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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10769" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10769">Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit is offering a holiday sale on its Office 2008 lineup from now through 5 January 2010. The promotion includes $20 off Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition, $50 off Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition, and $40 off the Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition Upgrade. Participating resellers include Apple, Best Buy, and MacMall.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 19 Nov 2009</div></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10770" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10770">Adds a slew of features, including new Service menu items, improved AppleScript support, and access to Gmail's offline capabilities. ($24.95 new, free update, 6.4 MB)
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10761" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10761">Fixes a number of bugs. ($29 new, free update if you purchased after 28 January 2009, 17.4 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/Doug%20McLean">Doug McLean</a> | 17 Nov 2009</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10747" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10747">Improves accessibility to the Drop Dock and adds support for Snow Leopard's system text features. ($39, free update, 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/Doug%20McLean">Doug McLean</a> | 12 Nov 2009 | <a href="/article/10747#comments">3 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10748" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10748">Enables users with Apple's 2009 wireless aluminum keyboard to take advantage of its special features. (Free, 10.95 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/Doug%20McLean">Doug McLean</a> | 12 Nov 2009</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10749" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10749">Improves JavaScript performance; enhances full history searching for users with large history folders; improves stability for third party plug-ins, Yahoo Mail, and the search field; and addresses numerous security vulnerabilities. (Free, 28 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/Doug%20McLean">Doug McLean</a> | 12 Nov 2009 | <a href="/article/10749#comments">2 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10750"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10750', 'show')">Default Folder X 4.3.3</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10750" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10750">Addresses a number of compatibility issues with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. ($34.95 new, $14.95 upgrade, free update for owners of version 4.x or 3.x owners who purchased their copy after 1 June 2007, 10.7 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/Doug%20McLean">Doug McLean</a> | 11 Nov 2009</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10751" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10751">Improves support for applications that require some modicum of network access, remote file systems, and overall stability. (Free, 771 KB)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=22" class="category">Watchlist</a> | by <a href="/author/Doug%20McLean">Doug McLean</a> | 11 Nov 2009</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10737" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10737">Fixes a number of a stability issues. (Free, 17.6 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/Doug%20McLean">Doug McLean</a> | 09 Nov 2009</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10729" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10729">The first release of Connected Flow's utility for finding and downloading images from Flickr features Keynote support and the capability to filter by image size and license type. (Γé¼15 introductory price, Γé¼19 regularly, 1.7 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/Doug%20McLean">Doug McLean</a> | 06 Nov 2009</div></div>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10731" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10731">Fortune Magazine has named Steve Jobs CEO of the Decade. Why Jobs? Fortune says in the past 10 years he has, "radically and lucratively reordered three markets - music, movies, and mobile telephones - and his impact on his original industry, computing, has only grown." </div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 06 Nov 2009</div></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10724" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10724">Improves support for certain SFTP and WebDAV servers and enhances Snow Leopard compatibility for the iMedia Browser component. ($57 Regular/$97 Pro, free update, 26.8 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/Doug%20McLean">Doug McLean</a> | 05 Nov 2009</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10727" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10727">Adds a Dictation Preferences pane that offers the capability to enable or disable the Auto Cache Document feature for TextEdit and Microsoft Word, and includes other minor changes made since version 1.5.2. ($199 new, free update for purchases since 1 April 2009, $54.95 upgrade for earlier versions)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=22" class="category">Watchlist</a> | by <a href="/author/Doug%20McLean">Doug McLean</a> | 05 Nov 2009 | <a href="/article/10727#comments">4 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10730" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10730">Adds support for Growl, a new virtual folder, and a new XML parser library. ($29, $19 upgrade, 11.8 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/Doug%20McLean">Doug McLean</a> | 05 Nov 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10719"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10719', 'show')">Kaspersky Anti-Virus For Mac 1.0</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10719" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10719">This first release of Kaspersky's Internet security utility aims to prevent Macs from harboring and passing on Windows viruses. ($59.95 new, 49.4 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/Doug%20McLean">Doug McLean</a> | 04 Nov 2009 | <a href="/article/10719#comments">2 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10712"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10712', 'show')">Snow Leopard Bug Prevents Opening Groups of Files</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10712" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10712">Find yourself unable to open multiple files from Snow Leopard's Finder simultaneously? You're not alone, and while Apple hasn't yet officially acknowledged or fixed the bug, some suggested workarounds do exist.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=12" class="category">Problem Solving</a> | by <a href="/author/Doug%20McLean">Doug McLean</a> | 03 Nov 2009 | <a href="/article/10712#comments">5 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10703" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10703">Adds a new notification system, support for keyboard shortcuts, a new column for Followers, and a slew of bug fixes. (Free, 2 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/Doug%20McLean">Doug McLean</a> | 02 Nov 2009 | <a href="/article/10703#comments">2 comments</a></div></div>
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