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<h6>Wake On Demand in Snow Leopard</h6>
<p><p>Putting your Mac to sleep saves power, but it also disrupts using your Mac as a file server, among other purposes. Wake on Demand in Snow Leopard works in conjunction with an Apple base station to continue announcing Bonjour services that the sleeping computer offers.</p><p>While the requirements for this feature are complex, eligible users can toggle this feature in the Energy Saver preference pane. It's labeled Wake on Network Access for computers that can be roused either via Wi-Fi or Ethernet; Wake on Ethernet Network Access or Wake on AirPort Network Access for wired- or wireless-only machines, respectively. Uncheck the box to disable this feature.</p></p>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8002" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8002">Over the last year, you've heard me talking about how we're moving all of our Internet services to an Xserve running Web Crossing, which is an integrated suite of Internet servers, all backed up by a high-performance object-oriented database and its own programming language</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>
<a href="/article/8003"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8003', 'show')">Cleaning House in iTunes</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8003" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8003">Leaving aside all the legal and ethical considerations of downloading unauthorized music from the Internet, one of the things that's always bothered me is the horrible metadata that most shared tracks seem to have</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_8004" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8004">Like many people, Tonya and I sometimes have trouble falling asleep at night. We do interesting work, and we have oodles of ideas for the future, so it's all too easy to let those thoughts start cycling through our brains when we should be going to sleep</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>
<a href="/article/8005"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8005', 'show')">Take Control News/28-Feb-05</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8005" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8005">One of our goals for the Take Control ebooks was to be able to produce books and updates shortly after new software appeared. Late last week, we released the first two titles to cover GarageBand 2.0, part of the new iLife '05 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> | 28 Feb 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/7989"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7989', 'show')">Server Moves Almost Complete</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7989" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7989">Server Moves Almost Complete -- We were one-for-two with our server moves last week. I had specifically asked Chuck Goolsbee of digital.forest to move our main Xserve during the day so I could baby sit the shutdown and startup procedures (he was initially going to move it at what would have been 2:30 AM my time to reduce the impact of the downtime)</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 Feb 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/7991"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7991', 'show')">That's How the TidBITS Email Bounces</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7991" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7991">One of the major advantages to us in moving all of our mailing lists over to our new Web Crossing-based server is that subscribers can centralize all their subscriptions under a single user account</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 Feb 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/7995"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7995', 'show')">Take Control News/21-Feb-05</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7995" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7995">We're on the verge of releasing more titles, and this week brought a little extra encouragement to get them out the door in the form of a nice review of "Take Control of Mac OS X Backups."MacGuild Gives "Take Control of Mac OS X Backups" an A -- The Macintosh Guild, which bills itself as "the ultimate Apple user group for corporate America," has reviewed Joe Kissell's "Take Control of Mac OS X Backups," giving it a grade of A (Outstanding)</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 Feb 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7981" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7981">TidBITS Servers Moving 18-Feb-05 -- Both digital.forest, our primary Internet host, and Technical Editor Geoff Duncan, who runs our database servers, are moving, and (not-quite-coincidentally) our servers ended up scheduled to move at roughly the same time</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 Feb 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/7982"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7982', 'show')">Mac OS X 10.3.8 Update Released</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7982" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7982">Mac OS X 10.3.8 Update Released -- Apple has released Mac OS X 10.3.8, a minor bug-fix update to Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. Changes include faster DNS resolution that should enable certain Internet applications like iChat and Mail to open more quickly, more reliable restarting after power failures, fixes to DVD Player to improve compatibility and display performance in certain situations, a fix for PowerBook G4s that would wake from sleep with an unresponsive black screen, a change that may reduce "jumping cursor" problems on laptop trackpads, and theoretically more reliable fan operation on certain Power Mac G5s (although some MacFixIt readers report increased fan operation after the update)</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 Feb 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/7984"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7984', 'show')">Sometimes It's Just Broken</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7984" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7984">As part of dropping our cable television subscription recently, I purchased a Mini-DVI to Video Adapter for my 12-inch