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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>How to Make an iPhone Screenshot</h6>
<p><p>Want to take a screenshot of something on your iPhone or iPod touch? Press the Home button and Power button briefly at the same time, and an image of your screen will be saved to the Photos app (and will sync with iPhoto when you next connect). Don't hold the buttons too long or your device will either power down or reboot.</p></p>
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<a href="/article/828"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('828', 'show')">Spell Catcher: Catch-all Utility for Writers</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_828" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_828">When Casady & Greene released Spell Catcher earlier this year, I decided to give it a try. Spell Catcher's principal claim to fame (though it has many secondary claims) is that it can check spelling in any program, using the same interface and dictionaries</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 Nov 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_832" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_832">Starting this week, Nisus Software plans to begin shipping Nisus Writer 5.0, the latest version of its word processing application. Although there's a bevy of major improvements to the feature set and interface, Nisus Writer's primary claim to fame is that its Power Mac version is among the first applications to act as an OpenDoc container</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 Nov 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/848"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('848', 'show')">Tag - You're It! TagBuilder Plays Well With Others</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_848" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_848">One way to make a Macintosh Web server perform feats of what look like magic is to employ the help of products like Maxum's NetCloak and NetForms. NetCloak enables you to serve different pages to different browsers, and to include counters as well as date and time notations</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> | 14 Oct 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/874"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('874', 'show')">HTMLbits: Four New Releases</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_874" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_874">When Adobe PageMill 1.0 shipped almost a year ago, it attempted to draw a curtain over the complexities of HTML, the markup language used to create Web pages</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/891"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('891', 'show')">Peachpit Updates the Bible</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_891" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_891">Peachpit Press recently released the sixth edition of the Macintosh Bible (ISBN 0-201-88636-7), and this version continue's the book's ten-year tradition of providing a friendly guide to the Macintosh universe</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_897" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_897">Another Miraculous Release? HTML aficionados take note - Miracle Software has released World Wide Web Weaver 2.0. Also known as W4, the new version adds many new features, including a special version of Casady & Greene's new Spell Catcher (formerly Thunder 7) and multi-file search and replace (though the search and replace lacks a "whole word only" feature, wild cards, and grep)</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> | 26 Aug 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/898"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('898', 'show')">Stay Up on Updates</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_898" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_898">Stay Up on Updates -- In TidBITS-309, I wrote about the Macintosh Software Update Report from LEVEL 6 Computing, formerly an electronic- and paper-based publication that succinctly listed information about recent Macintosh software updates</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> | 26 Aug 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/899"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('899', 'show')">Real World Word Problem Solved</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_899" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_899">Several years ago, when I worked at Microsoft answering questions about Word for the Mac, people frequently called in to ask about an annoying "System memory too low to run Word" error message that would appear when they launched Microsoft Word 5.x</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> | 26 Aug 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_905" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_905">WordPerfect users have anxiously awaited concrete signs that Corel plans to update WordPerfect actively. On 08-Aug-96, Corel announced Corel WordPerfect 3.5, an updated version of Novell WordPerfect 3.5</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> | 19 Aug 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/907"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('907', 'show')">Homing In on Home Page</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_907" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_907">When a pre-release version of PageMill 1.0 appeared at last summer's Macworld Expo, it was heralded as HTML software for the rest of us, software that let users work in a WYSIWYG environment and create Web pages without contending with the complexities and rigidity of HTML</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> | 19 Aug 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_912" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_912">Fueled by a melange of Internet-related software, this year's Macworld Expo had plenty of enthusiastic crowds and product announcements. We'll cover more of these products in future issues, but in this semi-annual Macworld Expo superlatives article, I chronicle companies whose gimmicks particularly stood out or whose offerings caught my eye.Slimmed Down Approach -- The Aladdin Systems booth wasn't new, but space-constrained attendees enjoyed the StuffIt t-shirts, which set a new standard for sartorial compression</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> | 12 Aug 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/913"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('913', 'show')">HTMLbits From the Expo</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_913" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_913">HTML software figured heavily into the Expo mix, but - to be honest - I was disappointed not to have my socks blown off by a new product that had been kept under wraps and that explored novel ways of using graphically-based tools to create and manage Web pages and sites</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> | 12 Aug 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/920"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('920', 'show')">Getting Oriented for the Expo</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_920" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_920">TidBITS-338 had a MailBIT pointing Macworld Expo attendees to a Newton-based Boston subway map and noting that Adam will be doing a book signing at the Macmillan booth on Thursday from 11 to 1</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> | 05 Aug 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_924" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_924">Expo Expectations -- Macworld Expo in Boston begins on Wednesday, 07-Aug-96, and will continue through 10-Aug-96. Adam and I will be attending, but only for two days, so we'll be doing a whirlwind tour</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/930"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('930', 'show')">The Competition Heats Up for Web Authoring Tools</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_930" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_930">As the North American summer heats up, so does the competition in the Macintosh Web authoring market. Although Adobe is working hard to release PageMill 2.0 and maintain its lead, the rest of the pack is running close at Adobe's heels, and Adobe may have trouble maintaining the position it won early with PageMill 1.0Tapestry 2.0, a Web authoring program that will eventually compete directly with the likes of PageMill 2.0, is on track for release this week on 31-Jul-96</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/939"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('939', 'show')">Go Live with Golive</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_939" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_939">Although some Web authors have settled down happily with programs like BBEdit, PageSpinner, and PageMill, others are still seeking the Holy Grail of the perfect Web authoring program</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/944"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('944', 'show')">Power to the Masses from Microsoft</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_944" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_944">Registered users of Microsoft's Excel 5, PowerPoint 4, Word 6, or Office 4 should keep an eye on their mail for a free CD-ROM, called the Microsoft Empowerment Pack for the Macintosh</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/946"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('946', 'show')">Keeping Robots Out of Your Corner of the Net</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_946" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_946">Search engines and searching tools have become ubiquitous on the Internet. People flock to search engine sites in order to find information quickly, and the information available comes with startling breadth and depth</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/949"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('949', 'show')">Plain Talk on the Internet</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_949" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_949">Interested in interfacing with the Web using sound? Two browser plug-ins, ListenUp and Talker, enable you to do just that. I've used both plug-ins without crashes in both Netscape Navigator 2 and Internet Explorer 2 on my Power Macintosh 7100</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_960" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_960">LaserWriter 8.3.4 Unleashed -- Last week, Apple released LaserWriter 8.3.4, a version that has been anxiously awaited by many PCI Power Mac users who have been plagued with crashing problems when trying to print, particularly when using print spoolers or third-party printers, such as GCC's XL 808</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> | 17 Jun 1996</div></div>
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