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<h6>Mighty Mouse as Application Switcher</h6>
<p><p>Looking for an easier way to switch between multiple applications? Within Keyboard and Mouse Preferences under System Preferences, you can configure the scroll wheel to act as an Application Switcher. Press the scroll button to bring up Application Switcher, scroll to toggle to the application you want, and hit the scroll button again to switch. You can also double-click the scroll button to quickly switch to the previously active application.</p></p>
<a href="/article/10605"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10605', 'show')">iPod nano Delivers Static in Radio Interface and Features</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10605" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10605">Colleagues seem alarmed by Glenn's antipathy to the iPod nano's analog FM radio tuning. But by failing to leverage data in the radio stream, Apple delivers a typical and irritating experience - compared to what it could have been.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/10593"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10593', 'show')">Prepare for the Worst: AT&T's MMS Friday</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10593" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10593">AT&T launches its long-delayed MMS upgrade for iPhones in the United States on 25-Sep-09. Expect network slowdowns and other trouble.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10590" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10590">The USB Implementers Forum, which controls the USB specification, has rebuked Palm for using an Apple USB ID to fool iTunes into allowing Palm webOS devices to sync. Palm was trying to get the group to give Apple a hard time; instead, the company finds itself on thin ice.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/10574"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10574', 'show')">Pantone iPhone App Offers Enjoyable Color Exploration</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10574" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10574">Even if you're not a professional graphic designer, the myPantone app for iPhone might pique your interest in capturing and exploring color.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10579" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10579">Netflix sponsored a $1 million prize to create an algorithm measurably 10 percent better than the company's current recommendation system. Two teams met the challenge, with one taking home the prize by virtue of a slightly earlier entry, as the New York Times writes. Netflix has launched a new contest with another $1 million in prizes.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/10575"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10575', 'show')">AT&T Reveals Details on 3G MicroCell Home Base Station</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10575" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10575">AT&T finally provides public details of its home base station for 3G phones, the 3G MicroCell, which provides strong signal strength and routes calls over your broadband Internet connection.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10568" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10568">Google acquires reCAPTCHA, a project started at Carnegie Mellon University to bring robust tools to fight robot ticket purchasers, comment spamming, and other malicious or forbidden automated behavior.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/10566"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10566', 'show')">Check Computer-Tracking Software before Snow Leopard Upgrade</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10566" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10566">You've just upgraded to Snow Leopard for all the goodness it includes. Your computer goes missing. What could be worse? The tracking software you installed under Snow Leopard isn't running.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10552" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10552">TidBITS editors Glenn Fleishman and Jeff Carlson joined Chuck Joiner's MacJury with Adam Christianson, Keith Lang, and Chuck La Tournous to talk about all the news that emerged from Apple's music and iPhone OS announcements. This is part 1 of 2. Norah Jones isn't rock and roll, we conclude.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/10553"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10553', 'show')">Sprint Offers Unmetered Mobile Calling</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10553" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10553">Sprint has a new unmetered plan that lets you call any other U.S. cell phone without dipping into a minutes pool. The plan includes no preset limits on text, data, video, MMS, and GPS navigation, too.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="link_hover" id="link_box_full_10554" onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10554', 'show'); link_hover_swap('10554', 'in')" onMouseOut="link_hover_swap('10554', 'out')"><div class="link_hover_title"><a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/142733/2009/09/rhapsody.html" id="link_hover_title_10554">Subscription Music Comes to iPhone via Rhapsody</a></div><div class="link_box_right" id="link_box_right_10554" style="visibility:hidden"><img src="/images/external_link_arrow.gif" height="15" width="15" border="0" alt="arrow"> <img src="/images/favicons/macworld.png" border="0" alt="favicon"> </div></div><div class="spacer"></div>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10554" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10554">The subscription-based Rhapsody music service from Real Networks is now available as an app for the iPhone and iPod touch. The service lets you listen to an unlimited amount of music from an 8-million song library for $15 per month. The app only streams music; this version can't even download songs temporarily.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/10548"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10548', 'show')">iPod nano Morphs into Video Camera, Pedometer, Radio</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10548" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10548">Apple threw the kitchen sink at the iPod nano, making it a video and audio recorder, pedometer, and FM radio tuner with an added built-in speaker, all while keeping the price on the 8 GB model the same.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/10551"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10551', 'show')">AT&T Selects Six Cities for Speed, Adds Preferred Callers</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10551" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10551">AT&T has said which six cities will get its mobile broadband upgrade first, doubling the connection speed from the iPhone 3GS and laptop cards to cellular towers. Also, who are the five or ten people you call most?</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10542" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10542">The screen sharing feature in Snow Leopard has a significant bug: the remote screen is blacked out or frozen when you connect. Fortunately, there's a simple, though repetitive, fix.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="link_hover" id="link_box_full_10543" onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10543', 'show'); link_hover_swap('10543', 'in')" onMouseOut="link_hover_swap('10543', 'out')"><div class="link_hover_title"><a href="http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/tq/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14299700" id="link_hover_title_10543">Minding the Line between Humans and Computer</a></div><div class="link_box_right" id="link_box_right_10543" style="visibility:hidden"><img src="/images/external_link_arrow.gif" height="15" width="15" border="0" alt="arrow"> <img src="/images/favicons/economist.png" border="0" alt="favicon"> </div></div><div class="spacer"></div>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10543" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10543">TidBITS Editor Glenn Fleishman penned this article for The Economist about the state of CAPTCHA, those distorted text images you must enter to post comments or buy tickets online. TidBITS relies on reCAPTCHA for submitting tips and emailing authors.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10544" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10544">The proposed settlement between Google and groups representing authors and publishers over Google's past work in scanning in-copyright titles may be scuttled over the advantages that such a settlement would confer on the search giant.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/10535"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10535', 'show')">Amazon Makes Orwell Buyers Right</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10535" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10535">Six weeks after the fact, Amazon gives double-plus good customer service to Kindle owners who saw purchased books dropped into the memory hole. Why the wait?</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/10520"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10520', 'show')">eBay Sells Skype to Private Investors</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10520" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10520">The Internet telephony and chat firm Skype has been sold by eBay to private investors, including Marc Andreessen, a founder of Netscape.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/10523"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10523', 'show')">Vonage App Coming to iPhone</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10523" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10523">Vonage says that Apple has approved its calling application for the iPhone and iPod touch. This may have greater implications than Skype's iPhone client.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
