TidBITS#828/08-May-06
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Apple Computer took several big steps forward on the long
and winding road that is the lawsuit brought by Apple Corps
with a legal victory over the use of the Apple logo in iTunes.
Meanwhile, Jeff Porten reports from last week's Computer, Freedom,
and Privacy 2006 conference, where government officials, privacy
advocates, and geeks of all stripes spent four intense days of
debate and discussion. Also in this issue, Apple releases Aperture
1.1.1 and Logic Pro 7.2.1; Akumen announces the first FireWire 800
ExpressCard for the MacBook Pro; and we release a draft version
of Joe Kissell's new ebook "Take Control of Running Windows on
a Mac."
Topics:
MailBITS/08-May-06
Not Guilty: Apple Beats Beatles Trademark Dispute
CFP 2006: Life, Liberty and Digital Rights
Take Control News/08-May-06
Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/08-May-06
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**Aperture, Logic Pro Updated** -- Apple continued to tweak its
high-end applications last week, releasing updates to the photo-
management program Aperture and the audio production application
Logic Pro (although Apple also has a page detailing an update
to Logic Express, the file it points to is the Pro update).
Aperture 1.1.1 (a 13.6 MB download) follows close on the heels
of last month's update and "addresses several issues related
to performance, stability, color correction, and display
compatibility," according to Apple. The release also refutes
rumors that the Aperture development team had been disbanded;
Apple responded to Macworld directly to deny the rumors.
<http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/aperture111update.html>
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/05/04/aperture/index.php>
The update for Logic Pro 7.2.1 (a 30 MB download) fixes a few
bugs, including problems with import/export and support for
ReWire and ReCycle on Intel-based Macs. The update also adds
compatibility with Logic 7.1 songs and EuCon support for the
Euphonix MC and CM408T control surfaces. [JLC]
<http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/logicproupdate721.html>
**FireWire 800 ExpressCard for MacBook Pro** -- One of the common
complaints about the 15-inch MacBook Pro was its lack of a
FireWire 800 port, which is present on both the PowerBook G4
and the new 17-inch MacBook Pro. The saving grace was the MacBook
Pro's ExpressCard slot, which, as Glenn Fleishman pointed out
in the last issue of TidBITS (see "ExpressCard on the Horizon"),
allows data transfer of 2 Gbps in each direction, making it
possible to run FireWire 800 via an ExpressCard. Now, Akumen,
Inc. has announced the first such adapter in its ExpressWay
Series, the "2-Port NitroAV FireWire800/1394b Professional Express
Card (34 mm) Interface Adapter (MacBook Pro)." (Yes, that appears
to be the full name). The card sports two FireWire 800 slots with
a maximum throughput of 800 Mbps and costs $90. [JLC]
<http://www.nitroav.com/product/444/>
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=08511>
**Two Corrections in TidBITS 827** -- Alert readers pointed out
two corrections in last week's issue. In Mark Anbinder's article
"MacBook Pro Line Adds 17-inch Size," the specification for the
new laptop's SuperDrive should be 8x speed, not 4x (which Mark
correctly wrote in his ExtraBITS post on the day the computer
was announced, but got mangled when editing the issue).
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And in "Tools We Use: Backdrop," I incorrectly wrote that
one could take a screenshot in Mac OS X using the keyboard
combinations Command-3 or Command-4. Since I (along with
the rest of the staff) use Snapz Pro X to capture screenshots,
I rarely use the Mac OS X shortcuts, which are Command-Shift-3
and Command-Shift-4. Thanks for keeping us (me) on our (my) toes!
[JLC]
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=08510>
Not Guilty: Apple Beats Beatles Trademark Dispute
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by Geoff Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Justice Edward Mann of London's High Court today issued a ruling
in favor of Apple Computer in its current trademark dispute with
the Beatles' record label Apple Corps, finding Apple Computer
had not breached a trademark-sharing agreement between the two
companies by using its Apple logo on its iTunes digital music
service.
