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<h6>Beware Country-Specific iTunes Stores</h6>
<p><p>If you buy an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, and you happen to be a user of the iTunes Store in more than one country, take note which country's store you're viewing in iTunes when you plug in the device for the first time. This will be the country the device will register with, and you will be forever barred from purchasing or even updating free apps from anywhere else. The only way out is to delete everything on the device and do a full restore.</p></p>
<a href="/article/5617"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5617', 'show')">Now Menus Reincarnated as Action Menus</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5617" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5617">Power On Software has announced the release of its Action Menus extension, a new component of its Action Utilities control panel that provides functionality essentially equivalent to the defunct Now Menus (see "Living in the Now - Now Utilities 5.0, Newer and Better" in TidBITS 248 and "Now Utilities Turns 6-Point-Something" in TidBITS 345 for information about recent versions of Now Menus)</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> | 20 Oct 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5616"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5616', 'show')">Microsoft Outlook Express 5.0 Ships</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5616" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5616">Microsoft has released Outlook Express 5.0, a major upgrade to the company's free Internet email and Usenet news client. New features aimed at simplifying Outlook Express for novice users include an Account setup wizard, improved attachment handling, interface changes, address auto-complete, a Mailing List Manager, and a Junk Mail Filter</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 Oct 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5605"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5605', 'show')">SoundJam MP 1.1.1 Adds Mac OS 9 Support</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5605" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5605">Casady & Greene has released SoundJam MP 1.1.1, a free update to the company's all-in-one MP3 player and encoder (see "That MP3eaceful, Easy Feeling, Part 2" in TidBITS 501)</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 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5606"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5606', 'show')">Keyspan Offers Remote Control for Software</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5606" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5606">Keyspan is now shipping the Digital Media Remote, a small hardware transmitter/receiver combination that provides remote control capabilities for digital media player software, such as QuickTime Player, PowerPoint, MP3 players, CD players, and DVD players</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 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5607"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5607', 'show')">Apple Posts $111 Million Profit; Lowers G4 Speeds</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5607" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5607">Apple Computer has announced a net profit of $111 million on $1.34 billion in revenue for its fourth fiscal quarter, with earnings of $601 million on $6.1 billion in revenue for the entire 1999 fiscal year</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 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5604"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5604', 'show')">Action Files 1.5 Works with Navigation Services</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5604" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5604">Power On Software has released Action Files 1.5, a new update to its utility which enhances the functionality of Open and Save dialog boxes. (See "Get a Piece of the Action Files" in TidBITS 434 for a review of Action Files 1.0.) Version 1.5 integrates with Navigation Services (the enhanced file dialogs that Apple introduced with Mac OS 8.5), adds a selection of new features and performance enhancements, and is compatible with Apple's Mac OS 9</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 Oct 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5592"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5592', 'show')">Symantec Ships NAV 6.0 and NUM 5.0</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5592" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5592">Symantec is now shipping updates to its well-known anti-virus and software disk utilities, the $70 Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh 6.0 (which replaces the now-unsupported Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh) and the $100 Norton Utilities for Macintosh 5.0</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 Oct 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5593"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5593', 'show')">Mac OS 9 to Be Released 23-Oct-99</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5593" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5593">At its webcast event this week, Apple Computer announced that Mac OS 9 will be available in stores in the U.S. and Canada beginning 23-Oct-99 for an estimated retail price of $99; Apple has been accepting orders via the online Apple Store for some time</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 Oct 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5594"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5594', 'show')">Palm Desktop 2.5 Expands HotSync & USB Support</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5594" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5594">Although not officially announced, the latest version of Palm Computing's Palm Desktop for Macintosh is now available for download. (See "Palm Desktop Marks Return of Familiar Organizer" in TidBITS 469.) Version 2.5 adds greater control over switching between multiple users synchronizing their Palm organizers on the same Mac, and makes it easier to access the HotSync Manager settings</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 Oct 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5590"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5590', 'show')">Maxum Updates NetCloak, Rumpus, & PageSentry</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5590" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5590">Maxum Development has released updates to three of its Internet server tools, NetCloak, Rumpus, and PageSentry. NetCloak is the longest-standing tool for processing Web forms and creating dynamic functionality on Mac OS Web servers; version 3.0.2 improves NetCloak's processing of incoming mail and handling of international data</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 Oct 1999</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5591" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5591">In an invitation-only event in Cupertino, Apple Interim CEO Steve Jobs introduced two new iMac computers. The new low-end iMac will sport a 350 MHz G3 processor, 64 MB of RAM, a 100 MHz system bus, and optional Airport wireless networking capabilities - like those found in the Apple iBook - and will retail for $999, making it (just barely) Apple's first official foray into the sub-$1,000 computer market</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 Oct 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5582"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5582', 'show')">Cheaper Palm VII Debuts Nationwide</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5582" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5582">Palm Computing has announced the nationwide availability of the wireless Palm VII device in the United States. The Palm VII, which features built-in wireless Internet access, has been available in the New York City metropolitan area since 24-May-99</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 Oct 1999</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5580" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5580">Despite focusing most of their efforts on Netscape Communicator 5.0, Netscape Communications has released Netscape Communicator 4.7. Changes are generally minor, with one useful but undocumented new feature: if you Command-Option-click a link, Communicator uses Internet Config settings to send the link to the appropriate application (such as FTP links to Anarchie, or mailto links to Eudora)</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 Oct 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5581"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5581', 'show')">Free Update to Retrospect 4.2 Available</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5581" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5581">Days after releasing Retrospect for Windows, Dantz Development has released a free downloadable upgrade for the Macintosh version of Retrospect. Retrospect 4.2 changes the way Retrospect Client licenses work, shifting from individual client licenses to application-based licenses that should ease administration of numerous Retrospect Clients</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 Oct 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5579"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5579', 'show')">FileMaker Web Companion 5.0v2 Sponsored by the Letter T</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5579" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5579">FileMaker, Inc. has released an update to the FileMaker Pro 5 Web Companion, only two days after releasing the latest version of their flagship product (see "FileMaker Pro 5 Released to Controversy" in TidBITS 499)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/5577"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5577', 'show')">Mac Users Prompt Release of Retrospect for Windows</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5577" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5577">The folks at Dantz Development, makers of the best-selling backup programs for the Macintosh, Retrospect and Retrospect Express, have released their first full version of Retrospect for Windows (previously Retrospect Clients for Windows were available, so you could use a Mac to backup Windows machines)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/5569"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5569', 'show')">Faster Virtual PC 3.0 Shares Net Access</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5569" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5569">Connectix is now shipping Virtual PC 3.0, an upgrade to its program for running Windows or other PC operating systems by emulating a Pentium processor (see "Virtual PC 2.0: Not Just a Minor Upgrade" in TidBITS 433)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/5570"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5570', 'show')">MindVision Offers Expansion Option with MindExpander</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5570" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5570">Ten months after shipping a preview version of MindExpander, MindVision Software has released MindExpander 1.0, a free competitor to Aladdin Systems' ubiquitous StuffIt Expander</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/5567"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5567', 'show')">EarthLink and MindSpring Merge</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5567" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5567">EarthLink and MindSpring, two of the largest U.S. Internet service providers (ISPs), have agreed to merge, forming a new company to be called EarthLink and headed by a combination of the companies' management teams</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5568" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5568">Alessandro Levi Montalcini has released USB Overdrive 1.2, a free update to his universal USB mouse and joystick driver (see "Maximizing the Mouse" in TidBITS 483)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->