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Submission + - Snow Leopard Snubs Document Creator Codes (tidbits.com)

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on Tuesday September 08, 2009 @10:04AM

adamengst writes: "In this TidBITS article, Matt Neuburg explores how Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard changes how the operating system handles preferred application binding, dropping support for the creator codes that have been part of the Mac OS from the early days. He also explains how to work around the problem, if you want, for instance, text documents created with BBEdit to open in BBEdit even when TextEdit is the default handler for text files."

Submission + - GPS Accuracy Could Start Dropping in 2010 (tidbits.com) 1

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on Thursday May 14, 2009 @11:58AM

adamengst writes: "A U.S. Government Accountability Office report raises concerns about the Air Force's ability to modernize and maintain the constellation of satellites necessary to provide GPS services to military and civilian users. TidBITS looks at the situation and possible solutions."

Submission + - Going Deep Inside Xserve Apple Drive Modules (tidbits.com)

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on Friday March 27, 2009 @09:57AM

adamengst writes: "If you've had an Xserve drive fail, you may have considered putting a replacement drive inside its Apple Drive Module to save some money. That may be a false economy, though. TidBITS explains why, while pinning Apple down on exactly what goes into Apple Drive Modules and why they cost so much more than bare retail drives."

Submission + - Quicken for Mac Lacks EV Cert Support (tidbits.com)

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on Tuesday December 23, 2008 @05:33PM

adamengst writes: "If your bank uses the Extended Validation certificates that require a higher level of identity checking on the certificate authority's part, you may not be able to download transactions using the Mac version of Quicken. As Glenn Fleishman writes in TidBITS, Quicken doesn't gracefully ignore extra information in EV certificates as older Web browsers do, but instead throws an error and refuses to download transactions. Intuit says they're working on a fix, but users may have to wait "a couple of months," and even then the fix may not be applied to versions before Quicken 2007."

Submission + - Grey Lines Mar MacBook Air Displays (tidbits.com)

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on Thursday December 04, 2008 @06:04PM

adamengst writes: "Numerous users have been complaining about grey lines that muddy the crispness of the displays of the recently updated MacBook Air. Doug McLean explains the problem in TidBITS, along with what Apple appears to be doing about it."

Submission + - EtherPad Brings Simultaneous Writing to the Web (tidbits.com)

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on Thursday November 20, 2008 @09:50PM

adamengst writes: "With EtherPad, the Mac's SubEthaEdit finally gains some company in the realm of real-time collaborative writing, in which two or more people can edit a document and see all the edits simultaneously. EtherPad's difference: It's a Web application that de facto supports many platforms without the need for a central Mac OS X host. Glenn Fleishman compares EtherPad with SubEthaEdit."

Submission + - How Mobile Phones Work Behind the Scenes (tidbits.com)

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on Tuesday October 07, 2008 @11:08AM

adamengst writes: "We seldom think about how our mobile phones actually work, but in this TidBITS article, Rich Mogull pulls back the covers and peels away the jargon to explain why text messages work when voice calls are dropped, why your battery lasts longer in some places than in others, why you're not allowed to use phones on airplanes, why you can be notified of a voicemail message when your phone never rang, and more."

Submission + - No, David Pogue, Ebook Piracy is Not a Given (tidbits.com) 1

Submitted by adamengst on Thursday June 05, 2008 @04:28PM

adamengst writes: David Pogue recently wrote a widely read blog post in which he explains that piracy is the reason he doesn't make his books available in PDF format. But in this article, TidBITS publisher Adam Engst disagrees strongly with Pogue's opinion, using sales numbers from the Take Control series of ebooks (150,000+ copies sold since 2004 with virtually no copying) as proof that making electronic versions not only doesn't necessary lead to piracy, it may be the best way of preventing illicit sharing.

Submission + - Instant Messaging for Introverts (tidbits.com)

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on Friday April 04, 2008 @12:57PM

adamengst writes: "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? In this TidBITS article, Joe Kissell examines what it means to be an introvert in this modern age of constant communication."

Submission + - Should Mac Users Run Antivirus Software? (tidbits.com) 1

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on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @02:43PM

adamengst writes: "In this TidBITS article, Macintosh security expert Rich Mogull explains why he doesn't use antivirus software on the Mac, and why most Mac users shouldn't bother with it either."

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