Apple weitete sein Consumer-Angebot letzte Woche mit einem Update der iMac-Linie, die jetzt Intel Core 2 Duo-Prozessoren und ein 24-Zoll iMac-Modell erhält, aus (und beschert dem Mac mini einen Geschwindigkeitssprung). Ebenfalls in dieser Ausgabe berichtet Adam über Details einiger stiller Änderungen, die wir im Hintergrund eingeführt haben und schaut sich das neue BBEdit 8.5 detailliert an; Glenn Fleishmann preist das elegante coconutWiFi; und wir berichten über die Veröffentlichungen von OmniWeb 5.5, Interarchy 8.2 und eine Mac Pro-kompatible Version von Parallels Desktop.
Themen:
von Adam C. Engst <ace@tidbits.com>
[Übersetzung: Sven Kornmann <kornmann@arcor.de>]
Die Omni Group hat mit OmniWeb, ihrem funktionsbeladenen Web-Browser, der über Icon-Tabs, Arbeitsbereiche, RSS-Nachrichtenfeeds, seitenspezifische Voreinstellungen und mehr verfügt, ein vermeintlich kleines Update fertiggestellt. Neue Fähigkeiten in OmniWeb 5.5 beinhalten Unterstützung zum Speichern von Seiten im WebArchiv-Format, eine Warnung, die erscheint, wenn man eine Seite neu lädt, die ein Formular erneut senden würde, und eine globale und seitenspezifische Voreinstellung für benutzerdefinierte Style-Sheets. Aber bei OmniWeb geht es nicht um Fähigkeiten - die echten Neuigkeiten sind, dass es jetzt eine Universal Binary ist, die bessere Leistung auf Intel-Macs bietet, und sie basiert auf einer leicht angepassten Version von Apples WebKit Browser-Engine-Framework, was deutlich verbesserte Webseiten-Kompatibilität, Darstellungsgeschwindigkeit und Stabilität mit sich bringt. Kurz, OmniWeb sollte nun so schnell wie Safari sein, das sich auch auf WebKit verlässt. Das 30 US$ teure OmniWeb 5.5 benötigt Mac OS X 10.4.6 oder neuer, ist für Benutzer von OmniWeb 5.x ein kostenloses Update und als Download 10,1 MByte groß.
<http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/>
<http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/releasenotes/>
<http://webkit.org/>
<http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/download/>
von Adam C. Engst <ace@tidbits.com>
[Übersetzung: Sven Kornmann <kornmann@arcor.de>]
Stairways Software hat Interarchy 8.2, die neueste Version ihres hochflexiblen Dateitransfer- und Netzwerk-Werkzeugs veröffentlicht. Hervorzuhebende neue Fähigkeiten sind die Unterstützung von Growl-Benachrichtigungen (eine unabhängige systemweite Benachrichtigungsmethode), Dateikonvertierer, die automatisch Dateien beim Upload oder Download konvertieren und einfacheres Erstellen von Lesezeichen über einen Lesezeichen-Button in der Statusleiste jedes Fensters. Am unterhaltsamsten ist jedoch die Tatsache, dass Interarchy 8.2 nun Rechtschreibkorrektur anbietet; die Veröffentlichungsnachricht bemerkt nur trocken: "Genau, was Sie schon immer in einem Dateitransferprogramm haben wollten." Es gibt eine Reihe weiterer kleiner Verbesserungen und jede Menge Fehlerbehebungen, und da es sich um ein kostenloses Upgrade für Besitzer von Interarchy 8.x handelt, ist es den 8,3 MByte umfassenden Download wert.
<http://www.interarchy.com/>
<http://growl.info/about.php>
<http://www.interarchy.com/documentation/8/whatsnew>
<http://www.stairways.com/main/download>
von Adam C. Engst <ace@tidbits.com>
[Übersetzung: Sven Kornmann <kornmann@arcor.de>]
Jonathan "Wolf" Rentzsch, der im Laufe der Jahre einige Artikel für TidBITS geschrieben hat und auf der MacHack/ADHOC-Konferenz schon zum Inventar gezählt wurde, hat sich dazu entschieden, dass wenn er MacHack nicht mehr haben kann, er sich einfach seine eigene Konferenz zusammenhackt. Das Ergebnis ist die C4-Konferenz, die in Chicago am 20. und 21. Oktober 2006 stattfinden wird. Es sieht aus, als ob sie kurz und bündig sein wird, mit sieben Vorträgen an den beiden Tagen, inklusive Speis und Trank. C4 kostet 384 US$ und die Besucherzahl ist auf 75 beschränkt. Wenn Sie also Interesse haben, senden Sie eine E-Mail an c4@redshed.net, um sich zu registrieren. Es gibt auch drei Freiplätze für Studenten; siehe die Konferenzwebsite zu Details.
