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<h6>Move the Dock Quickly</h6>
<p><p>You may find it convenient to move the position of the Dock when working in certain programs or with certain files. Rather than choosing a different position from the Dock preferences pane or using a submenu in the Apple menu's Dock submenu, you can move your Dock to a different screen edge merely by Shift-dragging the separator that divides the application and document sections.</p></p>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11094" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11094">Fixes cosmetic bugs, bugs related to syncing with Google Calendar, and no longer removes attachments and to-dos from WebDAV calendars. ($49, free updates, 5.6 MB)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=22" class="category">Watchlist</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 19 Mar 2010 | <a href="/article/11094#comments">1 comment</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11095" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11095">We lost track of this news when it happened two weeks ago, but it's worth getting in the record. For the third year in a row, Apple has topped Fortune's list of the world's most admired companies. Although Google came in second (passing Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway), Apple's margin of victory was the greatest ever. Amazon.com placed fifth and Microsoft was eleventh.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<a href="/article/11087"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11087', 'show')">DealBITS Drawing: Win a Copy of ProfitTrain</a></h4>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 15 Mar 2010 | <a href="/article/11087#comments">2 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11078" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11078">The New York Times has a lengthy article laying out the history of the relationship between Apple and Google, which started close but has now developed schisms due to the huge differences in corporate approaches and increasingly competitive products. Apple prefers proprietary systems and tight control over high margin products, whereas Google's goal is to increase Web usage (and thus ad revenue) via free services and open source software. It's the iPhone OS versus Android, Mac OS X versus Chrome OS, Safari versus Chrome, and Apple's Quattro acquisition versus Google's AdMob buy. All that, and the competition between the companies is just starting to heat up.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 13 Mar 2010 | <a href="/article/11078#comments">2 comments | Comment on this link</a></div></div></div>
<a href="/article/11074"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11074', 'show')">Why Google Wave Needs a Major Overhaul</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11074" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11074">Perhaps it's not quite fair to criticize a preview release, but when it comes from Google and is widely available, it's worth pointing out bits of clothing the emperor would do well to don. After months of trying to use Google Wave for real-world tasks, Adam shares both his frustrations with the service and his suggestions for how Google might address some of Wave's myriad problems.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=2" class="category">Opinion</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 11 Mar 2010 | <a href="/article/11074#comments">8 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11069" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11069">Alongside Apple's undeniable success with the iPhone App Store have been the near-constant stories of app rejections for dubious or entirely bogus reasons (to be fair, most rejections are entirely legitimate). But what gives Apple the right to reject or even remove apps? The iPhone Developer Program License Agreement, to which all iPhone developers must agree. The EFF has now acquired copies of the agreement and analyzed some of the more troubling clauses. Would they stand up in court? There's no way to know until someone sues Apple.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11071" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11071">Simplifies snippet creation and editing, can prompt the user for variable data while expanding snippets, offers snippet syncing via Dropbox, and provides new search options. ($34.95 new, $15 upgrades, free for those who purchased after 1 November 2009, 4.5 MB)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=22" class="category">Watchlist</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 10 Mar 2010 | <a href="/article/11071#comments">2 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11070" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11070">Usability guru Jakob Nielsen devoted his Alertbox post this week to showing how interfaces can become confusing if elements like buttons and checkboxes are too far away from the objects they act on, using the iPhone app updating interface in iTunes as an example. Our take is that the overall mistake here is that Apple is relying on iTunes for too many unrelated tasks that call out for different interface approaches.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11055" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11055">Looking for an iPhone app to provide weather conditions and forecasts that goes well beyond Apple's bundled Weather app? Adam, who cares deeply about past, present, and future weather, looks at his current iPhone weather app of choice, WeatherBug Elite.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 04 Mar 2010 | <a href="/article/11055#comments">31 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11057" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11057">Our friends at the EFF have compiled a list of situations in which the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA - the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 - have been used to chill free expression and scientific research, attack fair use, impede competition and innovation, and interfere with computer intrusion laws. Isn't it time to rewrite the DMCA so it can no longer be used to hinder the legitimate activities of journalists, scientists, innovators, and the rest of us?</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 04 Mar 2010 | <a href="/article/11057#comments">2 comments | Comment on this link</a></div></div></div>
