DealBITS Drawing: Autographed Spam Winner (05-Apr-2004; 1.6K)

Grok Headline matches for DealBITS Drawing: Autographed Spam Winner (05-Apr-2004; 1.6K)

DealBITS Drawing: Cocoatech Winner
(26-Jan-2004; 1K)

DealBITS Drawing: Cocoatech Winner
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DealBITS Drawing: Insider Software
Winner (05-Jan-2004; 1.1K)

DealBITS Drawing: Insider Software
Winner (05-Jan-2004; 1.1K) 01/07/2004 05:38 PM

DealBITS Drawing: Interarchy 7.0
(01-Mar-2004; 1.8K)

DealBITS Drawing: Interarchy 7.0
(01-Mar-2004; 1.8K) 03/06/2004 01:50 AM

DealBITS Drawing: Cocoatech
(19-Jan-2004; 1.6K)

DealBITS Drawing: Cocoatech
(19-Jan-2004; 1.6K) 01/22/2004 02:38 AM

DealBITS Drawing: FMChecker
(30-Aug-2004; 2.1K)

DealBITS Drawing: FMChecker
(30-Aug-2004; 2.1K) 08/30/2004 10:39 PM

DealBITS Drawing: disclabel Winners
(12-Jul-2004; 1.2K)

DealBITS Drawing: disclabel Winners
(12-Jul-2004; 1.2K) 07/12/2004 08:47 PM

DealBITS Drawing: disclabel from
SmileOnMyMac (05-Jul-2004; 1.6K)

DealBITS Drawing: disclabel from
SmileOnMyMac (05-Jul-2004; 1.6K) 07/05/2004 08:48 PM

DealBITS Drawing: FMChecker Winners
(06-Sep-2004; 0.9K)

DealBITS Drawing: FMChecker Winners
(06-Sep-2004; 0.9K) 09/06/2004 09:56 PM

DealBITS Drawing: Interarchy Winners
(08-Mar-2004; 1.2K)

DealBITS Drawing: Interarchy Winners
(08-Mar-2004; 1.2K) 03/08/2004 11:05 PM

DealBITS Drawing: DLexpo Free Passes
(09-Aug-2004; 2.8K)

DealBITS Drawing: DLexpo Free Passes
(09-Aug-2004; 2.8K) 08/09/2004 08:27 PM

DealBITS Drawing: Mail Factory Winners
(23-Aug-2004; 0.9K)

DealBITS Drawing: Mail Factory Winners
(23-Aug-2004; 0.9K) 08/27/2004 01:31 PM

DealBITS Drawing: DLexpo VIP Pass
Winners (16-Aug-2004; 1K)

DealBITS Drawing: DLexpo VIP Pass
Winners (16-Aug-2004; 1K) 08/16/2004 08:01 PM

DealBITS Drawing: BeLight's Mail Factory
(16-Aug-2004; 2.3K)

DealBITS Drawing: BeLight's Mail Factory
(16-Aug-2004; 2.3K) 08/16/2004 08:01 PM

DealBITS Drawing: GarageSale

DealBITS Drawing: GarageSale 12/22/2004 01:28 AM

DealBITS Drawing: TARI's GoodPage

DealBITS Drawing: TARI's GoodPage 03/22/2005 04:59 PM
Adam C. Engst (~560 words)

In the early days of the Web, we saw the rise of simple graphical HTML editors like Claris HomePage, Symantec's Visual Page, and Adobe's PageMill. Those applications defined a useful niche between the text-only HTML editors like BBEdit (still preferred by many) and the powerful (and expensive) Web authoring tools like Adobe GoLive and Macromedia Dreamweaver. Useful and obvious though that niche may have been, all those early programs died off, leaving many people using programs with which they were uncomfortable. A few low-end Web authoring tools have popped up over the years, but none has become as well-known as those first programs.

