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Sweet Dreams from Macromedia

Macromedia's latest update to Dreamweaver, Web authoring software that supports an array of modern features such as cascading style sheets and animated buttons, continues to tempt designers

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Coping with Monitor Loss

A number of readers submitted additional of ways of recovering windows you can't reach after disconnecting a second monitor. If your Mac supports duplicate monitors (video mirroring), you may be able to recover your windows by dragging one onto the other in the Monitors & Sound control panel

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Intuit Drops Quicken for Macintosh

Intuit Drops Quicken for Macintosh -- Citing declining sales, Intuit has stopped development of Quicken for Macintosh, the popular personal finance package

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Apple Posts $55 Million Quarterly Profit

Apple Posts $55 Million Quarterly Profit -- Apple significantly surpassed analysts' expectations last week by posting a $55 million profit on revenues of $1.4 billion for its second fiscal quarter of 1998

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Drop More Stuff with DropStuff 4.5

Drop More Stuff with DropStuff 4.5 -- Aladdin Systems has released DropStuff with Expander Enhancer 4.5, the second half of Aladdin's dynamic duo of desktop compression and expansion utilities (the first half being the freeware StuffIt Expander 4.5)

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How Recent Is Your Last Backup?

How Recent Is Your Last Backup? Dantz Development has released a new backup program, Retrospect Express. Designed for individual users, Retrospect Express essentially replaces Dantz's DiskFit with a subset of the features available in the full version of Retrospect

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Announcing TidBITS Talk

In honor of our recent eighth anniversary of publication, we're trying something new, and you're invited to participate. Though TidBITS is often described as a mailing list, we consider it a publication that chooses electronic methods of distribution

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Monitor Shielding and Background

The letters surrounding "Double the Fun with Multiple Monitors" and "More on Multiple Monitors" in TidBITS-421 and TidBITS-422 continue to stream in

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In Praise of Porn

It is time to stop whining about Web porn sites and admit they make a valuable contribution to the Web. I'm not talking about the articles on playboy.com, but Internet payment schemes, streaming video, and authentication

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Intuit Drops Quicken

Citing declining sales, Intuit has stopped development of Quicken for Macintosh, a long-popular personal finance package; details about the decision are posted on Intuit's Web site

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TidBITS Turns Eight

April 16th, 1998 marks the eighth anniversary of TidBITS, continuing our streak as one of the longest running edited publications on the Internet. We started publishing in April of 1990 and have released a total of 425 weekly issues since then

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Drop More Stuff with DropStuff 4.5

Aladdin Systems has released DropStuff with Expander Enhancer 4.5, the second half of Aladdin's dynamic duo of desktop compression and expansion utilities (the other half being the freeware StuffIt Expander 4.5)

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Join Our New Mailing List: TidBITS Talk

We're happy to announce a new resource for TidBITS readers - TidBITS Talk. The TidBITS Talk discussion list is devoted to TidBITS-related topics; our goal is to open a public channel of communication so TidBITS readers can more easily communicate with each other and with the TidBITS staff

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PageSpinner Extension Spins Sites

Users of PageSpinner, a user-friendly HTML editor, should note Optima System's new Site Assistant 1.0, a PageSpinner extension that streamlines site-related operations

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Apple Posts $55 Million Quarterly Profit

Apple significantly surpassed analysts expectations today by posting a $55 million profit on revenues of $1.4 billion for its second fiscal quarter of 1998