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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8296" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8296">eMac Fades Away -- Sources have confirmed that the eMac, Apple's inexpensive all-in-one Mac with a CRT-based screen, is no longer available for individual sale, although educational institutions can still buy the model</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> | 24 Oct 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8297"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8297', 'show')">DealBITS Drawing: MaxProtect II Winner</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8297" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8297">DealBITS Drawing: MaxProtect II Winner -- Congratulations to Paul Perry of sympatico.ca, whose entry was chosen randomly from 452 valid entries in last week's DealBITS drawing and who received a MaxProtect II PowerBook case, worth $49/$59/$69, depending on size</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> | 24 Oct 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8302"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8302', 'show')">Take Control's Second Anniversary (and 50% Off Sale!)</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8302" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8302">As of today, the Take Control publishing project that Tonya and I started in 2003 marks its second year. We've come a long way from our first copy of Joe Kissell's "Take Control of Upgrading to Panther," and since we've been tracking Take Control's progress here in TidBITS all along, I want to share what we've accomplished and give you a sense of where we're going</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> | 24 Oct 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8283" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8283">Adam Helps Launch MacNotables Podcast -- Podcasting is all the rage right now, and it's something we've thought about doing in a variety of ways for TidBITS and Take Control</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> | 17 Oct 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8284"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8284', 'show')">DealBITS Drawing: Swift Publisher Winners</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8284" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8284">DealBITS Drawing: Swift Publisher Winners -- Congratulations to Kevin Savetz of savetz.com, Ole Andreas Kongsgaarden of c2i.net, and Marijn van der Waa of xs4all.nl, whose entries were chosen randomly in last week's DealBITS drawing and who each received an electronic copy of BeLight Software's Swift Publisher, worth $34.95</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> | 17 Oct 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8285"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8285', 'show')">DealBITS Drawing: MaxProtect II from MaxUpgrades</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8285" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8285">Many different companies produce laptop cases in a myriad of shapes, sizes, and designs. If you're interested in an impact-resistant briefcase for Apple's three PowerBook models, check out the new MaxProtect II from MaxUpgrades</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> | 17 Oct 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8288" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8288">In the much-anticipated "One More Thing..." special event last week, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced iTunes 6, just five weeks after the release of iTunes 5</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> | 17 Oct 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8274"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8274', 'show')">Apple Loosens up on "Mac" Trademark Use</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8274" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8274">Apple Loosens up on "Mac" Trademark Use -- The email has been coming fast and furious as Macintosh developers, consultants, and resellers have been contacting me after reading "Apple Cracks Down on Google AdWords" in TidBITS-799</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> | 10 Oct 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8276"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8276', 'show')">DealBITS Drawing: A Stuffed Dog and Fetch 5.0</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8276" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8276">DealBITS Drawing: A Stuffed Dog and Fetch 5.0 -- Congratulations to Glenn Blauvelt of cs.colorado.edu, whose entry was chosen randomly from 720 entries in last week's DealBITS drawing and who received a plush Fetch toy, along with a license for Fetch 5.0, worth $25</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> | 10 Oct 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8277"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8277', 'show')">DealBITS Drawing: BeLight Software's Swift Publisher</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8277" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8277">With the importance of the Web for many of us, it can be hard to remember that the entire world doesn't sit in front of a Web browser all day. But as we've realized in working with Tristan's school (a small parent collective), plenty of people don't even have email accounts, and those that do can't always be relied on to check email regularly, making paper announcements, newsletters, and flyers a must</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> | 10 Oct 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8279"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8279', 'show')">Trends to Watch from 800 Issues of TidBITS</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8279" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8279">This issue marks the 800th weekly installment of TidBITS. I know I've said this before, but it's almost unbelievable that we're still publishing TidBITS after all these years, with so few changes to our basic approach</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> | 10 Oct 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8280"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8280', 'show')">Take Control News/10-Oct-05</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8280" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8280">"Take Control of Your iPod: Beyond the Music" Released -- If you own an iPod or are thinking about purchasing one, our latest Take Control ebook - Steve Sande's "Take Control of Your iPod: Beyond the Music" - will help you make the most of your iPod experience</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> | 10 Oct 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8268"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8268', 'show')">Retrospect 6.1 Gains Full Tiger Compatibility</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8268" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8268">Retrospect 6.1 Gains Full Tiger Compatibility -- Although Retrospect 6.0 has worked fine with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger in general, it doesn't support two of Tiger's new features: access control lists (ACLs) that enable administrators to control who can access and modify files stored on a Mac OS X 10.4 server and extended attributes that will be used by future Mac applications</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> | 03 Oct 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8269"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8269', 'show')">DealBITS Drawing: Dejal Simon Winners</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8269" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8269">DealBITS Drawing: Dejal Simon Winners -- Congratulations to Khoi Vinh of subtraction.com, Erik Lofgren of bucknell.edu, and Tim Maecken of cken.org, whose entries were chosen randomly from 199 valid entries in last week's DealBITS drawing and who each received a copy of Simon Standard, worth $59.95</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> | 03 Oct 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8270"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8270', 'show')">DealBITS Drawing: A Stuffed Dog and Fetch 5.0</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8270" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8270">There aren't many Mac programs that come with their own mascot, but the FTP/SFTP program Fetch has long stood out. It was one of the first graphical FTP programs on any platform, written in 1989 by Jim Matthews while working at Dartmouth College</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> | 03 Oct 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8272"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8272', 'show')">Apple Cracks Down on Google AdWords</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8272" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8272">If you make a Mac-related product, or provide a Mac-related service like consulting, you're probably using some of Apple's trademarks like "Mac" and "Macintosh" in your advertising</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> | 03 Oct 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8257" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8257">Office 2004 SP2 Enhances Entourage, Fixes Bugs -- Microsoft has released Office for Mac 2004 Service Pack 2 (SP2), which fixes bugs in all the Office programs and provides notable enhancements to Entourage, the email, calendaring, and contact management part of the software suite</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> | 26 Sep 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8259"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8259', 'show')">Adam Engst Speaking at MUG ONE on 04-Oct-05</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8259" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8259">Adam Engst Speaking at MUG ONE on 04-Oct-05 -- For folks in upstate New York, I'll be speaking at the MUG ONE Macintosh user group meeting in Oneonta, NY on Tuesday, 04-Oct-05 at 7:30 PM at SUNY Oneonta</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> | 26 Sep 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8260" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8260">One of the stresses associated with running your own Internet servers is, frankly, knowing if they're running. Most people host public servers elsewhere, to take advantage of the massive bandwidth, secure facilities, earthquake-proof racks, and tech support of companies like digital.forest</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> | 26 Sep 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8265"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8265', 'show')">Take Control News/26-Sep-05</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8265" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8265">Joe Kissell Speaking at NCMUG's MCE 2005 -- Best-selling Take Control author Joe Kissell will be speaking at NCMUG's Macintosh Computer Expo 2005 on 01-Oct-05, so if you have some free time and are in the vicinity of Santa Rosa, California, I encourage you to drop in to see him at 10:00 AM</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> | 26 Sep 2005</div></div>
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