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Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 02:06:11 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: PR - MacSurfshop - Yo Quiero G3
This announcement is from:
Mike Yrabedra, <BIGKahuna@macsurfshop.com>
FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY!
The MacSurfshop is stoked to announce the release of their newest design...Yo Quiero G3!. This design will bring GRANDE laughs from all your co-workers, and sneers from your PC-usin' nemesis. Get them NOW though, they will only be available for a short time. They are printed on 100% cotton, White, Fruit of the Loom Lofteez Tshirts. Plus they are the low, low Macsurfshop price of $12.95 ($13.95 for XXL).
Hasta Lavista Dudes!
<http://www.macsurfshop.com/dastore.shtml>
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Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 02:06:10 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Followup - X-Windowing Emulation on the Mac
This follow-up message is from:
Sean Ahern, <ahern@llnl.gov>
Thanks for your summary to the Evangelist. There are a lot of people out there who don't know a lot about the X Window System as it applies to the Mac. Thanks for helping educate them.
In your review of Mac X you mention:
slow over PPP/modem connection, "does not handle the most complicated windows, though that may be simply a memory problem", "very annoying about asking me for my password for each program I run", "only one user can use MacX at one time, per Unix machine", "for graphic intensive applications (things that draw the gui over and over again) [MacX is] pretty slow and unworkable"
I am only using Mac X 1.5, but I know that some of these are not true.
+ For example, I do not need to enter a password for every X client that I run. This should never be true for X applications. X is not a password-based system. Xauthority and xauth are the authentication mechanisms. If the system that you are running clients from requires a password every time you run a program, that's a different story -- That's not Mac X requiring it.
+ You can run multiple users on a UNIX machine. We regularly have people running Mac X on their Macs, all running clients on one UNIX machine. The UNIX machine needs to know nothing special to display to an X server. Since Mac X appears no different from other X servers, there is no difference running on Mac X. (I have not tried multiple users on the UNIX machine all displaying to one Mac X server, but my guess, based on my experience, would be that it would work just fine.)
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Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 00:20:28 -0700 From: Guy Kawasaki <Kawasaki@garage.com> Subject: PR--PublicSpace 1.5
This announcement is from:
Frank Reiff, reiff@comp.lancs.ac.uk
We are pleased to announce that version 1.5 (final) of PublicSpace, our group productivity solution for Macintosh networks, is now available from our website.
This major new release builds on the significant networking speed gains of the previous release and introduces a new setup procedure that improves both ease of installation and compatibility. The new release also features minor usability improvements and bug fixes.
The new version of the system can be downloaded from:
We would greatly appreciate it, if you would consider our product for inclusion in your publication. Below you will find a short description of the PublicSpace system as well as an extented abstract.
Thank you for your contribution to the Macintosh community.
Frank Reiff __
SHORT DESCRIPTION
PublicSpace - Group Productivity for Macintosh
PublicSpace is an intranet system designed to make Macintosh workgroups more productive. PublicSpace helps workgroups to communicate and share information, as well as to organise and coordinate their daily work activities.
It is ideally suited for workgroups in Desktop Publishing (DTP), Web Publishing, Education and Creative Content Creation. ____
FULL ABSTRACT
PublicSpace - The Groupware/ Intranet Solution for Macintosh Networks
PublicSpace is a groupware system that expands Macintosh file sharing to better support group work. It is the simplest way of creating a Macintosh intranet.
It allows its users to quickly:
* annotate files and folders * exchange files and messages * organise shared resources * find out what is going on in the shared workspace * create central repositories, discussion groups, simple workflows, etc.
PublicSpace features a simple and intuitive, yet powerful and versatile, user interface that takes only minutes to learn. Unlike many other workgroup products, PublicSpace is designed with both novice and expert users in mind.
PublicSpace can help groups, in both business and education, share information and coordinate their work. PublicSpace is ideal for Macintosh workgroups in Desktop Publishing (DTP), Web publishing, Education and Creative Content Creation.
