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<a href="/article/11404"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11404', 'show')">How to Share Purchased iBooks</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11404" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11404">Concerned about buying books from the iBookstore because other members of your household won't be able to read them without using your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch? Never fear, because there are multiple ways that members of a family can all share the same purchased books - from different iTunes accounts - on multiple iOS devices.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=1" class="category">Entertainment</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 02 Jul 2010 | <a href="/article/11404#comments">20 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/11207"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11207', 'show')">Twenty Years of Memories from Friends of TidBITS</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11207" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11207">With TidBITS turning 20, we asked many friends and colleagues about their history with our little newsletter. The number and quality of replies has been overwhelming, and we're thrilled to share them.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 19 Apr 2010 | <a href="/article/11207#comments">26 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10493"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10493', 'show')">Have We Entered a Post-Literate Technological Age?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10493" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10493">After watching a Google video in which people in Times Square prove almost entirely incapable of answering the question, "What is a browser?", Adam muses about where this lack of technological literacy came from and what it means for the future.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=2" class="category">Opinion</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 18 Aug 2009 | <a href="/article/10493#comments">91 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10306" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10306">For complete documentation of iPhoto '09, you can now turn to Adam's latest book: "iPhoto '09: Visual QuickStart Guide," available in both ebook and print forms. It has full coverage of all of iPhoto's features, both the new (Faces, Places, slideshows, Web publishing) and the old (importing, editing, printing).</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 28 May 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10240"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10240', 'show')">Beware the GPS Thieves</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10240" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10240">As Adam and Tonya discovered first-hand on a recent trip to New York City, the latest trend in car-related theft revolves around the increasingly popular GPS devices from the likes of Garmin, Magellan, and TomTom. Don't let it happen to you.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=13" class="category">Safe Computing</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 24 Apr 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/10011"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10011', 'show')">A Request for Tristan's 10th Birthday</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10011" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10011">Adam and Tonya's son Tristan is now 10 years old, and to continue the tradition begun when he was born, Adam is hoping that you'll send Tristan email describing the world as you see it.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 19 Jan 2009</div></div>
<a href="/article/9936"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9936', 'show')">Converting from Now Up-to-Date to iCal and BusySync</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9936" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9936">After many years of relying on Now Up-to-Date, Adam and Tonya make the jump to using iCal, bolstered by the syncing capabilities of BusySync. The process is not a simple one, though, and although the new capabilities are welcome, iCal presents some annoyances as well.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=7" class="category">Business Apps</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 12 Dec 2008</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9939" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9939">You'd think Apple's Address Book application would be the easy choice for making mailing labels, but after fighting the program's bugs and shortcomings, Jeff Carlson turns to BeLight Software's Labels & Addresses to get his holiday cards in the mail.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=3" class="category">Home Macs</a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 12 Dec 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9842"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9842', 'show')">Adam Beats His New York City Marathon Goal</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9842" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9842">Adam not only finishes the New York City Marathon, he bests even his most optimistic prediction for a time of 2:48. Now he's paying the price in muscle soreness (but is happy nonetheless).</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 03 Nov 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9829"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9829', 'show')">Adam Running the New York City Marathon</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9829" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9829">Adam will be entirely offline on November 2nd while hanging out with 40,000 other runners in New York City, racing his first marathon. Follow along online if you like, or if you're in New York, come watch and cheer.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 27 Oct 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9728"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9728', 'show')">Backing up Photos While Traveling</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9728" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9728">When you're on vacation, backing up your Mac probably isn't high on your list of things to do. But you should protect your vacation photos, which could easily disappear with a slip in the ocean or a lost piece of luggage. Here's how (complete with some pictures of our recent trip to Wales).</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=4" class="category">Media Creation</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 11 Aug 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9677"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9677', 'show')">TidBITS Issue Hiatus for 07-Jul-08</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9677" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9677">Although articles will continue to be published on the TidBITS Web site, there will be no email issue for 07-Jul-08, as we take a break to try out this newfangled concept of the "summer vacation."</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 30 Jun 2008</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9612" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9612">Another one of our April Fools articles comes true, as 70 people at a conference in Moscone Center fall victim to a norovirus.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 12 May 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9232"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9232', 'show')">Stop the Catalog Madness with Catalog Choice</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9232" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9232">If you hate receiving unnecessary and overly frequent catalogs as much as Adam does, check out Catalog Choice, a new free service aimed helping reduce the 19 billion catalogs thrown at us each year.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=18" class="category">Blog Post</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 03 Dec 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9143"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9143', 'show')">Apologies for the Look Spam</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9143" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9143">In which Adam apologizes for allowing spam to sneak through our defenses and be delivered to about half of the TidBITS text issue list.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=18" class="category">Blog Post</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 28 Aug 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9125"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9125', 'show')">Tools We Use: Teleport</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9125" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9125">The free Teleport utility enables you to control multiple networked Macs from a single keyboard and mouse. It's very cool, and worth using for anyone who wants to use multiple Macs at the same time.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=5" class="category">Networking</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 27 Aug 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8929" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8929">I recently set up a JBL On Stage Micro speaker device with an old iPod for Tristan so he can listen to music when he goes to sleep and can wake up to music at the ungodly hour of 5:50 AM on weekdays</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 09 Apr 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/8838"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8838', 'show')">Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/29-Jan-07</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8838" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8838">How to Google Earth -- Tristan Engst's first TidBITS article generates its first TidBITS Talk thread filled with encouragement and well-wishes. (5 messages)
iPod vending machine -- Yes, you can buy iPods and accessories from vending machines now</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 Jan 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/8820"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8820', 'show')">Take Your Child to Work Day, Macworld Expo Style</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8820" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8820">Like so many people these days, I work at home, so for me, nearly every day is "take your child to work day." As often as not, after school my eight-year-old son Tristan helps me balance bank statements or put stamps on envelopes, or "helps" by staying out of the way while I wrap up editing a manuscript or making one last phone call.
But, there's much more to my job than what Tristan normally sees, and some of that "much more" happens at Macworld Expo, an event that is oft-discussed around my dinner table, but that Tristan had never seen</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> | 22 Jan 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/8821"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8821', 'show')">How to Google Earth</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8821" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8821">[Tristan, age 8, wrote this piece the weekend after returning from San Francisco, where he attended Macworld Expo with me for a morning (see "Take Your Child to Work Day, Macworld Expo Style," 2007-01-22)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tristan%20Engst">Tristan Engst</a> | 22 Jan 2007</div></div>
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