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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 21:19:38 -0000 From: Guy Kawasaki <Kawasaki@garage.com> Subject: $$--garage.com T shirts
I'm not ready to announce what garage.com does yet, but we do have T shirts! (And making T shirts is the first step in product development.)
We've made an EvangeLista special offer at:
<http://www.garage.com>
and click on me.
To get a special $5 Evangelista-only discount, enter either "EvangeList" or "EvangeLista" (not case sensitive, but spelling sensitive) in the field on the order form that says: "How did you hear about garage.com?"
When you press "Calculate Totals", the EvangeLista discount will be automatically reflected in the price shown on the total page and in the confirmation email you are sent.
Thanks!
Guy
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garage.com is coming. Sign up for info at <http://www.garage.com>!
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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 02:10:17 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - Mac's in Publishing
The January 1998 issue of the publishing industry magazine, ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING, notes that,
"According to data supplied by the Printing Industries of America, the Macintosh is still a familiar sight in many printing shops. Of those shops with prepress computers, the average shop had 10 computers in all: five Macintoshes, three PCs (Windows), and two Unix. Thirty-six percent had a mix of Macintosh and PC/Windows computers for prepress work. One-third employed only Macintosh computers for prepress activities."
Clearly the folks who's livelihoods depend on an efficient and capable computer know what the best choice is.
ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING doesn't have a web site yet, but subscription info can be obtained at 800/331-4463, ext. 537
Do you want to create fast-downloading multimedia for the web? Do you ever wish you could design multimedia once, and deliver it anywhere--the web, CD-ROM, or even intranets? Are you excited about the possibilities of QuickTime 3.0? If you answered yes to any question, Lari Software Inc. wants your input!
Lari Software is the developer of LightningDraw/WEB--the first authoring tool for ultra-slim QuickTime 3.0 vector graphics. Now, Lari Software wants to make its next product, Electrifier Pro, the ultimate tool for fast, interactive QuickTime 3.0 multimedia.
Electrifier Pro is being written from the ground up for designers like you, and we want to make sure we include all the features you need. We heard from 2,000 designers during our first survey. In this follow-up, we want to hear from *you*!
Please fill out the two-minute Fast, Interactive QuickTime 3.0 Multimedia Survey and help make Electrifier Pro the coolest new product of 1998. The URL is:
If you hurry, you could win a brand-new Color QuickCam--just for filling out the survey!
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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 02:11:13 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: ?? - Mac Bank Looking for Appraisal Software
This request is from:
Alan W. Jackson, <ajackson@wnclink.com>
Help needed. We are a commercial bank in North Carolina which is all Macintosh (well almost all, 98%), and have been since I got here almost 7 years ago. We are adding to our product and services and are needing software that will allow us to do real estate appraisals including all forms, floor plan creation, maps, comparables, and incorporation of digital photos. We have seen such products written for that other platform but we would really like to have a Mac or Newton solution. We only have 3 Wintel machines and can not stand the thought of having even one more in our shop. If anyone knows of such appraisal software please let us know ASAP. Thanks in advance for your help.
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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 02:11:08 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: PR - Character Naming Software (tm)
This announcement is from:
Meta Davidson, <dfcreate@SoCA.com>
Character Naming Made Easier!
Writers, screenwriters, playwrights, copywriters, novelists, short story writers all need to name characters.
Character Naming Software (tm) Mac/Win includes over 12,500 first and 16,000 last names (yes, last names!). We have extensive search capabilities such as starts with, number of syllables, 22 origins, and themes for first names. Our unique first name themes include All American, Biblical, Wealthy, Nature, Appearance, Cute, Sexy, Reserved, etc.
Character Naming Software (tm) is brought to you by the same creative people who developed Baby Naming Software (tm). We found that many writers were using it to name characters. We asked what features they wanted and included them in Character Naming Software (tm).
This writer's resource is reasonability priced at $29.95.
