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<a href="/article/8249"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8249', 'show')">Macworld Boston Cancelled</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8249" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8249">Macworld Boston Cancelled -- Our friends at MacCentral reported news that comes as no surprise: IDG World Expo has cancelled Macworld Expo Boston and will be concentrating efforts on Macworld Expo San Francisco in January</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 Sep 2005</div></div>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8252" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8252">Allume Systems, now owned by Smith Micro, Inc., has released the latest version of their venerable compression and archiving utility, StuffIt Deluxe. Improvements in StuffIt Deluxe 10 fall largely into two categories: low-level improvements in its compression engine and support for new technologies in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.StuffIt Deluxe 10 costs $80, with upgrades from previous versions of either StuffIt Deluxe or StuffIt Standard Edition priced at $30</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 Sep 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8255"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8255', 'show')">Take Control News/19-Sep-05</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8255" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8255">"Take Control of Your Wi-Fi Security" Released -- Putting on my author hat for a moment, I'm delighted to tell you that I, with my co-author Glenn Fleishman, have written a new ebook about wireless network security for you</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 Sep 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8246"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8246', 'show')">Getting Things Done in Email</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8246" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8246">Back in December of last year, I passed along a new technique I developed for handling email in Eudora. It relied on Eudora's long-standing capability to create "saved searches," which are essentially the same idea as the new "smart mailboxes" in the version of Apple Mail included with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger</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 Sep 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8247"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8247', 'show')">Take Control News/12-Sep-05</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8247" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8247">"Take Control of Customizing Microsoft Office" Updated to Version 1.0.1 -- Version 1.0.1 of Kirk McElhearn's "Take Control of Customizing Microsoft Office" is now available</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 Sep 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8229"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8229', 'show')">Maxum Development Sponsoring TidBITS</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8229" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8229">Maxum Development Sponsoring TidBITS -- We're pleased to welcome our latest long-term sponsor, Maxum Development. I've known John O'Fallon of Maxum for many years, ever since Maxum got its start in the heady days of the mid-1990s Internet by creating the essential add-ons NetForms and NetCloak for Macs running the WebSTAR Web 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> | 05 Sep 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8230"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8230', 'show')">iKey 2.1 Moves to iApp-like Interface</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8230" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8230">iKey 2.1 Moves to iApp-like Interface -- Script Software has updated their Macintosh automation utility iKey to version 2.1, adding a few features but mostly streamlining the interface to make it easier to create and edit shortcuts, menus, and palettes that automate repetitive actions</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 Sep 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8232"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8232', 'show')">Now Up-to-Date & Contact Updated to 5.0.4</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8232" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8232">Now Up-to-Date & Contact Updated to 5.0.4 -- Now Software last week released version 5.0.3 and then 5.0.4 of their powerful calendaring and contact management suite, fixing a number of bugs and cosmetic problems, improving performance, and adding a few small capabilities, such as Snooze All/Dismiss All buttons in the event reminder dialog, several new toolbar buttons, support for Word 2004 in QuickMerge, and 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> | 05 Sep 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8234"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8234', 'show')">DealBITS Drawing: MathMagic Personal Edition Winners</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8234" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8234">DealBITS Drawing: MathMagic Personal Edition Winners -- Congratulations to Harvey Jeffries of mac.com, Orion Protonentis of noiro.org, Robert Rennie of anscom.af.mil, Robert Wildblood of erols.com, and Scott Ellsworth of alodar.com, whose entries were chosen randomly in last week's DealBITS drawing and who each received a copy of MathMagic Personal Edition, worth $119.95</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> | 05 Sep 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8238"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8238', 'show')">Talk for Free with FreeConference.com</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8238" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8238">Widely distributed groups often need to meet via telephone rather than attempting to travel to a single centralized location, so for some people, regularly scheduled conference calls have become a way of life</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 Sep 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8220"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8220', 'show')">2nd Annual Mac Networkers Retreat Approaching</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8220" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8220">2nd Annual Mac Networkers Retreat Approaching -- Macworld Expo in Boston may have shrunk, and ADHOC/MacHack may be no more, but other Macintosh events carry on</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 Aug 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8221"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8221', 'show')">DealBITS Drawing: MathMagic Personal Edition</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8221" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8221">The college students have started to return to campus, making this a great time to look into new software for science and engineering disciplines that require high-quality equations for papers, reports, and other publications</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 Aug 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8224"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8224', 'show')">Ants Invade New Zealand by iPod</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8224" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8224">iPods are everywhere, and according to a posting on the PestNet discussion list forwarded to us by loyal reader Frank Streeter, some unsavory characters are using the iPod to move around the world</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 Aug 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8226"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8226', 'show')">Adding a USB-to-Ethernet Adapter to a Mac</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8226" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8226">What would you do if you wanted to add a second Ethernet card to a Mac mini, iBook, or iMac to turn it into a router, a firewall, or a packet shaper? Or, how would you work around a burnt-out internal Ethernet chip in such a Mac? With a Power Mac, you can buy an inexpensive PCI Ethernet card and be up-and-running with a minimum of fuss (as I did for my Power Mac G4 after a lightning strike; see "Adding Ethernet to a Power Mac" in TidBITS-737)</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 Aug 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8215"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8215', 'show')">Indy: Your Own Independent Radio Station</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8215" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8215">Some years ago, best-selling author Stephen King bought a local radio station in Bangor, Maine, reportedly so he could be assured of turning on the radio and hearing music that he'd probably 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> | 22 Aug 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8207" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8207">SaveScreenie Switches File Formats -- A few weeks back, I mentioned that you could enter a particular command into Terminal to change the format Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger uses for screen captures made with Command-Shift-3 and Command-Shift-4 (see "How to Change Screen Capture Formats" in TidBITS-785)</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 Aug 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8210"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8210', 'show')">Take Control News/15-Aug-05</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8210" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8210">Take Control of Now Up-to-Date & Contact Released -- Late last year, around the time I was finishing up "Take Control of iKey 2," our first manual in the form of a Take Control ebook, Randy Murray of Now Software contacted me to see if we were interested in writing the manual for the next version of Now Up-to-Date & Contact</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 Aug 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8203"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8203', 'show')">On the Road with the Magellan RoadMate 700</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8203" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8203">When I last wrote about GPS navigation, Tonya and I had just returned from the mean streets of New York City safely, thanks to the Garmin StreetPilot c330 GPS's voice-navigation instructions</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 Aug 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8194" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8194">iPhoto 5.0.4 Flips Photos Properly -- Apple has released iPhoto 5.0.4, a minor update that "addresses an issue with browsing photos that have been auto-rotated by a camera." Honestly, I've not seen the problem (it seems to relate to editing photos that were auto-rotated by your camera and that appear in the wrong orientation), but the speed with which 5.0.4 followed 5.0.3 means that it's probably bugging a bunch of people</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 Aug 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8195"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8195', 'show')">Simon 2 Says: Monitor Your Server</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8195" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8195">Simon 2 Says: Monitor Your Server -- Dejal Software has released Simon 2, a major update to their server monitoring utility. Simon performs repetitive checks on a remote Internet service and reports back if the test fails and, if so, when the service comes back online</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 Aug 2005</div></div>
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