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<a href="/article/5463"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5463', 'show')">MacHack: The Ultimate Macintosh Event</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5463" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5463">Every so often, I feel like a total idiot. I've been reporting on the Macintosh industry for over nine years, and for the first few years, I vaguely knew there was a developer event called MacHack</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 Jul 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5432"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5432', 'show')">TidBITS Available in Russian</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5432" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5432">TidBITS Available in Russian -- Thanks to the diligent efforts of Leif Halvard Silli, Zoia Nikolskaia, and a few others, you can now read TidBITS in Russian</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 Jun 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5436"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5436', 'show')">Macintosh Model Implosion: What's in a Name?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5436" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5436">Back in late 1993, I teed off on Apple for the proliferation of Macintosh models that were then appearing. That was around the time the Performa line (which often had models identical to the LC line) expanded beyond understanding, with model numbers sometimes indicating nothing but different software bundles or retail outlets</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 Jun 1999</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5420" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5420">Trexar Technologies Sponsoring TidBITS -- We're pleased to welcome our latest sponsor, Trexar Technologies, makers of the shareware MacTuner and WeatherTracker</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 Jun 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5422"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5422', 'show')">DiskExpress Pro 3.0.2 Supports 8.6 but not HFS Plus</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5422" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5422">DiskExpress Pro 3.0.2 Supports 8.6 but not HFS Plus -- Alsoft has released DiskExpress Pro 3.0.2, a free update to the company's disk optimization utility that adds long-promised compatibility with current versions of the Mac OS, though not with HFS Plus-formatted volumes</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 Jun 1999</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5423" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5423">AutoShare 4.0 Released -- Four years after releasing version 1.0, Mikael Hansen has released version 4.0 of AutoShare, his freeware mailing list manager and email auto-responder</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 Jun 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5414"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5414', 'show')">Maximizing the Mouse</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5414" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5414">No, this article is not about squeezing profit from Disney stock. Our Macs all feature those unassuming rodents for clicking, dragging, and generally mousing around</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> | 31 May 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5415"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5415', 'show')">Mac OS X or Mac OS NeXT?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5415" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5415">When Apple acquired NeXT in late 1996 the goal was ostensibly to acquire a next-generation operating system that could replace the Mac OS, since Apple had bought into the notion that the Mac OS was creaky and could barely cross the street under its own steam</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> | 31 May 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5402"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5402', 'show')">Apple Announces Software Design Award Winners</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5402" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5402">Apple Announces Software Design Award Winners -- Apple Computer has announced the winners of the fourth annual Apple Design Awards competition, with REAL Software's REALbasic 1.0 and Alsoft's Disk Warrior 1.0 taking home multiple honors</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 May 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5397"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5397', 'show')">Mailing List Manners 102</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5397" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5397">Response to "Mailing List Manners 101" in TidBITS-480 has been tremendous, so much so that I've decided to add a few additional suggestions for ways people can improve quality of life on mailing lists</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 May 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5386"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5386', 'show')">Mailing List Manners 101</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5386" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5386">It's no secret that I'm a huge fan of mailing lists. I both subscribe to and operate a number of lists on many topics, and I spend much of my day communicating professionally and personally in these discussion groups.And yet, I'm troubled by behaviors I see in most lists</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> | 10 May 1999</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5377" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5377">Help Translate TidBITS -- We'd like to congratulate Heike Kurtz, who coordinates the volunteers who translate TidBITS into German each week, on the birth of her son, Martin</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> | 03 May 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5380"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5380', 'show')">NetBITS Absorbed Into TidBITS</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5380" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5380">The time has come to close the book on NetBITS. For those who joined us recently, NetBITS was a TidBITS-like newsletter that we published between September of 1997 and February of 1998</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> | 03 May 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5369"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5369', 'show')">Even More Fax</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5369" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5369">The number and variety of responses to Jeff Hecht's article "FaxSTF Echoes Sad State of Fax Software" in TidBITS-476 surprised us, in large part because with the exception of contributing editor Mark Anbinder, who's been a fan of Global Village's GlobalFax forever, we simply don't like fax software enough to use it for anything</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 Apr 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5370"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5370', 'show')">Should You Get AppleCare?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5370" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5370">About a year after you purchase Apple hardware, if you returned your registration card, you may receive a sales pitch from Apple for an extended warranty, called AppleCare</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 Apr 1999</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5362" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5362">This issue marks our ninth year of publication, and if anything, I remain all the more amazed that we're still publishing TidBITS. Flux runs rampant in the computer industry, and many Mac publications have come and gone</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 Apr 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5330"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5330', 'show')">Macworld Expo SF Moving to Austin</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5330" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5330">Macworld Expo SF Moving to Austin -- IDG Expo Management announced today that the January Macworld Expo, long a fixture in San Francisco's Moscone Center, will be moving to an as-yet-undisclosed location in Austin, Texas</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Apr 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5331"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5331', 'show')">Adam to Host Internet TV Show</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5331" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5331">Adam to Host Internet TV Show -- Although I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit it, I'll be hosting a live prime time television special for FOX called "World's Worst Internet Hoaxes," airing tonight at 8 PM Eastern and Pacific, 7 PM Central (we hope to have an online version available in QuickTime Streaming format shortly)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Apr 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5332"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5332', 'show')">Settle Down! Microsoft & DOJ Reach Agreement</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5332" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5332">In a surprise ending to the long-running Microsoft antitrust trial, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Microsoft jointly announced a settlement today.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Apr 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5333"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5333', 'show')">GIF2K Problem Affects PC Security</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5333" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5333">Everyone knows that the Macintosh is Y2K-compliant - that the Mac OS knows about dates well into the next century, right? But we've learned of a Y2K-related problem that, although it doesn't affect Macs, could be serious for numerous Internet users who work with Intel-based PCs.Graphic utility developer BoxTop Software has isolated a problem with certain GIF files that results in GIF viewers (including the GIF viewing code in Web browsers) either being incapable of displaying certain images or suffering from a buffer overflow error</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Apr 1999</div></div>
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