<http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/apple/aclac50806opn.html>
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=08471>
**Getting Better** -- According to the 1991 agreement, Apple
Computer was to have use of the trademark in the computer
business, while Apple Corps would have exclusive use in the
music industry. In rejecting Apple Corps' claims of infringement,
Justice Mann found Apple Computer's logo in the iTunes Music
Store constituted a "fair and reasonable use of the mark in
conjunction with the service." It seems that in the eyes of the
court, Apple's iTunes Music Store is just a new kind of shop,
not a record label or music publisher. The companies' 1991
agreement (which became public only as documents submitted in
the current dispute) are silent about digital music distribution,
focusing solely on prohibiting Apple Computer from distributing
pre-recorded music on physical media: Justice Mann found no matter
how lawyers spun it, the iTunes Music Store just didn't count as
physical media.
<http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/judgmentsfiles/j2468/apple-v-apple.htm>
Apple Corps, of course, immediately announced plans to appeal
the decision, but the ruling is an unexpectedly positive outcome
for the computer maker. Apple has now sold well over 1 billion
songs via its online store (not to mention tens of millions of
its now-iconic iPod music players) and was widely believed to be
vulnerable to substantial trademark infringement damages from
Apple Corps. Instead, Apple Corps now owes Apple Computer court
costs, currently amounting to some 3 million British pounds. With
the burden of the trademark suit largely lifted, Apple can focus
on operating and expanding its iTunes offerings - and just maybe
getting the Beatles recording catalog online.
**Got To Get You Into My Life** -- One interesting outcome of the
trademark trial is that Apple Corps head Neil Aspinall submitted
that Apple Corps has been remastering the Beatles' material
(yet again!) and preparing to take the Beatles' music online.
Currently, Beatles material is not legally available for download,
and, despite admitting to in-house preparation, Apple Corps says
it has not made any decisions about when or how Beatles recordings
might be for sale online.
Apple Corps has apparently investigated exclusive, time-limited
arrangements with online music distributors (including Microsoft)
but hasn't been able to reach a deal - which probably means the
Apple Corps asking price was too high for the low-margin digital
download business. Now that Apple Corps can't reasonably expect
a fiscal windfall from Apple Computer, they may be more motivated
to take the Beatles into the Internet age - and, without a doubt,
Apple Computer would love to bring the Beatles into iTunes.
CFP 2006: Life, Liberty and Digital Rights
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by Jeff Porten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Does it bother you that someone at the National Security Agency
might be listening in on your phone call to your great aunt in
Manchester? Does it matter if that's Manchester, New Hampshire
as well as Manchester, England? Ever wonder about what U.S.
government support you might receive the next time a category
five hurricane visits your hometown? Feel the need to throw
away your iPod because it just won't let you listen to Windows
Media files?
These questions and many others were addressed last week at
the 16th Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) conference in
Washington, DC. CFP is one of the longest-running conferences
addressing the impact of computer and network technologies on
society, especially (as one might guess from the title) on the
ways your information can be used against you. Since the terrorist
attacks in the U.S. on September 11th, 2001, the expanding powers
of the federal government and the debate over the government's
desire for greater access to your data has been a large part of
the agenda. While Macs and iPods received only cursory attention
(albeit interestingly inaccurate attention) at the conference,
CFP touches on topics of interest to anyone who uses the Internet,
or who gives thought to the meaning of living in a free country.
<http://www.cfp2006.org/>
TidBITS last covered CFP in 2000 when Adam attended the conference
in Toronto. My coverage differs significantly from his; although
we're both Mac gurus as part of our day jobs, I'm also a security
and privacy activist, and so I came to the conference with a
marked sympathy to many (but not all) of the positions of groups
in attendance, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the
Electronic Privacy Information Center. You'll see some of this
perspective in this article, and also in what I chose to include;
if anyone wants more information, or wishes to debate my thoughts,
I'll be glad to join you in TidBITS Talk. The full agenda for the
conference is posted at the CFP2006 site linked above, and it's
the nature of this meeting that similar writings by every speaker
are easily found online.
