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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6535" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6535">IPNetRouter 1.6.1 Released -- Sustainable Softworks has quietly released IPNetRouter 1.6.1, a minor bug fix that fixes a NAT (Network Address Translation) bug in the more significant release of 1.6 two weeks ago</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 Aug 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6539" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6539">Ecrix, Exabyte Merge -- Ecrix, makers of the VXA-1 tape drive, and Exabyte, makers of high-performance MammothTape drives used in large network backup situations, have announced plans to merge</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 Aug 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6540"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6540', 'show')">Macworld Expo San Francisco 2002 Free Passes</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6540" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6540">Macworld Expo San Francisco 2002 Free Passes -- If it's not one Macworld Expo coming up, it's another. If you're making plans to be in San Francisco for the 2002 Macworld Expo there, it's worth visiting the Macworld Expo Web site, where you can register for a free exhibits-only pass (but not the keynote) through 15-Oct-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> | 27 Aug 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6541" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6541">Despite the familiarity those in the Macintosh community have with Apple's innovations and achievements, it often seems that the rest of the world sees Apple as just another computer manufacturer</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 Aug 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6524" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6524">Netscape 6.1 Released -- Netscape Communications has quietly released Netscape 6.1, the latest version of their integrated suite of Internet software that includes Web browsing, email, HTML editing, and instant messaging</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 Aug 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6526"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6526', 'show')">SpamCon Foundation Offers Anti-Spam Resources</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6526" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6526">SpamCon Foundation Offers Anti-Spam Resources -- Everyone hates spam, but some people go the extra mile to help stamp it out. That's especially true of Tom Geller, executive director of the recently founded SpamCon Foundation, a publicly supported California non-profit organization</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 Aug 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6527"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6527', 'show')">Poll Results: Was Your KidSafe?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6527" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6527">Poll Results: Was Your KidSafe? Last week we asked for opinions about why Apple's KidSafe didn't receive sufficient customer usage for Apple to continue the service</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 Aug 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6528"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6528', 'show')">Rejiggering Personal Voice Communications</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6528" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6528">As most of you know, Tonya, Tristan, and I moved from Seattle to Ithaca, New York, at the beginning of July. We're slowly settling into our new home and working through all the logistics required by life in a new location</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 Aug 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6516" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6516">Apple Discontinues KidSafe; Poll Asks Why -- People relying on Apple's selection of child-friendly Internet services and the KidSafe extension for restricting access to other sites will have to turn to another service</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> | 13 Aug 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6517"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6517', 'show')">PageSentry 4.0 Watches From Mac OS X</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6517" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6517">PageSentry 4.0 Watches From Mac OS X -- Maxum Development has released the latest version of their server monitoring and management utility. In short, PageSentry constantly monitors an Internet server and performs some action (sends you email, pages you, runs an AppleScript script) should the server fail to respond</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> | 13 Aug 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6519"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6519', 'show')">Palm and ODBC Support in Microsoft Office 10</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6519" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6519">Palm and ODBC Support in Microsoft Office 10 -- A miscommunication during my discussions with Microsoft about the two features missing from the initial release of Microsoft Office 10 led to some incorrect information in last week's article about the forthcoming office application suite.In short, both Palm synchronization and ODBC support are slated for inclusion in Office 10, but they'll appear as free add-ons that arrive some time after Office 10 itself ships</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> | 13 Aug 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6510" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6510">Metricom's Ricochet Network Goes Dark -- Hard on the heels of last month's bankruptcy filing, long-range wireless networking company Metricom announced last week that it would be shutting down its 15-city wireless network on 08-Aug-01 and laying off 282 employees</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> | 06 Aug 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6511"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6511', 'show')">Conflict Catcher 8.0.9 Supports Mac OS 9.2 and Mac OS X</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6511" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6511">Conflict Catcher 8.0.9 Supports Mac OS 9.2 and Mac OS X -- Casady & Greene has released Conflict Catcher 8.0.9, a minor release of their venerable extension manager</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> | 06 Aug 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6512"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6512', 'show')">Spring Cleaning Sweeps Out Mac OS X</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6512" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6512">Spring Cleaning Sweeps Out Mac OS X -- Aladdin Systems recently released Spring Cleaning 4.0, which helps you throw out all that digital crud that accumulates on our hard disk: things like duplicate files, orphaned aliases, empty folders, orphaned preferences files, and so on</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> | 06 Aug 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6513"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6513', 'show')">Navel Gazing for Fun and Profit</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6513" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6513">Ten years ago on our first anniversary, I related the results of an email and postal mail survey in a special issue. (That's right, postal mail: the Web wouldn't arrive for several years yet.) A recent trip back to that issue proved fascinating, and not just for the raw numbers (which revealed that we had a readership of between 5,000 and 20,000 people from 18 countries, as compared to today's numbers of about 60,000 readers hailing from more than 120 top-level domains that correspond roughly to countries)</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> | 06 Aug 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6514"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6514', 'show')">Microsoft Office 10's Carrot and Stick</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6514" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6514">With Mac OS X 10.1 - as demoed at this year's Macworld Expo in New York - Apple looks to be making necessary changes that will bring its next generation operating system to a point where it will appeal to an audience beyond bleeding edge early adopters and Macintosh/Unix geeks</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> | 06 Aug 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6498" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6498">easyDNS Sponsoring TidBITS -- We're pleased to welcome our latest sponsor, the Canadian company easyDNS. The founders initially started out as a Web development company, but the process of working with Network Solutions to implement DNS changes was so frustrating that they changed direction and created easyDNS to provide Web-based administration tools for configuring and managing your domain name information</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> | 23 Jul 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6500"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6500', 'show')">Japanese TidBITS on Hiatus; Seeking New Translators</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6500" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6500">Japanese TidBITS on Hiatus; Seeking New Translators -- It's with deep regret that I pass on the news that the Japanese translation of TidBITS is going on hiatus until a new team of translators can be found</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> | 23 Jul 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6502"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6502', 'show')">Macworld Expo 2001: A Tale of Two Expos</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6502" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6502">It was the best of expos, it was the worst of expos.With apologies to Charles Dickens, this year's Macworld Expo in New York City was a truly odd show</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> | 23 Jul 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6493"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6493', 'show')">Where Webvan Went Wrong</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6493" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6493">Last week's demise of Webvan came as absolutely no surprise to Tonya and me, since we'd been Webvan customers - for a while - after their acquisition of HomeGrocer a year ago</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> | 16 Jul 2001</div></div>
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