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Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/20-Aug-07
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  by TidBITS Staff <editors@tidbits.com>
  article link: <http://db.tidbits.com/article/9127>

**Plastic bags vs Canvas Bags** -- An off-topic comment in another
  thread starts a discussion of how plastic bags are harmful to the
  environment. (20 messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1423/>


**56Kbps modem options for MacBook Pros** -- Now that Apple no longer
  builds modems into its machines, does the Apple Modem perform well
  enough, or are there other options? (7 messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1425/>


**Music composition for the music illiterate** -- A musical goober
  (and friend of TidBITS) wants to create a ringtone; can GarageBand
  do what he wants? (4 messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1426/>


**DVD to iMovie?** Readers suggest options for capturing footage from
  Hi8 tapes to DVDs and then to iMovie. (7 messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1427/>


**Replacing Microsoft Office with iWork '08** -- Apple's new
  production suite looks to be a more serious contender to Microsoft
  Office, but does it stack up as a replacement? The lack of Visual
  Basic in the next version of Office could be a deciding factor. (34
  messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1428/>


**iPhoto '08 and shared galleries** -- In anticipation of buying iLife
  '08, a reader asks about the Web gallery features in the new iPhoto
  '08. (3 messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1429/>


**Safe Sleep Revisited** -- Joe Kissell's ongoing look at the Safe
  Sleep feature of Mac laptops brings up a minor scripting correction
  and clarification on when the computer is actually going to sleep.
  (3 messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1430/>


**iPhone Billing and International Issues** -- A reader gives his
  first-hand account of being charged for international data usage:
  $1,700! (6 messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1432/>


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