EvangeList Digest Wednesday, May 13 1998 Volume 01 : Number 1181
In this issue:
$$ - ProFunda 3D-spreadsheet Storeys 1.1.1 !! - Web-based Remote Control Interest Survey Tidbit - Irritating Windows Find PR - Tenon Turnkey Secure Web Commerce PR - Apple Steamroller Ad To Air Starting May 12th For Posting: Tidbit - New PowerBook Print Ads PR - NetChronometer 1.0.0 is Available PR - ChatNet v2.1 Adds Numerous IRC Enhancements PR - Helios AppleTalk Toolkit for Rhapsody Tidbit - It's a Whole New eVO
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Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 02:07:07 -0000 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: $$ - ProFunda 3D-spreadsheet Storeys 1.1.1
This special offer is from:
Dan Pedersen, <profunda@pip.dknet.dk>
Just because you are so nice people all the time available for help, and because I enjoy this list so much I offer you all one copy of our new 3D-spreadsheet Storeys 1.1.1 at a limited 60$. The offer is open until 15. May. Just go to our site <http://isa.dknet.dk/~free_try.html> and download, and when having tried out Storeys, send me an eMail with "Storeys to evangelists" in the subjectline, and info about your creditcard-no, and I will send you a code to open Storeys forever.
Storeys-highlites:
New COPY/PASTE feature lets you copy from or paste or fill into any number of specified layers at the same time. This feature actually means that you can change e.g. formulas "hidden" in any number of layers in seconds!
3-D SORT:
- - Use keys to sort the layers to have your layers stored as nicely as in a database. - - Use the special 3-D INSPECTOR pop-up-menu to inspect contents of cells down through all the layers at the same time! - - New FORMULA CONSTRUCTOR adds further efficiency to your work. And Storeys takes up only 2MB RAM and at this point its faster than any other spreadsheet we have tried.
Just to mention a tiny fraction...
Have a nice day - and ENJOY!
Dan Pedersen Sales Manager
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Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 02:07:13 -0000 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: !! - Web-based Remote Control Interest Survey
This action item is from:
Michael Ash, <mikeash@mwt.net>
I'm currently developing a CGI that interfaces with NetPresenz (It might work with other Mac web servers, I'm not sure). It allows a remote user to connect to the server, get a screenshot, and then simulate a mouse click, double click, or keypresses. It's similar in concept to Farallon's Timbuktu, though it works from any web browser and has fewer features.
Anyhow, I'm running this survey to determine how many people would find this sort of thing useful, or at least cool enough to purchase/register.
If you're interested, please send the following information to <mailto:mikeash@mwt.net> with "-Remote Control-" in the subject.
Your name and e-mail address. Where and why it would be used. ("It'd just be cool" DOES qualify as an answer.) How much you would be willing to pay. (It would probably be shareware.) Features you'd like to see.
Thanks in advance for your help.
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Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 02:07:16 -0000 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - Irritating Windows Find
Keyword: Advocacy, Windows Daymares
This tidbit is from:
Guy Chapman, <gchapman@patrol.i-way.co.uk>
Over the months and years we've heard dozens if not hundreds of faults, irritations, bugs and other stuff with Windoze 95/NT, so it hardly seems worth adding yet another.
Hell, yes it does!
How often when you go looking for a file about Electric Widgets do you want the search utility to find all the files whose name includes Electric OR Widget? My answer: None. Never. Not at all, not in the least, not even slightly.
But in Windoze that's precisely what you get. Press the handy F3 button (what? can't remember F3=Find? Shame on you! Of course Ctrl+F can't possibly work from the desktop - always use the "standard" search key, F3!) and ask for Electric Widgets - and get a list of files called "plastic widgets", "electric gadgets" and so on. When you want a file where you can remember half the name this is a major annoyance.
And there is absolutely no way past this. Enclose the name in quotes and it won't be found unless it's the whole filename. Your only option is to connect to the drive with a Mac and use a proper Find File program :-)
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Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 02:07:11 -0000 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: PR - Tenon Turnkey Secure Web Commerce
Keyword: Market by market, Internet
This announcement is from:
Anita Holmgren, <anita@tenon.com>
Tenon Intersystems and Pacific Coast Software are joined in a strategic relationship to extend WebTen, the fastest and most powerful Macintosh web server, with secure online commerce capabilities.
