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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>
<a href="/article/6142"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6142', 'show')">Apple Offers Rebates on PowerBooks and G4 Cubes</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6142" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6142">Apple Offers Rebates on PowerBooks and G4 Cubes -- Less than two weeks after warning of lower-than-expected earnings for its fourth fiscal quarter and a dramatic downturn in its share price, Apple Computer has rolled out rebate programs for new PowerBooks and G4 Cubes purchased through dealers or the online Apple Store</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 Oct 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6143" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6143">QuickTime 5 Preview Available -- Apple unveiled a public preview release of QuickTime 5 for the Mac OS at the QuickTime Live conference in Los Angeles - although the preview is usable only by folks who upgraded to QuickTime Pro</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 Oct 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6135"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6135', 'show')">Supreme Court Says No to Expedited Microsoft Appeal</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6135" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6135">Supreme Court Says No to Expedited Microsoft Appeal -- On 26-Sep-00, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an expedited appeal of the Microsoft antitrust case, leaving the matter instead to the U.S</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 Oct 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6136"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6136', 'show')">Poll Results: One Address for Life?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6136" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6136">Poll Results: One Address for Life? In TidBITS-549, we gave an overview of the new XNS technology, introduced its governing body XNSORG, and asked whether folks thought XNS would succeed</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 Oct 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6137"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6137', 'show')">Poll Preview: Running for Office?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6137" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6137">Poll Preview: Running for Office? Microsoft has begun rolling out Office 2001 - the latest versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, its flagship business productivity applications for the 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> | 09 Oct 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6128" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6128">MRJ 2.2.3 Oracle Certified, Caches Java Archives -- Apple has released Macintosh Runtime for Java 2.2.3, the latest version of its Java virtual machine</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6120"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6120', 'show')">Quiz Results: Less is Moiré</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6120" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6120">In last week's issue, Kirk McElhearn reviewed Newton's Telecom Dictionary, a glossary of computer and telecommunications terms (see "BookBITS: Telling the Bits from the Bytes" in TidBITS-547)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6100"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6100', 'show')">Minor Tweaks in Eudora 4.3.3</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6100" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6100">Minor Tweaks in Eudora 4.3.3 -- Qualcomm has released Eudora 4.3.3, a minor update to its widely used email program. Version 4.3.3 fixes a crashing bug on fast Macintosh systems (the release notes aren't more specific), and improves password security for folks who don't have Eudora save their email account passwords for them</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6102"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6102', 'show')">Poll Preview: 68K or Bust?!</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6102" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6102">Poll Preview: 68K or Bust?! Before there were candy-colored iMacs dual processor G4s, or convection-cooled cubes, Apple spent more than a decade building "68K Macs" based on the Motorola 68000 processor family</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6086" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6086">Quicken 2001 Ships -- Intuit has begun shipping Quicken 2001 for Macintosh, the latest version of its market-dominating personal finance package. Quicken 2001 offers a global search and replace feature which operates across accounts, the capability to notice repeated payments and proactively remind you they're coming due, plus a software update feature which can automatically notify you when updates or bug fixes are available</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> | 28 Aug 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6088"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6088', 'show')">Poll Results: (Apple) Pie in the Sky</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6088" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6088">As we approach the year 2001, we don't yet have flying cars, a space program for the masses, or (thankfully) red-eyed artificial intelligences with a predilection for shooting crewmen out of airlocks</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> | 28 Aug 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6082"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6082', 'show')">We'll Take the Fifth!</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6082" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6082">We'll Take the Fifth! Congratulations to TidBITS publisher Adam Engst for his fifth place ranking in the MacDirectory "Most Influential Figure in the Mac Industry" poll of nearly 200 MacDirectory readers</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> | 21 Aug 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6084"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6084', 'show')">Maximize Your Monitor</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6084" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6084">Last week's quiz presented various different possibilities for seeing more on your Mac's desktop. The correct answer was that all of the options enabled you to see more, although they work in different ways</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/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 21 Aug 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6075"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6075', 'show')">Quiz Preview: Bigger is Better</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6075" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6075">Quiz Preview: Bigger is Better -- When the Mac debuted in 1984, it featured a 9-inch black and white display that was 512 pixels wide and 342 pixels high, and the density and graphical fidelity of that display compared to other computers was part of the Mac's eventual success</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> | 14 Aug 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6056" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6056">Judges Press Napster's Buttons -- Late Wednesday, 26-Jul-00, Judge Marylin Hall Patel issued a preliminary injunction barring the popular and controversial online music service Napster from distributing copyrighted music</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6043" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6043">Netscape Communicator 4.74 -- Netscape Communications has released Netscape Communicator 4.74 for Macintosh. Communicator 4.74 includes the new option of removing all mail from POP or IMAP servers when you quit the program</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6044"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6044', 'show')">Apple Posts $200 Million Profit & Returns to Circuit City</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6044" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6044">Apple Posts $200 Million Profit & Returns to Circuit City -- Apple Computer posted a $200 million profit for its third fiscal quarter of 2000 on revenues of over $1.8 billion, for an overall revenue gain of 17 percent</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6045"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6045', 'show')">We're Number Two!</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6045" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6045">We're Number Two! Congratulations to TidBITS publisher Adam Engst for his second place ranking in the MDJ Power 25, a survey ranking the 25 most influential people in the Macintosh community! Adam's ranking was second only to Apple iCEO Steve Jobs - who claimed the top seat by a wide margin - but also well ahead of other Apple executives, influential developers and technical folks, plus industry luminaries like Adobe's John Warnock and Microsoft's Bill Gates</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6046"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6046', 'show')">SuperCard Personal Edition</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6046" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6046">SuperCard Personal Edition -- IncWell DMG and Solutions Etcetera have released SuperCard Personal Edition, a version of the well-regarded multimedia authoring and scripting environment aimed at individual users and folks working with Apple's all-but-officially abandoned HyperCard</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6047"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6047', 'show')">Poll Results: Buy and Buy</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6047" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6047">Poll Results: Buy and Buy -- Last week's poll asked where readers prefer to purchase Macintosh-related hardware, and (a sign of the times) online retailers were the clear favorite, cited by more than 60 percent of the poll's respondents</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
