EvangeList Digest Thursday, May 21 1998 Volume 01 : Number 1190
In this issue:
?? - Plate Tectonics Software Tidbit - 2 for 1 CUSeeMe 3.1 Offer for Mac Users Tidbit - The MacOS Digest Website Tidbit - Clean-Install Assistant 1.0 PR - doScript Plugin 2.0 for FileMaker Pro (Mac-only) PR - PublicSpace 1.5 is Available ?? - Need Well Log Template Job - Database and System Support (Dover, DE) PR - CopyPaste 4.2 Now Available $$ - Mac OS Survey Software Tidbit - Apple Update Tour ?? - Mac Web BBS Software Needed
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Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 02:06:49 -0000 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: ?? - Plate Tectonics Software
This request is from:
Matthew Stevens, <mls@zeta.org.au>
Is there any program available for the Mac that simulates the tectonic plate movements for the past umpteen million years? Ideally it should allow the user to view the Earth from any point and run the movements forwards and backwards.
I ask purely for my own benefit. I really want to understand the subject better.
I've searched the usual places and asked on Usenet, but the only programs I've found are expensive and not available in Australia. Shareware would be best.
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Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 02:06:49 -0000 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - 2 for 1 CUSeeMe 3.1 Offer for Mac Users
This tidbit is from:
Michael Humphrey, <majh@cyberus.ca>
I just went by the White Pine Website <http://www.wpine.com> , and right now, until July 3, 1998, when you purchase a full version of CUSeeMe for Mac, you get a second copy and/or serial number for free. If you download the software, you just get a second serial number. If you get the product shipped to you, you get a second CD and second serial number. Check out their homepage for details <http://www.wpine.com/buying/>
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Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 02:06:48 -0000 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - The MacOS Digest Website
This tidbit is from:
Matt Bevers, <macdgst@pair.com>
The MacOS Digest <http://www.pair.com/macdgst/> is a new Macintosh web site featuring daily news updates and original editorials. The focus of the site will be Apple's efforts at bringing the Macintosh to the average consumer, including special features on the Mac in the media and Apple advertising. Stop by <http://www.pair.com/macdgst/> beginning Monday 18 to see what this new site is all about.
Matt Bevers, Editor The MacOS Digest <macdgst@mail61.pair.com> <http://www.pair.com/macdgst/>
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Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 02:06:46 -0000 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - Clean-Install Assistant 1.0
This tidbit is from:
Marc Moini, <Marc@Kagi.com>
personal items to a new Clean-Installed System Folder, and it may also be used to:
Save space and backup your valuable additions and preference files only, instead of the whole System Folder!
Install the same set of additions on multiple Macs.
Remove extra files and folders from your System Folder to restore it to a previous state: you can take a 'snapshot' of the System Folder and have Clean-Install Assistant extract any items added since.
Clean-Install Assistant is free for personal use, it is available for downloading from:
<http://www.marcmoini.com>.
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Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 02:06:48 -0000 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: PR - doScript Plugin 2.0 for FileMaker Pro (Mac-only)
This announcement is from:
Jeff Benjamin, <jeff@stepupsoftware.com>
I'm pleased to announce doScript Plug-in 2.0 for FileMaker Pro 4 for Macintosh.
Version 2.0 will add the ability to activate a script when a key combination is pressed. F1 thru F15 as well as option-key combinations will be supported. Developers will be able to define which script executes for which key dynamically. The script "attached" to a key can therefore change during a user's session based on security, work progress, foreground database, etc.
A public beta of version 2.0 is expected in early June of 1998.
Pricing for version 2.0 will remain the same as current pricing: $30 for a single-user license; $200 for a site license; $500 for a worldwide license; and $150 for a distribution license.
Upgrades for current owners of the product will be FREE.
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 02:06:46 -0000 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: PR - PublicSpace 1.5 is Available
This announcement is from:
Frank Reiff, <reiff@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
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:
PublicSpace Client: any Macintosh/ System 7.1 or higher/ 2Mb of RAM PublicSpace Server: any PowerMacintosh/ System 7.1 or higher/ 4Mb of RAM
Improved compatibility with some networks Improved setup and installation Minor usability improvements Minor bug fixes
US$25 for a single server license with unlimited number of clients US$150 for a site license US$500 for a world-wide license
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Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 02:06:50 -0000 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: ?? - Need Well Log Template
This request is from:
Sharon L. Roney, <resi@pipeline.com>
I have just returned from two weeks performing soil borings and monitoring well installations. I have always made well logs by hand, having only a few at a time normally. Now I have 60 that I need to draw. I'm not a CAD person so I am looking for a fairly simple template that I can use. There are dozens of commercial PC programs for this sort of thing but I have an all Mac company. Any help would be appreciated!
