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Podcasts of TidBITS articles along with editor interviews and other audio. TidBIT S: Insightful news, reviews, and analysis of the Macintosh and Internet worlds
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TidBITS Watchlist: Notable Software Updates for 21 May 2012 | Notable software releases this week include GraphicConverter 8.0 and TextWrangler 4.0.1. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. | 5/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExtraBITS for 21 May 2012 | Just a couple of quick multimedia bits for you this week — Adam talking about security on the Tech Night Owl podcast and a video about how Pixar almost lost “Toy Story 2” to a bad backup. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. | 5/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Find Your App, and Keep It Found | Do you find yourself launching apps on your iOS device by searching for them in Spotlight because you can’t remember where their icons are on your Home screen? Read on to learn how to sniff out wayward apps scattered across your iOS device, and keep them found. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. | 5/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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QuickTime Format Extender Perian to Cease Development | With the cessation of development and support of Perian, Mac users will eventually need to find a new way to play many otherwise unsupported video file formats. With choices including NicePlayer, UMPlayer, MPlayer, and VLC, which should you choose, when changes by Apple finally render Perian obsolete? Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. | 5/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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OpenDNS Blocks Flashback and Other Threats | How can changing your DNS server make your Mac — or a Mac owned by a family member — less prone to being attacked, phished, or subverted? OpenDNS blocks malicious sites, which helps both before and after malware is discovered. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. | 5/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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FileMaker Pro 12 Updates Themes and Layout Capabilities | A new file format and few new features make this a visually attractive but less-than-essential update to the long-standing database program from Apple subsidiary FileMaker, Inc. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. | 5/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Apple Releases Security Updates for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard | Two Leopard-specific security releases from Apple bring a Flashback malware removal tool and protection from exposure to vulnerabilities in older versions of Adobe Flash. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. | 5/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reunion 10 Offers Better Genealogical Overviews, Web Search | The venerable genealogy tool Reunion has received a significant overhaul with version 10, adding new interface views, additional reports and charts, and the capability to search for information about a given person on key genealogical Web sites. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. | 5/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Keep Your MobileMe Email Address without iCloud | If you don’t have a Mac or PC that’s iCloud-compatible but want to hang onto your me.com or mac.com email address when Apple turns off MobileMe, there’s now a solution. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. | 5/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TidBITS Watchlist: Notable Software Updates for 14 May 2012 | Notable software releases this week include Security Update 2012-002 (Snow Leopard), EasyFind 4.9, BBEdit 10.1.2, CloudPull 2.0.3 and 1.5.7, Microsoft Office 2011 14.2.2 and 2008 12.3.3, PDFpen and PDFpenPro 5.8.1, and Evernote 3.1. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. | 5/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An Alarming Abundance of Alerts | Multi-device calendar syncing is great, except when it means every alert produces beeps and pop-ups all over your house. Apple needs a more intelligent system for alerting you to upcoming events. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. | 5/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Adobe Relents on $199 Photoshop Security Fix | Adobe quickly backed away from a plan for fixing a vulnerability involving maliciously crafted TIFF files only in the just-released Adobe Photoshop CS6, leaving users of earlier versions at risk. The update for Photoshop CS5.x isn’t out yet, so be cautious of files from unknown sources. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. | 5/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Apple Hardens Security with Mac OS X 10.7.4 and Safari 5.1.7 | With the release of Mac OS X 10.7.4, Apple closes the legacy FileVault password exposure and adds an important security feature to keep Adobe Flash users safe on Macs. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. | 5/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Beware Accidental Zooming in iOS (and Mac OS X) | The Zoom feature that Apple has helpfully built into both iOS and Mac OS X for low-vision users can be activated inadvertently, and may even sometimes activate on its own. Either way, if part of your iPhone’s or iPad’s screen is cut off, or if objects are a bit fuzzy, that may be a hint that you are zoomed in slightly. Read on for how to resolve such issues. