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We woke up early, stood in line, and all we got were sore feet. Apple's last Macworld Conference and Expo keynote by Phil Schiller lived up only to the deflated expectations Apple set.Read more... 

Adam's tour of the Macintosh podcasts and radio shows continues with a session Inside Mac Radio with Scott Sheppard to discuss the fate of Macworld Expo in the light of Apple pulling out of future shows.Follow link

Want to switch from Now Up-to-Date to iCal but scared about the amount of work in transferring all your existing events? Help is now at hand from the free NUD to iCal utility from BusyMac.Read more... 

Circus Ponies NoteBook 3.0 builds on the previous version's outlining features with free-form text pages and the addition of shapes, lines, tablet-based drawing and handwriting recognition, and much more.Read more... Listen  

Duane Straub, bassist in the Macworld All Star Band, has posted the lengthy (we're talking years!) story about how he came to write the "Macintosh Boogie," along with a link to a video of the song itself. It's the first Mac-specific piece of boogie-woogie music we've heard!Follow link

If you haven't had enough of the whole Apple pulling out of Macworld Expo topic yet, tune into the Tech Night Owl Live radio show for Adam's take on what's behind Apple's decision, and why he thinks (or at least hopes!) Macworld Expo will stick around.Follow link

Those attending Macworld Expo can watch Adam and many other Mac personalities in the world premiere of "MacHEADS: A Fanboy Documentary." Read more... Listen  

Neil McAllister at InfoWorld examines what could be Google's most audacious plan yet - to download and run native x86 code within a Web browser on a Mac or PC. The goal is increased performance and security, but note that code will need to be written specially or recompiled for Native Client, so it's not as though your favorite apps will suddenly be accessible within Firefox. Follow link

Apple has posted a support article explaining how to recover (by deleting partially downloaded files) if Software Update stops responding during its "Configuring installation" phase. The bug is fixed in Mac OS X 10.5.6, but can still affect the 10.5.6 update process.Follow link

Apple said that Steve Jobs won't be presenting the keynote address at the 2009 Macworld Expo trade show - and that Apple won't be an exhibitor at future shows. Goodness. We're a bit shaken, but the word is that Macworld Expo is still on for 2010.Read more... Listen  

CrashPlan has endeared itself to us with its capability to perform backups over the Internet to other copies of CrashPlan. But Internet connections are slow, and hard disks are fast, so the latest version of CrashPlan also lets you back up to a directly connected hard disk.Read more... Listen  

We're taking the last two weeks of the year off, so look for the next email issue of TidBITS on 05-Jan-09. But we'll continue posting new articles to our Web site, and TidBITS Talk will also continue apace.Read more... Listen  

If you work with fonts professionally, need to solve font-related problems, or just want to understand how fonts work in Mac OS X, our "Take Control of Fonts in Leopard" and "Take Control of Font Problems in Leopard" ebooks have all the information you need.Read more... Listen  

After many years of relying on Now Up-to-Date, Adam and Tonya make the jump to using iCal, bolstered by the syncing capabilities of BusySync. The process is not a simple one, though, and although the new capabilities are welcome, iCal presents some annoyances as well.Read more... 

Keep your Mac awake with a useful utility that temporarily disables normal power-saving measures while you're watching Web-based video.Read more... 

Apple has released EFI and SMC firmware updates for the late 2008 models of the MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air to correct stability and other issues.Read more... Listen  

To hear more about the 2008 TidBITS Gift Guide - why certain products made it, why others didn't, and more - click through to listen to Adam and Shawn King on this week's Your Mac Life Show. Also bandied about: the upcoming Macworld Expo in San Francisco.Follow link

iPhone developer Craig Hockenberry (Twitterrific and Frenzic) works through the math of why it's a problem that developers need to lower prices to get favorable placement in the App Store. One possible solution: trial versions.Follow link

John Chaffee of BusyMac has posted a detailed comparison of how Google's official CalDAV support for syncing events with iCal compares with his company's BusySync utility. BusySync isn't free, but as with so many things, you get what you pay for.Follow link

In an amusing thought experiment, Robert X. Cringley opines at PBS on what it would be like if Steve Jobs applied the kind of thinking that revived Apple to one of the Big Three U.S. auto companies.Follow link