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Apple Computer, Inc. today announced the Apple Developer Connection (www.apple.com/developer), a simplified family of support programs that provides the Company's developers with a choice of three levels of participation--Online, Select and Premier--enabling developers worldwide to choose the appropriate level of technical information and support they receive from Apple.
Starting today, developers can enroll in the Apple Developer Connection and choose from three levels of participation:
Apple Developer Connection Online is free. Developers simply visit the Apple Developer Connection website as their primary source for technical and business information. This website includes up-to-date technical documentation for existing and emerging Apple technologies. Online members may subscribe to the Apple Developer Connection News, a free weekly email broadcast newsletter.
Apple Developer Connection Select is an annual membership package for developers who want additional technical resources. Members get monthly Apple Developer Connection mailings, including the Developer CD Series--a wealth of technical resources, system software, development tools, technical documentation, Interactive Media Resources and Software Development Kits (SDKs). Select is the entry-level program for developers who want access to the Apple Seed Software CD and FTP site and Apple's Compatibility Labs. Members receive two technical support consultations from Apple's Worldwide Developer Technical Support (WWDTS) engineers and a U.S. $100 coupon towards the purchase of Metrowerks products. Apple Developer Connection Select costs U.S. $500 per year.
Premier members receive a subscription to the Apple Developer Connection Mailing, which includes the Developer CD Series (see above for details). Premier members also receive eight technical support consultations from Apple's WWDTS engineers, a U.S. $300 coupon for Metrowerks products, access to the Apple Seed Software CD and FTP site and Apple's Compatibility Labs, the Apple Service Source CD, a full-conference pass to Apple Worldwide Developers Conference and discounts on Apple hardware through the Developer Hardware Purchase Program. Apple Developer Connection Premier is priced at U.S. $3500 per year.
The Apple Developer Connection also allows members to purchase support options separately or in addition to their Select or Premier programs.
Publishing company in Sint-Maarten/Saint-Martin producer of the local telephone directory (500 pages) is looking for a Layout producer.
Need to be a perfect user of Agfa Duoscan, Photoshop, Illustrator and X Press.
Knowledge in producing web pages is a must.
French speaking is an asset, since part of the work is in this language, but english is our common language in the company.
We need this layout producer for a limited time period : now until end of september 98.
Salary : to be negociated
Sint-Maarten/Saint-Martin is located 30 minute by plane from Puerto-Rico Direct flight from the US by : AA, Continental, Northwest, US Airways, Canada 3000
e-mail a resume to John G. Lorber : <jean.lorber@wanadoo.fr>
Joanne Kalogeras, <joanne@dantz.com> (by way of EvangeList, <evangelist@apple.com>>
Technical Support Specialist: Work with the tech support team that sets the example for the rest of the industry!
Provide telephone, e-mail, and fax support to users of Dantz software products. Be an integral part of the software testing group. Our mission is to deliver support and services which empower the user and ensure total customer satisfaction.
Background needed: The qualified candidate has solid working experience with Macintosh, and Windows 95 or NT. In-depth knowledge of software, hardware, and networking is desirable. Technical or customer support experience is desirable but not required. Absolutely essential are intelligence, good phone manner, and a genuine desire to work with others to help solve problems. Punctuality and very good writing skills are also necessary.
Contact: If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and you're interested in this position, please include a cover letter with your resume and email to:
<henson@dantz.com>
Or send snailmail to:
Attn. Ms. Henson Dantz Development Corporation 4 Orinda Way, Building C Orinda, CA 94563
Were an screenprinting company south of Boston. Looking for Mac designer. Mostly type and simple art. Small friendly fast paced company. We don't do Windows. call Ronnie at (781)383-6355
MacCentric would like to announce banner advertising on <http://www.maccentric.com>. The pricing structure has not been set but it will be an extremely cost efficient way to advertise to other evangelists.
As a special offer, MacCentric will offer 2 months of FREE Banner Advertising for a limited number of evangelists while the program is being setup. To get the free advertising promotion:
1. Email a 468x60 banner, 15k or less, to <evangelist@maccentric.com>. 2. Include in the email the text you would like to appear under the banner such as "Buy our product now" and the URL which it should link to. 3. You will receive a confirmation once your banner is received. Once approved it will be setup within a couple of days.
Jochen De Schepper, <JOCHEN.DESCHEPPER@student.kuleuven.ac.be>
Jochen De Schepper today announced the release of Enigmatic Movements 1.0, his new puzzle game for the Mac.
