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TidBITS#772/28-Mar-05

If one of your credit card numbers was stolen, do you know how to deal with it? Adam shares his first-hand experience and offers suggestions for minimizing your risk and annoyance. Also this week, Matt Neuburg paints a favorable picture of Purgatory Design’s Intaglio drawing software. In the news, we cover the release of BBEdit 8.1 and an iPod photo software update, note Apple’s settlement with a guy who leaked Tiger seeds, and pass on a DealBITS discount for TARI’s GoodPage HTML editor.

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Apple Settles with One Tiger Leaker

Apple Settles with One Tiger Leaker -- Apple Computer has settled out of court with Doug Steigerwald, a recent graduate of North Carolina State University and an Apple Developer Connection member who admitted to sharing seeds of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger on the Internet

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DealBITS Drawing: GoodPage Winners

DealBITS Drawing: GoodPage Winners -- Congratulations to Dana Ostrow of columbia.edu, whose entry was chosen randomly in last week's DealBITS drawing and who received a copy of TARI's GoodPage graphical HTML authoring tool, worth $149

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iPod Updater 2005-03-23 Released

iPod Updater 2005-03-23 Released -- Apple last week released an update for iPod photo owners. The hefty 28.9 MB iPod Updater 2005-03-23 brings the iPod software to version 1.1 and adds support for Apple's forthcoming $30 iPod Camera Connector (announced in February, and now available for order from Apple's online store)

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Intaglio: May the Quartz Be with You

Remember the magical feeling you had when you first used a Macintosh, and played with those early bundled applications, MacPaint and MacDraw? The magic - though you may not have been conscious of this at the time - lay in the fact that these tiny applications were essentially just showcases for the Mac's underlying technology

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Stolen Credit Card Numbers and Companies with a Clue

Credit card number theft is one of those events that seems to happen only to other people... until it hits you. That just happened to me, and the repercussions proved a bit more instructive and far-reaching that I would have initially anticipated. Awkward Dating -- The first hint that something was wrong came when Tonya was reviewing the charges on the MasterCard we use solely for business purchases

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Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/28-Mar-05

The second URL below each thread description points to the discussion on our Web Crossing server, which will be faster. Address Book utilities -- After using the old Address Book 4.2.6 under Mac OS 9, a reader is looking for something similar that will run under Mac OS X