DealBITS Drawing: PublicVPN Winners

DealBITS Drawing: PublicVPN Winners 06/05/2005 11:45 PM
Adam C. Engst (~100 words)

DealBITS Drawing: PublicVPN Winners -- Congratulations to Diane Palumbo of gmail.com and Philip Hudson of spamgourmet.com, whose entries were chosen randomly in last week's DealBITS drawing and who each received 3 months of PublicVPN service, worth $17.85. Even if you didn't win, you can save 10 percent off the cost of PublicVPN service if you sign up before 30-May-05 using coupon code "dealbits10" (sans quotes, of course); this offer is open to all TidBITS readers. Thanks to the 230 people who entered. Keep an eye out for future DealBITS drawings. [ACE]

DealBITS Drawing: SmileOnMyMac's
photoprinto

DealBITS Drawing: SmileOnMyMac's
photoprinto 02/01/2005 08:55 PM

DealBITS Drawing: MaxSleeve and iProtect

DealBITS Drawing: MaxSleeve and iProtect 04/18/2005 06:45 PM
Adam C. Engst (~360 words)

My main laptop bag holds so much that I'm tempted to pack a lot more than I need much of the time, and the end result is that my svelte little 12-inch PowerBook G4 ends up being only a fraction of the overall weight I carry. For an outing where I don't want all my gear, or, in fact, anything but the laptop itself, I've just started using a MaxSleeve from MaxUpgrades. It's a sleek black bag made of a dense polyurethane foam, and my PowerBook fits snugly inside. A pair of zippers enable you to close it, and the zippers are on the outside so they never come in contact with the surface of the PowerBook. MaxUpgrades also sent me their iProtect cloth, which is a microfiber cloth you can use to prevent finger oils on your keycaps from marring the LCD screen surface when your laptop is closed; it's also designed to clean sensitive LCD screens without scratching.

DealBITS Drawing: PDFpenPro Winners

DealBITS Drawing: PDFpenPro Winners 04/18/2005 06:45 PM
Adam C. Engst (~150 words)

DealBITS Drawing: PDFpenPro Winners -- Congratulations to Kevin Wong of csua.berkeley.edu, Rick Jarnat of earthlink.net, and Ferd Diemer of lycos.com, whose entries were chosen randomly in last week's DealBITS drawing and who each received a copy of SmileOnMyMac's PDFpenPro PDF editing utility, worth $94.95. Even if you didn't win, you can save 10 percent off the purchase price of either PDFpen ($49.95 for those who don't need to create PDF forms) or PDFpenPro using the URL below; this offer is open to all TidBITS readers. Thanks to the 746 people who entered, and extra thanks to the 54 people who entered after being referred to DealBITS. Note that there's another DealBITS drawing this week, and remember that telling your friends, family, and colleagues about new drawings is a great way to increase your chances of receiving a prize. [ACE]

DealBITS Drawing: GoodPage Winners

DealBITS Drawing: GoodPage Winners 03/28/2005 11:20 PM
Adam C. Engst (~200 words)

DealBITS Drawing: GoodPage Winners -- Congratulations to Dana Ostrow of columbia.edu, whose entry was chosen randomly in last week's DealBITS drawing and who received a copy of TARI's GoodPage graphical HTML authoring tool, worth $149. Dana was referred to this week's DealBITS drawing by Seth Theriault of sdf.lonestar.org, and as such, Seth will also be receiving a copy of GoodPage. Even if you didn't win, you can save $75 off the list price of GoodPage through 04-Apr-05 using the coupon code DEALBITS when purchasing from within the 30-day trial version of the application; this offer is exclusive to TidBITS readers. Thanks to the 945 people who entered, extra thanks to the 87 people who entered after being referred to DealBITS, and for those of you who subscribed after entering DealBITS, welcome to TidBITS! Keep an eye out for future DealBITS drawings, and remember that telling your friends, family, and colleagues about new drawings is a great way to increase your chances of receiving a prize; nearly 10 percent of our entries this time came from people who learned about DealBITS from a friend, and I'd like to see that increase. [ACE]

