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<a href="/article/7267"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7267', 'show')">Jeff Carlson at Apple Store Bellevue Square</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7267" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7267">Jeff Carlson at Apple Store Bellevue Square -- With Adam and Tonya now living in Ithaca, New York, there's no need for other TidBITS staffers to make the trek to New York City for this week's Macworld Expo, which means I miss out on meeting TidBITS readers and rubbing shoulders with thousands of Mac users this time of year</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7251" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7251">Apple Announces Design Awards 2003 -- Wrapping up the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) last week, Apple announced the winners of its annual Apple Design Awards</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> | 30 Jun 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7236"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7236', 'show')">Safari 1.0 and SDK Released</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7236" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7236">Safari 1.0 and SDK Released -- Apple's Safari Web browser has officially been set loose in the wild. Safari 1.0 was released today via Software Update and as a separate 6.2 MB download</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> | 23 Jun 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7237" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7237">AirPort 3.1 Applies 802.11g Spec -- One week after the IEEE ratified the 802.11g specification for higher-speed wireless equipment, Apple has released AirPort 3.1 for Mac OS X, which updates Macs using AirPort Extreme (see "802.11g (AirPort Extreme) Ratified" in TidBITS-684)</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> | 23 Jun 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7238" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7238">iPod Software 2.0.1 Released -- Apple has released iPod Software 2.0.1, improving performance and Windows compatibility for 2003 iPod models that feature a dock connector (earlier iPod models remain at version 1.3 of the software)</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> | 23 Jun 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7240" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7240">Free Macworld CreativePro Exhibit Passes -- With WWDC and MacHack under our belts, it's time to look ahead to the Macworld CreativePro Conference and Expo, 16-Jul-03 through 18-Jul-03 in New York City</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> | 23 Jun 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7243" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7243">If you're the type of person who bemoans the impersonal nature of email or text messaging, Apple wants to offer you a little face time. At the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) today, Apple introduced iChat AV, adding audio and video conferencing capabilities to its iChat instant messaging application</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> | 23 Jun 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7222"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7222', 'show')">QuarkXPress 6 for Mac OS X Ships</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7222" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7222">QuarkXPress 6 for Mac OS X Ships -- Quark claims it will begin shipping QuarkXPress 6 to customers this week, finally delivering the long-awaited Mac OS X version of the desktop publishing software</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 Jun 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7208" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7208">iMovie 3.0.3 Improves Performance, Finally -- Shortly after releasing QuickTime 6.3 last week (details later in this issue), Apple also made iMovie 3.0.3 available as a free update</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 Jun 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7215" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7215">Five years after the founders of Palm, Inc. bolted from the company to form Handspring, Inc., Palm is pulling them back in. Palm has announced that it is acquiring Handspring in a stock swap deal valued at $192 million</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 Jun 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7189" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7189">Interarchy 6.2 Released -- Stairways Software has released Interarchy 6.2, its utility for transferring files and testing network connections. The new version features an interarchy command line tool, more efficient SFTP mirroring, support for ELFP and SuperDOS FTP servers, and the capability to copy Rendezvous URLs from the Bookmarks window</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> | 19 May 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7172" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7172">Palm Desktop 4.1 Released -- Palm has released Palm Desktop 4.1 for Macintosh. New in this version is a Send to Handheld application that enables you to add image or MP3 music files to a Palm OS device by dropping them onto the application's icon</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> | 05 May 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7162" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7162">Apple Quietly Updates iBooks -- Apple's entry-level laptop family received a minor refresh this week, picking up a speed bump and larger hard disks but little else</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7165" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7165">Apple's new online music service is likely to attract most of the attention today, but in typical Apple fashion, it's the hardware that makes it all possible</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/7146"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7146', 'show')">Mac OS X 10.2.5 Released</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7146" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7146">Mac OS X 10.2.5 Released -- Apple has rolled out several improvements in its latest system release, Mac OS X 10.2.5. Bluetooth support has been added for Nokia 7650 and P800 phones, and the Bluetooth Setup Assistant now recognizes some Microsoft mice and keyboards</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/7147"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7147', 'show')">Apple Releases Safari Public Beta 2</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7147" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7147">Apple Releases Safari Public Beta 2 -- Apple's widely adopted beta Web browser received an update today to Public Beta 2. New in this incarnation is the capability to browse multiple pages within the same window using a tabbed interface, along with the AutoFill features made popular by Internet Explorer</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/7142"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7142', 'show')">Final Cut Pro 4, DVD Studio Pro 2, Shake 3 Announced</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7142" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7142">Apple grabbed the director's chair at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) event in Las Vegas last weekend, announcing updates to its professional line of video editing applications</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/7144"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7144', 'show')">The Boy Who Cried Bandwidth</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7144" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7144">Two weeks ago, Adam told the story of our colleague Glenn Fleishman's potential bandwidth disaster, in which Glenn gave away a free PDF version of our book Real World Adobe GoLive 6 only to be faced with the possibility of excess bandwidth charges running as high as $15,000</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7133" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7133">iPodPowerMate Unveiled -- Extending its successful line of well-designed computing accessories, Griffin Technologies today announced the iPodPowerMate, a hardware multimedia controller specially created for the iPod (see "Unleashing the Power of the PowerMate" in TidBITS-653)</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 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7134" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7134">"Chili Pepper" iChat Plug-in Released -- Shareware developer Susan Valencia has released a plug-in for iChat that emulates Eudora's popular MoodWatch feature to iChat users who have Eudora installed (whether or not it's the default email client)</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 2003</div></div>
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