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<h6>Springy Dock Tricks</h6>
<p><p>If you drag a file and hover over Dock icons, various useful things happen which are similar to Finder springing. If it's a window, the window un-minimizes from the Dock. If it's a stack, the corresponding folder in the Finder opens. If it's the Finder, it brings the Finder to the foreground and opens a window if one doesn't exist already. But the coolest (and most hidden) springing trick is if you hover over an application and press the Space bar, the application comes to the foreground. This is great for things like grabbing a file from somewhere to drop into a Mail composition window that's otherwise hidden. Grab the file you want, hover over the Mail icon, press the Space bar, and Mail comes to the front for you to drop the file into the compose window. Be sure that Spring-Loaded Folders and Windows is enabled in the Finder Preferences window.</p></p>
<a href="/article/11621"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11621', 'show')">Dropbox App Adds HD Uploads and Local Cache</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11621" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11621">The Dropbox app for iOS has added several useful features for interacting with the company's cloud-hosted storage and sync system. You can upload high-definition video, among other improvements.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/11608"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11608', 'show')">Feeds into Reads: Transforming RSS into Beauty</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11608" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11608">Do long lists of continually changing RSS items in a newsreader bore you? Has feed reading reached the end of its lifespan? New approaches on the iPad suggest a major change.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11610" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11610">Google makes Android out to be an open platform, in contrast to Apple's closed one. But a lawsuit filed by Skyhook Wireless, a firm that turns Wi-Fi signals into geographic coordinates for mobile devices, alleges that Google pressures handset makers by threatening to withhold access to the Android app marketplace, use of the phrase "Android-compatible," and full access to Google apps on the phone. Skyhook says Google forced Motorola and another phone maker to break deals or risk those losses.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 17 Sep 2010 | <a href="/article/11610#comments">1 comment | Comment on this link</a></div></div></div>
<a href="/article/11542"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11542', 'show')">Place Calls using Google Voice - in Gmail!</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11542" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11542">Google expands its voice command center, Google Voice, to add the capability to place and receive calls directly - within Gmail! The new feature is on a staggered rollout.</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> | 25 Aug 2010 | <a href="/article/11542#comments">7 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11541" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11541">What do you do when your server hardware fails? Hire a zeppelin and fly to the cloud! Cloud computing, that is. TidBITS is now living in the future.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 24 Aug 2010 | <a href="/article/11541#comments">8 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/11538"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11538', 'show')">Virgin Mobile Offers Unlimited Cellular Data Plan</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11538" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11538">Despite being owned by Sprint Nextel, Virgin Mobile keeps upping the ante on mobile broadband usage plans for laptops and smartphones. Its latest: $40 for 30 days of unlimited service with no contract.</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> | 23 Aug 2010 | <a href="/article/11538#comments">6 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/11523"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11523', 'show')">Look! Nook Took Books</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11523" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11523">Barnes & Noble changes the name of its eReader app for iOS to Nook, to match the name of its standalone ebook reading device.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=1" class="category">Entertainment</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 18 Aug 2010 | <a href="/article/11523#comments">1 comment</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/11510"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11510', 'show')">iOS Security Fixes Released for Serious Vulnerabilities</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11510" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11510">Apple has shipped iOS 3.2.2 for the iPad and 4.0.2 for the iPhone and iPod touch to fix two extremely serious exploits that could allow an attacker to control your iOS device.</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> | 11 Aug 2010 | <a href="/article/11510#comments">5 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/11503"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11503', 'show')">Recover from Changed Wi-Fi Network Passwords in iOS</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11503" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11503">iOS devices, once connected to a WEP, WPA, or WPA2 encrypted Wi-Fi network, retain the network's password even if it's changed. To enter a new password, forget the network and then reconnect.</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> | 09 Aug 2010 | <a href="/article/11503#comments">2 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/11507"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11507', 'show')">Secured iOS Backups Reduce Security, but Not by Much</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11507" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11507">The folks at password-cracking software firm Elcomsoft have updated a tool meant for testing and recovering passwords for iTunes backups of iOS devices. Oddly enough, password-protected backups turn out to be less secure for iOS devices than password-free backups.