How easily can rumor become news? GoLive and FreeHand appeared to be headed for the scrap heap until Glenn Fleishman did some multilingual digging. Also in this issue, Adam reviews J. D. Lasica’s book "Darknet" and comes away with a better understanding of how people interact with copyright and intellectual property, while Joe Kissell looks to the future of Palm handhelds as reflected in FileMaker Mobile 8. Lastly, Apple patches some holes with QuickTime 7.1.1, and we announce "Take Control of iWeb" and the "Macworld iPod and iTunes Superguide," along with a DealBITS drawing for SmileOnMyMac’s TextExpander.
QuickTime 7.1.1 Released -- Apple posted a small update to QuickTime last week that is a big deal for some Adobe customers. QuickTime 7.1.1 fixes a problem that interfered with installation of Adobe Creative Suite 2 (CS2) on Intel-based Macs
One of the most venerable categories of utility software is that of the abbreviation expander. It's not surprising - computers are supposed to save us work, and who wants to type their entire snail mail address by hand every time when you could type "sm" and have a utility replace that with the full address? SmileOnMyMac recently acquired and updated Peter Maurer's highly regarded Textpander utility (and renamed it TextExpander), making it an excellent choice among these programs
Officemate and TidBITS Managing Editor Jeff Carlson yells out, "Hey, GoLive is dead!" I shout a long, lingering, "Nooooooooooo!" and then say, "All-right-y then." (We wrote several editions of "Real World GoLive" together, so it's a program we've followed closely for years.)
Following Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia last year, a cloud of speculation has hovered over the fates of Adobe GoLive (whose stronger competition was Macromedia Dreamweaver) and prodigal child Macromedia FreeHand (whose stronger competition was Adobe Illustrator)
As someone who earns a living from the written word, I keep a close eye on all that's happening in the copyright wars, that is, the ongoing skirmishes between the large companies that own the copyright on various types of media and the general populace who consume and use such media
Palm recently celebrated the tenth anniversary of the original PalmPilot PDA. I was among the enthusiastic early adopters. I was thrilled that, unlike the large paper organizer it replaced, it featured fast searching and synchronization with my computer
"Take Control of iWeb" Helps iWeb Users Work Creatively -- Apple's new iWeb application aims to help you build a Web site quickly and easily, but if you've found yourself stuck on the basics or unhappy with amateurish results, turn to Steve Sande's 123-page "Take Control of iWeb" for ideas and assistance
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Security Update causing Mail to crash? Readers detail a few problems following the latest Mac OS X security update, though the issues don't appear to be widespread