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Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/09-Oct-06
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  by TidBITS Staff <editors@tidbits.com>
  article link: <http://db.tidbits.com/article/8705>

**Apple Updates iPods, Introduces Movies, Previews iTV** -- Installing
  iTunes 7 on an older machine causes jerky video playback. What can
  be done to improve the quality? (3 messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/967/>


**Using MySQL on a Mac** -- Following last week's article on MySQL,
  TidBITS readers call out SQL utilities and resources, and ask about
  moving from FileMaker development. (8 messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/968/>


**Aperture 1.5 Faces Latest Lightroom Beta at Photokina** -- Sal
  Soghoian, AppleScript and Automator guru, points out that the latest
  version of Aperture includes significant updates to Automator and
  AppleScript support. (1 message)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/969/>


**StuffIt Goes to 11** -- Readers discuss the usefulness of the
  StuffIt formats on the Mac, in light of built-in .zip archiving,
  including security and compatibility issues. (16 messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/970/>


**File Mappings Revert with Every OS Update** -- Mac OS X 10.4.8
  causes custom file mappings to change on some people's computers,
  which isn't a big deal but can be highly annoying. (6 messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/971/>


**Pathetic Nostalgia for Old Chips** -- Do old memory SIMMs and DIMMs
  have any use (beyond the obvious artistic applications, of course)?
  (2 messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/972/>


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