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Take Control BooksShopping for a new digital camera? In "Take Control of Buying a Digital Camera," pro photographer Larry Chen helps you pick out the right camera and accessories for your needs and budget. This book is loaded with tips on using your camera, pointers to the best review sites, and more!

 

DealBITS Drawing: Win a Copy of HoudahGeo

If you've ever wanted to geocode your photos, check out this DealBITS drawing for HoudahGeo, which provides a variety of automatic and manual ways of assigning geographic coordinates to images and can help you share your photos via Flickr or Google Earth.Read more...

 

DealBITS Discount: Save 20% on HoudahGeo

If you didn't win a copy of HoudahGeo in last week's DealBITS drawing, don't fret, since you can still save 20 percent on the geocoding software through 18-May-08.Read more...

Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/05-May-08

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...

Dutch and Japanese Translators Wanted!

If you can read English and write in either Dutch or Japanese, we need your help in translating TidBITS!Read more...

Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/28-Apr-08

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...

Take Control News: iPhone Ebook Now Covers iPhone 1.1.4

Taking advantage of our freedom from print, we've released an update to Ted Landau's "Take Control of Your iPhone" that makes it unique among books in covering the iPhone 1.1.4 software.Read more...

Follow Along Through 18 Years of TidBITS

TidBITS turns 18 this week, and Adam celebrates by looking back at Mac news in each of our anniversary issues to track just how far we've come since 1990.Read more...

Take Control News: Save 50 Percent on All Our Ebooks

To celebrate of the 18th anniversary of TidBITS, we're offering a 50% discount on all Take Control and Macworld Superguide ebooks through next Tuesday, April 29th.Read more...

Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/21-Apr-08

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...

Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/14-Apr-08

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...

Take Control News: Find 200+ Tips in the Mac OS X Hints Superguide

In this ebook, Macworld's Rob Griffiths, editor of MacOSXHints.com, presents a cornucopia of over 200 tips to help you maximize your mileage from Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. The book covers a wide range of topics and experience levels, from basic tips anyone can implement to power user tweaks employing Terminal, AppleScript, and Automator.Read more...

 

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TidBITS Podcast Now in iTunes Store

It's now easier than ever to subscribe to the audio version of TidBITS - just click the Podcast link in our nav bar to pop over to the iTunes Store, where you can click Subscribe to get new audio versions of articles as soon as we read them.Read more...

Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/07-Apr-08

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...

Printer-Friendly Mode Returns to TidBITS

Want to see this article without images, interface, or color? Click the Print link!Read more...

Take Control News: New Title Suggestions

Read on for a look at some suggestions for future Take Control titles. Finding authors to write some of these may be tricky, but we'll do our best.Read more...

TidBITS Introduces New Subscription Mode

TidBITS extends a wrinkled, trembling hand to today's youth by creating a new subscription mode that is sure to appeal to those with short attention spans.Read more...

Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/31-Mar-08

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...

Take Control News: Produce Professional-Looking Sites with iWeb

Our latest ebook looks in depth at Apple's iWeb '08 - check it out if you've been confused by iWeb's features or unhappy with your results.Read more...

Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/24-Mar-08

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...

DealBITS Discount: Save 25% on IPNetMonitorX

If you weren't among our lucky winners, you can still pick up a copy of IPNetMonitorX for only $45 through 03-Apr-08 with the special DealBITS discount.Read more...

DealBITS Drawing: Win a Copy of IPNetMonitorX

If you're faced with networking questions about the speed of your connection, what services might be active on your Mac without your knowledge, and more, turn to IPNetMonitorX from Sustainable Softworks for the answers. Enter to win a free copy this week!Read more...

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