<http://www.eff.org/>
<http://www.epic.org/>
That being said, it's important to note that CFP makes a point of
generating healthy discussion of the issues. During the Cold War,
the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs acted as a
sort of demilitarized zone to allow the only real dialogue between
opposing sides; CFP has historically served the same role for
the intersection between the law enforcement, security, privacy
activist, and hacker communities. This flavor is perhaps
demonstrated by the three consecutive chairs for the 2005-2007
conferences:
* 2005: Deborah Pierce, Executive Director of Privacy Activism
* 2006: Frank Torres, Director of Consumer Affairs, Microsoft
* 2007: Stephanie Perrin, Director of Strategic Policy and
Research, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
While it is safe to generalize the attendees of the conference
as strongly libertarian and technical, the presentations covered
a wide range of topics and viewpoints and as frequently enraged
the audience as engaged in preaching to the choir. Participants
frequently came down on opposite sides of nuances or
implementation of an issue, and it was uncommon for a session
to conclude without seeing several debates break out in the
hallways.
**Excuse Me, My Brain Is Full** -- Lorrie Cranor, in an essay
commemorating the 10th CFP conference, called the 1994 experience
"another drink from a fire hose," and that tradition remained
unbroken.
<http://www.cfp2000.org/papers/2cranor.pdf>
The conference lasted for four days; on two of those days,
sessions ran from 8:30 AM to midnight with few breaks. Even
attendees with the stamina to last sixteen hours didn't catch
it all, as several breakout sessions with simultaneous meetings
were held. Topics ranged from the introductory to the highly
technical (sometimes in the same session), and there was rarely
enough time in a session to cover all of the desired Q&A, or even
to allow every panelist to cover their topic. In short, if you
want a master's degree in privacy and social issues related to
technology, and you only have four days, CFP is an excellent bet.
The conference was opened by a welcoming speech by Senator Patrick
Leahy (D-VT), which was warmly received by the audience - largely
because it touched upon quite a few of the "inside baseball"
issues that indicated that Leahy (or his staff) actually knew
and cared about what he was saying. As such, the full text
provides an interesting and brief overview of the issues before
the conference.
<http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200605/050306.html>
**Who Owns Your Avatar?** Any illusions of simplicity from Leahy's
summary were rapidly dispelled by a panel discussion on federal
privacy law comparing the United States, Canada, and European
Union. The panel batted about several systems for protecting
individual privacy, ranging from the US, which has no
comprehensive federal model and a patchwork of laws at the
national and local level, to the European Union, which was
presented as having strong protection on paper, but in reality
faces difficulty with enforcement and maintenance.
One of the recurring themes of the conference was the issue
of individual, versus corporate and government, control of
information. Or, put another way, the conflict between providing
services to the public, and the impact of utilizing the
information that those services both require and generate.
Much of today's economy relies on the free flow of (your)
information from entity to entity, without your control and in
many cases over your objections. This can provide many benefits
to you, ranging from targeted information to greater convenience
to lower costs; everyone is happy to receive a free airline ticket
or discount groceries. But no one wants to be on the government's
secretive no-fly list, or to be denied a mortgage, or to have
their health insurance cancelled.
The question comes down to how each of us defines the parameters
for important yet vague notions like "freedom" and "privacy."
Most of us feel that we have little to hide; how, then, do we
feel about our right to have that choice? You may never need
to exercise your right to a trial by jury; does that therefore
mean you don't care if you have one?
**Just Speak Slowly and Clearly Into Your Table Numbers** -- These
issues were discussed in the Wiretap Victims session, with a
panel including James Bamford, best known for writing "The Puzzle
Palace" and other books about the National Security Agency; Mort
Halperin, who includes in his expertise on wiretapping the dubious
experience of having been tapped by the Nixon White House; and
Eric Lichtblau, who received a Pulitzer prize for his New York
Times articles that broke the story about current NSA wiretapping
without warrants.