You can download it *right now* at
<http://www.dfcreations.com/cns.html>
Thanks Guy! Meta Davidson December Fifth Creations Developers of Baby Naming and Character Naming Software (tm) Mac/Win <http://www.dfcreations.com>
from <http://www.apple.com/hotnews/features/applescriptfeat.html>
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AppleScript Does Windows
Not only can you use AppleScript to control a Mac, you can control Windows and Windows NT machines from anywhere in the world with Timbuktu Pro and AppleScript, says Soghoian. "Timbuktu Pro is scriptable and recordable, and you can use it with AppleScript to script and control Windows machines remotely from a Mac." __________________________ Digital Guy Sez:
I didn't know this either, and I'm a BIG proponent of AppleScript. Cool!
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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 02:10:13 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - More Thrifty Finds
Keyword: Advocacy, Macintosh in Action
This tidbit is from:
Michael Courtenay, <mlc@midcoast.com>
I went to a ham radio swap meet this past weekend and picked up a vintage SE (800k floppy) for $50 (upgraded to 4/40, with a perfect Extended Keyboard II!). I set it up with some old games and stuff (via LocalTalk from my PTP 225) and gave it to my dad as a birthday present. It brought tears to my eyes to see the old SE, stickers and scribbles all over it from years in a school somewhere, sitting next to and networked with one of the fastest computers of the past year. (The first Mac I ever used was an SE...)
This was not the first computer my father had ever been given. My brother got out of West Point in the early 90's, and gave him the computer he had been issued there. A Zenith 286 with 512k. My father could never do anything useful with it but play solitaire. He was tickled to finally be able to do some word processing and have a wider variety of games. And here was a machine that was even older than the Zenith! We spent years (and reams of post-it notes) setting up batch files and menu systems so my dad could run the software he wanted to run on the old DOS machine. He was comfortable with the Macintosh interface and was running multiple programs and switching between them in about 45 minutes.
Oh: what is my brother, the PC user, using nowadays? He now has a Dell Pentium at work, but it took him 2 weeks and several visits by our local ISP to get him on the internet reliably. And for cruising the net at home? He uses my trusty Mac LC, 1991 vintage, on semipermanent loan. With zero problems of any kind. Why did I loan it to him rather than sell or give it to him? Because otherwise I would not be able to be buried with it when I die...
Keep recycling those old Macs and we'll change the world one family at a time. Long live the pizza box!
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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 02:10:51 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: PR - PopChar 1.1 Released
This announcement is from:
Christoph Reichenberger, <chrei@unisoft.co.at>
We are glad to announce the immediate availability of the new version 1.1 of our popular control panel PopChar Pro.
In addition to improvements in many places, PopChar Pro 1.1 offers the following new features: * Besides English and German, PopChar Pro now "speaks French", too. * Virtual PC is now supported. * PopChar Pro now comes with a new font "PC Font" for use with Virtual PC and SoftWindows. * Layouts can now contain up to 500 characters (previously 255). * If a character can be generated with more than one keyboard combination, PopChar Pro now displays the simplest way to produce the character. * Allows the inclusion of control characters (those with an ASCII code less than 32). Control characters appear in red in the character table and in the Layout Editor.
The upgrade to 1.1 is free for all registerd customers of earlier versions.
For more information, including downloading, go to:
<http://www.unisoft.co.at/products/popchar.html>
PopChar Pro makes "typing" of unusual characters easy without having to remember keyboard combinations. It installs a menu that shows all characters available in the current font. Any character can be inserted in the current document by simply selecting it from the menu.
Main features: + simple to use (from a pull-down menu or a floating window for quick access) + shows all characters available in a given font and allows users to customize the display of individual fonts + is multilingual (currently "speaks" English, German and French) + automatically detects the current font in most applications (including MSWord, Excel, PowerPoint, Framemaker, Adobe Illustrator) + allows manual font selection (in case PopChar Pro cannot determine the current font automatically) + includes a layout editor for custom character arrangements + recognizes QuickDraw GX fonts + is fast (essential parts are PowerPC native)
PopChar Pro requires
+ System 7 or newer, compatible with Mac OS 8 and 8.1 + an 68020 processor or better
The PopChar Pro package consists of four parts:
+ The PopChar Pro control panel installs the pull-down menu. + The PopChar Pro Floater provides the floating window. + The PopChar Pro Layout Editor creates custom character arrangements. + The full documentation in electronic form that you can print. (25+ pages in English, German, and French)
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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 02:10:25 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - Macs Make Pentiums
Keyword: Advocacy, Macintosh in Action
This tidbit is from:
An EvangeLista Who Wishes to Remain Anonymous
There's an old anecdote in the Mac community that when someone (Steve Jobs?) told Seymour Cray that they used one of his super computers to design Macintoshes he laughed and said, "That's funny; I used a Mac to design my new Cray."
