EvangeList Digest Friday, May 22 1998 Volume 01 : Number 1192
In this issue:
Tidbit - Huge Mac, Newton & Pilot archives Tidbit - Another Mac Victory PR - FretPet 1.3.4 - Unique Guitar-Oriented Music Sequencer PR - NewtNotes 1.0 released by Catamount Software Tidbit - Win NT Daymare Tidbit - Christian Science Monitor on the iMac ?? - SNMP Agent for MacOS8 $$ - QVision Workhorse Library Collection Tidbit - This Weeks Farr Site:Mary's Mac 1.0 PR - Newton Portfolio Manager 1.2 by NewtBrick ?? - Manufacturing and Financial Software in Spanish ?? - Divemaster (Scuba) Type Program for Mac Tidbit - Mac OS Buyer's Guide Contest Tidbit - Mac vs Windows on the Radio Tidbit - G3 Saves NPR Station During Satellite Outage
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Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 02:06:31 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - Huge Mac, Newton & Pilot archives
This announcement is from:
Michael Bean, <bean@amug.org>
If you are looking for one of the largest and most up to date Mac archives see the BBS in a Box archive on-line at: <http://cdrom.amug.org/>
We have also developed a web page that allows you to view our Mac, Newton and PalmPilot Recent files at <http://cdrom.amug.org/Navigate2.html>
The collections are also available on CD at: https://www.amug.org/amug/store/http/amug-order.html
We think you will find these archives worth a bookmark :>
AMUG CD, Inc. 602-497-2244 <sales@amug.org>
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Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 02:06:18 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - Another Mac Victory
This tidbit is from:
<akuma96@ix.netcom.com>
I just wanted to drop you all a line and thank apple. when I started working at our school's computer labs, I was told that we were going to be "phasing out" the macs in favor of NT workstations in the interest of 'centering on one platform' (read: Apple's going out of business). I was brought aboard to help, since I had experience in both (I own 2 macs because in all my years of fixing computers, I like coming home to something that works correctly when I turn it on). after updating the system software from, like, 6.01 to 8.1, I noticed a real turnaround in heads at the lab. when I added GoMac, people noticed how much easier it was to use, and actually started doing some serious work on them.
Bottom line, the lab has decided to, in fact, equip the labs with the new iMacs running SoftWindows for a cheap, simple internet connection. thanks, Apple. thanks, Steve. I always believe in converting the world, one person at a time.
sincerely,
Kyle
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Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 02:06:24 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: PR - FretPet 1.3.4 - Unique Guitar-Oriented Music Sequencer
This announcement is from:
Scott Lahteine, <slur@world.std.com>
FretPet 1.3.4 has been released, bringing more interface enhancements to this unique and entertaining music sequencer. MIDI input is now supported for users of Opcode Music System. Among the new interface elements:
Harmony / Transpose arrows make chord movements easier than ever. The Harmony Buttons give you the power move to any chord in the scale instantaneously! This makes improvisation and dynamic composition amazingly easy.
More information is available at - <http://world.std.com/~slur/Pages/fretpet/fretpet.html>
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Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 02:06:20 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: PR - NewtNotes 1.0 released by Catamount Software
Keyword: Newton
This announcement is from:
Hardy Macia, <hardy@catamount.com>
NewtNotes is a bibliography program for the Newton.
NewtNotes allows you to carry around references and to add new references while away from your desktop. The user can upload and download references between NewtNotes and the desktop. NewtNotes was designed based upon EndNote by Niles & Associates. Most of you will use EndNote and a word processor on the desktop to create your final papers.
NewtNotes (NOS 2.x) costs $80. Poor and starving students can purchase NewtNotes at the discounted price of $40.
You can find the NewtNotes at <http://www.catamount.com/NewtNotes.html>
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 02:06:14 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - Win NT Daymare
Keyword: Advocacy, Why Macs Are Better
This tidbit is from:
Jonathan A. Duke, <jonathan@monet.bc.edu>
I just got back from Apple's WWDC and walked in to find that our Windows NT server, which hosts all of our support tools for campus, had gone down over the weekend due to a power outage.
Our NT admin is very tense because he'll be spending all morning (maybe all day?) reinstalling NT to get the system back up.
The servers (ASIP, FileMaker Server, Web, FTP) that I have the privilege of administering (all Macs) came back up without a hitch.
