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Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/07-May-07

Improving Services — Want to de-clutter your Services menu? Service Scrubber will do the job for you. Have other ideas for how Services could be improved? Post them here. (1 message)

Unable to empty trash — A reader who purchased a used Mac can’t get the Trash to empty, leading to suggestions for solving the problem and other instances of files that refuse to go gently into that good bin. (9 messages)

Step on a WEP Crack, Break Your Network — Troubles activating WPA on an old AirPort Base Station branch off into questions of wireless security and the risks involved in running an open network. (19 messages)

Stock Options at Apple — The SEC’s investigation into Apple’s stock option backdating could be construed as clearing Steve Jobs, but that isn’t necessarily the last word. (2 messages)

Address Book/.Mac –> Outlook? Is there an easy solution for transferring contact data from the Mac’s Address Book to Outlook? It turns out Entourage can help. (6 messages)

iMac 24″ as a display? When the time comes to replace a reader’s 24-inch iMac, can its beautiful display be used as an external monitor? (3 messages)

Flash player install problems — Can logging in as root solve an installation problem, or is that just opening up a different box of problems? (6 messages)

Moving Apple Mail Folder — A reader’s Mac still thinks the Mail folder is in the same place after a move, so how do you point it in the right direction? (3 messages)

APPLE-SA-2007-05-01 QuickTime 7.1.6 — The latest QuickTime update reveals an installation bug in Windows – dating back to Windows 95. (4 messages)

Jobs posts about Apple’s “green” credentials — Readers react to last week’s open letter from Steve Jobs, including discussions of computer equipment recycling and LED-based lighting systems. (15 messages)

Quicken 2004 “Sunsets” — As of 30-Apr-07, Quicken 2004 apparently won’t perform online transactions, a limitation built into the software. Is it a reasonable step to focus support on recent software, an annoying way to force upgrades, or both? (5 messages)

Filtering in Eudora based on Mac OS X Address Book Group — The latest version of Eudora can work with addresses from Address Book, but a reader is having trouble using the group features. (3 messages)

Accessing Financial Web Sites on a Public Connection — Is Walt Mossberg being paranoid when he recommends not accessing some Web sites on public networks? Once again, we learn that paranoia is all relative. (4 messages)

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