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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5959" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5959">Spring Cleaning 3.5 Adds iClean -- Aladdin Systems has released Spring Cleaning 3.5, the latest version of the company's utility for cleaning up your 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> | 05 Jun 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5960"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5960', 'show')">AMUG Puts 3.2 GB of Shareware on DVD</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5960" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5960">AMUG Puts 3.2 GB of Shareware on DVD -- With their 650 MB of storage space, CD-ROMs just don't cut it as large file repositories any more. But the Arizona Macintosh Users Group (AMUG) has now released a collection of Macintosh freeware and shareware on DVD, containing over 9,500 items for a full 3.2 GB of files (over 5 GB decompressed)</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 Jun 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5961"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5961', 'show')">Poll Results: Keeping It to Yourself</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5961" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5961">Poll Results: Keeping It to Yourself -- Last issue's article on how people view their privacy (see "Thread Models and Domination Systems" in TidBITS-532) inspired our poll question of "Do you use any of the following strategies to protect your privacy online?" Your threat models must not devote much space to online privacy, since only 732 people responded at all</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 Jun 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5962"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5962', 'show')">Poll Preview: On the Road Again</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5962" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5962">Poll Preview: On the Road Again -- Later in this issue, Jeff Carlson looks at some devices that make a Palm organizer more useful on the road. You'll have to read on to see if Jeff decides he can use his Palm in favor of his PowerBook, but we're curious what computing and communication devices you find the most useful when you're travelling</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 Jun 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5945" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5945">Farallon Ships 11 Mbps Wireless SkyLINE Card -- Farallon Communications is now shipping its SkyLINE 11 Mb wireless networking card, which the company announced in February</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 May 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5946" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5946">PowerMail 3.0.1 Adds Manual, Fixes Bugs -- Hot on the heels of version 3.0, CTM Development has released PowerMail 3.0.1, a free upgrade that addresses numerous minor issues with the email client and adds several welcome features (see "Migrating to New Climes with PowerMail" in TidBITS-530)</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 May 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5950"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5950', 'show')">Mac OS X Leaves the Station</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5950" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5950">Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is an odd beast with the head of a developer, the torso of a product marketing manager, and the hindquarters of a PR flack</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 May 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5951"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5951', 'show')">Threat Models and Domination Systems</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5951" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5951">Are you afraid of Big Brother? Are you concerned that secret spy satellites monitor your every communication, from greeting the first person you see in the morning to shutting down your Mac after a long day of using email and the Web? I'm not, though some people are</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 May 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5938"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5938', 'show')">Web Confidential 2.0 Syncs with Palm Devices</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5938" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5938">Web Confidential 2.0 Syncs with Palm Devices -- Alco Blom has released Web Confidential 2.0, a major update to his $20 shareware Macintosh storage and organization utility for sensitive information (see "Web Confidential: Securing Information of All Sorts" in TidBITS-441)</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> | 15 May 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5940"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5940', 'show')">Poll Preview: Paying Your Fair Share</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5940" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5940">Poll Preview: Paying Your Fair Share -- Matt Deatherage's article this week about Gadget Software's misappropriation of shareware utilities from other developers highlights an unusual case of using software without paying for it</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> | 15 May 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5941" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5941">In last week's quiz, we asked: "Into which of the following ports should you never plug a device while the Macintosh is turned on." Of the over 2,200 responses, 64 percent chose the correct answer, which is SCSI, with 29 percent being fooled by the so-close-it-hurts wrong answer of ADB</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> | 15 May 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5925"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5925', 'show')">AppleShare IP 6.3.2 Shuts Security Hole</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5925" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5925">AppleShare IP 6.3.2 Shuts Security Hole -- Apple Computer has released AppleShare IP 6.3.2, a small but important update designed to fix a potential security problem in the Web server module of AppleShare IP 6.1 and later</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> | 08 May 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5928"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5928', 'show')">Quiz Preview: Port Authority</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5928" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5928">Quiz Preview: Port Authority -- Over the years, the Macintosh has sported a wide variety of ports for connecting peripherals and extending the computer's capabilities</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> | 08 May 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5929" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5929">Poll Results: Collateral Spammage -- About 1,200 people voted in last week's poll that asked how many unsolicited commercial email messages you received per week on average</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> | 08 May 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5921" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5921">Poll Preview: Collateral Spammage -- This week brings the conclusion of Brady Johnson's look at anti-spam legislation in the United States, and his article prompted us to wonder how serious the spam problem is for you</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> | 01 May 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5922"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5922', 'show')">Modifying the Macintosh Startup Sequence</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5922" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5922">In last week's quiz, we asked what you hold down at startup to eject removable media from your Mac. The correct answer is the mouse button, which about two-thirds of the 2,150 quiz respondents knew</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> | 01 May 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5905"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5905', 'show')">Poll Results: TidBITS is Ten!</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5905" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5905">Poll Results: TidBITS is Ten! Almost 1,400 people participated in last week's poll asking when you started reading TidBITS, and it took a few days for me to figure out why 1993, 1994, and 1995 were the most popular answers</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> | 24 Apr 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5906" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5906">Quiz Preview: Eject This! It's time to take a break from polls and test your knowledge of the Macintosh again. The question on our home page this week is, "What do you hold down at startup to eject removable media?" You can choose from among eight answers, and if you submit an answer to the quiz, we'll tell you not only which answer is correct, but also what happens with all of the incorrect answers</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> | 24 Apr 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5893"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5893', 'show')">Now Up-to-Date & Contact 3.9 Adds Palm Sync</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5893" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5893">Now Up-to-Date & Contact 3.9 Adds Palm Sync -- Power On Software has released Now Up-to-Date & Contact 3.9, a free update to the popular calendar and contact manager bundle that adds the long-awaited capability to synchronize information with Palm handheld organizers</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> | 17 Apr 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5894" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5894">PowerMail 3.0 Released -- CTM Development has released version 3.0 of their PowerMail email client, a major rewrite that builds on the program's strengths with multi-lingual email and support for Sherlock searching</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> | 17 Apr 2000</div></div>
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