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Glenn Fleishman is a TidBITS contributing editor and a Seattle journalist who covers technology for publications like The New York Times, Popular Science, and The Economist. He blogs daily about Wi-Fi and other wireless networking at Wi-Fi Networking News. Glenn lives in Seattle with his wife Lynn, sons Ben and Rex, two iPhones, and a dozen Macs of various vintages.
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Curses, foiled by Back to My Mac, I say, twirling my moustaches! Two men are arrested for theft after stolen laptop with Back to My Mac enabled allows the computer's owner to take pictures and copy files of the alleged burglars.Read more...
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Writing HTML by hand has the same relationship to graphical Web authoring tools as a chisel has to a jackhammer.Read more...
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Microsoft has chosen to cut the legs out from under customers who bought music from the MSN Music store up until late 2006. Starting 31-Aug-08, that music can no longer be played on computers that weren't previously authorized.Read more...
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A new AT&T service plan for hearing- and speech-impaired customers reduces the monthly cost of the iPhone if you don't need any or much voice service.Read more...
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Graphical Web design tools are all well and good, but most sites with any substantial amount of regularly updated content still code by hand - including TidBITS and the venerable New York Times.Read more...
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Live Mesh from Microsoft combines online storage, cloud computing, desktop folder synchronization, and remote access. But the real news about the technology preview is its reliance on well-used standards, and its notion of enabling developers to build whatever they want on Live Mesh's base.Read more...
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Skype launches a set of plans that allow unmetered calling - up to 10,000 minutes per month - to landlines in 34 countries, with prices that start at a few dollars a month for a single country or $9.95 per month for all countries.Read more...
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BusySync 2.0 is now available, adding Google Calendar support and improving the utility for sharing iCal calendars among multiple Macs across networks.Read more...
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Port Map lets you open up access to services running on your local network so you - or anyone else, if you so desire - can access them from anywhere on the Internet.Read more...
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Using Time Machine with drives attached via USB to an 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Station is an unsupported option, Apple has confirmed.Read more...
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Not happy with the meaning of a word? Change it! Merriam-Webster launches a new "wik-tionary" with corporate sponsorship. The first word to receive an... adjustment in definition? "Unlimited."Read more...
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Overwhelmed by email? Considering just deleting all those unread messages in your inbox? Not so fast - doing so may put you in a legally precarious situation.Read more...
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Starting with new contracts as of 25-May-08, the $175 early-termination penalty that AT&T charges will turn into more of a prorated fee that's reduced by $5 per month.Read more...
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Photoshop Elements 6 provides full-featured photo-editing for those who want more than iPhoto but who aren't up to learning the complexities of Photoshop.Read more...
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A new firmware update and associated software for Leopard enables an archive option for the internal Time Capsule drive and allows Time Machine backups to drives connected via USB to AirPort Extreme Base Stations.Read more...
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What happens when hundreds of millions of people come together online? Politicians fall from grace, businesses form out of nowhere, and people have new ways to share popular - and unpopular - interests, hobbies, and physical behaviors. In "Here Comes Everybody," Internet social commentator Clay Shirky examines the lot.Read more...
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Apple has revised the $99 AirPort Express Wi-Fi base station to use 802.11n, the fastest wireless networking flavor now available, including support for both frequency bands.Read more...
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iPhone owners can get an unlimited voice usage plan, although that plan wasn't posted on Apple's site for over two weeks after AT&T's announcement of such services.Read more...
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Apple pushes out AirPort Utility 5.3.1, an update, but also the first time Tiger and Windows uses can simply download and install this refresh AirPort administration tool that first shipped last year.Read more...
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