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TidBITS#1047/04-Oct-2010

What’s an appropriate age to introduce a kid to social media services? Andy Affleck ponders the question as his 10-year-old pesters him for a Facebook account. Also this week, Adam explores the dark underside of URL shortening services – though they may offer attractive features like click counting, they simply can’t be trusted with any link that’s critical to your business. For iPhone and iPod touch users, we have a pair of new ebooks: “Take Control of iPhone Basics, iOS 4 Edition” for those new to the iPhone and “Take Control of Mail on the iPhone and iPod touch, iOS 4 Edition” for anyone trying to create a coherent mobile email strategy. Finally, along with notable software releases like Premiere Elements 9.0, Photoshop Elements 9.0, GraphicConverter 7.0, Eudora OSE 1.0, Postbox 2, and Thunderbird 3.1.4, we have a more-detailed look at StuffIt Deluxe 2011, the latest version of the longstanding compression and archiving program.

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StuffIt Deluxe 2011 Adds Destinations

What do you add to a compression program that's been around for 23 years? If you're Smith Micro updating StuffIt Deluxe, you try to make it easier for people to compress files on the way to their eventual destination with a new application: StuffIt Destinations.

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ExtraBITS for 4 October 2010

Three extra bits for you this week: news of the fall and potential rise of the Xmarks cross-platform and cross-browser bookmark synchronization service, a release date for Microsoft Office 2011, and the debut of Amazon's Kindle for the Web, which is more a sales tool than a user-centric service.