Bamford covered the history of NSA wiretapping from the end
of World War II through the mid-1970s, a common practice that
bypassed the step of securing warrants, until the Senate's Church
Committee investigated and put and end to it. (Among their reforms
was the passing of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act,
which established the FISA Court that was circumvented by recent
NSA activity that Lichtblau revealed.) Halperin reviewed the
cooperation of government with telecommunications companies at
the time of the FISA implementation and pointed out that AT&T
requested a bright line to follow (a clear-cut way of making
decisions); therefore, FISA makes it a crime to implement a
wiretap outside of a FISA warrant for both the government
officials and people in the companies who implement it. Lichtblau
reviewed the background of recent revelations, including the use
of broad data-mining techniques on fiber-optic telecommunications
traffic, including tens of millions of phone calls.
The discussion during the Q&A period was quite lively. Bamford and
Lichtblau replied to one question with a discussion of Mark Klein,
a whistle-blower who observed the NSA installing equipment at
AT&T; most of Klein's information is under court seal (which the
Electronic Frontier Foundation is trying to have lifted), but it
has been revealed that Klein observed wiretapping equipment that
made no distinction between domestic and international calls.
Bamford went on to ask why the FBI has not taken action to
prosecute laws broken under FISA. Halperin added that all of
the administration's statements concerning which information
is targeted were specifically about this particular initiative;
he reported that most expert observers believe that there is at
least one more program, and possibly more, whose scope has not
yet been revealed.
The discussion then went on to include some scathing commentary
about the New York Times' handling of the story (it had been held
back for more than a year), and the public and media response to
its publication. The final question concerned why this wiretapping
capability wasn't legislated in 2001 during the passage of the
first PATRIOT Act; Bamford opined that no one asked for it in law
because the people involved knew it was unconstitutional.
A spirited discussion centered on whether computer activity
without humans involved had any bearing on the term
"unreasonable," based on the beginning text of the Fourth
Amendment: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons,
houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and
seizures, shall not be violated." Depending on your point of view,
this is either a meaningless philosophical debate or crucial to
the concept of freedom and Constitutional rights.
If nothing else, one might be inclined to wonder about the double
standards that we are asked to accept. Individuals have nothing
to fear if they have nothing to hide, while the government
creates secrets and classifies documents at a greater rate
than ever before in American history.
**Department of Homeland Self-Reliance** -- The bombshell for
Thursday was provided by dinner keynote speaker Stewart Baker,
Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS). Baker is a regular at CFP and was on a first-
name basis with much of the crowd.
He opened his speech by asking how many audience members
considered themselves to be libertarians; he then asked how
many people had personally stored 72 hours' worth of food, water,
and battery power to maintain themselves in case of emergency.
He continued, "Who are you counting on to save you? We all don't
like the government until we need them." Later, he said he should
have amended this list to include a personal firearm.
He stated that it's not usually the government who saves you in
a catastrophe, and spoke highly of residents of Houston, Texas
who self-evacuated after having seen what happened to the people
who stayed behind in New Orleans. The role of the government was
to rescue the people who couldn't do so themselves, and Baker
personally advocated the use of individual solutions and non-
governmental organizations.
Coming as this was from someone with a major leadership role in
homeland security, his message was poorly received by much of the
crowd. Post-speech discussion debated whether Baker had seen the
news reports of Houston evacuees stranded on the roads leaving
town, and if he expected individuals and nonprofits to build their
own infrastructure. The overall impression his speech gave is that
in the event of a disaster, we should expect to be on our own for
a while; I don't think that this is the general impression that
DHS attempts to convey.
**A Rotten Apple?** Friday's discussion of digital rights
management included the longest discussion of Apple corporate
practices at the conference (although Baker did say it was only
a matter of time before Macs and Linux were besieged with viruses
the way Windows is). Bill Rosenblatt from DRM Watch asked how many
Mac users were in the audience, and stated that Apple was the
worst actor in the DRM industry; the iPod, he predicted, would
burn out in 18-24 months due to its lack of interoperability.
Susan Landau of Sun concurred with this assessment and promoted
Sun's "Dream" system of DRM, because Sun was the only company that
embedded an implementation of fair use under copyright in their
software. Landau also shared an anecdote about her teenage son
losing all of his music because he didn't back up his iPod, and
attributing that to Apple's design flaws and restrictions imposed
by FairPlay.
