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<a href="/article/9472"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9472', 'show')">A Pair of Time Machine Articles</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9472" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9472"> I have a couple of new articles posted at Macworld.com about Time
Machine. Both have been generating lots of comments. If you're using
Time Machine, or thinking about it, check these out.
Is Time Machine all you need? looks at cases in which Time Machine
might be adequate as a sole backup mechanism and cases where you'll
want to supplement it with something else - or even skip it
<a href="/article/9468"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9468', 'show')">Using iChat Theater for Remote Presentations</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9468" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9468">Leopard's iChat Theater feature makes remote video presentations far easier and more flexible than before. But the experience doesn't always match up with the elegant effect of Apple's demos.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=5" class="category">Networking</a> | by <a href="/author/Joe%20Kissell">Joe Kissell</a> | 20 Feb 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9463"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9463', 'show')">Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/18-Feb-08</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9463" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9463">In this week's discussions, readers weigh in on the changes in Mac OS X 10.5.2, discuss AT&T's recent announcements about progress on their 3G network and their new relationship with Starbucks, try to solve the problem of a recurring beachball icon, and more.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | by <a href="/author/Joe%20Kissell">Joe Kissell</a> | 18 Feb 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9453"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9453', 'show')">Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/11-Feb-08</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9453" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9453">This week's discussions include questions about PC equivalents to iWeb and BBEdit, speculation on the causes of undersea network cable breakages, the reliability of Western Digital MyBook drives, and more.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | by <a href="/author/Joe%20Kissell">Joe Kissell</a> | 10 Feb 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9433"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9433', 'show')">Looking Video Chat Problems in the Eye</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9433" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9433">Using iChat or Skype for video chats or remote presentations can be awkward in that you can't look into the camera and see the person on the other end at the same time. Until Apple's patented solution to this problem materializes, you can get partway there with a simple gadget called See Eye 2 Eye.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=5" class="category">Networking</a> | by <a href="/author/Joe%20Kissell">Joe Kissell</a> | 31 Jan 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9426"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9426', 'show')">Microsoft Relaxes Licensing for Virtualized Vista </a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9426" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9426">Microsoft has changed its mind once again, and now permits Vista Home editions to be run as guest operating systems using virtualization software.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=6" class="category">Tech News</a> | by <a href="/author/Joe%20Kissell">Joe Kissell</a> | 28 Jan 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9408"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9408', 'show')">Word 2008 and the Paste Plain Text Dance</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9408" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9408">Pasting plain text in Word 2008 turned out to be weirdly complicated. I found one way of doing it, though, that doesn't rely on third-party utilities, and there may be others.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=12" class="category">Problem Solving</a> | by <a href="/author/Joe%20Kissell">Joe Kissell</a> | 19 Jan 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9392"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9392', 'show')">Parallels Server Brings Virtualization to Leopard Server</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9392" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9392">A new virtualization environment from Parallels allows Leopard Server to run as a guest operating system, among other interesting tricks.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=6" class="category">Tech News</a> | by <a href="/author/Joe%20Kissell">Joe Kissell</a> | 10 Jan 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9376"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9376', 'show')">Scanning My Way to a Paperless Office</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9376" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9376">A few months ago I wrote an article for Macworld titled The Real Paperless Office, and it received tons of positive feedback. Basically I explained how to scan documents in such a way that you end up with a PDF containing both a high-res image of the original and searchable text (PDF+text), meaning that in many cases you can ditch the original documents</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=18" class="category">Blog Post</a> | by <a href="/author/Joe%20Kissell">Joe Kissell</a> | 03 Jan 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9377"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9377', 'show')">More Ways to Pep Up a Slow Mac</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9377" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9377">Last week Macworld posted my article Fix Mac slowdowns, in which I take inspiration from Take Control of Troubleshooting Your Mac to discuss numerous potential ways to deal with a Mac that's become more sluggish over time</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=18" class="category">Blog Post</a> | by <a href="/author/Joe%20Kissell">Joe Kissell</a> | 03 Jan 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9350"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9350', 'show')">Boot Camp and Tiger: One Last Warning</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9350" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9350">If you're still using the beta version of Boot Camp under Tiger, you'd better upgrade to Leopard (or uninstall Windows) before the end of the year.</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/Joe%20Kissell">Joe Kissell</a> | 09 Dec 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9351"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9351', 'show')">NTFS Options for Mac Expand</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9351" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9351">A new tool called NTFS for Mac OS X enables you to read and write to NTFS volumes (such as a Boot Camp partition) seamlessly and with better performance than previously available options.</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/Joe%20Kissell">Joe Kissell</a> | 09 Dec 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9303" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9303">Fusion 1.1 is out of beta, with some moderately interesting features. Even more interesting is VMware Importer, which lets you move Parallels virtual machines easily into Fusion.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=6" class="category">Tech News</a> | by <a href="/author/Joe%20Kissell">Joe Kissell</a> | 11 Nov 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9270"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9270', 'show')">Time Machine: The Good, the Bad, and the Missing Features</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9270" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9270">Leopard's new backup feature finally brings easy backups to the masses. But is it really all that? And when is that backups book of Joe's going to be updated, anyway?</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/Joe%20Kissell">Joe Kissell</a> | 28 Oct 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9271"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9271', 'show')">Evaluating the Leopard Installation Process</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9271" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9271">The Leopard installer is even better than the Tiger installer was. That's good news, but some oddities and frustrations remain. Perhaps I can interest you in a little book I wrote on the subject.</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/Joe%20Kissell">Joe Kissell</a> | 28 Oct 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9246"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9246', 'show')">Apple Goes with Orange</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9246" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9246">Apple chooses Orange as the French carrier for the iPhone, but interesting questions remain.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Joe%20Kissell">Joe Kissell</a> | 17 Oct 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9243"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9243', 'show')">It's Official: Leopard Ships on October 26th, 2007</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9243" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9243">Our speculation was correct: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard will go on sale on Friday, October 26th, 2007. Read on to learn about the specific times, prices, system requirements, and a hint about a Take Control ebook that's coming very soon.</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/Joe%20Kissell">Joe Kissell</a> and <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 16 Oct 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9223"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9223', 'show')">Parallels and VMware Continue Rivalry; World Peace Remains Elusive</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9223" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9223">Recent updates to both Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion failed to excite me, but only because they've become so routine.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=6" class="category">Tech News</a> | by <a href="/author/Joe%20Kissell">Joe Kissell</a> | 07 Oct 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9206"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9206', 'show')">Apple Expo Paris 2007 Impressions</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9206" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9206">What happens when a veteran of umpteen Macworld Expos visits Apple Expo in Paris? Are Mac vendors more exciting in French?</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9194"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9194', 'show')">Take Control Updates A-Plenty</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9194" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9194">In case you were thinking I'm spending my days here in Paris doing nothing but drinking absinthe and eating baguettes, rest assured that I've also been working hard on a large number of Take Control projects.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->