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<p><p>Frequent travelers may be interested to know that in Snow Leopard your time zone can now be set automatically by bringing up the Date & Time preference pane, clicking the Time Zone view, and selecting Set Time Zone Automatically. A progress spinner appears while Snow Leopard sends off information about the Wi-Fi signals in your vicinity and receives location data back.</p></p>
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<a href="/article/6848"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6848', 'show')">Avoiding Trouble in the Move to Mac OS X, Part 1</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6848" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6848">No activity in the Macintosh world has ever inspired as much fear, loathing, and terror as contemplating the upgrade from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X. People are worried they'll be forced to use the command-line (you won't) or that they must reformat and repartition their hard disks (it's not necessary)</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 Jun 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6836"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6836', 'show')">Eudora 5.1.1 Finally Ships for Mac OS X</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6836" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6836">Eudora 5.1.1 Finally Ships for Mac OS X -- Qualcomm has released the long-awaited final version of Eudora 5.1.1 for both Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. Eudora users still running Mac OS 9 will appreciate a few small bug fixes, but the big news is the availability of Eudora 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> | 03 Jun 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6837"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6837', 'show')">ConceptDraw 1.8 Adds XML Support</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6837" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6837">ConceptDraw 1.8 Adds XML Support -- CS Odessa has released version 1.8 of its charting and diagramming products ConceptDraw and ConceptDraw Professional (see "Make the Connection with ConceptDraw" in TidBITS-553)</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 Jun 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6838"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6838', 'show')">Aladdin Releases Spring Cleaning 5.0</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6838" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6838">Aladdin Releases Spring Cleaning 5.0 -- Aladdin Systems has released Spring Cleaning 5.0, adding a number of new features to the company's system clean-up and uninstaller 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> | 03 Jun 2002</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6824" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6824">No TidBITS Issue 27-May-02 -- It is said there's no rest for the wicked, but of late that homily has been spilling over to the rest of us as well. So, TidBITS is taking a well-deserved week off for 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> | 20 May 2002</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6825" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6825">Apple Speed Bumps iBooks -- Apple today announced an update to the slick iBook line that adds faster CPUs, 512K on-chip L2 cache, a more powerful ATI Mobility Radeon graphics processor with 16 MB of RAM and AGP 2X, larger hard drives, and a new video-out port</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 May 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6826"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6826', 'show')">Now Up-to-Date & Contact 4.2.1 Adds Grab-'n-Go</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6826" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6826">Now Up-to-Date & Contact 4.2.1 Adds Grab-'n-Go -- Power On Software has released Now Up-to-Date & Contact 4.2.1, a free upgrade for users of the Mac OS X-only version of their popular calendaring and contact management program</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 May 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6829"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6829', 'show')">Corrupt Audio Discs Stick in Mac's Craw</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6829" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6829">Accustomed to playing CDs in your Mac? Beware. A number of music labels have released intentionally corrupt audio discs in Europe and the U.S. that look like industry standard CDs and even play in some CD players (see Fat Chuck's Corrupt CDs site and the Campaign for Digital Rights site for 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> | 20 May 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6819"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6819', 'show')">Poll Results: Are You X'd Out?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6819" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6819">Poll Results: Are You X'd Out? In some ways, the responses to last week's poll asking how much of the time your primary Mac spends booted into Mac OS X were not surprising</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 May 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6820"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6820', 'show')">Do More with iPhoto 1.1.1</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6820" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6820">Apple last week released the long-awaited iPhoto 1.1.1, the first update to the company's popular photo management and sharing software (see "iPhoto Joins the iFold" in TidBITS-611)</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 May 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6821"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6821', 'show')">Goodies from Kensington</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6821" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6821">One of the perks of being a computer journalist is that every so often products arrive on the doorstep to test - some we rip open and start using immediately, others elicit yawns and never even make it out of their shrink wrap</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> and <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 13 May 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6811"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6811', 'show')">ConceptDraw Presenter Takes On PowerPoint</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6811" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6811">ConceptDraw Presenter Takes On PowerPoint -- CS Odessa has released ConceptDraw Presenter 1.0, the latest product derived from their powerful diagramming software (see "Make the Connection with ConceptDraw" in TidBITS-553)</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 May 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6812"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6812', 'show')">icWord & icExcel View Office Documents in Mac OS X</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6812" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6812">icWord & icExcel View Office Documents in Mac OS X -- Panergy Ltd. has released icWord 2.1, a Mac OS X-compatible version of its useful Microsoft Word and AppleWorks document viewer for those who don't own Word or AppleWorks (see "icWord Reads and Prints Word Documents" in TidBITS-543)</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 May 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6813"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6813', 'show')">iPhoto Book Available Internationally</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6813" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6813">iPhoto Book Available Internationally -- I was surprised and distressed to discover that Amazon wouldn't let international buyers of my iPhoto for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide book download the electronic version in advance of receiving the paper version</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 May 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6814"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6814', 'show')">Opportunities for Small Fry at Macworld Expo</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6814" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6814">Our periodic examinations of how a Macworld Expo represents the state of the Macintosh industry usually involve analyzing the number of attendees and their mood, the number of exhibitors, and the range of products shown</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 May 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6815"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6815', 'show')">Mac OS X: The Curse of the New</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6815" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6815">As you have no doubt noticed, we have been increasing the amount of Mac OS X-specific content in TidBITS. Although there are good reasons for this change, it can create some tension, since many users continue to rely on earlier versions of the Mac OS</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 May 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6801"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6801', 'show')">Another Retrospect 5.0 Update Fixes More Problems</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6801" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6801">Another Retrospect 5.0 Update Fixes More Problems -- Dantz Development has released another update to Retrospect 5.0, fixing two problems. In all editions of Retrospect, the 5.0.205 update fixes a problem that caused a crash when scanning icons and privileges of files with names longer than 31 characters</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 Apr 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6802"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6802', 'show')">4D Updates WebSTAR 4.5 for Mac OS 9</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6802" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6802">4D Updates WebSTAR 4.5 for Mac OS 9 -- Kudos to 4D for releasing WebSTAR Server Suite 4.5 for Mac OS 9 users today. Despite focusing attention on the Mac OS X-compatible WebSTAR V (which still lacks the email server component of WebSTAR 4.5), 4D took the time to decarbonize the Web server in WebSTAR 4.5 to improve performance and eliminate memory leaks</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 Apr 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6805"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6805', 'show')">Top Mac OS X Utilities: Alternative Controls</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6805" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6805">In the previous installment of this series on Mac OS X utilities, I looked at Mac OS X programs that restored common capabilities provided by third party utilities in Mac OS 9</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 Apr 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6784"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6784', 'show')">Retrospect Updater Addresses Two Problems</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6784" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6784">Retrospect Updater Addresses Two Problems -- Dantz Development has released updaters for Retrospect Express and Retrospect Desktop/Workgroup/Server, addressing two problems with the company's new backup software, reviewed in "Retrospect 5.0 Enables Mac OS X Backups" in TidBITS-624</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 Apr 2002</div></div>
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