Reprinted from TidBITS#944/08-Sep-08 with permission. Copyright (C) 2008, TidBITS. All rights reserved. http://www.tidbits.com/ Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/08-Sep-08 ------------------------------------ by Jeff Carlson article link: **Car Alarm for Stolen Laptops** -- Readers suggest a number of laptop-tracking solutions that are available. (3 messages) **Google Chrome** -- Google is creating its own Web browser, which was announced first as a comic. Readers look at the Windows-only beta and discuss the underlying rendering engine and other aspects of building around Web standards. (42 messages) **10.3.9 to 10.5.1 - use Migration Assistant?** If you're leapfrogging a major operating system version, is it safe to trust Apple's Migration Assistant? (14 messages) **Creating/Burning DVD Disk Images** -- What software should a reader use to make a backup of an instructional DVD that's heavily used by his two-year-old daughter? (4 messages) **Transnational iPhones** -- The inability to unlock an iPhone 3G presents a problem for someone who needs his iPhone in Australia for eight months but will be returning to the United States following the trip. (4 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 2008 TidBITS: Reuse governed by Creative Commons license. Contact us at: TidBITS Web site: License terms: Full text search: Subscriptions: Account help: .