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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7709" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7709">Atlassian Sponsoring TidBITS -- Two weeks, two new long-term sponsors! It's great to see new companies recognizing the effectiveness of sponsoring TidBITS.This week we're pleased to welcome to our core group of sponsors Atlassian, a small Australian company that makes a pair of fascinating products for organizations looking to make their project teams more effective</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 Jun 2004</div></div>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7712" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7712">iPhoto 4 Visual QuickStart Guide Available in Print and PDF -- This is embarrassing, but I just realized that I never mentioned that the latest version of my iPhoto book - iPhoto 4 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide - has been available for sale since the end of April (Peachpit released it right as we left for my sister's wedding in Hawaii, where I was sick the entire time - that's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it!)</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 Jun 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7713"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7713', 'show')">Poll Results: Your Preferred Email Client</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7713" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7713">Last week's poll asking about your preferred Macintosh email client generated some interesting data, non-scientific though it is. Apple's Mail ran away with the poll, picking up 41 percent of the more than 2,600 responses</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 Jun 2004</div></div>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7700" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7700">Web Information Systems Sponsoring TidBITS -- I'm pleased to welcome our latest long-term sponsor, a small developer called Web Information Systems that has recently released the $25 application MindFortress for Mac OS X 10.3</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 Jun 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7701" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7701">SyncDeK Synchronizes FileMaker Databases -- At the last Macworld Expo in San Francisco, I saw an interesting product called SyncDeK that offered a unique feature: field-level synchronization of the data within FileMaker databases even when the databases aren't on the same network</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 Jun 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7704"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7704', 'show')">Poll Redux: Your Preferred Email Client</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7704" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7704">Over four years ago, we ran a poll asking which program was your preferred email client. We've meant to run that poll again on a variety of occasions, and with the recent major releases of Entourage 2004 and PowerMail 5.0, and with Eudora jumping to version 6.1.1 and Apple Mail taking a small step to version 1.3.8, it's clearly time to revisit the question.We are, of course, also interested in the topic now that we've started to publish Take Control ebooks about some of the major email programs, including Tom Negrino's just-released "Take Control of What's New in Entourage 2004" and Joe Kissell's "Take Control of Spam with Apple Mail." We've had requests for Take Control ebooks about other email programs as well, notably Eudora, but without knowing roughly how the usage percentages break down among the different programs, it's been </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 Jun 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7705"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7705', 'show')">Join Us in the Mediterranean in November</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7705" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7705">Two years ago I wrote about the MacMania cruise to Alaska, which was, at least to me, a fascinating and innovative combination of technical training and vacation adventure</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 Jun 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7689"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7689', 'show')">Creo Six Degrees 2.0 Supports More Email Programs</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7689" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7689">Creo Six Degrees 2.0 Supports More Email Programs -- Creo has released a major update to Six Degrees, their utility for connecting related email messages, files, and people for coherent project management</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 Jun 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7691" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7691">Eudora 6.1.1 Released -- Qualcomm has released Eudora 6.1.1, a minor update to the company's popular email program. Bug fixes include a fix to importing from Apple Mail, tweaks to Eudora's Bayesian-based spam filter, and other minor 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> | 07 Jun 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7692" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7692">PowerMail 5 Released -- In other email news, CTM Development has shipped PowerMail 5, a major revision of their email client. PowerMail 5 features tight integration with Michael Tsai's excellent SpamSieve for spam filtering, significant performance improvements throughout, additional filter actions, automatic deletion of trashed mail after a user-specified number of days, support for long file names and aliases for attachments, fully customizable toolbars, multiple Undos for various message management actions, 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> | 07 Jun 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7693" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7693">Just as we were about to wrap this issue, including a brief bit about an update to Paranoid Android - Unsanity's hack for warning the user about the launching of unknown URL schemes - Apple released Security Update 2004-06-07, which claims to fix all of the recently identified security vulnerabilities in Mac OS X (see our articles on the topic in TidBITS-731 for full details on what was broken).In short, the security update revises Launch Services so it alerts the user to applications that have not been explicitly launched before (with a dialog along the lines of the one Parano</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 Jun 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7673" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7673">No TidBITS Issue 31-May-04 -- After this week's extra-long TidBITS issue, we're taking a week off for the U.S. Memorial Day holiday, which coincides with Managing Editor Jeff Carlson's birthday celebrations and the days I'll be spending at the MacDesign conference</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 May 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7678"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7678', 'show')">Visualize the Internet with Envision</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7678" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7678">A year or so ago, I realized that LCD monitors were coming down in price sufficiently that it would be feasible to mount one on a wall and use it to display photos and other digital art</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 May 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7679"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7679', 'show')">URL-Based Mac OS X Vulnerability Revealed</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7679" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7679">It's not a Trojan horse, but a recently revealed security vulnerability does appear to be a very real concern. The exploit relies on unsafe actions that Apple allows for certain URL schemes (such as the http, ftp, or mailto bit at the beginning of a URL) and makes it possible for a malicious code to be delivered and executed silently, without the user realizing anything has happened.The problem was initially thought to revolve around only two of these URL schemes: disk and help</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 May 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7665"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7665', 'show')">HistoryHound Fetches the Past</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7665" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7665">HistoryHound Fetches the Past -- Talk about a delayed reaction! I've been moaning for years about how useless most Web browsers are at helping you return to places you've been in the past</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 May 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7667" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7667">disclabel 2.0 Released -- SmileOnMyMac has updated disclabel, their slick application for creating CD and DVD labels, along with inserts for jewel cases</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 May 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7668"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7668', 'show')">"Take Control of Customizing Panther" in Japanese</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7668" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7668">"Take Control of Customizing Panther" in Japanese -- Our industrious Japanese translators have done it again! We're pleased to announce the release of the Japanese translation of Matt Neuburg's "Take Control of Customizing Panther," which is now available for $7.50</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 May 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7669"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7669', 'show')">A Real Mac OS X Trojan Horse Appears</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7669" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7669">A few weeks after the hullabaloo surrounding Intego's press release about a technique that could be used to create a Trojan horse that looked like an MP3 file (see "Mac OS X Trojan Technique: Beware Geeks Bearing Gifts" in TidBITS-726), a real Mac OS X Trojan horse has been reported to Macworld UK</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 May 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7670"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7670', 'show')">WriteRight: The Writer's Word Processor</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7670" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7670">Please accept my sincere apologies if the title of this article has raised your pulse along with your hopes. There is no WriteRight, and, speaking as a professional writer, with thousands of articles and numerous books under my belt, I'm comfortable saying that the Macintosh world doesn't have a word processor that's designed for writers</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 May 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7659"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7659', 'show')">Now Software Deal Eases Data Sharing</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7659" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7659">Now Software Deal Eases Data Sharing -- Although Apple offers integrated contact management and calendar features with Mac OS X in the form of Address Book and iCal, Tonya and I have stuck with Now Up-to-Date & Contact from Now Software because those programs are ideal for sharing contacts and events among multiple Macs (and with Windows-based PCs as well)</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 May 2004</div></div>
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