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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4095" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4095">I know I said I wouldn't write more about macro viruses a number of issues ago, but I couldn't resist passing on these useful pieces of information.Michael Gibbs comments:An ironic aspect of your warning regarding virus-infected disks from "official" sources is that most application installers recommend that you disable extensions, in many cases disabling your Mac's immune system</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> | 18 Aug 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4097" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4097">I was deluged by responses to my article about Macworld and MacUser merging last week (TidBITS-392). Frankly, I was surprised by the volume, since I hadn't made any controversial comments in the article</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> | 18 Aug 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4098"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4098', 'show')">Conflict Catcher 4.0 Ups the Ante</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4098" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4098">No program is ever finished - there's always room for improvements and added functionality. However, some programs are more evolved than others, sometimes to the point where it's difficult to think of new features or interfaces</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> | 18 Aug 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4090"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4090', 'show')">Microsoft is Jobs #1</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4090" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4090">Life is never dull in the computer industry, and last week Apple and Microsoft made sure that the few who weren't paying attention sat up and took notice</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> | 11 Aug 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4091"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4091', 'show')">MacUser and Macworld Merge</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4091" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4091">As a quick Web search shows, many people have noted that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." I've never been certain of the truth of that statement, but it would appear that the Macintosh community has witnessed an example of it in action.It's Merger Time -- Two weeks ago, rival publishing empires International Data Group (IDG) and Ziff-Davis announced that they have formed a new company called Mac Publications that will consolidate three major Macintosh print publications, Macworld, MacUser, and MacWEEK</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> | 11 Aug 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4082"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4082', 'show')">As Apple Turns</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4082" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4082">As Apple Turns -- With the dense fog of rumors that have cloaked Apple in the past few weeks, you might wonder where our coverage of that fog has been</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> | 04 Aug 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4083"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4083', 'show')">MacUser & Macworld Merge</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4083" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4083">MacUser & Macworld Merge -- The breaking news of the past week is that rival publishing empires IDG and Ziff-Davis have created a new joint company called Mac Publications that will consolidate Macworld, MacUser, and MacWEEK</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> | 04 Aug 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4077"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4077', 'show')">Macworld Expo Party List</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4077" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4077">Macworld Expo Party List -- Ilene Hoffman has posted the Robert Hess Memorial Macworld Events list (see TidBITS-310 for information about the late Robert Hess, who started the list) for the upcoming Macworld Expo in Boston from August 5th to August 8th</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> | 28 Jul 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2696" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2696">Bovine RC5 Challenge -- A group of Macintosh users is participating in the 56-bit key RC5 version of the RSA Data Security Secret-Key Contests, an effort to break 56-bit RC5 encryption</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> | 21 Jul 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/2212"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2212', 'show')">LetterRip 2.0 Now $95</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2212" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2212">LetterRip 2.0 Now $95 -- When we reported on the release of Fog City Software's LetterRip 2.0 last week in TidBITS-386, Fog City hadn't announced its introductory pricing of $95 through 15-Aug-97, a good bit less than the $295 list price</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 Jul 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2206" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2206">LetterRip 2.0 Available -- Fog City Software has released LetterRip 2.0, their dead-simple mailing list management software. LetterRip 2.0 adds support for POP (eliminating the need for a dedicated Internet connection), message banners and footers, extensive Apple Event support, message processors, automatic subscribe and unsubscribe accounts (popularized by our and accounts), and multiple domains</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> | 30 Jun 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2209" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2209">And there was joy in Mudville, for the mighty CDA had struck out.On 26-Jun-97, the United States Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision (two justices dissented in part), ruled that the Communications Decency Act, better known as the CDA, violated the First Amendment of the United States Constitution</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> | 30 Jun 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2201" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2201">TidBITS Search Engine Online -- As promised, we've put the winner of our Search Engine Shootout online (see TidBITS-368, TidBITS-379, and TidBITS-380)</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> | 23 Jun 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/2203"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2203', 'show')">More on Macro Viruses</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2203" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2203">The point of many viruses, macro or otherwise, is to annoy people, waste time, and generally eat bandwidth of various sorts. That's ironic, given the amount of space the topic consumes whenever it appears in the press (see TidBITS-383)</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> | 23 Jun 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/2194"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2194', 'show')">Crossing the Platform Bar</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2194" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2194">My latest book, The Official AT&T WorldNet Web Discovery Guide (Osborne/McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-882336-6, $24.99), should hit the shelves any day now</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> | 16 Jun 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2189" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2189">Last week in TidBITS-382, I wrote a short piece warning people not to become complacent about viruses on the Macintosh. I received a number of notes, including one thanking me for the article (the reader ran Disinfectant, which promptly found virus infestations on his 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> | 09 Jun 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2181" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2181">Virus Complacency -- Though there are few Macintosh viruses (especially in comparison to the PC world), in the last few weeks I've received several reports of virus-infected CD-ROMs or files (the most recent one an upload caught by alert Info-Mac archivist Michael Bean)</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> | 02 Jun 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/2182"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2182', 'show')">TidBITS in Portuguese!</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2182" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2182">TidBITS in Portuguese! We're especially pleased to welcome our latest translation of TidBITS, this time into Portuguese. If you or someone you know would prefer to read TidBITS in Portuguese, check out the Web page below</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> | 02 Jun 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/2184"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2184', 'show')">Macintosh Internet Solutions Resource</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2184" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2184">Macintosh Internet Solutions Resource -- Starfish Technologies, an Australian consulting firm specializing in Mac OS, Unix, and internetworking, has prepared a useful overview to Macintosh Internet solutions</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> | 02 Jun 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/2185"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2185', 'show')">The Little Mac Fairs</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2185" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2185">Recently, Tonya and I have attended and spoken at two relatively small Macintosh fairs, BMUG's one-day MacFest in Berkeley and LAMG's two-day MacFair in Los Angeles</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> | 02 Jun 1997</div></div>
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