Be Warned!

Reader Daniel Parker wrote that Symantec's Norton Disk Doctor v3.5 destroyed the data on an HFS+ formatted drive. He bought a new 6500 for his daughter, loaded on Mac OS 8.1, loaded the applications and, not knowing about the problem, ran NDD 3.5 bought the same time with the sad consequence of losing everything.

MacHack '98 is coming up in June!

"Apple Computer, Inc. announced [yester]day that its QuickTime software has been chosen to receive two of the industry's highest honors. At the recent Internet Showcase conference, QuickTime 3 was chosen by an audience of influential media, analysts and investors to receive the People's Choice Award for best overall product demonstration. Additionally, NewMedia magazine has selected QuickTime 3 as winner of the1998 Hyper Award in the category of System Software. The product will be featured in the special awards section of the March 3 issue, and on the publication's website at http://www.newmedia.com."

From Brock Kyle, his EveryMac site has the skinny on all Macs and Mac clones built in the US or around the world.

Apple's World Wide Developer's Conference will be May 11-15, 1998, according to MacWEEK.

Spotted on Version Tracker, UMAX updated its scanner software, VistaScan v2.4 (15 MB). There was something wrong with the server again when I tried to download it last night. I got about 2/3'rds of the file before it quit and then I couldn't get it to finish or start a new download.