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What to Do with an Old iPad

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Poor Reaction to Skype 5 for Mac

Skype 5 is an overhaul of the chat, voice, and video call program for Mac OS X. But not a good one. The company tried to make the software more Mac-friendly, but removed useful features while abusing screen territory and making the interface far harder to navigate.

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Apple Releases Smaller and Thinner iPods

Apple redesigned its entire line of iPods (except for the iPod classic, which is still available in the Apple Store), bringing cameras, FaceTime, and the Retina display to the iPod touch; a smaller size and touchscreen interface to the iPod nano; and (finally) buttons back to the iPod shuffle.

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Navigon Mobile Navigator 1.6

Looking for an iPhone app to provide weather conditions and forecasts that goes well beyond Apple's bundled Weather app? Adam, who cares deeply about past, present, and future weather, looks at his current iPhone weather app of choice, WeatherBug Elite.

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Skype 5.0 Beta Slips Backwards in Interface

The 5.0 beta of Skype for Mac OS X takes several steps backwards in the user interface without adding new functionality or improving ease of use. We hope there's time to influence the beta's outcome.

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“Take Control of MobileMe” Guides You through Apple’s Cloud

Joe Kissell’s revised ebook about MobileMe explores the nooks and crannies of Apple’s cloud-based service, guides you through the latest MobileMe changes, and explains what they mean to you.

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Fixing the Google Account Problem

By: Drummond Reed Every so often you experience a technical problem you can’t find any information about and takes forever to solve. Then, after you finally solve it, you’re left scratching your head saying, “I…

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Early Days of Ping Disappoint

Among the significant announcements at Apple’s recent special media event was Ping, a social networking service for music that’s built into iTunes and the iTunes Store. In some ways, Ping has a huge head start…

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Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/06-Aug-07

Find out what TidBITS readers are discussing this week!

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BBEdit 8.7 Bulks Up

BBEdit 8.7 improves text factories, AppleScript, file groups, disk browsers, and both Python and Lua language support.

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Pictures from the iPhone Line

I plan on standing in line this Friday night to buy an iPhone. Now, I have a professional reason for it, as I make money writing about computer technology

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Leopard Pushed to October 2007

Leopard will remain caged for a few more months. In a statement released last week, Apple announced that Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard will not be released until some time in October 2007

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Online Backup Options Expand

A number of years ago, when the commercial Internet was still young and hard drive capacities were usually measured in megabytes rather than gigabytes or terabytes, I subscribed to an online backup service

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Find Strongest Wi-Fi Networks Easily

Like most other Mac users, when I'm travelling, I often need to connect to a Wi-Fi network to access the Internet for email and Web browsing. But what if there are multiple available networks and I don't know which would be best to use? In the past, I would usually bring up iStumbler (MacStumbler hasn't been updated in years), but Take Control author Sharon Zardetto Aker alerted me to a simpler method that's built into Mac OS X

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More on Apple/EMI and DRM-Free Music

[Editor's Note: We weren't able to touch base with Editor-at-Large Geoff Duncan in time for last week's "Apple and EMI Offer DRM-Free Music via iTunes" (2007-04-02), but his extensive experience in the recording industry makes his commentary essential reading for anyone following the situation