<div id="popup_box_thanks" style="display:none" onClick="close_popup_thanks('popup_box_thanks', 'ts')"><br>Thanks for submitting your tip! All submissions are moderated by an editor before appearing online. We've reset the form so you can enter another tip. Or you can close the tip submission box. <div class="x_close" id="thanks_upper_right"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onmousedown="close_popup_thanks('popup_box_thanks', 'ts'); return true;">Close</a></div></div>
<div class="tbf_row"><div class="tbf_wide_extra_top not_bold">Please submit only technical tips that will help other TidBITS readers better use their Macs, iPhones, and related software and hardware. All product announcements should be sent to <a href="mailto:releases@tidbits.com">releases@tidbits.com</a>.</div></div>
<div class="tbf_left">URL</div><div class="tbf_right"><input type="text" value="" name="tip_link_url" tabindex="3"><span class="tip_description"><br>Enter the URL to a Web page that supports your tip.</span></div>
</div>
<div class="spacer"></div>
<div class="tbf_row">
<div class="tbf_left">Linked text</div><div class="tbf_right"><input type="text" value="" name="tip_link_label" tabindex="4"><span class="tip_description"><br>Enter the name of the page linked above.</span></div>
<div class="tbf_wide"><input type="submit" value="Preview Your Tip" name="preview_tip" onClick="fill_preview('tipbits_enclosure_preview', 'ts', this.form); return false;" tabindex="7"> <input type="submit" value="Send Us Your Tip!" name="submit_this_tip" onClick="handle_tip_submission('ts', '', this.form, 'tip'); return false;" tabindex="8"></div>
</div>
<div class="spacer"></div>
<div class="tbf_row">
<div class="tbf_wide"><span class="fine_print">When you submit a tip, you give us permission to use it. Read <a href="javascript:void(0)" onClick="generic_show_hide('tip_terms')">our terms</a> for more details. All submissions are reviewed before publication.</span></div>
<div class="tbf_wide"><span class="fine_print">Our terms: By submitting a tip, you agree to assign TidBITS Publishing Inc., a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual license to reproduce, publish, and distribute your tip in connection with the TidBITS Web site and associated products in any media. You agree that you created the content you submitted, and that you have the right to assign us this license. You give us permission to use your name, but your email address won't be publicly displayed or shared. We review all submissions before publication, and reserve the right to select which submissions we feel are appropriate for our readers and to edit those we publish.</span></div>
<div id="comment_thanks" style="display:none" onClick="close_popup_thanks('comment_thanks', 'comm')"><br>Thanks for submitting a comment! Please check your email for a link that, when clicked, will verify that you're a real person and cause your comment to appear immediately. <div class="x_close" id="comment_upper_right"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onmousedown="close_popup_thanks('comment_thanks', 'comm'); return true;">Close</a></div></div>
<div class="tbf_wide"><span class="fine_print">Our terms: We reserve the right to edit or delete any comment, so please post thoughtfully. We use your email address <i>only</i> to send you a one-time verification message confirming that you posted this comment. We also store your address to allow you to verify using other Web browsers in the future. For more info, see our <a href="http://db.tidbits.com/privacy.html">privacy policy</a>.</span></div>
<li><a href="/feeds/tidbits.rss" title="Subscribe via RSS" class="gettb">RSS <img src="/images/feed-icon-12x12.gif" width="12" height="12" border="0" class="nav_img" alt="Subscribe via RSS"></a></li>
<li><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=276986548" title="Subscribe to the podcast" class="gettb">Podcast <img src="/images/feed-icon-12x12_podcast.gif" width="12" height="12" border="0" class="nav_img" alt="Subscribe to the postcast"></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.twitter.com/TidBITS" title="Get Article Updates via Twitter" class="gettb">Twitter <img src="/images/feed_icon_12x12_twitter.png" width="12" height="12" border="0" class="nav_img" alt="Get Article Updates via Twitter"></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/TidBITS/195314925519" title="Go to the TidBITS Page at Facebook" class="gettb">Facebook <img src="/images/feed_icon_12x12_facebook.gif" width="12" height="12" border="0" class="nav_img" alt="Go to the TidBITS Page at Facebook"></a></li>
<li><a href="javascript:void(0)" title="Sections" class="tabhead" onClick="return showhide('articleslist')">Sections <span id="articleslist_triangle"><img src="/images/nav_triangle_open.gif" width="9" height="9" border="0" class="navtriangle" id="articleslist_tri_image" alt="Click to show or hide the contents of this section."></span></a></li>
<li><a href="javascript:void(0)" onClick="return showhide('stafflist')" title="Staff" class="tabhead">Staff <span id="stafflist_triangle"><img src="/images/nav_triangle_closed.gif" width="9" height="9" border="0" class="navtriangle" id="stafflist_tri_image" alt="Click to show or hide the contents of this section."></span></a></li>
<li><a href="javascript:void(0)" title="Issues" class="tabhead" onClick="return showhide('issuelist')">Weekly Issues <span id="issuelist_triangle"><img src="/images/nav_triangle_closed.gif" width="9" height="9" border="0" class="navtriangle" id="issuelist_tri_image" alt="Click to show or hide the contents of this section."></span></a></li>
