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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6785" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6785">Now Up-to-Date & Contact 4.2 Syncs with Palms -- Hot on the heels of the new Palm Desktop 4.0 (see "Palm Desktop 4.0 Released" in TidBITS-622), Power On Software has released Now Up-to-Date & Contact 4.2 for Mac OS X, which adds Palm synchronization capabilities back to the popular calendar and contact manager</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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<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>
<a href="/article/6788"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6788', 'show')">An Even Dozen TidBITS</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6788" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6788">This issue of TidBITS marks our 12th anniversary of continuous publication on the Internet. On some of our previous anniversaries I've written about the early history of TidBITS, lessons we've learned over the years, and how things have changed from the early days</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>
<a href="/article/6776"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6776', 'show')">April Mac OS X Security Update</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6776" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6776">April Mac OS X Security Update -- Apple last week released the Security Update April 2002 through Software Update and the Apple software downloads site</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 Apr 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6778"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6778', 'show')">Free Macworld Expo NY 2002 Exhibit Passes</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6778" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6778">Free Macworld Expo NY 2002 Exhibit Passes -- If you're thinking about attending Macworld Expo in New York City from 17-Jul-02 through 19-Jul-02, you can register now through April 23rd to get a free exhibit hall pass (supposedly a $35 value)</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 Apr 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6779"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6779', 'show')">Top Mac OS X Utilities: Restoring Third Party Capabilities</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6779" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6779">In the first installment of this series on Mac OS X utilities, I looked at utilities that restored capabilities inherent to Mac OS 9 that we had all been accustomed to over the years</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 Apr 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6766"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6766', 'show')">GramCop Filters Poorly Written Email</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6766" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6766">GramCop Filters Poorly Written Email -- Tired of reading email that's rife with spelling and grammatical mistakes? Concerned that the rise of quick email and instant messaging has caused writing skills to deteriorate to the point of incomprehensibility? Thanks to a new service from the people who brought you SpamCop, you can restrict incoming mail to those messages that the senders care enough about to have checked spelling and basic grammar</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Apr 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6768"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6768', 'show')">Apple Offers Savvy Support Options</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6768" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6768">You've undoubtedly been in this situation before. Something goes wrong with your Mac, you work through the standard troubleshooting, search the Internet for additional information, try a few additional wacky ideas, and finally call Apple's technical support</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Apr 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6771"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6771', 'show')">Mac Mania Geek Cruise Meets the Love Boat?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6771" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6771">It's looking as though this May's upcoming Mac Mania Geek Cruise could be even more interesting than previously thought. Sure, Woz will be there, talking about the history of the Apple II and showing off the sheets of uncut $2 bills with which he loves to tweak cashiers</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Apr 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6772"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6772', 'show')">Kagi Helps Fans Support Artists</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6772" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6772">We've been writing a lot about issues surrounding copyright and just how artists (of all sorts) can earn a living in this digital world, where so many of the barriers to copying and sharing content have fallen by the wayside</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Apr 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6773"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6773', 'show')">Keyboard Accessibility for Mac OS X</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6773" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6773">Keyboard Accessibility for Mac OS X -- In his TidBITS series on accessibility for disabled Macintosh users, Joe Clark bemoaned the state of adaptive technology in Mac OS X</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=8" class="category">Macs & Mac OS X</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Apr 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6775"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6775', 'show')">Retrospect 5.0 Enables Mac OS X Backups</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6775" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6775">Last week we ran out of room to write much about Dantz Development's release of Retrospect 5.0, the lack of which, for many people serious about their backups (see our "Backed Up Today?" series of articles on the topic), was the main obstacle preventing upgrades to Mac OS X.First off, I want to explain briefly why we had to wait so long for Retrospect 5.0, and why making it compatible with Mac OS X was much harder than it would appear</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=7" class="category">Business Apps</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Apr 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6758"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6758', 'show')">Retrospect 5.0 Backs Up Mac OS X</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6758" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6758">Retrospect 5.0 Backs Up Mac OS X -- Dantz Development is shipping Retrospect 5.0, which runs on either Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X and can back up and restore both operating systems</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> | 25 Mar 2002</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6759" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6759">Mailsmith Joins Native Email Clients -- Mac OS X users looking for a powerful email application to replace Apple's bundled Mail program can now add Bare Bones Software's Mailsmith 1.5 to the list of choices</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> | 25 Mar 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6761"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6761', 'show')">TidBITS Moves Up in Best of Mac Web Survey</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6761" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6761">TidBITS Moves Up in Best of Mac Web Survey -- In the Low End Mac Web site's third Best of the Mac Web survey, TidBITS moved up from 5th to 3rd in user ratings</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> | 25 Mar 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6763"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6763', 'show')">Top Mac OS X Utilities: Restoring Mac OS 9 Functionality</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6763" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6763">Everyone knows that the group that's by far the most important to Apple is composed of small utility developers. Several years back, Apple saw that the Mac market was stagnating because almost every conceivable utility had already been developed</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> | 25 Mar 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6753"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6753', 'show')">EIMS Light 3.1.1 Simplifies Mac Email Server</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6753" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6753">EIMS Light 3.1.1 Simplifies Mac Email Server -- As Glenn Anderson's Mac OS-based Eudora Internet Mail Server has evolved, its feature set has grown beyond what many sites need</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> | 18 Mar 2002</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6754" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6754">Signed TidBITS T-Shirt Charity Auction -- At Macworld Expo 2002 in San Francisco, I donated a signed TidBITS t-shirt to the World Without Borders folks to auction off for their charity Mac-A-Wish Foundation</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> | 18 Mar 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6755"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6755', 'show')">Zooming in on the ProScope</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6755" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6755">Perhaps it's related to my lousy vision, but I've never had much luck with telescopes or microscopes. Celestial objects look like little white dots to me, and I hate removing my glasses to use a microscope</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> | 18 Mar 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6747"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6747', 'show')">Virtual PC 5.0.2 Improves Performance</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6747" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6747">Virtual PC 5.0.2 Improves Performance -- Connectix has released Virtual PC 5.0.2, a free update to the company's PC emulation software for both Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X (see "Virtual PC Adds Features, Mac OS X Compatibility" in TidBITS-610)</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 Mar 2002</div></div>
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