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<h6>Move the Dock Quickly</h6>
<p><p>You may find it convenient to move the position of the Dock when working in certain programs or with certain files. Rather than choosing a different position from the Dock preferences pane or using a submenu in the Apple menu's Dock submenu, you can move your Dock to a different screen edge merely by Shift-dragging the separator that divides the application and document sections.</p></p>
<a href="/article/8449"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8449', 'show')">Take Control News/06-Mar-06</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8449" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8449">"Take Control of iWeb" Available for Preorder and Comments -- With iLife '06, Apple added an entirely new application: the Web authoring tool iWeb</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/8434"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8434', 'show')">iTunes Music Store Tops 1 Billion Songs Sold</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8434" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8434">Next time I visit Cupertino, I'll be looking to see if Apple has co-opted one of those McDonald's signs touting the number of burgers served to advertise the number of songs sold on the iTunes Music Store</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 Feb 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8435"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8435', 'show')">Guy Kawasaki Is Back!</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8435" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8435">As the Macintosh has matured over the years, some people moved on, and the Mac world was the poorer for it. But one familiar face from the days of yore has been popping up again lately: ex-Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki</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 Feb 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8438"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8438', 'show')">iPhoto 6: Good, but Not Ground-Breaking</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8438" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8438">There are few programs whose capabilities I'm more familiar with than iPhoto, thanks to the feature-by-feature investigations I run through every year when writing my "iPhoto for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide" book</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 Feb 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8439"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8439', 'show')">Take Control News/27-Feb-06</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8439" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8439">"Take Control of Podcasting on the Mac" Covers GarageBand 3 -- Podcasting took 2005 by storm, but as many people quickly realized, it's harder than it sounds</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 Feb 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8424"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8424', 'show')">Mac OS X 10.4.5 Fixes Nits</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8424" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8424">Mac OS X 10.4.5 Fixes Nits -- Apple last week released Mac OS X 10.4.5, a bug-fix update that offers oodles of small changes. Most notable are a fix that prevents Safari from crashing when deleting AOL email messages via AOL webmail, proper functioning of Apple's IPsec VPN client with Cisco servers whether or not NAT (Network Address Translation) is used, a fix for synchronizing with an iDisk larger than 4 GB, and a fix that enables some previously problematic Epson printers to be used successfully via an AirPort Extreme base station</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 Feb 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8426"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8426', 'show')">iKey 2.2 Adds Double-Key Hotkeys, USB Device Events</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8426" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8426">iKey 2.2 Adds Double-Key Hotkeys, USB Device Events -- Script Software has released iKey 2.2, the latest version of their automation utility. Most notable among the new features is one I requested: double-key hotkeys that enable you to invoke a shortcut that chooses the Save As menu item, for instance, when you press Command-S-A (that's pressing Command-S, letting up on the S, and pressing A quickly)</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 Feb 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8428"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8428', 'show')">iLife '06 Apps See Bug Fix Updates</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8428" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8428">Apple released updates to five of the six applications that make up the iLife '06 suite last week, providing bug fixes and minor enhancements for iPhoto, iMovie HD, iDVD, iWeb, and iTunes</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 Feb 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8431"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8431', 'show')">Take Control News/20-Feb-06</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8431" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8431">"Take Control of Digital TV" Update Offers Current Info -- Looking for help with buying a new digital TV? Curious about the many ways to bring HDTV programming into your home? Turn to Clark Humphrey's freshly updated "Take Control of Digital TV" to find concise explanations, a road-map for buying a new TV, a current listing of which programs and stations offer HD content, and much more</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 Feb 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8417" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8417">DealBITS Drawing: browseback Winners -- Congratulations to Viktor Berry of viktor.com, Perry Prince of mind.net, and Fernando Rendon of comcast.net, whose entries were chosen randomly in last week's DealBITS drawing and who each received a copy of SmileOnMyMac's browseback Web history 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> | 13 Feb 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8419"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8419', 'show')">TypeTester Compares Web Typefaces</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8419" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8419">If you're the designing type, perhaps you can visualize what different typefaces look like without seeing them on screen. But for people like me, seeing is believing, and whenever I'm looking at creating something for the Web, the trial-and-error process of finding a good combination of font settings always takes longer than I'd like</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 Feb 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8421" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8421">Okay, I'm annoyed. Why is that airports, even relatively modern ones, have so few power outlets accessible to the public? I discovered this during a layover in Chicago's O'Hare Airport, waiting for a connection en route to San Francisco for Macworld Expo</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 Feb 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8422"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8422', 'show')">Take Control News/13-Feb-06</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8422" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8422">"Take Control of .Mac" Updated to Cover iLife '06 -- Joe Kissell has been hard at work ever since Macworld Expo, adding 22 pages to his comprehensive "Take Control of .Mac" to cover the changes Apple unveiled in Steve Jobs's keynote</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 Feb 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8409"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8409', 'show')">DealBITS Drawing for browseback Still Open</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8409" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8409">DealBITS Drawing for browseback Still Open -- As you may or may not have noticed, we had a spot of trouble with our server last week. Much hair was lost, but more important, most DealBITS entries from Monday and Tuesday and early Wednesday morning were also lost</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 Feb 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8414"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8414', 'show')">Take Control News/06-Feb-06</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8414" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8414">"Take Control of Buying a Mac" Updated to Cover Intel Macs -- At Macworld Expo in San Francisco last month, Steve Jobs surprised everyone who was considering a new Macintosh purchase by announcing the release of the first Intel-based Macs: the iMac and the MacBook Pro</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 Feb 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8403" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8403">Google is great, but it won't help you find information on just those Web pages you've viewed. For that, you need a utility on your Mac, such as SmileOnMyMac's recently released browseback</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> | 30 Jan 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8396"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8396', 'show')">Apple Introduces Mac OS X Universal Logo</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8396" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8396">Apple Introduces Mac OS X Universal Logo -- With the Intel Core Duo-based iMac available and the MacBook Pro to follow shortly, Apple has announced a new logo program that developers can use to identify universal binary programs that contain both PowerPC and Intel code (most PowerPC-only programs will run on the Intel-based Macs thanks to Apple's Rosetta technology, but performance will likely suffer somewhat)</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> | 23 Jan 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8397" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8397">Disney/Pixar Merger? I don't have any inside information on the possible Disney/Pixar merger currently circulating in the rumor mill, but since the Washington Post asked me to comment, I did</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> | 23 Jan 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8391"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8391', 'show')">Macworld Expo SF 2006: Exuding Confidence</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8391" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8391">It's instructive, I think, to mark the resurgence of Apple Computer by what happens at the annual Macworld Expo in San Francisco, both in terms of Apple's keynote announcements and the mood on the show floor</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> | 16 Jan 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8380"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8380', 'show')">History Hound 1.9 Now Indexes and Searches RSS</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8380" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8380">History Hound 1.9 Now Indexes and Searches RSS -- Hot on the heels of SmileOnMyMac's new browseback (covered in TidBITS-810), St. Clair Software has released an update to HistoryHound, their utility for indexing and searching visited Web pages</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> | 09 Jan 2006</div></div>
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