<http://rentzsch.com/c4/zero>
<http://c4.rentzsch.com/>
<c4@redshed.net>
von Mark H. Anbinder <mha@tidbits.com>
[Übersetzung: Sven Kornmann <kornmann@arcor.de>]
Parallels, Inc. kündigte letzte Woche ein Release Candidate einer Aktualisierung ihres Parallels Desktop für Mac an, das Kompatibilität für Apples neuen Mac Pro-Computer und die Entwicklerversionen von Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard mitbringt. Das "Update RC", ein kostenloses Update für alle Parallels Desktop-Anwender, bringt zusätzliche Verbesserungen wie höhere Kompatibilität für Solaris und OpenBSD 3.8 Gastbetriebssysteme und ein verbessertes Parallels Tools-Paket.
<http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/mac/>
Das 80 US$ teure Parallels Desktop ermöglicht Besitzern von Intel-Macs, Windows oder andere Intel-basierte Betriebssysteme in einer virtuellen Maschine innerhalb Mac OS X zu starten. Apples Boot Camp-Lösung, die bis zur Veröffentlichung von Leopard eine öffentliche Betaversion bleibt, erfordert einen Neustart des Macs durch den Anwender, um zwischen Mac OS X und Windows-Betriebssystemen zu wechseln. Parallels bietet eine 15-tägige kostenlose Testversion ihrer Software. (Vergessen Sie nicht, dass Sie 10 US$ an einer Parallels Desktop-Lizenz sparen können, wenn Sie einen Gutschein von Joe Kissells "Take Control of Running Windows on a Mac"-E-Buch verwenden, was das E-Buch kostenlos werden lässt.)
<http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/>
<http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/windows-on-mac.html?14@@!pt=TRK-0034-TB846>
Eine weitere Option für Intel Mac-Anwender, die Windows-Applikationen ausführen wollen, ist CrossOver Mac, ein aufstrebendes Produkt von CodeWeavers, Inc., das letzten Monat als öffentliche Betaversion veröffentlicht wurde. Diese Anwendung erfordert noch nicht einmal, dass der Anwender Windows installiert. Basierend auf Wine, das die Windows-Entwickler-APIs re-implementiert, lässt CrossOver Mac Mac-Anwender viele, wenn auch nicht alle Windows-Programme in ihren eigenen separaten Fenstern unter Mac OS X ausführen.
<http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/>
<http://www.winehq.com/>
von Glenn Fleishmann <glenn@tidbits.com>
[Übersetzung: Sven Kornmann <kornmann@arcor.de>]
WLAN-Netzwerke sind überall, aber sie zu finden bedarf oftmals der mühsamen Verwendung des unbeständigen AirPort-Menüs in der Menüleiste, oder ein getrennt laufendes Programm wie iStumbler, das mehr Informationen anzeigt, als die meisten Menschen benötigen. (iStumbler ist jedoch hervorragend geeignet, wenn man mehr über die Fehlerbehebung im lokalen Airport-Raum lernen will, und es unterstützt die Suche nach Bluetooth-Geräten und Bonjour-Diensten im lokalen Netzwerk.)
Christoph Sinais coconutWifi bietet eine einfache Menüleistenanzeige: einen einzigen Punkt. Der Punkt ist rot, wenn es keine Netzwerke in der näheren Umgebung gibt, gelb wenn benachbarte Netzwerke mit WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) oder WPA-Schutz (Wi-Fi Protected Access) verschlüsselt sind und grün, wenn wenigstens ein ungeschütztes Netzwerk in Reichweite ist. (Scannen reicht nicht aus, um andere Schutzmethoden wie WPA Enterprise zu finden, das einen Login erfordert, oder MAC-Aussperrungen (Media Access Control), durch die nur spezifischen WLAN-Adaptern mit ihrer einmaligen Hardware-Nummer Zugang gewährt wird.)
