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<a href="/article/4599"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4599', 'show')">Conflict Catcher Boosted to 4.1</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4599" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4599">Launching a preemptive strike against Mac OS 8.1 incompatibilities, Casady & Greene updated Conflict Catcher to version 4.1 last week. Previous versions of the powerful extension manager and troubleshooting utility will not work at all under Mac OS 8.1</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 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4597"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4597', 'show')">Apple Store Provides Feedback</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4597" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4597">In response to "Apple Store Reality Check" in TidBITS 410, Sean Carte writes, "In your article regarding the Apple Store, you don't mention its value as a source of information</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 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4598"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4598', 'show')">1998 Netter's Dinner at Macworld Expo</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4598" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4598">If you're interested in attending the 1998 Netter's Dinner at Macworld Expo, visit Jon Pugh's Netter's Dinner Web page for information and a link to the Kagi-based signup form ($16 per person) for the necessary pre-registration</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 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4588"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4588', 'show')">Robert Hess Memorial Party List Online</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4588" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4588">Ilene Hoffman has once again posted the Robert Hess Memorial Party List, a list of parties and other events at the upcoming Macworld Expo. Robert was a MacWEEK editor who produced the party list before every Macworld Expo; he passed away 12-Jan-96 from complications due to pneumonia</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> | 17 Dec 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4587"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4587', 'show')">Apple Store Contributing More Profit (Correction)</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4587" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4587">In "Apple Store Reality Check" in TidBITS 410, Adam made a mistake in calculating how much money the Apple Store would contribute to Apple's bottom line if you assumed that all of the Apple Store sales would otherwise have gone through the dealer channel</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> | 16 Dec 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4559" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4559"> Folklore tells the story of two groups of British and German soldiers during World War I that stopped fighting at Christmas to share a day of peace. Last week, the companies embroiled in the war for 56 Kbps modem standards stopped battling long enough to reach a tentative agreement on a 56K technology that will become the official standard</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 Dec 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4560"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4560', 'show')">Microsoft Temporarily Barred from Requiring IE</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4560" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4560">U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson has returned a preliminary injunction in the U.S. Justice Department case against Microsoft Corp. He said that Microsoft must temporarily cease requiring computer makers who license Windows 95 to also license and pre-install Internet Explorer</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 Dec 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4554" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4554">Mikael Hansen has released AutoShare 2.0, the latest version of his free mailing list manager and email auto-responder. Compatible with Eudora Internet Mail Server and Stalker Internet Mail Server, AutoShare is small, speedy, and fully scriptable</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> | 10 Dec 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4555"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4555', 'show')">COPSTalk 2.5 Connects Win95 and AppleShare IP</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4555" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4555">Apple's AppleShare IP 5 and ShareWay IP from Open Door Networks enable Mac users to access AppleShare volumes over the Internet. Until now, Windows 95 users couldn't access those AppleShare volumes over the Internet; with the release of the $159 COPSTalk 2.5 from COPS Inc., they can</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> | 10 Dec 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4556"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4556', 'show')">Frontier 5.0 Alphas for Mac and Windows</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4556" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4556">UserLand Software has released the first public alphas of Frontier 5.0 for the Mac and, for the first time ever, Windows. Frontier is a free integrated outlining tool / scripting language / object-oriented database that has gathered a loyal following on the Mac for its capability to tie applications together via powerful scripting</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> | 10 Dec 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4543" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4543">Apple has released an updated Ethernet driver (version 2.0.1) for its new Power Macintosh G3 systems (but, notably, not for the PowerBook G3). The update corrects possible data corruption problems with using built-in Ethernet on high-traffic networks, and allows desktop G3 systems to connect reliably to auto-sensing 10/100 MB Ethernet hubs</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 Dec 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4544"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4544', 'show')">Timbuktu Pro Upgraded to 4.0.2</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4544" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4544">Netopia, Inc., previously known as Farallon, has released version 4.0.2 of their remote control software Timbuktu Pro. New features include additional modem description files, some support for the Appearance Manager, and use of the underscore character in the TCP/IP tab</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 Dec 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4545"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4545', 'show')">Timbuktu Pro Holiday Discount</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4545" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4545">Netopia is offering a discount on Timbuktu Pro through 31-Dec-97 (North American customers only). A twin-pack of Timbuktu Pro 4.0 costs $99.95 and a single license costs $69.95 (subtract $10 for electronic download prices)</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 Dec 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4535"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4535', 'show')">Archive Old Emailer Messages</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4535" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4535">For many of us, email has become almost as necessary as air and water. And, like these natural elements, sometimes you need help storing all that you want to have available</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 Dec 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4536"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4536', 'show')">Microsoft Word 97-98 Converter</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4536" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4536">Microsoft Word users should note that Microsoft recently posted the final version of the Microsoft Word 97-98 converter. This version replaces the beta released earlier this year and makes it easier for Macintosh Word 5 and 6 users to share files with users of Word 97 and 98</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 Dec 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4520" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4520">Today, Apple released a much-awaited developer preview of QuickTime 3.0, also known as the QuickTime Media Layer. QuickTime is one of Apple's most successful technologies, and Apple hopes to extend its reach by making QuickTime 3.0 fully cross-platform</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 Dec 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4519" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4519">Script Software International this week announced the release of the multiple clipboard utility CopyPaste 4.0.2, a major upgrade from version 3.2.2, reviewed in CopyPaste: A Scoffer No More (TidBITS 364)</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> | 30 Nov 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4518" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4518">If you have a great idea for a t-shirt, check out MacTech Magazine's T-shirt contest. MacTech is looking for t-shirt concepts or designs that "embody the core of the Mac developer community - their humor, their goals - what they are about." MacTech will give away the t-shirt at the upcoming Macworld Expo in San Francisco; the winner will receive a five year MacTech subscription and the current MacTech CD-ROM, which contains the first 29 issues of develop in THINK Reference format</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> | 29 Nov 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4516"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4516', 'show')">Holiday Home Page Contest</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4516" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4516">If you have a home page and plan to decorate it for the upcoming holiday season (no matter what your religious or philosophical angle), consider entering your page in the "Homepage for the Holidays 1997 WebAwards" contest, hosted by the Silicon Valley chapters of the Association of Internet Professionals (AIP) and WebGrrls International</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> | 28 Nov 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4295" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4295">Yesterday, Rearden Technology released SiteCam 1.1, a free upgrade to owners of the $129 SiteCam 1.0. SiteCam, software that controls and automates setting up a Web camera (one that places images or video on a Web site), now has anti-hijacking features that prevent other sites from grabbing a SiteCam video stream and displaying it elsewhere (this problem is generic to Web camera 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> | 25 Nov 1997</div></div>
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