WebTen is an industrial-strength Macintosh web server, based on Apache - the most popular web server in the world. Tenon's point & click Apache-based web server not only supports Macintosh-style plug-ins and Macintosh-style CGIs, but also outperforms both Linux and Solaris versions of Apache. WebTen 2.0 includes multihoming SSL 3.0, for encrypted transmissions, multihoming FTP, for uploading web content, NFS, for offloading web content, and DNS, for domain name mappings to IP addresses. On a G3 machine WebTen is capable of sustaining almost 900 hits/second.
Pacific Coast Software is the developer of WebCatalog, the premier eCommerce package for building online storefronts. WebCatalog and its companion package, WebMerchant, combine seamlessly with WebTen to facilitate secure commerce solutions on Macintosh platforms. With WebCatalog, a single WebTen server can support multiple online storefronts, each with hundreds of shoppers simultaneously engaging in secure transactions.
The ability to support multiple secure storefronts on a single machine is a strong feature of WebTen. WebTen's IP-based virtual host support, combined with SSL 3.0, enables a WebTen server to support encrypted transactions on a per-virtual host basis. While other Macintosh web servers force Mac ISPs to buy multiple machines and multiple copies of web server software to support their client's secure commerce requirements, a single WebTen server can be set up to support multiple secure virtual hosts, each with their own unique server certificate from authorized certification authorities, such as Verisign or Thawte. Furthermore, a WebTen server can simultaneously support secure and non-secure virtual hosts, even with identical URLs!
Pacific Coast Software has perfected the online shopping experience - making it easy for both the webmaster and the customers. WebCatalog creates a virtual store front and assigns each online customer a personal shopping assistant . The personal shopping assistant keeps track of product selections and automatically places those items into a virtual shopping cart. Once the shopping is complete, WebMerchant sums the quantities and prices, adds taxes and shipping costs and handles the verification of their credit card. A digital receipt is generated and electronic product delivery, if appropriate, can be made.
Since WebCatalog is database driven, all product names, prices, descriptions, photos, SKUs, etc. can be easily changed. Changes can be made dynamically to a live site by using a remote web browser. and since changes are made to a database and not to the automatically generated HTML pages, sites require less technical knowledge to maintain.
WebCatalog includes a server-side tag language to dyanmically create sophisticated web pages and to perform sophisticated secure commerce functions, such encrypting data, interpreting MIME encoding, and manipulating browser cookies. Built-in invoice functions support complex tax and shipping calculations as well as support for international currencies. The ability to handle multiple character conversion sets supports multi-lingual sites that need to cater to a world-wide clientele.
Tenon is now reselling WebCatalog and WebMerchant. Both products are downloadable directly from the Tenon site: <http://www.tenon.com/products/webten>. A full demo package is also downloadable. WebCatalog 2.1 sells for $2499.00 and WebMerchant 2.0 is $995. For a limited time, Tenon will offer both WebCatalog and WebMerchant for a 20% discount. WebTen, also available as a downloadable demo from the Tenon site, is $495 and includes a coupon for a FREE copy of Funnel Web, a sophisticated logging anaylsis tool. A Secure Commerce Bundle (WebCatalog, WebMerchant and WebTen) is available for $2999 - a 25% discount.
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Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 15:15:06 -0000 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: PR - Apple Steamroller Ad To Air Starting May 12th
This announcement is from:
Apple PR
Apple Computer, Inc. today announced it is launching a new 30-second television commercial scheduled to air tonight during ABC's Home Improvement at 8 p.m. PDT and NYPD Blue at 10 p.m. PDT, and during NBC's Frasier at 9 p.m PDT. The new commercial, called "Steamroller," is part of Apple's worldwide "Think different" campaign and features its Pentium-toasting PowerBook G3 series of notebook computers.
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Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 17:06:32 -0000 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: For Posting: Tidbit - New PowerBook Print Ads
This tidbit is from:
Ritholtz, <Ritholtz@aol.com>
The new PowerBook print ads are particularly awesome.
There is a four page foldout in the May 18, 1998 Business week, however, is more than just clever: its a killer, both literally and figuratively.
It begins with the following:
"We rewrote the book."
in white letters, which are offset against a partial shot of a curvy, black PowerBook on the first page. The second and third pages face each other, and show different angles of the Powerbook opening--profile and overhead. Very sexy looking.
The white lettered copy--in between the open covers of a PowerBook profile--reads:
"Presenting the new Powerbook G3. Its been rethought and re-engineered from cover to cover. Its sleek. Its intelligent. Its endlessly adaptable.
Oh, and one other thing."
It folds out to four full pages, approximately 20 X 16 inches. An open Macintosh PowerBook G3 is shown, against a white background. The screen portion of the PB occupies almost the entire 10 x 16 left two pages.
