TidBITS#764/31-Jan-05
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Apple opens the week with a sizzling new lineup of PowerBook G4
models, boosting processor speeds and adding a new Sudden Motion
Sensor and a scrolling trackpad. Also in this issue, we note
price reductions for Mac mini build-to-order components; a clever
service for transferring large files via email; and the releases
of Security Update 2005-001, iMovie HD 5.0.1, iStumbler 90,
and a Take Control update and German translation. This issue
also brings a new approach to DealBITS that could significantly
increase your chances of receiving a prize - SmileOnMyMac's
photoprinto software this time. Lastly, we wish the Mac a
happy 21st birthday!
Topics:
MailBITS/31-Jan-05
DealBITS Drawing: SmileOnMyMac's photoprinto
PowerBooks Gain Faster CPUs, Scrolling Trackpad
Mac mini Upgrade Prices Shrink to Size of Box
Worthy Web Sites: YouSendIt
Take Control News/24-Jan-05
Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/31-Jan-05
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MailBITS/31-Jan-05
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**First Apple Security Update of 2005 Patches Mac OS X** -- On
25-Jan-05, Apple released Security Update 2005-001 to patch
several reported vulnerabilities in both desktop and server
versions of Mac OS X 10.2 and 10.3. The update affects Mail
and Safari, the SquirrelMail webmail software incorporated in
Mac OS X Server, the Unix command-line tool at, ColorSync color
profile software, and the libxml2 and PHP libraries. With the
update, Apple also started a new naming scheme for security
updates that uses the year and a sequential update number rather
than a full date that could sometimes cause confusion when it
didn't match with the release date.
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300770>
The newly patched Mail client no longer uses each Mac's
identifiable unique network hardware address in constructing the
Message-ID header in outgoing messages, and Safari now prevents
a malicious pop-up window from appearing to be from a trusted
site. (If Safari's Block Pop-Up Windows feature is enabled, the
issue doesn't occur.) Details of the other patches are available
on Apple's Web site. The free updates, 18 MB for 10.2 users and
7 MB for 10.3 users, may be downloaded via Software Update or
from the Apple Downloads Web site. [MHA]
<http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/>
**iMovie HD 5.0.1 Addresses Audio Sync Issues** -- Apple on
27-Jan-05 released iMovie HD 5.0.1, which fixes unspecified audio
and video synchronization issues. According to Apple, you should
apply the patch if your iMovie HD projects include "DV Widescreen
assets [16:9 footage], titles, transitions, or video effects"
...which describes pretty much any iMovie project. The update
is available as a 2.4 MB download via Software Update. [JLC]
<http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/>
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300731>
**Stumbling across Bluetooth (and Wi-Fi)** -- Alf Watt has
released iStumbler 90, a Mac OS X tool that scans for Wi-Fi
(AirPort and AirPort Extreme) and now Bluetooth and Rendezvous
networks. Scanning for Bluetooth networks is a new hobby
among those who want to find other similarly minded people and,
sometimes, mess with their minds by sending them strange messages
or even taking over certain devices when a user is unwise enough
to accept a Bluetooth-sent attachment. The Rendezvous or multicast
DNS (mDNS) scanning is also useful given how widely Apple has
deployed the technology. iStumbler lets you browse for mDNS
services and connect to them through a single interface instead
of needing to use different programs, such as a Web browser and
the Finder, to attach to different kinds of services.
<http://www.istumbler.net/>
This version also improves the scanning and display of Wi-Fi
networks, which system administrators will find useful when trying
to pinpoint signal problems or glitches, including a Widget-like
transparent window showing signal strength on a time-based chart
for any one network you choose. iStumbler is free and open source,
but the developer is soliciting small donations to continue his
work. [GF]
**Happy 21, Macintosh!** 24-Jan-05 marked the 21st birthday of
our favorite smiling friend, Macintosh. If you have a BitTorrent
client (I'm currently using Azureus), go to the last URL below and
download the video (21 MB QuickTime) of the Mac's introduction.