Score another one for Macintosh servers!
Jon Duke Boston College Information Technology
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Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 02:06:39 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - Christian Science Monitor on the iMac
This tidbit is from:
John Michael Linck, <toymaker@woodentoy.com>
Christian Science Monitor
BOSTON - THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1998
"No one knows how consumers will react. The iMac does have its quirks. It boasts a cutting-edge technology for hooking up peripherals such as scanners and printers - so cutting- edge few devices can yet hook up to it (certainly not the current peripherals made for Macintosh). It also carries an older modem and, the biggest surprise, no drive for floppy disks.
"Nevertheless, the machine represents dramatic innovation from a company that's making a comeback. Under interim chief executive and the company's original founder Steve Jobs, Apple has returned to profitability, launched a powerful line of computers called the G3, which are fastest desktops and now laptops, and revamped its strategy for future operating systems.
"So if you're considering getting a new Mac but feared for the company's future, relax. Buy with confidence."
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 02:06:37 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: ?? - SNMP Agent for MacOS8
This request is from:
Judy Levinson, <Judy_Levinson@hmco.com>
I've searched all over the 'net for this information, and I've hit a wall the size of Texas. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
My company is in the process of testing a Mac server for rolling out as a web server solution. It's a PowerComputing PowerCenter 150, running OS8. I'm looking for an SNMP agent that is compatible with both OS8 and OpenTransport; Apple got my hopes up with their TCP/IP Connection for Macintosh product, but it appears to work with MacTCP only. I haven't had much luck checking software or listserv archives, either.
Is there any shareware out there in the form of an OS8/OT-compatible SNMP agent for Mac? As long as it talks SNMP, we should be able to plug it into our HP OpenView. I'd hate not to be able to monitor this server across the network, if there's even a chance of finding some app. that'll do the trick.
Please feel free to e-mail me: <judy_levinson@hmco.com>
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Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 02:06:15 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: $$ - QVision Workhorse Library Collection
This special offer is from:
<aimgames@qvision.net>
QVision has announced the availability of their Workhorse Library collection of Electronic Paperbacks on the MacIntosh starting in September 1998. Twenty-Six Electronic Paperbacks are available in Read Aloud Format. An additional eleven text only collections (multiple books) are also available.
This includes all 14 L. Frank Baum's Oz books in Read Aloud format with the original illustrations.
Designed to stimulate reading, not as a computer game, each Electronic Paperback is priced at $9.95 to $14.95 and comes on CD media.
As a special offer to EvangeList Readers, QVision is offering a prepublication discount of 20% on all orders received by September 1, 1998. Just put the code EAPPLE (for EvangeList Apple) on your online order or mention this offer. if you call in an order.
Our online sales are at <http://www.qvision.net> this site includes a web demo and further information. Phone is 801-572-4018
The Wokrhorse Library is being used by schools in Read Aloud and Sustained Silent Reading Programs.
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Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 02:06:30 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - This Weeks Farr Site:Mary's Mac 1.0
This tidbit is from:
Applelinks.com, <webmaster@applelinks.com>
This week's Farr Site is entitled "Mary's Mac 1.0" and features PC Angst, Cool Human Tricks, A Gift from Japan, and My, What a Nice Little Computer You Are! Author matches PowerMac with 85-year-old newbie and lives to tell the tale (so far).
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 02:06:27 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: PR - Newton Portfolio Manager 1.2 by NewtBrick
This announcement is from:
Peter M. Leenes, <pmleenes@knoware.nl>
NewtBrick is pleased to announce version 1.2 of its Newton Portfolio Manager. In version 1.2 it is possible to keep track of multiple portfolio's.
The Newton Portfolio Manager helps you manage your investments in stocks, mutual funds, options and bonds. By entering quotes you can see how much you are gaining (or lossing), which securities perform well and which do not. You can see the influence and weight of the securities in your portfolio mix, benchmark against indices, and against other securities, which you don't have in your portfolio (yet). In short, Newton Portfolio Manager is the tool for these nervous investors, who can't handle the stress and the large amount of numbers and, who are in need of a gadget that can help them sort it out.
Newton Portfolio Manager (NOS 2.x) is shareware ($20). You can try the Newton Portfolio Manager for 30 days. During this period the Newton Portfolio Manager is fully functional, after these 30 days you will need a code to unlock the Newton Portfolio Manager.
