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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=18" class="category">Blog Post</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 07 Sep 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9155"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9155', 'show')">Macs Speak Clearly with Infovox iVox</a></h4>
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<a href="/article/9149"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9149', 'show')">Yugma Provides Free Web Conferencing</a></h4>
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<a href="/article/9141"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9141', 'show')">Andy Ihnatko Abuses Cell Phones on National TV</a></h4>
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<a href="/article/9143"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9143', 'show')">Apologies for the Look Spam</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9143" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9143">In which Adam apologizes for allowing spam to sneak through our defenses and be delivered to about half of the TidBITS text issue list.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9124" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9124">The addition of the 2,300-word TidBITS AutoCorrect Dictionary makes Typinator even more useful for correcting typos and misspellings.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<a href="/article/9125"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9125', 'show')">Tools We Use: Teleport</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9125" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9125">The free Teleport utility enables you to control multiple networked Macs from a single keyboard and mouse. It's very cool, and worth using for anyone who wants to use multiple Macs at the same time.</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> | 27 Aug 2007</div></div>
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<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> | 27 Aug 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9134"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9134', 'show')">Erlang Nearly at Drinking Age</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> | 27 Aug 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9140" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9140">Don't you hate it when your online promotional materials imply that your product is the market-leading solution for the dissemination and acquisition of viruses?</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=18" class="category">Blog Post</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 27 Aug 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9120"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9120', 'show')">Lights Off for the iPhone</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9120" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9120">Lights Off is the first truly native iPhone game... but getting it onto an iPhone isn't for the faint of heart.</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> | 20 Aug 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9121" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9121">In which Adam reports on his weekend at the C4 indie developers conference in Chicago. Be sure to read about the latest iPhone hacks!</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> | 20 Aug 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9122" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9122">The open source Sparkle framework lets developers add self-updating capabilities to any Cocoa applications quickly and easily... and if you're not a developer, you can encourage the developers of your favorite programmers to make your life easier in the future with Sparkle.</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> | 20 Aug 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9126" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9126">Want to see how the new low-profile Apple Keyboard compares to a variety of other keyboards from Apple's past? Check out Blake Peterson's image gallery showing the new keyboard next to the Apple Lisa Keyboard, the Mac Plus keyboard, the Newton keyboard, and others</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<a href="/article/9091"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9091', 'show')">Microsoft Releases RDC and XML Converter Betas</a></h4>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=7" class="category">Business Apps</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 06 Aug 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9095"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9095', 'show')">Apple Releases Mac OS X, Safari 3, and iPhone Security Updates</a></h4>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=8" class="category">Macs & Mac OS X</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 06 Aug 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9096" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9096">Apple releases an update for AirPort Extreme on certain Intel-based Macs but provides no useful details.</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> | 06 Aug 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9097"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9097', 'show')">Missing Sync 4.0 Supports Latest Windows Mobile Devices</a></h4>
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