Steve Jobs's bow tie alone is worth the download. [JLC]
<http://www.bittorrent.com/>
<http://azureus.sourceforge.net/>
<http://www.industrial-technology-and-witchcraft.de/1984.html>
DealBITS Drawing: SmileOnMyMac's photoprinto
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by Adam C. Engst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Before I introduce this week's DealBITS drawing, I want to
tell you about a few changes to the way DealBITS works that will
increase your chances of receiving a prize. On the confirmation
Web page (and in a new email confirmation message entrants
receive), you'll see a custom URL that you can send to friends
and colleagues so they can enter the drawing too. Here's the cool
part. If one of our randomly chosen winners entered using your
referral URL, you'll receive exactly the same prize. Refer one
person and you double your chances of receiving a prize. Refer
100 people and your chances increase by 100 times. Also, if
the address you use to enter is not subscribed to TidBITS, the
confirmation page and email give you an opportunity to subscribe;
I'm hoping this new approach will help introduce more people
to TidBITS as well.
On to this week's drawing! Holiday cards bug me. Buying pre-
printed cards and just signing them feels like a cop-out, but
hand-writing individual notes to the 130 or so people on our list
is far too much work. For some years we've addressed the problem
with a holiday letter that we enclose in a card, but that approach
lacks panache. The last two years we instead designed our cards in
InDesign, adding photos from the year and the text of the holiday
letter, and then had them printed on glossy, pre-scored stock.
It's still a lot of work, and it's not cheap (though no more
so than commercial holiday cards), but the results are worth
it, and the cards engender lots of nice comments.
So when Greg Scown and Philip Goward of SmileOnMyMac told me
at Macworld Expo they'd come up with a new program, called
photoprinto, that makes it easy to design both entire photo albums
and page layouts with text and photos, I asked them to simulate
my holiday card layout, which took me quite some time in InDesign.
A few minutes later, and they'd done a great mock-up; photoprinto
really did make photo layouts easy.
Needless to say, photoprinto can import photos from iPhoto or from
a folder; it can create single sheets or full multi-page photo
albums; and it can help you go beyond what's possible in iPhoto
with a set of customizable, full-graphic, album templates for
many occasions; numerous frames; and a variety of effects that
you can apply to photos, including captions, cropping, soft edges,
and more.
<http://www.smileonmymac.com/photoprinto/>
In this week's DealBITS drawing, you can enter to win one of
three copies of photoprinto 1.0.1, each worth $29.95. Entrants
who aren't among our lucky winners will receive a discount on
photoprinto, so if you've been considering creating a photo album
for your grandmother, or some personalized Valentine's Day cards,
or if you just want a more customizable way to share pages of
photos than is possible with iPhoto, be sure to enter at the
DealBITS page linked below. All information gathered is covered
by our comprehensive privacy policy. Be careful with your spam
filters, since you must be able to receive email from my address
to learn if you've won.
<http://www.tidbits.com/dealbits/smileonmymac3/>
<http://www.tidbits.com/about/privacy.html>
PowerBooks Gain Faster CPUs, Scrolling Trackpad
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by Adam C. Engst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Apple today pulled the wraps off an update to the PowerBook line
that increases CPU speeds to 1.5 GHz and 1.67 GHz, bumps all hard
drive speeds to 5400 rpm, adds an 8x SuperDrive, and introduces a
pair of interesting new technologies - the scrolling trackpad and
Sudden Motion Sensor - the latter of which you hope you'll never
need.
<http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jan/31powerbook.html>
<http://www.apple.com/powerbook/>
**Faster PowerBook!** In a not unexpected move, Apple bumped up
the clock speeds of the PowerPC G4 used in the current PowerBook
line. The end result is a $2,700 1.67 GHz 17-inch PowerBook that
comes with a 100 GB hard disk, an 8x SuperDrive (CD-RW/DVD+-RW),
an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 graphics processor with 128 MB
of video memory, Dual Link DVI support that can drive Apple's
30-inch Cinema HD Display, and internal Bluetooth 2.0+EDR.
Other specs remain the same: 512 MB of RAM, Gigabit Ethernet,
56 Kbps v.92 modem, built-in 54 Mbps AirPort Extreme, a pair
of USB 2.0 ports, FireWire 400 and 800 ports, optical digital
audio input and output, and an illuminated keyboard with the
ambient light sensor.
The addition of the backwards-compatible Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
(Enhanced Data Rate) is somewhat notable, given that Apple is
the first major company to build the technology in by default.
Bluetooth 2.0 triples the maximum data rate from 1 Mbps to 3 Mbps
and in doing so, thanks to the side effect of transmitting for
shorter periods of time, reduces power consumption. Of course,
nothing else supports Bluetooth 2.0 right now, but that will
undoubtedly change soon. The final Bluetooth 2.0 specification
was ratified in November 2004, with the first ratified chips
appearing in December, meaning that Apple turned on a dime to
build them into these new PowerBooks.
