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<a href="/article/5235"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5235', 'show')">New iMacs, New G3s, and Mac OS X Server</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5235" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5235">In his keynote at Macworld Expo in San Francisco, Apple Interim CEO Steve Jobs introduced new Power Macintosh G3 computers aimed at business and high-end users, plus revved-up versions of the iMac in five new colors, all available immediately.Tutti Frutti -- Now that the iMac is the best selling computer in Apple's history, Apple has introduced a slightly enhanced iMac, available in five new colors - grape, strawberry, lime, blueberry, and tangerine - with matching USB mice and keyboards</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 11 Jan 1999</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5223" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5223">BBEdit 5.0.1 Update -- Bare Bones Software has released BBEdit 5.0.1, an update to the commercial version of the high-powered text editor. In addition to a handful of bug fixes (see "HTML Enhancements Highlight BBEdit 5.0" in TidBITS-454), changes in this version include the function scanner now supporting JavaScript (whether embedded in an HTML document or in a standalone file), additional support for inserting include files and placeholder tags, improved image tag updating, and the addition of several HTML-oriented scripting commands</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 04 Jan 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5224"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5224', 'show')">Conflict Catcher 8.0.4 for Mac OS 8.5.1</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5224" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5224">Conflict Catcher 8.0.4 for Mac OS 8.5.1 -- Casady & Greene has released a free Conflict Catcher 8.0.4 update that adds support for performing a Clean-Install System Merge under Mac OS 8.5.1, includes Base and All extension sets for Mac OS 8.5.1 (which could be lost using previous versions of Conflict Catcher), and updates the reference library with additional file descriptions (including Sherlock plug-ins)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 04 Jan 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5225"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5225', 'show')">PaperPort Update for Mac OS 8.5</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5225" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5225">PaperPort Update for Mac OS 8.5 -- Visioneer has released a 2.1 MB update to its PaperPort software to resolve crashing problems using PaperPort 5.0 or higher under Mac OS 8.5</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 04 Jan 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5228"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5228', 'show')">A New Script for Photoshop</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5228" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5228">A New Script for Photoshop -- If your life revolves around Adobe Photoshop and Macintosh scripting, Main Event Software may have released your Holy Grail with PhotoScripter 1.0, a plug-in that makes Photoshop 5.0 AppleScript-aware</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 04 Jan 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5198"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5198', 'show')">Anarchie Pro 3.5 Adds Mac OS 8.5 Features</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5198" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5198">Anarchie Pro 3.5 Adds Mac OS 8.5 Features -- Stairways Software has released Anarchie Pro 3.5, an update to the widely used $35 shareware file transfer tool</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 07 Dec 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/5201"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5201', 'show')">Apple Releases Mac OS 8.5.1 Update</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5201" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5201">Following a few weeks of rumor and speculation, Apple today released the Mac OS 8.5.1 Update. The update doesn't offer any new features (although it does include a few new Sherlock plug-ins), but instead addresses a selection of under-the-hood problems in Mac OS 8.5</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 07 Dec 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/5189"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5189', 'show')">AOL Buys Netscape for $4.2 Billion</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5189" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5189">AOL Buys Netscape for $4.2 Billion -- America Online has announced it will buy Netscape Communications in a $4.21 billion stock deal. Under the agreement, AOL will operate Netscape as a separate division, while leveraging Netscape's Web browser software and widely used NetCenter Web site</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 30 Nov 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5190" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5190">Alsoft's DiskWarrior Combats Directory Damage -- The folks at Alsoft, makers of DiskExpress Pro and PlusOptimizer, have released DiskWarrior, a new disk repair utility with a unique approach to recovering data</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 30 Nov 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/5180"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5180', 'show')">AOL & Netscape?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5180" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5180">AOL & Netscape? America Online and Netscape Communications have confirmed that they're considering a deal where America Online would acquire Netscape for $4 billion in AOL stock, and Sun Microsystems would either acquire or license Netscape's high-end business and enterprise server products</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 23 Nov 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/5182"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5182', 'show')">Sun Wins Preliminary Injunction Against Microsoft Java</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5182" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5182">Sun Wins Preliminary Injunction Against Microsoft Java -- In Sun Microsystems' year-old Java licensing lawsuit against Microsoft, U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Whyte has approved Sun's request for a preliminary injunction against Microsoft's Java implementations for Windows, giving Microsoft 90 days to bring Java-related products into compliance with its licensing agreement with Sun</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 23 Nov 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5183" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5183">WebSTAR 3.0.2 Update Released -- StarNine Technologies has released WebSTAR 3.0.2, a new version of the widely used Web server. WebSTAR 3.0.2 offers a host of under-the-hood fixes and enhancements, including significantly improved FTP and MacBinary compatibility, data cache improvements, numerous bug fixes, and workarounds for Open Transport memory leaks on PowerPC systems</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 23 Nov 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5155" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5155">For more than ten years, Apple's HyperCard has been a seminal product, single-handedly defining scripting and authoring, spawning a host of imitators, and enabling users to do astonishing, one-of-a-kind things with their computers simply by trying</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 02 Nov 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/5146"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5146', 'show')">MacsBug for the Merely Geeky, Part Three</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5146" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5146">Previous parts of this article explored MacsBug, Apple's free low-level debugger. First, we covered installing MacsBug and using it to recover from application crashes - we also established MacsBug as possibly the least friendly software you'll ever encounter on a Macintosh</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 26 Oct 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/5147"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5147', 'show')">Delving Further into Mac OS 8.5</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5147" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5147">Last week in TidBITS-451, we took our first look at Mac OS 8.5 with a discussion of system requirements, installation, and prominent features like Sherlock, Appearance and Themes, and new Finder capabilities</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 26 Oct 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/5138"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5138', 'show')">iMac Propels Apple to $106 Million in Earnings</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5138" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5138">iMac Propels Apple to $106 Million in Earnings -- Citing streamlined operations and strong unit shipments, Apple Computer has announced earnings of $106 million for the fiscal quarter ending 25-Sep-98</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 19 Oct 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/5142"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5142', 'show')">Getting Started with Mac OS 8.5</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5142" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5142">The wait is over: with considerable fanfare, Apple last week released Mac OS 8.5, billing it as a smarter, faster version of the Mac OS with enhanced Internet integration and a raft of new features</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 19 Oct 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/5128"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5128', 'show')">FileMaker Pro 4.0v2 Updater Available</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5128" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5128">FileMaker Pro 4.0v2 Updater Available -- FileMaker, Inc. has released a free FileMaker Pro 4.0v2 updater, which brings the changes and bug fixes found in FileMaker Pro 4.1 to FileMaker Pro 4.0 users without 4.1's new ODBC features (see "FileMaker Pro 4.1 Does ODBC for a Price" in TidBITS-447)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 12 Oct 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/5130"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5130', 'show')">MacsBug for the Merely Geeky, Part Two</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5130" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5130">The first part of this article in TidBITS-449 looked at MacsBug, Apple's free low-level debugger, explained how to install and invoke it, and how to use MacsBug to recover from application crashes</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 12 Oct 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/5118"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5118', 'show')">MacsBug for the Merely Geeky, Part One</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5118" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5118">Here's a fun game: let's plot Macintosh software on a map of the Earth, based on how Mac-like the software is.We would naturally plot the points representing the easiest, most intuitive software for the Mac OS at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 05 Oct 1998</div></div>
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