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<a href="/article/8407"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8407', 'show')">Let Yojimbo Guard Your Information Castle</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8407" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8407">The latest entry in the ever-growing roster of information organizers comes from Bare Bones Software, maker of such programs as Mailsmith and BBEdit (and its freeware little brother, TextWrangler)</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> | 30 Jan 2006</div></div>
<a href="/article/8361"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8361', 'show')">Prograph Spelled Backwards Is Marten</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8361" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8361">Prograph is back! Perhaps you have to be some kind of weird programming nerd to think this is intriguing news, but personally I think anyone interested in programming, from a beginning learner to an old hand, should care</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> | 12 Dec 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8342"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8342', 'show')">Gentium Goes Open Source</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8342" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8342">Gentium Goes Open Source -- Gentium is a lovely and free Unicode font designed by Victor Gualtney (at the University of Reading, in England) and now distributed by SIL International, a far-seeing organization that has long played an important and generous role in linguistic computing and related causes</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 Dec 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8282"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8282', 'show')">PCalc Adds! (A New Version, That Is)</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8282" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8282">PCalc Adds! (A New Version, That Is) -- PCalc is a calculator utility by James Thomson (who also writes DragThing, my favorite launcher). Developing a calculator is something of a thankless task, because users feel that arithmetic is something computers should just know how to do, and because a free calculator utility is always included by default</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 Oct 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8263" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8263">What's the most important feature of Mac OS 7, 8, and 9 that was destroyed and never restored or replaced when Mac OS X came along? Okay, I'm sure you miss being able to collapse windows into their title bars, or to resize them without waiting for the computer to catch up</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8213" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8213">Apple Creates Rev-1 iMac G5 Repair Program -- Four months after my iMac G5 went "Up In Smoke" (see TidBITS-777), along with those of untold numbers of other users, Apple has finally admitted publicly that there's a problem, instituting an official repair program for revision-1 iMac G5s</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> | 22 Aug 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8214" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8214">DEVONthink is a snippet keeper, where a snippet can be anything from a few words of text to a Web page, a Word document, a PDF, or any of several other formats</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> | 22 Aug 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8151"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8151', 'show')">You Type, It Typinates</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8151" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8151">Ergonis software, whose PopChar and KeyCue utilities have been mentioned in TidBITS, now throws its hat into the typing assistant ring with Typinator. The idea is that you provide Typinator with a set of abbreviations and expansions; when you're working in any program, if you type an abbreviation, Typinator substitutes the corresponding expansion</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 Jun 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8095" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8095">DragThing Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary -- Hard on the heels of TidBITS's celebration of its 15-year anniversary comes the 10th anniversary of James Thomson's launcher DragThing</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 May 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8088" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8088">Think of Tiger's new Dashboard feature as a constantly running pseudo-application. It is constantly running in the sense that you cannot quit it; it is a pseudo-application in the sense that it isn't a distinct process (it's really an aspect of the Dock) and in the sense that (like the Dock) it behaves differently from any other application.Dashboard is always in one of two states</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> | 02 May 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8089" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8089">The history of the Mac is paved with Apple's attempts to enable ordinary users to tap the programmable power of their own computers. Apple events allowed applications to tell each other what to do</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> | 02 May 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8080"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8080', 'show')">iMac G5: Up In Smoke</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8080" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8080">This is the story of how my iMac G5 joined the legion of machines that recently have spontaneously failed, and how the problem was resolved.I purchased my 20-inch iMac G5 at the end of November, and was deliriously happy with it from the start</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/8054"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8054', 'show')">Scripting by the Bay, Redux</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8054" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8054">Scripting by the Bay, Redux -- For those who need to acquire or hone AppleScript skills, Shane Stanley and Ray Robertson will once again be leading their wonderfully intensive AppleScript Pro sessions, 02-May-05 through 06-May-05, in beautiful Monterey, California</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/8039"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8039', 'show')">Mac OS X 10.4 Easter Egg Found and Lost</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8039" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8039">This story comes from Littleton, MA, where TidBITS reader Nancy Kotary writes:"Recently the weather here turned very cold (again!), and right about the same time, I noticed my 15-inch PowerBook G4 was acting up</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 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8043"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8043', 'show')">Tiger Renamed; Ship Date Imminent</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8043" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8043">Following the quick coverage of the new iPod double-shuffle, Steve Jobs moved into current news, announcing that at long last the new version of its Mac OS X operating system is ready, and will be coming soon to a retail outlet near you</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 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8035"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8035', 'show')">Intaglio: May the Quartz Be with You</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8035" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8035">Remember the magical feeling you had when you first used a Macintosh, and played with those early bundled applications, MacPaint and MacDraw? The magic - though you may not have been conscious of this at the time - lay in the fact that these tiny applications were essentially just showcases for the Mac's underlying technology</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 Mar 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8022" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8022">Tinderbox Keeps Getting Smarter -- Eastgate Systems' Tinderbox has been upgraded to version 2.4. Tinderbox (see my review in TidBITS-651) is a superb way to create heavily hyperlinked text; text snippets are stored in a hierarchical structure and can be exported as Web pages</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> | 21 Mar 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8024"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8024', 'show')">PTHPasteboard Returns, Better Late than Never</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8024" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8024">PTHPasteboard Returns, Better Late than Never -- Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger could ship any time, so the reign of Panther is nearly over. But users of Paul Haddad's free PTHPasteboard will be glad to hear the news anyway: PTHPasteboard, a wonderful free utility that keeps track of things you copy in any application so that you can paste any recently copied item later on (and not just the most recently copied item), has at last been updated for Panther.When Haddad went to work for You Software, the terms of his employment dictated that he had to stop working on PTHPasteboard (because the code was to be rolled into You Control)</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> | 21 Mar 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8026"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8026', 'show')">What You Get Is What You CSS, With Style Master 4.0</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8026" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8026">Western Civilisation's flagship product, Style Master, is a CSS editor. You don't use it to create Web pages; you use it to create the look of Web pages - the font, size, color, and layout of the various elements that constitute your Web pages, as dictated though a CSS "style sheet." Style Master is my ideal of a program that knows a big complicated language so that you don't have to; you do see the actual CSS, but you can interact with it through pop-up menus and checkboxes that list the appropriate options and generate the correct syntax.<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.a</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> | 21 Mar 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/7993"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7993', 'show')">QuicKeys X3 at the Crossroads</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7993" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7993">CE Software, after some years of financial losses and questionable acquisitions, sold off its QuickMail product (to Outspring Inc.), and then went private in April 2004, under the name Startly Technologies, LLC</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> | 21 Feb 2005</div></div>
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