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<p><p>Want to check your Mac's serial number quickly and easily? Select About This Mac from the Apple menu, and click on the text directly below "Mac OS X" that reads "Version 10.x.x." Click once and you'll get a build number which is more specific information about the software. Click twice, and you'll get your Mac's serial number.</p></p>
<a href="/article/2577"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2577', 'show')">ClarisWorks for Windows</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2577" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2577">ClarisWorks for Windows -- This week Claris announced the release of ClarisWorks for Windows, the company's second internally-developed Windows 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> | 03 May 1993</div></div>
<a href="/article/2578"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2578', 'show')">FirstClass Client for Windows</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2578" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2578">FirstClass Client for Windows -- SoftArc announced the Windows client for its graphical BBS FirstClass this week, promising features nearly identical to those in the Macintosh client, including asynchronous multiple file transfers, electronic mail, and conferencing</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 1993</div></div>
<a href="/article/2581"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2581', 'show')">VAMP After Dark Contest</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2581" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2581">VAMP (Vereniging Actieve Mac Programmeurs - Association for Active Mac Programmers), a Dutch non-profit association, is organizing a programming competition for After Dark module programers. Unlike similar contests sponsored by After Dark developer Berkeley -- Systems, VAMP will choose a winner based solely on programming creativity and skill, rather than visual aesthetics</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 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2584" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2584">OK, so I'm being facetious. The real name of Working Software's new extension is Toner Tuner, and there is nothing fishy about it. In fact, it's one of the easiest-to-understand utilities I've seen in a long 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> | 03 May 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2586" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2586">Some early adopters of Apple's most powerful Macintosh, the Quadra 800, have run into a bit of a problem with RAM. The 800 can address up 136 MB of RAM if you pop four 32 MB SIMMs in alongside the 8 MB soldered on, although 16 MB SIMMs are a bit more common</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 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2588" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2588">UnMountIt Availability -- George Headley writes to tell us that UnMountIt, the free utility from Apple that aids in unmounting shared removable volumes, is available on for anonymous FTP</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 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2589" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2589">Quadra 700 Comments -- Brian Hughes writes to tell us that Glenn Fleishman's editorial on the Quadra 700 had some incorrect information. The LC and LC II max out at 512K of VRAM, which is enough for 16-bit color on the 12" monitor only (8-bit color on the 13"/14" monitor), and the LC III tops out at 768K VRAM, which will handle 16-bit color on monitors up to 13"/14".Michael Peirce , author of Smoothie, which smooths jaggies in on-screen presentations, comments that Apple might be throwing a bone to the video card manufacturers, who would otherwise lose customers who have 24-bit internal video</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 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2590" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2590">Damaged Fonts -- Lloyd Lim says that a good check for bad font files, along with other files with resource forks, is to run John Norstad's excellent virus fighter, Disinfectant (now at version 3.2, see below), which checks for and reports damaged resource forks</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 1993</div></div>
<a href="/article/2591"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2591', 'show')">More System 7 Answers</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2591" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2591">More System 7 Answers -- Brian Jewett adds another thing to check for when experiencing Bad F-line errors. After much trouble, he discovered the culprit was an old ROM in his RasterOps video board, which was apparently not 32-bit QuickDraw-friendly</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 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2592" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2592">HFS Clarification -- Dave Camp of Central Point Software and author of the Disk Bug Checker we mentioned last issue, wrote to clarify that Central Point Software wrote the free program as a service to their customers who may have experienced the problem</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 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2593" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2593">PowerPoint Problem -- We found out more details about what may have caused the problem Andrew Nielsen reported in TidBITS #169 with launching PowerPoint from his Duo</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 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2594" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2594">EndNote Upgrade -- Niles & Associates released new versions of the $149 EndNote and $249 EndNote Plus that work with Nisus and FrameMaker, should you need bibliographic features in either of those programs</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 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2595" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2595">America Online Cheapened -- America Online now boasts lower access rates of $9.95 per month, which includes the first five hours of usage at any time of day (starts 01-May-93) and $3.50 per hour for usage after those first five hours (starts 01-Jul-93)</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 1993</div></div>
<a href="/article/2599"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2599', 'show')">PowerBook 145B & Apple Strategy</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2599" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2599">After all my yammering about what a wonderful idea the PowerBook 100 suddenly became after Apple dropped the price, it looks like the powers-that-be at Apple listened</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 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2601" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2601">We don't know how many of you have been with us since TidBITS#001, but those who have might realize that this issue marks the beginning of the fourth year of TidBITS</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 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2602" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2602">WorldScript info is available from Apple at 800/776-2333, so if you have questions about what script modules are available or how to get them, call that number and choose either 4 or 5 from the voicemail 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> | 19 Apr 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2603" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2603">ThoughtPattern Discontinued -- Stephen Zagerman of Bananafish Software announced that the company has suspended all marketing and technical support for ThoughtPattern and is searching for a U.S</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 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2604" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2604">TeleFinder 3.0 -- Spider Island Software, makers of the graphical BBS software TeleFinder, announced version 3.0 of the TeleFinder Group Edition Host software, which can be fully controlled via Apple events and Frontier or AppleScript</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 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2605" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2605">Sleeping Floppies -- Rich Wolfson , author of The PowerBook Companion, passes on this helpful PowerBook hint. Apple tells you to shut down the PowerBook 100 before attaching the external floppy drive</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 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2606" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2606">The internal AppleCD 300 may not have a headphone jack or volume control, but it's not entirely featureless. If you unplug the microphone you can record 10 seconds of sound from an audio CD in the Sound Control panel</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 1993</div></div>
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