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August 1997
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-- Saturday, August 30 --
[11am 8/30] Macworld reports that SyQuest reduced its prices on its EZFlyer (230MB) and SyJet (1.5GB) removeable media d
-- Friday, August 29 --
just
Reader Dana Baggett found release notes for the new Netscape Communicator 4.02 for the Mac. The application can't be far
There's a new competitor for MacOS Rumors called Mac RumorMill. If you like this stuff, now there's twice as much.
Dennis Wilkinson released his freeware OT/PPP Strip 1.02 control strip module. It makes PPP connections from the Control
-- Thursday, August 28 --
As I said yesterday, POWERtools is not frozen in its tracks. "PowerTools announced late yesterday that they are now ship
Harder hardball
Today, Mike Weinstein's The Daily Mac has a special posting of TV shows where Macs have been seen.
An email from Jeremy Kezer reported that BatteryAmnesia 1.5.2 is now available. This shareware utility helps to remove t
According to NEWS.COM, Microsoft showed off Microsoft Office 98 for the Mac. This is very nice except that Access, the d
FreePPP v2.6b6 is out and freed up from the GearBox bundle. While the extension is final, the Setup application is not q
Spotted on deal-mac, Apple has a New Deals page listing its discounts and financing arrangements.
People looking for alternatives to the Norton Fastback as a backup utility might want to check out Synchronize v3.5.3.
In a NEWS.COM article, Apple appears to be way ahead on Wintels in mobile processing speed for now and the forseeable fu
If you use Apple Remote Access, then version 3.0 that was announced at Macworld Expo in Boston, is out.
The MRP has been testing one of NEWERTech's new CPU daughter cards based on the PowerPC 750 (G3) processor. Eric Belsley
-- Wednesday, August 27 --
For MacOS Users Only! banner contest
Second place goes to the entry by David Wells (a.k.a. David NLN)
Again, many thanks to all who took the time to create and send in entries. I greatly appreciate your efforts.
POWERtools is not just sitting on their hands during the licensing negotiations. POWERtools has excellent computers at g
Reader Tom Mackie reports that in some PowerBook 1400's the reset pin is too long according to Apple TechInfoLib #45056
According to MacWEEK, Gateway 2000 claims to have taken the lead from Apple in the U.S. education market. Apple and anot
Macworld's article covers several companies' petition to the World Wide Web Consortium for a new web standard which will
Extreme-Mac has 5 new software reviews
Today, deal-mac has a special analysis of PowerBook 2400c/180 prices and availability.
For Members Only!
MacNN (8/26) has some responses from NEWERTech's CTO Roger Kasten to MacNN's questions regarding the compatibility of up
For MacOS Users Only!
File Buddy now v4.2.2 in another bug-fix released yesterday.
-- Tuesday, August 26 --
San Jose Mercury News
DayStar Digital and TechWorks
Andrew Gore
Darkside
MacInTouch (8/25) carried a reader report that the PowerMac 4400, based on the Tanzania motherboards used by many of the
Here's a bash-Steve-Jobs letter from MacCPU's Bob Moriarty published on MacKiDo Temple.
-- Monday, August 25 --
real hardball
From Eldee Stephens III, thessaSOURCE has two new editorials
Laurence Harris posted File Buddy v4.2.1. File Buddy is $35 shareware and for $5 more you can get his FindFile Chooser v
According to MacFixIt, expect TechTool 1.1.5, updated for Mac OS 8, to show up this week. TT is an indispensible free ut
From digitalApple's Jim Adams:"Just a quick note to announce this week's Shareware Promotion @ digitalApple.
October issue of MacUser
-- Saturday, August 23 --
For MacOS Users Only! banner contest
WordPerfect 3.5.4 Updater
GoMac 1.31 and CompuServe CS 3.0
Reader Steve Heflin went looking for a replacement to Now Menus, rendered unusable in Mac OS 8. Steve found a replacemen
Chet Gulland's email to me announced his new Mac game site called Transfix.
Fortune has a rather cynical article on the Apple-Microsoft deal.
NEWS.COM has an artcle on the Justice Department's investigation of Microsoft.
MacWEEK has a review of Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 Preview Release 1.
FWB posted CD-ROM ToolKit Patch for 68K Macs:"We have discovered a problem using CD-ROM ToolKit under Mac OS 8 on some 6
Apple posted QuickTime Plug-in v1.1.1b1. Please note that this is a beta-testing release.
