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Unhappy with the arrangement of your icons? You can move them around as follows: First, hold down on any Home screen icon until all the icons wiggle. Now, drag the icons to their desired locations (drag left or right to get to other screens). Finally, press the physical Home button on your device. (Unlike earlier releases, iPhone Software 2.1 doesn't move just-updated apps to the end of your Home screens, so your icons should be more stationary once you've installed the update.)
Remember that you can replace Apple's default icons in the four persistent spots at the bottom of the screen with your four most-used apps!
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Why the Kindle 2 Should Speak When Permitted To
The Authors Guild wants its members to be able to choose which electronic rights they grant to their works. As a result, the Guild is painted as a villain for apparently suggesting parents shouldn't read books to their children without paying fees. It's all about revenue, permission, and closed systems. Oh, and the Amazon Kindle 2.Read more...
Critical Vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat
Turn off JavaScript in Adobe Reader and Acrobat Professional - or use Apple's Preview - to mitigate a critical security vulnerability.Read more...
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Some sleuthing within iPhoto '09 reveals that Apple was at least thinking about adding a location logging app to the iPhone and iPod touch, possibly for providing geotags to imported photos or improving maps. Could the feature point toward a more capable iPhone or iPod touch? And what about the privacy issues?Read more...
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What better day than Friday the 13th to check that your backups are actually working by restoring some critical files?Read more...
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A pair of announcements from Google and Safari Books Online, along with hints from Amazon, promise an ever-improving future for ebook reading on the iPhone and iPod touch.Read more...
| Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk for 02-Feb-09
Readers are busy trying out the new iLife '09 and configuring hard drives, based on this week's TidBITS Talk discussions. Also touched upon are opinions of Apple's best and worst Macs and related products, connecting devices using HDMI and DVI cables, online security following news of infected illegal downloads, and more.Read more...
Yet Another Reason Not to Pirate Software
With a Trojan Horse appearing in pirated versions of iWork '09 last week, and reports of the same thing happening with pirated copies of Photoshop CS4, why would any sane person seek out pirated software?Read more...
| Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk for 26-Jan-09
This week's discussions focus on problems with the SugarSync online backup service, determining how many people are running Leopard, utilities to keep your monitor from dimming when viewing movies, specifying default views in the Finder, and conflicting advice from Apple's phone and in-person Apple Store support.Read more...
The Mac Turns 25: Best Mac Ever?
For Macworld's 25th anniversary issue, Adam was asked to write 100 words on what he thought was the best Mac of all time. He, along with John Gruber and John Siracusa, chose the SE/30. How could such an elderly Mac rank as the best Mac ever? Here's the answer.Read more...
| The Mac Turns 25: Our First Macs
In honor of the 25th anniversary of the Macintosh, we've all taken a moment to think back to our first Macs, remembering what was good, what was bad, and just how cool it all was back then (although "back then" turns out to be a flexible concept).Read more...
| Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk for 19-Jan-09
This week's discussions still focus on news from Macworld Expo, including what the future holds for the show now that Apple is out, as well as products like an Apple Kindle that were not announced but hoped for. Looking ahead, this month is the 25th anniversary of the Mac; what will Apple do, if anything? Readers also discuss being solicited for feedback from the company, the recent Safari RSS vulnerability, and setting QuickTime movies to play outside of the browser.Read more...
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Thoughts on the Past and Future of Macworld Expo
Adam has been attending Macworld Expo for 20 years now, giving him a deep appreciation for what the show provides to all the different groups that descend on it each year: attendees, exhibitors, press, and Apple. Read on for thoughts on why Apple's booth had empty space, whether Macworld Expo can survive without Apple, and what IDG can do to keep the show going.Read more...
| Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk for 12-Jan-09
This week's discussions focus on Macworld Expo, namely what the future holds and how Apple is counting the exposure the event generates. Also talked about are problems viewing PDF files in Safari, removable volumes not appearing in the Finder, and whether the iWork.com service should be rolled into MobileMe instead of being a standalone paid product.Read more...
Apple's Canard of 100 Macworlds a Week
We've always been annoyed by Apple counting the number of visitors to its retail stores in units of Macworld Expos. That's because that specious comparison is all about Apple, not what really happens at Macworld Expo.Read more...
| Phil Schiller Delivers Lackluster Keynote
We woke up early, stood in line, and all we got were sore feet. Apple's last Macworld Conference and Expo keynote by Phil Schiller lived up only to the deflated expectations Apple set.Read more...
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Steve Jobs has written an open letter to put an end to speculation that his health was failing and to ask for support from the Apple community.Read more...
Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk for 05-Jan-09
The last few weeks' discussions look at the news of Steve Jobs not being keynote speaker at Macworld Expo and Apple's exit from the event after 2009, performance of online backup services, syncing calendars, and much more.Read more...
A Mother's Letter to Apple about Macworld Expo
Forget the oh-so-rational business analysis of Apple's move to pull out of future Macworld Expos. Even Apple has to listen to its mother, so read on as Tonya Engst gives Apple a speaking-to.Read more...
| No Jobs Keynote at Apple's Last Macworld Expo
Apple said that Steve Jobs won't be presenting the keynote address at the 2009 Macworld Expo trade show - and that Apple won't be an exhibitor at future shows. Goodness. We're a bit shaken, but the word is that Macworld Expo is still on for 2010.Read more...
Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk for 15-Dec-08
This week's discussions look at display problems with the new MacBook Air, safely deactivating fonts, keyboard backlight settings, why antivirus software is still not needed on the Mac, and limitations playing video from the MacBook.Read more...
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