Sharon L. Roney Roney Environmental Services, LLC
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Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 02:06:49 -0000 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Job - Database and System Support (Dover, DE)
This job announcement is from:
Robert Varipapa, <varipapa@dca.net>
IMMEDIATE opening! Dover, Delaware
Seeking qualified individual to provide Macintosh support and Network services and assist in database programming in Medical Office Complex.
Duties include maintaining and customization of Helix Express relational database, network support (including TCP/IP, ISDN routers) and communications support. Applicants must possess excellent trouble shooting and time management skills and be able to work in a team enviroment with financial, administrative and clerical personnel.
Requirements: Relational Database or Programming Skills Macintosh System Support Skills Network/Communications Support Skills
Benefits: Excellent compensation in organization of dedicated team players. Cafeteria benefits package including health, dental and pension program.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Send resume to: <varipapa@neurodoctor.com> Robert J. Varipapa, MD 1093 South Governors Avenue Dover, DE 19904 (302) 678-8100 (302) 678-8061
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Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 00:00:36 -0700 From: Guy Kawasaki <Kawasaki@garage.com> Subject: PR - CopyPaste 4.2 Now Available
This announcement is from:
julian, <julian@sierra.net>
CopyPaste provides a new and powerful paradigm for working with information. CopyPaste multiplies the clipboard times 100 and makes it quick and easy to archive and retrieve information using familiar Mac OS technologies. It's a totally addictive utility that works invisibly in the background and contains many tools that are useful to every Mac user.
CopyPaste is only available online and can be downloaded free at:
<http://www.scriptsoftware.com>
It is also on the major shareware archives and AOL.
Today with the release of version 4.2, CopyPaste is hundreds of times better and more useful then ever before.
CopyPaste is the shareware utility that was awarded a 5 mouse rating by MacUser and was their shareware utility of the year 1996. Shareware Junkies declared it Mac Product of the year for 1997. CopyPaste also appeared in the June 97 Wired and has been featured in MacWeek, TidBits, MacAddict and many other magazines. CopyPaste magnifies the clipboard in many different ways and has been very popular with web developers, editors, writers, dtp professionals and everyone who uses the clipboard.
One of the early wonders of the Mac was its revolutionary ability to do copy and paste across various applications. Unlike other areas in the Mac's system software that have changed and progressed over the years, copying and pasting has not evolved. How many times have you found yourself going back and forth copying in one application and pasting in a different application, wishing to yourself that you could copy 5-10 items at a time, then go to another application and paste each of these items? Now you can, with a vengeance!
* Clip Extender - now gives 100 easy to access clipboards via menu or key command.
* CopyPaste Palette - a floating windoid that gives the easiest access to the clipboards and to all CopyPaste features.
* Drag and Drop *** NEW *** - allows you to drag anything to and from the CopyPaste Palette. Not only selections from a program, but also text, picture, sound or ClipSet files can be dragged.
* Integrated Clip Viewer *** NEW *** shows the clipboard data and allows modifications
* Clip Recorder - remembers the last 10 items copied via command c.
* Clip Archive - copied data is added to one of 10 text files on disk.
* Save Clipboards thru Restarts - allows all 100 Clipboards to be saved thru Shutdown or Restart.
* Tag and Drop - fastest way to copy and paste data with a single mouseclick.
* Clip Sets - Sets of 10 clipboards can be loaded and saved to disk. Various Clip Sets can be created for different tasks. Clip Sets can also be sent to other CopyPaste users for them to load and use.
* CopyPaste Utilities *** NEW Utilities *** - there are text utilities, picture utilities, date and time utilities, InterNet utilities and programmers utilities.
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Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 00:00:37 -0700 From: Guy Kawasaki <Kawasaki@garage.com> Subject: $$ - Mac OS Survey Software
This special offer is from:
VikR, <VikR@aol.com>
Please take a look at our product, PowerTab, <www.powerknowledge.com>, which was given 4-1/2 stars and a "must-have" recommendation by Mac Home Journal, and was considered best of class by MacWEEK.
PowerTab permits any business to do surveys to find out what their customers want to see new and improved in their product line. Surveys which used to cost tens of thousands of dollars can now be done using PowerTab for little or no cost. PowerTab permits you to enter your survey using a powerful survey editor. (If you like, PowerTab will even interview you about your business, and write your survey for you!) PowerTab does all the page layout for your survey automatically, saving you hours. You can then print the survey out on paper, or output it as HTML and place it on a web site -- PowerTab makes it easy to collect data from a web site survey. Once you have collected your data, PowerTab makes reports for you automatically. PowerTab makes it easy for you to look at results by special subgroups of your interviewees, for example, customers who spend a lot of money with you, versus customers who spend less money with you; or new customers versus customers who have been with you for a longer time. PowerTab is useful to business, government, and educational users.
