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<p><p>If you have multiple ChronoSync documents and need to run your syncs or backups manually, you may find it taxing to open each ChronoSync document and execute it manually. There are two easy methods to simplify managing multiple ChronoSync documents. </p>
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<a href="/article/659"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('659', 'show')">Apple Posts $708 Million Loss</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_659" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_659">Apple Posts $708 Million Loss -- As readers in the United States agonized over their tax forms last week, the folks at Apple found themselves staring at a $708 million quarterly loss, the second worst showing in Apple's history</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_667" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_667">Emailer 2.0 Available -- Last week, Claris released Emailer 2.0, sporting a revamped interface and a handful of new landmark features. The most important change is that Emailer now stores messages in database form (rather than as separate files) which greatly reduces disk space overhead in comparison to storing messages as individual files</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/692"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('692', 'show')">New from Cupertino</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_692" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_692">New from Cupertino -- Last week, Apple formally rolled out the powerful Newton MessagePad 2000 and the sleek Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh, while also announcing availability of OpenDoc 1.2</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> | 31 Mar 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_704" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_704">Quicker QuicKeys -- CE Software has (finally) released a PowerPC native version of QuicKeys, their powerful tool for assigning keyboard shortcuts and automating tasks (see TidBITS-347)</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> | 17 Mar 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_705" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_705">Fetch 3.0.3 -- Last week, we noted the release of Fetch 3.0.2, which added a Resume Download feature and enhanced Open Transport support. Shortly thereafter, Fetch 3.0.3 emerged, which fixes a View File bug that dropped the first character of the file being viewed</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> | 17 Mar 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_708" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_708">CFM-68K 4.0 -- Apple has released version 4.0 of the CFM-68K Runtime Enabler, which corrects "all known problems" with previous versions of the component (see TidBITS-356)</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> | 10 Mar 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_710" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_710">Fetch 3.0.2 Released -- As companies have begun to use the Internet to deliver software directly to users, file sizes seem to have grown exponentially</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> | 10 Mar 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_713" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_713">TidBITS Search Tool Shootout Reminder -- In TidBITS-368, we announced details of our contest to find the best Macintosh-based Web search tools to be used on the 11 MB of TidBITS back issues</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> | 10 Mar 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/718"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('718', 'show')">Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0a</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_718" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_718">Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0a -- Although I use a variety of browsers to view and test Web sites, I'm using Microsoft's Internet Explorer with increasing regularity</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> | 03 Mar 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/733"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('733', 'show')">Tied Down No More: The Ricochet Wireless Modem</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_733" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_733">I'm a big fan of "cafe computing." I don't mean going to a cybercafe, where the coffee-stained hardware is already there and waiting, or a trendy coffee mega-chain where an open laptop advertises pseudo-geek chic</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> | 17 Feb 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_735" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_735">Newton News -- In the wake of Apple's latest reorganization and cost-cutting measures, several news sources reported that Apple might ditch its Newton division</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> | 10 Feb 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/757"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('757', 'show')">Responses to a Macworld Newbie</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_757" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_757">Tuesday was a good email day. After running "Impressions of a Macworld Newbie" article in TidBITS-362 (my first TidBITS article), I received a steady stream of comments and words of welcome from readers around the world.In particular, several people commented on my advice that new attendees refrain from picking up every freebie in sight, and others reacted to my mention of Steve Jobs's "Reality Distortion Field."Suzanne Courteau writes:First, I left my press bag at my office</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> | 27 Jan 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_761" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_761">Apple Online Technical Support -- Apple recently revamped their online support Web pages, creating an electronic help system that doesn't require its own tech support</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> | 20 Jan 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/766"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('766', 'show')">Impressions of a Macworld Newbie</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_766" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_766">When I began working at my current office (an informal co-op of computer consultants and authors with a sign outside that reads "Galactic Headquarters"), I came from a desktop publishing job where I was both the "Macintosh guy" and the "PageMaker guy." I thought I knew a thing or two until I met these folks, who quite literally know nearly everything about PageMaker, QuarkXPress, Photoshop, FreeHand, and more - they can even write their own PostScript code if necessary</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> | 20 Jan 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/773"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('773', 'show')">Fourth Down, $100 Million To Go</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_773" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_773">Fourth Down, $100 Million To Go -- Following a surprise $25 million profit during its last fiscal quarter, Apple said it expects a loss of between $100 to $150 million for the first fiscal quarter ending 27-Dec-96</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> | 06 Jan 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/781"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('781', 'show')">Good News in the Face of Apple's "Death?"</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_781" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_781">Good News in the Face of Apple's "Death?" Reading this year's reports of Apple's imminent demise seems to have devolved from serious reporting to tabloid headlining ("Gil Amelio Taps Martians for System 8 Secrets!")</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 Dec 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1069" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1069">Jeff Carlson writes:In an effort to preserve its market share by prolonging the lives of its users, Netscape today released a Sleep plug-in for use in Netscape Navigator</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 1996</div></div>
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