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<h6>New Documents in Snow Leopard's TextEdit</h6>
<p><p>In the Snow Leopard version of TextEdit, you can now create a new document by Control-clicking TextEdit's Dock icon (when it's running), and choosing New Document from the pop-up menu. This isn't a major feature, of course, since you can also just press Command-N while in TextEdit, but consider Control-clicking other applications' Dock icons to see what functions they might make available.</p></p>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10308" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10308">Jeff Carlson adds almost 2 million pixels to his MacBook Pro's desktop by connecting a third display - via USB, using Village Tronic's ViBook. Although it has a few significant limitations, the ViBook can be a useful solution for spreading out with your information.</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> | 29 May 2009</div></div>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10302" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10302">What makes Apple a "genius" company: software, hardware, marketing? Jeff Carlson plays Pick Your Topic with Shawn King on Your Mac Life.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10299" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10299">Psystar, the company that has been selling Mac OS-based computers, has filed for bankruptcy protection, citing the economic climate and increased component costs. Apple's lawsuit over copyright against the resilient company is put on hold during the bankruptcy proceedings.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10288" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10288">The Palm Pre, potentially the only serious competitor to Apple's iPhone, will be available 06-Jun-09 for $299. (Palm and Sprint are advertising the price as "starting at $199," but that price includes a $100 mail-in rebate. Buyers must pay $299 to get the phone and sign up for a two-year service plan, which must include an unlimited data option.) Sprint is the exclusive carrier in the United States, the Pre's only market at launch. Will people line up for the Pre as they did for the iPhone? Coming two days before WWDC, all eyes will be on Palm and Apple.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<a href="/article/10283"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10283', 'show')">Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk for 18-May-09</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10283" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10283">This week's discussions touch on several topics: setting up a VPN for a small business, using multiple keychains in Mac OS X, rotating a display using Nvidia graphics processors, bringing Finder windows to the front when the Desktop is clicked, the accuracy of GPS, upgrading to the latest version of Leopard, and a crashing problem on older eMacs.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10282" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10282">"Think Different" isn't just a marketing term. Apple's success since Steve Jobs returned to the company (and when he first headed it before being ousted) is due to the fact that Apple doesn't play by other companies' rules, but instead makes up its own.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<a href="/article/10273"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10273', 'show')">Apple Unveils Mac OS X 10.5.7 and Safari Updates</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10273" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10273">Apple has released Mac OS X 10.5.7, a bug and security fix update that touches on several areas of Leopard and Leopard Server. Also posted were updates to Safari and Security Update 2009-02 for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and Tiger Server.</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> and <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 11 May 2009</div></div>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10274" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10274">In this week's TidBITS Talk discussions, readers continue to chat about using IMAP with Gmail and Apple Mail, note that iPhoto's Maximum export setting still significantly compresses images, and cover ways to clean a DVD drive for burning discs. Also, is using a GPS device (or other gadget) a crutch that's making us rely too much on technology?</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10255" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10255">This week's discussions are a nice mix of technical, social, and geographic topics. Readers have questions about permissions errors that keep cropping up, using the data features of iPhone and BlackBerry devices, a persistent Finder under Tiger, the feasibility of ReactOS, using Apple Mail with Gmail and IMAP, and removing old email addresses in Mail. On the social front, readers talk about TidBITS turning 19 and how technology has changed and the dangers of leaving GPS devices in cars as tempting targets for thieves. Lastly, a reader from Australia looks to take his iPhone out of the country, but isn't sure about what that means for data roaming costs and coverage.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10245" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10245">Many still cameras can shoot video, and video cameras capture stills, but until now there's always been a quality tradeoff. Esquire is touting its latest issue as the first major-market magazine to use a cover image captured by a video camera, the high end RedONE, which shoots at 4K resolution (roughly four times better than HD).</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10243" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10243">Should Snow Leopard be free when it ships? Will AT&T unlock an iPhone once a customer's original contract is up? These are just two of the issues explored in this week's TidBITS Talk discussions. Also covered are the Spotlight interface, opening documents created by Microsoft Word under Windows, scanning slides, troubleshooting MacBook Pro problems, and comparing the latest Twitter applications on the Mac.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10239" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10239">Apple passed its 1 billionth download from the App Store on 23-Apr-09, but it hadn't yet revealed who crossed the mark and won the company's prize. Well, now we know who to envy. Connor Mulcahey, age 13, of Weston, CT is now the happy owner of not only a downloaded app, but also a $10,000 iTunes gift card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule, and a MacBook Pro. Congratulations Connor!</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/10234"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10234', 'show')">Apple Posts $1.21 Billion Profit for Q2 2009</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10234" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10234">Apple reported its "best non-holiday quarter in history" for the second financial quarter of 2009, posting a $1.21 billion profit on revenue of $8.16 billion.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10221" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10221">This week's discussions revolve around setting up an FTP server, making a local backup of IMAP email, the security of Backblaze, the way iPhoto uses contact information for Faces, taking an iPhone from the United States to New Zealand, digitizing old analog audio tapes, replacing the old Pop Up Folders program, and solving a Mac OS 8.6 AppleScript problem.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10216" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10216">Newsweek reports that the United States Army has begun equipping soldiers with iPod touch devices for use in language and gesture translation, analysis of data from satellites and drones, and more.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10205" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10205">Are you looking to buy a new MacBook Pro, archive digital photos, or explore the changes in iPhoto '09? This week's discussions cover those topics, as well as Mac compatibility of Garmin devices, another surprising use of BBEdit, restoring the old .Mac slideshow feature manually, updating one's iTunes purchases to DRM-free versions, the loss of the .Mac HomePage Web application, and problems saving text attachments out of Apple Mail.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10190" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10190">This week's discussions veer from the practical to the farcical, as readers note the added support of Gopher in OmniWeb; the move to February 2010 for the next Macworld Conference and Expo; problems with MobileMe, Safari 4 beta, and Skype; Apple's reluctance to provide informative release notes; the pricing of apps in the App Store; and exporting HD video to the Apple TV. Also covered is making Time Machine backups over a network, the awesomeness of Unicomp keyboards, and Apple's latest missing system update.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->