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TidBITS#771/21-Mar-05

Our content goes on the road this week, with Travis Butler rejoining us for a look at a new iPod FM transmitter and Glenn Fleishman laying out all the security options he uses to protect his data traffic while traveling. Matt Neuburg covers worthy updates to the CSS editor Style Master, Eastgate Systems’ Tinderbox, and PTHPasteboard, and we note Security Update 2005-003 and Apple’s revisions to Pages and Keynote. Be sure to enter our DealBITS drawing for a new HTML authoring tool: GoodPage!

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Tinderbox Keeps Getting Smarter

Tinderbox Keeps Getting Smarter -- Eastgate Systems' Tinderbox has been upgraded to version 2.4. Tinderbox (see my review in TidBITS-651) is a superb way to create heavily hyperlinked text; text snippets are stored in a hierarchical structure and can be exported as Web pages

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Pages 1.0.1 and Keynote 2.0.1 Updates Released

Pages 1.0.1 and Keynote 2.0.1 Updates Released -- Apple updated its iWork suite last week, bumping up Pages (the word processor for the rest of us) and Keynote (the presentation program for Steve Jobs's keynote addresses, and, you know, the rest of us who would prefer to not use PowerPoint)

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PTHPasteboard Returns, Better Late than Never

PTHPasteboard Returns, Better Late than Never -- Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger could ship any time, so the reign of Panther is nearly over. But users of Paul Haddad's free PTHPasteboard will be glad to hear the news anyway: PTHPasteboard, a wonderful free utility that keeps track of things you copy in any application so that you can paste any recently copied item later on (and not just the most recently copied item), has at last been updated for Panther. When Haddad went to work for You Software, the terms of his employment dictated that he had to stop working on PTHPasteboard (because the code was to be rolled into You Control)

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DealBITS Drawing: TARI’s GoodPage

In the early days of the Web, we saw the rise of simple graphical HTML editors like Claris HomePage, Symantec's Visual Page, and Adobe's PageMill. Those applications defined a useful niche between the text-only HTML editors like BBEdit (still preferred by many) and the powerful (and expensive) Web authoring tools like Adobe GoLive and Macromedia Dreamweaver

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What You Get Is What You CSS, With Style Master 4.0

Western Civilisation's flagship product, Style Master, is a CSS editor. You don't use it to create Web pages; you use it to create the look of Web pages - the font, size, color, and layout of the various elements that constitute your Web pages, as dictated though a CSS "style sheet." Style Master is my ideal of a program that knows a big complicated language so that you don't have to; you do see the actual CSS, but you can interact with it through pop-up menus and checkboxes that list the appropriate options and generate the correct syntax. <http://tidbits.com/getbits.a

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Getting Better AirPlay

FM transmitters aren't the perfect way to listen to an iPod in a car, but sometimes they're the best option. Cassette adapters give better and more reliable sound, but work only when the car actually has a cassette deck (an option that's hard to find these days on new cars)

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Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/21-Mar-05

The second URL below each thread description points to the discussion on our Web Crossing server, which will be faster. DRM to force repurchasing -- Digital rights management (DRM) is intended to be a hindrance to illegal copying, but it also obstructs honest consumers' capabilities to use the media they purchase legally