TidBITS#690/28-Jul-03
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Switching to a new email program is a harder decision than
swapping other software - Matt Neuburg explains why Mailsmith 2.0
is the email client for him. Also, Adam questions IDG's Macworld
Expo policy barring children under 13, and Jeff Carlson reveals
how to use iDVD 3 on Macs without SuperDrives. We also note the
releases of Palm's Tungsten T2, BBEdit 7.0.4, Griffin's iTrip
Station Finder, and Steve Wozniak's new wOzNet wireless network.
Topics:
MailBITS/28-Jul-03
Using iDVD 3.0.1 on Non-SuperDrive Macs
Macworld Expo New York's Ill-Advised Age Policy
True Confessions of a Mailsmith Switcher
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**Palm Tungsten T2 Improves on Original** -- Last November, Palm's
Tungsten T marked a new beginning for the handheld maker. Thanks
to its a bright color screen, capacious memory, fast processor,
and Palm OS 5, the Tungsten T proved innovation was still possible
for Palm following several years of humdrum activity (see
"Tungsten T Marks New Beginning for Palm" in TidBITS-655_). Now
Palm has released the Tungsten T2, which improves on the successes
of the its predecessor. The built-in memory has doubled to
32 MB, and the flash memory (which stores the operating system
and standard applications) is now 8 MB. Part of that flash memory
is now occupied by applications such as email and Web clients
that were previously available only on CD. This release also
uses Graffiti 2 software for text input, which offers slightly
different strokes to create some letters and the capability to
write directly on the screen instead of in the dedicated Graffiti
area. Also improved is the color screen, using a transflective
TFT that is brighter and sharper than the Tungsten T's already
impressive screen. Other features, such as built-in Bluetooth
networking and a microphone for recording voice messages, are
identical to the original model. The Tungsten T2 is available
now for $350. [JLC]
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**BBEdit 7.0.4 Released** -- Bare Bones Software has released
BBEdit 7.0.4, a bug fix update that the company recommends for
all owners of its flagship text editor, BBEdit 7.0. New in this
release are expanded HTML preferences and CVS (Concurrent Versions
System) logging. The update also incorporates over 60 changes
ranging from typo corrections in error dialogs to improved
performance when scrolling syntax-colored documents. The BBEdit
7.0.4 update is available as a free 15 MB download for both
Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. [JLC]
<http://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/current_notes.shtml>
<http://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/updates.shtml>
**iTrip Station Finder Released** -- When Travis Butler reviewed
Griffin Technology's iTrip, a $35 FM transmitter that works with
the iPod to play music over any radio, he gave the device high
marks for design and ingenuity, but noted that it was sometimes
difficult to find a clear frequency, especially in urban areas
(see "Taking an iTrip: Three FM Transmitters" in TidBITS-681_).
Last week Griffin released iTrip Station Finder, a free Mac OS X
application containing a database of 254 cities in the U.S. and
recommended frequencies to use in each. The iTrip is available
for both the 2003 iPod models (which have a FireWire dock on
the bottom of the device) and previous models with a FireWire
port on top. [JLC]
<http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/itrip/>
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**wOzNet: Wheels in the Sky Keep on Tuning** -- After co-founding
Apple Computer and teaching computer skills to fifth graders,
what's next for Steve Wozniak? Last week Woz took the wraps off
wOzNet, the project his new company, Wheels of Zeus (wOz), has
been working on for the past 18 months. wOzNet is a wireless
network composed of miniature tracking devices, intended for
use in locating objects, pets, or people. The devices use GPS
hardware to determine their position and low-power 900 MHz
wireless networking circuitry for broadcasting that position
to a nearby base station at a relaxed 20,000 bits per second,
less than most modems. The tags will also be able to generate
customizable alerts via phone or email. Multiple base stations
will be able to pick up the signal from a tag, enabling
neighborhood-wide tracking, but optional privacy controls
should prevent it from getting creepy. The wOzNet technology
is still being developed, but the company plans on releasing
consumer products in 2004. The trick for wOzNet is to find a
niche between the cheaper, but lower-powered RFID (Radio Frequency
Identification) tags gaining popularity for inventory control,
and the high-speed Wi-Fi networking gear that costs more and
consumes more power. [JLC]
<http://www.woz.org/>
<http://www.woz.com/about/>
Using iDVD 3.0.1 on Non-SuperDrive Macs
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by Jeff Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
A few weeks ago, Apple released iDVD 3.0.1 Update, an apparently
minor patch that provides, in Apple's brief description, "improved
performance and stability for encoding, burning, and managing your
iDVD projects." (The updater is a 4.1 MB download.)
