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Take Control News: Make the Most of Apple Mail and .Mac

In an effort to clear the decks before Leopard pounces, we have published not one, not two, but three free updates to popular Take Control books about Apple Mail, managing spam with Apple Mail, and Apple's .Mac online service.

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DealBITS Discount: Save $10 on Nisus Writer Pro

If you weren't among our lucky winners of Nisus Writer Pro last week, read on to learn how you can save $10 off the purchase of the program.

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TidBITS AutoCorrect Dictionary for TextExpander and TypeIt4Me

Thanks to SmileOnMyMac, the TidBITS AutoCorrect Dictionary is now available for their TextExpander utility... and by extension for Riccardo Ettore's TypeIt4Me.

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MarsEdit 2.0 Blasts Off

Red Sweater Software has released MarsEdit 2.0, adding a variety of useful features to the popular weblog publishing program while retaining a simple, elegant interface.

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Macs Speak Clearly with Infovox iVox

The voices - particularly the British English ones - in Infovox iVox are stunningly good. If you've never used text-to-speech before because of low-quality voices, give these a listen.

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Yugma Provides Free Web Conferencing

Until Mac OS X 10.5's screen sharing becomes available, check out Yugma for free Web conferencing that works in Mac, Windows, and Linux.

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TidBITS AutoCorrect Dictionary Enhances Typinator

The addition of the 2,300-word TidBITS AutoCorrect Dictionary makes Typinator even more useful for correcting typos and misspellings.

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Tools We Use: Teleport

The free Teleport utility enables you to control multiple networked Macs from a single keyboard and mouse. It's very cool, and worth using for anyone who wants to use multiple Macs at the same time.

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Office 2004 11.3.7 Blocks Malicious Memories

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac has been updated yet again to block potential security issues.

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DealBITS Drawing: Win a Copy of Nisus Writer Pro

Win a copy of Nisus Software's powerful word processor Nisus Writer Pro in our latest DealBITS drawing!

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The Subliminal Snap of Keyclick

If you've been longing for the clicky sound of the keyboards of yesteryear, this $5 utility will provide it on any modern keyboard.

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New iLife ’08 Revealed, .Mac Upgraded

At last week's press event, Apple took the wraps off the next version of its iLife suite, bumping the name from iLife '06 to iLife '08 and providing a completely new version of iMovie.

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Numbers Joins iWork ’08

Apple has released iWork '08, updating Pages and Keynote and adding the long-rumored spreadsheet, Numbers.

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Microsoft Releases RDC and XML Converter Betas

Microsoft releases betas of the Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.0 and the Office Open XML File Format Converter.

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Curing Your LaunchBar Addiction

LaunchBar 4.3 makes our favorite launcher even better with Instant Open and Instant Send, along with oodles of other neat tweaks.