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Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/31-Mar-08
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  by Jeff Carlson <jeffc@tidbits.com>
  article link: <http://db.tidbits.com/article/9537>

**Vista Woes Redux** -- Apple's latest online ad campaign makes a
  splash by using two ad spots in conjunction: the Mac and PC
  characters react to the banner ad at the top of the page. (6
  messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1918>


**Browser standards** -- Readers discuss Microsoft's attempt to make
  Internet Explorer 8 use nonstandard tags (and convince Web
  developers to design for them) in an attempt to lock in users. (2
  messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1919>


**Have naughty posters invaded TidBITS?** An online filter blocks a
  TidBITS Talk issue, but what was the objectionable word? (8
  messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1920>


**devices not syncing calendar (etc) data reliably, any ideas?** Is
  data syncing generally unreliable, or is something specific causing
  problems? (4 messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1921>


**Un-junking TidBITS digests** -- Thunderbird is erroneously marking
  TidBITS Talk digests as junk mail, so how does one mark the messages
  as legitimate? (6 messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1922>


**Software for Slideshow Presentations** -- A reader is looking for
  something simple that will play a presentation without user
  interaction. (4 messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1923>


**Does Carbon Copy Cloner do a Smart Update when cloning?** The latest
  update to CCC clarifies what happens during an update, specifically
  when making incremental backups. (4 messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1924>


**Fusion 1.1 & Time Machine** -- To avoid overwhelming a backup drive,
  Fusion 1.1 automatically excludes its virtual machine disk images
  from Time Machine backups. (2 messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1925>


**Updated Paste Plain Text AppleScript for Word 2008** -- A reader has
  questions about Joe Kissell's script for pasting unformatted text in
  Microsoft Word 2008. (1 message)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1926>


**AirPort Update Extends Time Capsule, Adds AirDisk Support** -- The
  surprise inclusion of making Time Machine backups to a drive
  attached to an AirPort Extreme base station doesn't seem to work for
  one reader. (2 messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1927>


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