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<a href="/article/4886"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4886', 'show')">Internet Explorer 4.01: Faster, More Stable</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4886" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4886">Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 4.01, a must-have upgrade for Internet Explorer users. Although there's only a single new feature - support for Apple's ColorSync technology so specially created JPEG images are displayed exactly as their creators intended - Internet Explorer 4.01 incorporates numerous bug fixes and speed improvements</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 May 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4887" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4887">Mac Publishing today announced that as of the 24-Aug-98 issue, MacWEEK will change its name to e/media Weekly (or Emedia Weekly, or EMedia Weekly, depending on what source you read)</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 May 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4885"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4885', 'show')">New Photoshop 5 Learns to Edit Type</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4885" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4885">It's taken several years, but finally Photoshop's Type tool behaves like... a Type tool!, Photoshop 5, the new version of Adobe's undisputed leader among image-editing applications, began shipping this week with support for editable text</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 May 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4882"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4882', 'show')">Crossed Chips and Cables</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4882" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4882">In TidBITS 429, the excitement of new PowerBooks and a forthcoming PalmPilot MacPac caused Managing Editor Jeff Carlson's personal wires to suffer a temporary short</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 May 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4883"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4883', 'show')">Apple Logo Losing Its Colors</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4883" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4883">Apple loyalists will no longer be able to claim they "bleed in six colors." According to Time Magazine, Apple is peeling away the six rainbow-colored bands from the Apple logo and replacing them with "white or another solid," such as blue for the iMac</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 May 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4884" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4884">As the Web design industry evolves, companies offering Web page creation tools are discovering that designers want to build sites with WYSIWYG editors - and they also want to manipulate the resulting code by hand</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 May 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4873"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4873', 'show')">Claris Organizer Reincarnated as PalmPilot MacPac</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4873" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4873">3Com's Palm Computing division announced today that the upcoming version of its Macintosh desktop software for the PalmPilot and Palm III handhelds will be based on Claris Organizer, which 3Com has purchased from Apple for an undisclosed sum</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 May 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4880"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4880', 'show')">Apple Hardware Strategy: Alluring PowerBooks and iMac</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4880" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4880">Steve Jobs breathed fire into the Macintosh world last week by announcing new computers that have enthralled Mac users and press alike. The first announcement concerned the new PowerBooks G3 series (not to be confused with the short-lived PowerBook G3 that shared the 3400's frame), whose rumored features and form factor tantalized Mac aficionados for months</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 May 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4870" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4870">Mikael Hansen has released version 2.3 of AutoShare, his freeware mailing list manager and autoresponder. The main new feature is support for the "-on" and "-off" addresses that we helped popularize with the TidBITS list for easy subscribing and unsubscribing</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> | 08 May 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4871"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4871', 'show')">New Apple Storefronts Perform</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4871" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4871">Slightly lost within the announcements of the new PowerBook G3s and the iMac last week were the openings of the Apple Store for Education and the Apple Store UK, which is the first step in making the Apple Store available to users in Sweden, Holland, France, Germany, Australia, and Japan</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> | 08 May 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4872" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4872">In a move sure to be welcomed by developers and users, Apple has announced plans to revise QuickTime 3 licensing policies (see "Furor Over Developer Programs & QuickTime Licensing" in TidBITS 425)</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> | 08 May 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4868" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4868">John Norstad announced Wednesday that his free Disinfectant anti-virus utility has been retired. Norstad considered updating the utility to combat the recently discovered Autostart-9805 worm (see "Autostart Worm Breaks Malware Silence" in TidBITS-428) but decided to direct his software's loyal users to the various commercial utilities that are available, such as Dr</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 May 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4869"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4869', 'show')">Apple Releases Alluring New PowerBook G3s</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4869" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4869">Volkswagen is advertising its new Beetle as being reverse-engineered from UFOs, but it may have to give up that claim in the face of Apple's new PowerBook G3 line</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 May 1998</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4867" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4867">Steve Jobs today announced what is in many ways the first interesting new Macintosh in quite some time, the consumer- and Internet-oriented iMac. What's fascinating about the iMac is its combination of serious specs, low price, and a unique translucent industrial design</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 May 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4866"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4866', 'show')">Quicken Speeds Back to Mac</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4866" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4866">Less than three weeks after Intuit publicly discontinued further development of Quicken for the Macintosh (see "Financial Competition?" in TidBITS 427), Apple and Intuit have announced a recommitment to future versions of the popular financial-management software</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 May 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4856"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4856', 'show')">A Big Minus for ZipPlus</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4856" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4856">Owners of Iomega's ZipPlus drives run the risk of "compromising the integrity" of their data unless they follow Iomega's revised system compatibility guidelines</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 May 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4857"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4857', 'show')">Mailsmith Emerges from the Forge</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4857" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4857">A Bare Bones Software press release today announced the release of Mailsmith 1.0, the company's long-awaited email client program. Although the market for email programs would appear crowded, what with Emailer, Eudora, Netscape Communicator, Outlook Express, QuickMail Pro, and others, Mailsmith promises some unusual 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> | 04 May 1998</div></div>
<a href="/article/4855"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4855', 'show')">Baby, You Can Drive My Tape</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4855" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4855">Dantz Development has released the free Retrospect 4.0 Driver Update 1.4, which adds support to Retrospect for a number of new CD-R drives, tape drives, and autoloaders (devices that automatically swap among multiple tapes)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/4853"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4853', 'show')">Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.1 Released</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4853" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4853">Qualcomm has released a free updater that takes Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.0 or 2.0.1 to version 2.1. Important new features include IP multihoming support under Open Transport 1.3, remote viewing and manipulation of the outgoing message queue, import and export of users, and the capability to assign IP address restrictions on mail relaying</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/4854"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4854', 'show')">Add a VISE to Your Freeware or Shareware</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4854" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4854">MindVision Software has announced a free license that makes their Installer VISE installation software available for free to freeware and shareware developers</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