Several questioners asked, without much decorum, whether
Rosenblatt and Landau had heard of a music format called "MP3"
that is rumored to be rather widespread and somewhat common on
iPods. The Q&A varied back and forth between a few questions
debating the finer points of competing DRM systems, and others
questioning whether anyone designing or promoting DRM had any
experience with BitTorrent and other technologies that are already
providing a user experience that far exceeds those available
from copy-restrictive technologies. Unsurprisingly, no consensus
was reached.
**Orwell versus the Creativity Machine** -- The closing keynote
was provided by science fiction author Vernor Vinge. He began
by noting that there were two historical views of the future of
technology and privacy: on the one side, George Orwell's vision
of 1984; on the other, the "cyberpunk" mythos of anarchist hackers
with near-complete control of information. From our viewpoint
in the early 21st century, some of the anarchist vision has come
to pass, while at the same time many feel that governments have
managed to "out-Orwell Orwell."
Vinge hypothesized what he called "the Great Conspiracy against
human freedom," which does not exist as an organized attack
on liberties, but rather as a chaotic patchwork of laws and
technologies which overall have the same effect. Its participants
are governments and law enforcement, owners of intellectual
property, and every geek who thinks that a particular technology
"would be _so_ cool!" without thinking through its impact. Most
importantly, it is created and abetted by well-meaning people who
erode liberty by thinking that the world would be a better place,
if only people could be prevented from doing bad things. Modern
technologies of surveillance, including embedding computers in
almost every object, allow the "wildest control-freak scenarios"
of these people to be satisfied.
On the opposing side is Vinge's optimistic future of the "coming
ubiquitous CFP," in which countries and individuals note that
economic power comes from unbridled creativity and communication.
Where once a mass of billions of people could only be seen as a
mob, today it can self-organize; who, he asks, would have believed
five years ago that Wikipedia was possible? But this creativity
machine requires, as he put it, at least the illusion of freedom -
and since millions of members of that machine are as smart and
educated as their leaders, this illusion must be more similar
to true freedom than ever before in human history.
Vinge kindly allowed us to republish the link where his slides are
temporarily posted.
<http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/vinge/cfp/>
**The Future of CFP?** As I mentioned earlier, CFP 2006 was
excellent in terms of the breadth of coverage and the depth of
knowledge of most of its presenters. Most of the panels were set
up to generate informed debate, and presentations by government
officials (with the exception of Baker's) were notable precisely
because they were so inoffensive and bland by comparison.
Unfortunately, the conference faced difficulties in other ways.
Longtime participants observed that turnout was very low this
year, which was attested to by the numerous empty chairs in the
sessions and banquet halls (the grueling schedule could also share
some blame). EFF's Big Brother awards, an annual event, were not
given out at all, although space was allotted for them on the
printed schedule. I'm not sure if there was an official reason
given for this, but the predominant story was that they were
skipped because the winner was a foregone conclusion and hence
not newsworthy. Hallway scuttlebutt hinted at darker reasons
involving political issues; as one participant dryly noted,
"Privacy activists are the worst gossips around."
What I found especially striking as a privacy activist,
but a first- time participant at CFP, was a strong sense of
marginalization at the conference. Bamford said that a major
issue in the wiretapping story was how quickly the news media
allowed it to vanish from the headlines, and that they had
dropped the ball; minutes later, I overheard two journalists
debating whether to write about the panel discussion, as no
news had broken there.
In short, the overwhelming feeling at the conference was that the
worst threat to privacy is apathy in the general public. This is
nothing new to me; much of my political work involves issues that
are not mainstream. But I usually see the lamentation of apathy
accompanied by announcements of campaigns to turn the tide - if
there were any such announcements at CFP, I must have missed them.
