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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 14 Jun 2004</div></div>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 14 Jun 2004</div></div>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 24 May 2004</div></div>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 15 Dec 2003</div></div>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 16 Jun 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7139"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7139', 'show')">Microsoft Word 5.1 for Mac OS X</a></h4>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 24 Feb 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/6839"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6839', 'show')">Examining Microsoft Office X Service Release 1</a></h4>
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<a href="/article/6770"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6770', 'show')">Microsoft AutoGadget Formats the Finder</a></h4>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 20 Nov 2000</div></div>
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<a href="/article/4803"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4803', 'show')">Daylight Savings Time and Macintosh Extended Format</a></h4>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4793" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4793">Robin Williams Writes Another One -- When Macintosh users hear about Robin Williams, chances are good that they think of the author, not the comedian. Over the years, Robin has written many successful books about the Macintosh and design</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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