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<a href="/article/4979"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4979', 'show')">It's a Small Show, After All</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4979" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4979">The first Macworld Expo to be held in New York City was marked by smallish crowds, few exhibitors, and little in the way of exciting new products. Most notable were the paucity of attendees and exhibitors; after the crush of the crowds in both San Francisco and Boston in recent years, plus the need for multiple exhibition halls in Boston, this year's Macworld NYC seemed adrift in the enormous Jacob Javits Convention Center.The show started on a promising note - Steve Jobs's keynote was packed, and the press line stretched far back into the recesses of the Javits Center</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> | 13 Jul 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4968" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4968">New Installer Versions Arrive -- Aladdin Systems and MindVision Software have released new versions of their popular installer programs. New features in Aladdin's InstallerMaker 5.0 include hierarchical packages, the capability to download and install files from the Web, and the capability to apply settings directly to items within folders in the installer archive</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> | 06 Jul 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4969" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4969">The Tilery 4.0 Squares Off -- Rick Holzgrafe of Semicolon Software last week released The Tilery 4.0, the latest version of his $15 shareware desktop launcher application</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> | 06 Jul 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4971"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4971', 'show')">TidBITS Staff at Macworld Expo NY</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4971" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4971">TidBITS Staff at Macworld Expo NY -- As just about everyone knows by now, Macworld Expo will take place in New York City this week. Since we're far too virtual of an operation to have a booth, the best way to see us will be to come to one of our scheduled events</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> | 06 Jul 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4954" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4954">Mac/Windows Integration Mailing List -- Marc Bizer has set up the new WinMac mailing list for intelligent discussion of Windows 95/98/NT and Mac OS integration issues among experienced users</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 Jun 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4955" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4955">The Tilery 4.0 Squares Off -- Rick Holzgrafe of Semicolon Software today released The Tilery 4.0, the latest version of his $15 shareware desktop launcher application</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 Jun 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4957"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4957', 'show')">PlusOptimizer Jumps, DiskExpress Pro Upgrade Promised</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4957" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4957">PlusOptimizer Jumps, DiskExpress Pro Upgrade Promised -- Little more than a week after Alsoft released the $29.95 PlusOptimizer, the company's disk optimization software that works with HFS Plus volumes (see the TidBITS Update "PlusOptimizer Defragments HFS Plus Volumes"), a free update to version 1.1 has appeared</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 Jun 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4958"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4958', 'show')">BBEdit Moves to 4.5.3</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4958" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4958">BBEdit Moves to 4.5.3 -- Bare Bones Software last week released a free updater for BBEdit 4.5, the commercial version of the company's popular text and HTML editor</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 Jun 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4959"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4959', 'show')">Serving Up Web Summaries</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4959" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4959">Serving Up Web Summaries -- Jason Linhart, who maintains the Macintosh version of the freeware Web log analysis program Analog, has released Summary 1.0, a fascinating take on Web log analysis</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 Jun 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4960"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4960', 'show')">Overloaded with Extensions</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4960" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4960">Overloaded with Extensions -- Teng Chou Ming has released the $10 shareware Extension Overload 2.7, a stand-alone DOCMaker document that provides information about 666 extensions, 245 control panels, Easter Eggs, Macintosh error codes, and 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> | 29 Jun 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4961"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4961', 'show')">Share and Share IP Alike</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4961" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4961">Like an increasing number of small organizations, TidBITS has no central office. We all work from our homes and collaborate primarily over 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 Jun 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4942"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4942', 'show')">Surf Express Updated for Speed</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4942" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4942">Surf Express Updated for Speed -- Connectix has released a free update to Surf Express, the company's Web acceleration software that improves performance via a more intelligent caching scheme than that used by most browsers</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 Jun 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4943"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4943', 'show')">As the HFS Plus Disk Turns</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4943" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4943">Apple's introduction of Mac OS Extended Format, the new disk format better known as HFS Plus, has engendered no small amount of consternation in the Macintosh community because it's incompatible with many previous disk utilities - see "All About Macintosh Extended Format (HFS Plus)" in TidBITS-414</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 Jun 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4945"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4945', 'show')">Have You Backed Up Today? Part 4</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4945" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4945">TidBITS readers have both offered useful additional information and raised a number of interesting questions concerning the issues that swirl around backup strategies, as discussed in the previous three parts of this series.My Backup Strategy -- A number of people asked me to explain the specifics behind my backup strategy, hoping that they could apply my rationale to their situation</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 Jun 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4928"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4928', 'show')">Norton AntiVirus Damaging to Mac OS 8.1 Disks</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4928" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4928">Norton AntiVirus Damaging to Mac OS 8.1 Disks -- Symantec Technical Support has confirmed reports of intermittent disk corruption relating to using Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh, though only under Mac OS 8.1 and only with normal HFS-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> | 15 Jun 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4929"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4929', 'show')">Macworld Expo NY Events List Online</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4929" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4929">Macworld Expo NY Events List Online -- Ilene Hoffman has once again posted the Robert Hess Memorial Macworld Expo Events List. If you plan to attend Macworld Expo in New York City from 07-Jul-98 through 10-Jul-98, check the list for public events</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 Jun 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4930"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4930', 'show')">Macworld Expo NY Netter's Dinner</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4930" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4930">Macworld Expo NY Netter's Dinner -- After attending this year's Netter's Dinner at Macworld Expo in San Francisco, Al Tucker volunteered to organize a Netter's Dinner for Macworld New York</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 Jun 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4932"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4932', 'show')">Have You Backed Up Today? Part 3</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4932" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4932">In the previous installments of this series on backup, I looked at issues surrounding backup as well as at backup hardware and software that you might want to use</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 Jun 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4933"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4933', 'show')">Internet Backup via BackJack</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4933" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4933">With the growth of the Internet over the last few years, there's been added interest in backing up data over the Internet. It's been on my mind for a long time - as far back as 1992, I wrote an April Fools article in TidBITS-114 about a fictional company doing something along these lines.Fast forward to 1998, and several companies have products that enable computer users to back up files over an Internet connection</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 Jun 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4920" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4920">Terry Morse Software Sponsoring TidBITS -- We're pleased to welcome our newest sponsor, a small company that's in essence coming back to TidBITS. Terry Morse of Terry Morse Software used to be the president of Salient Software - makers of DiskDoubler, AutoDoubler, and CopyDoubler - and Salient Software was one of our first sponsors years ago</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 Jun 1998</div></div>
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