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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8102" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8102">Apple Intermediate Codec 1.0.1 Improves Performance -- Last week, Apple posted an update to one of its core video-editing components, Apple Intermediate Codec 1.0.1</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 16 May 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8093" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8093">Apple Releases iTunes 4.8 -- Apple today released iTunes 4.8, a free download with minimal documentation. According to the ReadMe file, "iTunes 4.8 includes new Music Store features and support for transferring contacts and calendars from your computer to your iPod," noting that the latter feature requires Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 09 May 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8098"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8098', 'show')">iMac G5 and eMac Lines Refreshed</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8098" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8098">Shortly after releasing new Power Mac G5 models (see "Apple Speed Bumps Power Mac G5" in TidBITS-778), Apple announced updates to two of its consumer desktop lines, the iMac G5 and the eMac.iMac G5 Improved -- Apple bumped up the processor, graphics card, and built-in memory of the flat-panel iMac G5</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 09 May 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8099"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8099', 'show')">A New Dimension for iChat AV</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8099" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8099">Last year I "attended" a briefing with a few Apple representatives while sitting in my office chair in Seattle. They were in Cupertino, and thanks to the video chat capabilities of iChat AV, we had a face-to-face conversation</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 09 May 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8074"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8074', 'show')">Apple Releases Security and Java Updates</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8074" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8074">Apple Releases Security and Java Updates -- Apple last week released Security Update 2005-004, a 1 MB download that replaces an iSync component that could be vulnerable to a buffer overflow</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/8078"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8078', 'show')">Mac mini Inspires Web Sites</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8078" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8078">Looking at the Mac mini's technical specifications alone, the computer sits firmly in the middle of Apple's computer offerings - it's essentially an eMac without the monitor, keyboard, or mouse</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/8064"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8064', 'show')">iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iSight See Updates</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8064" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8064">iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iSight See Updates -- Apple last week released updates to three of its iLife '05 applications, providing a small but welcome collection of bug fixes</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/8070"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8070', 'show')">Apple Announces Final Cut Studio</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8070" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8070">At the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) event on Sunday in Las Vegas, Apple revealed the latest lineup of its professional video and audio applications, Final Cut Studio</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/8053"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8053', 'show')">Sync Buddy 2.0.1 Syncs Palms and Mac OS X</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8053" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8053">Sync Buddy 2.0.1 Syncs Palms and Mac OS X -- Back in the early days of the PalmPilot, Florent Pillet released Palm Buddy (later renamed Sync Buddy), a Mac OS program for backing up data from a Palm OS handheld by opening an active connection between the two machines</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/8059"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8059', 'show')">Moneydance Eases a Tax Burden</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8059" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8059">Like many people in the United States right now, I'm putting together my taxes. My wife and I have a few investments and a shared money market account through Morgan Stanley</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/8050"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8050', 'show')">Building a Holiday DVD</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8050" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8050">Now that Adam lives in Ithaca, the only time we see each other in person is at January's Macworld Expo in San Francisco. When we met up for the last show, at a small gathering at Joe Kissell's apartment, one of the first things he said was, "Man, you've ruined it for the rest of us!"What had I done? He pointed to Joe's mantelpiece, which had a copy of the beautiful, professionally printed Christmas card that he and Tonya sent out</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8038" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8038">Matias Adds Sudden Motion Sensor Tech to Laptop Bags -- Laptop bag designer Edgar Matias announced today that his company has licensed Apple's Sudden Motion Sensor technology for use in a new line of bags for PowerBook and iBook portable computers</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/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 01 Apr 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8033"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8033', 'show')">BBEdit 8.1 Adds Source Control Support</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8033" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8033">BBEdit 8.1 Adds Source Control Support -- Bare Bones Software has released BBEdit 8.1, adding support for the Subversion source control management application to the powerful text editor</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 28 Mar 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8034" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8034">iPod Updater 2005-03-23 Released -- Apple last week released an update for iPod photo owners. The hefty 28.9 MB iPod Updater 2005-03-23 brings the iPod software to version 1.1 and adds support for Apple's forthcoming $30 iPod Camera Connector (announced in February, and now available for order from Apple's online store)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 28 Mar 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8021" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8021">Security Update 2005-003 Released -- Apple today released Security Update 2005-003, a collection of fixes for Mac OS X 10.3.8 and Mac OS X 10.3.8 Server</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 21 Mar 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8023"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8023', 'show')">Pages 1.0.1 and Keynote 2.0.1 Updates Released</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8023" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8023">Pages 1.0.1 and Keynote 2.0.1 Updates Released -- Apple updated its iWork suite last week, bumping up Pages (the word processor for the rest of us) and Keynote (the presentation program for Steve Jobs's keynote addresses, and, you know, the rest of us who would prefer to not use PowerPoint)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 21 Mar 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8017"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8017', 'show')">A Rising Tide of Ebooks</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8017" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8017">Adam is fond of talking about the "Macintosh ecosystem" and how the companies and products that make up that system generally work together for a common good</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 14 Mar 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8012"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8012', 'show')">Mac OS X Window Behavior</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8012" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8012">When Apple thrust Mac OS X upon us, it was quite a change. I remember one colleague remarked that his head was filled with all sorts of Mac OS 9 troubleshooting arcana, nearly all of which would be rendered moot once Mac OS X gained its footing</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 07 Mar 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7990" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7990">LaunchBar 4 Lifts Off -- Objective Development has released LaunchBar 4, a major improvement on its highly regarded utility that opens files, bookmarks, and more using adaptively generated keyboard shortcuts (see "Tools We Use: LaunchBar" in TidBITS-671) The new version adds more index scanners (such as the capability to search iTunes and iPhoto libraries, Sherlock channels, etc.), search templates that let you search Web sites like Google and the Wikipedia directly from LaunchBar, the capability to browse database records (iTunes playlists and Address Book, for example) without leaving the LaunchBar interface, and a new multi-threaded indexing engine</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 21 Feb 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/7976"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7976', 'show')">Tools We Use: PinPoint and Mouseposé</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7976" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7976">At Macworld Expo last month, Peachpit Press included a presentation area as part of their booth. In addition to letting authors like me demonstrate techniques found in our books, the area was used by Apple and the National Association of Photoshop Professionals for hands-on training sessions</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 07 Feb 2005</div></div>
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