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<p>Remember that you can replace Apple's default icons in the four persistent spots at the bottom of the screen with your four most-used apps!</p></p>
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<a href="/article/4842"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4842', 'show')">Eudora Pro 4.0.1 Updater Released</a></h4>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4838" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4838">For those distressed at Intuit's recent cessation of development on the Macintosh version of Quicken, we've turned up an alternative. The venerable MacMoney 4.02, available for $89.95 from the aptly named Survivor Software, continues to be enhanced and reportedly works fine under current versions of the Mac OS</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4839" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4839">CE Software has announced that the Iowa-based Prairie Group will take over development and sales of QuickConference IP, instant messaging software that evolved from CE's long-standing QuickMail email software</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/4840"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4840', 'show')">Sweet Dreams from Macromedia</a></h4>
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<a href="/article/4837"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4837', 'show')">Coping with Monitor Loss</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4837" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4837">A number of readers submitted additional of ways of recovering windows you can't reach after disconnecting a second monitor.If your Mac supports duplicate monitors (video mirroring), you may be able to recover your windows by dragging one onto the other in the Monitors & Sound control panel</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4829" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4829">Citing declining sales, Intuit has stopped development of Quicken for Macintosh, a long-popular personal finance package; details about the decision are posted on Intuit's Web site</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4826" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4826">April 16th, 1998 marks the eighth anniversary of TidBITS, continuing our streak as one of the longest running edited publications on the Internet. We started publishing in April of 1990 and have released a total of 425 weekly issues since then</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/4827"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4827', 'show')">Drop More Stuff with DropStuff 4.5</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4827" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4827">Aladdin Systems has released DropStuff with Expander Enhancer 4.5, the second half of Aladdin's dynamic duo of desktop compression and expansion utilities (the other half being the freeware StuffIt Expander 4.5)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4828" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4828">We're happy to announce a new resource for TidBITS readers - TidBITS Talk. The TidBITS Talk discussion list is devoted to TidBITS-related topics; our goal is to open a public channel of communication so TidBITS readers can more easily communicate with each other and with the TidBITS staff</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4824" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4824">Users of PageSpinner, a user-friendly HTML editor, should note Optima System's new Site Assistant 1.0, a PageSpinner extension that streamlines site-related operations</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/4825"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4825', 'show')">Apple Posts $55 Million Quarterly Profit</a></h4>
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<a href="/article/4823"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4823', 'show')">Resistance is Futile... You Will Be Assimilated</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4823" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4823">Stairways Software has released the shareware Assimilator 2.0, which helps manage groups of Macs in situations such as student labs, libraries, testing labs, and stores that rent Macs to the public</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/4818"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4818', 'show')">How Recent is Your Last Backup?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4818" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4818">Dantz Development has announced the release of a new backup program, the $49.95 Retrospect Express. Designed for individual users, Retrospect Express essentially replaces Dantz's DiskFit with a subset of the features available in the full version of Retrospect</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/4814"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4814', 'show')">Return Eudora Pro 4.0 to the Old Look</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4814" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4814">Marc Bizer (and others) wrote to address Matt Neuburg's complaint in "The Postman Rings Again" in TidBITS 424. As with almost everything else in the consummately flexible Eudora, you can revert to the old look that featured letters instead of icons in the status column of mailboxes</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/4812"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4812', 'show')">New Apple Programs Infuriate Developers</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4812" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4812">To the consternation of software developers, Apple has changed its developer programs to substantially increase pricing while immediately reducing benefits for small developers</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4813" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4813">On the heels of releasing QuickTime 3.0 (see the MailBIT "Apple Ships QuickTime 3.0" in TidBITS 422), Apple has without warning unveiled new licensing policies for shipping QuickTime with Macintosh or Windows 95/NT products</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4811" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4811">Mikael Hansen has released version 2.2 of AutoShare, his freeware mailing list manager and autoresponder. Version 2.2 adds compatibility with Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.1 (currently in beta testing), enhancements to the AppleScript dictionary, and process extenders</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/4802"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4802', 'show')">Daylight Savings Time and Macintosh Extended Format </a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4802" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4802">As portions of the United States sprung ahead to daylight savings time last Saturday, reports of problems on Macintosh Extended Format (HFS Plus) drives began to surface</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/4801"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4801', 'show')">Netscape Releases Mac Source Code</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4801" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4801">Netscape Communications has released the source code to the Macintosh version of the forthcoming Netscape Communicator 5.0. Obviously, the source code is of interest only to developers, but it's good to see Netscape following through on their promise to release the Communicator source code for free (though still governed by license agreements)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->