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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9199" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9199">In TidBITS Talk this week, the TidBITS community tackles subjects such as backing up large files, open QuickBooks files, the differences between the iPod touch and iPod classic, and powering datacenters with DC current.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9186"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9186', 'show')">Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/17-Sep-07</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9186" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9186">What is the TidBITS community talking about this week? TidBITS Talk is buzzing with discussion of the iPhone, ringtones, Eudora, admin passwords, laptops versus desktops, and more!</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9187"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9187', 'show')">Apple Releases iMac, iLife, Pro Application Updates</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9187" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9187">Apple released a number of bug-fix updates last week: iMac Software Update 1.1, Keyboard Software Update 1.2, Compatibility Update for QuickTime 7.2, iTunes 7.4.1, and Pro Application Support 4.0.2.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=8" class="category">Macs & Mac OS X</a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 17 Sep 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9148"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9148', 'show')">iToner Makes iPhone Ringtones Easy</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9148" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9148">Ambrosia Software has released iToner 1.0, a simple utility that lets you add MP3 or AAC audio files to an iPhone for use as custom ringtones. What's notable about iToner is that it doesn't require any iPhone hacking software to work.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9150" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9150">In a post to The Official Palm Blog, CEO Ed Colligan announced that Palm is killing the Foleo, the smartphone accessory that looked and acted like a laptop, but which wasn't a laptop, Palm employees insisted. The Foleo was due to ship this month. (The Kerbango was an Internet radio device that was killed at the last minute by former Palm parent company 3Com.)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9159"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9159', 'show')">Apple to Offer $100 iPhone Rebate for Early Purchasers</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9159" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9159">Responding to complaints surrounding the $200 price drop on the iPhone, Steve Jobs posted an open letter stating that customers who bought an iPhone before the pricing changed will receive a $100 rebate good for store credit at the online Apple Store or physical Apple Store locations.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9170"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9170', 'show')">Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/10-Sep-07</a></h4>
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<a href="/article/9175"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9175', 'show')">Mysterious .Mac Slowdowns in Europe</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9175" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9175">A TidBITS reader emailed us this week wondering if we'd experienced or heard of an issue where subscribers to .Mac in Europe are seeing unusually slow download speeds (capped at roughly 768Kbps). Apple responded to our query.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9169"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9169', 'show')">Feed Icons Saved Me Lots of Work</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9169" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9169">The redesign of TidBITS is now live, and we'll be writing more about the experience soon, but I wanted to note something quickly that saved me a bunch of work. A quick Google search pulled up the answer to my problem: Feed Icons, which includes a free bundle of icons bearing the orange broadcast image that was created by the Mozilla foundation and adopted by Microsoft.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9131" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9131">AT&T finally sees the light about sending fully itemized paper bills to iPhone customers; everyone will now receive summarized paper bills unless they desperately need to help with global deforestation.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=18" class="category">Blog Post</a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 27 Aug 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9132" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9132">Apple has released iPhone 1.0.2, iMovie 7.0.1, and iWeb 2.0.1 to fix bugs and address issues with publishing .Mac Web galleries.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=6" class="category">Tech News</a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 27 Aug 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9137"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9137', 'show')">No Issue on 03-Sep-07</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9137" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9137">The next TidBITS issue will arrive on 10-Sep-07, due to the Labor Day holiday in the United States.</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/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 27 Aug 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9117"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9117', 'show')">Hardware-Related Updates Follow Apple Announcements</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9117" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9117">Not long after Steve Jobs left the stage at last week's Apple press event, a succession of small hardware updates began to pop up, some of which applied to the brand-new machines themselves. Affected machines include the new iMac, the new aluminum Apple Keyboard, the Mac Pro, and the latest MacBook Pro models.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=8" class="category">Macs & Mac OS X</a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 13 Aug 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9113"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9113', 'show')">iMovie HD 6 Free for iLife '08 Owners</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9113" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9113">Apple has made iMovie HD 6 available free to owners of iLife '08, rounding out the editing capabilities that are missing in iMovie '08.</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/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 09 Aug 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9111"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9111', 'show')">A Few Important iMovie '08 Notes</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9111" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9111">iMovie '08 is a completely different program from its predecessors, and Jeff Carlson has some initial words of advice.</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/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 08 Aug 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9088"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9088', 'show')">Apple Marks Best Quarter of Mac Sales for Q3 2007</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9088" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9088">Sales of 1.76 million Macs between and April and June pushed Apple to an $818 million profit on $5.41 billion in sales. That's 33 percent more Macs than the 1.33 million sold in the year-ago quarter and represents the highest number of Mac sales during a quarter.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9073" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9073">Apple has updated QuickTime and iTunes, resolving issues with the H.264 video codec and fixing bugs. The primary changes in QuickTime 7.2 are fixes for several potential security vulnerabilities related to playback of malformed movie files and visiting maliciously crafted Web sites</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9078" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9078">Microsoft has released Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.6 Update, which addresses vulnerabilities in Excel and fixes a bug in Entourage. In Excel, an attacker could "overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code," according to Microsoft</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9077"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9077', 'show')">MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.3 Released</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9077" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9077">Apple has released MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.3, which "fixes a display issue on 2.2/2.4 GHz 15-inch MacBook Pro models," according to the minimal text on Apple's download page</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=8" class="category">Macs & Mac OS X</a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 16 Jul 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9058"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9058', 'show')">Final Cut Studio 2 Applications, SuperDrive Firmware Updated</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9058" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9058">Apple has released updates for the Final Cut Studio 2 suite of video production applications via Software Update and as stand-alone installers; the latter require that you sign in using your Apple ID and your Final Cut Studio 2 serial number</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