To find out more about PublicSpace visit our website at:
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 00:59:44 -0700 From: Guy Kawasaki <Kawasaki@garage.com> Subject: PR - GIFConverter 2.4.3 Released
This announcement is from:
Kevin A. Mitchell, <kam@kamit.com>
GIFConverter 2.4.3 has been released. This fixes the following defects:
o Fixed a bug that could cause crashes when Remove Unused Colors was turned on.
o Fixed a bug with the Enhance command calculating wrong histograms.
o "Look inside" settings are now sticky for the remainder of a run.
o GIFConverter makes every attempt to identify a file opened via an AppleEvent or being dropped on the GIFConverter icon.
o The Help menu now offers ways to look for new versions or file bug reports via the WWW.
o GIFConverter *really* no longer crashes on "New Graphic" on 68K machines. (This was a defect in the installer bug for 2.4.2)
Currently, only a fat installer is available; I will build PPC and 68K installers if there is enough interest. No updaters are anticipated (they don't seem to be that popular anyway). You can find everything at GIFConverter's site at <http://www.kamit.com/gifconverter/>
So what's in store for GIFConverter? Well, behind the scenes, I've been working on the internal architecture. This is really laying the groundwork for more new features: better animated GIF editing, better image enhancement features, and more file format support (let me know what file formats are really important!). GIFConverter is poised for a move from MacApp 3.3.3 to MacApp R13, which will bring more and better integration with MacOS.
Future versions of GIFConverter may require 68020-or-better CPUs and Color QuickDraw (basically, a Macintosh II or better). As GIFConverter supports new technologies and graphics formats, its memory requirements are increasing to the point that it may not be feasible to run it on 68000 machines limited to 4Mb. The last 68000 machine, the Macintosh Classic, was discontinued in September, 1992.
In MacOS X news, I've run Carbon Dater on GIFConverter, and indications are that it will run on Carbon with minor modifications.
As always, I welcome your comments and questions.
Thank you all for your continuing interest in GIFConverter.
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Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 00:59:49 -0700 From: Guy Kawasaki <Kawasaki@garage.com> Subject: PR - Newtopoly 1.0 Released
Keyword: Newton
This announcement is from:
Blaine Fergerstrom, <webmaster@starbulletin.com>
Bernie Bernstone released Newtopoly 1.0 last Monday.
Here you will find lots of things about Newtopoly - The Real Estate Trading Game for the Newton!! The samples on the page give you an idea of what it looks like. Other game board sets will be available and can be purchased separately. The cost of the product is $30(US) and extra game sets $10 each (available soon!!). Ordering is now available from KAGI.
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Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 00:59:56 -0700 From: Guy Kawasaki <Kawasaki@garage.com> Subject: $$ - HVS WebFocus Pro
This special offer is from:
Steve Gustafson, <sgust@megsinet.net>
Digital Frontiers <http://www.digfrontiers.com/> is pleased to offer EvangeList readers a special 10% discount on our award-winning HVS WebFocus Pro Toolkit through June.
The WebFocus Pro Toolkit includes HVS ColorGIF 2.0 and HVS JPEG 2.0 (award-winning web graphics plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop 3-4-5 and compatibles), along with HVS Animator Pro, a standalone GIF animation program that offers unsurpassed optimization of animated GIFs.
HVS products use a patented psychovisual algorithm to reduce colors according to the human eye's perceptual characteristics. The result is beautiful images that are much smaller than one can achieve through other image-editing programs.
HVS ColorGIF 2.0 provides sophisticated transparency controls with multiple colors, controllable dithering, gamma, thresholding and batch processing through the Photoshop 4 Actions palette.
HVS JPEG 2.0 produces incredibly small, high quality JPEGs -- independent tests at MacWeek have shown typical savings of 45% or more over standard Photoshop JPEGs. HVS JPEG allows you to preview image compression, size and download times; generate image-specific optimized Q-Tables and batch process images through the Photoshop 4 Actions palette.
HVS Animator Pro uses a variety of optimization strategies to dramatically improve the download time of animated GIFs without compromising image quality. Frame differencing provides absolute minimum data rates; HVS fixed palette reduction algorithm and dither provide excellent quality even at much lower color counts; Net-safe palette colors are preserved without alteration.