<http://www.apple.com/idvd/download/>
What Apple didn't mention at the time, but recently revealed in
a Knowledge Base article, is that the update makes it possible to
run iDVD 3 on _any_ Macintosh with a PowerPC G4 or G5 processor -
not just Macs with a built-in SuperDrive, as previously required.
Of course, you won't be able to burn the final DVD disc on a
non-SuperDrive Mac, but you can build projects and encode them
in preparation for burning on another machine.
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93274>
Unfortunately, you can't purchase a copy of iLife and install
it on your Mac; the installer won't install iDVD 3 without a
SuperDrive present. (I wasn't able to test to see if a recent
boxed copy of iLife includes iDVD 3.0.1, and whether that would
install on any Mac; since its introduction, the iLife package has
been updated to include iTunes 4. However, I doubt that copies
with iDVD 3.0.1 would have made it into the retail channel yet.)
Instead, you must copy the iDVD 3 application folder from another
SuperDrive-equipped Mac, then run the iDVD 3.0.1 update to make
it work.
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Macworld Expo New York's Ill-Advised Age Policy
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by Adam C. Engst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In last week's coverage of Macworld Expo in New York, I ran out
of space to discuss one of the more subtle differences between this
year's Macworld Expo and previous ones: the banning of children
12 years of age and younger from the exhibit floor. Subtle it might
have been for those who didn't plan to attend with a child in tow,
but for those who unwittingly did, it meant a ruined day for both
adult and child. As the subject of TidBITS reader Evan Blonder's
email complaint to me read, "I got kicked out of CreativePro."
Another TidBITS reader was denied entrance because he had his
seven-week-old daughter asleep in a front carrier.
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When I saw the big sign at the door saying, "Children 12 years
of age and under will not be permitted on the exhibit floor,"
I thanked my lucky stars that Tonya decided to stay home with
Tristan again this year, rather than bringing him to meet all
our friends and colleagues from the industry and see just what
it is I do on my trips. But I was also caught off guard. I paid
far more attention to the details of Macworld Expo than most
people, thanks to our coverage of the Apple/IDG World Expo soap
opera that preceded this year's show, and the sign was the first
I'd heard of this age policy.
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When I asked Beth Wickenhiser, IDG World Expo's Senior PR
Coordinator, about it, she admitted that the first piece of
marketing collateral included the previous, totally reasonable,
age policy: children under 16 needed to be accompanied by a
registered adult, children under 5 were free, and strollers
and baby carriages weren't permitted for safety reasons. However,
she claimed that "every subsequent marketing piece, our Web site
and email blasts sent to registered attendees clearly indicated
the new age policy. Also, the online registration form required
all attendees to accept the event's terms and conditions, which
clearly stated this new policy."
<http://www.macworldexpo.com/macworld2003/V40/index.cvn>
When I went back to check my email (this is why I never empty
Eudora's Trash), I was able to find one mention of the new age
policy at the very bottom of an offer that I, as a speaker,
was allowed to send to friends and colleagues. But eight other
messages to another of my email addresses, trying to entice me
to attend, failed to mention it entirely. The Web site may have
mentioned the new age policy, but it certainly wasn't sufficiently
called out as being a change from previous years that I, or many
other people, noticed.
Do you have an opinion about this age policy you'd like to share
with the conference organizers? You can send them via email to
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or you can call 800-645-EXPO.
**What's the Point?** That was the main question I asked Beth,
since I couldn't imagine why IDG World Expo would care that
someone was walking around the show floor with a sleeping infant.
Her answer surprised me: "Macworld CreativePro Conference & Expo
was designed as an educational event for creative professionals.
As such, our exhibitors expected to see qualified, professional
attendees with buying power. While many children under the age of
12 are indeed proficient at using Macs and related applications,
they are not the professional users our exhibitors sought."
Wow, talk about missing the point! No one expects a seven-week-old
infant to be asking intelligent questions about high-end printers
or seriously considering the purchase of 3-D modeling software.
But her father, who matches IDG's description of a "qualified,
professional attendee with buying power" would have been asking
such questions if he had been allowed inside. And what if the
parent in question had been a graphic designer who just happened
to be a breast-feeding mother who couldn't leave the infant
for an entire day? Plus, most children are out of school during
Macworld New York's July dates, and with many creative
professionals working as freelancers or with flexible hours,
taking care of children is often a fact of life in the summer.
The practical implication of this policy is that parents who
manage to maintain a career while simultaneously caring for
their children are somehow unqualified to attend Macworld Expo.
These people deserve medals and public acclaim, not officious
harassment.
