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<h6>Wake On Demand in Snow Leopard</h6>
<p><p>Putting your Mac to sleep saves power, but it also disrupts using your Mac as a file server, among other purposes. Wake on Demand in Snow Leopard works in conjunction with an Apple base station to continue announcing Bonjour services that the sleeping computer offers.</p><p>While the requirements for this feature are complex, eligible users can toggle this feature in the Energy Saver preference pane. It's labeled Wake on Network Access for computers that can be roused either via Wi-Fi or Ethernet; Wake on Ethernet Network Access or Wake on AirPort Network Access for wired- or wireless-only machines, respectively. Uncheck the box to disable this feature.</p></p>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4755" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4755">Compilation CD-ROMs face a difficult dilemma: given that resources are available for free over the Internet, what benefits can a compilation of some of those resources offer that are of sufficient value to justify the price?There are, I think, four such benefits</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 09 Mar 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4586" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4586">Being hopelessly addicted to the use of powerful, interesting structures to store and manipulate text, I've had a gloomy time of it lately, watching support dwindle for some of my favorite applications</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 15 Dec 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4212" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4212">Sour Greps -- With reference to my Text Machine review in TidBITS-401, several readers asked why I thought "grep" didn't stand for "global regular expression parser"</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 27 Oct 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4213"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4213', 'show')">I Sought the Serif</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4213" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4213">I Sought the Serif -- In my Font Reserve review in TidBITS-400, I lamented its lack of a printing feature. A splendid shareware utility supplies it: even if your fonts aren't loaded into the system, Font Gander Pro can show you what they look like and can print a highly customizable "font book." The $20 shareware Font Gander Pro is available as a 386K download</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 27 Oct 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4198"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4198', 'show')">Win One For the Grepper: Text Machine</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4198" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4198">They walk among us - the greppers. One might be sitting next to you at this very moment. In fact, you might be one yourself. Yes, you! You may never have grepped before; you may not even know what grepping is; yet chances are good that within you too, inchoate and amorphous, has stirred a secret need to grep.Now that I have your attention, what on earth am I talking about? The fact that GREP originates as a Unix acronym for "global regular expression and print" need neither detain nor deter us</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 20 Oct 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4180"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4180', 'show')">The Final Font Frontier</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4180" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4180">The irony of fonts is this: they helped create the Macintosh revolution of 1984 and have been a pain in the ASCII ever since. Fonts lie at the heart of much of what we do on a Mac; yet, from the Font/DA Mover nightmare to System 7.1 and the Fonts folder, they have been persistently unmanageable.Fonts do need management</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 06 Oct 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/2180"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2180', 'show')">A Spreadsheet for the Millennium</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2180" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2180">At a time when Apple and the Macintosh seem to be whirling in fragments around my head, the release of Spreadsheet 2000 from Casady & Greene has given my spirits a much needed lift</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 26 May 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/695"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('695', 'show')">iWorld and Welcome to It</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_695" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_695">Myriad are the ways in which technological and economic experts propose to assist you with the Internet, as I discovered at the Spring Internet World convention held the week of 10-Mar-97 in Los Angeles</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 31 Mar 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/716"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('716', 'show')">Surprised by SuperCard</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_716" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_716">As a long-time user of Apple's HyperCard, I had never given SuperCard a glance. HyperCard, when it was free, had been my reason for first buying a Macintosh; with it, I've written language-lab courseware and distributed stacks on the net, and I still reach for it to contrive spontaneous solutions when information storage or task automation beckons</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 10 Mar 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/734"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('734', 'show')">The Microsoftization of Deneba: Canvas 5.0.1</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_734" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_734">Although I'm no artist, I do need to make diagrams and pictures occasionally, and the early surprise and pleasure of MacPaint and MacDraw helped define the Macintosh for me</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 17 Feb 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/751"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('751', 'show')">CopyPaste: A Scoffer No More</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_751" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_751">Today I found myself in one of those situations where I had to carry several separate pieces of information from one application to another. I was building (in Symantec Visual Page) a Web page composed of quotes extracted from Web pages (in Netscape Navigator)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 03 Feb 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/752"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('752', 'show')">Palimpsest 1.1 - Is There a Document in the House?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_752" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_752">Readers of TidBITS know of my unabashed obsession with the storage and retrieval of information, especially the free-form textual information an academic must track and manipulate in order to write lectures, books, and articles</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 03 Feb 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/755"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('755', 'show')">Not the Final Frontier</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_755" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_755">Not the Final Frontier -- Frontier, from UserLand Software, has been updated to version 4.2. A powerful, fast Mac scripting environment, Frontier 4.2 features significantly refined Web site management tools (including NewsPage for constantly-updating pages), improved macro processing, live HTML editing in Frontier's built-in outliner, support for making MCF site maps (see TidBITS-355), a useful suite of Finder scripts for webmasters and authors (delivered via Leonard Rosenthol's OSA Menu), and tight integration with WebSTAR 2.0</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 27 Jan 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/800"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('800', 'show')">Why I Still Live at the P.O. (or, Eudora Lives!)</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_800" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_800">Amid the frantic innovation, premature releases, and scrambling for profits spawned by today's Internet software market, it's remarkable that any software can be sufficiently solid, fundamental, and established to be a classic, let alone a necessity, and even more remarkable that it should be given away for free</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 09 Dec 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/801"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('801', 'show')">The User Over Your Shoulder - Of Macs and Macros</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_801" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_801">TidBITS not long ago discussed three macro programs: QuicKeys (beginning in TidBITS-347), OneClick (in TidBITS-350), and KeyQuencer (in TidBITS-351.) Consideration of these has led me to some reflections on the state of the Mac</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 09 Dec 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_838" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_838">Those wishing to automate their Macs without spending the money or yielding the RAM required to run one of the big commercial macro programs may wish to consider KeyQuencer</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 28 Oct 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/858"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('858', 'show')">Form, Function, and QuicKeys 3.5, Part 2</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_858" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_858">Last week in TidBITS-347, the first part of this article described CE Software's QuicKeys (QK) and mentioned a new feature of the recent 3.5 release: toolbar triggers</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 07 Oct 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/862"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('862', 'show')">Form, Function, and QuicKeys 3.5, Part 1</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_862" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_862">"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master - that's all." - Lewis CarrollPerfecting the relationship between form and function is no easy thing for a software developer</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_875" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_875">Certain components of Now Software's collection of utilities in Now Utilities are absolutely integral to my Mac experience. I am quite incapable of productive work without Super Boomerang, which compensates for the clumsiness of the Standard File dialog by causing it to come up at the most recently used item and by giving it menus that let you navigate to other recently used items</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/1149"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1149', 'show')">WebArranger Handles More than the Web</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1149" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1149">Recently, an amazing program I'd never heard of rescued me from a quicksand of information I couldn't store and retrieve effectively, and from a quagmire of outliners, databases, contact managers, and calendars that couldn't help me</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 05 Feb 1996</div></div>
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