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. | 5/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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iOS 5.1.1 Addresses Bugs | Apple has released iOS 5.1.1, bringing bug fixes to the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. | 5/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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PodBOT Improves TidBITS Audio | The audio versions of articles that we record each week should have consistent loudness now, thanks to The Levelator and an internal tool called PodBOT that gives us a highly efficient workflow. The moral of the story is that tying applications together can result in something that’s far easier to use than the individual parts. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. | 5/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TidBITS Watchlist: Notable Software Updates for 7 May 2012 | Notable software releases this week include Alfred 1.2, Transmit 4.1.9, SpamSieve 2.9.1, and Hazel 3.0.5. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. | 5/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExtraBITS for 7 May 2012 | We have lots of extra bits for you to check out this week, starting with a warning for those who used FileVault in Snow Leopard and then upgraded to Lion, a heads-up about the FBI looking to increase wiretapping capabilities, news of an improvement to the iPad 2, a nicely presented business argument against DRM, a report about Oracle taking over Java updates for Mac OS X, and an amusing parody of Apple’s 1984 ad that Apple itself made for its sales force. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. | 5/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contribute Photos from May 15th to Aday.org | On 15 May 2012, take photos of your daily life and upload them to aday.org, a non-profit project to document the state of our lives on that day. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. | 5/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Apple ID Horror Story | Chris Owen shares the story of how his Apple ID — and all the Apple services associated with it — seemingly became corrupted, and what he had to do to get Apple to fix it. It’s worth thinking about how you’d deal with losing access to everything that’s under your Apple ID. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. | 5/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Amazon Releases Cloud Drive Desktop App | Amazon has released a Cloud Drive desktop app for Mac OS X and Windows to enable transfers, but not synchronization, of files stored in its Cloud Drive service. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. | 5/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Capture Twitter Conversations with Tweetbot and Storify | Twitter client Tweetbot has added direct support for the social-conversation tool Storify to take conversations from Twitter and share them for annotation and commenting. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. | 4/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Free Disrupts Telecom Market in France | Kirk McElhearn explains how the French telecom provider Free enables him to pay far less for connectivity — including cell phone, landline, Internet, and TV. We’re not all likely to move to France just to save on our communications costs, but similar market disruptions could take place in other countries. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. | 4/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TidBITS Watchlist: Notable Software Updates for 30 April 2012 | Notable software releases this week include Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 14.2.1, Pear Note 3.0, Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.5, Send to Kindle for Mac 1.0, Firefox 12.0, PDFpen and PDFpenPro 5.8, and Bookle 1.0.5. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. | 4/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExtraBITS for 30 April 2012 | Interesting bits this week include news of Dropbox updates, Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference selling out in two hours, and a pair of staff appearances: Tonya Engst on the Tech Night Owl podcast and Jeff Carlson in a Twitter interview for Peachpit Press. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. | 4/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Apple Extends iTunes Account Security, Confuses Users | Apple has started asking iTunes account holders to provide answers to new security questions, but without providing good questions or any explanation for how the answers will be used. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. | 4/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Airfoil Speakers Touch 3 Adds AirPlay Receiver | The latest version of Rogue Amoeba’s Airfoil Speakers Touch still works as an extension of its desktop Airfoil streaming audio software. But with an in-app purchase, it turns an iOS device into an AirPlay receiver. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. | 4/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Google Drive and SkyDrive Take Aim at Dropbox | In the last week, Google launched its long-rumored Google Drive offering, and Microsoft overhauled SkyDrive, an existing synchronization and storage service. Both have robust support for the Mac, but is either better than Dropbox? Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. | 4/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Apple Reports $11.6 Billion Q2 2012 Profit | Apple reported another fantastic financial quarter, with a profit of $11.6 billion on revenues of $39.2 billion. iPhone and iPad sales pushed the numbers, but that’s not the whole story. Apple’s execution and presence in China significantly contributed to the company’s success. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. | 4/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Adobe Announces Creative Suite 6 and Creative Cloud | Adobe has announced its new suite of creative applications, but this time there’s something new that affects them all: Creative Cloud, a subscription service that makes it possible to use the Creative Suite for as little as $50 per month. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products. | 4/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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