As Evan Blonder wrote, "IDG World Expo has to understand that many
of us 'creative professionals' take the day off to attend the
show, and some of us have children. We are fathers and mothers
as well as CEOs, designers, and artists. Sure, I could have left
my eight-year-old daughter home, but she was looking forward to
going. She had a great time last year, and wanted to go again.
Being turned away at the door left a bad feeling." I had to
convince Evan that he shouldn't cancel his Macworld Magazine
subscription, since Macworld Magazine merely licenses the name
to IDG World Expo and has no other input or control over the show.
There's no question that Macworld Expo is primarily for adults,
and particularly without a gaming pavilion this year, there wasn't
much reason why kids under 13 would be specifically interested
in most of the exhibitors. I was confused as to why the arbitrary
cut-off was 13, even so, but Beth stuck to her story. "While every
child is different, teenagers are generally more likely to buy
products and derive value from visiting the exhibit floor. Also,
our exhibitors recognize that teenagers are just a few years away
from being professional customers and thus are more willing to
meet with them on the expo floor." If IDG World Expo was so
concerned about limiting attendance to qualified attendees who
were ready to spend money, they could have raised the entry cost
significantly instead.
In fact, there's a larger criticism here. Involving our children
in our professional lives should be encouraged whenever
reasonable, since it helps build positive role models and deepen
the parent-child relationship. How can we expect your children
to understand who we are and what makes us tick if they never
see us in a professional situation? The gold standard here is
MacHack, where numerous students - who are almost universally
bright, interested, and well-behaved - get to work with some of
the best programmers in the Macintosh world. It's not that MacHack
itself has that great an effect; it's that's well-known developers
like Jim Matthews (Fetch), Jon Gotow (Default Folder), and others
have made their kids enough a part of their professional lives
that they can attend a conference like MacHack for real. And you
just have to assume that's going to give the kids a leg up later
in life, thanks to the experience and confidence they receive
from interacting with adults.
I'm not saying that IDG World Expo needs to have "Bring Your Child
to Macworld Expo Day" (though it's not a bad idea), just that they
shouldn't go out of their way to prevent parents from doing so as
happened this year in New York.
**Future Shows** -- The good news is that Macworld Expo in San
Francisco doesn't have Macworld New York's focus on the creative
professional, and Beth confirmed that the old age policy would be
in place for San Francisco. So those of you who bring children to
the show, either for their benefit or yours, can rest easy that
you'll be allowed in the door, assuming of course that nothing
changes in the interim.
Beth said it was too early to comment on what the age policy would
be for other upcoming events, so I would encourage everyone who
might be affected by such a policy to read Macworld's registration
fine print carefully, just in case it turns into headline sized
text on a sign by the security guards, as it did in New York. And
of course, I'll be keeping an eye out for similar policy changes
in the future. No one would complain if kids were kept out of a
suit-and-tie show, or if they were barred after bands of rowdy
teenagers disrupted booth presentations. But this is Macworld,
and this is the Macintosh community, and in all the years I've
attended Macworld Expos, I've never seen any abuses that would
justify banning kids of any age. Let's hope this year's experience
will be the last such attempt.
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True Confessions of a Mailsmith Switcher
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by Matt Neuburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Email clients are a lot like dogs. Why? Well, for one thing, their
owners are in constant denial. The unfortunate passerby may have
the dog's teeth embedded in her shin, with blood running down
her leg - the owner will still look her right in the eye and deny
that the dog is biting her. (Yes, I've actually seen this happen.)
Plus, over time a dog and its owner grow increasingly alike, and
mutually dependent. And no one can predict what dog an owner will
choose and love.
In the same way, I can't tell you what email client to use.
You're doubtless convinced there's nothing wrong with the program
you're using now; and the trouble and trepidation of switching,
especially when email is your life and the risks are so great,
probably seem overwhelming. Besides, what suits me might not suit
you. But I can tell you this: One fine day about nine months ago,
I, a longtime user and advocate of Eudora, became tired of its
shortcomings, switched to Bare Bones Software's Mailsmith, and
have never looked back. Even after all this time, I'm still
somewhat stunned by my behavior. Perhaps trying to explain
it to you will help me explain it to myself. Perhaps it might
lead you to look into Mailsmith as well.
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=00800>
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07239>
<http://www.barebones.com/products/mailsmith/>
**Reasons to Stop Reading** -- Since the notion that your current
email client might need replacing is probably threatening to you,
let me help by giving you, up front, some reasons to stop reading
this article altogether. You shouldn't proceed if you absolutely
must have IMAP support, or if you like your email as more than
text - HTML, format=flowed, or pictures, rendered right in your
client program. Mailsmith doesn't do IMAP at all, and it displays
just text: you can easily open attached HTML or images in another
program, but you won't see them within Mailsmith itself. That
suits me perfectly, since pure text (plus attachments) is just
what I think email should consist of. But if you really need
to see email messages with pictures, tiny print, underlines,
or funny "quote bars" down the side, don't consider Mailsmith.
