EvangeList Digest Friday, December 18 1998 Volume 01 : Number 1340
In this issue:
PR - SELDON Decision Support Free Trial Tidbit - The "SF Blackout" Tidbit - RC5 Opportunity ?? - Who Dun It? PR - ungarble it! 1.1 release Tidbit - iMac On the Phone. Tidbit - Business Plan Toolkit Review and Mac Success Story PR - Morse Mania 0.2.0 Released Tidbit - Imacs Everywhere! ?? - Mac Web Use On the Rise? ?? - Disable Netscape Printing
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 02:05:19 -0800 From: The EvangeList Mailing List <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: PR - SELDON Decision Support Free Trial
This announcement is from:
"IQTech-P.Reilly" <mailto:preilly@isoquantic.com>
A fully functional version of SELDON, a System for Effectively Legitimizing Decisions Objectively and Naturally can be downloaded from our web site.
SELDON is a powerful decision analysis and support tool for business environments. Nevertheless, SELDON can also be applied to virtually any every day decision-making activity, such as home and auto buying, college selection, investment strategies, medical options(!) or any other topic that requires you to evaluate and make decisions.
SELDON is the first product of its kind that can truly integrate into real world business and consumer-oriented decision making. A few interesting examples of how SELDON may be used includes:
- - business and marketing scenario development- choose which technology to fund, or choose which customers to pursue;
- - real estate- narrow a client's selections and increase the likelihood of closing;
- - proposal support - - guide a business toward the selection of a winning proposal; - - data mining- sift through large quantities of customer preference information to more effectively target marketing resources; - - employment screening - add insight and structure to the candidate selection process; - - consumer-oriented- family decision making, such as college selection, career planning, investment strategies, etc.
We invite you to visit IsoQuantic Technologies' web site at <http://www.isoquantic.com,> where you can learn more about SELDON and download the fully functional version of the SELDON software for a thirty day free trial.
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 02:05:26 -0800 From: The EvangeList Mailing List <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - The "SF Blackout"
This tidbit is from:
Charles Hoff <mailto:hoffchas@gte.net>
The following is from near the end of a lengthy article by Los Angeles Times staff writers Mary Curtius and Maria L. La Ganga describing the recent San Francisco Blackout, and the effects and repercussions to the stemming from it to the residents and businesses. The article was front-page on the Wednesday, December 9th, 1998 edition of the Los Angeles Times:
Examiner's afternoon's editions. The paper ought to know. The finished pages were sent through a generator-powered Macintosh computer to a printing plant in the East Bay city of Richmond and then ferried across to San Francisco for on-time delivery.
"It was a combination of 21st century technology with 19th century kind of chewing gum, glue, and spit," said Executive Editor Phil Bronstein...
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 02:05:24 -0800 From: The EvangeList Mailing List <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - RC5 Opportunity
This tidbit is from:
Mark Miller <mailto:mmiller@mail2.nai.net>
With the holidays upon us, many companies shut down for a period between Christmas and New Year's. This would be a good time to put those macs to work on the RC5 challenge (provided your company doesn't require you to shut all machines down). By setting up those unused macs to decrypt over the holidays, we can get Team Evangelista's numbers a little higher.
For the past few days, Slashdot.org has been beating Team Evangelista. Let's turn up the heat a little and stay on top.
For more info, see <http://www.distributed.net>.
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 02:05:29 -0800 From: The EvangeList Mailing List <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: ?? - Who Dun It?
This request is from:
Ralph Deen <mailto:rdeen@surfsouth.com>
About a year-or-so ago, I found a demo of an interactive cd app that was in the film noir genre.....a L.A. Detective-type thing. Lost the cd (it was from a Mac-Mag of some kind, I think)...and can't remember the name or find the game. Any fellow evangelists know the one I'm talking about? Any help appreciated! Happy holidays.
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 09:25:03 -0800 From: Guy Kawasaki <Kawasaki@garage.com> Subject: PR - ungarble it! 1.1 release
This announcement is from:
John Oberrick, johno@westcodesoft.com
PR - ungarble it! 1.1 Released
San Diego, CA (December 15, 1998) - Today WestCode Software released ungarble it! 1.1, an update to their convenient text management utility for cleaning up garbled email and other text for the Macintosh. The new version enhances usability and provides better compatibility with Microsoft Office '98.
"Feedback on the initial release of ungarble it! was fantastic so we decided to incorporate a couple of user suggestions into the update to enhance usability. I'm sure our existing users will really appreciate what we've done." said company spokesperson, John Oberrick. "Anyone that encounters garbled email or works with text will love ungarble it!. It's so simple to use and works in any program."
ungarble it!, a system plugin that integrates essential text processing capabilities into the Mac operating system, works inside any application, eliminating the need to launch or switch programs to process the text. The product includes functionality to convert tabs to spaces, strip Internet-unfriendly characters, remove unwanted returns and characters, convert curly quotes to straight quotes, word and character count, upper/lower case change, wrap text, and more with an easy-to-use floating palette interface.
System Requirements
ungarble it! works on any Macintosh running System 7.0 or greater, including Mac OS 8.5. Once installed, the product uses less than 500K of hard drive space and when running uses less than 300K of RAM.