What is Enigmatic Movements?
The object of Enigmatic Movements is to move the colored tiles until each row or column has the same color. You can choose the boardsize between 4x4 (piece of cake) and 10x10 (very difficult). Once you get the hang of it, it's very easy to complete the board, but the real challenge is to do this in the least number of moves possible ! The game also keeps statistics of 10 different players, allows you to choose between different sets of tiles, and lets you choose the background color...
Enigmatic Movements is US$15 shareware. Users can register on-line or with the Kagi Register application.
Requirements: Enigmatic Movements should run on any Mac or compatible (68K and PowerPC native) with system 7.0 or better. If it doesn't, please let me know !!! Minimum RAM requirement is 1MB, preferred is 1500KB, when you're screen is set to millions of colors...
Availability
Enigmatic Movements 1.0 is now available for download at <http://www.student.kuleuven.ac.be/~m9606000/em>>, and very soon on all major Mac shareware ftp sites.
Contact information:
Jochen De Schepper <jochen.deschepper@kagi.com> Support & Press Contact <jochen.deschepper@kagi.com> World Wide Web <http://www.student.kuleuven.ac.be/~m9606000/em>
The newest version of Mousigator has been released, 0.5.5.
Some of the new things in this version:
* Browsing methods. Browsing methods make it even easier to see which window is about to be focused by letting you browse in different styles. Among them are tint and pulsating frame. Tint tints a window with a color. Pulsating frame animates an outline of a window -- it looks really cool!
* Turning Mousigator off leaves it off after a restart
* Fixed a problem of false virus alerts with SAM on MacOS 8.x
Mousigator is a program that implements cursor focusing on the MacOS. Cursor focusing is activating a window, bringing it to the front, by just moving the cursor over the window.
Mousigator is US$15 shareware and may be downloaded from its home page at:
<http://www.shack.org/zzhumphreyt/mousigator>
It's author, Tim Humphrey, can be contacted at <mailto:zzhumphreyt@kagi.com>
Feel the power of the Macintosh
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Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 19:40:33 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Followup - QuickTime and MoviePlayer 3.0 as a Signal Processing WorkShop
This follow-up message is from:
Luke Collie, <LCollie@compuserve.com>
On Mon 6th April 1998, Juan de Dios Santander Vela, <jdvela@lander.es> wrote :-
[Loads of cool things you can do with QuickTime 3.0 Pro, particularly the excellent compression achievable with the new sound codecs]
Many of these tricks don't even need the "Pro" version of QT3. The freeware version of MoviePlayer 3.0 is crippled to remove the export command, but the compression code is present in the QT3 extension. All you need is something to access it with. MoviePlayer 2.5.1 works fine. QuickTime is MEANT to work this way...any application that uses the standard QuickTime API gets access to all QuickTime codecs, and QT will run them on the fastest hardware it can find. It Just Works...what else would you expect? :-) __________________________ Digital Guy Sez:
Excellent point, Luke. That is one of the major selling points of the software: Use the appropriate API's and the software will "inherit" the new features. The point behind the Pro version, though, is to allow people who don't have the money to sink into expensive editing packages and such the opportunity to use the advanced features that a lot of users simply don't need.
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Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 19:40:36 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - A Reminder about Mac Networking
This tidbit is from:
Steve Hilditch <steve@hilditch-architect.com>
A recent column <http://www.torontocomputes.com/current/Tales.html> in Toronto Computes! entitled "Tales from a home-office network installation" in demonstrates once again that Windows is the operating system of professionals (average users need not apply).
To having a networking specialist come to one's home office to set up a network of 3 computers and spend your "sunny Sunday shadowing a network installer" around for 7 hours is certainly a costly proposition to the average home office user. Yet the prospect of:
- - analyzing each computer using a DOS-based diagnostic program; checking for IRQ assignments, COM port use, and I/O addresses, - - unpacking network cards, set the jumpers to non-plug-and-play to reduce the chance of potential problems, - - starting the computer in DOS mode to make a network directory, and - - sorting out IRQ conflicts and a coping with a lot of frustration
seems beyond the capabilities of the average home office user who is more likely interested in using their computer rather than training to be a service technician.
Since at least 1986, Macs have shipped with built-in peer-to-peer networking. To establish a network is as simple as plugging in a connector into the printer port and running some telephone wire between the various computers and printers that you'd like to join into a network.
