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<a href="/article/8621"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8621', 'show')">Rogue Amoeba Hijacks Phone Calls More Easily</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8621" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8621">Audio Hijack Pro has been updated to better capture phone conversations. No, the folks at Rogue Amoeba haven't signed up with the NSA. Rather, they've recognized the ongoing interest in recording Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls, whether computer-to-computer or computer-to-PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network - you know, the real phone network).
Audio Hijack Pro 2.7 bypasses a fairly wacky setup that I described for O'Reilly Networks last year, and worked with Andy Affleck-Williams to build into his "Take Control of Podcasting on the Mac" ebook, which I edited</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8566" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8566">In my many years of creating presentations for lectures and conferences, I've always hit a snag when trying to highlight information while giving the presentation</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 19 Jun 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8551"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8551', 'show')">GoLive, FreeHand Survive Rumors of Demise</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8551" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8551">Officemate and TidBITS Managing Editor Jeff Carlson yells out, "Hey, GoLive is dead!" I shout a long, lingering, "Nooooooooooo!" and then say, "All-right-y then." (We wrote several editions of "Real World GoLive" together, so it's a program we've followed closely for years.)Following Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia last year, a cloud of speculation has hovered over the fates of Adobe GoLive (whose stronger competition was Macromedia Dreamweaver) and prodigal child Macromedia FreeHand (whose stronger competition was Adobe Illustrator)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 05 Jun 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8542"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8542', 'show')">Oral Folk Tales of Mac History</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8542" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8542">Oral Folk Tales of Mac History -- Stories of famous Mac people, the reality distortion field, and years of sleeplessness are now available in oral form from Derek Warren</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 29 May 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8532"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8532', 'show')">Parallels Issues Release Candidate of Virtual Machine</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8532" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8532">Parallels Issues Release Candidate of Virtual Machine -- Parallels Desktop, a virtual machine environment for Mac OS X that runs operating systems that require an Intel processor (such as Microsoft Windows XP) has reached the release candidate stage, a point where all bugs should be fixed or classified as not worth fixing</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 22 May 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8537"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8537', 'show')">Apple Reminds Us of Trusting, Verifying</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8537" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8537">Apple's security team recently sent email to their security announcement list that they had updated their PGP public key. While this seems like an obscure or even unimportant announcement, it's worth looking at for two reasons</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 22 May 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8525" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8525">NetNewsWire 2.1 Released -- The final version of RSS news aggregator and reader NetNewsWire 2.1 shipped last week from NewsGator, the company that acquired the product and hired developer Brent Simmons last year (see "NewsGator Acquires NetNewsWire")</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 15 May 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8509" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8509">Adobe Systems's CEO Bruce Chizen announced that the company will deliver universal binaries of their flagship design and production products by the end of the second quarter of 2007, according to IDG News Service</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 01 May 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8511"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8511', 'show')">ExpressCard on the Horizon</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8511" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8511">MacBook Pro owners have been on the bleeding edge of portable technology, but I'm not talking about the new Intel processor. Apple replaced the aging PC Card interface with an ExpressCard slot, which has so far remained empty because there are no shipping ExpressCard devices for it</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 01 May 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8512"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8512', 'show')">Windows XP Licensing for the Apple Boot Camper</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8512" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8512">Over at The Seattle Times, you can read a long feature I wrote about installing Windows XP Service Pack 2 in three ways on an Intel iMac: with Boot Camp, via Parallels, and using Q</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 01 May 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8477" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8477">Those who forget the past are condemned to emulate it. Apple's announcement last year that the company would cease selling PowerPC-equipped Macintoshes also meant the end of Mac OS 9's lingering remnant, the Classic compatibility environment.The Classic environment requires a PowerPC processor in order to run Mac OS 9 in a little prison in which programs can behave within certain parameters</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/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 01 Apr 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8479"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8479', 'show')">Retro Fashion for the Mac mini</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8479" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8479">The Mac mini was recognized from its debut as one of the most stylish Macintoshes ever introduced because of its sleek simplicity and compact size. Call it the Cube perfected</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/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 01 Apr 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8463"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8463', 'show')">NetNewsWire Public Beta with NewsGator Synchronization</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8463" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8463">RSS feed aggregator and news reader NetNewsWire released its first (and then second) public beta of the next major version of the software, numbered 2.1</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 20 Mar 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8454"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8454', 'show')">More Details on Ultrawideband (UWB) Speed</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8454" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8454">In last week's issue, I explained the upcoming UWB wireless technology, but I may have overstated its range. (See "Ultrawideband to Add New Wireless Options" in TidBITS-819.)In a coincidentally timed article at ZDNet, the head of the USB Implementers Forum states that UWB products will be available in the third quarter of 2006 that conform to Wireless USB standards for conveying USB 2.0 via UWB</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 13 Mar 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8448"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8448', 'show')">Ultrawideband to Add New Wireless Options</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8448" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8448">Just when you've mastered the complexities of Wi-Fi standards like IEEE 802.11b and 802.11g, and after you've figured out that Bluetooth can work if you perform the steps just right, a new wireless player ambles into town</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 06 Mar 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8425"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8425', 'show')">MacBook Pro Ships at Higher Speeds</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8425" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8425">MacBook Pro Ships at Higher Speeds -- The MacBook Pro starts shipping last week with faster processors than promised. Apple said pre-orders started moving out 14-Feb-06 and will be available in retail Apple Stores and resellers</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 20 Feb 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8410" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8410">20-inch iMac G5 Drops $200, 17-inch Gone -- Now we know why Apple continues to sell the iMac G5 after debuting the iMac Intel Core Duo model at Macworld Expo last month: to clear out inventory</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 06 Feb 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8412" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8412">Verbosity makes for reading that's tedious and takes longer to understand without aiding comprehension. Or, rather: wordy bad, pithy good.The same is true for URLs (Uniform Resource Locators)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 06 Feb 2006</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8400" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8400">There was a day when telephone companies provided a dial tone, cable companies offered television stations and specialty channels, and Internet companies offered service over telephone line-based modems</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 23 Jan 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8389"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8389', 'show')">Skype 1.4 Released for Mac</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8389" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8389">Skype 1.4 Released for Mac -- Skype decided to release the final Mac version of their flagship voice and instant messaging program just as Macworld Expo started, ensuring that new features such as call forwarding and iTunes pause/resume would be lost in the shuffle</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 16 Jan 2006</div></div>
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