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Apple Enthusiast Offers New Take on News Aggregation

Faced with hours of empty time that could be spent reading Mac news? At the new Apple Enthusiast site, you can find TidBITS headlines along with oodles of others, all automatically categorized.

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Adobe Adjusts Photoshop Express Terms of Service

Adobe has updated the terms of service for the online photo-editing service Photoshop Express, after users complained that the original wording gave the company overreaching ownership of shared images.

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TidBITS Watchlist: Notable Software Updates for 07-Apr-08

Notable software releases this week include Daylite 3.7.2, MacSpeech Dictate 1.0.1, YummySoup 1.6.7, NetworkLocation 2.3, Default Folder X 4.03, and Things 0.9.1. Apple joins in the fun with QuickTime 7.4.5, iTunes 7.6.2, Front Row 2.0.3, Keynote 4.0.3, and the AirPort Admin Utility for Graphite and Snow AirPort base stations.

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U.S. Federal Court Declares Email Bankruptcy Illegal

Overwhelmed by email? Considering just deleting all those unread messages in your inbox? Not so fast - doing so may put you in a legally precarious situation.

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Merriam-Webster Accepts Sponsorship to Redefine Unlimited

Not happy with the meaning of a word? Change it! Merriam-Webster launches a new "wik-tionary" with corporate sponsorship. The first word to receive an... adjustment in definition? "Unlimited."

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Outspring Mail Promises Intelligent Filing

The makers of QuickMail debut the first new Mac email program in years: Outspring Mail. Along with the basics, the program boasts unique features like automatic filing based on content analysis, suggestions for automatic replies to frequently asked questions, and the capability to defer dealing with messages for later.

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Apple Ranked Top Brand Worldwide

Readers of the Brandchannel.com Web site rank Apple as the top brand in numerous categories, including "Which brand inspires you the most?" Hopefully our Cupertino comrades won't let it go to their heads.

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TidBITS Watchlist: Notable Software Updates for 31-Mar-08

Interesting updates so far this week include SOHO Organizer 7.0, SOHO Notes 7.0, MailTags 2.2, Moneydance 2008, Freeway 5, and a variety of highly specific updates from Apple.

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Apple Becomes First Victim in Hacking Contest

Mac OS X was just compromised more quickly than Windows Vista in a hacking contest. Should we worried? Rich Mogull explains why this is concerning, but there's no reason to panic.

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TidBITS Watchlist: Notable Software Updates for 24-Mar-08

Notable updates so far this week include Rogue Amoeba's Airfoil (and Audio Hijack Pro and Nicecast), Apple's Security Update 2008-002, SmileOnMyMac's PDFpen, Dejal Narrator, BeLight's Disc Cover, Toast 9 Titanium from Roxio, 1Password from Agile Web Solutions, Geophoto from Ovolab, and Apple's Time Machine and Airport Updates.

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TidBITS Watchlist: Notable Software Updates for 17-Mar-08

Notable updates this week include Things, SubEthaEdit, PopChar, WireTap Studio, ScreenFlow, Enclose, Parallels Server, and The Missing Sync for Palm OS.

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Apple Announces iPhone 2.0, Releases SDK

At a special event in Cupertino, Apple talked about what users can expect to see in iPhone 2.0, and officially announced the release of the iPhone software development kit. The iPhone 2.0 software is scheduled for release in June 2008, a year after the original iPhone shipped. However, a beta of 2.0 is available immediately for selected developers and enterprise customers; it includes support for the iPhone SDK along with new enterprise features.

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Apple Tops Fortune’s Most Admired Companies List

Apple took home top honors in Fortune Magazine's list of most admired companies in the United States and in the world, along with an overall top ranking for innovation.

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New MacBook Pro Gains Multi-Touch Trackpad, MacBook Speed Bumped

Apple has released new MacBook and MacBook Pro models that offer faster CPUs, larger hard drive options, and - in the MacBook Pro - the multi-touch trackpad that debuted with the MacBook Air.

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FileVault Security Compromised with Compressed Air

The memory chips used in personal computers retain their data after power is removed - longer if you freeze them. This leads to a security weakness: disk encryption keys can be extracted from memory even if a computer is active, locked or sleeping.