[The article I wrote after CFP 2000 attempted to explain why
the general public remains apathetic, taking its cue from the
excellent keynote by novelist Neal Stephenson. In short, most
people don't care much about abstract concepts like "freedom"
and "privacy" because they are more concerned about the concrete
problems that populate our everyday lives. Alas, the challenge
I posed then to the privacy community remains largely unanswered.
-Adam]
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=05951>
So I'll close with guarded optimism for the upcoming May 2007
meeting in Montreal. If you have any interest in the topics
covered, I can't imagine a better place to learn more in a
shorter amount of time than at CFP. In the meantime, there
are many organizations - including EFF, EPIC, and Computer
Professionals for Social Responsibility - where interest,
energy, and donations are always welcome. I have more to say
about CFP 2006 which would not fit here for reasons of length
or political content; you're invited to stop by my site if
you want to hear more.
<http://cfp2007.org/>
<http://jeffporten.com/category/conspiracy-theories/cfp2006/>
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Take Control News/08-May-06
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by Adam C. Engst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
**"Take Control of Running Windows on a Mac" Pre-order** -- With
all the press coverage of Apple's Boot Camp, many people have
wondered about the reality of running Windows on Intel-based
Macs, but they've been hesitant to devote the time and money
to installing Windows XP, especially since Boot Camp may not
be the best solution for running Windows on a Mac. If you
haven't yet installed Windows on your Mac, or if you want to
try the alternatives, you can now take advantage of carefully
researched, real-world advice from installation expert Joe Kissell
(the best-selling ebook author of "Take Control of Upgrading
to Tiger," among other titles).
The pre-sale version of "Take Control of Running Windows on a
Mac," available now for reading and comment in nearly complete
draft form, walks you through the entire process of installing
Windows on your Mac. Notably, the ebook doesn't limit itself
to discussing Boot Camp, instead looking at the pros and cons
of Boot Camp, Parallels Workstation, and Q for Intel-based Macs.
Then Joe dives into what he does best: explaining solutions to
the inevitable pitfalls you'll experience when installing and
using Boot Camp and Parallels Workstation. And because installing
Windows exposes you to an entirely new world, Joe also helps you
configure Windows to avoid the nearly ubiquitous viruses, worms,
spyware, and adware. Lastly, if you haven't yet made the jump
to an Intel-based Mac, an appendix covers solutions for running
Windows on PowerPC-based Macs.
<http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/windows-on-mac.html?14@@!pt=
TRK-0034-TB828-TCNEWS>
As with our "Take Control of iWeb" pre-sale, if you purchase
"Take Control of Running Windows on a Mac," what you download
is the first page, which contains the oh-so-important Check for
Updates button. Click it to load a Take Control Updates page in
your browser. Along with information about the current version
of the ebook, that Updates page links to the QuickTopic Document
Review forum for the current draft, where you can read the ebook
and make comments while we put the finishing touches on the
content and run it through our editing process. Be sure to sign
up for email notification on the Take Control Updates page,
so we can tell you when you can download the final PDF for free.
Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/08-May-06
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by TidBITS Staff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The first link for each thread description points to the
traditional TidBITS Talk interface; the second link points to
the same discussion on our Web Crossing server, which provides
a different look and which may be faster.
**MP3 file format** -- Strange behavior of MP3 audio files makes
a reader question whether the problem is with the format or
with specific applications. (8 messages)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tlkthrd=2976>
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/807/>
**Piano tutor software** -- With a MIDI interface and GarageBand,
it's time to refresh those piano playing skills. Instead of taking
lessons, readers suggest software - but also caution against
relying solely on the computer. (3 messages)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tlkthrd=2977>
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/808/>
**Great 12" iBook shelf** -- Sometimes the best computer
accessories can be had for $7, as is the case with this solution
for elevating a 12-inch iBook. (4 messages)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tlkthrd=2978>
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/809/>
**Wireless Mouse has stopped tracking** -- A reader asks for help
in getting his Apple mouse out of a hole. (3 messages)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tlkthrd=2979>
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/810/>
**Publish iCal on my Web site?** It's possible to publish an iCal
calendar on a Web site (that doesn't have WebDAV), but it's not
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