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<a href="/article/6484"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6484', 'show')">Macworld Expo NY 2001 Events</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6484" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6484">It's time once again for Macworld Expo in New York on July 18th through July 20th, and I'm dying to see if this show marks the pivotal point for Mac OS X that Apple has been predicting</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> | 09 Jul 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6485"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6485', 'show')">XNS: It's Dog Food Time</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6485" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6485">About nine months ago, I wrote about a new technology platform called XNS (eXtensible Name Service) and the non-profit organization I and several others had formed to manage the technology</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> | 09 Jul 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6476" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6476">Last week I wrote about how Mac OS X fared at the MacHack developers conference, and I also looked at the results of the annual hack contest. However, MacHack is such an unusual conference that I can't resist passing on a few other amusing bits.Only in America -- Although MacHack brings over 300 people to the Holiday Inn Fairlane for the duration of the conference, there are often a few other guests who walk around looking bewildered at the high density of hackers and their Macintosh paraphernalia</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 Jul 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6469"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6469', 'show')">MacHacking Mac OS X</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6469" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6469">This year's MacHack developers conference marked what I thought might be a pivotal point in the Macintosh industry. Mac OS X has been out for about 90 days, so developers have had some time to become familiar with it, and experienced users have started to identify Mac OS X's omissions and problems</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 Jun 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6470" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6470">Although much happens at the MacHack developers conference, the heart of the event is the MacHax Group's annual Hack Contest, which gives the programmers a chance to code without worrying about utility, stability, or even usability</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 Jun 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6461" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6461">icWord 1.2 Adds Double-Byte Support -- The recently released 1.2 update to Panergy's icWord utility for viewing and printing Microsoft Word documents can now read files created by the Far East version of Microsoft Word, including those in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other double-byte languages</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 Jun 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6462" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6462">IPNetSentry 1.1.1 Traces Intruders -- Sustainable Softworks has released IPNetSentry 1.1.1, a minor update to the company's personal firewall software (see "Macworld SF 2001 Trend: Personal Firewalls" in TidBITS-564)</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 Jun 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6463"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6463', 'show')">BBEdit Lite 6.1.1 Fixes Bugs</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6463" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6463">BBEdit Lite 6.1.1 Fixes Bugs -- Bare Bones Software has released BBEdit Lite 6.1.1, a bug fix update to the company's free text editor. BBEdit Lite 6.1.1 now remembers changes to the Default Font setting, honors search options in multi-file searches, provides dynamic scrolling under Mac OS 8.1 and earlier, improves Mac OS X clipboard performance, and fixes a crashing bug related to the Hard Wrap command</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 Jun 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6464"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6464', 'show')">We Must Retain Control of the Horizontal...</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6464" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6464">A recent report from Jupiter Media Metrix made the seemingly provocative claim that as of March of 2001, a mere four companies control just over 50 percent of all user minutes spent online in the 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> | 18 Jun 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6454" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6454">Sustainable Softworks Sponsoring TidBITS -- We're pleased to announce our latest TidBITS sponsor, the network utility company Sustainable Softworks. Best known for their IPNetRouter program, which turns almost any Mac into a feature-rich network router, Sustainable Softworks also makes other useful utilities like IPNetMonitor, which helps you test and troubleshoot network connections and IPNetTuner, which enables you to tweak Open Transport's internal settings</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> | 11 Jun 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6458"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6458', 'show')">Spam Damned in Washington State</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6458" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6458">Last week, the Washington State Supreme Court unanimously struck down last year's ruling from King County Superior Court Judge Palmer Robinson that Washington State's anti-spam law was unconstitutional</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> | 11 Jun 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6447"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6447', 'show')">Outpost.com Acquired by PC Connection</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6447" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6447">Outpost.com Acquired by PC Connection -- The Internet consolidation is continuing, with Outpost.com founder and CEO Darryl Peck announcing on 30-May-01 that his company is being acquired by long-time hardware and software vendor PC Connection, which also runs the Mac Connection catalog and Web site</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 Jun 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6452"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6452', 'show')">TidBITS Returns to Ithaca</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6452" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6452">They say you can never go home again. That's true, after the fashion attributed to the paradoxical Greek philosopher Heraclitus, who quoted by Plato as saying that you could not step into the same river twice</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 Jun 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6428"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6428', 'show')">SoundJam Fades Out 01-Jun-01</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6428" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6428">SoundJam Fades Out 01-Jun-01 -- The future of Casady & Greene's SoundJam MP has been in question since SoundJam's programmers went to Apple, where they based the free iTunes on their SoundJam code (see "SoundJam Keeps On Jammin'" in TidBITS-535 for a review)</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 May 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6420"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6420', 'show')">Fetch 4.0 Off the Leash</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6420" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6420">Fetch 4.0 Off the Leash -- Jim Matthews, who bought the rights to his Fetch FTP client from Dartmouth College and founded Fetch Softworks with his winnings on the 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> | 07 May 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6410"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6410', 'show')">Bad Power Mac G4 Hard Drives</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6410" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6410">Bad Power Mac G4 Hard Drives -- Apple has revealed that some Power Mac G4s (Digital Audio - those released in January of 2001) contain defective 40 GB and 60 GB hard drives that can damage files, cause data loss, and potentially prevent the computer from starting up</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> | 30 Apr 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6412" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6412">BBEdit 6.1.1 Addresses Conflicts, Fixes Bugs -- Less than a week after releasing BBEdit 6.1, Bare Bones Software has issued a minor update to fix crashes caused by bugs in St</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> | 30 Apr 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6401" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6401">Eudora 5.1 Adds SSL, Palm Address Synchronization -- Qualcomm has released Eudora 5.1, a free update to their popular email application. New features include support for secure, authenticated connections via SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) if your email server supports them; an option to display signatures inline in message composition windows; support for sending, receiving, and storing vCards; colorizing of MoodWatch trigger words and phrases (Paid or Sponsored mode only); and a new MoodWatch settings panel</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 Apr 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6402"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6402', 'show')">BBEdit 6.1 Adds Features, Mac OS X Support</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6402" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6402">BBEdit 6.1 Adds Features, Mac OS X Support -- Bare Bones Software's popular text and HTML editor BBEdit has now joined the ranks of software carbonized for 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> | 23 Apr 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6404"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6404', 'show')">PowerBook G4 Titanium Propels Apple $43 Million Profit</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6404" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6404">For its second fiscal quarter of 2001, Apple Computer last week announced a net profit of $43 million dollars, or $.12 per share, on sales of 751,000 Macs</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 Apr 2001</div></div>
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