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<h6>Launching Maps from Address Book</h6>
<p><p>Need fast directions to a contact's location in Address Book? By Control-clicking on the contact's address and selecting "Map Of" from the resulting menu, a Google map displaying the location immediately opens in your browser.</p></p>
<a href="/article/4915"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4915', 'show')">Palm Organizer for Macintosh: Details Emerge</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4915" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4915">After 3Com announced last month that it had purchased Claris Organizer from Apple to use as the basis of its upcoming Macintosh PalmPilot desktop software (see "Claris Organizer Reincarnated as Palm MacPac" in TidBITS-429), Mac users of Organizer and Palm devices have been wondering what the deal means for the future</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> | 01 Jun 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4892"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4892', 'show')">New Photoshop 5 Learns to Edit Type</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4892" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4892">New Photoshop 5 Learns to Edit Type -- It's taken several years, but finally Photoshop's Type tool behaves like... a Type tool! Photoshop 5, the new version of Adobe's undisputed leader among image-editing applications, began shipping last week with support for editable text; in previous versions, text entered in the Type dialog box was rasterized directly to pixels, which you then had to alter using Photoshop's image tools</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> | 18 May 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4893" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4893">CyberStudio 3 Goes Live -- As the Web design industry evolves, companies offering Web page creation tools are discovering that designers want to build sites with WYSIWYG editors - and they also want to manipulate the resulting code by hand</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> | 18 May 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4894"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4894', 'show')">Apple Logo Losing Its Colors</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4894" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4894">Apple Logo Losing Its Colors -- Apple loyalists will no longer be able to claim they "bleed in six colors." According to Time, Apple is peeling away the six rainbow-colored bands from the Apple logo and replacing them with "white or another solid," such as blue for the iMac</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> | 18 May 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4896"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4896', 'show')">Crossed Chips and Cables</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4896" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4896">Crossed Chips and Cables -- In TidBITS-429, the excitement of new PowerBooks and a forthcoming PalmPilot MacPac caused Managing Editor Jeff Carlson's personal wires to suffer a temporary short</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> | 18 May 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4898"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4898', 'show')">Look Different: Excellence in Apple Design</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4898" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4898">If you've seen pictures of Apple's new iMac, you probably didn't start talking about its G3 processor or USB ports. No, conversations about the new consumer Mac sound more like: "It's an X-Wing pilot's helmet." "It's a half-melted blue gumdrop on its side." "A big lozenge?" "You know, a roundy-looking, marshmallowish, translucent glob for the rest of us."Although it's been only a short time since the iMac's introduction, the machine is already on people's minds - without the benefit of hands-on experience, application-specific benchmarks, or formal product reviews; the little computer isn't even shipping for another 90 days</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> | 18 May 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4874"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4874', 'show')">Claris Organizer Reincarnated as PalmPilot MacPac</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4874" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4874">Claris Organizer Reincarnated as PalmPilot MacPac -- 3Com's Palm Computing division has announced plans to base the next version of its Macintosh desktop software for the PalmPilot and Palm III handhelds on Claris Organizer, which 3Com purchased from Apple for an undisclosed sum</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> | 11 May 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4877"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4877', 'show')">Quicken Speeds Back to Mac</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4877" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4877">Quicken Speeds Back to Mac -- Less than three weeks after Intuit publicly discontinued further development of Quicken for the Macintosh (see "Financial Competition?" in TidBITS-427), Apple and Intuit have announced a recommitment to future versions of the financial-management 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> | 11 May 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4858"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4858', 'show')">A Big Minus for ZipPlus</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4858" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4858">A Big Minus for ZipPlus -- Iomega recently revised the compatibility guidelines for the ZipPlus drive, and these guidelines suggest that Iomega either dropped the ball when testing the drive or has a blatant disregard for reality</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> | 04 May 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4846" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4846">Dreamweaver 1.2 Update Available -- Macromedia's latest update to the $299 Dreamweaver, Web authoring software that supports modern features such as cascading style sheets and animated buttons, continues to tempt designers</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/4807"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4807', 'show')">GPSy 3.0 Maps New Features</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4807" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4807">GPSy 3.0 Maps New Features -- Directionally impaired Mac users will be relieved to learn of the release of GPSy 3.0, Karen Nakamura's software for working with data from Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/4800"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4800', 'show')">VST Bay Not Half-Baked</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4800" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4800">VST Technologies today announced a long-rumored PowerBook add-on, the VST Easy-Bake Expansion Bay Drive. The company expects to start shipping in early May, but notes that supplies will be initially "constrained."Officially designated as the EB-451 Easy-Bake Expansion Bay, the device fits existing PowerBook models 190, 5300, 3400, and G3</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 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4765" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4765">Apple Ships 300 MHz G3 Mac, Discontinues Most PowerBooks -- As mentioned in "Current Mac Hardware: Time to Buy?" in TidBITS-419, Apple has announced the first Power Macintosh powered by a 300 MHz PowerPC G3 processor</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 Mar 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4766"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4766', 'show')">Virtual PC 2.0 Gains Speed, Better Interoperability</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4766" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4766">Virtual PC 2.0 Gains Speed, Better Interoperability -- Connectix is shipping Virtual PC 2.0, a software-based Pentium emulator that enables users to run operating systems and applications based on the Intel architecture, including Windows, MS-DOS, and NeXTstep</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 Mar 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4759" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4759">3Com Announces Palm III -- Last week, 3Com announced plans to ship a new Pilot, the Palm III "connected organizer," in April. The $399 Palm III, an incremental update to the successful PalmPilot line of PDAs, will offer a more curved case design with an optional flip cover, 2 MB RAM, 2 MB flash RAM, Palm OS 3.0, and an infrared port</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 Mar 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4747"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4747', 'show')">Apple Data Detectors 1.0.2</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4747" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4747">Apple Data Detectors 1.0.2 -- With Mac OS 8's contextual menu technology and the combination of Apple Data Detectors and Internet Address Detectors (ADD/IAD), you can highlight a block of text in almost any application, then choose actions for any URLs, email addresses, newsgroup names, or other particular items the text contains</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 Mar 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4750"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4750', 'show')">Apple Drops Prices on Power Mac G3 Systems</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4750" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4750">Apple Drops Prices on Power Mac G3 Systems -- The Power Macintosh G3 desktop computers, described in "Three New Macs and a PowerBook" in TidBITS-404, have proven to be one of Apple's best-selling product lines; last week, Apple reduced their prices, which historically indicates that new, faster units will be introduced in the next several weeks</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 Mar 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4751"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4751', 'show')">VST Drives Zip Extension to 1.1</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4751" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4751">VST Drives Zip Extension to 1.1 -- VST Technologies made its Zip100 Driver version 1.1 available, which adds Mac OS 8.1 compatibility and fixes annoying performance delays for users of VST's internal PowerBook Zip drives</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 Mar 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4752"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4752', 'show')">New Look for DeBabelizer 3</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4752" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4752">New Look for DeBabelizer 3 -- If you think interfaces aren't important, consider Equilibrium's graphics utility DeBabelizer. Unquestionably one of the most powerful programs for opening, converting, and manipulating image files, older versions have been hampered by a confusing and intimidating user interface</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 Mar 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4754"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4754', 'show')">Current Mac Hardware: Time to Buy?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4754" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4754">With prices of full-featured Power Macintosh G3s dropping below $2,000 (see the MailBIT in this issue), people have been asking me whether it's time to buy a new Mac</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 Mar 1998</div></div>
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