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<p class="tearoffbox_text">Tonya Engst co-founded TidBITS with Adam Engst back in 1990 when publishing on the Internet was either strange or revolutionary, depending on your viewpoint.
Since then, along with performing nearly every imaginable role involved in running TidBITS, she has worked at Cornell University's academic computer store (selling Macs, PCs, and NeXTs), worked at Microsoft as a technical support person, written and co-written several books, written oodles of articles for the likes of MacWEEK and Macworld, become a parent, edited various books, and found her dream job as editor-in-chief for the Take Control series of electronic books.</p><p class="tearoffbox_text_email"><span class="shift_down"><img src="/images/gettb_button_email.gif" height="12" width="12" border="0" alt="Send Email to Author"></span> <a href="javascript:void(0)" onClick="document.check_human_10.submit_type.value='email'; document.check_human_10.author_id.value='10'; ShowTipBox('hc_10', 'hc_recaptcha_10', 'cb_item_add')">Email the author</a></p>
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<h6>iMovie '09: Speed Clips up to 2,000%</h6>
<p><p>iMovie '09 brings back the capability to speed up or slow down clips, which went missing in iMovie '08. Select a clip and bring up the Clip Inspector by double-clicking the clip, clicking the Inspector button on the toolbar, or pressing the I key. Just as with its last appearance in iMovie HD 6, you can move a slider to make the video play back slower or faster (indicated by a turtle or hare icon).</p>
<p>You can also enter a value into the text field to the right of the slider, and this is where things get interesting. You're not limited to the tick mark values on the slider, so you can set the speed to be 118% of normal if you want. The field below that tells you the clip's changed duration.</p>
<p>But you can also exceed the boundaries of the speed slider. Enter any number between 5% and <strong>2000%</strong>, then click Done.</p></p>
<a href="/article/4089"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4089', 'show')">Apple Dishes Up New Hardware</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4089" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4089">Macworld Expo last week was seasoned by a liberal helping of new product announcements from Apple Computer. A trio of new Power Macs - the 8600/300, 9600/300, and 9600/350 - head the list and should be available in late August for $3,600, $4,500, and $5,300 respectively</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 11 Aug 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4084" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4084">Hitachi joins TidBITS this week as a sponsor to publicize the release of the MPEG Cam, a new camera for Macintosh users, which debuts at Macworld Expo (Booth 1530)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 04 Aug 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4085"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4085', 'show')">Macworld Expo: Planning for a Shopping Frenzy</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4085" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4085">This week's Boston Macworld Expo has many purposes, but an important one is the opportunity to buy geek goodies.Adam and I have purchased our share of winners and losers over the years, and - in the interest of helping attendees avoid costly mistakes - I thought I'd share our experiences</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 04 Aug 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4086"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4086', 'show')">Spinning the Web Part 7: FrontPage, Fusion, and Final Thoughts</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4086" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4086">Have you ever encountered a Sesame Street book about Grover? The story concerns Grover (a blue-furred monster) who doesn't want you to turn the page, because there is a "monster at the end of the book." Well, we've almost reached the end of this series, and though there's no monster, there are two programs remaining - including one of woolly mammoth proportions.First, a correction</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 04 Aug 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4078"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4078', 'show')">Claris Works on Kids' Software</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4078" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4078">Claris Works on Kids' Software -- Claris is shipping ClarisWorks for Kids 1.0, a special version of ClarisWorks aimed at children ages five through eleven and perhaps the first Claris software to ship with a soundtrack</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/4080"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4080', 'show')">Spinning the Web Part 6: Linking up with Site Managers</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4080" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4080">This ever-lengthening article series should be giving you a broad view of what's available for Web publishing tasks. In previous issues, I toured the world of Web publishing from a page-centric view</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/2697"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2697', 'show')">Apple Powers Up the PowerBook 1400</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2697" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2697">Last week, Apple announced imminent updates to the PowerBook 1400 series, which should interest anyone planning to buy a 1400 this month.Out with the Old -- For those who don't memorize PowerBook specs, PowerBook 1400s have the BookCover feature for customizing their cases and the pop-out keyboard for easy access to the innards (see TidBITS-350 and TidBITS-371)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/2699"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2699', 'show')">Spinning the Web Part 5: New Frontiers</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2699" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2699">In recent TidBITS issues, I've been sharing my world view about software that makes Web pages. I started with text editors in TidBITS-384 and continued with visual editors in TidBITS-386</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/2221"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2221', 'show')">Cougar Slinks Into View</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2221" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2221">Those