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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7477" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7477">With Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, Apple included Font Book, a font management utility. But people who are serious about managing their fonts quickly found that it wasn't competition for a real font manager like Insider Software's FontAgent 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> | 15 Dec 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7478"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7478', 'show')">Macworld Expo SF 2004 Events</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7478" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7478">Last July's Macworld Expo in New York was, as I wrote back then, highly concentrated, with many fewer exhibitors and many fewer attendees. Apart from the raw numbers, though, the show went well, so I have no ill premonitions regarding the upcoming Macworld Expo in San Francisco</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 Dec 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7466" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7466">Welcome to our traditional holiday gift issue, in which we pass along numerous recommendations from readers that help us all decide what gifts to give our loved ones or to put on our own lists</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> | 11 Dec 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7458"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7458', 'show')">QuicKeys X2 2.0.2 Now Panther-Compatible</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7458" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7458">QuicKeys X2 2.0.2 Now Panther-Compatible -- CE Software has released the completed version of their macro utility QuicKeys X2 2.0.2. The most notable change is of course compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, since previous versions of QuicKeys were expressly incompatible, and CE made time-limited betas available upon Panther's release (see "Default Folder X and QuicKeys X: Upgrade Before Panther!" in TidBITS-703)</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 Dec 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7460"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7460', 'show')">DealBITS Drawing: Bare Bones Software</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7460" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7460">There are few classes of software that inspire more loyalty than text editors and email programs, and TidBITS sponsor Bare Bones Software has long provided favorites in both fields</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 Dec 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7462" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7462">Wi-Fi wireless networking has been one of the major growth industries to emerge following the burst of the dot-com bubble, with millions of users, oddly named start-ups, and even some highly publicized IPOs</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 Dec 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7463"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7463', 'show')">MacPAD: The Future of Mac Software Updates</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7463" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7463">Every now and then I run across a developer doing something so obvious and cool that I think, "Well, it's about time!" Through a total coincidence, that happened just last week, when Julian Miller of Script Software called to chat about his latest products</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 Dec 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7444" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7444">Next Issue 08-Dec-03 -- We're taking next week off from our regular publication schedule so we can all spend some relaxing time with families and friends over the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S</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> | 24 Nov 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7445"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7445', 'show')">Submit Your Holiday 2003 Gift Ideas</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7445" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7445">Submit Your Holiday 2003 Gift Ideas -- We may not approve of ads for Christmas sales appearing the day after Halloween, but it is now once again a decent time to start thinking about the year's annual spectacle of consumer confidence</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> | 24 Nov 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7446" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7446">Apple Introduces 20-inch iMac -- Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Apple has released a new version of the flat-panel iMac that offers a 20-inch LCD screen with a resolution of 1680 by 1050 pixels</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> | 24 Nov 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7449"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7449', 'show')">Creo Eases File Sharing with Tokens</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7449" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7449">Creo Eases File Sharing with Tokens -- Have you found sharing files via email frustrating? Email, as we've been predicting, is becoming increasingly unreliable, thanks to spam-overloaded servers and inaccurate filters, and, when we're talking about file sharing, encoding format troubles and attachment size limitations</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> | 24 Nov 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7450"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7450', 'show')">More Take Control Updates</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7450" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7450">Silly us. We thought things would ease up after our initial launch and release of the 1.1 update to Joe Kissell's "Take Control of Upgrading to Panther" two weeks after Panther shipped</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> | 24 Nov 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7435" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7435">Dr. Bott Sponsoring TidBITS -- We're pleased to welcome our latest long-term sponsor, the Macintosh peripheral manufacturer and distributor Dr. Bott. Most people, and I was among them initially, don't realize that the company name wasn't chosen for its pleasant geekiness: at Macworld Expo a few years ago, I was surprised to meet in person Dr</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 Nov 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7436"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7436', 'show')">BBEdit 7.1 Adds Live HTML Preview and SFTP</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7436" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7436">BBEdit 7.1 Adds Live HTML Preview and SFTP -- Bare Bones Software has released BBEdit 7.1, a free update to the company's powerful text and HTML editing program that adds a handful of welcome 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> | 17 Nov 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7437"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7437', 'show')">Poll Results: Panting for Panther?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7437" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7437">Poll Results: Panting for Panther? In last week's poll, we asked, "When do you plan to upgrade your main Mac to Mac OS X 10.3 Panther?" It turns out that about half of the TidBITS audience (at least those who respond to our polls) are essentially early adopters, since 45 percent of respondents have already installed Panther, and another 6 percent plan to do it as soon as they get around to it (they must be overworked early adopters)</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 Nov 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7427"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7427', 'show')">New Snapz Pro X 1.0.9 Works Better with Panther</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7427" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7427">New Snapz Pro X 1.0.9 Works Better with Panther -- Ambrosia Software has released Snapz Pro X 1.0.9, improving compatibility with Panther (version 1.0.8 wasn't working for me at all), and fixing a couple of bugs</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 Nov 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7428" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7428">PhoneValet 1.1 Improves Integration -- Parliant today released PhoneValet 1.1, a software upgrade to the company's Mac OS X-based hardware/software telephone management package (see "PhoneValet, Can You Get That?" in TidBITS-699 for a full review)</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 Nov 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7429"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7429', 'show')">NoteBook 1.2 Adds HTML Export and More</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7429" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7429">NoteBook 1.2 Adds HTML Export and More -- Circus Ponies Software has released NoteBook 1.2, a significant update to their note-taking, outlining, and snippet-keeping application for 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> | 10 Nov 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7430"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7430', 'show')">First Take Control Update Released</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7430" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7430">We've hit another small milestone with our Take Control electronic book series: the first free update to Joe Kissell's "Take Control of Upgrading to Panther." We released it Friday, 07-Nov-03, exactly two weeks after the initial release</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 Nov 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7413" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7413">DealBITS Drawing: BeLight Software Winner -- Congratulations to Barbara Roy of dplanet.ch, Eric Houghton of fmr.com, and Seth Anderson of b12partners.net, whose entries were chosen randomly in our second DealBITS drawing</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 Oct 2003</div></div>
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