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<h6>Dragging between Spaces</h6>
<p><p>Juggling various applications within multiple Spaces? If you drag an application window to the edge of your screen and pause for a moment, Mac OS X will move the window into the space that lives in that direction.</p></p>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8056" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8056">About a year ago, in one of our earliest DealBITS drawings, we gave away a few copies of SmileOnMyMac's PDFpen software, which enables you to manipulate PDF files in a variety of 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> | 11 Apr 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8057"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8057', 'show')">Even More Fax, Ma'am</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8057" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8057">My article last week about setting up an account with MaxEmail to receive faxes in email (see "Replacing eFax with MaxEmail" in TidBITS-774) generated a number of suggestions from readers for other services.Faxaway -- Hudson Barton, who wrote about Internet faxing for us a number of years ago, recommended Faxaway, which charges $1 per month for an account and a per-minute fee that varies by country for outgoing faxes, but provides unlimited incoming faxes for no additional charge</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>
<a href="/article/8058"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8058', 'show')">An Unusual Use for Panorama</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8058" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8058">I'm in the process of cleaning up some LetterRip Pro-based mailing lists in preparation for moving them to Web Crossing, and in doing so, I was faced with the age-old problem of determining which bouncing addresses to remove</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>
<a href="/article/8049"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8049', 'show')">Replacing eFax with MaxEmail</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8049" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8049">I'm not a fan of faxes. I fully admit they're useful on occasion, when the source material is on paper, or when a form must be filled out in pen and returned, often with a signature</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> | 04 Apr 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8051"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8051', 'show')">Take Control News/04-Apr-05</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8051" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8051">The last few weeks have been full of work on the Web side of things as we try to make the Take Control site more coherent, easier to use, and helpful to people who would prefer to order via phone or fax.Take Control Web Site Redesigned -- As we gear up for the eventual release of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, we realized that our Web site desperately needed to be redesigned</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> | 04 Apr 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8042"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8042', 'show')">Apple Announces Product and Marketing Plans</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8042" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8042">In a rare break from form, Apple Computer today held a press conference to announce its forthcoming product plans. Some industry watchers attribute the move to prodding from partner Motorola, which was forced to delay the expected announcement of its iTunes phone due to a disagreement with Apple</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> | 01 Apr 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8031"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8031', 'show')">Apple Settles with One Tiger Leaker</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8031" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8031">Apple Settles with One Tiger Leaker -- Apple Computer has settled out of court with Doug Steigerwald, a recent graduate of North Carolina State University and an Apple Developer Connection member who admitted to sharing seeds of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger on the Internet</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> | 28 Mar 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8032" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8032">DealBITS Drawing: GoodPage Winners -- Congratulations to Dana Ostrow of columbia.edu, whose entry was chosen randomly in last week's DealBITS drawing and who received a copy of TARI's GoodPage graphical HTML authoring tool, worth $149</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> | 28 Mar 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8036"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8036', 'show')">Stolen Credit Card Numbers and Companies with a Clue</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8036" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8036">Credit card number theft is one of those events that seems to happen only to other people... until it hits you. That just happened to me, and the repercussions proved a bit more instructive and far-reaching that I would have initially anticipated.Awkward Dating -- The first hint that something was wrong came when Tonya was reviewing the charges on the MasterCard we use solely for business purchases</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> | 28 Mar 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8025" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8025">In the early days of the Web, we saw the rise of simple graphical HTML editors like Claris HomePage, Symantec's Visual Page, and Adobe's PageMill. Those applications defined a useful niche between the text-only HTML editors like BBEdit (still preferred by many) and the powerful (and expensive) Web authoring tools like Adobe GoLive and Macromedia Dreamweaver</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> | 21 Mar 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8029"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8029', 'show')">Take Control News/21-Mar-05</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8029" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8029">Although we hear from many Take Control ebook readers, we also enjoy reading reviews of the ebooks to see how we can improve upcoming titles and revisions</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> | 21 Mar 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8015" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8015">Apple Wins Subpoena Request -- In the latest update in Apple's quest to squelch information leaks, Judge James Kleinberg of Santa Clara County Superior Court ruled last Friday that the news site O'Grady's PowerPage must divulge its confidential sources, describing the information as "stolen property." The judge was careful to note that his ruling should not be construed more broadly than Apple's right to subpoena information from PowerPage's ISP Nfox</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> | 14 Mar 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8018"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8018', 'show')">When You Need a Panoramic View</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8018" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8018">When you're setting up a database for the first time, do you know exactly what you'll want out of it, for the rest of the life of the database? Heck, do you know what you're going want from it next month? You probably have a general idea, and if you've created databases in the past or are working with a consultant, you'll probably spend some time mapping out your data structures, reports, and more</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> | 14 Mar 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8019"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8019', 'show')">Take Control News/14-Mar-05</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8019" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8019">As a way of spreading the word about Take Control ebooks, we've started working with some of our friends at other publications to publish excerpts from a few of our books</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> | 14 Mar 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8009"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8009', 'show')">Office 2004 for Mac 11.1.1 Update Improves Stability</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8009" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8009">Office 2004 for Mac 11.1.1 Update Improves Stability -- Microsoft has released an update to the English and Japanese versions of Microsoft Office 2004 (French, German, Italian, and Swedish versions still to come)</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> | 07 Mar 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8011"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8011', 'show')">LinkBack Brings Back Data Linking</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8011" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8011">Have you ever pasted a graphic into a word processing document and later wanted to update it? It's a tedious process of opening the original file, making your changes, copying the new graphic, returning to the word processing document, deleting the old graphic, and pasting the new graphic</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> | 07 Mar 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8013"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8013', 'show')">Why DRM Offends the Sensibilities</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8013" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8013">There are many things in the world that you feel to be true, but you're not exactly sure why. So if you're a thinking person, you're left with this nagging suspicion that you should be better able to come up with a better explanation than "But it's just wrong!"For many people, myself included, digital rights management (DRM) technologies fall into this category</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> | 07 Mar 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7997" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7997">Security Update 2005-002 Fixes Java -- Apple has released Security Update 2005-002 to eliminate a vulnerability through which an untrusted Java applet could gain increased privileges and potentially execute arbitrary code</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> | 28 Feb 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7998" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7998">Firefox 1.0.1 Security Update Released -- The Mozilla Organization last week released Firefox 1.0.1 for all platforms, which fixes a number of small security holes or potential problems, notably the homograph spoofing problem we've talked about recently in TidBITS (see "Don't Trust Your Eyes or URLs" in TidBITS-766)</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> | 28 Feb 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7999" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7999">German TidBITS Translators Wanted -- The German translation of TidBITS is looking to add a few more people to the volunteer translation team to help spread the load a bit more thinly</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> | 28 Feb 2005</div></div>
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