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<h6>iCal Alerts You Can't Miss</h6>
<p><p>Did you miss that tiny little iCal alert dialog? Use a more prominent Open File alarm.</p><p>First save an image, text file, sound, or movie that will really fill your screen and grab your attention.</p><p>Select an iCal event and choose Open File as the alert type. Choose your unmissable file as the one to open.</p><p>Set more alerts with more files to open for the same event if you like. You won't miss an appointment with one of these alerts!</p></p>
<a href="/article/10093"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10093', 'show')">Liz Castro's iPhoto Book Themes Site</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10093" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10093">Confused by all the possibilities available when building a book in iPhoto? Liz Castro has done an incredible job of documenting all the details of each theme.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=4" class="category">Media Creation</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 25 Feb 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10090"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10090', 'show')">More Dutch and Japanese Translators Wanted!</a></h4>
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<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> | 23 Feb 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10087"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10087', 'show')">Critical Vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10087" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10087">Turn off JavaScript in Adobe Reader and Acrobat Professional - or use Apple's Preview - to mitigate a critical security vulnerability.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=13" class="category">Safe Computing</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 20 Feb 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10083"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10083', 'show')">iPhone to Add Location Logging?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10083" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10083">Some sleuthing within iPhoto '09 reveals that Apple was at least thinking about adding a location logging app to the iPhone and iPod touch, possibly for providing geotags to imported photos or improving maps. Could the feature point toward a more capable iPhone or iPod touch? And what about the privacy issues?</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 19 Feb 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10085"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10085', 'show')">The Latest Details about Running Windows on a Mac</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10085" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10085">Looking for information about the best software to use for running Windows on a Mac, or how to run Windows most effectively? Joe Kissell's "Take Control of Running Windows on a Mac, Third Edition" has all the answers for all the latest virtualization software.</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> | 19 Feb 2009</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10072" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10072">The software this 12-year-old site was developed to promote may be long gone, but its lessons about backup are timeless. "Remember, Grasshopper, to believe in one's backups is one thing. To have to use them is another."</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 17 Feb 2009</div></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10077" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10077">Let's be real. Browsing the Web on a mobile phone, even an iPhone, is a lousy experience in comparison with using a full-fledged browser on a Mac. Jakob Nielsen explains the problems and offers suggestions on how to improve mobile Web usability in his Alertbox column.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 17 Feb 2009</div></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10073" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10073">PC World offers this tongue-in-cheek countdown of 10 ways that Microsoft's forthcoming retail stores will differ from Apple's. Our favorite: "Stores will be named Microsoft Live Retail Store with PC Services for Digital Lifestyle Enthusiasts."</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 13 Feb 2009</div></div></div>
<a href="/article/10067"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10067', 'show')">New Macworld Superguides Cover Mac Security and Mobile Computing</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10067" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10067">Our ebook catalog is growing again, as we add the "Macworld Mac Security Superguide," with all sorts of useful advice for maintaining your security online, and the "Macworld Mobile Mac Superguide," which provides tips for those getting started with mobile computing.</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> | 12 Feb 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10068"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10068', 'show')">'Take Control of Your iPhone, Second Edition' Offers Key Advice</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10068" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10068">Troubleshooting guru Ted Landau is back with a completely updated "Take Control of Your iPhone, Second Edition" to help iPhone users work more effectively, avoid troubles, and fix existing problems.</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> | 12 Feb 2009</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10060" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10060">John Siracusa at Ars Technica turns his attention to ebooks in this lengthy piece, bemoaning the slow state of adoption at the mainstream level and making the oft-missed distinction between ebooks and ebook readers.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 11 Feb 2009</div></div></div>
<a href="/article/10063"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10063', 'show')">Free Hotmail POP3 Access Now Available in U.S. Too</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10063" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10063">Although there's no official word from Microsoft yet, Hotmail users in the United States can now access messages via POP3 from a desktop email client or smartphone for free, joining users in already-supported countries.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=5" class="category">Networking</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 11 Feb 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10062"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10062', 'show')">Finder Inconsistency Could Lead to Data Loss</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10062" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10062">A recently discovered inconsistency in how different aspects of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard deal with opening files in the Trash, combined with an oversight by Time Machine, could result in data loss for unsuspecting users.</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> | 10 Feb 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10054"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10054', 'show')">DealBITS Discount: Save 50% on MathMagic Equation Editor</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10054" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10054">See who won copies of MathMagic Personal Edition and save 50 percent on any version of MathMagic.</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> | 09 Feb 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10055"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10055', 'show')">Read and Share Tips with TipBITS</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10055" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10055">We're finally making the public announcement of our new TipBITS feature, which provides lots of staff- and reader-contributed tips throughout our Web site.</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> | 09 Feb 2009</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10056" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10056">In a much-anticipated announcement, Amazon has thrown back the curtains on the second-generation Kindle, refining the industrial design and improving some of the hardware specs, but not significantly improving the device's onscreen layout capabilities.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=6" class="category">Tech News</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 09 Feb 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10059"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10059', 'show')">More Ebooks Available for the iPhone/iPod touch</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10059" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10059">A pair of announcements from Google and Safari Books Online, along with hints from Amazon, promise an ever-improving future for ebook reading on the iPhone and iPod touch.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=2" class="category">Opinion</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 09 Feb 2009</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10061" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10061">Google has released Google Sync for the iPhone and other mobile phone platforms. If you rely entirely on Google Calendar and Gmail, it might be worth checking out, but beware, since it deletes your existing contacts and calendar information during setup (this is because it's setting up an Exchange account on the iPhone, not due to anything wrong with Google Sync). We'll stick with other syncing solutions for now.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 09 Feb 2009</div></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10053" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10053">The xkcd Web comic has an excellent two-panel strip that lays out just how bad guys would go about getting through strong encryption if they really wanted to. Hint: it's cheap, easy, and doesn't involve distributed computing.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 07 Feb 2009</div></div></div>
<a href="/article/10050"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10050', 'show')">Gmail Adds Move To and Label Menus to Toolbar</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10050" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10050">If you use Gmail, you may have noticed that the main toolbar has changed, adding a pair of menus and tweaking the button style. The changes don't add new features, but are instead aimed at making common actions easier to perform.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=5" class="category">Networking</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 04 Feb 2009</div></div>
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