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TidBITS#730/17-May-04

Our last Mac OS X Trojan horse coverage was only a few weeks ago; now, Adam reports on a malicious new Trojan that’s been spotted in the wild. Adam also compiles his wishlist for WriteRight, a hypothetical word processor designed for professional writers. Also in this issue, we note St. Clair Software’s new HistoryHound, which helps you revisit Web pages, email support for .Mac, and the releases of disclabel 2.0 and the Japanese translation of "Take Control of Customizing Panther."

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GarageBand 1.1 Released

GarageBand 1.1 Released -- Apple tidied up the garage a bit today with the release of GarageBand 1.1. The new version addresses a number of issues, adding per-track Echo settings and support for unprotected AAC audio files

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A Real Mac OS X Trojan Horse Appears

A few weeks after the hullabaloo surrounding Intego's press release about a technique that could be used to create a Trojan horse that looked like an MP3 file (see "Mac OS X Trojan Technique: Beware Geeks Bearing Gifts" in TidBITS-726), a real Mac OS X Trojan horse has been reported to Macworld UK

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WriteRight: The Writer’s Word Processor

Please accept my sincere apologies if the title of this article has raised your pulse along with your hopes. There is no WriteRight, and, speaking as a professional writer, with thousands of articles and numerous books under my belt, I'm comfortable saying that the Macintosh world doesn't have a word processor that's designed for writers

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Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/17-May-04

The second URL below each thread description points to the discussion on our Web Crossing server, which will be much faster, though it doesn't yet use our preferred design. Playing iPod through iTunes -- Solutions to the problem of not being able to play songs stored on an iPod directly using iTunes