DealBITS Drawing: Matias OS X Keyboard

DealBITS Drawing: Matias OS X Keyboard 06/17/2005 05:46 PM
Adam C. Engst (~410 words)

A little over a year ago, I reviewed the Matias Tactile Pro keyboard, which uses Alps mechanical switches to provide a "clicky" feel that many people, myself included, really like. Now Matias has a new keyboard - the OS X Keyboard - that addresses two common complaints with the Tactile Pro. First, the Tactile Pro is relatively expensive at $99.95, whereas the OS X Keyboard costs only $29.95. Second, the Tactile Pro is rather loud thanks to those clicky keys, and some people (or their office-mates) find the noise annoying. In contrast, the OS X Keyboard, short of occasional clicks from its Spacebar, is far quieter. The OS X Keyboard also hides the seldom-used Caps Lock key down in the cluster of modifier keys to the right of the Spacebar (replacing it with a Control key above Shift), prints the appropriate symbols on the modifier keys in addition to the Option characters on all alphanumeric keys, and arranges the three volume keys (mute, up, down) in a line between the Help/Home/Pg Up row and F13/F14/F15. But (there's always a "but," isn't there?), the OS X Keyboard uses rubber dome switches instead of Alps mechanical switches, and as such, doesn't have nearly as nice a feel as the Tactile Pro. It's comparable to the Apple Pro Keyboard, other than a somewhat looser Spacebar. In terms of construction, it's white plastic, and is quite light; it doesn't have the tank-like feel of the Tactile Pro. Overall, the OS X Keyboard hasn't rocked my world, but it seems to be a decent, inexpensive keyboard that might be a good choice for anyone buying a Mac mini or looking for a backup or replacement keyboard.

DealBITS Drawing: SmileOnMyMac's
PDFpenPro

DealBITS Drawing: SmileOnMyMac's
PDFpenPro 04/11/2005 08:22 PM
Adam C. Engst (~360 words)

About a year ago, in one of our earliest DealBITS drawings, we gave away a few copies of SmileOnMyMac's PDFpen software, which enables you to manipulate PDF files in a variety of ways. SmileOnMyMac has now updated PDFpen to version 2 and released PDFpenPro, which builds upon PDFpen by enabling you to create interactive PDF forms. Both programs let you merge PDFs, rearrange and delete pages, add text (for filling in non-interactive forms) and graphics (such as signatures), and more. PDFpen 2 improves the program's performance and adds the extremely useful capability of searching for, selecting, and copying text from PDF documents. Macworld gave PDFpen 4 mice in a recent review.

DealBITS Drawing: Matias OS X Keyboard
Winners

DealBITS Drawing: Matias OS X Keyboard
Winners 06/22/2005 01:52 AM
Adam C. Engst (~160 words)

DealBITS Drawing: Matias OS X Keyboard Winners -- Congratulations to Joe Benenati of cox.net, Jan Ferrera of yahoo.com, Glenn Zieman of wi.rr.com, Eric Frampton of ericframpton.com, Don Andrews of mac.com, David Dunham of pensee.com, Amy Kvochick of kvochick.com, and Jean Ohlde of yahoo.com, whose entries were chosen randomly from 1,296 valid entries in last week's DealBITS drawing and who each will receive an OS X Keyboard from Matias, worth $29.95. In addition, our last two winners were referred to DealBITS, so Andrew Kvochick of yahoo.com and Robert Ohlde of macconnect.com will also receive a keyboard. Keep an eye out for future DealBITS drawings, and remember that telling your friends, family, and colleagues about new drawings is a great way to increase your chances of receiving a prize; nearly 10 percent of our entries this time came from people who learned about DealBITS from a friend. [ACE]

DealBITS Drawing: Audio Hijack Pro
Winners

DealBITS Drawing: Audio Hijack Pro
Winners 12/19/2004 02:49 PM

Dog Rejected As Cash Drawing Winner (AP)

Dog Rejected As Cash Drawing Winner (AP) 04/18/2005 10:14 AM
AP - A gasoline station owner is trying to smooth some ruffled fur over the winner of a cash drawing.

