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We're at Macworld Expo 2009 in San Francisco with the latest news about the show. Check back often this week for updates!
- Phil Schiller Delivers Lackluster Keynote
- iPhoto '09 Adds Faces and Places
- iMovie '09 Seems to Fix Everything from iMovie '08
- GarageBand '09 Adds Music Lessons
- iWork Turns '09
- Apple Moves to Unprotected Music, Tiered Prices
- Apple Pioneers New Battery Tech with 17-inch MacBook Pro
- Jobs Clears the Air on Health Issue
- Welcome to Macintosh Movie to Screen at Macworld Expo
- MacHEADS Movie to Premiere at Macworld Expo
- TidBITS Events at Macworld SF 2009
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Apple makes it easy to turn Dock magnification on and off in the Dock submenu of the Apple menu. But you can toggle Dock magnification even more easily, and temporarily, by pressing Control-Shift as you mouse over the Dock. This trick can be useful in both directions—enabling magnification when you normally have it off, and disabling it if you prefer to run with it on most of the time.
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| Netcom and Spam
Netcom and Spam -- Apparently, when we reported on Netcom's spam policies last week in NetBITS-004, we were more informed than Netcom's senior management. According to CNET's News.com, the excellent procedures Netcom engineers put in place to stop millions of pieces of spam from reaching their users or being relayed through their mail servers have been pulled due to privacy concerns - and because the management of Netcom never knew the system administrators had put this into practice. It's unfortunate; this means an onslaught of additional spam despite the best intentions of Netcom's engineers.
<http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,15382,00.html>
Another item of interest is the percolation of spam concerns to a high-level news source - The New York Times. Our friend and colleague Peter H. Lewis (not to be confused with Australian Peter N Lewis who writes Macintosh Internet software) has a column in last Monday's Times on the subject. In it, Cyber Promotions' Sanford Wallace, the self-described spam king, tells how he is in the process of setting up his own backbone network and how this will make it harder to beat him, because he'll be part of the Internet's infrastructure. Fortunately for all of us, this would simplify the process of eliminating all spam originating from his site. As we discussed in last issue's spam article, high-level networks have preassigned blocks of IP addresses that are simple to filter out. We recommended against this, because you'll often filter legitimate traffic; with Cyber Promotions' backbone, however, there would be no risk of this. (Note: you can access the Times Web site for free only in the U.S. and Canada, and even that requires signing up for an account.) [GF]
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/techcol/ 102097techcol.html>
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