 29 Jan 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/8826"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8826', 'show')">TidBITS Archive CD Introductory Offer Ending</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8826" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8826">If you've been thinking about picking up a copy of the TidBITS Archive CD, I encourage you to act soon, because the $29.95 introductory offer expires 31-Jan-07, and the price will be going up to $49.95 after that</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> | 29 Jan 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/8824"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8824', 'show')">Take Control News/22-Jan-07</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8824" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8824">50%-off Coupon with TidBITS Archive CD -- For those who missed the announcement of our TidBITS Archive CD (see "Introducing the TidBITS Archive CD," 2007-01-08, for full details), note that along with more than 6,500 articles spanning all 860 issues of TidBITS from 1990 through 2006, the CD includes a special 50%-off coupon on your next Take Control order</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> | 22 Jan 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/8806"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8806', 'show')">Want to Hear More about Macworld Expo?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8806" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8806">Tonya and I were speaking in presentations, on panels, and in interviews all week, and although not all of these appearances were recorded or are available yet, here are a few that are posted</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> | 15 Jan 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/8814"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8814', 'show')">Macworld Expo SF 2007: The Mac is Back!</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8814" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8814">The last few Macworld Expos in San Francisco may have shown a rebound from the doldrums of the previous years, but that was in large part due to the number of vendors showing iPod-related products and to Apple releasing exciting new hardware and software</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> | 15 Jan 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/8797"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8797', 'show')">Introducing the TidBITS Archive CD</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8797" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8797">A few months back, I wrote a brief bit about how MacTech Magazine had created a CD containing the complete archives of the magazine (see "MacTech Creates Archive CD," 2006-11-13)</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> | 08 Jan 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/8798"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8798', 'show')">Macworld SF 2007 Event Updates</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8798" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8798">Macworld Expo is always a hectic time for us, what with oodles of appearances and signings, and sometimes we can't nail them down entirely before our last issue of the year</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> | 08 Jan 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8800" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8800">Dejal Systems last week released Simon 2.2, the latest version of the company's Internet service monitoring tool, which can also check for content updates to Web pages</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> | 08 Jan 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8787" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8787">After this last issue of 2006, we're slowing down for a few weeks to spend the holiday season recharging with family and friends. The next issue of TidBITS will appear on 08-Jan-07, as we congregate in San Francisco to walk the halls of Macworld Expo and see what Apple has planned for us in the coming year</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> | 18 Dec 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8789"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8789', 'show')">Macworld SF 2007 Events</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8789" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8789">After we snap out of our dreams of sugar plum fairies and New Year's celebrations, we'll be trekking off to San Francisco for the annual Macworld Expo and Steve Jobs Keynote of Apple Goodies</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> | 18 Dec 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8795"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8795', 'show')">Take Control News/18-Dec-06</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8795" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8795">Latest Info about Running Windows on a Mac Available -- Trying to run Windows on an Intel-based Mac? Have Windows running but want help with topics like printing, backups, or dealing with updates? Put yourself in the driver's seat with the significantly revised and expanded second edition to Joe Kissell's "Take Control Running of Windows on a Mac," and get expert guidance on the best techniques for running Windows on a Macintosh.
The new edition includes up-to-date info on Parallels Desktop (including the latest beta), including how to use major new features and what to consider when updating</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> | 18 Dec 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8780" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8780">File this one under P for "privacy" or perhaps "paranoia." A research group at the University of Washington has shown that the Nike+iPod Sport Kit could be exploited to enable someone to track the movements and location of a Nike+iPod user surreptitiously.
It turns out that the Nike+iPod sensor, either placed inside a Nike shoe or attached to the top of any other shoe, continuously transmits messages containing a unique identification code that the Nike+iPod receiver uses when pairing with a particular sensor</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> | 11 Dec 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8783"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8783', 'show')">Silicon Valley Through the Lens of London</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8783" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8783">Steve Jobs is famous for his impatience with questions about the past; he prefers to focus on the future. That may be a healthy attitude for the CEO of Apple, but luckily for those of us who weren't in the heart of Silicon Valley during the early days of the computer revolution, there are plenty of people who are happy to talk about how things used to be, including Steve Wozniak, Guy Kawasaki, the late Jef Raskin, John Warnock of Adobe, and Tim O'Reilly.
All of them, and others whose names may be less familiar, appear in a new 55-minute film about what makes Silicon Valley tick, called "In Search of the Valley." Subtitled "Three friends' journey into the psyche of Silicon Valley," and directed by Steve O'Hear, the documentary is part history, part industry analysis, all wrapped up in a minivan-enabled road trip</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> | 11 Dec 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8784"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8784', 'show')">Rolling Faster, Farther with the RollerMouse Pro</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8784" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8784">Some years ago, I reviewed the RollerMouse Station (now called the RollerMouse Classic), from Contour Designs (see "Get It Rolling with the RollerMouse," 2002-08-05)</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> | 11 Dec 2006</div></div>
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