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<p><p>In iChat under Snow Leopard, choosing View > Always Show Recipient Bar puts a buddy's status message and color at the top of any iChat window. It can also be used to select among multiple open iChat logins you have to send a message to that buddy, or to select among multiple accounts you have registered in Address Book for that buddy.</p></p>
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<a href="/article/6113"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6113', 'show')">WebSTAR Server Suite 4.3 Released</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6113" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6113">4D, Inc. has released WebSTAR Server Suite 4.3, the latest version of the company's powerful suite of Internet servers, including Web, FTP, and email, among others</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6114"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6114', 'show')">MindVision Updates to MindControl 1.1</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6114" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6114">MindVision Software has released MindControl 1.1, a more-polished version of their command-line launch utility for the Mac (see our write-up of it in "Macworld Expo SF 2000 Superlatives" in TidBITS 513)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6105" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6105">St. Clair Software has released Default Folder 3.0.7, an update to the company's shareware utility for improving file access through Open and Save dialog boxes</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6094"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6094', 'show')">VSE Releases Link Checker 3.0</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6094" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6094">VSE has released Link Checker 3.0, adding features that expand the number of Web URLs it can verify (see "Tools We Use: Link Checker 2.5" in TidBITS 537)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6095" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6095">According to McAfee Associates, a trojan horse has been discovered that affects users of Palm OS-based handheld devices, such as those from Palm, Handspring, IBM, TRG, and Sony</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6092"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6092', 'show')">SoundJam MP 2.5.1 Continues to Evolve</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6092" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6092">Casady & Greene has continued their history of significant feature updates to SoundJam MP Plus, the company's popular MP3 player and encoder. New in version 2.5.1 is support for broadcasting from your Mac to Internet rebroadcast services, a tuner for finding Internet music streams, support for both CPUs of the new dual-processor Power Mac G4s in encoding, conversion to WAV format, improved interface niceties when controlling portable MP3 players, support for the Nomad Jukebox, numerous enhancements to the playlist functionality, and a wide variety of other minor changes</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> | 31 Aug 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6093"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6093', 'show')">Mac OS X Public Beta Set for 13-Sep-00</a></h4>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 31 Aug 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6091"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6091', 'show')">Minor Tweaks in Eudora 4.3.3</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6091" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6091">Qualcomm has released Eudora 4.3.3, a minor update to its widely used email program. (TidBITS has written extensively about Eudora; see "InterviewBITS with Steve Dorner" in TidBITS 517 for some discussion of version 4.3, or our Eudora article series for tips, reviews, and more.) Version 4.3.3 fixes a crashing bug on fast Macintosh systems (the release notes aren't more specific), and improves password security for folks who don't have Eudora save their email account passwords for them</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<a href="/article/6079"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6079', 'show')">We'll Take the Fifth!</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6079" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6079">Congratulations to TidBITS publisher Adam Engst for his fifth place ranking in the MacDirectory "Most Influential Figure in the Mac Industry" poll of nearly 200 MacDirectory readers</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 Aug 2000</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6072" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6072">Adobe has begun shipping Adobe GoLive 5, its flagship Web design package. The new version adds a number of features that better reflect the way Web sites are now designed and deployed: the Design feature enables fast site diagramming and prototyping; Dynamic Link makes it easy to tie information stored in a database to Web pages; 360Code ensures that existing HTML isn't reformatted by GoLive; and the WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) implementation enables version control and asset management for design teams working on the same project</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 Aug 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6071"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6071', 'show')">icWord Reads and Prints Word Documents</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6071" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6071">Panergy Ltd. has released icWord, a utility for viewing and printing Microsoft Word documents. Targeted at people who need to access, but not edit, Word files, the $20 program is far cheaper than the $400 Word 98 or the $500 Office 98 (which contains Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)</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 Aug 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6065"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6065', 'show')">Colorful Handhelds Lead Palm's New Lineup</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6065" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6065">Palm, Inc. revitalized its line of handhelds by introducing three new models: the new consumer-aimed Palm m100, the updated wireless Palm VIIx, and two Limited Edition Palm Vx models with colorful metal casings</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 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/6062"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6062', 'show')">Macworld Expo 2000 NY Hardware Superlatives</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6062" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6062">Since Macworld Expo Boston 1992, we've shared our thoughts on the most notable and noteworthy products, companies, booths, events, or just about anything else, from nearly every Macworld Expo.Just as with last year's Macworld New York, Apple nearly stole the show with new hardware announcements during Steve Jobs's keynote address</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6063"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6063', 'show')">Macworld Expo 2000 NY Software Superlatives</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6063" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6063">Along with the numerous cool bits of hardware we saw at the show, plenty of software stood out as well.Excel-lent Recognition of Reality -- Everybody knows Microsoft Excel is a powerful spreadsheet tool with an unimaginable number of features that confound the numerically disinclined</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6064"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6064', 'show')">Macworld Expo 2000 NY Other Superlatives</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6064" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6064">In addition to notable hardware and software products, there were a number of superlatives that just don't fit into standard categories - interesting booths, Web resources seen at the show, noteworthy events, or inspired handouts.Best Font Resource -- Since almost everything I do is online, I enjoy the aesthetics of fonts more than I actually use them, but I'm still impressed with MyFonts.com, a Web site devoted to fonts that's clearly done by font aficionados</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6053"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6053', 'show')">Retrospect and Retrospect Express 4.3 Released</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6053" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6053">Dantz Development has released version 4.3 of both Retrospect and Retrospect Express, adding support for numerous USB and FireWire storage devices and erasing the 2 GB limit on file backup sets when used with Mac OS 9 or later on HFS Plus-formatted hard disks</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6054"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6054', 'show')">Now Up-to-Date & Contact 3.9.2 Now Available</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6054" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6054">Power On Software has released a free update to Now Up-to-Date & Contact 3.9.2. The update changes the behavior of how Now Up-to-Date & Contact synchronize with Palm OS handhelds, fixes some bugs related to synchronizing, and fixes other bugs in the QuickContact and QuickDay control panels that provide fast access to your contact list and calendar even if the main programs aren't running</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6055"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6055', 'show')">...Then Judges Press Napster's Play Button</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6055" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6055">Two judges in the Ninth Circuit Count of Appeals today issued a temporary stay that enables the online music swapping service Napster to keep operating</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6052" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6052">Late Wednesday, 26-Jul-00, Judge Marylin Hall Patel issued a preliminary injunction barring the popular and controversial online music service Napster from distributing copyrighted music</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/6051"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6051', 'show')">More Updates for Palm DRAM Problem</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6051" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6051">Palm, Inc. and Handspring, Inc. have released updates to the Palm OS which fix a problem caused by faulty DRAM chips in some Palm Vx, IIIc, IIIxe, and Handspring Visor Deluxe handhelds (see "Tests & Fixes for Defective Palm DRAM" in TidBITS 537)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->