What should you use to fix a corrupted hard disk? Disk expert David Shayer ran detailed tests comparing DiskWarrior, Norton Utilities, Drive 10, DiskGuardian, and Disk Utility – which do you think won? Adam also chimes in with the latest Take Control ebook free updates and system changes. In the news, Apple released a 20-inch iMac and speedier Power Mac G5s, and posted a new security update, and Creo released Tokens, a solution to file transfer problems. TidBITS is off next week for the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. – see you in December!
Next Issue 08-Dec-03 -- We're taking next week off from our regular publication schedule so we can all spend some relaxing time with families and friends over the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S
Submit Your Holiday 2003 Gift Ideas -- We may not approve of ads for Christmas sales appearing the day after Halloween, but it is now once again a decent time to start thinking about the year's annual spectacle of consumer confidence
Apple Introduces 20-inch iMac -- Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Apple has released a new version of the flat-panel iMac that offers a 20-inch LCD screen with a resolution of 1680 by 1050 pixels
Apple Releases 1.8 GHz Dual Processor G5 -- Apple has released a new model of the Power Mac G5, its 64-bit minitower computer aimed at professional and high-end Macintosh users
Security Update 2003-11-19 Helps Panther, Jaguar -- Apple released a pair of security updates last week via Software Update, bringing both Mac OS X 10.2.8 Jaguar and Mac OS X 10.3.1 Panther up to the same security level
Creo Eases File Sharing with Tokens -- Have you found sharing files via email frustrating? Email, as we've been predicting, is becoming increasingly unreliable, thanks to spam-overloaded servers and inaccurate filters, and, when we're talking about file sharing, encoding format troubles and attachment size limitations
Silly us. We thought things would ease up after our initial launch and release of the 1.1 update to Joe Kissell's "Take Control of Upgrading to Panther" two weeks after Panther shipped
Some things are inevitable. Death, taxes, and disk crashes. One day you will try to open an important file, only to receive a dire error message. Or perhaps you'll discover that an entire folder has vanished
Jeff's video cropping odyssey -- Jeff Porten follows up his article about EyeTV with this description of how he stores programs on video. (1 message)
Faxing in Panther -- TidBITS Talk readers report their experiences using Panther's built-in fax software