It shows a full color screen of great white shark charging the at reader, jaws agape, wicked looking rows of teeth ready to do their damage.
The large point, bold, black copy simply reads:
"It eats Pentium notebooks for lunch."
As good as this ad is, it gets even better. Along side the screen, in much smaller italic type, are these words:
"The 14.1 inch (diagonal measure) TFT active-matrix screen shown here-actual size, no less-gives you more usable space than you'd get with a 15 inch desktop monitor"
This is a KILLER ad.
I had opened my Business Week while I was waiting for someone to join me for lunch on Friday. I was standing near our trading desk, minding my own business, just waiting. I found the ad--more or less by accident--and started to unfold it.
It literally stopped traffic. People started huddling around me to look at it. A few Traders got up to come and see what the commotion was all about. These are guys (and two gals) who literally don't get up to pee until the bell rings at 4:00 pm.
When I read the "ACTUAL SIZE" notes aloud, people were incredulous. The IT guys first exclaimed "Bull****," but read the small print. They had some spittle hanging from their mouths. One of the traders actually grabbed the magazine out of my hands to lay it over his Dell keyboard.
"Holy ****, its keyboard is bigger than my desktop's."
Home run.
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Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 17:11:22 -0700 From: Guy Kawasaki <Kawasaki@garage.com> Subject: PR - NetChronometer 1.0.0 is Available
This announcement is from:
Jeremy Kezer, <lists@kezer.net>
You've probably noticed that the clock on your Macintosh drifts as time goes by. NetChronometer will synchronize your Mac's date & time to a highly accurate network time server.
You can use NetChronometer manually to synchronize your clock, or set it up to perform periodic updates.
NetChronometer requires an Internet connection using either Open Transport or "Classic" Mac TCP/IP. It is Appearance Manager-savvy.
Shareware; $7 registration fee suggested. It can be downloaded from:
<http://www.kezer.net/shareware.html>.
*** Latest Versions Online ***
I personally post the latest versions of all my utilities in the places listed below. In addition, these programs tend to spread very quickly, and can often be found on other online services as well.
My shareware web page: <http://www.kezer.net/shareware.html> PowerBook Army web page: <http://www.powerbook.org/army/> Info-Mac archive: <http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/Recent-Summary.html> America Online: In the Macintosh Utilities forum (AOL keyword MUT). CompuServe: The PowerBook Software Library in the Hardware Forum (GO MACINTOSH).
Thanks again for your support!
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Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 17:11:22 -0700 From: Guy Kawasaki <Kawasaki@garage.com> Subject: PR - ChatNet v2.1 Adds Numerous IRC Enhancements
Keyword: Market by market, Internet
This announcement is from:
ELS, <elstech@elsinc.com>
ELS, Inc. has announced the release of ChatNet v2.1 which features numerous Internet Relay Chat enhancements. ChatNet enhancements include total compatibility with Mac OS 8.x, a simple interface for sending and receiving WAV sounds, and display of all text colors supported by IRC. Many new IRC preference options have been added including the ability to enter and remember logoff, quit, finger, and Userinfo messages. A new updated IRC Servers list is provided for easy access to the most popular IRC networks. DCC file transfer problems have been corrected.
Since ChatNet's initial release in 1995, there have been many Macintosh IRC client competitors that have tried to enter this very popular market, but ChatNet remains the simplest Macintosh interface to chat and send files on the Internet or a Local Area Network. ChatNet is the only IRC client with ChatGuardian(tm) and ChatWatcher(tm) built-in and the only client that does not require a user to know any IRC commands.
ChatNet offers two modes for chat. The IRC Mode allows chat and file transfer through an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Server. ChatNet acts as a client program providing a button oriented graphical interface for all IRC functions. There is no need to know any IRC commands. The AppleTalk Mode allows multiple Macintosh computers running ChatNet to chat or send files on a Local Area Network, with or without a Server.
ChatNet's simple interface will be familiar to anyone who has used major online services and quickly learned by those who haven't experienced network communications. Users interact via public and private conferences, send private messages, and transfer files to each other.
ChatNet provides security and control over the entire Chat environment to address concerns about material unsuitable for children. ChatGuardian and ChatWatcher preference settings give complete control over the ChatNet environment from completely open to very restrictive. ChatGuardian gives you control over channel access and message content by screening out words and phrases that are preselected. ChatWatcher keeps a log of all user activity. IRC Server access can also be controlled.
