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Owners of the Apple TV can now purchase movies directly from the entertainment device, and do so from an expanded collection of movies. Also, several studios are making rentals available on iTunes and the Apple TV the same day as the movies are released on DVD.Read more...
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Nearly every discussion this week touches on a different topic, such as the iPhone's influence among companies marketing on the Web, pruning Time Machine backups, auto-filing email in Mail, replacing graphing functionality found in AppleWorks, and using OmniFocus. Oh, and Canada is finally getting the iPhone!Read more...
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This week's discussions make TidBITS Talk look like tech support. You'll find answers dealing with migrating to Microsoft Entourage, listening to FLAC-formatted audio files, using Gmail with multiple Macs, shared printing, and more.Read more...
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TidBITS Talk readers are focused on email, discussing the switch from Eudora to Mail, preventing Mail from passing along calendar spam to iCal, and synchronizing multiple accounts. Other topics covered this week include moving from a Power Mac 8100 to the present, previewing images in the Finder, importing CDs in iTunes, playing music from an iPhone in the car, and IBM's new openness toward the Mac.Read more...
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The WebKit vulnerability that brought down a MacBook Air at last month's CanSecWest security conference has been patched in Safari 3.1.1, an update that also delivers a few other security enhancements.Read more...
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This week's discussions focus on using Eudora under Leopard, the perceived health dangers of blogging (according to a New York Times article), the presence (or lack of ) Mac OS X viruses in the wild, using Time Machine via AirPort Disk, audio-processing software, and more.Read more...
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Final Cut Server is now shipping after a year's delay, giving video professionals the capability to manage video and audio assets.Read more...
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The "Hello Dear" event in Jeff Carlson's iCal calendar wasn't a sweet message from his wife - it was spam automatically added thanks to a setting in Mail that automatically (and invisibly) creates iCal events from .ics file attachments.Read more...
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Adobe announced the Lightroom 2 beta last week, which features multiple-monitor support, the capability to apply edits to select portions of an image, and smart collections. However, news that Lightroom 2 is 64-bit capable on the Mac brought up the news that the next version of Photoshop would not be.Read more...
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Did hackers target a MacBook Air because it was more vulnerable, or more desirable? What's the best way to maximize the use of four hard disks on a single Mac? And what UPS models are recommended for working with Macs? These questions and other issues (instant messaging for introverts, Apple's legal logo opposition, the latest security update) are discussed this week.Read more...
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Adobe has updated the terms of service for the online photo-editing service Photoshop Express, after users complained that the original wording gave the company overreaching ownership of shared images.Read more...
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This week's TidBITS Talk discussions focus on making backups using Time Machine and Carbon Copy Cloner, synchronizing data among devices, Web standards and Internet Explorer 8, playing slideshows easily, and more.Read more...
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Apple has released Aperture 2.1, which features an architecture that enables developers to create plug-ins for editing images. One plug-in, Dodge & Burn, is included with the update.Read more...
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Adobe has made public a beta of Photoshop Express, a Web-based service that brings photo editing to your Web browser.Read more...
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This week's TidBITS discussions look at recent articles (running antivirus software and upgrading Ethernet networks) as well as making Time Machine backups over a network, finding a replacement for AppleWorks, resurrecting an old G3 iMac, mapping file types to applications in the Finder, putting one's body before a MacBook Air in harm's way, and more.Read more...
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Is Apple field-testing possible replacements for Steve Jobs? Can an iPod touch replace a Palm organizer? TidBITS Talk readers look into these questions as well as queries about using 802.11a wireless networking, configuring Cisco VPN settings, cooling an overheated Mac Pro, sending email from the iPhone, using voices for text-to-speech, and verifying a boot volume in Disk Utility.Read more...
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We mistakenly identified the narrator of an Aperture 2.0.1 instruction video as Victoria, one of the voices available in Mac OS X's text-to-speech options. Apple's Sal Soghoian introduces us to the real voice, Lucy, and shows how to automate the use of text-to-speech voices in presentations.Read more...
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In addition to providing the usual complement of bug fixes and performance enhancements typical of a maintenance update, Aperture 2.0.1 adds enhanced AppleScript functionality to the professional photo organizer and editor.Read more...
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Does a good CEO need to be a tyrant? Is there a better digital photo management application than iPhoto? Will we be able to use a Bluetooth keyboard with the iPhone 2.0 software? Is there a way to silence an overenthusiastic PowerBook G4 fan? This week's discussions ask several questions, and readers provide the answers.Read more...
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This week's discussions cover a variety of topics, such as whether the iPod shuffle can get any smaller in size, using Time Machine with SuperDuper, problems with administrator access and keyboard firmware on some Mac models, and more.Read more...
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