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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7897" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7897">Apple last week released AirPort 4.1 software for Mac OS X 10.3, adding a feature that's been in great need: the capability to use more modern and secure WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) encryption when you're also linking base stations wirelessly through WDS (Wireless Distribution System)</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 Nov 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7880"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7880', 'show')">New AirPort USB Printer Compatibility List</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7880" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7880">New AirPort USB Printer Compatibility List -- Unfortunately, Apple no longer publishes a list of USB printers that are compatible with the AirPort Express and AirPort Extreme Base Stations (those models include a USB port that turns the base station into a print server for any computer on your wireless network)</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> | 08 Nov 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7834"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7834', 'show')">Apple Increases .Mac Storage to 250 MB, but Still Lags</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7834" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7834">Apple Increases .Mac Storage to 250 MB, but Still Lags -- In a bow to the decreased costs of storage and competition from free Web mail services, Apple has increased the storage included with a .Mac account for combined iDisk storage and email from 100 MB to 250 MB</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> | 04 Oct 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7831"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7831', 'show')">iChat AV in the Air</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7831" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7831">Last week I flew up and around the Puget Sound region, and my broadband connection came with me. I was invited with other journalists to take a trip in the Connexion by Boeing test plane, a craft equipped with Boeing's high-speed, in-flight broadband service that's currently available only on a handful of Lufthansa jets, but which mostly Asian and European airlines should start rolling out later this year and into the next.Connexion by Boeing uses a satellite transceiver, mounted on a gimbal on top of the plane, that's controlled by on-board electronics</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7738" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7738">Apple's new AirPort Express Base Station combines streaming music, USB printer sharing, and wireless networking - but with only a single Ethernet port</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/7726"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7726', 'show')">AirPort Prices Drop Before Airport Express Release</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7726" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7726">AirPort Prices Drop Before Airport Express Release -- Apple has taken advantage of the gap between announcing and shipping its new $130 AirPort Express Base Station (due later this month; see "AirPort Express Brings Audio, Portability to Wireless Networking" in TidBITS-732) to drop the price of AirPort Extreme gear</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/7728"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7728', 'show')">Apple Delays iMacs Until Sep-04</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7728" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7728">In what appears to be an unprecedented move, Apple released a statement last week announcing that their next-generation iMacs would be delayed until September</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/7730"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7730', 'show')">iChat AV Takes Flight with In-Air Wi-Fi</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7730" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7730">iChat AV might become the next way to annoy your seatmate. Apple Computer product managers Eric Zelenka and Kurt Knight informally demonstrated that in-flight video chatting could become an alternative to tapping your fingers all during a flight</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/7718"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7718', 'show')">Vonage Adds Software Phone for Mac</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7718" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7718">Vonage Adds Software Phone for Mac -- Last week, the voice-over-IP (VoIP) service provider Vonage added a software option for its subscribers to place and receive phone calls to the public telephone network from their Macintosh</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> | 28 Jun 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7722" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7722">Last week may be a watershed in the efforts to suppress spam through efforts to eliminate the many illegitimate methods by which spammers send and relay their email.Earlier in the week, several major Internet service providers (ISPs) agreed to some basic tenets on how to manage their own networks and their customers' networks to avoid helping to perpetuate or tolerate spam</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> | 28 Jun 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7694"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7694', 'show')">Apple Fixes Two Security Holes</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7694" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7694">Apple fixed two security gaps in the recent Mac OS X 10.3.4 release, and although they aren't at the level of the URL scheme failure documented in our last issue and now addressed by Security Update 2004-06-07 (covered earlier in this issue), it's worth mentioning a few details.The first problem involved encrypted connections for AppleShare servers using the SSH (Secure Shell) protocol</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> | 07 Jun 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7695"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7695', 'show')">AirPort Express Brings Audio, Portability to Wireless Networking</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7695" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7695">What's slightly larger than a PowerBook power brick, has three ports, and talks Wi-Fi? Apple's latest wireless entry, the AirPort Express, a 6.7-ounce (189 gram) 802.11g base station</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> | 07 Jun 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7664"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7664', 'show')">Apple Offers One-on-One Email Support for .Mac Services</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7664" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7664">Apple Offers One-on-One Email Support for .Mac Services -- On 03-May-04 Apple started offering direct email support for .Mac service questions, a switch from providing support only via discussion forum responses</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> | 17 May 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7646"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7646', 'show')">New AirPort Base Station and Wireless Software Updates</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7646" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7646">Last week's release of new iBook, PowerBook, and eMac models (see the coverage earlier in this issue) garnered most of the Apple-related attention, but a few significant updates to the company's wireless networking efforts - both software and hardware - are worth mentioning.Power over Ethernet Base Station -- Apple has quietly released a third model of its AirPort Extreme Base Station designed for the education and corporate markets (model M9397LL/A)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7648" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7648">We've become accustomed to being in a constant state of emergency on the Internet. Stories appear about the potential for massive disruption of the Internet and we file them away as more hype that never materializes, like the Y2K threat</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/7613"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7613', 'show')">Canned Spam Can Can Spam with CAN-SPAM</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7613" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7613">Canned Spam Can Can Spam with CAN-SPAM -- Hormel is expected to announce today their campaign to can spam using their canned Spam with the aid of the CAN-SPAM legislation</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 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7618"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7618', 'show')">The Second Experiment Is Over</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7618" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7618">Almost 10 years ago, I wrote an article for TidBITS called "The Experiment Is Over" about the end of the governmentally funded, usage-restricted Internet backbone</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 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7620" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7620">Building on the success of short-range induction charging, such as is used in the MobileWise wire-free electric power technology, Posicharge, Inc. has introduced the latest advance to wireless networking technology: the Tes-La passive energy charging system</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 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7604"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7604', 'show')">Timbuktu Pro 7.0.1 Fixes Tab Problem</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7604" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7604">Timbuktu Pro 7.0.1 Fixes Tab Problem -- Netopia last week released Timbuktu Pro 7.0.1, which includes a short list of minor fixes and one big one. If a user of version 7.0 hit the Tab key while in a remote control session that wasn't sized to full screen, the buttons along the side of the Timbuktu menu would become selected</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 Mar 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7590"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7590', 'show')">Belkin Offering External Microphone Adapter for iPod</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7590" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7590">Belkin Offering External Microphone Adapter for iPod -- Belkin's latest iPod add-on lets you plug in an external microphone for recording audio to your iPod</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 Mar 2004</div></div>
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