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<a href="/article/9158"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9158', 'show')">New iPods: The Worst Ever!</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9158" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9158">You may call me a Luddite, but I simply can't figure out how I'd use an iPod - no matter how cool it is - in my daily life. You have no idea how much this depresses my inner geek.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9160"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9160', 'show')">NBC Universal, the iTunes Store, and poor me</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9160" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9160">Now that the iTunes Store will no longer carry content from NBC Universal, Mac users have to jump through some pretty extreme hoops to (legally) watch Battlestar Galactica on their computers.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9115" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9115">Joe Kissell returns to the topic of Safe Sleep with a better script for managing it, corrections to his previous article, and reasons why you might still want to leave Safe Sleep enabled.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=2" class="category">Opinion</a> | by <a href="/author/Joe%20Kissell">Joe Kissell</a> | 20 Aug 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9099" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9099">VMware Fusion 1.0 is out of beta and now available in final form with both some unique features and a few remaining limitations.</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> | 06 Aug 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9090"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9090', 'show')">Stewing Over Safe Sleep</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9090" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9090">Does the Safe Sleep feature of modern Mac laptops protect you from data loss... or does it just cause unnecessary aggravation?</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9081" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9081">A recent thread on TidBITS Talk mentioned the wide array of hardware devices one can use with a Skype account, the fact that many of them have limited Mac compatibility, and the dearth of information available to help Mac users choose among them</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9085"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9085', 'show')">FileMaker Pro 9.0 Released</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9085" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9085">Filemaker Inc. has released FileMaker Pro 9.0, a major update to its line of database applications. Among numerous new features are a Quick Start screen, which gives less-experienced users an easy way to open or create databases; Conditional Formatting, which dynamically alters the formatting of fields based on user-defined rules; and the capability to connect to external SQL databases such as MySQL, Oracle SQL, and Microsoft SQL Server</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9069"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9069', 'show')">VMware Posts Fusion Release Candidate, Announces Final Pricing</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9069" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9069">VMware last week posted the first release candidate for Fusion, their software for running Windows on Intel-based Macs. This version includes improvements to Unity, a mode in which Windows applications can run side-by-side with Mac applications, rather than in a separate Windows window</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/9071"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9071', 'show')">Nisus Writer Pro Restores Classic Features</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9071" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9071">Nisus Software has released Nisus Writer Pro, a new word processor based on their earlier product, Nisus Writer Express (which remains available). Nisus Writer Pro adds numerous features that appeared in Nisus Writer Classic but hadn't yet been seen in a native Mac OS X version of the program</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9043" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9043">When I was writing "Take Control of Passwords in Mac OS X," I thought long and hard about what sorts of strategies I could recommend for creating strong yet memorable passwords</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=13" class="category">Safe Computing</a> | by <a href="/author/Joe%20Kissell">Joe Kissell</a> | 18 Jun 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9044" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9044">As I've been using, and recommending, Parallels Desktop more frequently as a way to run Windows on Intel-based Macs, the question of how to back up, move, delete, and otherwise manage Parallels virtual machines has come up regularly</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/Joe%20Kissell">Joe Kissell</a> | 18 Jun 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9045" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9045">Less than two weeks before the iPhone's much-anticipated release, Apple announced two noteworthy improvements to its previously published specifications</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> | 18 Jun 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9036"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9036', 'show')">A Trio of Windows-on-Mac Announcements</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9036" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9036">For almost a year, we've covered the ongoing rivalry between Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion, the two leading ways to run Windows on an Intel-based Mac without rebooting</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 Jun 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8967" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8967">For those interested in running Windows on an Intel-based Mac, this week brought two interesting announcements. First, in the ongoing battle of one-upmanship between Parallels and VMware, Parallels announced a new initiative to help developers package and distribute virtual appliances - prepackaged virtual machines containing a full operating system and applications, configured to perform specific tasks and ready to run without any setup</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/8968"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8968', 'show')">Two Online Backup Services Announce Public Betas</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8968" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8968">In "Online Backup Options Expand" (2007-04-09), I mentioned two potentially promising online backup services - Mozy and Bandwagon - that were not quite ready for prime time</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/8969"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8969', 'show')">Coda Plays Web Developers a New Tune</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8969" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8969">I spend a fair amount of time doing Web development, and although I have access to graphical tools such as Dreamweaver, I've long preferred to do all my coding by hand - yes, even for complex CSS layouts, tables, and forms; it's just the way I'm wired</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8923" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8923">A number of years ago, when the commercial Internet was still young and hard drive capacities were usually measured in megabytes rather than gigabytes or terabytes, I subscribed to an online backup service</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/8940"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8940', 'show')">Google Desktop Comes to the Mac</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8940" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8940">Google has released the first public beta version of Google Desktop for the Mac, an application that rapidly searches files on your computer, messages in your Gmail account, and Google's existing index of Web pages, all in a single interface</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/8943"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8943', 'show')">VMware Fusion Beta 3 Draws New Parallels</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8943" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8943">Last week VMware released Beta 3 of its Fusion virtualization software for running Windows on an Intel-based Mac. Among several new features are two that are obvious attempts to overcome advantages offered by competitor Parallels Desktop: support for booting from a copy of Windows installed under Boot Camp and an Easy Install option to automate the process of running the Windows installer</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/8932"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8932', 'show')">Apple Sends Vista to Boot Camp</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8932" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8932">Apple last week released Boot Camp 1.2 beta, the latest version of its software for enabling Intel-based Macs to boot into Microsoft Windows. This is likely to be the final update to Boot Camp before the release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, which according to Apple will include a release version of Boot Camp (though there's still much speculation about what form Boot Camp will take in Leopard)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
