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<a href="/article/7661"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7661', 'show')">Technology on Vacation</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7661" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7661">We're finally caught up from our vacation on Kauai, Hawaii, and as much as I wish I could say that it was a truly relaxing and wonderful time, in reality I was utterly sick for all but the last few days, which put a major crimp in affairs</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>
<a href="/article/7657"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7657', 'show')">iTunes 4.5 and the iTunes Music Store, One Year Later</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> | 03 May 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7642"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7642', 'show')">Take Control 50% Off Sale for TidBITS 14th Anniversary</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7642" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7642">Take Control 50% Off Sale for TidBITS 14th Anniversary -- While we were in Hawaii last week for my sister's wedding, TidBITS celebrated 14 years of continuous publication</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> | 26 Apr 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7631" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7631">No TidBITS 19-Apr-04 -- We're taking the next issue of TidBITS off for a little hard-earned rest and recuperation in Hawaii at my sister Jennifer's wedding</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> | 12 Apr 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7633"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7633', 'show')">Eudora 6.1 Adds Google Searching</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7633" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7633">Eudora 6.1 Adds Google Searching -- Qualcomm has released Eudora 6.1, the latest version of their venerable email client. New in Eudora 6.1 is a toolbar-based Search Bar that enables you to search either within Eudora or in Google via your Web browser; you can also Control- or right-click a word and choose it from the contextual menu that appears to search for it in Google</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> | 12 Apr 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7635"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7635', 'show')">NoteBook 1.2 v180 Beefs up HTML Export</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7635" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7635">NoteBook 1.2 v180 Beefs up HTML Export -- Circus Ponies Software has released NoteBook 1.2 v180, a minor upgrade to their elegant snippet keeper and information manager, which I've found handy for maintaining to do lists and taking notes on complex procedures</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> | 12 Apr 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7636"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7636', 'show')">Mac OS X Trojan Technique: Beware Geeks Bearing Gifts</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7636" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7636">By now, assuming you pay any attention to the Macintosh media in between your weekly doses of TidBITS, you've undoubtedly heard of the hubbub brewing around the announcement last Thursday of the first Trojan horse to target Mac OS X</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> | 12 Apr 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7622" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7622">Retrospect 6.0.193 Released -- Dantz Development has released Retrospect 6.0.193, a minor update to the company's powerful backup program (see "Dantz Ships Panther-Compatible Retrospect 6.0" in TidBITS-714)</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> | 05 Apr 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7623"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7623', 'show')">LaunchBar 3.3 and 4.0b1 Released</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7623" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7623">LaunchBar 3.3 and 4.0b1 Released -- Objective Development last week released both LaunchBar 3.3, the latest version of their slick keyboard-based application launcher, and LaunchBar 4.0b1, a public beta of the next major version (see "Tools We Use: LaunchBar" in TidBITS-671)</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> | 05 Apr 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7624"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7624', 'show')">Panorama V 4.9.6 Released</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7624" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7624">Panorama V 4.9.6 Released -- Back in September 2003, we noted in TidBITS-697 that ProVUE Development had released a public preview version of Panorama, their long-standing database program</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> | 05 Apr 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7625" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7625">DealBITS Drawing: Autographed Spam Winner -- Although we had only 257 entries in our one-day DealBITS drawing for an autographed can of actual Spam, as announced in last Thursday's extracurricular issue, the competition for that can was hot and heavy, with a number of people begging for special dispensation</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> | 05 Apr 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7626"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7626', 'show')">Evaluating Wireless Security Needs: The Three L's</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7626" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7626">Crackers, worms, viruses, zombies, trojans... it seems as though the promise of constant access and instantaneous communication through networking has been twisted in such a way that people are afraid in ways that few expected back in less-connected days</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> | 05 Apr 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7612"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7612', 'show')">"Take Control of Your Island Nation" Released</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7612" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7612">"Take Control of Your Island Nation" Released -- Needless to say, few of us actually have our own island nations, but with this latest installment in our Take Control series of electronic books, we're branching out into the rough-and-tumble world of business self-help books like "First, Break All The Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently." Written by legendary business consultant Michael Milkem, the hidden force behind NeXT's acquisition of Apple Computer and the AOL/Time Warner merger, "Take Control of Your Island Nation" draws comparisons between orchestrating an overthrow of a corrupt banana republic government and regaining authority in an out-of-control business</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 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7614" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7614">This week we have a special one-day DealBITS drawing! In conjunction with Hormel's anti-spam campaign, we're giving away one can of Spam, the real stuff, a $2.95 value</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 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7616"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7616', 'show')">U.S. Department of Homeland Security Standardizes on Macs</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7616" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7616">Cast your mind back to September of 1999, when we reported on a highly publicized move by the U.S. Army to transition its primary Web server from Windows NT to Power Macintosh G3s running WebSTAR (then from StarNine Technologies, now owned by 4D)</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 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7619"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7619', 'show')">Please Take Your SEETS</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7619" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7619">If you've ever been a part of a decentralized working group, you're undoubtedly aware of the utility of shared conference calls; I've spent many an hour on conference calls for a variety of projects</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 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7601"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7601', 'show')">iChat AV 2.1 Adds Videoconferencing with Windows</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7601" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7601">iChat AV 2.1 Adds Videoconferencing with Windows -- If you've been wanting to participate in video or audio chats with Windows-using friends, last week's release is what you've been waiting for</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> | 29 Mar 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7602"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7602', 'show')">Adobe Discontinues FrameMaker for Macintosh</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7602" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7602">Adobe Discontinues FrameMaker for Macintosh -- In an unsurprising announcement, Adobe Systems said that it would discontinue the Macintosh version of the high-end publishing program FrameMaker as of 21-Apr-04</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> | 29 Mar 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7603" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7603">iPhoto 4.0.1 Fixes Bugs -- Apple has released iPhoto 4.0.1, an important bug fix update to the company's photo management program. Although Apple's release notes are, as usual, short on specifics, iPhoto 4.0.1 features improved performance, better thumbnail rendering, and numerous bug fixes that Apple claims improve stability</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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