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<p><p>In Snow Leopard, you can now set an amount of time after your Mac goes to sleep or engages the screen saver before it requires a password to log back on. In Leopard, the option was simply to require the password or not. Choose among several increments, between 5 seconds and 4 hours, from System Preferences > Security.</p></p>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10010" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10010">Photographers had plenty of products to tempt their eyes and wallets at this year's Macworld Expo. Jeff Carlson looks at some items that made an impression.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=4" class="category">Media Creation</a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 19 Jan 2009</div></div>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 19 Jan 2009</div></div>
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<a href="/article/9984"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9984', 'show')">iMovie '09 Seems to Fix Everything from iMovie '08</a></h4>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=6" class="category">Tech News</a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 06 Jan 2009</div></div>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 05 Jan 2009</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9976" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9976">Going to Macworld Expo with your iPhone or iPod touch? Just in time for this week's show in San Francisco, IDG and Zami.com have released iMacworld, an app that provides a directory of exhibitors (including floor plans for the North and South Halls), products, and sessions. (Link goes directly to iTunes.)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9971" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9971">Subscribers to XM or SIRIUS radio services in the United States can now listen to their favorite stations on the Mac. The public preview release of Rogue Amoeba's Pulsar frees you from using dedicated hardware or listening via a Web browser.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<a href="/article/9966"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9966', 'show')">iPhone Remote Turns Apple TV into Music Source</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9966" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9966">When an unexpected error prevents streaming music to his AirPort Express, Jeff Carlson eschews hours of troubleshooting and throws his Apple TV into the breach.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=5" class="category">Networking</a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 26 Dec 2008</div></div>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9945" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9945">This week's discussions look at display problems with the new MacBook Air, safely deactivating fonts, keyboard backlight settings, why antivirus software is still not needed on the Mac, and limitations playing video from the MacBook.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9943" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9943">Frequent TidBITS contributor Derek K. Miller has been writing an engaging Camera Works series on his Penmachine blog that explains the important things to know about digital photography, such as crop factor on lenses built for digital cameras, how a rolling shutter works, and more.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9939" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9939">You'd think Apple's Address Book application would be the easy choice for making mailing labels, but after fighting the program's bugs and shortcomings, Jeff Carlson turns to BeLight Software's Labels & Addresses to get his holiday cards in the mail.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=3" class="category">Home Macs</a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 12 Dec 2008</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9928" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9928">Veteran Mac expert Rick LePage reviews the Epson Stylus Pro 3800 at his site Printerville. If you're a photographer who prints his or her own photos (rather than sending them to a print service), the 3800 is an impressive inkjet printer. Equally impressive these days is a site like Printerville that takes the time to thoroughly review these types of expensive niche products that professionals rely on to make their livings.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 08 Dec 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9903"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9903', 'show')">Apple Lists Top iTunes Downloads of 2008</a></h4>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 03 Dec 2008</div></div>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 01 Dec 2008</div></div>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9859" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9859">This week's TidBITS Talk discussions touch on a broad range of topics: the number of audio files the iTunes Store serves up, viewing PDFs on an iPhone or iPod touch, experiences with PGP, using an unlocked iPhone as a modem, converting AIFF files to MP3, and the differences between Safari and WebKit.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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