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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5041" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5041">No one will accuse Apple of missing the hoopla boat with the iMac. The curvaceous new consumer-level Macintosh splashed down on Saturday, 15-Aug-98 amid a flurry of special events, clever PR stunts, and news coverage</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 Aug 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5042" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5042">One of the problems with sharing files between Macs and PCs is they use different compression and encoding formats. Macs generally use the StuffIt format for compression, whereas PCs use Zip</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 Aug 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/5028"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5028', 'show')">Chinese Mailing List Available</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5028" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5028">Chinese Mailing List Available -- Thanks to renewed efforts on the part of our Chinese translation team, a separate mailing list is now available for people who want to receive TidBITS via email in Chinese, using the Big-5 character encoding standard</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 Aug 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5029" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5029">WebSTAR 3.0.1 Update Ships -- StarNine Technologies last week released WebSTAR 3.0.1, a free update to the company's popular $499 Web server. Along with bug fixes, enhancements include improved compatibility with FTP clients, enhanced HTTP support, and better site indexing and searching 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> | 10 Aug 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5033" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5033">Let me tell you a story that highlights the importance of some of the issues surrounding backups and information security that I've been harping on in TidBITS lately.A Weekend Away -- Two weekends ago, on Saturday morning, Tonya and I were getting ready to visit friends for the weekend</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 Aug 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5015" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5015">Tilery 4.0.1 Released -- Rick Holzgrafe of Semicolon Software has released The Tilery 4.0.1, a maintenance release of his $15 shareware desktop launcher utility (see "The Tilery 4.0 Squares Off" in TidBITS-437)</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 Aug 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5017" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5017">Conflict Catcher Rebate Update -- Back in "Macworld Expo NYC Superlatives" in TidBITS-438 we wrote that Casady & Greene's Conflict Catcher 8.0 will cost $79.95 when it ships in early September and will include a $30 rebate</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 Aug 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/5020"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5020', 'show')">Web Confidential: Securing Information of All Sorts</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5020" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5020">Back in TidBITS-279 in May of 1995, I wrote "PowerTalk to the Rescue?", an article about how we needed the PowerTalk Keychain to help with authenticated Web sites</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 Aug 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5010" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5010">In "Closing the Book on Visual Page" in TidBITS-439, I commented that Adobe seemed to be ignoring the Mac version of PageMill, given that Adobe made no mention of future Mac development in the PageMill 3.0 for Windows press materials</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> | 27 Jul 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/5011"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5011', 'show')">The Battle of the Bouncers, Part 2</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5011" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5011">In the first part of this article in TidBITS-439, I looked at how three crash detection devices - the PowerKey Pro, Rebound, and Lazarus - compare in terms of hardware, restart method, and crash detection 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> | 27 Jul 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4990"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4990', 'show')">Apple Racks Up $101 Million Profit</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4990" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4990">Apple Racks Up $101 Million Profit -- Apple Computer last week announced a profit of $101 million for the third fiscal quarter of 1998, although bolstered by $26 million in one-time investment gains</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> | 20 Jul 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4992" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4992">Free RAM Doubler 8 Update -- Users of Connectix's RAM Doubler 2.x can now update to RAM Doubler 8 using a free updater (379K download) available from Connectix's 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> | 20 Jul 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4994"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4994', 'show')">Griffin iMates USB and ADB</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4994" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4994">Griffin iMates USB and ADB -- Griffin Technology last week announced the iMate, a $29 USB-to-ADB adapter that enables iMac users to use standard ADB devices such as keyboards, mice, trackballs, and joysticks</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> | 20 Jul 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4995"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4995', 'show')">Keep It Up More Often</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4995" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4995">Keep It Up More Often -- Karl Pottie has released Keep It Up 1.4.1, a minor bug fix for his useful application monitoring utility. Keep It Up watches selected applications and relaunches them if they quit or crash</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> | 20 Jul 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4996" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4996">AutoShare 2.4 Released -- Mikael Hansen has released AutoShare 2.4, his freeware mailing list server and auto-responder. New in version 2.4 are several additional process extender types, a sample process extender for vacation mail, enhancements to the automatic bounce processing module, plus minor improvements and bug fixes</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> | 20 Jul 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4997"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4997', 'show')">Tenon Revs Up WebTen 2.1</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4997" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4997">Tenon Revs Up WebTen 2.1 -- Last week, Tenon Intersystems released WebTen 2.1, a high-performance, Apache-based, Macintosh Web server, which also includes DNS, multihoming FTP, NFS, and SSL 3.0</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> | 20 Jul 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4999"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4999', 'show')">Newer Present at Macworld</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4999" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4999">Newer Present at Macworld -- Oops. We biffed it in TidBITS-438 when we said that Newer Technology wasn't present at Macworld. In fact, Newer Technology was sharing a booth with NewerRAM, which is now owned by Peripheral Enhancements Corporation</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> | 20 Jul 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/5001"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5001', 'show')">Closing the Book on Visual Page</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5001" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5001">Normally in TidBITS we try to be calm and well-reasoned, but every now and then, we hear about a move so stupid that it makes our stomachs hurt. That's happened recently at Symantec (motto: "If you can't beat the competition, buy them and kill their product") with their highly regarded HTML authoring tool Visual Page</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> | 20 Jul 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/5002"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5002', 'show')">The Battle of the Bouncers, Part 1</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5002" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5002">I run a number of Macintosh-based Internet servers, and for the most part, these servers are stable. Crashes aren't frequent, but they do happen often enough to be a nuisance, particularly on Web servers that need to run all the time</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> | 20 Jul 1998</div></div>
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