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<a href="/article/6581"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6581', 'show')">Microsoft Offers Word X Test Drive</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6581" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6581">Microsoft Offers Word X Test Drive -- For those with Mac OS X 10.1, Microsoft is offering a free Word X Test Drive to give people a look at what's coming in the final version of Office X for Macintosh, due in a few months</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> | 01 Oct 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6582"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6582', 'show')">Apple Reschedules QuickTime Live 2001</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6582" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6582">Apple Reschedules QuickTime Live 2001 -- In the wake of its cancellation of Apple Expo 2001 in Paris, Apple also announced last week that it is also postponing the QuickTime Live 2001 conference, originally scheduled for 08-Oct-01 through 11-Oct-01, until 10-Feb-02 through 14-Feb-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> | 01 Oct 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6583"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6583', 'show')">Acquiring Mac OS X 10.1</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6583" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6583">On Saturday, 29-Sep-01, Apple started shipping the long-awaited Mac OS X 10.1, which brings the company's next-generation operating system a large step closer to the mainstream Macintosh audience.The first four minor updates to Mac OS X 10.0 fixed bugs and made behind-the-scenes improvements to the initial release of 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> | 01 Oct 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6584"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6584', 'show')">Mac OS X 10.1: The Main Features</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6584" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6584">At the July 2001 Macworld Expo in New York, Steve Jobs previewed Mac OS X 10.1, wowing the audience with a demonstration that promised massive speed improvements, the return of features previously exclusive to Mac OS 9, and a host of interface tweaks to address the most glaring of Mac OS X's usability holes</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> | 01 Oct 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6585"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6585', 'show')">Making the Mac OS X Upgrade Decision</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6585" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6585">The real question I'm sure many of you are asking at this point is if Mac OS X 10.1 is good enough to entice those who haven't yet set themselves up to be Apple's guinea pigs</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> | 01 Oct 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6570" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6570">StuffIt Updates Add File Manipulation Capabilities -- Aladdin Systems has shipped StuffIt Deluxe 6.5, the latest version of the company's venerable package of file compression, archiving, encoding, and manipulation utilities</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 Sep 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6571"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6571', 'show')">DriveSavers Donates Free Disk Recovery Services</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6571" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6571">DriveSavers Donates Free Disk Recovery Services -- Kudos to data recovery service DriveSavers, which is offering free data recovery services to individuals and businesses affected by the September 11th terrorist 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> | 24 Sep 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6572" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6572">Rumpus 2.0 Offers Industrial Strength FTP Server -- Showing no fear of the built-in Unix FTP server in Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server (at least the former of which is notable for lacking MacBinary support), Maxum Development has released Rumpus 2.0, a significant update to the company's high-performance Macintosh FTP server</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 Sep 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6573" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6573">Interarchy 5.0.1 Fixes Bugs -- Stairways Software has released Interarchy 5.0.1, fixing a number of bugs in the popular Internet file transfer and utility application but adding no new features (see "FTP Disk Feature Highlights Interarchy 5.0" in TidBITS-593)</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 Sep 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6574"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6574', 'show')">Interface Mafia Goes After Bad Interfaces</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6574" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6574">Interface Mafia Goes After Bad Interfaces -- Macintosh users are unusually informed and opinionated about interface design, and even though Macintosh developers are usually equally as sensitive to the interfaces of their programs, creating good interfaces is difficult work</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 Sep 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6559"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6559', 'show')">Apple Expo Paris 2001 Cancelled, Seybold Continues</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6559" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6559">Apple Expo Paris 2001 Cancelled, Seybold Continues -- In a brief announcement today, Apple cancelled Apple Expo 2001, scheduled for 26-Sep-01 through 30-Sep-01 in Paris, France</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 Sep 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6561" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6561">CS Odessa Takes ConceptDraw Professional -- CS Odessa today released ConceptDraw Professional, a beefed-up version of the company's powerful and flexible graphics application (for a full review, 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> | 17 Sep 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6562"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6562', 'show')">Tune In, Help Out, Move Forward</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6562" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6562">I have no special knowledge of international affairs, nor do I pretend to speak from such a position. But as I've sat, shocked, sick, and numb, over the last few days, I believe that some acknowledgment in TidBITS of last Tuesday's horrific terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon is appropriate.My reasoning is simple</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 Sep 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6564" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6564">The evolution of the computer is a tale of continually added capability, marked by the same fits and starts that are the hallmark of biological evolution</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 Sep 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6552"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6552', 'show')">Retrospect 4.3 Adds Support for Apple CD-RW Drives</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6552" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6552">Retrospect 4.3 Adds Support for Apple CD-RW Drives -- At long last, Apple and Dantz Development have released the necessary software for Dantz's Retrospect 4.3 (all versions, including Retrospect Express) to be able to back up to most of the CD-RW drives included in Apple's iMacs, iBooks, and Power Mac G4s back in January of 2001 (see "Retrospect and Retrospect Express 4.3 Released" in TidBITS-541)</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 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6553"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6553', 'show')">IPNetSentry 1.2 Bans Code Red Traffic</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6553" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6553">IPNetSentry 1.2 Bans Code Red Traffic -- Sustainable Softworks has updated IPNetSentry, their personal firewall and network security 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> | 10 Sep 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6557"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6557', 'show')">Fast and Loose with Wireless Networking</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6557" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6557">Whenever Tonya and I move, two of the early priorities are to create an internal network for file sharing and printing, and to bring up an Internet connection</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 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6544"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6544', 'show')">Free ContentBarrier for KidSafe Home Users</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6544" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6544">Free ContentBarrier for KidSafe Home Users -- Intego has announced that it is giving away copies of the $40 ContentBarrier, its Internet content filtering software to home users of Apple's recently discontinued KidSafe service (see "Apple Discontinues KidSafe; Poll Asks Why" in TidBITS-592)</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 Sep 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6545"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6545', 'show')">Outpost.com Switches to Fry's Electronics</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6545" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6545">Outpost.com Switches to Fry's Electronics -- Three months after Outpost.com announced it would be acquired by PC Connection, that merger has fallen through due to too-low total revenues for the months of June, July, and August of 2001 (see "Outpost.com Acquired by PC Connection" in TidBITS-582)</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 Sep 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6534" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6534">REALbasic 3.5 Released -- REAL Software, Inc., has released version 3.5 of REALbasic, their easy-to-use visual object-oriented development environment that many consider the true heir of HyperCard</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> | 27 Aug 2001</div></div>
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