All HVS products are available as Road Test unlockable demos, allowing you to explore all of the features before you buy. The special Evangelist price of $188 is good to June 15. Enter "evangelist" in the special offer field of the order form to obtain the discounted price. The discount will be reflected on the confirmation page. For a direct link to our Cybercash Secure Commerce Server, go to:
<http://www.digfrontiers.com/purchase.html>
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Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 02:06:37 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - This Weeks Farr Site -- "Oh My!
This tidbit is from:
Applelinks.com, <webmaster@applelinks.com>
This week's Farr Site is entitled "Oh My!" and features Warm Buicks in the Sun, One Cool Mac, Mary Meets Cyberspace, and How'd You Do That, Anyway? Author's 85-year-old aunt goes from ignorance to e-mail in one short week with four-year-old Mac!
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 02:06:41 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Followup - Plate Tectonics Software
Keyword: Market by market, Science
This follow-up message is from:
Matthew or Linda Stevens, <mls@zeta.org.au>
Thank you to all the Evangelistas who sent me details of software that shows tectonic plate movement, especially Chuck McWilliams, who sent me a QuickTime movie of plate movements over the last 750 million years. This is a summary of what I learned:
Karl Warschau: "Check out the PALEOMAP Foundation <http://www.paleomap.com/>>, they have a product called, strangely enough, PaleoMap." [Also suggested by Jan M. Peter and Linda Smith-Rouch.]
Michael Burns: "At an AAPG (American Association of Petroleum Geologists) conference last year I believe I saw something along these lines. I believe it was done through a web browser but not sure. I believe it was done by a group associated with a university, ESRI (Earth Science Research Institute) as apposed to the company that produces ArcInfo product."
DMpeek: "You may not be able to find this in stores anymore, but SimEarth by Maxis will show you continental drift as well as explain it in the manual."
Allen Moore: "A colleague in geology, Jim Reynolds <magstrat1@wcu.campus.mci.net>>, recently retired from Western Carolina University, has put together a HyperCard stack that does pretty much what you're asking for, more-or-less. ... It's certainly helped me to understand this stuff."
John W. Bauman: "'The Theory of Plate Tectonics' is an interactive CD-Rom program available from Tasa Graphic Arts, Inc. located in Albuquerque, New Mexico 87112-2461. It is an excellent program. I use it in my Geology classes. Unfortunately, it is not shareware but the investment is worth it." [Also suggested by Jim Molnar, Kevin McAllister, Mark Pedri.] Available from Rockware <http://www.rockware.com/>. $59.
Chuck McWilliams: "I teach Biology in the St. Louis, MO area and I downloaded a quicktime movie file from somewhere (I can't remember where) that meets the needs of your request." (This file is called tectonics.mov and is dated 30 January 1998, in case other Evangelistas want to search for it.)
Jan M. Peter: "'PGIS/MAC, Earth In Motion Technologies, 2476 Bolsover, Suite 491, Houston, TX, 77005, USA, (713) 660-0231,395. The Paleogeographic Information System/Mac* (PGIS/Mac) is a system for display, maintenance, and analysis of plate tectonic information. It is also capable of integrating user-supplied data into a plate tectonic context. ... Authors: M.I. Ross & C.R. Scotese, $399.00. ... <info@scotese.com'>
'Continental Drift Digital Image Files, Geological Society - University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Geology, PO Box 19049, Arlington, 76019, 817-273-2978, $4, Twenty eight different PICT files of paleogeography through time. Each image is $4, the entire set of 28 is $60. These images can be used with Earth-In-Motion's PGIS/Mac.'
'Hypercard Plate Tectonics, Geological Society - University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Geology, PO Box 19049,Arlington, TX, 76019, USA, 817-273-2978, 80.00, 49.99, Consists of three different Hypercard stacks. Australia's Northward Flight: An animated view of the breakup of Australia from Antarctica and its subsequent northward drift. Opening of the Atlantic: Hypercard animation of the breakup of Pangea. Drifting Continents: Animation of the last 600 million years of plate tectonic movement (in 10 million year increments). Each stack is $39.99, all three are $80. Runs on any Mac. Requires Hypercard.'"