Drawing in Flash: A Beginner's
Introduction to the Flash MX 2004
Drawing Tools

Drawing in Flash: A Beginner's
Introduction to the Flash MX 2004
Drawing Tools 09/24/2004 08:03 PM
Take a guided tour through the Flash Tools panel as you draw a simple illustration.

Drawing and Animating a Character in
Macromedia Flash MX 2004

Drawing and Animating a Character in
Macromedia Flash MX 2004 06/18/2004 04:11 PM
Watch as Team Macromedia member Chris Georgenes transforms a pencil sketch into an animated character.

MySQL: Winner of the 2004 SIIA Codie
Award

MySQL: Winner of the 2004 SIIA Codie
Award 05/25/2004 08:15 AM
In a new posting from php|architect, there's congratulations in order for the MySQL team on the success of their database and being awarded the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) winner of the 2004 Codie Award for Best Open Source Product.

CBS News | Poll: McCain/Kerry Ticket A
Winner | May 26, 2004 19:10:35

CBS News | Poll: McCain/Kerry Ticket A
Winner | May 26, 2004 19:10:35 05/29/2004 04:47 PM

CBS News | Poll: McCain/Kerry Ticket A
Winner | May 26, 2004 19:10:35

CBS News | Poll: McCain/Kerry Ticket A
Winner | May 26, 2004 19:10:35 05/30/2004 05:00 AM
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry holds an eight-point lead over President George W. Bush .. The utmost betrayal of the anti-war movement .. beating a Bush/Cheney ticket by 14 points .. CBS News reports .. REPORT

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Mozilla Foundation Offering Autographed
T-Shirts to Donors

Mozilla Foundation Offering Autographed
T-Shirts to Donors 04/15/2004 09:07 PM

"Blazing Saddles" Autographed DVD’s From
the Gold Buckle Network™ General Store
Raise Money for Western Wishes Charity

"Blazing Saddles" Autographed DVD’s From
the Gold Buckle Network™ General Store
Raise Money for Western Wishes Charity 12/31/2004 04:52 AM
30th Anniversary DVD’s of Western Comedy Classic Signed by Film Veteran and "Blazing Saddles" Actor Burton "Bubba" Gilliam [PRWEB Dec 31, 2004]

Can CAN-SPAM Can Spam? (26-Jan-2004;
17.1K)

Can CAN-SPAM Can Spam? (26-Jan-2004;
17.1K) 01/26/2004 09:50 PM

Spam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada
targets unwanted email (AFP)

Spam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada
targets unwanted email (AFP) 05/12/2004 04:17 AM
AFP - Canada unveiled a new action plan to combat unsolicited commercial e-mail, nicknamed spam, which jams inboxes and clogs Internet traffic worldwide.

The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, May
2004

The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, May
2004 06/08/2004 04:15 AM

From the Editor, May 2004: Our Last Spam
Issue?

From the Editor, May 2004: Our Last Spam
Issue? 04/13/2004 02:04 PM
Fight spam now and prepare to eliminate it in the future.

Getting to Know Apple Mail's Spam Filter
(24-May-2004; 14.3K)

Getting to Know Apple Mail's Spam Filter
(24-May-2004; 14.3K) 05/24/2004 09:58 PM

AOL members report significantly less
spam in 2004

AOL members report significantly less
spam in 2004 12/28/2004 07:41 PM
America Online has declared 2004 a "banner year" in its fight against unsolicited commercial e-mail messages, most commonly referred to as spam.

U.S. World's Foremost Spam Nation In
2004

U.S. World's Foremost Spam Nation In
2004 12/25/2004 04:45 PM
Slashdot Dec 25 2004 5:29PM GMT
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DealBITS Drawing: Autographed Spam Winner (05-Apr-2004; 1.6K)

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