You also shouldn't read on if you are religiously opposed to an
email client that keeps its messages in a database. I actually
agree with that position; since email is just text, why over-
engineer with a database and all its attendant problems, such as
huge file sizes and data you can't retrieve if things go wrong?
This is a prejudice I've managed to repress in order to accept
Mailsmith; perhaps, after some soul-searching, you could do
likewise.
Finally, you shouldn't read on if you're trapped in the past.
I peeped at Mailsmith 1.0 when it first came out, in the spring
of 1998, and, like the groundhog, dove right back into my hole.
I don't remember the details, but I do remember concluding almost
immediately that the program didn't seem to understand anything
about how I used email, or even how I used windows.
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But when I tried Mailsmith 1.5 last October, I found it greatly
changed. This version understood _exactly_ how I use mail. I could
view the three essential bits of information - all mailboxes, all
messages of one mailbox, the text of one message - in a single
tripartite window, in two windows with the mailbox list separate,
or in three separate windows. I could easily reply to the sender,
or to the sender plus all other recipients. I could have multiple
signatures. I could have multiple servers with different settings.
I could forward, redirect, or send again. I could encode
attachments in five different ways. After composing a message
I could save it as a draft, queue it, or send it immediately.
I could look right into my POP server and delete or download
individual messages. In short, Mailsmith's mail handling was
just great. Add to that its special strengths, and I was soon
an addict.
**The Iron Triangle** -- And what are Mailsmith's special
strengths? Naturally, I've been giving that question a lot
of thought, and I've concluded that there are three main ones,
that together give Mailsmith its special excellence and character.
Here they are:
* Text Handling. As I've said before, in my view email should be
just text. Under the hood, Mailsmith's core is the same as that of
Bare Bones's BBEdit, the best text editor in the business; so, you
get all the power of BBEdit's text handling wrapped up in an email
client. That includes terrific quoting and line-wrapping features,
along with find-and-replace of text - including regular-expression
searching of stored messages, which in Mailsmith 2.0 uses PCRE,
the regular-expression gold standard.
<http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/>
* Scriptability. Mailsmith is almost totally top-to-bottom
scriptable with AppleScript. This is no accident; it comes
from major planning and forethought. Mailsmith uses scripting
internally for much of its communication between the interface
and the program's core (its architecture is "factored"), so its
central functionality can then be all the more powerfully exposed
to AppleScript. Plus, you can add startup and shutdown scripts
that run automatically, utility scripts that appear in a special
Script menu, and scripts that modify what happens when you choose
a standard menu item.
* Filters. Mailsmith has email filtering to die for. It's a little
complicated, but it's also incredibly powerful, and with the new
2.0 SpamSieve integration, it's better than ever (see "Tools We
Use: SpamSieve" in TidBITS-667_). First, SpamSieve vets incoming
mail and eliminates suspected spam; then the incoming mailbox
filters take over, and then individual mailboxes get to peruse
the incoming messages and move them down the mail folder/mailbox
hierarchy. Plus you can manually run filters attached to any
mailbox at any time. A filter can contain of an unlimited number
of tests, and its action can even be the running of a script.
In short, Mailsmith has more than enough power to keep your
incoming and outgoing messages categorized just as you want
them. (See "Distributed Filtering," a series of two articles
beginning in TidBITS-648_.) If you buy a new copy of Mailsmith
2.0 directly from Bare Bones on or before 31-Jul-03, Bare Bones
will throw in a copy of the $20 SpamSieve for free.
<http://www.barebones.com/products/mailsmith/spamsieve.shtml>
<http://www.c-command.com/spamsieve/>
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**The Power of 2.0** -- Back in October of 2002, I migrated easily
but experimentally into the Mailsmith 1.5 demo. After using it
for about four days, I realized, in a sudden revelation, that
I was hooked, and that I wasn't going to be abandoning Mailsmith
any time soon. All the same, I didn't feel comfortable about
revealing my decision to others; I remained a closet Mailsmith
switcher. The trouble was that I couldn't quite _recommend_
Mailsmith 1.5. It had some interface quirks; it was dog-slow,
with the "spinning pizza of death" appearing frequently; and
it crashed remarkably often - about once a day - sometimes
taking some of my data with it. I really shouldn't be telling
you about that, but unfortunately I can't tell you why 2.0 is
so much better without admitting 1.5's problems.
