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<a href="/article/10916"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10916', 'show')">Prevent the iPod touch from Launching iPhoto</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10916" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10916">A reader found that connecting his iPod touch to his Mac caused iPhoto to launch and show the iPod touch's Settings app. Adam explains what happened and how to stop the annoying launches.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=12" class="category">Problem Solving</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 15 Jan 2010 | <a href="/article/10916#comments">10 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10910"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10910', 'show')">Google Docs Now Stores All File Types</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10910" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10910">Google has enhanced Google Docs with the capability to store - and share - files of any type. It's a welcome addition, but doesn't hold a candle to Dropbox.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=7" class="category">Business Apps</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 12 Jan 2010 | <a href="/article/10910#comments">4 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10905" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10905">Improves communications between iTunes and Apple TV. (Free, 959K)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=22" class="category">Watchlist</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 11 Jan 2010</div></div>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10907" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10907">Thanks to Photojojo for turning us on to Andrew McDonald's amusing pictorial guide to how you can increase the likelihood of recovering a lost camera. The approach? Take a series of funny photos asking for your camera back, making sure to include your email address, and then protect them against deletion (most cameras offer this feature) from the media card.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 11 Jan 2010</div></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10908" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10908">Who's the owner of the car pictured in this photograph? With an Apple sticker and a TIDBITS license plate, surely he or she must be one of our readers.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 11 Jan 2010 | <a href="/article/10908#comments">11 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10909" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10909">Please welcome Code42 Software, makers of the excellent backup software CrashPlan, as our newest long-term TidBITS sponsor!</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 11 Jan 2010</div></div>
<a href="/article/10894"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10894', 'show')">Quick, Reliable Backups with "Take Control of Easy Mac Backups"</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10894" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10894">If getting started with backups is on your list of New Year's resolutions, Joe Kissell's new "Take Control of Easy Mac Backups" will help you make reliable backups without unnecessary fuss or trouble. </div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 08 Jan 2010 | <a href="/article/10894#comments">3 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10896"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10896', 'show')">"If Monks Had Macs" Available for Free</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10896" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10896">The groundbreaking multimedia project "If Monks Had Macs" is now available for free download. Take a look, and if you have some spare bandwidth, help seed the torrent file.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=1" class="category">Entertainment</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 08 Jan 2010 | <a href="/article/10896#comments">16 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10897" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10897">Resolves several crashing bugs, fixes a minor issue with birthday events, and tweaks the Decade date range in List View. ($40 new, free update, 6 MB)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=22" class="category">Watchlist</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 08 Jan 2010 | <a href="/article/10897#comments">2 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10899"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10899', 'show')">Mac Documentaries Showing Online and Off</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10899" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10899">The documentary "MacHEADS" has been shown on CNBC this month, but if you missed it, it's available for online streaming too, as is the documentary "Welcome to Macintosh."</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=8" class="category">Macs & Mac OS X</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 08 Jan 2010</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10888" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10888">The Mac world has another podcast - OWC Radio, from hardware retailer Other World Computing. Hosted by Tim Robertson, founder of MyMac.com, the interview was a relaxed conversation that included some stories from the early history of TidBITS and Take Control, what's going on with Macworld Expo this year, and Tim's probing questions into Adam's opinions on desktops vs. laptops, Safari vs. Firefox, and... coffee vs. tea? </div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 07 Jan 2010</div></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10890" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10890">Apple has enabled Web-based samples of music available in the iTunes Store via the iTunes Preview Web site - prior to this, sample music was limited to iTunes itself. Nevertheless, it seems that the overall goal is to increase iTunes music discovery via Web search engines, all of which are now indexing the iTunes Preview Web site. Despite the fact that you can play samples in your browser, the iTunes Preview site pushes you to iTunes whenever possible.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 07 Jan 2010</div></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10885" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10885">Reuters is reporting that Amazon is now accepting pre-orders for an international version of the larger-screen Kindle DX, due to ship on 19 January 2010 for $489, just 3 months after the Kindle 2 was made available in other countries. (See "<a href="http://db.tidbits.com/article/10631">Amazon Extends Kindle Beyond United States</a>," 8 October 2009, for more details on Amazon's international approach.)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | 06 Jan 2010</div></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10887" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10887">For those outside the United States pining for a Kindle DX, your wait is nearly over.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=1" class="category">Entertainment</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 06 Jan 2010</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10876" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10876">For all our readers who use an iPhone or iPod touch, check out our new TidBITS News app! It provides access to the full text of all recent TidBITS articles, complete with graphics, embedded movies, and, when available, audio versions.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> and <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 04 Jan 2010 | <a href="/article/10876#comments">34 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10879"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10879', 'show')">Subscribe to TidBITS on the Kindle</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10879" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10879">If you're a Kindle addict, rejoice! Now you can read TidBITS on your Kindle alongside other books and newspapers downloaded from Amazon. </div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 04 Jan 2010 | <a href="/article/10879#comments">4 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10868" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10868">Our friends at MacTech Magazine are kicking off their 25th anniversary celebration by soliciting the Mac community's best Mac-related stories, to be printed in upcoming issues of MacTech over the next year. The first issue of MacTech came out in December 1984, after which it was published as MacTutor for the next 7 years, before eventually reverting back to the MacTech name.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 23 Dec 2009</div></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10864" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10864">In recent years, Google has sent holiday gifts to large AdWords purchasers and AdSense publishers, but this year is instead donating $20 million to a variety of charities. Kudos to Google for putting its money where its "Don't be evil" mouth is, and for not adding to the world's ever-increasing layer of cheap plastic crud.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 21 Dec 2009</div></div></div>
<a href="/article/10837"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10837', 'show')">Follow Important Software Updates in the TidBITS Watchlist</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10837" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10837">Look at the TidBITS Watchlist widget in the upper right of our Web site to see how we've tweaked the way we present software updates to be individual items on our Web site while maintaining a collection of them in each email issue of TidBITS.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 14 Dec 2009</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10840" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10840">We're taking the last two weeks of the year off, so look for the next email issue of TidBITS on 4 January 2010. But we'll continue posting new articles to our Web site, and TidBITS Talk will also continue apace.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 14 Dec 2009</div></div>
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