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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> | 10 Dec 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6652"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6652', 'show')">Smart Internet Shopping</a></h4>
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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> | 10 Dec 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6642"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6642', 'show')">Submit Your Holiday 2001 Gift Ideas</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6642" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6642">Submit Your Holiday 2001 Gift Ideas -- It's time once again for that annual spectacle of consumer confidence, and if it's up to us individuals to prop up the global economy and make the world safe once again for massive corporate tax incentives, the least we can do is make sure our favorite Macintosh-related companies come out smelling like roses! As with previous TidBITS gift issues, we'll focus on the best suggestions from you, our loyal readers</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 Dec 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6644"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6644', 'show')">TidBITS Ranks in Second Best of the Mac Web Survey</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6644" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6644">TidBITS Ranks in Second Best of the Mac Web Survey -- In the second Best of the Mac Web survey run by the Low End Mac Web site, TidBITS ranked as the 5th best rated site behind As the Apple Turns, VersionTracker, MacFixIt, and MacSurfer's Headline News</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 Dec 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6645"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6645', 'show')">Into the Briar Patch: Microsoft's Self-Serving Settlement</a></h4>
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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> | 03 Dec 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6634" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6634">Next Issue 03-Dec-01! As is our custom, we're taking next week off for the U.S. Thanksgiving holidays. We'll publish next on 03-Dec-01. [ACE]</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> | 19 Nov 2001</div></div>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6635" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6635">Vote for TidBITS! The Low End Mac Web site is running its Best of the Mac Web survey this year through 22-Nov-01, so if you'd like to help raise awareness of TidBITS, please be sure to fill out the form with a vote for TidBITS</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> | 19 Nov 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6637"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6637', 'show')">Microsoft Office X Ships</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6637" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6637">Microsoft Office X Ships -- With today's release of Microsoft Office X for Mac OS X, one of the major hurdles to mainstream use of Mac OS X has been crossed</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> | 19 Nov 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6638"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6638', 'show')">Now Up-to-Date & Contact 4.1 Goes Mac OS X Native</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6638" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6638">Now Up-to-Date & Contact 4.1 Goes Mac OS X Native -- Power On Software has released Now Up-to-Date & Contact 4.1, the Mac OS X version of their long-standing 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> | 19 Nov 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6626"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6626', 'show')">IPNetRouter 1.6.2 and Continued Care Available</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6626" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6626">IPNetRouter 1.6.2 and Continued Care Available -- Sustainable Softworks has released IPNetRouter 1.6.2, the latest version of the company's popular software router for sharing a single Internet connection among multiple computers</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> | 12 Nov 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6628" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6628">The weekend of 03-Nov-01 was a bad one for Apple and some early users of iTunes 2. After releasing the new version late Friday night, Apple hastily pulled the Mac OS X installer Saturday morning due to a problem where, in some situations involving multiple volumes named in specific ways, the installer could delete a large number of files</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> | 12 Nov 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6619"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6619', 'show')">Poll Results: I Saw, I Paid, iPod</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6619" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6619">Poll Results: I Saw, I Paid, iPod -- Last week brought Apple's announcement of the iPod portable music player and was followed immediately by criticism that the $400 price tag was too high for what the device does</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> | 05 Nov 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6606"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6606', 'show')">Microsoft Releases Windows XP</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6606" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6606">Microsoft Releases Windows XP -- Microsoft last week released Windows XP, the first version of the Windows operating system that melds the industrial-strength underpinnings of the Windows NT/2000 line with the more consumer friendly features and interface of the Windows 95/98/Me line</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 Oct 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6607"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6607', 'show')">IPNetSentry 1.3 Goes Beyond Personal Use</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6607" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6607">IPNetSentry 1.3 Goes Beyond Personal Use -- Sustainable Softworks has released IPNetSentry 1.3, the latest version of their personal firewall and intrusion detection software (see "Macworld SF 2001 Trend: Personal Firewalls" in TidBITS-564 for more information on personal firewalls)</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 Oct 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6601"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6601', 'show')">Apple Speed Bumps iBook and Titanium</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6601" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6601">The day before reporting its fourth quarter financial results last week, Apple introduced enhanced models of its hot-selling iBook (Dual USB) and PowerBook G4 Titanium laptops</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> | 22 Oct 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6602"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6602', 'show')">Mac OS X 10.1 Security Issues Fixed</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6602" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6602">Mac OS X 10.1's significant improvements in performance and usability may have plenty of people considering a switch from the reliable workhorse of Mac OS 9, but it seems clear we can never go home again with regard to the issue of security</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> | 22 Oct 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6592"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6592', 'show')">Macworld Returns to IDG</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6592" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6592">Macworld Returns to IDG -- Four years ago, during one of the dips in the Macintosh industry, the fierce competition for advertising between the two leading Macintosh magazines, Macworld and MacUser, was halted by International Data Group (IDG) and Ziff Davis merging the two (along with Ziff Davis's MacWEEK) into a joint venture called Mac Publishing</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 Oct 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6593"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6593', 'show')">WebSTAR V Ships for Mac OS X</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6593" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6593">WebSTAR V Ships for Mac OS X -- 4D, Inc., is now shipping WebSTAR Server Suite V for Mac OS X, marking the move of another long-time Mac OS Internet server to Apple's new operating system despite its built-in set of Unix-based Internet servers</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 Oct 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6595"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6595', 'show')">Sculpting Internet Traffic</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6595" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6595">As you may remember from back in April, we had to move a number of TidBITS servers from Geoff's suddenly darkened broadband connection to the relatively poky 56 Kbps frame relay connection at our old house in Seattle</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 Oct 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6589"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6589', 'show')">Six Hundred Issues and New TidBITS Services</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6589" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6589">Here at TidBITS, we seem to be creatures of tradition. We saw this issue approaching a few months back and thought, "Hmm, we should do something for such a milestone issue." Then we went back to doing what we do every week: writing and editing and responding to email</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 Oct 2001</div></div>
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