Kevin Marks: "Get 3D Atlas from Creative Wonders/The Learning Company. It has a great 3D globe showing plate movements over 600 Million years. It's not exactly shareware, but you should be able to buy it for $30 or so, or it was bundled with over 2 million Performas, so you may already have it. <http://www.cwonders.com> (I produced 3D atlas & wrote about half the code, so I KNOW it's good)." [Also suggested by Mitch and Jurrasitol.]
Jim Molnar: "If you just want hardcopy, or a series of 'vignettes' through time you might try the following URL to download about 15 or so reconstructed tectonic maps at <http://omphacite.es.su.oz.au/StaffProfiles/dietmar/Agegrid/utig_report.htm l>."> Rich Linville: "For a simple Quicktime movie on plate techtonics, try the Grolier CD-ROM Encyclopedia."
Dale Oldham: "Working Model. ... From their brochure: 'Build, Test & Refine Mechanical Systems on Your Personal Computer'. <info@krev.com> <http:www.krev.com>."
John Grinch: "There are animations available on UC Berkley's website at <http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tectonics.html>.">
A. Blair: "I have used Victor Schmidt's (University of Pittsburgh) Drifting Continents 1.0, a very simple 544k Hypercard stack that displays continent position for the last 600 million years, in 10 million year increments."
Matthew Stevens (on the Indian-Australian tectonic plate)
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Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 02:06:35 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: ?? - In/Out Software
This request is from:
Domenico Bettinelli <dombett@tiac.net>
My company is looking for easy to use software to implement a simple electronic In/Out board. In my mind this is how I picture the software working: an extension is installed on each client on the network which places a small menu in the menu bar. When I pull down the menu it gives me the option to "log in" and then lists all other "logged in" clients on the network. If server software was involved we could have a list of logged in and logged out employees.
Does anyone know of anything that does this? Is there an enterprising shareware author who'd like to tackle this? I've looked at various chat systems, including one that requires you to open the Chooser, but I'd prefer something that can be checked with a simple one or two clicks. For completeness, I should say that we are looking to replace the Directory function that we lost when we moved from First Class to Internet standard email.
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Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 02:06:42 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: PR - New Macintosh Weekly Magazine Coming
This announcement is from:
Lucas Roebuck, <lroebuck@pacbell.net>
Digital Cactus, a start-up publishing firm, is announcing today that it will be entering the market with a weekly news publication dedicated to covering the Mac OS platform. The new publication, entitled The Mac Report, will be rolled out on June 24.
"The Macintosh market needs a weekly publication that is dedicated to providing hard Mac news," said The Mac Report publisher and editor Lucas Roebuck. "Unfortunately, MacWeek is moving away from that space. We hope to pick up the slack."
The 32-page publication will be rolled out in two phases. In the first phase, readers will be invited to subscribe for free to the publication, which will initially be available via a weekly fax, e-mail, HTML or downloadable PDF file. The second phase, which Digital Cactus hopes to unroll in six to eight months, is creating a print version of the newsweekly to mail to subscribers. Once again, the Mac Report is free to its subscribers.
Those who wish to subscribe to the newsweekly can do so in several ways. The easiest is to point their browser to <http://www.macreport.com>, where readers can subscribe on-line. Users can also email their requests to <subscribe@macreport.com>. Readers need to specify how they want to receive The Mac Report: fax or email. Readers who do not have access to the Internet can call 760-723-5207 to subscribe.
Press releases, news tips and story ideas should be sent to <news@macreport.com>. Those wishing to advertise in the Mac Report should call 760-723-5207 or email <erick@macreport.com>.
Based in sunny, southern California, Digital Cactus, a media communications company, is dedicated to creating new and innovative ways of publishing information and entertainment. Its product line up includes The Mac Report, the Mac OS newsweekly, and will be launching personally.com, the digital magazine of personal culture and other focus publications in the next 6 months.
Contact: Lucas Roebuck 760-723-5207 539 Sancado Terrace Fallbrook, California 92028 Email: <lucas@macreport.com>
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