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<h6>Quick Download of Multiple Attachments in Apple Mail</h6>
<p><p>To download a bunch of attachments quickly, look in the header of the email message that they came in. Make sure the triangle adjacent to the paperclip icon is pointing to the right (click the triangle if needed), and then drag the paperclip icon to your Desktop or to another folder. Release the mouse button and all attachments copy to that location.</p></p>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8602" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8602">Speaking as someone who finds Adobe Photoshop rather inscrutable while at the same time wishing I could perform some of the graphical manipulations it makes possible, I'm a total sucker for programs like BeLight Software's Image Tricks</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> | 17 Jul 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8605"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8605', 'show')">Print-on-Demand Available for Running Windows Ebook</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8605" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8605">At last! Ever since we started Take Control in 2003, people have been taking our heavily linked and thoroughly digital ebooks and, well, printing them</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> | 17 Jul 2006</div></div>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 17 Jul 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8607"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8607', 'show')">Take Control News/17-Jul-06</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8607" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8607">Backups Ebook Updated to Cover Intel Macs and More -- Need a rock-solid, up-to-date backup strategy to protect your important data? Turn to version 1.3 of Joe Kissell's popular Take Control of Mac OS X Backups, which now extends its detailed discussion of different backup strategies, media, and software, along with over 20 pages of step-by-step directions for the popular Retrospect backup program</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> | 17 Jul 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8590" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8590">Mark/Space Sponsoring TidBITS -- We're pleased to welcome our latest long-term sponsor, the synchronization experts at Mark/Space, Inc. Mark/Space has been around as long as TidBITS, both having been founded in 1990, and for as long as I can remember, I've made a point of stopping by their trade show booths to say hello to Brian Hall, Mark/Space's president and CEO, and to see the latest cool handheld device he had managed to connect to the Mac</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> | 10 Jul 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8593"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8593', 'show')">Crazy Apple Rumors Site Skewers Week's News</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8593" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8593">Crazy Apple Rumors Site Skewers Week's News -- John Moltz's Crazy Apple Rumors site is one of my must-reads every day, and while I find the site funny most of the time, not many weeks have as many news stories so ripe for skewering</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> | 10 Jul 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8598"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8598', 'show')">Google Becomes a Verb</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8598" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8598">Trademark lawyers everywhere are shaking their heads in dismay, as the Oxford English Dictionary has now added Google's company name to the dictionary as a verb</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> | 10 Jul 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8599"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8599', 'show')">Take Control News/10-Jul-06</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8599" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8599">Take Control Authors Speak... at Length -- When we aren't busy writing and editing, we can often be found talking about Take Control and the topics we cover in our ebooks</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> | 10 Jul 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8582"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8582', 'show')">PopChar X 3.0 Improves Usability</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8582" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8582">PopChar X 3.0 Improves Usability -- Ergonis Software has released PopChar X 3.0, a notable upgrade to the company's long-standing utility for discovering and inserting the thousands of characters available in modern Unicode fonts</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 Jul 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8584" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8584">PDFpen 2.4 Adds Comment Support -- SmileOnMyMac has updated PDFpen (and its form-creating big brother PDFpen Pro) to version 2.4, adding support for PDF comments so users can add editable comments to PDF files</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 Jul 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8585" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8585">Now here's an unexpected bit of news. Microsoft has bought iView Multimedia, makers of the iView MediaPro and iView Media digital asset management applications</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 Jul 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8588"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8588', 'show')">Take Control News/03-Jul-06</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8588" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8588">Special 30 Percent Off Coupon for PopChar Purchasers -- For those font fans thinking about picking up copies of Sharon Zardetto Aker's "Take Control of Fonts in Mac OS X" and "Take Control of Font Problems in Mac OS X", you'll receive a coupon worth 30 percent off your next Take Control order when you purchase a new copy ($30) or upgrade renewal ($15) of Ergonis Software's just-released PopChar X 3.0</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 Jul 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8570" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8570">Interarchy 8.1 Adds Amazon S3 Support -- Peter Lewis and Stairways Software have released Interarchy 8.1, the latest version of their powerful file transfer software</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 Jun 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8575"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8575', 'show')">Web Crossing Neighbors Creates Private Social Networks</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8575" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8575">Web Crossing Neighbors Creates Private Social Networks -- Web Crossing, Inc. last week announced the public availability of WebCrossing Neighbors, a hosted service that businesses and other organizations can use to create customized online social networks for customers, employees, or interested 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> | 26 Jun 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8579"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8579', 'show')">Take Control News/26-Jun-06</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8579" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8579">Running Windows on a Mac Ebook Updated to Version 1.0.2 -- Keeping up with the latest techniques for running Windows on an Intel-based Mac can be challenging, but Joe Kissell makes it easy with the latest update to "Take Control of Running Windows on a Mac." Version 1.0.2 of the ebook covers the much-anticipated 1.0 release of Parallels Desktop and adds information about using Parallels Compressor to compact a virtual 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> | 26 Jun 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8563" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8563">Fetch 5.1 Adds Tiger Features, Goes Universal -- Fetch Softworks has released Fetch 5.1, the latest version of their easy-to-use FTP client. Major new features include a comprehensive set of 11 Automator actions, a bone-shaped Dashboard widget for uploading and checking transfer progress, and universal binary support for Intel-based Macs</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 Jun 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8568"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8568', 'show')">Take Control News/19-Jun-06</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8568" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8568">Free Flier Fixes Flummoxing Font Frustrations -- If your fonts are giving you a headache, Sharon Zardetto Aker's "Take Control of Font Problems in Mac OS X" is the ultimate resource</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 Jun 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8557"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8557', 'show')">Yojimbo 1.2 Improves Import, Export, and Linking</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8557" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8557">Yojimbo 1.2 Improves Import, Export, and Linking -- Bare Bones Software has released a significant update to Yojimbo, the company's personal information manager (for details, see our review, "Let Yojimbo Guard Your Information Castle")</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> | 12 Jun 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8558"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8558', 'show')">Adam & Tonya Discuss Working Together on MacNotables</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8558" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8558">Adam & Tonya Discuss Working Together on MacNotables -- In the most recent episode of our group MacNotables podcast, we did something a little different</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 Jun 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8559" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8559">DealBITS Drawing: TextExpander Winners -- Congratulations to Raymond Cheydleur of mac.com, Mac Carter of iinet.com, Ken Marcus of mac.com, Hugh Lester of mac.com, and David Steffens of speakeasy.net, whose entries were chosen randomly in last week's DealBITS drawing and who each received a copy of SmileOnMyMac's TextExpander, worth $29.95</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> | 12 Jun 2006</div></div>
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