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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> | 03 Apr 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> | 03 Apr 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8490"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8490', 'show')">Take Control News/03-Apr-06</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8490" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8490">"Macworld Digital Photography Superguide" Released -- Our latest ebook is a bit different from anything we've done in the past, and in fact, it's not even a Take Control ebook! Instead, it was written by our friends (some of whom also write for Take Control) at Macworld Magazine</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>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8473" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8473">TidBITS Predelivery Service -- Why are you receiving TidBITS today? Well, we know that our readers want the most timely Macintosh information, and now we've come up with the best method to deliver it to you</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Apr 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8474" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8474">Joe Kissell Leaving TidBITS -- Senior Editor Joe Kissell, after a record-setting tenure, announced that he will be leaving TidBITS, reportedly to spend more time with his family</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Apr 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8481"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8481', 'show')">Uncovering the AJRP</a></h4>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Apr 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8467"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8467', 'show')">MacNotables Podcast on Email Clients</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8467" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8467">MacNotables Podcast on Email Clients -- Few types of software engender the same level of loyalty as email clients. It makes some sense; an email program is the communications lifeline to the world for many of us, instant messaging notwithstanding, and we all end up with a lot of data - messages, addresses, carefully constructed folder hierarchies - in our email programs that would be difficult to transfer to another client</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> | 27 Mar 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8468" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8468">The Ukrainian Mac development firm BeLight Software continues to extend their flock of special purpose publishing programs, adding the CD/DVD labeling software Disc Cover to the collection of Business Card Composer, Mail Factory, and Swift Publisher</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> | 27 Mar 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8469"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8469', 'show')">Creative Commons License Upheld in Dutch Court</a></h4>
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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> | 27 Mar 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8460" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8460">Desktop Picture Transparency Hacks -- Every now and then I come across a site documenting something truly clever - not necessarily useful, but clever nonetheless</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> | 20 Mar 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8461"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8461', 'show')">Joe Kissell Joins TidBITS as Senior Editor</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8461" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8461">Although some people seem to believe that I do everything with TidBITS, nothing could be further from the truth - TidBITS wouldn't exist without the ongoing work of Tonya, Geoff Duncan, Jeff Carlson, Matt Neuburg, Glenn Fleishman, and Mark Anbinder</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> | 20 Mar 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8464"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8464', 'show')">Burning Down the Disc</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8464" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8464">Sometimes easy things turn out to be more involved than you initially anticipated. Recently I wanted to burn a few CDs containing the full Take Control library for a user group raffle</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> | 20 Mar 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8465"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8465', 'show')">Take Control News/20-Mar-06</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8465" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8465">New Take Control Ebooks Cover GarageBand 3 -- Regardless of your musical experience, if you want to make the most of GarageBand 3, follow along with Seattle musician Jeff Tolbert as he shows you how to work creatively with GarageBand and get the most out of its features</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> | 20 Mar 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8451"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8451', 'show')">Security Update 2006-002 Fixes the Fixes</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8451" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8451">Security Update 2006-002 Fixes the Fixes -- Apple today released Security Update 2006-002 that, along with closing a few new holes, addresses issues created by Security Update 2006-001 (which is included as well, just to ensure that everyone has it)</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> | 13 Mar 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8452" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8452">Yojimbo 1.1 Adds Features, Fixes Bugs -- Bare Bones Software has released Yojimbo 1.1, the first update to the company's new information organizer (See "Let Yojimbo Guard Your Information Castle" in TidBITS-814)</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> | 13 Mar 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8453"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8453', 'show')">WWDC Moves to August</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8453" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8453">WWDC Moves to August -- Apple has opened registration for the 2006 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which is interesting primarily because the dates for this year's conference are August 7th through 11th, roughly two months later than recent instances of WWDC</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> | 13 Mar 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8456"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8456', 'show')">Take Control News/13-Mar-06</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8456" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8456">Keep Your Mac Running Smoothly -- Everyone agrees that regular maintenance is the best way to avoid nasty problems and to ensure your Mac runs at peak performance, but it's hard to know what you should do and when to do it, and even harder to fit it into your schedule</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> | 13 Mar 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8441"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8441', 'show')">iTunes, iPhoto, and Front Row Updated</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8441" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8441">iTunes, iPhoto, and Front Row Updated -- Apple last week released iTunes 6.0.4 and iPhoto 6.0.2 to address minor problems with Front Row, Apple's media-center interface software for playing music, photos, and videos on the iMac, MacBook Pro, and just-released Intel-based Mac mini</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> | 06 Mar 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8444" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8444">Responding with reasonable alacrity to the recent Leap-A and shell script exploits, Apple released Security Update 2006-001 last week, fixing a slew of problems</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> | 06 Mar 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8447"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8447', 'show')">In a Docktopus's Garden</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8447" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8447">Startly Technologies, the folks behind the venerable QuicKeys automation utility and the utterly inexplicable TransLucy (it lets you play movies in a translucent layer over your work, so you can click and type as though the movie wasn't really there), have a new utility out, called Docktopus and alliteratively subtitled "Delightful Dock Denizen." I saw a quick demo of Docktopus at Macworld Expo, which intrigued me enough to look at it more closely at home.In short, Docktopus enables you to add up to four badges to each icon on your Dock; each badge provides some sort of information display or control</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> | 06 Mar 2006</div></div>
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