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<h6>Keyboard-based Dock Navigation</h6>
<p><p>If you're a fan of keyboard shortcuts and navigation, you may want try accessing the Dock from your keyboard. Press Control-F3 to enter the Dock's keyboard access mode. Then you can press a letter corresponding with an item's name to select it; press Return to open it, Command-Q to quit the selected application, or Escape to exit keyboard access mode. You can also use the arrow keys, Tab key, and other keyboard navigation keys to toggle between the Dock items.</p></p>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8126" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8126">Last week saw two significant developments regarding Apple's now-iconic iPod music players: an Apple-sponsored recycling program designed to diminish the environmental impact of millions of iPods one day being landfilled, and a tentative settlement in a class action lawsuit over battery life in early iPod models.Reduce, Re-use..</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> | 06 Jun 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8119"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8119', 'show')">Apple Releases 10.4.1 Hot on the Heels of Tiger</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8119" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8119">Last week, Apple released Mac OS X 10.4.1 Update for the just-released Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" operating system. (And, of course, Apple did so within minutes of our publishing TidBITS-780</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 May 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8103"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8103', 'show')">Apple Spreads Some Green for Eminem</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8103" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8103">Apple Spreads Some Green for Eminem -- Last week, the Detroit Free Press reported that Apple Computer and superstar Eminem have reached an undisclosed settlement in the rapper's year-old lawsuit against the computer company</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> | 16 May 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8108"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8108', 'show')">Yahoo Swaggers Into The Music Subscription Fray</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8108" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8108">Last week, Internet behemoth Yahoo took the wraps off Yahoo Music Unlimited, its entry into the online music subscription market. For Mac users, Yahoo Music Unlimited is just another party to which we aren't invited, since it only supports recent versions of Windows and, in fact, doesn't even let music from its subscription service play on iPods</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> | 16 May 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8092"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8092', 'show')">Security Update 2005-005 for Mac OS X 10.3.9</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8092" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8092">Security Update 2005-005 for Mac OS X 10.3.9 -- Apple has released Security Update 2005-005 to address several online security issues with Mac OS X 10.3.9 and Mac OS X Server 10.3.9</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> | 09 May 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8041"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8041', 'show')">Seattle Bans Free Wi-Fi After Coffeehouse Explosion</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8041" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8041">Seattle's City Council has passed an emergency measure to ban free Wi-Fi access within city limits, following testimony from experts and fire officials regarding their investigation of last week's explosion at the popular "Beans, Beans, The Magical Fruit" coffeehouse</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 01 Apr 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/7939"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7939', 'show')">Adam Takes the Fifth!</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7939" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7939">Adam Takes the Fifth! The findings of the annual MDJ Power 25 survey are out, and this year the industry insiders who participate in the polling placed TidBITS's publisher Adam Engst fifth in the list of people who wield the most influence and power in the Macintosh industry</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> | 10 Jan 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/7898"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7898', 'show')">GarageBand.com Inks Deal with MSN Music</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7898" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7898">In an interesting move, GarageBand.com has inked a deal with Microsoft's MSN Music whereby top-rated GarageBand artists will be featured on MSN Music services, and (eventually) artists will be able to distribute or sell their music via MSN Music</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> | 22 Nov 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7887"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7887', 'show')">Audion Earns Its Gold Watch</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7887" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7887">Audion Earns Its Gold Watch - In a bittersweet move sure to bring a tear to the eye of skin-switching music lovers everywhere, Panic Inc. have decided to retire their long-standing digital audio jukebox program Audion</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> | 15 Nov 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7889" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7889">Sockarooni! Maybe it's a generational thing: you see, I think of receiving underwear for the holidays as, well... kind of a let-down. But here's Apple to the rescue! Starting in early December (pre-orders available now!), iPod aficionados can purchase a $30 six-pack of iPod Socks! First