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<a href="/article/9060"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9060', 'show')">iTunes 7.3 Adds iPhone, Apple TV Features</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9060" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9060">Apple has released iTunes 7.3, which enables support for the iPhone. iTunes acts as the hub between the computer and the iPhone (much as it does with the iPod), handling synchronization of contacts, calendars, music, and movies</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9061"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9061', 'show')">MacBook Pro Software Update 1.0 Released</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9061" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9061">Apple has released MacBook Pro Software Update 1.0, which fixes a number of unspecified problems with 2.2 GHz and 2.4 GHz MacBook Pro models. According to a post at MacFixIt, the update appears to patch several issues with the Nvidia graphics cards and may solve an issue with "shimmering" display issues</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> | 02 Jul 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9046"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9046', 'show')">YouTube Comes to iPhone and Apple TV</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9046" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9046">As the iPhone nears release, Apple has unveiled another previously unannounced feature: a YouTube application that will download and play back YouTube videos directly on the iPhone</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> | 25 Jun 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9047"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9047', 'show')">Mac OS X 10.4.10 Released</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9047" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9047">Boldly marching into double-digit version number territory, Apple has released Mac OS X 10.4.10, a maintenance update that adds more RAW image support, fixes issues with Bluetooth and USB, and addresses a few other issues</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> | 25 Jun 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9024" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9024">Apple revamped its MacBook Pro line of portables last week with faster processors, better graphics capabilities, 802.11n wireless networking (removing the need to run an enabler), and screens that are backlit using LED technology</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> | 11 Jun 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9030"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9030', 'show')">TidBITS Staffers Honored in 2007 MacTech 25</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9030" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9030">Congratulations to my fellow TidBITS staffers - Adam Engst, Tonya Engst, Glenn Fleishman, Joe Kissell, and Matt Neuburg - who were included on the now-annual MacTech 25 list of most influential people in the Macintosh technical community (see "Adam & Tonya Engst Honored in MacTech 25," 2006-07-17)</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> | 11 Jun 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9032" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9032">Sometimes it's good to be wrong. Or, perhaps more apt in this case, wrong for the time being.
Last week Adobe surprised me with the release of GoLive 9, an update to the company's previous flagship Web design application before it acquired Dreamweaver</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> | 11 Jun 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9015"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9015', 'show')">Apple TV Gains 160 GB Drive, YouTube Downloads</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9015" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9015">Call me a rainmaker. Just a few days after I sent my latest book ("The Apple TV Pocket Guide") to be printed, Apple announced upgrades to the Apple TV</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> | 04 Jun 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9005" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9005">Apple has released its fifth Mac OS X security update of 2007 to patch a number of potential vulnerabilities. Security Update 2007-005 makes changes to CoreGraphics, iChat, VPN, BIND, crontabs, PPP, and other components, in most cases correcting problems that require either local user access or access to the Mac via a local network</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/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 28 May 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9008"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9008', 'show')">Making Pages in Adobe Illustrator</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9008" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9008">When writing about the end of FreeHand last week (see "Farewell FreeHand," 2007-05-21), I mentioned one of the features that Adobe Illustrator still lacks, the capability to create multiple pages within a document</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> | 28 May 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9009"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9009', 'show')">A Personal Shopper for HD Video Editing Gear</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9009" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9009">When friends and family need to buy a new computer or accessories, they often turn to me for advice. I've learned over the years that they're usually not looking for one of my "history of computing" answers that explains not only how much RAM the computer should have, but how RAM works and why more is better - they just want to know how much to get, and where to get it inexpensively</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> | 28 May 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9010"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9010', 'show')">Geophoto Puts Your Photos on the Map</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9010" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9010">Photography is a visual medium, and yet our tools for locating digital photos are mostly textual and temporal. When you open iPhoto, you can visually scan through the pictures, but that becomes a problem in large libraries when hundreds of thumbnails streak by as you drag the scroller</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> | 28 May 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8997" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8997">I knew this day would come, but I honestly didn't think it would take this long.
Earlier this week, Adobe's John Nack, senior product manager of Adobe Photoshop, confirmed on his blog that my favorite drawing application, Macromedia FreeHand, is no longer being updated</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> | 21 May 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8980" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8980">Microsoft has issued an update to Office 2004 for Mac, which the company says includes "fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code." The update is 58.5 MB, largely because it also includes all previous Office 2004 updates, and is available as a stand-alone download or via the Microsoft AutoUpdate application</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/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 14 May 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/8984"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8984', 'show')">Apple Releases Pro Application Support 4.0</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8984" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8984">Apple has released Pro Application Support 4.0, a non-specific update that "improves general user interface reliability for Apple's professional applications." Affected programs include Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Aperture, Final Cut Express HD, Soundtrack, Logic Pro, and Logic Express</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> | 14 May 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8975" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8975">Responding to a security flaw discovered two weeks ago (see "Money Meets Mouth on Mac Exploits," 2007-04-23), Apple has released QuickTime 7.1.6 for Mac (43.6 MB) and Windows (19.1 MB), available as stand-alone downloads or via Software Update</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> | 07 May 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/8970"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8970', 'show')">Battery Update 1.2 Issued for MacBook and MacBook Pro</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8970" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8970">Apple has released Battery Update 1.2 for MacBook and MacBook Pro models, and batteries for them, sold between February 2006 and April 2007. The update fixes some unspecified performance issues</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/8948"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8948', 'show')">Leopard Pushed to October 2007</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8948" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8948">Leopard will remain caged for a few more months. In a statement released last week, Apple announced that Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard will not be released until some time in October 2007</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/8953"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8953', 'show')">Apple Announces Final Cut Studio 2, Final Cut Server</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8953" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8953">Kicking off the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference this week, Apple reinvigorated its line of professional video applications, which will collectively be bundled as Final Cut Studio 2</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/8941"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8941', 'show')">Apple Introduces Eight-Core Mac Pros</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8941" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8941">For those who have been waiting for new Mac desktops to land, Apple has one message: eight is great. Last week the company added an 8-core Intel Xeon processor configuration to the Mac Pro</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> | 09 Apr 2007</div></div>
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