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<h6>iMovie '09: Speed Clips up to 2,000%</h6>
<p><p>iMovie '09 brings back the capability to speed up or slow down clips, which went missing in iMovie '08. Select a clip and bring up the Clip Inspector by double-clicking the clip, clicking the Inspector button on the toolbar, or pressing the I key. Just as with its last appearance in iMovie HD 6, you can move a slider to make the video play back slower or faster (indicated by a turtle or hare icon).</p>
<p>You can also enter a value into the text field to the right of the slider, and this is where things get interesting. You're not limited to the tick mark values on the slider, so you can set the speed to be 118% of normal if you want. The field below that tells you the clip's changed duration.</p>
<p>But you can also exceed the boundaries of the speed slider. Enter any number between 5% and <strong>2000%</strong>, then click Done.</p></p>
<a href="/article/7129"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7129', 'show')">Printer Sharing and Print Spooling in Mac OS X</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7129" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7129">As of this writing, my internal network has only Macs running Mac OS X. That's not to say that most of our Macs can't boot into Mac OS 9 when necessary, but the only reasons I've had to switch back to Mac OS 9 recently were to run Norton Disk Doctor to perform a media check on a hard disk with bad blocks, and to use the floppy drive in my PowerBook G3</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> | 31 Mar 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7114"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7114', 'show')">Apple Moves WWDC 2003 to June in San Francisco</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7114" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7114">With only two months notice, Apple has rescheduled its 2003 Worldwide Developers Conference for 23-Jun-03 through 27-Jun-03 in San Francisco's Moscone Center</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 Mar 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7115"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7115', 'show')">Publish (Electronically) and Perish?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7115" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7115">The revolution in electronic publishing of books is still happening, though more slowly than many expected. But some of us still try to nudge things along, as I did last year by letting people who pre-ordered my iPhoto Visual QuickStart Guide download a PDF version via Amazon</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 Mar 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7116"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7116', 'show')">Configuring a Utility Hard Disk</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7116" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7116">Years ago, when APS Technologies was the dominant hard drive vendor in the Macintosh world, I had a chat with Paul McGraw, one of the co-founders of the company, about why APS was starting to sell Macintosh clones</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 Mar 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7104" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7104">BBEdit 7.0.3 Squashes Bugs -- Bare Bones Software has released BBEdit 7.0.3, a minor but worthwhile update to their powerful text and HTML editing 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 Mar 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7105" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7105">Caffeine Software Suspends Operations -- On 03-Mar-03, Caffeine Software, makers of TIFFany, Curator, Cycles, and the elegant PixelNhance, suspended operations</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 Mar 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7106" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7106">Chimera Becomes Camino -- For legal reasons, the Mac OS X open source Web browser known as Chimera has been renamed Camino, and the team has released version 0.7</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 Mar 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7107"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7107', 'show')">Tools We Use: LaunchBar</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7107" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7107">Way back in the dawn of computing, there was a word processor called WordStar. Many people who used it heavily claimed that its keyboard controls had become embedded in their fingertips, but I never quite understood what they meant</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 Mar 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7108"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7108', 'show')">Wanted: Conflict Catcher for Mac OS X</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7108" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7108">Here's the good news. Mac OS X doesn't suffer from the same sort of conflicts that Mac OS 9 did. You will seldom, if ever, find that installing a new piece of software causes some other program to act in an unnatural, demon-possessed fashion</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 Mar 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7098" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7098">Keynote 1.0.1 Update -- Apple released Keynote 1.0.1 via Software Update, saying that the new version brings support for Japanese, French, German, Dutch, Italian, and Spanish to the presentation 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> | 10 Mar 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7099" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7099">Security Update 2003-03-03 -- In an effort to stay up to date with security improvements on the Unix front, Apple has also released Security Update 2003-03-03, which provides a new version of sendmail that closes a hole which could allow a cracker access to the system</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 Mar 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7093" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7093">AirPort Extreme 5.0.3 Firmware Update -- Apple has released a 1 MB firmware update for the new AirPort Extreme Base Station, fixing a number 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> | 03 Mar 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7095" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7095">A couple of weeks ago I gave a presentation to the Metropolitan New York Macintosh Alliance (MetroMac) and the Long Island Macintosh Users Group (LIMac)</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 Mar 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7082"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7082', 'show')">Free Jaguar with MYOB</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7082" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7082">Free Jaguar with MYOB -- Apple may be bundling a "New User Edition" of Intuit's QuickBooks accounting program with new professional level Macs, but long-time Macintosh accounting software vendor MYOB isn't taking it lying down</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 Feb 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7084" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7084">WebSTAR 5.2.4 Gets SOAPy -- 4D, Inc., last week released WebSTAR Server Suite 5.2.4; the latest version of their collection of Internet servers. The main enhancement is support for Web Services via a full SOAP implementation (the PHP NuSOAP library) that provides integration with Web Services in other applications, including 4D's own 4th Dimension 2003</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 Feb 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7085"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7085', 'show')">.Mac Upgrades & Goodies</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7085" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7085">.Mac Upgrades & Goodies -- People who ponied up for Apple's .Mac service have been receiving a variety of deals that have more than eliminated the $50 charge for the first year of a .Mac upgrade from iTools</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 Feb 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7086"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7086', 'show')">Poll Results: Do You Use Software Update?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7086" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7086">Poll Results: Do You Use Software Update? Last week we asked how often you have Software Update set to check for new software. Of the more than 1,600 responses, 21 percent have it set to check every day, 40 percent check weekly (which is the default setting), a mere 2 percent check monthly, and only 4 percent don't use Software Update at all</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 Feb 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7088"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7088', 'show')">A Personal Statement on War in Iraq</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7088" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7088">I'm angry. I'm worried. And I'm sad.I've refrained from voicing my opinions on this matter until now, but because I've always kept TidBITS personal and despite my reluctance to allow such matters into these pages, I can refrain no longer</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 Feb 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7074"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7074', 'show')">Do You Use Software Update?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7074" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7074">Do You Use Software Update? Apple's Software Update utility for automatically downloading and installing updates to the Mac OS and other Apple software generally works well</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 Feb 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7076"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7076', 'show')">Tools We Use: SpamSieve</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7076" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7076">Having to sort through the increasingly repulsive spam that's rushing into our electronic mailboxes is becoming more unpleasant than ever. You can reduce the flow, though, with one of three basic approaches to filtering spam out of your email stream: Boolean filters, points-based filters, and so-called "Bayesian" statistical filters</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 Feb 2003</div></div>
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