<http://www.apple.com/bluetooth/>
<http://www.bluetooth.com/news/releases.asp?A=2&PID=1437&ARC=1>
The 15-inch PowerBook comes in 1.67 GHz and 1.5 GHz models ($2,300
and $2,000, respectively). Compared to the 17-inch PowerBook, the
15-inch 1.67 GHz model includes only 64 MB of video memory (128 MB
and Dual Link support are optional), comes with an 80 GB hard
disk, and lacks digital audio input and output; the 1.5 GHz model
also trades the SuperDrive for a Combo drive (CD-RW/DVD-ROM) and
loses the option of Dual Link support.
With the 12-inch PowerBook, Apple offers a pair of 1.5 GHz models.
The $1,700 model includes an 80 GB hard disk and an 8x SuperDrive;
the $1,500 model instead provides a 60 GB hard disk and a Combo
drive. Both models also rely on an Nvidia GeForce FX Go5200
graphics processor with 64 MB of video memory, and they offer
only 100Base-T Ethernet and FireWire 400 instead of the faster
ports sported by their larger siblings. As with previous models,
the 12-inch version does not offer the illuminated backlit
keyboard.
All models come with Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, iLife '05, Art
Director's Toolkit, QuickBooks for Mac New User Edition,
GraphicConverter, OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner, and a variety
of trial versions of other programs.
**Scrolling Trackpad** -- Raging Menace Software's $15 utility
SideTrack has long simulated scroll-wheel capabilities on
PowerBook and iBook trackpads, but it does so by devoting a
side of the trackpad to scrolling. Apple's new scrolling trackpad
technology, which is built into all the new PowerBooks, takes a
different approach that may work better. Drag two fingers on the
trackpad simultaneously to scroll horizontally, vertically, or
to pan around the active window. You can customize the settings
or turn off scrolling entirely, presumably in the Trackpad tab
of the Keyboard & Mouse preference pane.
<http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/sidetrack/>
The scrolling trackpad technology is built into the trackpad
hardware and thus won't be available to owners of older PowerBooks
or iBooks, though I would expect to see it migrate to the iBooks
with the next minor update to that line.
**Sudden Motion Sensor** -- Dropping your PowerBook is a bad idea.
A really bad idea. But as much as breaking the screen and denting
the case in ways that might prevent the lid from closing or the
optical drive from working are terrible, horrible, awful, rotten,
no-good things to have happen, even worse is damaging the hard
drive and losing all your data. (Unless, of course, you have
cleverly followed Joe Kissell's advice in "Take Control of
Mac OS X Backups" to ensure that you can restore everything
with a minimum of fuss and downtime.)
<http://www.tidbits.com/takecontrol/backup-macosx.html>
Apple still hasn't built any sort of automatic backup capabilities
into the Mac, but the entire line of new PowerBooks feature
the new Sudden Motion Sensor, which detects changes in axis
position and accelerated motion (as will likely happen when you
accidentally pull the PowerBook off your desk while messing about
with the cable nest on the floor). When the Sudden Motion Sensor
activates, it instantly parks the heads of your hard drive to
lessen the chance that they'll scratch the disk surface, reducing
the likelihood of data loss. Once the Sudden Motion Sensor notices
that your PowerBook is level again, it unlocks the drive heads
automatically.
As much as the Sudden Motion Sensor is a useful technology, it's
by no means a panacea. Even ignoring all the other damage that
comes with dropping a PowerBook, the Sudden Motion Sensor is
relevant only if you drop the PowerBook while it's running;
when the PowerBook is sleeping or shut down, the drive heads
are already parked. So don't assume that the Sudden Motion
Sensor will provide any protection beyond what you already have
in many situations. As always, focus on prevention: be careful
when handling your laptop, use a well-padded laptop bag (TidBITS
sponsor Matias has a video of dropping a laptop in their Laptop
Armor bag onto concrete from a high of 10 feet (3.05 meters)),
and set up your working environment to reduce the risk of people
tripping over cables and other accidents.
<http://laptoparmor.com/index.php?refID=5>
**Nice Updates** -- These minor revisions to the PowerBook
line are welcome, particularly given that they don't come with
increased prices - no one will ever complain about a CPU speed
bump, and the faster hard disks should improve performance with
disk-intensive work. The Dual Link capability will be particularly
appreciated by those who use a 15-inch or 17-inch PowerBook as
their primary Mac, but who also need the massive screen real
estate of a 30-inch Cinema HD Display. And the addition of
Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, the scrolling trackpad, and Sudden Motion
Sensor sweeten the deal beyond what normally happens with a speed
bump update. The new machines will be available later this week.
