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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5250" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5250">Bare Bones Software has released a BBEdit 5.0.2 update, free to registered owners of BBEdit 5.0 or 5.0.1. The 5.0.2 update rolls BBEdit's FTP client into the main application, includes a number of fixes to BBEdit and its HTML tools (you can see the complete list of changes), along with support for nestable include files and the capability to select multiple items in many of BBEdit's browser windows</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> | 26 Jan 1999</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5245" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5245">Optima System has released PageSpinner 2.1, the latest version of its shareware, text-oriented HTML authoring tool. Version 2.1 offers significant performance improvements and a revved-up text editor, along with support for HTML 4.0 and simultaneous multi-browser previews, backup commands, improved scriptability, and code-free assistance creating roll-over images and new windows via JavaScript</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 Jan 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5242"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5242', 'show')">Macworld Expo SF '99 Superlatives</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5242" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5242">Attending years' worth of Macworld Expos, we've learned the simple mantra repeated throughout the show: "What have you seen that's cool?" Here are some of the products, events, and oddities that deserve mention.Biggest Buzz Generator -- Connectix Virtual Game Station</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 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5239"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5239', 'show')">LetterRip Pro 3.0.4 Update</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5239" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5239">Fog City Software has released LetterRip Pro 3.0.4, an update to their Internet mailing list server. Version 3.0.4 corrects two minor issues that incorrectly wrapped long message headers and failed to encode dates in non-English MIME digests</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 Jan 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5238"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5238', 'show')">Apple Records $152 Million Profit</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5238" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5238">Apple announced a net profit of $152 million on $1.7 billion in revenue for its first fiscal quarter of 1999, marking Apple's fifth consecutive profitable quarter</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 Jan 1999</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5232" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5232">Adobe Systems, Inc. announced it has purchased GoLive Systems, Inc., makers of the well regarded GoLive CyberStudio Web authoring package, as well as the server-based GoLive Publishing System</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 Jan 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5231"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5231', 'show')">Jobs Introduces New iMacs and G3 Systems</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5231" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5231">In his keynote at Macworld Expo in San Francisco, Apple Interim CEO Steve Jobs introduced new Power Macintosh G3 computers (previously codenamed "Yosemite") aimed at business and high-end users, plus revved-up versions of the iMac in five new colors, all available immediately.The new Power Macintosh G3s are minitower systems dressed up in iMac-like blue and white cases with four built-in handles; while they retain a single ADB port, like the iMac they lack a floppy drive as well as SCSI and serial ports, instead sporting USB and new FireWire ports for connecting external devices like printers and digital cameras</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 Jan 1999</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5222" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5222">Bare Bones Software has released BBEdit 5.0.1, an update to the commercial version of their high-powered text editor. In addition to a handful of bug fixes to the recently released BBEdit 5.0 (see "HTML Enhancements Highlight BBEdit 5.0" in TidBITS 454), BBEdit 5.0.1's function scanner now supports JavaScript (whether embedded in an HTML document or in a standalone file), offers additional support for inserting include files and placeholder tags, improves image tag updating, and adds a selection of HTML-oriented scripting commands as well as a generous selection of tweaks and minor feature enhancements</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> | 23 Dec 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/5220"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5220', 'show')">PaperPort Update for Mac OS 8.5</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5220" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5220">Visioneer has released a 2.1 MB update to its PaperPort software to resolve crashing problems using PaperPort 5.0 or higher under Mac OS 8.5. Very little additional information is available in the update installer or from Visioneer's support pages, but Visioneer apparently recommends all users of PaperPort 5.0 or higher install this update.</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 Dec 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/5221"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5221', 'show')">Conflict Catcher 8.0.4 for Mac OS 8.5.1</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5221" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5221">Casady & Greene has released a free Conflict Catcher 8.0.4 update which adds support for performing a Clean-Install System Merge under Mac OS 8.5.1, includes Base and All extension sets for Mac OS 8.5.1 (which could be lost using previous versions of Conflict Catcher), and updates the reference library with additional file descriptions (including Sherlock plug-ins)</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 Dec 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/5219"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5219', 'show')">Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.5 To Ship at Macworld</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5219" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5219">At Macworld Expo in January, Microsoft will release Internet Explorer 4.5 for the Macintosh, a major upgrade to the company's Macintosh Web browser. Several features have stood out in our testing of pre-release versions, including AutoFill for automatically filling out basic contact information in Web forms, AutoComplete for completing text in forms, print preview, and the capability to shrink Web pages to fit when printing (it's ideal for printing out directions from a Web mapping service)</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 Dec 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/5211"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5211', 'show')">LetterRip Pro 3.0.3 Released</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5211" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5211">Fog City Software has released a free update to LetterRip Pro, their elegant mailing list server. Version 3.0.3 has better menu compatibility with Mac OS 8.5, is better able to recover corrupted files, and includes several minor changes to MIME and Content-Type headers</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 Dec 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/5212"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5212', 'show')">Thirteenth Annual Macworld SF Netters Dinner</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5212" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5212">Mark your calendars if you're going to the Macworld Expo in San Francisco next month. The tireless Jon Pugh is organizing the 13th Annual Netters Dinner in the traditional style, which means it will be held at the Hunan on Sansome and Broadway on Thursday, 07-Jan-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> | 15 Dec 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/5214"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5214', 'show')">Hardware Gift Ideas</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5214" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5214">A Bunch of Yo-Yos -- Gordon Meyer suggests the Yo-Yo call manager device from Big Island Communications. "The stylish device hooks to your telephone line and Macintosh to provide caller ID, speed dialing, contact management, and other phone-related 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> | 15 Dec 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/5215"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5215', 'show')">Software Gift Ideas</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5215" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5215">Your Roots are Showing -- Genealogy has taken hold of several of our relatives in the past year, and if anyone in your family might be interested, David Kanter's suggestion is ideal</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 Dec 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/5216"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5216', 'show')">Gaming Gift Ideas</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5216" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5216">Tomb Raider II -- Saint John says: "If I hadn't pre-ordered it six months in advance, I'd be ecstatic to see a copy of Aspyr Media's Tomb Raider II under my tree</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 Dec 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/5217"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5217', 'show')">Miscellaneous Gift Ideas</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5217" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5217">The Ultimate Rodent Gift -- We're going to have to try these 3M mousepads, since they continue to garner rave reviews every year. Dave Fitch was the first of many to suggest them this time around</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 Dec 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/5218"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5218', 'show')">Gifts for the Macintosh-minded</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5218" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5218">Despair to the World -- A few suggestions were interesting enough to include even though they weren't Macintosh-specific (think of them as appropriate for the sort of person who would use a Mac)</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 Dec 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/5204"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5204', 'show')">New Dreamweaver Adds Features and Templates</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5204" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5204">Macromedia is now shipping Dreamweaver 2.0, an update of its Web authoring package. The new version adds several features that Web designers will appreciate, such contextual menus for manipulating table and cell attributes, a graphical map for visual site management, support for XML (Extensible Markup Language), and an eyedropper tool that can select colors from anywhere on the desktop and then shift to the nearest Web-safe color</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 Dec 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/5205"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5205', 'show')">TidBITS on Vacation Until 1999</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5205" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5205">We're taking the final two weeks of the year off to spend with family and friends over the holiday season, so the next regular issue will be TidBITS 461 on 04-Jan-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> | 14 Dec 1998</div></div>
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