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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7961" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7961">Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack Pro is a great program, but it seems to me that the developer's own Web pages fail to explain exactly why. The conceptual difficulty is that Audio Hijack Pro occupies two niches at once - it does two quite different things</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> | 24 Jan 2005</div></div>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7954" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7954">In his Macworld Expo keynote address, Steve Jobs announced the long-rumored newest member of the iPod family: a flash memory-based version of the iPod called the iPod shuffle.Flash memory is analogous to RAM; the advantage is that there are no moving parts, unlike a regular iPod that contains a hard drive and is subject to skipping if shaken (and to expensive damage if dropped), making the regular iPod a poor candidate for jogging and other vigorous exercise</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 Jan 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/7948"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7948', 'show')">Tools We Use: Random Noises With SonicMood</a></h4>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 10 Jan 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/7910"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7910', 'show')">Panorama V for Victory</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7910" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7910">Throughout the nearly 20 years of its history, ProVUE's flagship database application, Panorama, has been ahead of its time; now the times have caught up, and Panorama has risen to the challenge</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 Dec 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7846" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7846">Webstractor 1.1 Fulfills Promise -- "First children," my father used to say, "are like first pancakes; you should throw them out and try again." Software, too, often needs a revision or two to achieve its proper form</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> | 11 Oct 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7847"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7847', 'show')">Bull Market for the TAO</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7847" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7847">After a long beta period (and a name change), TAO 1.0 has finally been released. In the immortal words of Calvin (from "Calvin and Hobbes"): "This is so exciting I have to go to the bathroom!"TAO is an outliner - a writing space for working with items of styled text arranged hierarchically</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> | 11 Oct 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7849"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7849', 'show')">Two New Take Control Ebooks Explain Microsoft Word 2004</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7849" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7849">Finally! The two latest volumes in the ever-growing library of Take Control electronic books are out. They are called "Take Control of What's New in Word 2004" and "Take Control of What's New in Word 2004: Advanced Editing & Formatting"</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> | 11 Oct 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7836"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7836', 'show')">Learn Some Serious AppleScript in Newport, RI</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7836" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7836">Learn Some Serious AppleScript in Newport, RI -- Having written a book about AppleScript (AppleScript: The Definitive Guide from O'Reilly), I like being asked to do cool AppleScript-related things; and having been a college professor for many years, there's nothing I enjoy so much as live teaching in front of a classroom</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> | 04 Oct 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7806"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7806', 'show')">Allume Carries the Graphics Torch</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7806" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7806">Allume Carries the Graphics Torch -- One of my favorite graphics suites, CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT (see "CorelDRAW 8: A Hedy Experience" in TidBITS-457), after years of undeservedly lukewarm public reception, and having been recently updated to version 11, finally had its Mac development cut off in January</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7812" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7812">For many years, as TidBITS readers know, I've been on a quest for interesting ways to store and arrange data on the Mac. This never-ending quest is plenty of fun, and I've learned a lot about many interesting programs</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/7798"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7798', 'show')">Let TypeIt4Me Type It For You</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7798" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7798">Let TypeIt4Me Type It For You -- There used to be a New York City subway ad that read, "If u c rd ths, u c gt a gd jb as a sec." The ad suggested that you were intelligent for realizing that this stood for, "If you can read this, you can get a good job as a secretary." This was supposed to make you want to attend the school that sponsored the ad, where presumably you'd learn a whole set of quick abbreviations for use in your secretarial note-taking</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/7761"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7761', 'show')">iData Pro, Go Cocoa</a></h4>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 09 Aug 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7753"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7753', 'show')">Managing Fonts with FontAgent Pro</a></h4>
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<a href="/article/7739"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7739', 'show')">The Simple Brilliance of Webstractor</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7739" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7739">Sometimes a new idea is so simple, you can't believe no one's thought of it before. Sometimes a simple idea is so ingenious, it feels magical. When an application embodies a new idea of that sort, you may not realize right away what it does: it lives just outside your accustomed paradigms, so at first you keep trying to see it as something it isn't, like a child stuffing a square peg in a round hole.Softchaos's Webstractor is like that</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/7717"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7717', 'show')">Strip My Work and Heat My Menus</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7717" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7717">Strip My Work and Heat My Menus -- Softchaos has released version 3.2 of WorkStrip, the Dock-like launcher prized for such features as multiple workspaces, document previews, and ingeniously arranged hierarchical menus that navigate folders and associate recently opened documents with their 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> | 28 Jun 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7719"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7719', 'show')">Peek-a-Boo, I See Your CPU</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7719" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7719">Peek-a-Boo, I See Your CPU -- Clarkwood Software's Peek-a-Boo, one of my favorite utilities under Mac OS 9 and before, has now been rewritten for 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/Matt%20Neuburg">Matt Neuburg</a> | 28 Jun 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7715"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7715', 'show')">Word Up! Word 2004, That Is</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7715" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7715">As you know, unless you've spent the last couple of years re-enacting Shackleton's third voyage to the Antarctic, Microsoft Word 2004 is now a reality</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 Jun 2004</div></div>
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