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<h6>Better Text Formatting in iPhoto</h6>
<p><p>If you're creating a card or book in iPhoto, and you're not happy with the formatting options for the text (such as line spacing or justification), copy the text out to TextEdit, make the changes you want there, and paste it back into iPhoto, which will retain your changes.</p></p>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6167" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6167">Qualcomm has released Eudora 5.0.1, a minor upgrade to the company's widely used email program (see "Eudora 5.0 Reads Your Mind" in TidBITS 547 for a review of the new features)</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 Oct 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6168"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6168', 'show')">StuffIt Expander 6.0 Now Available</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6168" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6168">Aladdin Systems has released StuffIt Expander 6.0, the latest version of the company's near-ubiquitous freeware expansion utility. Changes include support for more file formats, including .rar files, and automatic notification of future updates</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 Oct 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6163"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6163', 'show')">Updates to Action Files 1.5.4 & Action Menus 1.0.2</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6163" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6163">Power On Software has released a pair of minor updates to Action Files and Action Menus, the company's $30 utilities for enhancing Open and Save dialog boxes and for creating custom menus and keyboard shortcuts</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 Oct 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6164"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6164', 'show')">Napster (Finally) Releases Mac Client</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6164" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6164">Napster, the controversial peer-to-peer music sharing service currently being sued by major recording industry players for promoting piracy, has released its first beta client software for the Macintosh</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 Oct 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6165" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6165">The folks at the SETI@home distributed computing project - which takes advantage of idle systems around the world to analyze radio telescope data for possible extraterrestrial signals - has released version 3.0 of the SETI@home client for Macintosh</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 Oct 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6162" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6162">Sources close to Quark, Inc. have confirmed that founder and chairman Tim Gill has left the company to pursue philanthropic efforts through his organization, the Gill Foundation</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 Oct 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6152"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6152', 'show')">icWord 1.1 Adds Older Word Formats</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6152" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6152">Panergy Ltd. has released icWord 1.1, an update to their $20 file viewer for Microsoft Word documents (see "icWord Reads and Prints Word Documents" in TidBITS 543)</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 Oct 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6153"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6153', 'show')">Apple Posts $170 Million Profit; Warns of Low Next Quarter</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6153" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6153">Apple Computer today announced a $170 million net profit for its fourth fiscal quarter of 2000. Apple's bottom line was significantly bolstered by continued sales of ARM Holdings plc., which contributed $62 million to the quarter's results</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 Oct 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6148"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6148', 'show')">Priceline.com Ceases Bidding on Groceries</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6148" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6148">In "Name That Price on Priceline.com!" in TidBITS 499, we wrote about a good experience (not since repeated) with purchasing airline tickets through Priceline.com's auction approach</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> | 17 Oct 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6149"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6149', 'show')">ListSTAR Moves from 4D to MCF Software</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6149" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6149">4D, Inc. has announced that MCF Software will be taking over sales and support for ListSTAR, the powerful and flexible mailing list server that 4D picked up in its March, 2000 acquisition of StarNine Technologies</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> | 17 Oct 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6150" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6150">After a long gestation period, the tiny Nisus Software has shipped Nisus Writer 6.0, the most notable update to the company's flagship word processor in several 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> | 17 Oct 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6151" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6151">Handspring today announced two new Palm-compatible models in its Visor handheld line. The $449 Visor Prism offers a 16-bit color (65,536 colors, compared to Palm's Palm IIIc, which has 8-bit color) display in a cobalt blue case, and the $299 Visor Platinum sports a new metallic silver case</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> | 17 Oct 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6141"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6141', 'show')">Apple Offers Rebates on PowerBooks and G4 Cubes</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6141" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6141">Less than two weeks after warning of lower-than-expected earnings for its fourth fiscal quarter and a dramatic downturn in its share price, Apple Computer has rolled out rebate programs for new PowerBooks and G4 Cubes purchased through dealers or the online ">Apple Store</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 Oct 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6140" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6140">Apple unveiled a public preview release of QuickTime 5 for the Mac OS at the QuickTime Live conference in Los Angeles - although the preview is usable only by folks who upgraded to QuickTime Pro</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> | 11 Oct 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6134"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6134', 'show')">Supreme Court Says No to Expedited Microsoft Appeal</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6134" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6134">The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an expedited appeal of the Microsoft antitrust case, leaving the matter instead to the U.S. Court of Appeals</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6126" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6126">Apple has released Macintosh Runtime for Java 2.2.3, the latest version of its Java virtual machine for the Mac OS. MRJ 2.2.3 includes a number of bug fixes and performance improvements, reduces memory usage for Java applications that run for long periods of time, and offers better support for applets with double-byte file names</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6125"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6125', 'show')">PageSpinner 3.0 Enhances HTML Editor</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6125" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6125">Optima System has released PageSpinner 3.0, beefing up the HTML editor with new features and better support for multiple markup languages. (See our review of PageSpinner 2.1 starting with "Spinning the Web, Part 1: Trade-offs and PageSpinner" in TidBITS 384.) The new version now recognizes HTML 4.0 and XHTML 1.0 tags, includes a built-in HTML checker, and improves support for Web pages created in graphical HTML editors</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6124"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6124', 'show')">Apple Licenses 1-Click from Amazon.com</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6124" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6124">Apple announced that it has licensed Amazon.com's controversial 1-Click ordering patent for use at the online Apple store to speed users' purchases. Apple is the first company that's not affiliated with Amazon.com to license the patent</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6115"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6115', 'show')">New iBooks Close the Power Gap</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6115" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6115">Apple today introduced new iBook models at the Apple Expo 2000 in Paris. The new entry-level iBook, available in Indigo (to match July's most popular iMac color) and a new Key Lime color for $1,500, offers a 366 MHz PowerPC G3 processor, 64 MB of RAM, and a 10 GB hard disk</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6116"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6116', 'show')">Mac OS X Public Beta Available</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6116" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6116">Apple Computer today announced its first-ever public beta of a version of the Mac OS, a $30 preview version of Mac OS X that's currently scheduled for a January 2001 release</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->