<li><a href="javascript:void(0)" onClick="return showhide('abouttidbits')" title="About TidBITS" class="tabhead">About TidBITS <span id="abouttidbits_triangle"><img src="/images/nav_triangle_closed.gif" width="9" height="9" border="0" class="navtriangle" id="abouttidbits_tri_image" alt="Click to show or hide the contents of this section."></span></a></li>
<div class="center_top">Thoughtful, detailed coverage of the Mac, iPhone, and iPad, plus the best-selling <a href="http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/?pt=TB-TAGLINE" style="color:yellow">Take Control</a> ebooks.</div>
<!-- begin centercolumn -->
<div id="centercolumn">
<!-- begin rightcolumn_container -->
<div id="rightcolumn_container">
<!-- begin rightcolumn -->
<!-- rightcolumn is embedded within centercolumn so featured text wraps around it -->
</div><!-- end tearoffbox_wide_container for watchlist items -->
<!-- begin tearoff box wide -->
<div class="tearoffbox_wide_container">
<div class="tearoffbox_wide_tips">
<div class="tip_display">
<div class="tips_sponsor_logo">
</div>
<h6>Single Time Machine Backups</h6>
<p><p>Tired of Time Machine running all the time? You can turn it off in the Time Machine preference pane, but still initiate a single backup by choosing Back Up Now from Time Machine's menu bar icon. Of course, your backup is much less likely to be up to date, but Time Machine won't be taking any resources while you're trying to work.</p></p>
</div>
<div class="tearoffbox_wide_bottom_tips">
<div style="padding-bottom:35px"><div class="tip_display" style="float:left"><p><br><a href="/tipbits/216">Link to this tip</a></p></div><div class="tip_display" style="float:right; width:150px">
<a href="/article/6578"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6578', 'show')">Apple Reschedules QuickTime Live 2001</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6578" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6578">In the wake of its cancellation of Apple Expo 2001 in Paris, Apple announced today that it is also postponing the QuickTime Live 2001 conference, originally scheduled for 08-Oct-01 through 11-Oct-01, until 10-Feb-02 through 14-Feb-02</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6579"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6579', 'show')">Microsoft Offers Word X Test Drive</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6579" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6579">For those with Mac OS X 10.1, Microsoft is offering a free Word X Test Drive to give people a look at what's coming in the final version of Office X for Macintosh, due in a few months</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6567" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6567">Showing no fear of the built-in Unix FTP server in Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server (at least the former of which is notable for failing to support MacBinary), Maxum Development has released Rumpus 2.0, a significant update to the company's high-performance Macintosh FTP server</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6568" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6568">Stairways Software has released Interarchy 5.0.1, fixing a number of bugs in the popular Internet file transfer and utility application but adding no new features (see "FTP Disk Feature Highlights Interarchy 5.0" in TidBITS 593)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6565" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6565">Aladdin Systems has shipped StuffIt Deluxe 6.5, the latest version of the company's venerable package of file compression, archiving, encoding, and manipulation utilities</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6566"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6566', 'show')">DriveSavers Donates Free Disk Recovery Services</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6566" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6566">Kudos to data recovery service DriveSavers, which is offering free data recovery services to individuals and businesses affected by last week's World Trade Center attack (see "DriveSavers to the Rescue" in TidBITS 495)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6558"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6558', 'show')">Apple Expo Paris 2001 Cancelled, Seybold Continues</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6558" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6558">In a brief announcement today, Apple cancelled Apple Expo 2001, scheduled for 26-Sep-01 through 30-Sep-01 in Paris, France. "We're canceling Apple Expo in the wake of last week's devastating and tragic events," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6549" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6549">For webmasters who write their own HTML, Western Civilisation has long been the source of the best instruction and information on the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) protocol, as well as the best utility for editing it, Style Master (see "Precision Web Pages with Style Master" in TidBITS 501)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6550"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6550', 'show')">Government Drops Microsoft Breakup Effort</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6550" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6550">The U.S. Justice Department has announced that it will not seek to break up Microsoft Corporation during the next phase of the long-running antitrust trial</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6548"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6548', 'show')">Retrospect 4.3 Adds Support for Apple CD-RW