seen at the recent unveiling of the iPod Photo, the knit socks come in orange, pink, blue, grey, purple, and green, and fit all sizes of iPod</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> | 15 Nov 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7884"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7884', 'show')">Singing with the Sonnet Encore/ST G4 Duet</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7884" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7884">In fiction, there's a genre called "alternate history" that speculates about what might have happened if key historical events had transpired differently</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> | 08 Nov 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7853"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7853', 'show')">Apple Reports $106 Million Fourth Quarter Profit</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7853" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7853">Apple Reports $106 Million Fourth Quarter Profit -- Apple Computer surprised both analysts and markets last week by announcing its strongest fourth quarter in nine years, with a $106 million profit on a whopping $2.35 billion in revenue for the company's final fiscal quarter of 2004</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> | 18 Oct 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7854"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7854', 'show')">Apple Sells Its One Hundred and Fifty Millionth Song</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7854" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7854">Apple Sells Its One Hundred and Fifty Millionth Song -- Apple continued to remind everyone it's the 400-pound gorilla of the online music industry by announcing it has now sold over 150 million songs on its iTunes Music Service</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> | 18 Oct 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7819"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7819', 'show')">Yahoo Shells Out $160 Million for MusicMatch</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7819" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7819">Apple's iTunes Music Store may be the current 800-pound gorilla of the online music industry (as far as paid downloads are concerned), but now Yahoo - possibly the most visited site on the Internet - is getting into the fray, paying $160 million in cash for MusicMatch, a Windows-only online music service.Yahoo already offers a free online streaming audio service called LAUNCHcast; it works with Windows and (badly) with Mac OS 9; Mac OS X has never been supported</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/7782"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7782', 'show')">Apple Recalls Batteries for 15-inch PowerBook G4s</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7782" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7782">Apple Computer is recalling certain lithium ion rechargeable batteries which shipped with its aluminum 15-inch PowerBook G4 laptop computers from January 2004 to August 2004, following four incidents where the batteries overheated and could present a fire hazard.Affected batteries were manufactured during the last week of 2003 by LG Chem Ltd., of South Korea</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 Aug 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7755"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7755', 'show')">Steve Jobs Undergoes Cancer Surgery</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7755" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7755">Steve Jobs Undergoes Cancer Surgery -- In an email message to Apple employees 01-Aug-04, Apple CEO Steve Jobs disclosed he had successful surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his pancreas, and will be taking the month of August off to recuperate</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 Aug 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7756"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7756', 'show')">Apple Refuses to Sing with Real's Harmony</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7756" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7756">Last week a public shouting match erupted between Apple Computer and RealNetworks over what material can be played using Apple's iPod portable music players</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 Aug 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7742" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7742">Apple Posts $61 million Q3 Profit, Confirms G5 iMacs -- Despite problems meeting demand for its new iPod mini and being forced to delay new iMacs until September, Apple Computer announced a strong $61 million profit for its third fiscal quarter of 2004, on revenue of $2.014 billion</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/7734"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7734', 'show')">iTunes Music Store Sells 100 Millionth Song</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7734" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7734">iTunes Music Store Sells 100 Millionth Song -- Apple's iTunes Music Store sold its 100 millionth song on Sunday, 11-Jul-04, to 20-year old Kevin Britten of Hays, Kansas, making Kevin the winner of a 17-inch PowerBook, a 40 GB iPod, a 10,000-song iTunes Music Store gift certificate, and the opportunity to create his own celebrity playlist in the iTunes Music Store</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/7644"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7644', 'show')">eMacs Get Speed Bump, Price Drop</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7644" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7644">eMacs Get Speed Bump, Price Drop -- Last week, Apple Computer also revised the eMac, its most affordable Macintosh computer. The eMac still sports a white, all-in-one design with a 17-inch CRT-based display capable of resolutions up to 1280 by 960 pixels (leaving it the only picture tube in Apple's otherwise all flat-screen lineup)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