ChatNet is the perfect tool for homes, schools, businesses, and departmental workgroups. Hold online group conferences or have onetoone private communication. Workgroups can discuss project status, strategy, and reach each other for questions and answers at the click of a button. All communication can be saved or printed for later reference.
ChatNet requires any Macintosh computer running System 7.x to 8.x. ChatNet is a fat binary application that is Accelerated for Power Macintosh computers. RAM memory of 900K is recommended with a minimum setting of 750K. Disk space of 2 Megabytes should be available for the application and support files.
For IRC Mode (Internet Relay Chat) you must have access to the Internet through a direct Internet connection or a SLIP or PPP connection through an Internet service provider (check your local phone directory for Internet service providers in your area). Your Macintosh must also have MacTCP or Open Transport network driver installed.
For AppleTalk Mode, a network must be LocalTalk or EtherTalk compatible, and AppleTalk must be set to active in Chooser. There must be other computers running ChatNet on your network for you to chat or send files.
The ChatNet Installer application will install ChatNet and all its support files to your hard drive. The ChatNet User's Manual provides detailed information for proper installation and describes all of ChatNet's many features in a simple to read format. The ChatNet Registration is a form you can mail or fax to register your copy of ChatNet to receive authorization information for unlimited use. You can also register for ChatNet online using ELS, Inc.'s secure registration form at their web site:
<http://www.elsinc.com/>
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Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 02:06:06 -0000 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: PR - Helios AppleTalk Toolkit for Rhapsody
Apple Worldwide Developer Conference- Supporting more AppleShare servers worldwide than any other Unix software, Helios Software GmbH, a leading vendor of Unix/RISC-based network and prepress server software, announced the availability of Rhapsody versions of Helios EtherShare, EtherShare OPI , and PDF Handshake at Apple Computer's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).
All WWDC participants will receive a CD with Helios "a2" pre-versions for the latest Rhapsody developer release in their conference binder. Helios will also provide these versions to Apple's official Rhapsody seeding partners on request. Due to tight deadlines, Helios PDF Handshake could not be included on Helios' WWDC CD, but is made available over the Internet. The Helios web server <http://www.helios.com> provides detailed information.
In addition to the developer community, system managers and network users will also find Rhapsody-based Macintosh computers a fast and versatile print spooler, OPI server, PostScript font server, ColorSync separation server, and a powerful PDF color print and workflow server. Administration of an Helios server on Rhapsody can be done from any Macintosh in the network, or from within Rhapsody's BlueBox.
Helios also announced the release of pre-versions of its AppleTalk Toolkit, which offers identical APIs for AppleTalk on all Helios supported server platforms, and its other developer tools for Rhapsody.
The Helios pre-releases for Rhapsody are provided free of charge. However, the license is time limited until November 2, 1998.
Smart Ideas for Better Networking Helios products run on powerful and scalable Unix/RISC-based servers from Apple Computer, Data General, Digital, HP, IBM, Motorola, SGI, and Sun, providing reliable cross-platform support for Macintosh, DOS/Windows and UNIX-based clients. Helios products are sold worldwide by distributors and value added resellers to provide complete networking solutions to customers. Helios software products are also available as part of OEM solutions by major vendors in the prepress industry.
For further editor information please contact: HELIOS Software GmbH attn: marketing, Steinriede 3, D-30827 Garbsen, Germany fax +49 5131-70-93-25; Internet: <marketing@helios.de;> or by World-Wide-Web access at <http://www.helios.com>. __________ This msg originated from the MacDev-1 listserv and was selectively redistributed on your favorite list -- EvangeList. To subscribe to MacDev-1, check out <http://www.mactech.com> or send an email to<MacDev-1@listmail.xplain.com>
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Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 02:06:06 -0000 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - It's a Whole New eVO
This tidbit is from:
Dave Prochnow <MrDave@p-pub.com>
It's official; eVO, the online information resource for Macintosh designers, is now a daily publication. Rest assured, this increase in frequency has not nixed any of your favorite monthly features.
Yes, we still offer our award-winning reviews along with their associated "FlipBook" QuickTime movies. Yes, we still provide special tips, tricks, and techniques that help to make a designer's life easier. And yes, we still include the occasional rant from our investigative editorial staff. The only difference is that the "new eVO" is now a daily pub (except Saturdays and Sundays). Therefore, you can enjoy eVO five days a week instead of one day a month.
In order to make it easier for EvangeListas to enjoy their daily dose of eVO, we've developed this convenient URL for easy bookmarking:
<http://www.p-pub.com/evo.html>
Now get out there and "CRE 8."
Dave Prochnow Editor in Chief eVO
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