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<h6>Set Password Activation Time in Snow Leopard</h6>
<p><p>In Snow Leopard, you can now set an amount of time after your Mac goes to sleep or engages the screen saver before it requires a password to log back on. In Leopard, the option was simply to require the password or not. Choose among several increments, between 5 seconds and 4 hours, from System Preferences > Security.</p></p>
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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 Jul 2000</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> | 10 Jul 2000</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> | 10 Jul 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6026"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6026', 'show')">Hacking the Press, Part 1: Why Bother?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6026" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6026">The last two years that I've attended the MacHack developers conference, I've also participated as a speaker. I've done this in large part because the attitude that permeates the conference is one of sharing knowledge, and although I can't contribute a line of code to a hack, I can explain to developers how the press works and how developers can better interact with the press, for the benefit of everyone via improved reporting</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 Jul 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6003"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6003', 'show')">Connectix Continues to Prevail Against Sony</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6003" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6003">Connectix Continues to Prevail Against Sony -- In the long-running legal battle between Sony and Connectix, makers of the PlayStation emulator Virtual Game Station, Connectix has scored two recent victories</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 Jul 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6004" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6004">Webvan Buys HomeGrocer.com -- The online supermarket industry has started its consolidation, with the California-based Webvan buying Washington-based HomeGrocer.com for about $1 billion in stock</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 Jul 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6008"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6008', 'show')">Poll Results: We Live to Serve</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6008" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6008">Poll Results: We Live to Serve -- Coming on the heels of Ron Risley's article about turning a battered PowerBook 5300 into an Internet server, last week's poll asked which common Internet services, if any, you provide for other people from a Macintosh</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 Jul 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6009"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6009', 'show')">Poll Preview: What a Tangled Web We Weave</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6009" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6009">Poll Preview: What a Tangled Web We Weave -- Jeff Carlson's Tools We Use column about VSE Link Tester this week started us thinking about other tools we use for creating and maintaining Web sites</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 Jul 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6011"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6011', 'show')">The MacHax Best Hack Contest 2000 Winners</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6011" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6011">Although MacHack features sessions and papers and a variety of other events, much of the emphasis is placed on the annual MacHax Best Hack Contest, organized by the MacHax Group</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 Jul 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5992"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5992', 'show')">Poll Preview: We Live to Serve</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5992" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5992">Poll Preview: We Live to Serve -- Despite Apple's lack of interest in recent years, the Mac OS makes a stable, inexpensive, and easy-to-administer Internet server platform for moderate-traffic sites (or personal efforts, as you'll read in Ron Risley's article below)</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> | 26 Jun 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5993"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5993', 'show')">Poll Results: I Want My MP3</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5993" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5993">Poll Results: I Want My MP3 -- The results of last week's poll asking which MP3 player you preferred rather surprised us. Only about 12 percent of the nearly 900 respondents claimed that they never listened to MP3s, which I expected to be higher</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> | 26 Jun 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5994"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5994', 'show')">Open Source and the Macintosh</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5994" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5994">I've just returned from this year's MacHack developers conference, where talk of open source was the rule thanks mostly to a challenging keynote from Eric Raymond, open source proponent and the president of the Open Source Initiative</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> | 26 Jun 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5986" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5986">This week brought two significant corporate acquisitions in the Macintosh world: Microsoft's acquisition of game developer Bungie Software and wireless networking company Proxim's purchase of Farallon Communications, currently a TidBITS sponsor.Microsoft & Bungie -- Microsoft's acquisition of privately held Bungie Software for an estimated $20 to $40 million was the most atypical</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 Jun 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5987"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5987', 'show')">Quiz Results: Out of Your Misery</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5987" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5987">Last week's quiz on our home page focused on ways of reducing or eliminating repetitive stress injuries, or RSI. Years ago, Tonya and I suffered from tendonitis and carpal tunnel syndrome respectively, and we recovered completely thanks to adjusting how we work and live</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 Jun 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5988"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5988', 'show')">SoundJam Keeps On Jammin'</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5988" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5988">Casady & Greene last week released SoundJam MP Plus 2.1, a free update to the company's popular (if awkwardly named) MP3 player and encoder. That reminded me that I'd somehow missed writing about the update to version 2.0, which added numerous features and introduced a free version called SoundJam MP Free, which offers a reduced feature set and the capability to encode only 30 songs</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 Jun 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5989"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5989', 'show')">Worthy Web Sites: RepairClinic.com</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5989" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5989">Kirk McElhearn's article last week about the emptiness of pages of links highlights why we don't maintain a list of Macintosh-related Web sites, and why we only infrequently write about specific Web sites</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 Jun 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5974"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5974', 'show')">QuicKeys 5.0 Adds Speech Triggers and More</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5974" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5974">QuicKeys 5.0 Adds Speech Triggers and More -- CE Software has released QuicKeys 5.0, a major upgrade to the company's long-standing macro utility (see "QuicKeys Pushes My Buttons" in TidBITS-492 for a review of QuicKeys 4)</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 Jun 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5976"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5976', 'show')">Quiz Preview: Out of Your Misery</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5976" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5976">Quiz Preview: Out of Your Misery-- Years ago, both Tonya and I struggled with painful and debilitating repetitive stress injuries (RSI): carpal tunnel syndrome for me and tendonitis for her</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 Jun 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5977"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5977', 'show')">MacNN Sued by Adobe, News at 11</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5977" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5977">Thanks to an article in the legal newspaper The Recorder forwarded by a colleague, we've learned that graphics powerhouse Adobe has filed suit against the Macintosh News Network (MacNN) based on MacNN's AppleInsider Web site's 30-May-00 publication of details from a confidential document about the forthcoming versions of Photoshop 6.0 and ImageReady 3.0</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 Jun 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5957"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5957', 'show')">Eudora 4.3.2 Fixes Numerous Minor Bugs</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5957" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5957">Eudora 4.3.2 Fixes Numerous Minor Bugs -- Qualcomm has released Eudora 4.3.2, a minor update to their popular email program. Eudora 4.3.2 fixes a long list of minor bugs including a few that could cause crashes, so the free update is well worth downloading</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 Jun 2000</div></div>
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