<http://coconut-flavour.com/coconutwifi/>
Klicken Sie auf den Punkt, und eine Liste mit Netzwerken klappt auf, inklusive der Verschlüsselungsmethode für geschützte Netzwerke. Eine optionale Zahl neben der Anzeige informiert über die Anzahl der gefundenen Netzwerke. Die Software ist ein Universal Binary und ein 219 KByte-Download; Spenden werden akzeptiert.
von Adam C. Engst <ace@tidbits.com>
[Dieser Artikel konnte leider nicht übersetzt werden und Sie finden untenstehend deshalb den englischsprachigen Originaltext.]
Last week, Apple announced two notable changes to the iMac line, available now. First, all iMacs now use Intel's new 64-bit Core 2 Duo processor, which Apple claims can deliver up to 50 percent faster performance than previous Core Duo processors. However, in testing done by PC World on PC laptops, the Core 2 Duo chip improved performance by only 5 to 10 percent over identically configured laptops with the older Core Duo chip; Macworld's benchmarks rated a 10 percent improvement. My guess is that the new iMacs with the Core 2 Duo will be faster, perhaps noticeably so in some tasks, but not so much that it would make sense to upgrade from an existing Core Duo-based iMac to a new Core 2 Duo-based model.
<http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2006/sep/06imac.html>
<http://www.apple.com/imac/>
<http://www.apple.com/imac/intelcore2duo.html>
<http://www.macworld.com/2006/09/firstlooks/core2duo/>
<http://www.macworld.com/2006/09/firstlooks/imacbench/>
However, the second notable change in the iMac line may be sufficiently compelling to cause even a recent iMac purchaser to consider trading up to a new model. That's because the top-of-the-line iMac now comes with a built-in 24-inch widescreen display running at 1920 by 1200 pixels (compare that with 1440 by 900 for the 17-inch display and 1680 by 1050 for the 20-inch model). The 24-inch display also offers a wider viewing angle than the smaller displays, is brighter, and provides a higher contrast ratio than the 17-inch display (though slightly lower than the 20-inch display).
<http://www.apple.com/imac/graphics.html>
Interestingly, there are a number of other differences between the 24-inch iMac and the smaller models besides some added size and weight. The 24-inch iMac uses a faster Nvidia GeForce 7300 GT graphics processor (or an optional Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT) in favor of the Intel GMA 950 (in the 1.83 GHz 17-inch iMac) or the ATI Radeon X1600 (in the 2.0 GHz 17-inch iMac and the 20-inch iMac). Instead of a pair of FireWire 400 ports, the 24-inch iMac features one FireWire 400 port and one FireWire 800 port. It also doubles the power of its internal digital amplifier from 12 watts in the 17- and 20-inch iMacs to 24 watts.
<http://www.apple.com/imac/specs.html>
A Plethora of Possibilities -- Configuring an iMac is a bit more confusing than in the past, since the low-end 1.83 GHz 17-inch iMac, priced at only $1,000, can be configured only with more RAM (512 MB standard, up to 2 GB), with an Apple Remote, and with a modem. It comes standard with a Combo drive, a 160 GB hard drive, Intel GMA 950 graphics processor, and AirPort Extreme, but not Bluetooth. This basic configuration was introduced in July 2006 for education buyers (see "New iMac Replaces eMac for Education", 10-Jul-06); it's now available to anyone (and it still costs $900 for educational customers).
<http://db.tidbits.com/article/8595>
The 2.0 GHz 17-inch iMac ($1,200) can be upgraded to a 2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo processor and comes with a 160 GB hard drive, upgradable to 500 GB. In contrast, the 20-inch ($1,500) and 24-inch ($2,000) iMacs both come with a 2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo processor, upgradable to 2.33 GHz, and they both have 250 GB hard drives, with 500 GB options. All three of these models come with an 8x double-layer SuperDrive, 1 GB of RAM (upgradable to 3 GB), and built-in AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth 2.0.
Standard equipment for all iMac models includes a built-in iSight camera, three USB 2.0 ports, two FireWire ports, Gigabit Ethernet, mini-DVI out, built-in stereo speakers, a built-in microphone, optical digital audio in/out jacks, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, and iLife '06.
