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June 1997
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-- Monday, June 30 --
Notice
Mac OS 8
300MHz
NewMedia has an extensive review comparing 3 large-capacity removable storage devices
CompuServe!
-- Saturday, June 28 --
For those of you with IX Micro Twin Turbo 128 video boards, there is a new pre-release driver out, v.4.02b.
MacWEEK covers a new top-end PowerComputing price reduction and RAM promotion.
Computer Reseller News reported that Apple's market share improved in the first five months of 1997 for desktops and pow
Hayes
"GIFmation 2.1 adds the best click-of-a-button optimization for GIF animaitons available on Macintosh, and since GIFmation is the only tool that provides the ability to make manual optimizations as well to make files even smaller when size is most critical, it is the top tool for optimizing GIF animations on any platform." Messages from several readers confirm the difference in price returned at the PowerTools site for a PowerTools 4200GT with a PowerBase 180 trade-in ($1557 vs $636) is due to s
Webintosh (6/27) reports that the BeOS DR9 (the public preview version) will be out July 14th.
Ted Landau's MacFixIt (6/27) has an excellent rendition of the future of Open Transport that he garnered at a session de
Netscape Communicator 4.01
GURU v2.4.3 is out from NewerTECH. GURU = GUide to Ram Upgrades is freeware.
Day 5
-- Friday, June 27 --
Day 4
Several readers questioned the price I got yesterday at the PowerTools site for trading in my PowerBase 180 for an Infin
Free speech lives!
Netscape Communicator 4.01
An e-mail from Rob Glaser, Chairman & CEO of Progressive Networks, announced that the final versions of RealPlayer and R
Apple Computer, Inc. [yester]day announced
-- Thursday, June 26 --
Day 3
The June issue of the Apple Club News Letter from Apple CEO Gil Amelio just mentions what Apple presented at Apple's the
Trade in you old Mac! Well, some of it anyway. From an email
Mike Breeden's email to me announced his review of the PowerLogix 233mhz cpu card and Ultra Cache. One fast card!
Netscape Communicator 4.01 for the Mac is now on Netscape's ftp servers.
The July virus definitions update for Symantec's SAM 4.5 is out.
Kaleidoscope v1.7 is out. This version of the popular finder customizer will work with Mac OS 8. I ordered MacOS 8 today
-- Wednesday, June 25 --
Startup Delay with Mac OS 7.6.1 on a PowerBase 180
Mac OS 8
-- Tuesday, June 24 --
SoftWindows 95 v4.0--$314.95 (a $10 discount) IX Micro Twin Turbo Graphics Card--$599 (a $50 discount) Symantec's ACT! v2.5--$149.95 (a $7.05 discount) Symantec's Norton DiskLock v4.0--$74.95 (a $5 discount) Wacom 4x5 Artpad II Drawing Tablet--$99 (a $35 discount) Yesterday was the first day of BMW's Cyberdrive and it didn't go very far for me at first. After logging in, it led me from the calendar page to a page depicting and describing the M3 and Z3 where I was supposed to select one of the tw
Peter Lewis' email to me announced:"...version 1.0 of ThufirCalc, a fully featured, algebraic calculator which is always
...version 1.0 of RumorMill, [a] shareware Mac OS News (NNTP) server. The News protocol is ideally suited to public disc
OT/PPP Strip 1.01 (60K), the freeware control strip module that makes internet connections and shows elapsed time and co
-- Monday, June 23 --
Are you ready for BMW's 21-day Cyberdrive that begins today? The CD sent from BMW when I registered was in my huge stack
Reminder
MacWEEK posts an excellent review of Connectix's VirtualPC and Insignia posts a rebuttal in favor of its SoftWindows 95.
The Friday (6/20) Apple Business Bulletin, that I get as a member of the Apple Club, reports that
MacFixIt (6/20) reports that StuffIt Expander 4.0 will not work with Mac OS 8 so a new version is being developed.
-- Friday, June 20 --
Several sites have pointers to a hands-on review of Connectix' VirtualPC, the PC Windows emulation program for the Mac.
Want to do some Basic programming on your powerMac? MacStandard Basic 2.2 is out from ZCurve.
