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<a href="/article/8111"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8111', 'show')">Instructions from Outer Space: GPS Car Navigation</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8111" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8111">Have you ever found yourself driving at high speed or in heavy traffic in an unfamiliar area while the person in the passenger seat frantically attempts to read the map and tell you where to turn next? If you're like me, it's stressful</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> | 16 May 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8112"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8112', 'show')">Take Control News/16-May-05</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8112" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8112">"Take Control of Upgrading to Tiger" Updated to Version 1.0.1 -- When we released the 1.0 version of this ebook simultaneously with Apple's release of Tiger, we knew that we'd be doing a fast update - important new information always comes to light during the first few days after the release of a major operating system</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> | 16 May 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8094"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8094', 'show')">A Trio of Radio Interviews</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8094" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8094">A Trio of Radio Interviews -- In conjunction with the 15th anniversary of TidBITS and the release of our Take Control ebooks about Tiger, I've been doing the radio show rounds</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> | 09 May 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8097"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8097', 'show')">DealBITS Drawing for Stock WatchTower</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8097" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8097">From 1995 through 2001, Tonya and I participated in a stock investment club with a number of our Mac-using friends. It was a valuable learning experience, and the club did fairly well, though it was difficult to do badly in the stock market during some of those years</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> | 09 May 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8100"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8100', 'show')">iPhoto 5: New Features Abound, Limitations Remain</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8100" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8100">I'll admit it. I was rather disappointed with iPhoto 4, the previous version of Apple's consumer-level photo management program (see "iPhoto 4: The Potential Remains" in TidBITS-718)</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> | 09 May 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8083"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8083', 'show')">Apple Speed Bumps Power Mac G5</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8083" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8083">Apple Speed Bumps Power Mac G5 -- Last week, Apple released upgraded versions of the professional Power Mac G5 models, increasing CPU speeds, adding larger hard drives, providing a faster 16X SuperDrive with double-layer support, and installing 512 MB of RAM for each 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> | 02 May 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8084"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8084', 'show')">Cinema Displays See Price Cut</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8084" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8084">Cinema Displays See Price Cut -- Apple also reduced prices on its two smaller Apple Cinema Displays last week. The price of the entry-level 20-inch model drops $200, from $1,000 down to $800, and the 23-inch display drops $300, from $1,800 to $1,500</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> | 02 May 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8085"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8085', 'show')">Looking into the Eye of the Tiger</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8085" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8085">Well, it's done. Tiger is out, and all the speculation about its much-ballyhooed features can at long last be put to rest. To further that end, we're focusing on Tiger in several ways</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> | 02 May 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8090"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8090', 'show')">Take Control News/02-May-05</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8090" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8090">Tiger Ebook Sales Break 5,000 Mark -- We're pleased to note that sales of our four Take Control ebooks about Tiger reached the 5,000 mark midday on Monday, less than 3 days after Tiger's release</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> | 02 May 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8076"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8076', 'show')">DealBITS Drawing: MaxSleeve and iProtect Winners</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8076" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8076">DealBITS Drawing: MaxSleeve and iProtect Winners -- Congratulations to Peggy Russell of kachergisbookdesign.com and Michael Bobek of mac.com, whose entries were chosen randomly in last week's DealBITS drawing and who each received a MaxSleeve and iProtect from MaxUpgrades, worth up to $38.98</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> | 25 Apr 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8079"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8079', 'show')">A Shiny New NoteBook</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8079" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8079">A few weeks back, Circus Ponies released version 2.0 of their elegant note-taking and snippet-keeping application NoteBook, significantly improving the program in key areas</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> | 25 Apr 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8081"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8081', 'show')">Take Control News/25-Apr-05</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8081" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8081">We're completely on track to release all four of our Tiger titles simultaneously with Tiger itself, and we've come up with yet another reason to upgrade - by getting one of the ebooks for free."Take Control of Upgrading to Tiger" Free with Tiger Purchase -- It's a safe bet that almost everyone who buys "Take Control of Upgrading to Tiger" will also be ordering Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger itself</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> | 25 Apr 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8062"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8062', 'show')">Take Control 40% Off Sale for TidBITS 15th Anniversary</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8062" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8062">Take Control 40% Off Sale for TidBITS 15th Anniversary -- This week marks our 15th anniversary of continuous weekly publication, and we're celebrating with a 40 percent off sale on our Take Control ebooks</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 Apr 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8065"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8065', 'show')">Adam & Tonya at New Mexico User Groups</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8065" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8065">Adam & Tonya at New Mexico User Groups -- Tonya and I have never traveled to the southwest United States, so we're particularly looking forward to a trip to visit not one, not two, but three New Mexico-based Macintosh user groups in early May</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 Apr 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8066" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8066">DealBITS Drawing: PDFpenPro Winners -- Congratulations to Kevin Wong of csua.berkeley.edu, Rick Jarnat of earthlink.net, and Ferd Diemer of lycos.com, whose entries were chosen randomly in last week's DealBITS drawing and who each received a copy of SmileOnMyMac's PDFpenPro PDF editing utility, worth $94.95</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> | 18 Apr 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8067"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8067', 'show')">DealBITS Drawing: MaxSleeve and iProtect</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8067" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8067">My main laptop bag holds so much that I'm tempted to pack a lot more than I need much of the time, and the end result is that my svelte little 12-inch PowerBook G4 ends up being only a fraction of the overall weight I carry</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 Apr 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8068"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8068', 'show')">Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger To Be Released 29-Apr-05</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8068" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8068">Ending the rampant speculation of exactly when Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger would be released, Apple last week announced that its next-generation operating system will be available for sale as of 6:00 PM on Friday, April 29th, 2005, although you can also pre-order from Apple (and other retailers)</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 Apr 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8071"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8071', 'show')">TidBITS Anniversary: Looking Back over 15 Macintosh Years</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8071" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8071">This week marks our 15th anniversary of TidBITS, and although we remain somewhat astonished that we've maintained a weekly publication schedule through so many years, the evidence that we've done so is incontrovertible</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 Apr 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8072"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8072', 'show')">Take Control News/18-Apr-05</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8072" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8072">People at Apple aren't the only ones furiously preparing for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. We're putting the finishing touches on our slate of Take Control of Tiger ebooks, which we plan to ship right when Tiger does.Pre-orders Open for Our Tiger Ebooks -- Apple announced that Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger would ship at 6:00 PM on 29-Apr-05, prompting immediate questions in email from readers asking if we would be updating our ebooks for Tiger</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 Apr 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8055" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8055">ADHOC 2005 Speakers: Hubbard, Doctorow, Ihnatko -- I'm once again planning to speak at ADHOC 2005 (previously known as MacHack), but my interest in attending just went up even more upon learning that the ADHOC committee has lined up some great people to speak at the three midnight sessions, including Jordan Hubbard, Apple's manager of the Darwin core of Mac OS X, and Cory Doctorow, science fiction author, blogger, and European Affairs Coordinator for the EFF</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 Apr 2005</div></div>
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