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<h6>Editing iCal Events in Snow Leopard</h6>
<p><p>Snow Leopard makes looking at event details in iCal easier. In the Leopard version of iCal, you had to double-click an event to reveal only some information in a pop-up box; you then needed to click the Edit button (or press Command-E) to edit an item's information. In Snow Leopard, choose Edit > Show Inspector (or press Command-Option-I) to bring up a floating inspector that provides an editable view of any items selected in your calendar.</p></p>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6346" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6346">Napster Injunction Handed Down -- Following up on last month's Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision, U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Patel issued an injunction 06-Mar-01 ordering the Napster song-swapping service to remove all copyrighted materials within 72 hours of notification by the copyright owners</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 Mar 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6347" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6347">AirPort 1.3 Adds PPPoE Support -- Apple has released AirPort 1.3, a new version of the software for the AirPort Base Station and AirPort Card. (See "Going to the AirPort" in TidBITS-567.) Foremost among the changes is support for PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet), an ugly yet common technology that enables ISPs to make always-on DSL connections act like session-based connections</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 Mar 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6349"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6349', 'show')">Come Together: Document Collaboration, Part 2</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6349" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6349">Last week I looked at some of the variables involved with creating document collaboration systems, and walked through the process that we use with TidBITS</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 Mar 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6325"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6325', 'show')">MacWEEK to Roll into MacCentral</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6325" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6325">MacWEEK to Roll into MacCentral -- After eleven years in print and three more years online after the print transformation into eMediaweekly (which itself lasted only five months), MacWEEK is finally no 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> | 05 Mar 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6327"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6327', 'show')">Come Together: Document Collaboration, Part 1</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6327" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6327">One of the great features of the Internet, according to the pundits, is how wonderfully it enables communication and collaboration between widely separated individuals</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 Mar 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6322"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6322', 'show')">Ecrix's VXA-1 Tape Drive: Big Fast Backups</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6322" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6322">Huge hard disks are a boon in today's world of MP3s and QuickTime movies, but they've made reliable backup strategies harder to develop. Back when I bought my first 2.6 GB DAT drive, I'd just added my first 1 GB hard disk to my main Mac, and no other Mac on my network had over 700 MB online</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 Feb 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6304"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6304', 'show')">Poll Preview: How Do You Want to Read TidBITS in Email?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6304" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6304">Poll Preview: How Do You Want to Read TidBITS in Email? We're considering new ways of publishing TidBITS, and we need your help. We published our first 99 issues via email in HyperCard, then in 1992 switched to the text-only setext format you see in email now</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 Feb 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6306"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6306', 'show')">Eastgate Systems Releases Storyspace 2</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6306" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6306">Eastgate Systems Releases Storyspace 2 -- Eastgate Systems, long-time publishers of hypertext tools and hypertext writings, has released Storyspace 2, a total rewrite of the company's innovative hypertext editor (see TidBITS-095, an entire issue devoted to the 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> | 19 Feb 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6308" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6308">Google Acquires Deja.com Usenet Archive -- The popular Google search engine and Web catalog, currently our favorite search site, has acquired Deja.com's Usenet Discussion Service, the archive of every Usenet posting since 1995</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 Feb 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6298" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6298">CS Odessa Sponsoring TidBITS -- We're happy to announce our latest sponsor, Computer Systems Odessa, makers of the intelligent diagramming and business drawing program ConceptDraw</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 Feb 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6299" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6299">With the push towards profits becoming essential for many Internet firms, we've recently seen online businesses undertake a variety of efforts to create additional revenue</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 Feb 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6300"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6300', 'show')">Going to the AirPort</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6300" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6300">My brief story about setting up a wireless Ethernet network in our hotel room at Macworld Expo for the purposes of sharing a Ricochet-based Internet connection made some readers wish that they too could do such things (see "Macworld SF 2001: Go Wireless, Young Mac" in TidBITS-565)</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 Feb 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6290"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6290', 'show')">Apple Offers Mac OS X Discounts to Beta Testers</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6290" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6290">Apple Offers Mac OS X Discounts to Beta Testers -- In a unsurprising but still welcome move, Apple has sent out email to people who purchased Mac OS X Public Beta informing them of a $30 discount (the cost of the public beta) on Mac OS X when it ships on 24-Mar-01, bringing its cost down to $100 from $130</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 Feb 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6292" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6292">Chuck Shotton Resurrecting MacHTTP -- Chuck Shotton, the man who created the first Web server for the Macintosh, is resurrecting that early program, MacHTTP, and is once again making it available to the Macintosh community</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 Feb 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6283"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6283', 'show')">Proxim Reunites Farallon and Netopia</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6283" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6283">Proxim Reunites Farallon and Netopia -- The convoluted history of the company which began as Farallon Communications continues to loop back on itself. In 1997, Farallon changed its name to Netopia and began to focus less on the Macintosh and more on the Internet</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 Jan 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6284"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6284', 'show')">Macworld SF 2001 Trend: Go Wireless, Young Mac</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6284" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6284">Back in 1999, Apple started the ball rolling on wireless networking by releasing the inexpensive AirPort Base Station and providing an AirPort option for all 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> | 29 Jan 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6285"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6285', 'show')">Macworld SF 2001 Trend: Photo Catalogs</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6285" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6285">Missing from Apple's statement of support for the digital lifestyle was an emphasis on digital photographs. I could easily see an iPhoto or iPicture from Apple at the next Macworld Expo - something to categorize and organize digital photographs, print and export them in useful ways, and easily create Web pages with your photos for viewing by your friends and family</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 Jan 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6276" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6276">German Translators Needed -- Some turnover among the energetic translators of TidBITS into German has revealed a need for a few more people to help out</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> | 22 Jan 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6277" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6277">The entire point of the SETI@home project is to exploit the massive computing power of millions of unused personal computers, and the project has broken new ground in processing radio signals from outer space</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> | 22 Jan 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6279"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6279', 'show')">Macworld SF 2001 Trend: User Groups Hold On</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6279" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6279">Traditionally, TidBITS publishes a "superlatives" article covering things at Macworld Expo that we find compelling or, at the very least, amusing</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> | 22 Jan 2001</div></div>
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