MacFixIt 6/18-19 covers FWB Hard Disk ToolKit problems with certain Seagate IDE hard drives.
MacinTouch 6/19 has some scoop on Apple 15" Multiple Scan monitor problems.
-- Wednesday, June 18 --
The Apple Club is offering ClarisDraw to members for $79, that's $120 off retail.
166MHz PowerBook 1400
Mac OS 8
Macworld has an informative article on next month's release of Mac OS 8.
-- Sunday, June 15 --
PowerComputing special
If you have a geriatric Mac, stop by this useful site by JAG.
On Thursday, Global Village released a firmware update for its TelePort Platnium 33.6 Comm Slot Modems v1.511. However,
Jeremy Kezer's Thursday email announced the release of version 1.7.1 of his Control Strip Modules.
-- Thursday, June 12 --
Connectix announced that VirtualPC is shipping for PowerMac users:"...the week of June 16th. The eagerly-awaited softwar
-- Monday, June 9 --
MacFixIt 6/9 has a followup on the Drive Setup 1.2.4. problem.
MacResource Page 6/9 has the scoop on some Adobe SiteMill 2.0 special offers.
Diamond Multimedia released Faxcilitate v2.3.1 for registered users of v2.x with Supra modems.
-- Saturday, June 7 --
From MacWEEK
Connectix's VirtualPC, a PC software emulator, is getting good reviews from beta testers. It's due out next week.
Two forthcoming Apple PowerBooks, Kanga and Wall Street, are characterized. Kanga is due in October and Wall Street in 1
-- Friday, June 6 --
SPECIAL
Bedlam 2 Mini Review
Connectix released an updater for the 1.x version of Speed Doubler to 1.3.3 (252K). Version 2.x was updated to 2.0.3 on
COME BACK AT 10 am EDT!
As a PowerComputing Corporation customer, I got a nice thank-you letter yesterday from Joel Kocher, President and Chief
An e-mail from Roberto Panetta announced his release of Resource Remover v2.0. This is a tool for removing the resource
Here's NEWS.COM's report on the "little guys" at the just finished Comdex-Atlanta.
Zoom K56FLEX modem update
-- Thursday, June 5 --
WARNING!
Gideon Greenspan's e-mail announced "...Version 1.3 of Email Merge has been released, incorporating specific changes req
Apple Spec 5-97 became available on Apple's servers this morning. The database is a 1.2MB download and if you do not hav
Mac version of PaperPort 5.0
The Apple Club has four new discounts on software applications ranging from $10-30 on Adobe PageMill 2.0, Pagemaker 6.5,
Rick Holzgrafe's e-mail from Semicolon Software announced the release of Solitaire Till Dawn v3.2, his popular shareware
REVISION
An e-mail from Robert Mathews of Tiger Technologies announced the release of Helium 3.0, a $12 shareware utility that au
Tales from the Darkside
Whoa!
MacWEEK has a good article on the clones' contribution to Apple's survival.
SoftClub's price for the Motorola StarMax 5000/300MHz, the fastest 603e machine shipping, is $2399.
-- Wednesday, June 4 --
According to a NEWS.COM article, Netscape plans to release Netscape Communicator 4.0 in final on Wednesday of next week.
Drive Setup 1.2.4 Problem
Norton Utilities 3.5 CrashGuard Problem
-- Tuesday, June 3 --
David Engstrom's e-mail announced that he has updated his Mac and Mac Clone Performance Comparison Page to include a bun
Drive Setup v1.2.4 is available on the Apple Club. It should be available here shortly. DS 1.2.4 is the latest driver fo
Roberto Pannetta's e-mail announced a new version of Mac Restart 2.0, the utility for restarting a Macintosh server at s
Macworld has an article on UMAX's CacheDoubler which increases speed by some 15%.
The Daily Mac OS Info Page is keeping track of Iomega drive problems.
See MacFixIt (6/2) for the latest scoop on Norton Utilities 3.5 problems and a response from NU.
-- Monday, June 2 --
BMW's CyberDrive Page is now up. CyberDrive is a 21-day web "journey" that starts June 23rd. To participate, one has to
- Do you need some Apple soft wear or other Apple stuff for summer?
-- Sunday, June 1 --
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