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Reluctantly Switching from Eudora to Apple Mail
How Tonya upgraded over 10 years of email from Eudora to Apple Mail, but not without mistakes and troubles, and what she learned along the way.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...
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...
Getting to Know the Nabaztag Internet Rabbit
The Nabaztag is a plastic rabbit with motorized ears, blinking lights, and a Wi-Fi connection. Is it a silly piece of kitsch for people with too much money on their hands or a brilliant glimpse into the future of smart objects?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...
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...
Instant Messaging for Introverts
Can your personality type affect your willingness to use certain modes of communication? In particular, do introverts have a harder time with technologies like instant messaging and Twitter than extroverts?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...
First Kindly Impressions about My Kindle
Tonya's new Kindle arrives and makes a charming, but quirky, first impression.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...
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Discussing the Importance of the iPhone SDK on MacNotables
Tune into this two-part MacNotables podcast to hear more about the iPhone SDK announcement, including the business model, the positive initial response from developers, the enterprise aspects of the announcement, and more.Read more...
Watch Adam's Hacking the Press Talk from C4
If you've ever wondered about the best ways for software to get coverage in the Mac press, check out the video of Adam's "Hacking the Press" talk from the C4 developer conference.Read more...
The Internet Organizes Itself: Here Comes Everybody
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...
Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/17-Mar-08
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...
Bedding Down with a MacBook Air
The MacBook Air is the sleekest Mac yet, making it ideal for use in bed, but does it meet the needs of a mobile professional? Angus Wong isn't giving up his MacBook Pro just yet.Read more...
Vista Woes Aired in Internal Microsoft Email
Be careful what you put in email, my mother always said, because it could end up on the front page of the New York Times. Clearly, Microsoft wasn't listening to my mother (even though one high-ranking Microsoft executive had the opportunity).Read more...
Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/10-Mar-08
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...
Open Letter to Steve Jobs: In Support of an iPod reader
Steve Jobs dismissed the Kindle by claiming that people don't read anymore, but that's just wrong (case in point, you're reading this now). Could Steve be aiming to soften up the market in advance of a tablet-sized iPod tweaked for reading? Adam makes the case for why we're reading more than ever and why Apple is the company to bring us the device that will finally fulfill the promise of the ebook reader.Read more...
Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/03-Mar-08
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...
Analyzing the MacSanta Promotion
The MacSanta promotion gave us days and days of deals from over 120 Macintosh developers - it was great for Mac users. But was it worthwhile for the participating developers? Adam crunches some numbers.Read more...
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