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<h6>Open Multiple Items from Stacks</h6>
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<a href="/article/9669"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9669', 'show')">Vanity Spreads to Top-Level Domain Names</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9669" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9669">Have you ever wanted to see your name in dot-lights? The group that oversees domain names will allow vanity and corporate top-level domain registration. Are .coke, .pepsi, and .7up in our future?</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=5" class="category">Networking</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 26 Jun 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9671"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9671', 'show')">Linksys Gateways Gain Mac Configuration Software</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9671" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9671">Mac users with popular Linksys Wi-Fi gateways can now use real Mac configuration software from the company instead of the awkward Web-based configuration interface.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=5" class="category">Networking</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 26 Jun 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9666"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9666', 'show')">Symbian Smartphone Platform Goes Free, Partly Open Source</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9666" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9666">Nokia buys out its partners in Symbian, by far the world's most popular smartphone platform, and may change the whole nature of competition for these intelligent communicators by making it even more accessible to more handset makers. It's a shot across the bow to Apple, RIM, Microsoft, and Google, but it won't reach fruition til 2010.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 24 Jun 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9661"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9661', 'show')">Does Your Network Have a Public IP Address?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9661" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9661">Back to My Mac relies on a public IP address being available on the router to which your Mac is connected. How do you find out if you have a public IP address - and why is it so danged hard to make connections like this over the Internet?</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=5" class="category">Networking</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 18 Jun 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9652"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9652', 'show')">iPhone 3G GPS Details, Power Adapter, and Industrial Design</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9652" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9652">The iPhone 3G has a few extras lurking beneath its improved exterior, including a better charging plug and geotagging of photos.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 10 Jun 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9636"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9636', 'show')">Back to My Mac Communicates Faults in 10.5.3</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9636" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9636">Although Apple doesn't mention anything about it in Mac OS X 10.5.3's release notes, Back to My Mac has been enhanced with the addition of troubleshooting messages that give hints to why the remote access service might not be working.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=5" class="category">Networking</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 29 May 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9627"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9627', 'show')">Help! I'm Being Held Captive, and All I Have Is a Wi-Fi Network!</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9627" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9627">Install some software and engrave a number on your Mac, and in the event that it's stolen, the computer may be able to help in its own recovery by sending you pictures or videos of the thief, or even by screaming for help if it finds itself in an Apple Store.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=13" class="category">Safe Computing</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 23 May 2008</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9610" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9610">Getting email bounces from recipients you never sent anything to? It's not new, but it's still tremendously annoying.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=5" class="category">Networking</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 11 May 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9608"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9608', 'show')">Back to My Mac Leads to Recovery of Stolen Mac</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9608" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9608">Curses, foiled by Back to My Mac, I say, twirling my moustaches! Two men are arrested for theft after a stolen laptop with Back to My Mac enabled the computer's owner to take pictures of the alleged burglars.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=5" class="category">Networking</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 10 May 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9609"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9609', 'show')">iPhone Roundup: AT&T Wi-Fi, Out of Stock, International Carriers</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9609" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9609">The iPhone has had a busy but passive couple of weeks. Wi-Fi in the U.S.? Free! Gone! Back! Away! Apple runs out of stock, fueling rumors about the 3G iPhone. And Apple signs deals to bring the iPhone to about 2 billion more people.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 10 May 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9599"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9599', 'show')">Lovingly Craft Your HTML</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9599" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9599">Writing HTML by hand has the same relationship to graphical Web authoring tools as a chisel has to a jackhammer.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=4" class="category">Media Creation</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 01 May 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9595"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9595', 'show')">Thank You for Not Playing: Microsoft Expires DRMed Music</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9595" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9595">Microsoft has chosen to cut the legs out from under customers who bought music from the MSN Music store up until late 2006. Starting 31-Aug-08, that music can no longer be played on computers that weren't previously authorized.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9591"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9591', 'show')">AT&T Adds iPhone Plan for Hearing, Speech Impaired</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9591" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9591">A new AT&T service plan for hearing- and speech-impaired customers reduces the monthly cost of the iPhone if you don't need any or much voice service.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9569"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9569', 'show')">Hand Coding HTML Is Still in Vogue</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9569" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9569">Graphical Web design tools are all well and good, but most sites with any substantial amount of regularly updated content still code by hand - including TidBITS and the venerable New York Times.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9580"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9580', 'show')">Microsoft Offers Online Storage, Sync through Live Mesh</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9580" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9580">Live Mesh from Microsoft combines online storage, cloud computing, desktop folder synchronization, and remote access. But the real news about the technology preview is its reliance on well-used standards, and its notion of enabling developers to build whatever they want on Live Mesh's base.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9573" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9573">Skype launches a set of plans that allow unmetered calling - up to 10,000 minutes per month - to landlines in 34 countries, with prices that start at a few dollars a month for a single country or $9.95 per month for all countries.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9571"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9571', 'show')">BusySync 2.0 Released with Google Calendar Support</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9571" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9571">BusySync 2.0 is now available, adding Google Calendar support and improving the utility for sharing iCal calendars among multiple Macs across networks.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9568"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9568', 'show')">Punch Through NAT with Port Map's Port Forwarding</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9568" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9568">Port Map lets you open up access to services running on your local network so you - or anyone else, if you so desire - can access them from anywhere on the Internet.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9547"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9547', 'show')">Time Machine via AirPort Disk Is Unsupported, Apple Says</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9547" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9547">Using Time Machine with drives attached via USB to an 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Station is an unsupported option, Apple has confirmed.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9546"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9546', 'show')">Printer-Friendly Mode Returns to TidBITS</a></h4>
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