For some unknown reason, the Corel WordPerfect 3.5.3-->3.5.4 Updater, available late Wednesday, disappeared from Corel's
Mac OS 8 Stuff
problems installing Mac OS 8
-- Friday, August 22 --
Stan Flack's MacCentral, listing PowerComputing Executives names who he contacted, states late yesterday that the rumors
Here's MacWEEK's article on Apple's cold shoulder to certification of the CHRP and PC 750 designs of Motorola and PowerC
Apple released5xxx-6xxx Floppy Fix. This is for slow mounting of floppy disks under Mac OS 7.6, 7.6.1 and 8 for 52xx, 53
An early posting of the just-released Aaron Lite 1.1 is described in Extensions Manager (or List View) as version 1.1b3.
MacSpectre compared Netscape Navigator 4.01 and Internet Explorer 4.0 beta. IE wins on download speed and minimal RAM us
Yesterday's Washington Post reported that CompuServe Interactive will finally adopt a $24.95/month flat rate price for i
-- Thursday, August 21 --
For MacOS Users Only! banner contest
Here is reader Andrea Brown's clever depiction of Microsoft's investment in Apple and the ensuing collaboration:
PowerComputing and Apple
Mac Rates High in September Consumer Reports Magagazine --
BeOS CD
MacInTouch (8/20) published a letter from Apple's Steve Jobs which confirms that the licensing issue is, as I stated on
-- Wednesday, August 20 --
The latest rumor making the web rounds since Friday is that Apple will buy PowerComputing. However, Mac OS Rumors is now
Yahoo reported that Joel Kocher, President of PowerComputing, resigned yesterday over differences on how to proceed with
MacUser
There's no grass growing under the Justice Departments feet! They've just launched another Microsoft investigation, stre
Correction
-- Tuesday, August 19 --
MacFixIt (8/18) noted that PowerComputing has determined the source of the problem with the blinking ? (I called it the
Why should the average Mac web'er care?
Well, I still haven't received an RA number for the Hayes 56K modem trade for any modem and $99. I registered the first
Things are getting more complex with Netscape browsers. Communicator v4.01a in standard and "pro" versions was just rele
For those of you who upgraded to Norton Utilities 3.5 and are having trouble with it, Symantec is distributing v3.51 CDs
MacFixIt reported that freeware TechTool v1.1.5, compatible with Mac OS 8, will be out later this week and that the Tech
-- Monday, August 18 --
For MacOS Users Only!
For MacOS Users Only!
For MacOS Users Only!
I was mostly encouraged by Steve Jobs' speech at Macworld Expo 97 in Boston, although I had to read it several times to
Microsoft's partnership with and investment in Apple
new Macs and clones
Mac OS licensing
PowerTools announced on Friday 8/15 that it has increased the configuration and decreased the price of the Infiniti 4200
There's a new U.S. Mac cloner, Mactell. From the ads in the September issues of Macworld and MacUser, Mactell produces 6
MacInTouch (8/17) reported than an Australian hacker has hacked the Swedish Crack-a-Mac site and won the prize.
Revision
An email from Daria Aikens announced a new monthly Mac e-zine called Apple Wizards.
In an email to me, "Sandbox, CNN and Sports Illustrated are proud to introduce SportSim, a brand new fantasy sports site
Here's the interesting MacKiDo Temple article comparing the costs of a small media office sticking with Macs versus chan
Some new software out in the past two weeks
Finally
-- Saturday, August 2 --
For MacOS Users Only!
CONTEST!
FINALLY
-- Friday, August 1 --
What a difference a day makes!
freeze when opening the trash
Like to play solitaire in tournaments? Semicolon Software is sponsoring an Accordion Solitaire tournament starting Septe
David Every at MacKiDo Temple has done it again! Here's a fine article comparing the Mac with the Wintel.
MacWEEK updated its story on Apple's Imaging Division. The Division will simply be re-focussed on new imaging technology
August's Virus Definitions are out for Symantec's SAM. I suspect that Datawatch will follow shortly for Virex.
Macworld Expo
Have you visited the Site Builder's Network "State" Fair yet? Better hurry because this virtual fair with fireworks and
MacWEEK reported that Apple Remote Access v3.0 will be out "...by the end of August." It will have a new interface (Gee,
For MacOS Users Only!
Michael Flaminio has updated his The Insanely Great Mac page.
How low can it go? RAM prices continue to drop acccording to NEWS.COM.
Apple's QuickTime MPEG v1.01 is out. It was missing from some of the servers but the URL that I've linked to has it.
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