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Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/17-Dec-07
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  by Jeff Carlson <jeffc@tidbits.com>
  article link: <http://db.tidbits.com/article/9365>

**Airport Express** -- Learn how to play streaming audio, such as
  radio stations, through an AirPort Express. (3 messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1714/>


**Crucial bug in Safari for Leopard** -- A reader encounters a problem
  related to loading PDFs and sound files in Safari; anyone else
  seeing it? (1 message)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1715/>


**Licensing NTFS - Or Why Doesn't Mac OS X Natively Support NTFS** --
  Joe's article about NTFS for Mac OS X wonders why Apple didn't build
  that functionality into Leopard. One reader speculates on the
  answer. (1 message)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1716/>


**New Apple Store in New York/Scrolling in iPod Touch and iPhone** --
  After a visit to Apple's new retail space in New York City, a reader
  has questions about displaying maps and accessing private data on an
  iPod touch or iPhone. (7 messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1721/>


**10.4.11 Issue with Quickverse** -- A bug in this Mac Bible software
  has yet to be fixed, leading to questions of faith: which
  applications can one turn to instead?  (6 messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1722/>


**Storing passwords on an iPod** -- What's the best way to store
  sensitive material on an iPod, versus carrying a Palm handheld? (3
  messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1723/>


**Amazon Grocery Delivery Service** -- Glenn's experiences using
  Amazon Fresh invites comparisons to other services, many of which
  are small and local, compared to the failed promise of Webvan. (4
  messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1724/>


**Leopard 10.5.1 on a G5?** -- After installing Leopard and getting
  the latest system update, the fans in a reader's Power Mac G5 have
  gone into jet-plane mode. (5 messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1725/>


**Networking Problem** -- A reader bought a new modem to take
  advantage of faster ADSL network speeds - but the devices aren't
  talking. What can get these peripherals to come back to the table?
  (7 messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1726/>


**Google Goes After Wikipedia** -- Readers discuss Google Knol, a
  Wikipedia competitor that will potentially have issues with
  copyright and author bias. (4 messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1728/>


**Death by mdimport** -- Preventing Spotlight searches of several
  directories made a big difference in system slowdowns for one reader
  using a Power Mac G5. (1 message)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1729/>


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