Reprinted from TidBITS#995/14-Sep-09 with permission.
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Bonus Stories for 14-Sep-09
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  by TidBITS Staff <editors@tidbits.com>
  article link: <http://db.tidbits.com/article/10564>

**Exploring Widespread SuperDrive Problems** -- An attempt to track
  down reports of widespread defective SuperDrives via Apple user
  forums reveals the difficulty in assessing these sorts of
  large-scale issues, yet also confirms the existence of some kind of
  significant problem at play. (Doug McLean, 2009-09-14)

<http://db.tidbits.com/article/10562>


**New iPod Touch Has 802.11n Chip** -- Apple slips in a single-stream
  802.11n chip in the latest iPod touch, iFixIt discovers. Faster
  networking? More likely, a better networked media player. (Glenn
  Fleishman, 2009-09-12)

<http://db.tidbits.com/article/10558>


**Watch Apple Events Online** -- If you aren't invited to Apple's
  special events and want to see the real thing rather than reading
  liveblog transcripts, subscribe to the Apple Keynotes podcast. (Adam
  C. Engst, 2009-09-12)

<http://db.tidbits.com/article/10557>


**Sprint Offers Unmetered Mobile Calling** -- Sprint has a new
  unmetered plan that lets you call any other U.S. cell phone without
  dipping into a minutes pool. The plan includes no preset limits on
  text, data, video, MMS, and GPS navigation, too. (Glenn Fleishman,
  2009-09-10)

<http://db.tidbits.com/article/10553>


**Hack Microsoft Word's Page Up/Down Keys** -- If you're as irritated
  as we are at Microsoft Word's habit of moving the insertion point
  when you use the Page Up and Page Down keys (something most Mac
  applications don't do), read on for a solution that requires no
  additional software. (Pete Resnick, 2009-09-08)

<http://db.tidbits.com/article/10545>


**Google Books Settlement Hits Snags** -- The proposed settlement
  between Google and groups representing authors and publishers over
  Google's past work in scanning in-copyright titles may be scuttled
  over the advantages that such a settlement would confer on the
  search giant. (Glenn Fleishman, 2009-09-07)

<http://db.tidbits.com/article/10544>


**Solve Snow Leopard's Screen Sharing Bug** -- The screen sharing
  feature in Snow Leopard has a significant bug: the remote screen is
  blacked out or frozen when you connect. Fortunately, there's a
  simple, though repetitive, fix. (Glenn Fleishman, 2009-09-07)

<http://db.tidbits.com/article/10542>

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