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<h6>Move Multiple Windows Simultaneously in Spaces</h6>
<p><p>Command-drag a window in Spaces to move all windows associated with the dragged window's application to a new space. Control-drag will do the same thing, and will also preserve the same screen position in the space in which you drop the windows.</p></p>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8550" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8550">One of the most venerable categories of utility software is that of the abbreviation expander. It's not surprising - computers are supposed to save us work, and who wants to type their entire snail mail address by hand every time when you could type "sm" and have a utility replace that with the full address? SmileOnMyMac recently acquired and updated Peter Maurer's highly regarded Textpander utility (and renamed it TextExpander), making it an excellent choice among these 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> | 05 Jun 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8552"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8552', 'show')">J.D. Lasica's Darknet: People in the Copyright Wars</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8552" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8552">As someone who earns a living from the written word, I keep a close eye on all that's happening in the copyright wars, that is, the ongoing skirmishes between the large companies that own the copyright on various types of media and the general populace who consume and use such media</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> | 05 Jun 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8554"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8554', 'show')">Take Control News/05-Jun-06</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8554" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8554">"Take Control of iWeb" Helps iWeb Users Work Creatively -- Apple's new iWeb application aims to help you build a Web site quickly and easily, but if you've found yourself stuck on the basics or unhappy with amateurish results, turn to Steve Sande's 123-page "Take Control of iWeb" for ideas and assistance</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> | 05 Jun 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8544" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8544">The MacHack developers conference always used to roll around about this time of year, and even though the conference is no more, the itch to create utterly cool but completely useless hacks is back in season</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> | 29 May 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8547"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8547', 'show')">Take Control News/29-May-06</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8547" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8547">The Advice You Need to Run Windows on Your Mac -- Macintosh users have been able to run (or at least walk) Windows on their Macs for a long time now, thanks to products like Virtual PC</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> | 29 May 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8533"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8533', 'show')">DealBITS Drawing: DoorStop X Security Suite Winners</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8533" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8533">DealBITS Drawing: DoorStop X Security Suite Winners -- Congratulations to Bob Dain of mac.com, Charles Kinney of earthlink.net, and Steve B of macrepair.com, whose entries were chosen randomly in last week's DealBITS drawing and who each received a copy of Open Door Networks' DoorStop X Security Suite</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> | 22 May 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8538"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8538', 'show')">Take Control News/22-May-06</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8538" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8538">Ultimate Guide to Fonts in Mac OS X Now Available -- Wrangling fonts in Mac OS X can be difficult. What with six different types of fonts - some of which can contains thousands of characters - and more than six possible locations for font storage, it's tough to stay organized and work efficiently, and it's maddening when something goes wrong with your fonts and eats an entire afternoon.We know all about how hard it can be, both from hair-pulling experience and because we've now spent over nine months writing, testing, and polishing a pair of ebooks about how to take control of fonts in Mac OS X</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> | 22 May 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8527"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8527', 'show')">DealBITS Drawing: DoorStop X Security Suite</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8527" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8527">Although the Mac world isn't nearly as scary as the Windows world when it comes to malware and intrusions, it's still a good idea for any Mac directly connected to the Internet to have a firewall in place</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> | 15 May 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8529"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8529', 'show')">Garmin StreetPilot 2720 Ups the Ante for Car Navigation</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8529" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8529">It's been six months since my last entry in our ongoing survey of GPS devices with voice navigation, and in my most recent article, I wrote generally nice things about the Magellan RoadMate 760</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> | 15 May 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8520"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8520', 'show')">Take Control News/08-May-06</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8520" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8520">"Take Control of Running Windows on a Mac" Pre-order -- With all the press coverage of Apple's Boot Camp, many people have wondered about the reality of running Windows on Intel-based Macs, but they've been hesitant to devote the time and money to installing Windows XP, especially since Boot Camp may not be the best solution for running Windows on a 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> | 08 May 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8506"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8506', 'show')">LaunchBar 4.1 Adds Scripts and Dictionary Lookups</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8506" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8506">LaunchBar 4.1 Adds Scripts and Dictionary Lookups -- Objective Development has released LaunchBar 4.1, the latest version of their highly useful (and for some of us, utterly essential) keyboard-based launching utility</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> | 01 May 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8513"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8513', 'show')">Take Control News/01-May-06</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8513" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8513">50 Percent Off Spring Ebook Sale! Here in upstate New York, spring is in the air, we're back from vacation, and we're feeling lighthearted. For the next week (through 08-May-06), you can save 50 percent off any order of Take Control 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> | 01 May 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8497" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8497">TidBITS 16th Anniversary Vacation -- This week marks the 16th anniversary of TidBITS, which we're celebrating with a West Coast vacation that will also feature a dinner with the Seattle-based members of the staff, along with a visit to our Xserve at digital.forest to install Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Server</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 Apr 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8499" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8499">Apple Remote Desktop 3 Released -- Apple released Apple Remote Desktop 3 last week, the third major release of the company's remote control and management 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> | 17 Apr 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8501"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8501', 'show')">A Bad Week for Hardware</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8501" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8501">By the time you read this, Tonya and Tristan and I will be on a well-deserved vacation trip to see family and friends in California, Oregon, and Washington (so we won't be reading much email for the next week)</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 Apr 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8492"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8492', 'show')">Macworld on Apple's 30th Anniversary</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8492" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8492">Macworld on Apple's 30th Anniversary -- Our friends at Macworld have been busy with features celebrating Apple's 30th anniversary, and two of our favorites were their look at Apple's 30 most significant products and a hilarious timeline of important events in Apple's history by John Moltz of Crazy Apple Rumors</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 Apr 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8494"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8494', 'show')">Apple Opens Boot Camp for Windows Users</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8494" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8494">No, it's not April 1st, but yes, Apple Computer has just released a public beta of their Boot Camp software, which enables users of Intel-based Macs to install and run Windows XP</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 Apr 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8482"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8482', 'show')">Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.4.6 Update</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8482" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8482">Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.4.6 Update -- Just as we were finalizing this issue, Apple released Mac OS X 10.4.6 Update, which appears to be a massive, miscellaneous bug-fix update</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 Apr 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8483"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8483', 'show')">Listen in as Apple Turns 30</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8483" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8483">Listen in as Apple Turns 30 -- On April 1st, 1976 - 30 years ago this last Saturday - Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne founded Apple Computer, and the intervening years have seen its fortunes rise, fall, and rise again</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 Apr 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8484"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8484', 'show')">Interarchy 8 Adds WebDAV, Widgets, and Bonjour</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8484" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8484">Interarchy 8 Adds WebDAV, Widgets, and Bonjour -- Peter Lewis and Stairways Software have released Interarchy 8.0, a major upgrade to the powerful file transfer and network monitoring 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 Apr 2006</div></div>
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