PowerBook so we could watch DVDs on our TV (that's right - we've somehow ended up with DVD drives in multiple Macs without ever having purchased a normal consumer DVD player for our TV)</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 Feb 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/7985"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7985', 'show')">Ceiva and the Mac</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7985" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7985">Maybe this is old hat to those in the know, but I've just discovered a neat workaround in my annual quest for an iPhoto export plug-in that would upload photos to Ceiva picture frames</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 Feb 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/7987"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7987', 'show')">Take Control News/14-Feb-05</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7987" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7987">We continue to work on updates, with this week bringing a pair of small updates to Joe Kissell's ebooks about Apple Mail.Ebooks about Apple Mail Updated -- Thanks to author Joe Kissell's tireless efforts in keeping readers of his ebooks up-to-date, we've released minor updates to both "Take Control of Email with Apple Mail" and "Take Control of Spam with Apple Mail." Changes in "Take Control of Email with Apple Mail" include a new sidebar that details how to access Hotmail, MSN, and Gmail accounts from Mail; a new tip about what to do if Mail fails to show a new window after you click Reply; and new info about a bug with rules and color-coded messages</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 Feb 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7973" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7973">iPhoto 5.0.1 Fixes Annoying Bugs -- Apple last week released iPhoto 5.0.1 via Software Update to address a variety of bugs in the company's photo management 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> | 07 Feb 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/7974"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7974', 'show')">Apple Product Line Info-Graphic</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7974" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7974">Apple Product Line Info-Graphic -- With the Mac mini, Apple further expanded the old Macintosh model matrix that had once cleanly separated desktop from laptop, consumer from professional</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 Feb 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7975" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7975">DealBITS Drawing: photoprinto Winners -- Congratulations to Delia Lamb of gcsf.com, Dale of comcast.net, and Norbert C. Ballauer of cox.net, whose entries were chosen randomly in last week's DealBITS drawing and who each received a copy of SmileOnMyMac's photoprinto, worth $29.95</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> | 07 Feb 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/7979"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7979', 'show')">Take Control News/07-Feb-05</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7979" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7979">The Take Control updates keep coming, and this week's installment, the 1.1 version of "Take Control of Mac OS X Backups" is a particularly useful update that's well worth the free download for existing customers and makes the $10 price even more worthwhile for those who still need to establish a solid backup strategy."Take Control of Mac OS X Backups" Updated to 1.1 -- The 1.1 update to Joe Kissell's ebook about Mac OS X Backups makes it even easier than before to figure out how to set up a personalized, sensible backup system that works</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 Feb 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7967" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7967">Before I introduce this week's DealBITS drawing, I want to tell you about a few changes to the way DealBITS works that will increase your chances of receiving a prize</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> | 31 Jan 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/7968"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7968', 'show')">PowerBooks Gain Faster CPUs, Scrolling Trackpad</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7968" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7968">Apple today pulled the wraps off an update to the PowerBook line that increases CPU speeds to 1.5 GHz and 1.67 GHz, bumps all hard drive speeds to 5400 rpm, adds an 8x SuperDrive, and introduces a pair of interesting new technologies - the scrolling trackpad and Sudden Motion Sensor - the latter of which you hope you'll never need.Faster PowerBook! In a not unexpected move, Apple bumped up the clock speeds of the PowerPC G4 used in the current PowerBook line</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> | 31 Jan 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/7970"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7970', 'show')">Worthy Web Sites: YouSendIt</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7970" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7970">It's a problem. You need to send a large file to a friend or colleague, but it's too large for email, you don't have access to an FTP server, or the recipient isn't sufficiently savvy about usernames and passwords or firewalls to log in to your server</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> | 31 Jan 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/7971"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7971', 'show')">Take Control News/24-Jan-05</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7971" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7971">It may seem as though little has been happening with Take Control of late, but in fact, that's mostly because we've been working on translations and updates, with two appearing this week and more coming soon."Take Control of Sharing Files in Panther" Turns 1.2 -- The 1.2 update of Glenn Fleishman's ebook about setting up (and using) file sharing services under Panther is hot off our virtual press</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> | 31 Jan 2005</div></div>
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