Mac mini Upgrade Prices Shrink to Size of Box
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by Glenn Fleishman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Early complaints about the cost of built-to-order options
for memory upgrades and wireless options on the Mac mini
have apparently led Apple to slash those prices dramatically.
(MacNN originally noticed these changes.)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/27834>
The 1 GB memory upgrade was originally a fairly ridiculous $475
when name-brand 1 GB cards of the same type can be found in the
mid-$200s. The price now is $325, which is low enough that it's
more reasonable to have an Apple-certified technician perform
the installation - especially when you consider that Apple will
warranty that RAM and replace it if you have problems. (Self-
installed RAM is your own problem, a problem that bit me with
my PowerBook G4 and Panther.)
The wireless combination of Bluetooth and AirPort Extreme is now
$100 instead of $130 when installed together. Upgrading the hard
drive to 80 GB now costs $50 instead of $90. (MacNN also noted
that the add-on SuperDrive speed jumped from 4x at the time of the
announcement to 8x. However, according to MacCentral, Apple said
that the speed change was a typographical error and changed the
specification back to 4x speed - the drive _reads_ at 8x, but
writes at 4x.)
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/01/26/macminisuperdrive/>
I assumed that because built-to-order units wouldn't have shipped,
early buyers will get this new pricing. However, author and
Macworld Senior Writer Dan Frakes wrote in after I'd posted this
and noted that he'd received his build-to-order (BTO) unit on
20-Jan-05! He's contacting Apple about a refund in the difference,
and I suggest all early BTO purchasers do the same, as Apple is
generally good about this kind of short-term price change.
This dramatically drops the cost of a "high-end" Mac mini in the
BTO variety. Take a 1.42 GHz processor, an 80 GB hard drive, a
SuperDrive, Bluetooth, AirPort Extreme, a USB keyboard and mouse
(the price of which dropped last week), and a full gig of memory,
and you're no longer paying over $1,400, but $1,180 instead .
Worthy Web Sites: YouSendIt
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by Adam C. Engst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
It's a problem. You need to send a large file to a friend or
colleague, but it's too large for email, you don't have access
to an FTP server, or the recipient isn't sufficiently savvy about
usernames and passwords or firewalls to log in to your server.
You could always resort to a CD-R sent via overnight delivery,
but that's expensive and just feels wrong in this day and age of
Internet communications. What to do? There's Creo Tokens, which
creates and sends a tiny token file that a special Token Redeemer
client can use to retrieve the file from your machine. But Tokens
costs $50, and requiring your recipients to download and install
client software is onerous, even when it's free. (That said,
Tokens could make a lot of sense if you want to run your own
Token Server ($600 or $1,000, depending on capabilities) and
maintain full control over the data streams.)
<http://www.creo.com/tokens/>
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07449>
But for a low overhead solution, try YouSendIt. It's a free Web
service that's about as simple as you could imagine. On the
YouSendIt Web page, you fill in the recipient's email address,
click the Browse button to locate the file you want to send,
optionally enter your email address and a message, and click
the Send It button. The recipient then receives an email message
containing a link that downloads the file. If you don't want to
reveal your recipient's address to YouSendIt, just send the link
to yourself and forward it manually with whatever additional text
you'd like to add.
<http://www.yousendit.com/>
Files can be up to 1 GB in size, and YouSendIt scans all files
for viruses (not being a virus-infected Windows user, I don't
know what happens if they discover a virus in something you send).
Files remain available for 7 days and allow only a limited number
of downloads to prevent abuse. The recipient can also click a
link to delete the file after downloading. If you want secure
transfers, you can switch to a version of the page that uses
secure HTTP for both you and your recipient; of course, that
assumes you trust YouSendIt in general. You can even put a link
like the one below on your Web site that others can use to send
you files via YouSendIt.
<http://www.yousendit.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I haven't used YouSendIt that many times, but it's hard to find
a negative point, short of the lack of progress feedback when
uploading a very large file via a Web browser. The company has
a reasonable privacy policy and terms of service that mainly
lay out acceptable use policies for types of content that are
forbidden (all the usual suspects, which I won't describe in
detail because doing so would just trigger spam filters).
