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<h6>Option-Click in Scroll Bars for Jump Scrolling</h6>
<p><p>In Mac OS X in general, and thus in most native Mac OS X applications, hold down the Option key and click anywhere in a window's scroll bar to jump to that spot (rather than scrolling one screen). If you like this behavior, you can make it the default in the Appearance preference pane. For "Click in the scroll bar to:" select "Jump to here."</p></p>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7206" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7206">Five years after the founders of Palm, Inc. bolted from the company to form Handspring, Inc., Palm is pulling them back in. Palm announced today that it is acquiring Handspring in a stock swap deal</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 04 Jun 2003</div></div>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7202" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7202">Classical music for the digital lifestyle -- Annoyed at how the digital lifestyle seems to favor rock and pop over classical music? So are some TidBITS Talk readers, and Greg Sigman's manifesto may be the seed of a future article about the problem and how to fix it</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 02 Jun 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7194"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7194', 'show')">iTunes 4.0.1 Restricts Music Sharing</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7194" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7194">Only a few weeks after releasing iTunes 4 in conjunction with the iTunes Music Store, Apple has released iTunes 4.0.1, rolling in a few bug fixes and steamrolling Internet sharing of music by restricting sharing to a single subnet on a local network</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 29 May 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7193" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7193">Never let it be said we don't play well with the younger kids. Despite TidBITS being an official teenager now, Tonya and I had a great time at the Bare Bones 10th anniversary dinner on May 19th with Rich Siegel, Meredith Taitz, Patrick Woolsey, and the rest of the Bare Bones crew, along with a few other guests like Andy "America's 42nd most-beloved industry personality" Ihnatko and Steve "Mr</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 23 May 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7192"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7192', 'show')">Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/19-May-03</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7192" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7192">Challenge-Response Anti-Spam Systems -- Our policy about challenge-response anti-spam systems drew comments from all sides, people who like the concept (including the CEO of one of the main challenge-response services) and those who consider them a significant threat to the long-term utility of email once spammers start attacking them</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 19 May 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7186" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7186">Apple has released a new version of Safari 1.0b2 to improve how the beta Web browser validates the authenticity of Web sites that use SSL certificates</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 16 May 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7185" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7185">Interarchy.com has released Interarchy 6.2, its utility for transferring files and testing network connections. The new version features an interarchy command-line tool, more efficient SFTP mirroring, support for ELFP and SuperDOS FTP servers, and the capability to copy Rendezvous URLs from the Bookmarks window</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 14 May 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7184"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7184', 'show')">Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/12-May-03</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7184" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7184">Last week's poll asking how you like these brief lists of the main threads in TidBITS Talk garnered only about 220 votes, but it was enough to give us some direction on how to proceed</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 12 May 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7177" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7177">Apple Computer today announced the availability of new all-in-one eMac computers. Like their predecessors, the new eMacs sport a 17-inch CRT display (rather than the LCD flat panel displays used in other Macs) supporting resolutions up to 1280 by 960 pixels, but the eMac now offer 800 MHz and 1 GHz G4 processors, an ATI Radeon 7500 graphics processor, support for AirPort Extreme, and optional SuperDrives</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 06 May 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7178"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7178', 'show')">Mac OS X 10.2.6 Fixes USB-related Kernel Panics</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7178" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7178">As has been discussed in TidBITS Talk, Mac OS X 10.2.5 had some troubles with certain USB hubs, with kernel panics being increasingly common. Today may bring relief from those crashes for many with Apple releasing Mac OS X 10.2.6</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 06 May 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7176"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7176', 'show')">Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/05-May-03</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7176" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7176">Not surprisingly, TidBITS Talk exploded last week with discussion of Apple's new iTunes Music Store, iTunes 4, and the new iPods. The lack of support for Mac OS 9 users was a sore spot, as was the lack of international availability, given Apple's poor record with iPhoto books and prints</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 05 May 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7169" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7169">Palm has released Palm Desktop 4.1 for Macintosh. New in this version is a Send to Handheld application that enables you to add image or MP3 music files to a Palm OS device by dropping them onto the application's icon</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 01 May 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7168"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7168', 'show')">Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/28-Apr-03</a></h4>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7160" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7160">Palm, Inc. has added two new handhelds to its product lineup. The $500 Palm Tungsten C features integrated Wi-Fi (802.11b) wireless networking, a tiny keyboard, and a sharp color display, while the $300 Zire 71 promotes multimedia features such as a built-in camera, music and video playback, and a higher resolution color display than was available in past low-cost offerings.The Tungsten C joins the $400 Tungsten T, which lacks the keyboard and wireless feature (third-party wireless cards are expected for its Secure Digital slot later this year) but offers Bluetooth connectivity, and the Tungsten W, which can access the Internet via a GSM/GPRS cellular connection</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/7159"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7159', 'show')">Former Macworld Expo NY Renamed Again</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7159" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7159">The Conference Formerly Known as Macworld Expo, which IDG World Expo announced would be called Create, has endured another name change and now wishes to be known as "Macworld CreativePro Conference & Expo," although its friends will continue to call it "Nancy" (apologies to the Beatles)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7158" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7158">Apple's entry-level laptop family received a minor refreshing this week, picking up a speed bump and larger hard drives but not much else. The basic $1,000 12-inch iBook configuration now includes an 800 MHz PowerPC G3 processor (up from 700 MHz) and a 30 GB hard drive</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/7151"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7151', 'show')">Apple Posts $14 Million Q2 Profit</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7151" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7151">Apple Computer posted a small $14 million profit for its second fiscal quarter of the year on revenues of $1.474 billion for the quarter. Overall revenue was down 1 percent from the same time last year, but margins were up to 28.3 percent and international sales accounted for 47 percent of Apple's total sales volume</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/7121"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7121', 'show')">MacHack Stays Put in June</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7121" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7121">Despite Apple's recent move of the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) to June in San Francisco, a single day after the MacHack developers conference, the MacHack organizers have announced that MacHack will remain in its originally scheduled spot from 19-Jun-03 to 21-Jun-03 in Dearborn, MI</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 27 Mar 2003</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7117" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7117">Apple has released Security Update 2003-03-24 via Software Update and as a standalone 4.5 MB download. The update fixes a hole that could allow unauthorized remote access to the system via the open-source Samba code that underlies Mac OS X's built-in Windows File Sharing available from the Sharing preferences pane</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 26 Mar 2003</div></div>
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