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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6967" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6967">These days, personal digital assistants (PDAs) do just about everything. Recent handhelds from Palm, Compaq, Sony, Handspring, and others can not only organize users' lives, but also take pictures, check and send email, surf the Web, show off color photo albums, play music, or serve as a cell phone</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 21 Oct 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6885"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6885', 'show')">Macworld Expo New York 2002 Superlatives</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6885" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6885">Although the number of exhibitors at Macworld Expo New York might have been lower than some previous years, there was still a lot to see, and a few products jumped out as being worthy of mention.EyeTV -- El Gato Software, the folks behind Roxio's Toast, had the hit of the show with their new EyeTV, a hardware and software combination that enables your Mac to act like digital video recorders TiVo and ReplayTV</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> and <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 29 Jul 2002</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6828" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6828">Apple last week introduced a new line of rack-mountable servers, due to ship in June 2002 and available for ordering now at the online Apple Store. The 1U (one rack unit in height) Xserve server offers single or dual 1 GHz PowerPC G4 processors, up to 2 GB of DDR SDRAM memory, up to 480 GB of storage in four hot-pluggable ATA/100 drives, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, three FireWire ports, two USB ports, and one DB-9 serial port</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 20 May 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6796"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6796', 'show')">Critical Microsoft Security Patches Released</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6796" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6796">Microsoft has released security patches to address two security vulnerabilities affecting Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, and Office applications for both the "Classic" Mac OS (Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9) and Mac OS X</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 22 Apr 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6777"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6777', 'show')">DVD Studio Pro 1.5 Supports Mac OS X</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6777" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6777">DVD Studio Pro 1.5 Supports Mac OS X -- Apple today announced the release of DVD Studio Pro 1.5, a new version of the company's professional DVD authoring tool that adds Mac OS X compatibility</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 08 Apr 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6762"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6762', 'show')">New Cinema Display, iPod, Bluetooth, and iMac Prices</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6762" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6762">Apple CEO Steve Jobs last week unveiled two new products in his keynote address at Macworld Expo in Tokyo. A new 23-inch Apple Cinema HD Display with 1920 x 1200 resolution joins the company's existing LCD flat-panel displays and will sell for $3,500 when it becomes available next month</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 25 Mar 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6668"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6668', 'show')">Virtual PC 5.0 Adds Features, Mac OS X Compatibility</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6668" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6668">Earlier this month, Connectix Corporation shipped the latest version of Virtual PC, their Pentium emulation software for running Windows (and other PC operating systems) on a Power Macintosh</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 17 Dec 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6650"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6650', 'show')">Virtual PC 5.0 Ships for Mac OS 9 & Mac OS X</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6650" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6650">Virtual PC 5.0 Ships for Mac OS 9 & Mac OS X -- Connectix Corporation last week shipped the latest version of Virtual PC, their Pentium emulation software for running Windows (and other PC operating systems) on a Macintosh</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 10 Dec 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6640"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6640', 'show')">Apple Ups the AirPort Ante</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6640" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6640">About two years after making wireless networking affordable for home and small business use, Apple has introduced new versions of its AirPort wireless base station, card, and software</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 19 Nov 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6504"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6504', 'show')">Mac OS 9.2 Slides Onto New Power Mac G4s</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6504" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6504">Mac OS 9.2 Slides Onto New Power Mac G4s -- With nary a mention in Steve Jobs's Macworld Expo keynote address, Apple last week began shipping computers with Mac OS 9.2 installed</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 30 Jul 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6486"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6486', 'show')">RTMac Does Video Editing Right</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6486" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6486">On the plane to California for the Macworld Expo in January 2001, I ended up sitting with a nice couple from Hollywood who were considering a new computer that would let them do casual video editing alongside the typical Internet and word processing tasks that their outdated Windows system was doing</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 09 Jul 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6456"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6456', 'show')">Mac.Simpsons Email Worm Targets Microsoft Software</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6456" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6456">Mac.Simpsons Email Worm Targets Microsoft Software -- Last week, reports surfaced of a new Mac OS worm that arrives by email and takes advantage of Microsoft email clients Outlook Express and Entourage to send itself to everyone in the infected user's address book</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 11 Jun 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6457"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6457', 'show')">Handspring Offers $100 Rebate For Old PDAs</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6457" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6457">Handspring Offers $100 Rebate For Old PDAs -- On 07-Jun-01, Palm OS-compatible handheld vendor Handspring announced a trade-up program that offers users a $100 rebate on the thin Visor Edge handheld in exchange for nearly any old PDA, whether or not it works</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 11 Jun 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6450"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6450', 'show')">Internet Explorer 5.1.1 and OmniWeb 4.0 Arrive</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6450" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6450">Internet Explorer 5.1.1 and OmniWeb 4.0 Arrive -- Apple has delivered an update to the Microsoft Internet Explorer Web browser provided with Mac OS X. Internet Explorer 5.1.1 is still officially a preview version and is currently available only through the Software Update control panel in System Preferences; you can't download it from the Microsoft or Apple Web sites</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 04 Jun 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6437"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6437', 'show')">The Flatter the Better</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6437" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6437">The Flatter the Better -- Everyone expects traditional cathode ray tube (CRT) monitors to go the way of the dinosaurs eventually, but that day may come sooner rather than later thanks to Apple's introduction of a 17-inch version of its stunning flat-panel Studio Display</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 21 May 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6414" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6414">Outpost.com Adjusts Shipping Policy Yet Again -- Less than a month after increasing its shipping charges a second time, Outpost.com has again adjusted its shipping rates to try to win back customers stung by the previous changes (see "I Saw Free Ships..." in TidBITS-567 and "Outpost.com's Shipping Charges Increase Again" in TidBITS-574)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 30 Apr 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6381" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6381">Outpost.com's Shipping Charges Increase Again -- Just six weeks after mail-order vendor Outpost.com replaced its policy of free overnight shipping for all orders with one that offered free overnight shipping for orders totalling over $100, the company has again changed its approach (see "I Saw Free Ships..." in TidBITS-567)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 02 Apr 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6344"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6344', 'show')">Trade in Your PowerBook 190 or 5300</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6344" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6344">Trade in Your PowerBook 190 or 5300 -- If you have a PowerBook 190 (the last 68040 model) or its PowerPC cousin, the PowerBook 5300, Apple has a little-publicized, limited-time offer to "upgrade" your laptop to a 400 MHz PowerBook G3 (FireWire) for just $1,600</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 12 Mar 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6318" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6318">New iMacs Highlight Macworld Expo Tokyo -- At his keynote address at the Macworld Expo in Tokyo, Steve Jobs continued Apple's move to CD-RW as the media device of choice in new Macs</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 26 Feb 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6274"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6274', 'show')">The Other Garage</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6274" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6274">The Other Garage -- Although the Macintosh industry reveres the Silicon Valley garage in which Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built the first Apple I computers, it was the other Palo Alto garage duo, William Hewlett and David Packard, who are credited with much of the modern computing revolution</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 22 Jan 2001</div></div>
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