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<p><p>Tired of Time Machine running all the time? You can turn it off in the Time Machine preference pane, but still initiate a single backup by choosing Back Up Now from Time Machine's menu bar icon. Of course, your backup is much less likely to be up to date, but Time Machine won't be taking any resources while you're trying to work.</p></p>
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<a href="/article/7864"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7864', 'show')">Take Control's First Anniversary (and 50% Off Sale!)</a></h4>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 25 Oct 2004</div></div>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 25 Oct 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7867"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7867', 'show')">Serving Rolex Spam at Alice's Restaurant</a></h4>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 25 Oct 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7868"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7868', 'show')">Persistence Pays: The Return of XNS</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7868" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7868">Remember XNS? It was the platform for simplifying and securing the exchange of data over the Internet that I helped launch just over four years ago. Back then, I was acting as chairman of the non-profit governance organization XNSORG, which was working with XNS's developer, Seattle-based OneName Corporation, to manage and promote XNS</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 Oct 2004</div></div>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 18 Oct 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7856"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7856', 'show')">Take Control of Upgrading to Panther Now in Dutch</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7856" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7856">Take Control of Upgrading to Panther Now in Dutch -- Our untiring Dutch translation team has gone beyond translating TidBITS each week to bring Dutch-speaking Macintosh users a translation of Joe Kissell's "Take Control of Upgrading to Panther." As with our other translations, it's $7.50, with a third of the price going to the translators</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 Oct 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7857"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7857', 'show')">TidBITS Night on The Mac Night Owl Live</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7857" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7857">TidBITS Night on The Mac Night Owl Live -- It was a TidBITS double-header on The Mac Night Owl Live radio show with Gene Steinberg on 15-Oct-04, as both Contributing Editor Matt Neuburg and I talked with Gene</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 Oct 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7858"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7858', 'show')">Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Service Pack 1 Squishes Bugs</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7858" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7858">A few weeks ago, the PR person at Edelman who works with Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit contacted me to let me know that there would be an automatic update to the Microsoft AutoUpdate utility, a new part of Office 2004</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 Oct 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7835"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7835', 'show')">Macworld Expo SF 2005 Free Registration</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7835" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7835">Macworld Expo SF 2005 Free Registration -- IDG World Expo has opened up registration for the upcoming Macworld Expo in San Francisco from 10-Jan-05 through 14-Jan-05 (the exhibit hall opens on Tuesday, 11-Jan-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> | 04 Oct 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7837"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7837', 'show')">Save on .Mac Renewals</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7837" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7837">Like many people who subscribed to .Mac back when Apple morphed the service over from iTools, I recently received an email message reminding me that my .Mac membership would automatically renew for $100 plus tax, making the total cost nearly $110</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 Oct 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7839"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7839', 'show')">ManOpen Opens Man Pages</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7839" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7839">As much as I'm perfectly capable of getting around via the Unix command line, I won't pretend I'm fluent or comfortable in that environment. Usually, I just spend some time figuring out the syntax and all the obscure little switches for some command, then record it in NoteBook so I don't have to go through the process again if I don't remember everything the next time I need the command.In that process of learning how to express a particular Unix command, I rely on the Unix man pages, like everyone else</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 Oct 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7824"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7824', 'show')">New Sponsors: easyDNS and HobbyLink Japan</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7824" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7824">New Sponsors: easyDNS and HobbyLink Japan -- We're extremely pleased to welcome back as a long-term sponsor easyDNS, the DNS registration, hosting, and management company where we've kept all the TidBITS domain names for several years now</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> | 27 Sep 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7825"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7825', 'show')">Allume Ships StuffIt Deluxe and StuffIt Standard 9.0</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7825" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7825">Allume Ships StuffIt Deluxe and StuffIt Standard 9.0 -- Allume has upgraded their long-standing compression, archiving, and expansion utilities, improving performance (particularly on dual-processor Macs) and improving the interface and user 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> | 27 Sep 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7830"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7830', 'show')">iPhoto Workshop in Malta Cancelled</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7830" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7830">iPhoto Workshop in Malta Cancelled -- We're sorry to announce that Techie Tours has been forced to cancel our iPhoto workshop in Malta, scheduled for the second week in November</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> | 27 Sep 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7815"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7815', 'show')">Security Update 2004-09-07 1.1 Fixes FTP & Safari</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7815" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7815">Security Update 2004-09-07 1.1 Fixes FTP & Safari -- Just after we put last week's issue to bed with a warning about Security Update 2004-09-07 1.0, Apple released Security Update 2004-09-07 version 1.1, which offers two important fixes</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> | 20 Sep 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7817"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7817', 'show')">Ovolab Phlink Adds Network Caller ID Announcements</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7817" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7817">Ovolab Phlink Adds Network Caller ID Announcements -- Ovolab's Phlink is a USB device that plugs into your phone line and, when bolstered by the Phlink software for Mac OS X, enables all sorts of fun telephony-related functions triggered by receiving a call</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> | 20 Sep 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7818"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7818', 'show')">Take Control of Users & Accounts in Panther in Japanese</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7818" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7818">Take Control of Users & Accounts in Panther in Japanese -- In our continuing expansion of Take Control to other languages, we're pleased to announce the release of the Japanese translation of Kirk McElhearn's "Take Control of Users & Accounts in Panther." Translated once again by our volunteer Japanese translation team, the Japanese version of "Take Control of Users & Accounts in Panther" costs $7.50, and we're also offering a $1.50 discount for anyone who buys this translation along with the Japanese translation of Matt Neuburg's "Take Control of Customizing Panther." As with previous translations, Japanese speakers who already purchased the English version of "Take Control of Users & Accounts in Panther" are entitled to a free copy of the Japanese translation; if you didn't receive mail from us, click the Check for Updates button on the first page of the English version of "Take Control of Users & Ac</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> | 20 Sep 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7820"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7820', 'show')">Take Control Expands to Print</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7820" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7820">We started the Take Control project, about a year ago, with one goal: to publish in a whole new way. The key to our approach was the production of electronic books, which are more timely, more focused, more economical, and more easily updated than print books can be</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> | 20 Sep 2004</div></div>
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