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<a href="/article/6219"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6219', 'show')">Quiz Preview: Lord of Your Own Domain?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6219" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6219">Quiz Preview: Lord of Your Own Domain? As you'll read below, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has finally announced some new top-level domains along the lines of the .com and .edu</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 Nov 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6220" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6220">My closet shelves are full, and I blame Guy Kawasaki. He's the one who declared that t-shirts were part of the development process for any computer product, and people listen to Guy</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 Nov 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6205"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6205', 'show')">Blue World Communications Sponsoring TidBITS</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6205" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6205">Blue World Communications Sponsoring TidBITS -- We're pleased to announce a new sponsor for TidBITS, Blue World Communications. Based near us in Bellevue, Washington, Blue World's claim to fame is the Lasso Web Data Engine, software (or "middleware") which enables a Web server to communicate with a database</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 Nov 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6208"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6208', 'show')">Internet Grocers Drop Like Flies</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6208" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6208">Internet Grocers Drop Like Flies -- Could Internet grocery shopping be the kind of service that appeals greatly to a few while failing to attract the necessary mass market to survive? Last week, ShopLink, an Internet grocer serving several states in the northeast U.S., shut its site down abruptly, and Streamline, another Internet grocer targeting the east coast, announced that it too would be closing up shop on 22-Nov-00</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 Nov 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6209"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6209', 'show')">Poll Results: To Go Forward, You Must...</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6209" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6209">Poll Results: To Go Forward, You Must... Sometimes I get the feeling the universe is watching closely, and last week was a perfect example. We ran a poll asking how old your most recent backup is, and several days later, somewhere in the crashes I experienced while trying to install and launch Netscape 6, my Mac suffered an odd form of disk corruption that kept reappearing even after DiskWarrior and Norton Utilities claimed to have fixed it</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 Nov 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6210"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6210', 'show')">Poll Preview: Putting the "I" in Internet</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6210" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6210">Poll Preview: Putting the "I" in Internet -- We hear a great deal about how the Internet is changing the face of commerce and publishing and all sorts of important professional and technical pursuits</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 Nov 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6202"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6202', 'show')">Mounting and Dismounting AppleShare Servers</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6202" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6202">One of the strengths of the Mac OS has long been its seamless networking with AppleShare or Personal File Sharing servers. Or rather, the seams aren't particularly apparent when you're using one of these servers - there's little you can do on a local hard disk that doesn't work the same on a remote server volume</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 Nov 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6187"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6187', 'show')">Keep It Up 2.4 Adds Email Notification</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6187" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6187">Keep It Up 2.4 Adds Email Notification -- Karl Pottie has updated his server monitoring utility Keep It Up to version 2.4 (see "Keep It Up 2.0.1 Adds Remote Management" in TidBITS-451)</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 Nov 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6188"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6188', 'show')">PowerMail 3.0.6 Released, Mac OS X Version in Public Beta</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6188" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6188">PowerMail 3.0.6 Released, Mac OS X Version in Public Beta -- CTM Development has released PowerMail 3.0.6, adding some minor features and fixing a few bugs in the WorldScript- and Sherlock-savvy email program (see "Migrating to New Climes with PowerMail " in TidBITS-530 for a full review)</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 Nov 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6189" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6189">SoundJam 2.5.2 Fixes Bugs, Goes Carbon -- Casady & Greene has released SoundJam MP Plus and SoundJam MP Free 2.5.2, which reportedly fix "some minor issues in previous versions" that apparently weren't significant enough to list</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 Nov 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6190"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6190', 'show')">Poll Results: Bandwidth Is Good</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6190" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6190">Poll Results: Bandwidth Is Good -- The results of last week's poll, which asked about the speed of Internet connections you regularly use at home or work, showed major spikes for the 33.6 to 56 Kbps (35 percent of respondents) and 1.5 to 5 Mbps (34 percent) answers</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 Nov 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6191"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6191', 'show')">Quiz Preview: A Clean Dismount</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6191" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6191">Quiz Preview: A Clean Dismount -- One of the great things about Macintosh networking over the years is just how seamless it can be, particularly when you make judicious use of aliases</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 Nov 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6192" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6192"> Since I released the TidBITS AutoCorrect Dictionary for Eudora (see
"An ATypoKill Eudora Hack" in TidBITS-546
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<a href="/article/6193"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6193', 'show')">AutoSyncing TidBITS Handheld Edition via AvantGo</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6193" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6193">Back in TidBITS-523 we noted that David Charlesworth was maintaining specially constructed Web pages to facilitate reading TidBITS on Palm OS-based handhelds and other mobile devices via AvantGo's offline Web browser.David has earned our eternal gratitude for his volunteer service over these months, and we're now pleased to announce that we've created - with his assistance - the TidBITS Handheld Edition, a much-improved edition of TidBITS for reading on Palm OS handhelds and other small-screen mobile devices</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 Nov 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6194" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6194">It feels odd to start a review by referring to a past article, but quite simply, what I said in my review of Excel 98 still goes: Microsoft Excel, the mighty and venerable spreadsheet program, is completely mature, so it isn't surprising that, in the Office 2001 version, Microsoft has meddled with it very little</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/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 06 Nov 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6169" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6169">Eudora 5.0.1 Released -- Qualcomm has released Eudora 5.0.1, a minor upgrade to the company's widely used email program (see "Eudora 5.0 Reads Your Mind" in TidBITS-547 for a review of the new features)</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> | 30 Oct 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6170"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6170', 'show')">Updates to Action Files 1.5.4 & Action Menus 1.0.2</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6170" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6170">Updates to Action Files 1.5.4 & Action Menus 1.0.2 -- Power On Software has released a pair of minor updates to Action Files and Action Menus, the company's $30 utilities for enhancing Open and Save dialog boxes and for creating custom menus and keyboard shortcuts</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> | 30 Oct 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6174"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6174', 'show')">Priceline.com Ceases Bidding on Groceries</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6174" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6174">Priceline.com Ceases Bidding on Groceries -- In "Name That Price on Priceline.com!" in TidBITS-499, we wrote about a good experience (not since repeated) with purchasing airline tickets through Priceline.com's auction approach</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> | 30 Oct 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6177"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6177', 'show')">Poll Preview: Bandwidth Is Good</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6177" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6177">Poll Preview: Bandwidth Is Good -- As noted above, last week's poll revealed that TidBITS readers consider email and Web browsing the most common tasks they perform on their Macs</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> | 30 Oct 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6178"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6178', 'show')">Major Update to StuffIt Deluxe 6.0 and Expander 6.0</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6178" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6178">In moving to version 6.0, the venerable StuffIt Deluxe compression and archiving package has received a significant update from Aladdin Systems. Most notable among StuffIt Deluxe's new features is ReturnReceipt, which enables the sender of a compressed email attachment to request notification of the attachment's expansion</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> | 30 Oct 2000</div></div>
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