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<h6>iMovie '09: Speed Clips up to 2,000%</h6>
<p><p>iMovie '09 brings back the capability to speed up or slow down clips, which went missing in iMovie '08. Select a clip and bring up the Clip Inspector by double-clicking the clip, clicking the Inspector button on the toolbar, or pressing the I key. Just as with its last appearance in iMovie HD 6, you can move a slider to make the video play back slower or faster (indicated by a turtle or hare icon).</p>
<p>You can also enter a value into the text field to the right of the slider, and this is where things get interesting. You're not limited to the tick mark values on the slider, so you can set the speed to be 118% of normal if you want. The field below that tells you the clip's changed duration.</p>
<p>But you can also exceed the boundaries of the speed slider. Enter any number between 5% and <strong>2000%</strong>, then click Done.</p></p>
<a href="/article/10743"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10743', 'show')">A Finder-Copying Bug in Snow Leopard</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10743" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10743">Certain files can't be copied from one computer to another via File Sharing in Snow Leopard. Details are given, so you can confirm the bug for yourself.</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/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 10 Nov 2009 | <a href="/article/10743#comments">19 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10679"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10679', 'show')">SheepShaver Brings Classic Mac OS to Snow Leopard</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10679" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10679">Can't relive the past? Why, of course you can! In Leopard, Apple killed off Classic; but with SheepShaver, you can bring it back to life and run a Classic Mac OS in emulation, even on an Intel machine, even under Snow Leopard.</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/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 23 Oct 2009 | <a href="/article/10679#comments">29 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10662" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10662">Matt Neuburg lets you watch over his shoulder as he uses LaunchBar all day, every day.</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/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 20 Oct 2009 | <a href="/article/10662#comments">16 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10643"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10643', 'show')">Tracking Down Snow Leopard's Apple Events Bug</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10643" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10643">You may think you don't care about Apple events, but they're everywhere, and on Snow Leopard they're ever so slightly broken, in a way that causes intermittent random-looking scripting failures. Here's how the bug was discovered, proved, and reported to Apple.</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/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 13 Oct 2009 | <a href="/article/10643#comments">20 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10537" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10537">In an undocumented and unannounced change, Snow Leopard has stifled an application's ability to mark a document as its own, thus hampering users and developers alike.</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/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 06 Sep 2009 | <a href="/article/10537#comments">89 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10539" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10539">Years ago, TidBITS published an article calling Input Managers "the work of the Devil." Now Apple has slammed the door on Input Managers: in Snow Leopard, 64-bit apps don't load them. Password manager 1Password was an Input Manager, yet the 1Password 3 beta works in 64-bit Safari. Read Kevin Ballard's blog post to learn about 1Password's new technique for hacking into Safari.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10517" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10517">In a one-hour MacVoices podcast interview, TidBITS contributing editor Matt Neuburg gives examples of why small interface tweaks and behind-the-scenes improvements give user good reason to upgrade to Snow Leopard.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10518" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10518">On the MacJury podcast for 01-Sep-09, two out of five "jurors" are TidBITS editors and Take Control authors - Joe Kissell and Matt Neuburg. Find out how everyone's Snow Leopard installation experience went. And hear a vociferous argument about whether or not Apple's Intel-only policy for Snow Leopard is fair to users.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/10504"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10504', 'show')">What's New in Snow Leopard</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10504" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10504">While working on the just-released "Take Control of Exploring & Customizing Snow Leopard," Matt Neuburg has had to live with Snow Leopard for some time now, and he's brimming with impressions of what's new, what's not, and what it all means.</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/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 27 Aug 2009 | <a href="/article/10504#comments">17 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10433"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10433', 'show')">Cause of Font Cache Bug Revealed?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10433" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10433">Ever see your browser suddenly displaying nonsense? That's the Mac OS X font cache corruption bug. Apparently, a major cause of the corruption has been found.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/10380"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10380', 'show')">Path Finder 5 Beats the Finder's Pants Off</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10380" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10380">The Mac OS X Finder is stupid, slow, and unhelpful. What can you do? You could pray for Snow Leopard and hope it brings some improvement. Or you can try Cocoatech's Path Finder 5 right now.</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/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 29 Jun 2009 | <a href="/article/10380#comments">7 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10307"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10307', 'show')">How to Reformat a New External Hard Disk</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10307" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10307">The printed instructions for how to reformat a new disk are usually wrong; here's the right way.</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/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 28 May 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10142"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10142', 'show')">Ten Surprising Uses of BBEdit</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10142" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10142">Recently Matt Neuburg has observed himself using the text editor BBEdit for a lot of things that don't have all that much to do with editing text. And the great news is that the freeware TextWrangler can do almost all of them too. Here's a quick report.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/10182"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10182', 'show')">Apple Releases General Support Update 2009-001</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10182" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10182">Apple has released the first general Mac OS X update of 2009, with regrettably terse release notes.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 01 Apr 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10185"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10185', 'show')">Space Meeting between Steve Jobs and Charles Simonyi?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10185" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10185">Alarming reports of two computer industry heads partaking in recent space expeditions have set the tech industry ablaze with speculations.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 01 Apr 2009</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10164" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10164">With version 4.4, the keyboard shortcut utility KeyCue now lists many global keyboard shortcuts.</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/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 24 Mar 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10123"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10123', 'show')">A Silly Saga: How I Downloaded an Audio Book from My Library</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10123" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10123">Thanks to a recently released application, OverDrive Media Console, I can now download MP3 audio books from my library. But who would want to? The selection is lousy and the procedure is inconvenient and silly. How silly is it? Read on...</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=2" class="category">Opinion</a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 05 Mar 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10101"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10101', 'show')">The Greatest Computer Keyboard of All Time?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10101" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10101">Through Unicomp, the legendary IBM Model M keyboard still lives - and it works fine with Mac OS X.</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/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 27 Feb 2009</div></div>
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