</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> | 09 Aug 2010 | <a href="/article/11507#comments">2 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11488" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11488">Glenn Fleishman talks with Chuck Joiner on the MacVoices podcast about the ins and outs of choosing and using an iPhone navigation app for finding your way around.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 04 Aug 2010 | <a href="/article/11488#comments">0 comments | Comment on this link</a></div></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11490" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11490">Google has shuttered its Google Wave live collaborative document editing and commenting system. We at TidBITS tried to use it and could never quite figure out whether it helped us or just confused us; apparently, that was true of everyone else, too.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=7" class="category">Business Apps</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 04 Aug 2010 | <a href="/article/11490#comments">7 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11483" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11483">Glenn Fleishman and long-time Windows observer Mary Jo Foley talked to host Todd Bishop of TechFlash, a Northwest tech business and venture capital reporting site, on KIRO-FM's weekly tech segment. We discussed Microsoft's missed opportunities for challenging the iPad, and the Kindle's place in the mobile device ecosystem.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 01 Aug 2010 | <a href="/article/11483#comments">0 comments | Comment on this link</a></div></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11473" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11473">Amazon is releasing two new 6-inch display Kindles to replace the Kindle 2: a Wi-Fi only model for $139, and one with both AT&T 3G and Wi-Fi for $189. The new devices have 50-percent higher contrast, new fonts, faster performance, longer standby time (a month!), and double the storage, all while weighing less. The new models ship 27 August 2010 in the United States.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 28 Jul 2010 | <a href="/article/11473#comments">0 comments | Comment on this link</a></div></div></div>
<a href="/article/11468"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11468', 'show')">Jailbreaking Made Legal by Librarian of Congress</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11468" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11468">Every three years or so, the Librarian of Congress can issue exemptions to the encryption-cracking restrictions in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The latest rules make installing third-party software on an iPhone perfectly legal. But Apple doesn't have to make it easy.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/11446"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11446', 'show')">Apple Donates MacPaint and QuickDraw Source Code to Museum</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11446" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11446">Through the good offices of Steve Jobs, Apple has donated the source code to the original MacPaint and QuickDraw software that introduced the world to graphical user interfaces, onscreen drawing, and image creation. The code is available for review at the Computer History Museum.</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> | 21 Jul 2010 | <a href="/article/11446#comments">6 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/11447"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11447', 'show')">Skype 2.0.1 Brings Background Calls to iOS</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11447" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11447">Skype 2.0.1 for iOS brings background call continuation, notification of incoming calls when Skype isn't the foreground app, and higher call quality. Skype also reversed a previous announcement, and will not charges for calls placed over 3G.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11424" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11424">The redoubtable Consumer Reports says the iPhone 4 can drop connections in weak signal areas when you hold the phone with your skin covering the antenna gap on the lower left side. The non-profit organization tested three separately purchased iPhone 4s in a radio-frequency isolation chamber. The group says a little tape over the gap eliminates the problem (or you could, as Steve Jobs suggests, just not hold the phone like that). As a result of these tests, Consumer Reports does not recommend the purchase of an iPhone 4 at this time. Ouch.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=21" class="category">External Links</a> | 12 Jul 2010 | <a href="/article/11424#comments">1 comment | Comment on this link</a></div></div></div>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11411" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11411">Glenn Fleishman appears on this week's TechFlash podcast. Glenn talks about Apple's odd open letter on antennas, the potential for an iPhone that works with Verizon Wireless's network, and the place of the Kindle in the tablet future. TechFlash is a Seattle technology news site with a strong focus on original reporting.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/11403"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11403', 'show')">iPhone Signal Strength Sets Bars Too High</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11403" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11403">Apple says it discovered a flaw in its method of calculating the number of signal strength bars on the iPhone that could overstate how strong reception is. A small change in signal could drop two bars in the display.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->