Mac mini Speed Bumped -- Although the also-updated Mac mini doesn't share the iMac's switch to the Core 2 Duo chip, Apple has speed-bumped the low-end Mac, dropping the Intel Core Solo processor entirely while keeping prices at their previous level. The $800 Mac mini moves from a 1.66 GHz Core Duo processor to a 1.83 GHz Core Duo processor, and the $600 model drops its 1.5 GHz Core Solo processor in favor of a dual-core 1.66 GHz Core Duo processor. All other specs remain the same.
<http://www.apple.com/macmini/>
von Adam C. Engst <ace@tidbits.com>
[Dieser Artikel konnte leider nicht übersetzt werden und Sie finden untenstehend deshalb den englischsprachigen Originaltext.]
One of the great myths, in my personal experience, is that when you pull up the ratty carpeting in an old house that you've just bought, you'll find a gorgeous hardwood floor. We always find plywood, but perhaps our luck is changing, since peeking under the carpeting in Bare Bones Software's BBEdit 8.5 has revealed some seriously nice planks.
<http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/>
For those recently recovering from amnesia-inducing accidents, BBEdit is a text editor aimed primarily at people who work with pure text files, often involving code of one sort or another: programmers, Web designers, network sysadmins, and so on. BBEdit's long history (it was first released in 1992) means that the program's feature set is extremely mature; on a number of occasions when I've asked Bare Bones Software's Rich Siegel a question about something I didn't see, he simply pointed me in the right direction.
With BBEdit 8.5, fewer users should be unaware of what the program can do, since although 8.5 is a significant upgrade with some extremely welcome new features, much of the effort has gone into revamping the interface to reveal features that most users never realized even existed.
<http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/new.shtml>
Old Features, Revealed -- BBEdit has long had a glossary feature for inserting frequently used bits of text. Or so Rich tells me - I hadn't known that until now, and it took me a few minutes even to find it (a palette in Windows > Palettes) in the previous version of BBEdit. Bare Bones dusted this feature off, renamed it to Clippings, and gave it a top level menu. You can now create clippings from selected text, store clippings in sets, and access the clippings via a palette that offers searching with auto-completion. Clippings don't have to be just static text and can have intelligent placeholders that insert variables like the date and time; these placeholders can even invoke AppleScript or Unix scripts.
Also completely revamped is BBEdit's toolbar, whose graphic style hadn't been updated in years. The toolbar now has larger, more Aqua-like buttons, and Bare Bones rearranged them for a more logical layout, moving some functions to a status bar at the bottom of the screen and removing some entirely.
But where the most work may have been done is in the Preferences window. Arguably, you don't spend a lot of time there, but the program has myriad options that, if set properly, could improve your productivity. To that end, Bare Bones completely overhauled the preferences interface, making the entire window larger and the controls more readable, rearranging items and entire sets of preferences to make them more easily found. An alternative access method is now available as well, via a search field in a drawer. Enter a term, and BBEdit shows all the related options, then you can double-click one to jump to the appropriate set. I've already found this useful when attempting to locate preferences for new features.
BBEdit has long enabled users to set keyboard shortcuts for any menu item, though that option was oddly placed in the BBEdit application menu. That functionality now lives in the Menus preference pane, but more interestingly, checkboxes next to every menu and menu item in the program enable users to turn off unwanted items. For instance, I have no plug-ins that appear in the Tools menu, so now I can just turn the entire Tools menu off and reclaim the menu bar space. With so many menu items in BBEdit, I'm going to enjoy paring it down to functions I actually use.
Lastly, although I barely realized that either existed, Bare Bones significantly changed the interfaces to both the FTP Browser, which lets you open files from FTP sites (I instead always use Edit with BBEdit in an FTP client like Fetch or Interarchy), and the Disk Browser, which gives you an alternate interface to files in the Finder. If you use either, you'll probably appreciate the redesigns, and although I don't use them, the Disk Browser looks like a great candidate for providing a better interface to folders under version control; BBEdit's tools for working with version control systems essentially just issue directives at the command line, rather than providing a conceptual interface to the version control functionality.
New Features -- Most notable among BBEdit 8.5's new features is "code folding," which enables users to collapse ranges of text into tiny ellipsis lozenges so as to focus on other parts of a document. Code folding works on selected ranges or, when used with a particular language, it can automatically detect the appropriate areas to fold, such as the text within paragraph tags in HTML. Once text is folded into a lozenge, it can be moved around in the document or expanded via double-clicking.
