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Adam and Tonya Engst reached an impressive milestone this week: 1,000 issues of their online publication, TidBITS. To help celebrate, the premier Mac power couple provided an unprecedented look at the history of TidBITS, as well as a look behind the scenes at the longest running web tech publication. Adam and Tonya reveal the origins of TidBITS, how it got started in a pre-internet world, and why it was first published as a HyperCard stack. The style of writing in TidBITS has always been distinctive. Find out why and how it started, learn about how it survived the challenges of online publishing in the early days through the kindness of friends and fans, and how their formula of benefiting readers and sponsors alike came from. There is also another anniversary Adam and Tonya are celebrating, and they talk about the success of the Take Control Books and how it has helped fuel the enhancement of TidBITS. All this and more in Part One of a two-part discussion.

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(Listen to Part 2 of Adam and Tonya’s interview)

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Apple made big news this week, first with a record-setting quarterly result, and then with the release of new Mac hardware. Jim Dalrymple helps us make sense of it all, starting with the best Mac sales quarter ever, and how that reflects on the strategies Apple has been pursuing. Jim names his favorite new product out of the mix (not what you might think), reviews the changes to the iMac, Mac mini and MacBook, and discusses his recent conversation with Apple’s Phil Schiller about Apple’s product philosophy. Jim also talks about the rapid development of his web site, The Loop, including some of his new team members and how current technology is making it possible.

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