YouSendIt also publishes a DMCA policy regarding the illegal
distribution of copyrighted materials. In fact, the main confusion
about YouSendIt is their business model. There's a comment in the
terms of service about advertising, but I haven't seen any yet.
While writing about YouSendIt, I ran across a few other similar
services, including LeapFile, SendThisFile, YouShareIt, and
DropLoad. The first two required setting up accounts (most of
which weren't free); YouShareIt has been operating since 01-Jan-05
(now that's longevity!) and appears to be an ad-supported clone
of YouSendIt; and DropLoad is limited to files under 100 MB.
So for most purposes, I think YouSendIt is all that's necessary.
Give it a try next time you need to send a file that's too large
for email.
<http://www.leapfile.com/>
<http://www.sendthisfile.com/>
<http://s3.youshareit.com/>
<http://www.dropload.com/>
Take Control News/24-Jan-05
---------------------------
by Adam C. Engst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
It may seem as though little has been happening with Take Control
of late, but in fact, that's mostly because we've been working on
translations and updates, with two appearing this week and more
coming soon.
<http://www.tidbits.com/takecontrol/news/>
**"Take Control of Sharing Files in Panther" Turns 1.2** -- The
1.2 update of Glenn Fleishman's ebook about setting up (and using)
file sharing services under Panther is hot off our virtual press.
The most important change is a significantly revised and expanded
section about setting up an FTP server. Glenn now recommends that
readers avoid using Apple's built-in FTP server and instead use
PureFTPd and PureFTPd Manager, which offer many helpful features
for running a secure, well-managed server. In addition to a number
of tiny updates relating to Mac OS X 10.3.6 and iPhoto 5, Glenn
added info about Secure FTP (SFTP) and FTP-SSL/TLS. To finish the
update, we added a coupon at the back for $5 off any purchase
from Small Dog Electronics.
<http://www.tidbits.com/takecontrol/panther/sharing.html>
If you own the ebook, get your update by clicking the Check for
Updates button on the first page of the PDF file. If your copy
is too old (version 1.1.1 or older) to have a Check for Updates
button, you may be able to update via a coupon code sent to you
in email in the spring of 2004. If you've lost the coupon code,
ask for help via the form on our FAQ page. [ACE]
<http://www.tidbits.com/takecontrol/faq.html>
**"Take Control of Buying a Mac" Translated to German** --
Sprechen Sie Deutsch? If so, you should check out our latest
Take Control release, the German translation of version 1.0.1
of my "Take Control of Buying a Mac" ebook. Translated by Hartmut
Greiser, who also did Joe Kissell's "Take Control of Upgrading to
Panther," this new translation brings all my advice about when to
buy a Mac, how to choose exactly the right Mac, where to buy Macs,
and what to do with your old Mac to the German-speaking world. It
costs US$7.50, and there's a $5 discount if you already purchased
the English version; just click your Check for Updates button and
purchase using the link on that page.
<http://www.tidbits.com/takecontrol/de/buying-mac.html>
Needless to say, it's more difficult for me to get the word out
about the ebook in words for which my years of high-school German
apparently failed to prepare me. So we welcome any suggestions
you can make for ways we can introduce the translation to other
German-speaking Mac users (or PC users who need to become Mac
users). [ACE]
Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/31-Jan-05
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by TidBITS Staff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The second URL below each thread description points to the
discussion on our Web Crossing server, which will be much
faster.
**Macworld Expo in decline?** Although the number of vendors at
Macworld Expo San Francisco 2005 was up, the increase is offset
by the number of iPod-specific (non-Mac) booths. Does this point
to less interest in Macworld Expo? (4 messages)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tlkthrd=2449>
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/306>
**Pages first impressions** -- Readers share their initial
experiences with Apple's new word-processing/page-layout
application, Pages. (3 messages)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tlkthrd=2447>
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/304>
**iWork and other applications** -- Does Pages import data
from other applications, such as Microsoft Excel or FileMaker?
(5 messages)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tlkthrd=2445>
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/302>
**Memory for the Mac mini** -- Readers share suggestions on where
to buy more RAM for the Mac mini, taking memory quality into
consideration as well as price. (4 messages)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tlkthrd=2444>
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/301>
**Remember Watson?** Karelia's Watson search utility was flying
high before Apple introduced an improved Sherlock utility that
copied many of Watson's features. Now, Watson is owned by Sun,
and people are talking about making Watson on the Mac open-source.
Will Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger's Dashboard widgets replace Watson's
functionality? (19 messages)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tlkthrd=2443>
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/300>
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