who regularly visit the Web site of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) have seen hints about the next version of HTML, codenamed Cougar. Last week, the W3C updated and consolidated those scattered hints by releasing them in a public draft of HTML 4.0</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/2216"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2216', 'show')">The 20th Anniversary Mac Comes for Tea</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2216" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2216">Last week, Michael Koidahl, owner of Westwind Computing in Seattle, solved the problem of determining when Adam and I should have our big summer party</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/2218"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2218', 'show')">Spinning the Web Part 4: CyberStudio</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2218" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2218">If you read earlier sections of this series (which began in TidBITS-384), you know the ins and outs of text-oriented Web publishing tools as well as low-end visual tools that work much like simple word processors</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/2208"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2208', 'show')">Earth to Netscape: Communicator 4.01 Released</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2208" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2208">Netscape Communicator 4.01 is now available for the Macintosh. The software contains a suite of Internet tools for Web browsing, email, HTML publishing, receiving pushed data, and more</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 30 Jun 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/2210"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2210', 'show')">Spinning the Web Part 3: Basic Visual HTML Editing</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2210" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2210">The first two parts of this series looked at text-based HTML editors, programs that offer a great deal of control over the final product. Such editors force you to deal with HTML tags, a process that bores some, intimidates others, and generally falls outside the Macintosh tradition - most Mac users who monkey with HTML tags take about ten minutes to ask for a program that handles HTML behind the scenes</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 30 Jun 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/2202"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2202', 'show')">Hide and Seek with SiteMill 2.0</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2202" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2202">Hide and Seek with SiteMill 2.0 -- Although Adobe SiteMill 1.0 was among the first commercial Web site management tools for the Macintosh, with SiteMill 2.0 seemingly way overdue, many wondered if it would ever ship</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 23 Jun 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/2205"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2205', 'show')">Spinning the Web Part 2: PageSpinner Meets the Competition</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2205" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2205">Last week, in TidBITS-384, I wrote about PageSpinner, a $25 shareware HTML editor from Optima Systems. I portrayed PageSpinner as offering a robust range of tagging options in an uncommonly open, helpful setting</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 23 Jun 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/2192"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2192', 'show')">Virtual PC News</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2192" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2192">Virtual PC News -- This week, Connectix plans to ship Virtual PC, its Pentium emulation software (see TidBITS-374). Early reports have been positive, and it seems that - at least for those who have the necessary hardware - Virtual PC has become a real alternative, not only for running the included Windows 95, but also any other Pentium-compatible operating system.According to Connectix, the lower-end version, called Virtual PC Windows 3.11/MS-DOS Version, works on any PowerPC-based Mac running at 100 MHz or faster, with a recommended 24 MB RAM and 200 MB disk space</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 16 Jun 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2193" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2193">WebCollage -- Last week - and before we'd reported on version 1.0 - StarNine released WebCollage 1.01, a new version that supports 68K Macs and corrects several bugs</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 16 Jun 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/2195"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2195', 'show')">Spinning the Web Part I: Trade-offs and PageSpinner</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2195" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2195">Watching the Web authoring field change is like watching a volcano-studded island. Sure, you get a few months of calm, but then a spurt of new product releases wreaks havoc on the landscape</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 16 Jun 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/2188"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2188', 'show')">Spinning for a Win</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2188" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2188">Spinning for a Win -- Optima Systems last week released PageSpinner 2.0, a text-oriented HTML editor. PageSpinner has retained its user-friendly approach (see my review of version 1.1b1 in TidBITS-327), making it an excellent choice for HTML newbies, but it has also added an impressive set of features that most any Web author will welcome, including support for cascading style sheets, frames, Java applets, and includes, which simplify updating common elements on a group of pages</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 09 Jun 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2183" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2183">New Fusion Version -- NetObjects Fusion 1.0, software for creating Web sites, shipped in late 1996 and blazed new ground with its site-centric emphasis, including easily changed site styles for text, graphics, and navigation bars</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 02 Jun 1997</div></div>
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