You can find the Newton Portfolio Manager at:
<http://www.w4r.com/macbrick/NewtBrick>
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Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 02:06:21 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: ?? - Manufacturing and Financial Software in Spanish
This request is from:
Mancin Roberto, <rodeman@att.com.ve>
I work on a company that is ready to change the Manufacturing and Financial software package. The company is based on a Windows NT server. However, I think I have a good chance to convince the people to go to a Mac Server as long as I can get a Manufacturing and Financial Package software that runs in Spanish ( I am based in Venezuela) hopefully with support somewhere in LatinAmerica. The Manufacturing part of the software is very important for the company and packages without this option would not be accepted. Does any body know such a software package for the Macintosh?. As soon as the stream of answers dies out, I will post my findings for other "Evangelistas Latinos". Thank you!.
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 02:06:36 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: ?? - Divemaster (Scuba) Type Program for Mac
This request is from:
Wayne Hansen, <jwhansen@mr.net>
I am looking for a scuba diving log program similar to DiveMaster for windows. Such a program would include: number of dives per log, calculation of Surface Air Consumption (SAC) rate, equipment log, personal information page, ability to print blank log sheets to take on trips, accumulated bottom time, etc. If anyone knows of such a program, I would appreciate hearing from you. Thanks for the opportunity! Wayne Hansen
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Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 02:06:29 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - Mac OS Buyer's Guide Contest
This tidbit is from:
Macbuyers, <Macbuyers@aol.com>
To celebrate the first anniversary of the Mac OS Buyer's Guide <http://www.enproindia.com/macguide/>, I am glad to announce we will be giving away a brand new, super powerful, NewerTECH PowerPC G3 upgrade card running at a blazing fast 250 mhz. The Mac OS Buyer's Guide opened on May 14, 1997, and today, a year later, has grown to be one of the most popular Mac computer information resources on the web. Please visit the site and register yourself to win. The contest will close at the end of May and the winner will be posted on June 1, 1998 on the Mac OS Buyer's Guide and will be contacted by e- mail/phone.
The card was donated by Cyberian Outpost <http://www.outpost.com>, in cooperation with NewerTECH <http://www.newertech.com>, to celebrate the anniversary of the Mac OS Buyer's Guide. Special thanks to them!
Chirag Nangia Mac OS Buyer's Guide
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Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 02:06:11 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - Mac vs Windows on the Radio
Keyword: Advocacy, Why Macs Are Better
This tidbit is from:
Jim Heid, <jim@heidsite.com>
I co-host "Point & Click Radio," a weekly call-in computer show on our local public radio station, which serves California's rural Mendocino county.
Last week, our guest was Charles Piller, who writes the biweekly "Mac Smart" column for the Los Angeles Times. The subject of our show was "Mac versus Windows: Which Computer Should You Buy?"
Charles' answers to this question were insightful and well reasoned, and anyone who wonders where the Mac fits in to the current personal computing landscape may want to listen to the show's RealAudio archive.
You can do so by going to the new "Point & Click Radio" Web site, at:
<http://www.kzyx.org/pc/>.
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Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 02:06:33 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - G3 Saves NPR Station During Satellite Outage
Keyword: Advocacy, Macintosh in Action
This tidbit is from:
Mike Pappas <mpappas@uswest.net>
As many of you know a communications satellite failure yesterday [5-19-98] left millions of pager customers out of service along with hundreds of National Public Radio Stations Nationwide without vital audio feeds.
NPR provided a standard analog telephone feed for most all of their programs. The audio quality of this feed was very poor.
They also provided a 56 Kps RealAudio feed on the Internet. When I found out we could get the audio feeds we needed from the net, I grabbed my trusty PowerMac G-3 266 Mhz computer and 3 Com mpact ISDN modem and headed down to my station. I plugged the modem into our ISDN line, patched the computer's audio output into our On Air board and entered the SPID numbers. In less than a minute we were connected and getting the NPR Morning Edition via RealAudio on the internet.
The system has been up and running ever since and we haven't had a spot of problem from it.
While our competitor station has still been using analog feed from telephone lines, we have been enjoying great audio from a G-3 Mac!
A G-3 Power Mac saved the day!
Mike Pappas Engineering Manager KUVO Denver Public Radio (303) 988-0976 <mpappas@uswest.net>
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