Next, and of particular interest to us, is that BBEdit's Find Differences feature now identifies changed lines and highlights the specific words within those lines that changed. In conjunction with BBEdit's support for version control systems like Subversion, this feature makes BBEdit significantly more useful for comparing different versions of prose text files, where a "line" is a full paragraph of text, rather than just a relatively short line of code.
Speaking of prose text, anyone writing in BBEdit (including content for Web pages) will appreciate the addition of a contextual menu item for Look Up in Dictionary, and the capability to enable Check Spelling As You Type.
Although BBEdit is a highly stable application (it has crashed only twice on me in Mac OS X, with both crashes coming more than a year ago despite frequent use), BBEdit 8.5 adds a user-configurable auto-save feature, with automatic recovery should a crash or power failure cause a document to be closed without saving. Thankfully, BBEdit 8.5 does auto-recovery right, by automatically opening the backup file if BBEdit alone is launched, and automatically using the newer backup file in place of the original if the user launches BBEdit by double-clicking the file in question. (Compare this with Word, which opens the recovered file as a separate document, creating a massively stressful situation as you try to figure out the best course of action.)
Mac OS X automatically compresses old log files in gzip format, and BBEdit 8.5 can open and save such text files without requiring an additional expansion or compression step. This feature could also make it easier to share very large text files with other BBEdit users, since you can automatically create a compressed file by merely saving it with a .gz or .gzip extension.
BBEdit now supports a number of additional languages, including Ruby, several variants of SQL, and YAML. Plus, users can now adjust editing and display options (such as the color of comments, among much else) on a per-language basis, enabling anyone who works in multiple languages to have better customization. Codeless language modules are also more flexible now, enabling better handling of programming and tagging languages that BBEdit doesn't support out of the box.
For those who regularly work with "camel case" variable names like firstName, BBEdit 8.5 now provides Control-Left/Right Arrow shortcuts for navigating to the next part of the word, rather than the way Option-Left/Right Arrow jumps to the next word. This setting is optional, and those who prefer the old horizontal scrolling setting for these keys can revert to it with special defaults.write commands.
Details -- Along with the interface streamlining, BBEdit 8.5 sees a price streamlining with a cheaper price but no permanent cross-upgrades from other programs. The price is now only $125, with upgrades from previous versions of BBEdit 8.x priced at $30 and upgrades from earlier versions of BBEdit priced at $40. And for once, those nice round numbers aren't the result of us rounding the prices for honesty's sake; they're what Bare Bones publishes.
<http://www.digitalriver.com/dr/v2/ec_dynamic.main?sp=1&pn=10&sid=48085>
A 30-day, fully-featured demo of BBEdit 8.5 is available as a 13.7 MB download; the addition of a registration code turns it into a registered copy. We've been using BBEdit 8.5 for only a few days now, and although it still isn't writing articles for us, it's a good upgrade for a program that many people consider an essential tool.
<http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/demo.shtml>
von Adam C. Engst <ace@tidbits.com>
[Dieser Artikel konnte leider nicht übersetzt werden und Sie finden untenstehend deshalb den englischsprachigen Originaltext.]
I've been pretty quiet about our recent transition to a new back-end infrastructure, mostly because I didn't want to be talking about things that might change from week to week, and because I didn't want to tempt fate any more than was necessary. Now, although we're by no means finished with the changes we have planned, everything has stabilized sufficiently that I want to share what we've done.
From FileMaker/Lasso to LAMP -- Our primary goal with this move was to transition our back-end databases from the highly evolved system that Geoff Duncan had built over many years to modern hardware and tools. Using then-current tools, Geoff had done wonders with FileMaker, Lasso, AppleScript, and yes, even HyperCard. However, performance wasn't great, and only Geoff understood how the system worked and could modify it. Our long-planned content management system in Web Crossing hadn't yet materialized, and in an effort to let Geoff extricate himself from day-to-day server babysitting, Glenn Fleishman offered to recreate Geoff's system using a more-common and higher-performance combination of Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP, with some Perl code thrown in as well.
(Yes, that's right, Linux. Glenn runs several beefy Linux boxes at digital.forest for his other sites, so that's where we're pointing db.tidbits.com now. We may someday purchase a second Xserve and move the system over to Mac OS X Server, where the same tools are also available, but that seems unnecessary at the moment.)