Drives</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6548" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6548">At long last, Apple and Dantz Development have released the necessary software for Dantz's Retrospect 4.3 (all versions, including Retrospect Express) to be able to back up to most of the CD-RW drives included in Apple's iMacs, iBooks, and Power Mac G4s back in January of 2001 (see "Retrospect and Retrospect Express 4.3 Released" in TidBITS 541)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6546" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6546">Mac OS X 10.1 should be arriving soon, and Macintosh developers are lining up with compatible revisions of their Mac OS X software. Here are a few of the ones that we found most interesting.OmniWeb 4.0.5 Adds Languages -- The Omni Group has released OmniWeb 4.0.5, fixing bugs and improving international support in the Mac OS X-native Web browser</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6531" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6531">Ecrix, makers of the VXA-1 tape drive, and Exabyte, makers of high-performance MammothTape drives used in large network backup situations, have announced plans to merge</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> | 24 Aug 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6530"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6530', 'show')">Mac OS 9.2.1 Released</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6530" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6530">Apple has released Mac OS 9.2.1, an update for "Mac OS X compatible" computers running Mac OS 9.1 or 9.2, which includes the Power Mac G4, Power Macintosh G3, PowerBook G4, PowerBook G3 (except the original PowerBook G3), iMac, and iBook lines</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> | 22 Aug 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6522" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6522">Netscape Communications has quietly released Netscape 6.1, the latest version of their integrated suite of Internet software that includes Web browsing, email, HTML editing, and instant messaging</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 Aug 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6515"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6515', 'show')">Microsoft Appeals Monopoly Ruling to Supreme Court</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6515" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6515">One month after an appeals court upheld that Microsoft Corporation is a monopoly and engaged in anti-competitive practices (see "Breaking Up is Hard to Do" in TidBITS 586), Microsoft has appealed the antitrust case to the U.S</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> | 07 Aug 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6509"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6509', 'show')">Conflict Catcher 8.0.9 Supports Mac OS 9.2 and Mac OS X</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6509" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6509">Casady & Greene has released Conflict Catcher 8.0.9, a minor release of their venerable extension manager. (See "Nice Catch, Conflict Catcher" in TidBITS-446 for a review of Conflict Catcher 8.) Like so many of the previous releases of Conflict Catcher, this one doesn't add any major features but updates the program's internal data to support Mac OS 9.2</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 Aug 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6503"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6503', 'show')">Mac OS 9.2 Slides Onto New Power Mac G4s</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6503" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6503">With nary a mention in Steve Jobs's Macworld Expo keynote address, Apple last week began shipping computers with Mac OS 9.2 installed. The new version of the operating system is reportedly a minor enough upgrade that it could have been called "9.1.1" if not for the likelihood it would prompt "911" (an emergency phone number in most of the U.S.) jokes</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6497"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6497', 'show')">Eudora Welty Dead at 92</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6497" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6497">Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty died today at age 92. Welty was a lifelong resident of Jackson, Mississippi, and an icon of American literature; among her best known works are the short story collection The Golden Apples and the novels Losing Battles and The Optimist's Daughter; two of her works (The Ponder Heart and The Robber Bridegroom) also became Broadway plays</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6496" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6496">At his Macworld Expo 2001 keynote in New York, Steve Jobs announced speed-bumped iMacs and Power Mac G4 machines, and highlighted features of the upcoming Mac OS X 10.1</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6495"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6495', 'show')">Apple Posts $61 Million Q3 Profit</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6495" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6495">Apple posted a $61 million profit during its third fiscal quarter of 2001, meeting analysts' expectations, although the company warned of the possibility the current economic slowdown could cause future revenue to fall short of forecasts</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->