Are you a FileMaker user? If you have data files about your customers in FileMaker, PowerTab can automatically make survey-style reports for that data, telling what percent of customers have each value in every field of your data file.
A free demo of PowerTab is available on our web site. This demo is fully functional, and will work for three weeks. PowerTab is normally just $199 - -- we would like to make a _special_offer_ to Evangelist readers. For the next 30 days, PowerTab is available to Evangelist readers for just $149. To take advantage of this special offer, download the Evangelist Offer free demo of PowerTab from <http://www.loop.com/~vik/>. The demo will be fully functional until June 30, 1998, after which time you will be able to buy it for $149.
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 00:00:35 -0700 From: Guy Kawasaki <Kawasaki@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - Apple Update Tour
This tidbit is from:
Ron Ustach, <ustach@apple.com>
Apple advocates have had good reason to smile this year. Power Macintosh G3 computers are burning up the competition, Mac OS 8.1 is giving users greater power than ever, developers are releasing new products, and people everywhere are getting excited about Apple.
Come see for yourself at the Apple Update seminar. At this free, half-day event you will hear all the latest news about Apple, Apple products, new software, great solutions, and more.
Attend the Apple Update to find out more about:
Apple Back on Track
Learn why the Wall Street Journal proclaimed Apple to have the best performing computer stock of the year. Also hear the latest about Apple's strengths, strategies and new products.
Exciting New Apple Products
See the completely redesigned PowerBook G3 laptop computer. Code named "Wallstreet" this new machine is crushing the competition like a steamroller. Also, introducing iMac, the excitement of the internet with the simplicity of Macintosh.
Partners and Solutions
See the latest software releases from Adobe and Connectix. New releases of Photoshop 5.0 and Premier 5.0 promise more publishing power on press, video, and the web. Also take a look at Virtual PC 2.0 and see the unbelievable results of running Windows on a Power Macintosh G3 computer!
Special Offers
Purchase a Power Macintosh G3 desktop or minitower from May 1, 1998 to June 26, 1998 and take your pick of either an additional 32MB of memory OR Connectix Virtual PC 2.0 with Windows 95 for FREE.
Plus attend this seminar for a chance to walk away with FREE Apple branded merchandise.
SPECIAL BONUS FOR MAC ADVOCATES Be one of the first 20 Mac Advocates to check in at the registration desk in each city with a Windows friend* and we'll give you both a free Apple gift! *Your companion must bring an original Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 CD (or diskette).
Dates & Locations: All sessions from 9:30am to 12:00 noon.
Sacramento June 2 Cupertino June 3 San Francisco June 4 Seattle June 10 San Diego June 11 Portland June 12 Phoenix June 17 Los Angeles June 25 Irvine June 26
Register for the Apple Update today by visiting our web site at: www.seminars.apple.com or call 1.800.895.4853 extension 100.
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Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 02:06:17 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: ?? - Mac Web BBS Software Needed
This request is from:
Tom Ainscough, <tainscough@umassd.edu>
We are creating a new Web site aimed at academia. One feature we have planned for the site is a bulletin board service. Right now our favorite Web BBS software is Ultimate BB (see <"http://www.ultimatebb.com/"> for the features of Ultimate BB). Unfortunately, it is a PERL script, and only runs only on UNIX and Windows NT-based servers.
I hate to be forced to use a Windows server, but we can't find ANYTHING that will run on a Mac, and we don't want to write the scripts from scratch. (I've been told that MacPerl is too different from Perl to run the Ultimate scripts without heavy modification.)
Has anyone ever gotten Ultimate BB to run on a Mac under MacPerl?
- -or-
Does anyone know of a high-quality (as good as Ultimate) Web BBS script that will run on a Mac server? (We would be especially interested in a BB script that runs under FileMaker Pro, because we will be using that for our database engine if we do go with a Mac server.)
- -and-
If you are interested in a Mac version of a *great* Web BBS system for your site, you may want to contact the author of Ultimate BB. Maybe he would consider a MacPerl version if there was enough interest. You can contact him through the site listed above. (Please don't flame him, he is a nice guy and that won't help.) You should only contact him if you are really interested in his product.
Tom Ainscough University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth __________________________ Digital Guy Sez:
Okay, this is sort of cheating, but this was SUCH a good question I thought I would post it and a few resources that I turned up during my own attempts at finding exactly that kind of software:
<http://www.strom.com/ics/wc.html>
This links to a page listing pretty much all the software for web forums, discussions, bulletin boards. It's cross platform, so you have to wade through a few Unix, Windows, OS/2 (!!!) listings, but there are quite a few good packages listed.
While something like Web Crossing is INCREDIBLE for a commercial high traffic site, you might do well to check out something like Interaction <http://interaction.in-progress.com>.
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