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<a href="/article/6921"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6921', 'show')">Next Issue One Day Late</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6921" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6921">Next Issue One Day Late -- Due to staff vacation, next week's issue will be published Tuesday, 10-Sep-02, a day later than usual. Needless to say, since we'll be short-handed it's entirely possible some of our services will act up in the meantime, but perhaps they'll behave if they know we're on to their little games</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> | 02 Sep 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6925"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6925', 'show')">Interesting Bits of Jaguar</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6925" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6925">Last week's much-anticipated release of Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar hasn't disappointed - Apple pulled out all the stops in improving and adding to Mac OS X. Despite the $130 upgrade cost, over 100,000 people purchased Jaguar in the first weekend it was available, a number Apple claims is a record for Mac OS sales in a single weekend (though it undoubtedly includes all the pre-orders placed up to that time as well).We've all heard plenty about the major features of Jaguar so far - iChat, Rendezvous, the system-wide Address Book, etc</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> | 02 Sep 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6913"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6913', 'show')">Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar Unleashed</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6913" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6913">Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar Unleashed -- On Saturday, 24-Aug-02, Apple released Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar, the second major update to Mac OS X since the operating system's release on 24-Mar-01</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 Aug 2002</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6915" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6915">Creo Sponsoring TidBITS -- We're pleased to announce our latest sponsor, Creo, whose Six Degrees software brings to email the elegant thought that computer programs should make easier those tasks that you already perform</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 Aug 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6917"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6917', 'show')">The First Week of PayBITS</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6917" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6917">Since PayBITS is such a major experiment for us, I thought I'd provide a quick report on how the first week went. Despite my not realizing that building a suggested amount into a PayPal URL would prevent people from entering their own amount (unless they cleverly edited the URL), my iPhoto Techniques article received 26 payments for a total of $116.50</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> | 26 Aug 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6918"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6918', 'show')">Upgrading the TiVo</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6918" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6918">Tonya and I have been big fans of the TiVo digital video recorder since we first got a 30-hour unit a few years back. It fits our style of watching television perfectly, since we previously used our VCR to record TV shows for watching when we felt like it, rather than on the scheduling whims of network television executives</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 Aug 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6905"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6905', 'show')">eMac Gets New Drives; iMac Gets Cheaper</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6905" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6905">eMac Gets New Drives; iMac Gets Cheaper -- Apple last week announced small changes to its consumer desktop line of Macs. The eMac, which initially offered only a CD-RW drive, now features either a Combo drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW) for $1,100, or Apple's SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW) for $1,500 (the two configurations differ in other ways too - the SuperDrive-equipped model has a faster CPU, more RAM, and a larger hard disk)</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> | 19 Aug 2002</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6906" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6906">New Retrospect Client, Xserve, Jaguar Compatibility -- Dantz Development last week released a new version of the Retrospect Client for Mac OS X along with additional information about compatibility between their Retrospect backup application and Apple's new Xserve server and the forthcoming Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar</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> | 19 Aug 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6907"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6907', 'show')">Apple Releases Beefy Dual-Proc Power Macs</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6907" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6907">In a move many people expected to happen at last month's Macworld Expo, Apple has unveiled new Power Mac G4s that offer significant enhancements to Apple's professional desktop line while changing only the front panel of the elegant Power Mac industrial design</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> | 19 Aug 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6908"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6908', 'show')">Updates on the Digital Hub vs. Hollywood</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6908" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6908">Cory Doctorow's article last week on whether Apple's digital hub concept can survive the political machinations of Hollywood garnered unprecedented attention, thanks to a mention on the geek news site Slashdot</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> | 19 Aug 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6909"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6909', 'show')">PayBITS: Acknowledging the Value of Information</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6909" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6909">It's time to rethink how we value information, and I have a proposal about how we can do it.Some information changes hands at sky-high rates - think about rewards leading to the conviction of certain criminals</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> | 19 Aug 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6910"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6910', 'show')">iPhoto Power Techniques</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6910" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6910">Apple's iPhoto is simple and easy to use for importing, organizing, editing, and sharing photos, right? Not so fast. iPhoto is extremely simple, but that very simplicity sometimes makes it harder to use</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> | 19 Aug 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6899"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6899', 'show')">CMS ABSplus Adds Mac OS X Restores</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6899" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6899">CMS ABSplus Adds Mac OS X Restores -- CMS Peripherals has updated its Automatic Backup System Plus backup solution so it can now restore a Mac OS X system to working order, as it has been able to do with Mac OS 8.6 and Mac OS 9 since its initial release at Macworld San Francisco in January of 2002 (see "Macworld Expo San Francisco 2002 Superlatives" in TidBITS-612)</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 Aug 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6889"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6889', 'show')">PowerMail 4.0 Beefs Up Mail Handling</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6889" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6889">PowerMail 4.0 Beefs Up Mail Handling -- Despite Apple bundling Mail with every copy of Mac OS X, email developers continue to forge ahead, with the latest major release coming from Swiss company CTM Development</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 Aug 2002</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6890" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6890">Security Update 2002-08-02 Closes Unix Holes -- Apple has released yet another security update for Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server, fixing vulnerabilities in OpenSSL, the Apache mod_ssl module, and the Sun RPC XDR decoder</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 Aug 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6892"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6892', 'show')">MacHax Best Hack Contest CD 2002 Now Available</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6892" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6892">MacHax Best Hack Contest CD 2002 Now Available -- Want to see some cool hacks? The 2002 MacHax Best Hack Contest CD is now available directly from the MacHax Group for $20 plus shipping and handling</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 Aug 2002</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6893" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6893">Digital Photography Cruise -- If your appetite for cruise-based conferences was whetted by our coverage of the Mac Mania Geek Cruise, you might want to check out the upcoming Digital Photography Workshop at Sea, especially since the lead instructor is Arthur Bleich, a frequent contributor to TidBITS on digital photography topics</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 Aug 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6895"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6895', 'show')">Get It Rolling with the RollerMouse</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6895" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6895">Those of you who have been reading TidBITS for years may remember that back in 1992, I had a bout with carpal tunnel syndrome. I beat it with proper ergonomics and addressing the psychological stresses in my life, but I've retained a fascination with alternative keyboards and pointing devices that promise to reduce pain from repetitive stress injuries.So, when I saw a press release from Contour Design claiming that their RollerMouse Station reduced discomfort and pain by 47 percent in the call center of a major U.S</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 Aug 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6884"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6884', 'show')">To .Mac or Not To .Mac?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6884" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6884">To .Mac or Not To .Mac? If the results of our poll asking for your opinions of Apple's charges for .Mac are any indication, Apple will soon be serving somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000 .Mac customers, down from 2,200,000 iTools users</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 Jul 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6885"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6885', 'show')">Macworld Expo New York 2002 Superlatives</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6885" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6885">Although the number of exhibitors at Macworld Expo New York might have been lower than some previous years, there was still a lot to see, and a few products jumped out as being worthy of mention.EyeTV -- El Gato Software, the folks behind Roxio's Toast, had the hit of the show with their new EyeTV, a hardware and software combination that enables your Mac to act like digital video recorders TiVo and ReplayTV</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> and <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 29 Jul 2002</div></div>
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