<div class="link_hover" id="link_box_full_11058" onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11058', 'show'); link_hover_swap('11058', 'in')" onMouseOut="link_hover_swap('11058', 'out')"><div class="link_hover_title"><a href="http://www.yourmaclifeshow.com/inthenews/2010/03/04/interview-adam-engst-tidbits-about-multitasking-now-available-itunes-store" id="link_hover_title_11058">Adam Discusses iPhone OS Multitasking on Your Mac Life</a></div><div class="link_box_right" id="link_box_right_11058" style="visibility:hidden"><img src="/images/external_link_arrow.gif" height="15" width="15" border="0" alt="arrow"> <img src="/images/link_globe.gif" height="15" width="15" border="0" alt="Generic Globe"></div></div><div class="spacer"></div>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11058" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11058">Your Mac Life host Shawn King admitted that he normally glazes over when topics like multitasking are broached, but a good time was had by all while discussing all the things we think of when we say "multitasking" and how (or if) we'll see support for them in the iPhone OS.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 04 Mar 2010</div></div></div>
<a href="/article/11053"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11053', 'show')">What Is that $1 MobileMe Charge from Apple?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11053" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11053">A fraud warning call about a $1.00 charge from MobileMe sends Adam on an investigation that reveals just how Apple checks to make sure credit cards are still good before charging automatic MobileMe renewal fees.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=13" class="category">Safe Computing</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 02 Mar 2010 | <a href="/article/11053#comments">43 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="link_hover" id="link_box_full_11045" onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11045', 'show'); link_hover_swap('11045', 'in')" onMouseOut="link_hover_swap('11045', 'out')"><div class="link_hover_title"><a href="http://www.technightowl.com/radio/podcast/now-playing-february-25-2010-%E2%80%94-kirk-mcelhearn-adam-engst-and-lee-givens/" id="link_hover_title_11045">Adam Discusses Macworld Expo and the Google Buzz Debacle on Tech Night Owl</a></div><div class="link_box_right" id="link_box_right_11045" style="visibility:hidden"><img src="/images/external_link_arrow.gif" height="15" width="15" border="0" alt="arrow"> <img src="/images/link_globe.gif" height="15" width="15" border="0" alt="Generic Globe"></div></div><div class="spacer"></div>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11045" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11045">On the Tech Night Owl Live podcast, Adam talks about the success of Macworld Expo with host Gene Steinberg, after which the discussion veers off to Google's privacy missteps with Google Buzz.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 28 Feb 2010</div></div></div>
<a href="/article/11030"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11030', 'show')">The Fall and Rise of Bundle-Based Businesses </a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11030" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11030">Newspapers are on the ropes, the recording industry is seeing declining profits, and the Internet is to blame, right? Yes, but perhaps not in the way you think. Adam explores the extremely important concept of the bundle, how it fed our pre-Internet content industries, and why those industries need to evolve their bundle thinking to today's Internet-enabled reality.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=2" class="category">Opinion</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 25 Feb 2010 | <a href="/article/11030#comments">10 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11035" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11035">As Apple sells tens of millions of devices each year, increased attention has been focused on the company's outside suppliers and the conditions of the workers in those companies. Apple has now released its 2010 Supplier Responsibility Progress Report, outlining what Apple requires of suppliers, how the companies have fared in audits, and how Apple deals with lack of compliance. It of course paints Apple in a positive light, but is indicative of how Apple is trying to be a good corporate citizen.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 24 Feb 2010</div></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11039" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11039">Despite the skepticism we've heard from some people about the iPad, All Things Digital is reporting on an RBC/ChangeWave survey that found 13 percent of respondents were somewhat or very likely to buy an iPad, compared to 9 percent who said they'd buy the original iPhone in a similar survey before its launch. The difference is being attributed to the iPad's entry-level $499 price.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<a href="/article/11037"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11037', 'show')">Mac Enterprise Numbers Expected to Increase in 2010</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11037" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11037">The Mac continues to make inroads into the enterprise, with 66 percent of IT administrators in multi-platform businesses expecting to increase the number of Macs in their organizations in 2010. Read on for more details from the Enterprise Desktop Alliance's 2010 Survey.</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> | 23 Feb 2010 | <a href="/article/11037#comments">2 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11008" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11008">If you found Macworld Expo useful this year, or if you're regretting having missed it, you can register for a free pass for next year's show (January 25th through 29th, 2011). The offer is good until 8 March 2010.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 22 Feb 2010</div></div></div>
<a href="/article/11029"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11029', 'show')">TidBITS Staff Caught on Video at Macworld Expo</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11029" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11029">Even if you weren't at Macworld Expo, you can experience a bit of what it's like to talk with Adam, Tonya, and Joe in these video presentations.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 22 Feb 2010</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11023" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11023">We're all aware of how Apple refrains from talking about unannounced products, but this Reuters article gives a sense of just how far Apple also goes to maintain secrecy with manufacturing suppliers like Foxconn. The picture it paints of Apple's approach is simultaneously entirely understandable and a little chilling.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 21 Feb 2010</div></div></div>
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