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<h6>Disabling Dock Space-Making Feature</h6>
<p><p>Having a hard time dragging a file into a folder in the Dock without the Dock trying to make room for it? Holding down Command while dragging the item temporarily disables this Dock feature.</p></p>
<a href="/article/6324"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6324', 'show')">MacWEEK To Roll Into MacCentral</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6324" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6324">After 11 years in print and 3 more years online after the print transformation into eMediaweekly (which itself lasted only five months), MacWEEK is finally no more</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 Mar 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6316"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6316', 'show')">iTunes 1.1 Adds Support for Third-Party CD-RW Drives</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6316" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6316">Living up to its promise at last month's Macworld Expo in San Francisco, Apple has rolled out iTunes 1.1, improving stability, adding keyboard controls, and providing support for burning audio CDs using more than two dozen third-party CD-RW drives</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 Feb 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6317" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6317">At the keynote address at the Macworld Expo in Tokyo this week, Steve Jobs continued Apple's move to CD-RW (recordable CD drives) as the media device of choice in new Macintosh computers</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 Feb 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6303"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6303', 'show')">Eastgate Systems Releases Storyspace 2</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6303" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6303">Eastgate Systems, long-time publishers of hypertext tools and hypertext writings, has released Storyspace 2, a total rewrite of the company's innovative hypertext editor (see TidBITS 95, an entire issue devoted to the program)</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 Feb 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6302"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6302', 'show')">Conflict Catcher Updated to 8.0.8</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6302" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6302">Casady & Greene has released Conflict Catcher 8.0.8, adding support for Mac OS 9.1. Specifically, the new version adds Mac OS 9.1 All and Base sets, and updates the Clean Install System Merge for Mac OS 9.1</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> | 15 Feb 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6301" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6301">The popular Google search engine and Web catalog, currently our favorite search site, has acquired Deja.com's Usenet Discussion Service, the archive of every Usenet posting since 1995</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> | 13 Feb 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6295" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6295">A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today issued a 58-page opinion in which it held that the popular peer-to-peer song-swapping service Napster must stop enabling users to access copyrighted material served by Napster users</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 Feb 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6289"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6289', 'show')">PowerBook G4s Trickling to Customers</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6289" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6289">Apple has begun shipping PowerBook G4 Titanium machines to eager customers, though nailing down shipping dates has been difficult. Around 22-Jan-01 Apple was telling customers that PowerBooks would be shipped 45 days from the date of the order; previously, Apple had been quoting 21 or 30 days for shipment</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 Feb 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6288" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6288">Chuck Shotton, the man who created the first Web server for the Macintosh, is resurrecting that early program, MacHTTP, and is once again making it available to the Macintosh community</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> | 30 Jan 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6287"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6287', 'show')">Macworld Expo SF 2001 Superlatives</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6287" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6287">We couldn't conclude our Macworld coverage without our biannual collection of Macworld Expo superlatives, the products that caught our eyes this year in San Francisco</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 Jan 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6282"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6282', 'show')">Proxim Reunites Farallon and Netopia</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6282" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6282">The convoluted corporate history of what started out life as Farallon Communications continues to loop back on itself. In 1997, Farallon changed its name to Netopia and began to focus less on the Macintosh and more on the Internet</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> | 25 Jan 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6271"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6271', 'show')">Apple Announces Less of a Loss</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6271" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6271">Apple released its financial results covering the company's first fiscal quarter of 2001, posting a better-than-expected net loss of $195 million. This is Apple's first quarterly loss in three years</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> | 18 Jan 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6272"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6272', 'show')">Apple Posts $195 Million Q1 Loss</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6272" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6272">Apple released its financial results covering the company's first fiscal quarter of 2001, posting a better-than-expected net loss of $195 million. This is Apple's first quarterly loss in three years</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> | 18 Jan 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6264"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6264', 'show')">Mac OS 9.1 Available Online at Nearly 70 MB</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6264" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6264">Apple has released Mac OS 9.1, the latest version of it's shipping operating systems for Macintosh computers. Mac OS 9.1 improves support for Multiple Users and iTools, but also offers a number of under the hood enhancements including AppleScript 1.5.5, AppleShare Client 3.8.8, OpenGL 1.2, revised FireWire software, a new process manager (enabling faster task switching and better performance of some background applications), and a substantially revised nanokernel</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> | 10 Jan 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6262"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6262', 'show')">iDVD, iTunes Expand Apple's Media Software</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6262" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6262">At his keynote at this week's Macworld Expo in San Francisco, Steve Jobs took the wraps off iTunes (a free MP3 encoder, player, and CD-R mastering package) and iDVD, a new easy-to-use DVD authoring application for everyday digital video users</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> | 09 Jan 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6263" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6263">At his keynote at this week's Macworld Expo in San Francisco, Steve Jobs rolled out faster, single-processor desktop Power Macintosh G4 units, plus a brand new, svelte G4 PowerBook with a titanium casing.Apple's new Power Macintosh G4s feature processor speeds of 466, 533, 667, and 733 MHz</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> | 09 Jan 2001</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6247" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6247">Macintosh enhancement pioneer Newer Technology has announced it is ceasing operations; today was the last day of work for the bulk of Newer's employees, and a shareholder meeting 08-Jan-01 will determine whether the company will file for bankruptcy protection</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 Dec 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6246" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6246">St. Clair Software has released Default Folder 3.0.9, fixing bugs and improving compatibility in the utility for enhancing Open and Save dialog boxes (see "Tools We Use: Default Folder" in TidBITS 475)</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> | 28 Dec 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6243"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6243', 'show')">Symantec Releases Two Norton Bundles</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6243" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6243">You may have thought Norton Utilities was a bundle of utility programs, but with Norton SystemWorks and Norton Internet Security, Symantec has gone one more step in bundling.Norton SystemWorks 1.0 puts the emphasis on hard disks with Norton Utilities 6.0, Norton AntiVirus 7.0, Dantz Development's Retrospect Express 4.0.3 backup utility, and Aladdin Systems' Spring Cleaning 3.5 uninstaller</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 Dec 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6244" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6244">Less than two months after the company's acquisition of the ListSTAR mailing list server from 4D, MCF Software has released ListSTAR 2.1, which marks the return (and updating) of ListSTAR/POP</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 Dec 2000</div></div>
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