Switch on the computer and you are a few mouse clicks away from accessing another computer or printer the first time; subsequent accesses are a double click away.
To upgrade to Ethernet on a Mac (which is probably more than the average home office user might need) involves plugging in a networking cable to a recent Mac (as most now ship with built-in Ethernet), or might involve inserting a card (which IS automatically recognized), plugging in a cable, and then you are the same few mouse clicks away from being on the network.
For home office users in particular, the ease of use of the Mac OS over Windows is still a compelling reason to Think Different. __________________________ Digital Guy Sez:
Yes, this is an old chestnut for a lot of people out there, but as I recently learned it can't be repeated often enough.
I was with a couple of avowed Mac fanatics setting up an office network from scratch. We put together about 7 machines, a LaserWriter, and a quick connection to the internet using a temporary dial-up account and Vicom Internet Gateway. We plugged everything together, patched everything to a 10 base T hub in the closet...and it worked. We even updated one of the machines to Mac OS 8.1 by mounting a file sharing volume with the disk image and a CD-ROM with a copy of disk copy. No, we didn't copy it over...we double clicked on the image on the remote server, which launched the application on the remote CD-ROM, and installed that way.
The kicker was since the new equipment hadn't arrived yet, we had all brought in stuff we had lying around the house. The newest piece of hardware was a 5300 we used for the gateway...the printer was a LaserWriter II (we used a LaserWriter Bridge on the 5300 to put it on ethernet), and the Macs ranged from a Centris 650 to a Quadra 840 AV (the only one with a CD-ROM drive...an old tray loaded 2X CD-ROM). We took what would have been landfill in the PC world (machines more than 6 years old in some cases) and made a working network in just a few hours.
Even as Mac boosters we looked at each other and said "Oh, that's why we like them so much." :-)
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Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 00:35:05 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: !! - The Motley Fool Apple Poll
This action item is from:
Tom Bernhardt, <barnyard@cloudnet.com>
Check out the Motley Fool page on investing, particularly:
I work as the Senior Graphic Designer for a small print, copy and design shop in San Diego, CA. We have 10 Macs including a Mac SE that the owner still uses to do all of the quoting. We also have one 486 running Win95. Yea, I know it's SUPER slow, but I really don't want to spend money on a new Wintel machine when there are so many Mac things to buy. Really makes you think, an over-12 year old Mac SE that is still used daily versus a five year old Wintel machine that barely gets turned on once a week. Actually that's not true. I have to leave the Wintel machine running constantly because if I shut it off I lose the video driver and have to start up in DOS to reconfigure the video settings.
But as to the reason for the Post. Recently we had a new client brought in by one of our sales reps. I groaned when I learned the client was Microsoft Sidewalk. We printed a bunch of flyers, mailers, and handouts for them all provided to us in digital files.
Surprisingly I didn't have one single problem with any of their files. Most likely it's because all the files provided to us were in Mac format. I guess somebody at Microsoft realizes which platform is superior and easier to use. __________________________ Digital Guy Sez:
As an unrelated aside, this is the same company whose CEO just broke the *50* billion dollar mark. To put it in perspective, that 15 billion more than when I started working this list about 16 months ago. With that kind of money you'd think he could buy the best PC's money could buy.
With the release of Windows 98, some PCs will finally have a feature that Mac users have enjoyed for 12 years: the ability to use multiple monitors. But, as might be expected, there are some catches, and not just that the feature won't work with some PC hardware.
In the April 7, 1998 issue of PC Magazine, there is an article on the multiple monitor support. It warns against the free adoption of these features by developers: "If you use these new... functions to make your applications multiple monitor-friendly, what will happen on systems running [Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0]? They will crash, unless you do something about it." The article documents other limitations and caveats as well.
Simple, safe multiple monitor support has been part of MacOS ever since the first color-capable Macintosh appeared on the scene back in 1986. PC users, apparently, will have to wait a few more years until the bugs are ironed out. __________________________ Digital Guy Sez:
Getting the feeling that history is about to repeat itself? Windows 95 held out a lot of promises that fell flat, and it's going to be pretty hard to induce people to upgrade to 98 with the kind of lackluster "improvements" such as this.
Interesting point: As far as I can remember, there is nothing a developer needs to do to support multiple monitors on the Mac. In fact, I remember using programs designed for use on the classic Macs (Plus, SE) with the first Mac II with the second monitor attached (it was really cool to do that! :) and they worked, even when "straddling" screens.
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