Glenn is an eternal optimist, and although his estimate of how long it would take to recreate the search and results features of the older database wasn't far off, he didn't realize just how many tweaky approaches we've accumulated over the years (heck, even I didn't realize quite how much we were doing), so it took a bit longer to implement all our quirks. But at this point, we believe that the new system handles all the tasks the old one did, and we've thrown in some improvements that I want to call your attention to.
No More MailBITS -- Long ago, MailBITS was meant as a sort of "letters to the editor" column (hence the name), but as the amount of email we received became greater than could reasonably be published, we turned it into collection of short pieces and directed most of the chatty messages to TidBITS Talk. I've long been uncomfortable with collecting entirely unrelated bits of information under the MailBITS rubric, so we eliminated MailBITS entirely and are now giving short articles equal status with longer ones (although shorter articles will still come earlier in the issue). We were already breaking the MailBITS column into its constituent chunks in the article database, so this move merely clarifies what is and isn't an independent article in the email editions of TidBITS. (Take Control News and Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk remain collections, since their constituent items are all related.)
New Persistent URL Formats -- You may have noticed that we've changed the persistent URL format that identifies every article and issue and article series we've ever created. Our previous format relied on the GetBITS CGI that Geoff Duncan wrote, along with a query for an article, issue, or series number. Since it was easy to change all these URLs in our new system we've implemented a new system suggested by Geoff that's significantly more obvious. So, although our system will continue to respond appropriately to the old GetBITS URLs, the new URL formats to use when linking are:
Although the syntax isn't exactly parallel, we also added a quick author search that's embedded in a URL. Plus, you can still perform full text searches across our article database by embedding search terms in a URL, which can be handy when making JavaScript bookmarklets or enabling independent applications to search our article database.
Issue and Article Links -- When we streamlined the boilerplate text in our issues as part of the transition, we initially removed the link at the top of the text edition that linked to the issue on the Web. After all, linking to the issue from the issue seemed redundant. However, a surprising number of people told use they used that link. Since all of our editions are now generated from Glenn's database, it was easy to add not just a link to the issue, but also links for each article; you see those underneath the title of the issue and the title of each article.
Numbered URLs in the Text Edition -- Everyone who subscribes to the full text edition of TidBITS has noticed that we started using square-bracketed numbers as a way of connecting link references to their URLs below the paragraphs. The reason for that is that we're now using a variant of John Gruber's Markdown format for writing our issues (Markdown was based in large part on the setext format we used to use, so it was an easy switch), and Markdown format uses the square-bracketed references as a way of identifying link text for embedding URLs in the HTML version of a file. In a fit of indecision, I decided to try leaving the references in the text edition for a few weeks to see what I and others thought. Although responses were mixed on TidBITS Talk, most of us on staff, including me and Tonya, disliked the way the references cluttered the text. In fact, we disliked it quite a lot, and as of this week, we've removed those references entirely in the text edition, returning to our previous method of including the URLs related to a paragraph directly below that paragraph.
<http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/>
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/911/>
In addition, the particular format we used for the URLs - with the square-bracketed number, then the URL in angle brackets, without a space between the two (because the space caused horrible wrapping on long URLs) - flushed out a bug in Microsoft Outlook 2003. Without a space or carriage return before the starting angle bracket, Outlook was incapable of recognizing the URLs as URLs, and wouldn't make them hot. This problem will disappear for anyone using Outlook as of this issue; my apologies if you would prefer that we instead made Outlook itself disappear, but that's a bit beyond our power at the moment.
A number of other people have reported all the links being broken in the issue, but that was unrelated to anything we did. It turns out that everyone with this problem used Yahoo Mail's Web interface, and it was incorrectly parsing the closing angle bracket as part of the URL. I reported it to Yahoo and they said it should be fixed as of this week.
Luckily, for those who found that they preferred the way the references connected link text with URLs, the HTML edition of TidBITS (both in email and on the Web) now offers normal embedded links, where a link's URL is embedded under the text. This change, along with the fact that the HTML version flows to the width of your email program's window, makes our HTML edition an even better option, especially for anyone reading email in a Web browser. And even if you don't like HTML-formatted email, never fear, because we use minimal HTML markup, with no graphics, tables, CSS styles, or JavaScript to get in the way of readability. And that leads to our next improvement...
