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MailBITS/09-Jan-06
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**The Latest AirPort Base Station Firmware Released** -- Apple
  releases new firmware for its AirPort Express and AirPort
  Extreme Base Stations every few weeks, which is testament
  to the difficulty of maintaining Wi-Fi and operating system
  compatibility while keeping the units stable. The latest firmware
  updates (5.7 for AirPort Extreme and 6.3 for AirPort Express)
  appeared last week. The issues addressed range from major - LAN
  performance with AirPort Extreme - to obscure, such as improved
  support for RADIUS authentication. RADIUS isn't obscure for those
  who use it, of course, and a bug I found in testing a server that
  used RADIUS for Wi-Fi logins may be fixed in this update.

<http://www.apple.com/support/airport/>

  As with previous base station firmware releases, I recommend
  waiting to install these upgrades for a few days or weeks unless
  you are experiencing a specific problem enumerated in the release
  details. There are routinely reports of firmware installation
  problems when upgrades are released, and Apple often ships a
  quick fix a few weeks later. [GF]


**History Hound 1.9 Now Indexes and Searches RSS** -- Hot on the
  heels of SmileOnMyMac's new browseback (covered in TidBITS-810_),
  St. Clair Software has released an update to HistoryHound, their
  utility for indexing and searching visited Web pages. Along with
  normal Web pages that you've viewed in Safari, Internet Explorer,
  Firefox, OmniWeb, Camino, Mozilla/Netscape, Opera, and Shiira, or
  in the built-in browsers of the NetNewsWire 2 and PulpFiction RSS
  readers, HistoryHound 1.9 now indexes and searches RSS feeds that
  you've visited or bookmarked in Safari. The update also includes
  fixes for troublesome URLs; resolves a launch-time crashing bug;
  and clears the search result list when you start a new search,
  rather than after the new search completes. Version 1.9 is a
  free update to registered users; new copies cost $20. It's a
  2.2 MB download. [ACE]

<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=08369>
<http://www.stclairsw.com/HistoryHound/>


**Trade Old CDs for an iPod - Really** -- A store in
  Charleston, South Carolina, will accept good quality CDs
  in exchange for iPods. 130 used CDs that meet their quality
  criteria gets you a 30 GB iPod, for instance. That's under
  $3 a CD. The one variable is that if you live outside the area
  and ship them discs, you might have to pay for return shipping
  if they don't agree with their evaluation of your collection.

<http://www.millenniummusic.com/trades.html>

  A quick tour of Half.com and Amazon.com's Marketplace section
  would probably help quite a bit. Many folks amassed enormous CD
  collections over the last two decades and listen to few of them
  now. I've tried to sell CDs in the past, but the peculiarities
  of the market supply now at Half.com et al. mean that popular
  CDs often have low prices because there are so many in circulation
  for resale. [GF]


**DealBITS Drawing: Midnight Mansion Winners** -- Congratulations
  to Tomas F. Serna of ngsec.com, Rob Hennessy of hyperion.com, Lynn
  Nebus of cox.net, James Feinberg of jamesf.com, and Chuck McDonald
  of log.on.ca, whose entries were chosen randomly in last issue's
  DealBITS drawing and who each received a copy of ActionSoft's
  Midnight Mansion. Even if you didn't win, you can save 10 percent
  off Midnight Mansion by placing an order using the third link
  below; this offer is open to all TidBITS readers through 17-Jan-06
  and drops the price to $18. Thanks to the 443 people who entered,
  and keep an eye out for future DealBITS drawings! [ACE]

<http://www.actionsoft.com/midnightmansion.html>
<http://www.tidbits.com/dealbits/midnight-mansion/>
<http://www.actionsoft.com/mm/dealbits/register.html>
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=08373>



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