The fact is, 2.0 is indeed much better; the problematic aspects of
1.5 are now a thing of the past. The folks at Bare Bones have done
a painstaking and thoroughly professional job of revising the
program. Menu items and interface elements have been rearranged
in a more sensible fashion, threading has been tweaked, just about
everything has been sped way up, and bugs have been ruthlessly
tracked down and squashed. The result is that Mailsmith 2.0
feels peppy, clean, crisp, and totally reliable. Where I suffered
through Mailsmith 1.5's drawbacks to take advantage of its special
strengths, 2.0 is in every respect a delight to use.
**Sweating the Small Stuff** -- I haven't yet mentioned many
aspects of Mailsmith that deserve attention. It has great
drag & drop support and great use of contextual menus. The
new PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) integration is excellent. The
new support for Apple's Address Book has me using that program
for the first time; it serves as a "whitelist" for SpamSieve and
allows auto-completion when typing an addressee's name. Searching
is fast - not quite as fast as Eudora, but on the same order of
magnitude (contrast Entourage, which I had to stop using after
a week's flirtation, years ago, because searching was glacially
slow; see "Entourage: The Grand Tour" in TidBITS-550_). I could
mention lots more, but this paragraph would soon become a features
list, and for that you can consult the Mailsmith Web site.
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=06139>
<http://www.barebones.com/products/mailsmith/features.shtml>
Mailsmith does contain some things that still annoy me. You can
elect to leave large messages on the POP server; a "stub" message
appears in your inbox, and you use this to delete or download the
real message later. That's great, but if you download it, the stub
is replaced by the real message, and nothing then informs you that
the original is still sitting on the server.
Date sorting of messages sometimes works oddly. Glossary entries
and signatures can contain references to special placeholder
items, whose values are substituted when messages are sent, but
there's no helpful interface for listing and inserting these
placeholders (you have to consult the manual and type them by
hand). The glossary mechanism itself is clumsy; you can't just
insert a glossary item by typing its name, as in Microsoft Word.
Many common simple actions, such as deleting a message, can't
be reversed by Undo.
Navigating to a message's enclosing mailbox list doesn't select
that message, which is silly because the reason you navigated
there is surely to find it in context. Option-Command-Delete
deletes a message permanently (rather than moving it to the Trash
mailbox), but Option-clicking the Delete button does not, which
is confusing. There is spell-checking, but it isn't inline, which
many folks prefer. The Connection window, which is supposed to
alert you that a server transaction is in process, often doesn't
come far enough forward to be visible.
**Conclusions** -- Despite such nitpicking, this version of
Mailsmith puts the program in a whole new category. Mailsmith 1.5
was usable but flawed; it had a coterie of devoted followers, but
they seemed mostly to be fanatics. Mailsmith 2.0, on the other
hand, is simply a great program, and deserves wide and serious
consideration. It has been worth the wait. If you've wondered
what the fuss is about, now is the right time to give Mailsmith
a second look - or a first look.
Mailsmith requires at least Mac OS X 10.1.5, and some features
require Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar, with 10.2.6 strongly recommended.
A 30-day demo is available as a 13 MB download and can be
converted to permanency by purchasing a license. Mailsmith 2.0
costs $100, with a $20 academic and cross-upgrade discount.
Mailsmith 1.5 owners can upgrade for free until 15-Sep-03;
owners of version 1.0 or 1.1 can upgrade for $50.
<http://www.barebones.com/products/mailsmith/demo.shtml>
<http://www.barebones.com/store/ms_upgrades.shtml>
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Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/28-Jul-03
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by TidBITS Staff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
**AirPort Extreme and 802.11g gear** -- Recent articles about
using non-Apple gear for 802.11g wireless networking prompted
readers to share their experiences with a variety of inexpensive
wireless PC Cards. (5 messages)
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**Importing/exporting Safari bookmarks** -- Safari can import
bookmarks from Internet Explorer and Netscape/Mozilla browsers,
but the process isn't always straightforward. Check here for some
solutions. (4 messages)
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**Cleaning screens** -- So what is the best way to clean an LCD
screen on a laptop or other Apple monitor? Suggestions have been
made, but no conclusions have been reached. (3 messages)
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**Feature requests for iChat AV** -- iChat AV isn't perfect, but
what would make sense to add to Apple's audio and video chatting
application without causing it to lose focus on what it does well?
(5 messages)
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**iBook battery problems** -- The search is still on for why some
iBook batteries won't charge properly under revisions to Mac OS X
10.2. In this ongoing discussion, a few readers report success
getting batteries replaced, and point to other Web pages about
extending battery life for Li-ion batteries. (13 messages)
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