Centralized Subscription Interface -- So you're thinking, "Maybe I'll give that HTML edition a try. I wonder how I switch?" Good question, and before this week, the answer was significantly uglier than I liked. However, anticipating lots of people wanting to switch, I was able to work with Michael Landis of Web Crossing to create a centralized subscription interface. Before I point you to it, though, some background.
Although many people don't realize it, by virtue of being subscribed to TidBITS, TidBITS Talk, Take Control Announcements, or any other of our mailing lists, you have an account on our Web Crossing server. You received your TidBITS account information when you signed up for the list, or when I added you manually during our big mailing list move several years ago (see "Important News for All Subscribers: Mailing List Migration," 20-Dec-04). Don't worry if you've lost that information; you can use your subscribed email address as your username, and you can always request a new password.
<http://db.tidbits.com/article/7930>
Needless to say (but I'll say it anyway), you need to log in to our server to be able to manage your subscriptions; otherwise anyone could subscribe or unsubscribe you to our mailing lists. But whereas the subscription interface was awkward and confusing before, we've now reworked it so you can see and subscribe to all the public mailing lists we offer, including all the editions of TidBITS, TidBITS Talk, Take Control Announcements, and even our TidBITS translations. You can also unsubscribe from any mailing lists (including some which are private, such as the update notification lists for particular Take Control ebooks) to which you might be subscribed. And for those lists where digest subscriptions make sense, TidBITS Talk in particular, you can switch to and from digest mode. It's all done with checkboxes; select a checkbox to subscribe, deselect it to unsubscribe.
Our new Manage Mailing List Subscriptions page handles everything; the only trick is logging in. If you have logged in before, our server should remember you, thanks to a cookie that prevents you from needing to login repeatedly unless you explicitly wish to log out because you're using a public computer. If you haven't yet logged in, or if you logged out after your last visit, enter your email address in the field at the top of Manage Mailing List Subscriptions page and click Update to load a login page where you can either login or request a new password by clicking the Problems Logging In? link. (The next iteration of this interface, which may appear as soon as later this week, will make it possible for people new to TidBITS to subscribe as well.)
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/manageListSubs>
We have more plans already in the works, and I'll be sure to alert you to new services as they're ready for the real world. Thanks for reading TidBITS, as always!
von Adam C. Engst <ace@tidbits.com>
[Übersetzung: Sven Kornmann <kornmann@arcor.de>]
Flugticket-E-Buch jetzt als Druckversion erhältlich -- Jeder, der Interesse daran hat, "Take Control of Booking a Cheap Airline Ticket" lieber auf Papier anstatt dem Bildschirm zu lesen, kann jetzt eine Print-on-Demand-Version [Druck auf Anfrage -- SK] des Buches lesen, obwohl wir wärmstens empfehlen, die Links in dem E-Buch zu nutzen, wenn es daran geht, Buchungs-Seiten im Internet aufzusuchen. Da der Preis abhängig von der Seitenzahl ist, kostet das 152 Seiten umfassende Buch 13 US$ in Schwarz/Weiß oder 37 US$ in Farbe. Die Gesamtkosten sind immerhin gefallen, seitdem QOOP USPS Priority Mail und USPS Media Mail-Optionen für den Versand anbietet. Der Priority Mail-Tarif ist fast derselbe wie DHL Land, aber das Buch kann bis zu drei Tage früher ankommen, wohingegen Media Mail weniger als halb so teuer ist, aber der Versand über eine Woche dauern kann. Wie vorher, um an den Print-On-Demand-Bestelllink zu kommen, drücken Sie auf den "Check for Updates"-Knopf in Ihrer Ausgabe des E-Buchs. Sie können auf unserer Website mehr über das Aussehen der Print-On-Demand-Versionen erfahren und Fotos sehen.
<http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/airline-ticket.html?14@@!pt=TRK-0039-TB846-TCNEWS>
<http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/print-on-demand.html>
vom TidBITS-Team <editors@tidbits.com>
[Übersetzung: Sven Kornmann <kornmann@arcor.de>]
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<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/939/>
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<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/941/>
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<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/942/>
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<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/944/>
Ist iPod das Allheilmittel? -- Der iPod wird von einigen als derzeitiger Gipfel des Designs angesehen, aber ist sein Verlass auf wenige Knöpfe tatsächlich ein Vorteil?
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/945/>
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Übersetzung dieser Ausgabe: Sven Kornmann <kornmann@arcor.de>.
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