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Macworld: 2009 writings

Macworld logoAll (or as many as could be found online) of my 2009 writings for Macworld.

January
Jan 2Spotlight enhancer HoudahSpot gets enhancements of its own
Jan 6The amazing vanishing Mac desktop machine
Jan 7First Look: Numbers ’09
Jan 7The history of the Mac, told by those who were there
Jan 8Expo Notes: Memeo puts you in a sharing mood
Jan 9Expo’s Ask the Editors session
Jan 9Expo Notes: Jing, a year later
Jan 10Expo Notes: The search for TechTool Pro 5
Jan 10Expo Notes: Araxis Merge adds to its file-comparison bag of tricks
Jan 10Expo Notes: Digitize your paper trail with NeatReceipts
Jan 12Expo Notes: Restoring the matte screen
Jan 19The video industry just doesn’t get it
Jan 22Pirated iWork '09 installer may contain trojan horse
Jan 22Review: iDive 300 iPod/iPhone underwater case
Jan 23Review: Third-party browsers for the iPhone
Jan 27Review: Numbers ’09
February
Feb 3Hands-on: TechRestore’s matte-screen MacBook Pro service
Feb 4Look before leaping... and formatting hard drives
Feb 6Review: Power Support MacBook Pro Anti-Glare Film
Feb 9Six years with an Apple Cinema Display
Feb 11No more getting started with iLife ’09
Feb 12Review: Days of Thunder for iPhone
Feb 12Review: Spreadsheet editing apps for the iPhone
Feb 16Growl 1.1.4
Feb 18Review: Keynote controllers for the iPhone
Feb 23Review: MobileFiles Pro for iPhone
Feb 24Review: Air traffic control games for the iPhone
Feb 24First Look: Safari 4 Beta
March
Mar 3FireWire 400 reaches the end of the line
Mar 13VirtualBox 2.1.4
Mar 16Mariner Calc for iPhone
Mar 1615 iPhone 3.0 features we'd like to see
Mar 24Eight years and counting
Mar 30What you need to know about the Conficker worm
April
Apr 15VMware Fusion bug breaches the guest-host OS wall
May
May 5Why Firefox is my preferred browser
May 11TechTool Pro 5
May 14FireWire saves an iMac from a failed 10.5.7 upgrade
May 15Pointer Remote for iPhone
May 15First Look: Chromium browser for OS X
May 19Application Wizard makes program switching easy
May 20Close the Java security hole in many browsers
May 21Add an OS 9-like app menu to OS X with ASM or multiXFinder
May 21Hands on with the WolframAlpha computational knowledge engine
May 22Click Archive: An easier way to work with disk images
May 25DeskCover makes icons easier to see
May 26Digital Sentry watches your computer's activities
May 27iCab Mobile for iPhone
June
Jun 1Quickoffice Files for iPhone
Jun 2BdContacts: An alternative to Address Book
Jun 3Hands on with the Opera 10 Web browser beta
Jun 4Port Map: Simple port mapping for your router
Jun 5WWDC Preview: What we know, what we expect with Snow Leopard
Jun 8Snow Leopard more feature-laden than expected
Jun 9DailyFinance and eTrade Mobile Pro for iPhone
Jun 12Mariner Calc 1.2 for iPhone
Jun 17How I use iPhone 3.0's Spotlight search
July
Jul 1First Look: Firefox 3.5
Jul 6SpamSieve 2.7
Jul 7Personal Antispam X5
Jul 9Chrome OS's impact? It's too early to tell
Jul 13The no-worry backup plan
Jul 16Purify 2.1
Jul 20SpamX 4.0
Jul 22Living on the EDGE
Jul 23The Intel-only future draws closer
Jul 28The case of the cracked iPhone
Jul 31New NetNewsWire sync option isn't for everyone
August
Aug 4SpamSweep 1.6.1
Aug 5The end of the road for a favored text editor
Aug 6Frankenbook! Another look at hacked Mac netbooks
Aug 27Services step out in Snow Leopard
Aug 28Snow Leopard's old and new annoyances
Aug 29Snow Leopard: What's gone where
September
Sep 3How to create a Service in Snow Leopard
Sep 15Camtasia for Mac
Sep 23Snow Leopard changes the rules about opening files
Sep 24The real genius of the Genius Bar
October
Oct 13Inside Snow Leopard's Guest account data loss bug
Oct 15Apple allows in-app purchasing for free App Store apps
Oct 26First Look: VMware Fusion 3
Oct 26ScreenFlow 2.0 adds powerful new editing features
Oct 27ScreenFlow 2
November
Nov 4Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac arrives
Nov 20Mad Skills Motocross
Nov 21Why go Pro when iMac goes faster?
December
Dec 4PDFpen 4.5
Dec 8First Look: Chrome for Mac
Dec 21Run Stats for iPhone
Dec 20Batch conversion saves slow QuickTime clips
Dec 29Add an ExpressCard solid state drive to some MacBook Pros
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