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<a href="/article/6989"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6989', 'show')">Eudora 5.2 Improves Filtering, Brings Back SSL</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6989" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6989">Eudora 5.2 Improves Filtering, Brings Back SSL -- Qualcomm has released Eudora 5.2, the latest version of their popular email program. The most important and welcome feature is that Eudora filters can now match addresses in incoming messages against the contents of address books; this lets you separate mail from people already in your address book from those with whom you haven't already corresponded, like spammers</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 Nov 2002</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> | 11 Nov 2002</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> | 11 Nov 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6977"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6977', 'show')">TidBITS Wins Best of Mac Web Survey!</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6977" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6977">TidBITS Wins Best of Mac Web Survey! Many thanks to everyone who voted for us in Low End Mac's recent Best of the Mac Web survey. Although we came in sixth in the raw number of votes, we were first in overall ranking, edging out MacSurfer and VersionTracker</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> | 04 Nov 2002</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6978" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6978">Interarchy 6.0 -- Stairways Software has released Interarchy 6.0, the latest version of their popular file transfer and network testing software. New features in Interarchy 6.0 include full support for Secure FTP (SFTP) in Mac OS X, queues that let you collect multiple actions and run them sequentially, delayed transfers that run at a later time, repeating transfers that run on a regular schedule, new column and hierarchical views, verification of Web site links, and support for bookmarks and URL management</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> | 04 Nov 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6980"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6980', 'show')">Final Judgment in Microsoft Antitrust Case</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6980" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6980">On Friday, 01-Nov-02, the four year-old antitrust case brought by the U.S. Department of Justice and 18 states and the District of Columbia drew to a close with a ruling by 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> | 04 Nov 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6972"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6972', 'show')">MacTiVo Blesser Available Again</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6972" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6972">MacTiVo Blesser Available Again -- Mac users who want a do-it-yourself approach to adding a hard disk to a TiVo can once again download the free MacTiVo Blesser program (the original site disappeared in the iTools to .Mac transition)</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> | 28 Oct 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6975"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6975', 'show')">TidBITS Troubleshooting Primer, Part 2</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6975" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6975">In the first installment of this article, I talked about the basics steps necessary to troubleshoot any problem, including describing the problem, breaking the system apart, asking yourself questions about each part of the system, and finding answers to those questions and tests.But what if, after all that, you still haven't been able to solve the problem? Failure to solve a problem on your own is no cause for surrender, because you usually just don't understand the system well enough to break it into appropriate chunks</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> | 28 Oct 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6968"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6968', 'show')">TidBITS Troubleshooting Primer, Part 1</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6968" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6968">There's no point in pretending that problems never happen. Although this may be a typically male viewpoint, life - computer life and life in general - can be seen as nothing but problems ("challenges," "opportunities") and solutions</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> | 21 Oct 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6956"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6956', 'show')">Vote for TidBITS in 4th Best of the Mac Web Survey!</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6956" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6956">Vote for TidBITS in 4th Best of the Mac Web Survey! From today, 14-Oct-02, through Tuesday, 22-Oct-02, the Low End Mac Web site is running the latest installment of their semi-annual popularity contest for Macintosh news and information Web sites</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> | 14 Oct 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6957"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6957', 'show')">Poll Results: Grading Mac OS X</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6957" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6957">Poll Results: Grading Mac OS X -- It's a bit hard to analyze the results of last week's poll asking how you'd grade Mac OS X. I was intrigued to see that the number of people who rated Mac OS X more highly than I did was almost the same as the number who rated it less highly, giving some level of credence to my grade</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> | 14 Oct 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6952"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6952', 'show')">iPhoto Visual QuickStart Guide Available in PDF</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6952" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6952">iPhoto Visual QuickStart Guide Available in PDF -- For those who have purchased my latest book, iPhoto 1.1 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide, you can now download the entire book in PDF format</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> | 07 Oct 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6953"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6953', 'show')">O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Report</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6953" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6953">Last week's O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference marked the rise of the first major new Macintosh conference in years. Luminaries from the Macintosh and Unix worlds, brought together by Apple's melding of the Mac OS and Unix in Mac OS X, mingled with a similarly eclectic mix of several hundred attendees</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> | 07 Oct 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6954"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6954', 'show')">Mac OS X Report Card: October 2002</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6954" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6954">At last week's O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference, I gave a talk grading Mac OS X in a number of categories, and although a draft was discussed on TidBITS Talk, I wanted to share the final version here</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> | 07 Oct 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6947"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6947', 'show')">Internet Explorer Updates Address Vulnerability</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6947" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6947">Internet Explorer Updates Address Vulnerability -- Microsoft has released a pair of Internet Explorer updates aimed at resolving a security vulnerability related to digital certificates - in the right situation, an attacker could use it to enable a number of identity spoofing attacks</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 Sep 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6949"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6949', 'show')">Jaguar Brings Back Tabbed Windows?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6949" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6949">Excitement ran high recently on TidBITS Talk, when Jim Grisham mentioned that it seemed as though some of the behavior for Mac OS 9's tabbed windows was partially available in Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar</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 Sep 2002</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6940" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6940">Hubzilla Meets Macintosh -- Okay, this is just too funny. Charismac Engineering has introduced a 4-port FireWire hub embedded into an 8-inch (20 cm) tall plastic Godzilla toy</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 Sep 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6941"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6941', 'show')">Meet Us at O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference; Discount Available</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6941" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6941">Next week, after celebrating Tonya's birthday on Sunday, I'm jetting off to Santa Clara, CA to speak at and attend the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference from September 30th through October 3rd</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 Sep 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6934"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6934', 'show')">Dealing With .Mac Trials Ending</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6934" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6934">Dealing With .Mac Trials Ending -- Consider this a brief reminder to the Mac community. According to Apple, iTools accounts that were automatically converted into .Mac trial accounts will be going away in two weeks on 30-Sep-02</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 Sep 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6927"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6927', 'show')">Apple Releases iCal; Announces Mac OS X-only Booting</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6927" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6927">Apple Releases iCal; Announces Mac OS X-only Booting -- At Apple Expo in Paris, Apple today released iCal, the company's simple calendar application announced at Macworld Expo in July</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 Sep 2002</div></div>
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