Reprinted from TidBITS#891/06-Aug-07 with permission. Copyright (C) 2007, TidBITS. All rights reserved. http://www.tidbits.com/ Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/06-Aug-07 ------------------------------------ by TidBITS Staff article link: **Accessing Bare Hard Drives** -- Readers discuss devices that let you mount a "bare" internal hard drive and debate whether it's wise to run a drive without an enclosure permanently. (10 messages) **Buttons & Jobs** -- A Wall Street Journal article about Steve Jobs focuses on his apparent loathing of buttons, and readers point to the benefits of touchscreen replacements. (4 messages) **Stewing Over Safe Sleep** -- Readers relate their experiences (pro and con) with the Safe Sleep feature in modern Mac laptops. (9 messages) **Curing Your LaunchBar Addiction** -- Matt Neuburg's article on the latest version of LaunchBar generates a description of other new features in LaunchBar. (1 message) **CS3 and Intel Macs?** What are your impressions of running Adobe Creative Suite 3 on the latest Intel-based Macs? (4 messages) **Quicken online banking** -- A question about how Quicken handles an E-Trade account invites speculation about how the companies treat Mac and Windows users. (3 messages) **Freecycle: Disposing of Good Old Stuff** -- Adam's article on Freecycle prompts discussion of using old Macs versus giving them away or recycling their parts. (3 messages) $$ This is TidBITS, a free weekly technology newsletter providing timely news, insightful analysis, and in-depth reviews to the Macintosh and Internet communities. Feel free to forward to friends; better still, please ask them to subscribe! Non-profit, non-commercial publications and Web sites may reprint or link to articles if full credit is given. Others please contact us. We do not guarantee accuracy of articles. Caveat lector. Publication, product, and company names may be registered trademarks of their companies. TidBITS ISSN 1090-7017. Copyright 2007 TidBITS: Reuse governed by Creative Commons license. Contact us at: TidBITS Web site: License terms: Full text search: Subscriptions: Account help: .