Availability
ungarble it! 1.1 is available for purchase and immediate download from the WestCode Software web site at <http://www.westcodesoft.com/ungarbleit/> for $19.98 and includes a 60 day money-back guarantee. Registered users can download the new version for free and will be notified by WestCode with instruction on how to do so.
To learn more about ungarble it!, visit the WestCode Software web site at <http://www.westcodesoft.com/ungarbleit>.
About WestCode
Founded in 1990, WestCode Software, Inc. is dedicated to "improving the way the world uses Macintosh", through the development of innovative, easy-to-use software products for Macintosh computers. WestCode news, product information, technical support, and other related resources can be found at the company's web site <http://www.westcodesoft.com/>. WestCode is headquartered in San Diego, CA.
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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 02:05:32 -0800 From: The EvangeList Mailing List <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - iMac On the Phone.
This tidbit is from:
Michael Christie Coburn <mailto:coburn@cs.rmit.edu.au>
In Australia we have a directory assistance number run by Telstra (our former monopolistic telecommiunications carrier) that you can call nationally to find out phone numbers for a given name/address combination. Now, as this is on the whole pretty easy, quick and free, a lot of people use this service (often several times a day) instead of looking numbers up in the paper directories (read 'doorstops').
Telstra has recently introduced a new service which allows you to call and have an operator look up a number *and* connect you. This is not free, but Telstra have been trying to advertise it in the short delay betewen when the operator looks up the number and the computer reads out the number to you.
Last night I called to have a number looked up and was pleasantly suprised to hear the following message during the delay;
"Rather be surfing the net with and Appl iMac? You could win one if you use Telstra's xxxxx service. Call now for details"
This is no doubt a very cheap form of sponsorship/advertising for Apple, but I suggest it going to get heard by a *lot* of people. Smart move Apple Australia.
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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 02:05:30 -0800 From: The EvangeList Mailing List <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - Business Plan Toolkit Review and Mac Success Story
This tidbit is from:
Paul Shields <mailto:pshields@cyberramp.net>
This week on The Business Mac at Applelinks <http://www.applelinks.com/business_mac/index.shtml> we have two new articles.
The first is a review of Business Plan Toolkit from Palo Alto Software. Business Plan Toolkit provides a series of templates and a detailed business planning book by Tim Berry that assist the aspiring entrepreneur with the arduous task of developing a solid business plan and financial model. Palo Alto software has renewed their commitment to the Mac with the recent release of an updated version that offers more detailed business plans, sample plans, updated advice, and host of other new features. Read the review at:
<http://www.applelinks.com/reviews/busplan.shtml>
The second article is our biweekly feature of a Macintosh Business Success Story. This week's success story features Inner Space Caverns, a tourist attraction just outside of Austin, TX. Inner Space Caverns is completely Mac based, using the Mac for everything from ticket sales to customer surveys. Check them out at:
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 02:05:23 -0800 From: The EvangeList Mailing List <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - Imacs Everywhere!
This tidbit is from:
Rhonda Shechtman <mailto:rhonda.s@sympatico.ca>
This week (Dec 15th) on Just Shoot Me, Maya had an imac prominently displayed on her desk. At the same time on another network, Carter, on Spin City, had an imac in his apartment! Hollywood seems to be making an effort to advertise imacs. Good on them!
I'll keep doing my part: A friend at work bought a Windows PC about a year and a half ago despite my suggestion to the contrary. After many problems which he had no idea how to fix, he began moaning about how he should have listened to me. About a month ago I heard him on the phone trying to convince someone to buy a Mac!
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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 02:05:21 -0800 From: The EvangeList Mailing List <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: ?? - Mac Web Use On the Rise?
This request is from:
Philip McIntosh <mailto:ndpmcintosh@mycoinfo.com>
Me and a partner run a web site about fungi called Mycoinfo <http://www.mycoinfo.com/> and naturally we keep an eye on our site statistics. In recent months the visitor stats have been pretty consistent - about 62% Navigator, 34% Explorer and 4% "other" browsers. As far as OSs, we have seen pretty close to what is generally reported, that is, only about 5% or less of our hits come from Macintosh computers. HOWEVER, in the last couple of weeks,there has been a tremendous surge in Mac hits -- all the way up to 23% of our total! What gives? Is this just a fluke or are other web sites seeing a boost in Mac traffic as well? If you are willing to share such information please drop me a line because I am really curious about this. Thanks...
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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 02:05:18 -0800 From: The EvangeList Mailing List <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: ?? - Disable Netscape Printing
Help! I am the Computer Science Department Chair at a high school with four computer labs, each with 25 Macs(550's, PM6100's and PM6500's). The labs are used extensively by our department and other departments for research on the web. We have three LaserWriters in each lab. Our success has created a problem. We are going through toner cartridges way to fast. Students find something on the web and think that they have to print it all, instead of 'taking notes'. I am aware of Toner Tuner by SmartStuff Software and a neat shareware product called NetPrint. What I would like to do is disable printing from within Netscape and force the use of copy-paste to ClarisWorks or the use of NetPrint.
Does anyone know of a way to disable printing from within Netscape?
If there is enough interest, I will post the results.
Thanks for the help.
Rich Drushal Computer Science Department Wooster High School Wooster OH 44691
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