At the micro-chip level, history repeats itself. I'll explain...
There are only a few companies in the world that develop and sell the photo-resistive goo ("photo resist") that is used to manufacture microprocessor chips. Ours is one. And although our customers include Motorola, IBM, AND Intel, our company - with only a few exceptions - is totally Wintel.
A year or so ago one of our R&D engineers started researching a high-end SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) System capable of generating analysis and reports. He eventually settled on a state-of-the art system. Made by a company called KLA, this clean-room device, the KLA 8100, consists of a SEM controlled by an impressive and elaborate Super Card front-end running on (you guessed already, didn't you?) a Macintosh. The local Novell Engineers were appalled that a Macintosh could get past them disguised as a sophisticated lab instrument and they were astounded that it had no need for a Novell print queue. Their jaws dropped as the Mac queried the printer and automatically selected the correct PPD driver file. When they saw the engineer remotely control the SEM Mac from another Mac using Timbuktu, they were speechless.
But there's more! There were two Macs because the KLA "control" system passes data to another Mac which analyzes it in a number of ways, including running Excel macros against it. After six months or so the SEM engineer decided he needed a faster system. The IS guys tried to convince him that Wintel was the way to go. But he was sold on a Macintosh 9600/300. And since it was his budget and he showed them that the only way to get a faster Intel box was to buy a dual processor NT system for more than twice the money, he got the 9600!
When he threatened to move the 9600 to his office down the hall and get rid of his PC, IS forbid him from using the Mac on his desktop! What did he do? He bought Virtual PC and ran all his desktop applications in emulation from his lab! And once again dazzled everyone with the flexibility of the Mac.
Just remember, Macs are faster, Macs are easier, Macs are more fun, and Macs help make the stuff that Pentiums are made from!!
Expanding on macseek.com's successful G3 RAMSeeker, announce RAMSeeker 2.0
The NEW RAMSeeker 2.0 has expanded to track prices for popular macintosh memory modules from leading Macintosh RAM Vendors. RAMSeeker 2.0 tracks prices for 72-pin simms, 168-pin dimms, 168-pin SDRAM, 3.3v EDO dimms, and memory modules for the Powerbook 1400, 2400,3400 and G3 models. Visitors can see at-a-glance prices, with corresponding links to the vendor's websites for more information, and ordering info. Prices are updated by the vendors themselves when their prices change and show real prices, and the date they were last updated - not Highs, Lows and Averages, there's no guesswork - see who has the best price for the memory you need today.
macseek.com is a macintosh related-website dedicated to helping the macintosh user get more out of their mac.
The macseek.com banner exchange is co-operative effort of over 25 macintosh-related websites, swapping over 3000 banners each day. members show each other's banners on a 1:1 ratio. Each time a member displays another member's banner, their banner is automatically displayed on another member's website. Those interested in joining should visit <http://www.macseek.com/xchange.shtml>
Hope to see you soon,
Jim Fitzsimmons Webmaster - macseek.com <http://www.macseek.com> <macseek@macseek.com>
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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 02:10:34 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: ?? - Looking for PB3400 Video Cards
This request is from:
Taylor Leaming, <macbert@texas.net>
I am a heavy user of a PowerBook 3400c, which I love. However, one of the biggest issues I have with this model (aside from the modem) is the fact that I can't hook up a second monitor and effectively get more DeskTop space as I can with other Macintosh models.
Instead, Apple felt that simulscan, non-upgradable VRAM, and only a few resolution settings were what its Customers want. And they did it again with the new PowerBook G3.
My question: Does anyone know of a video card that will give the PB3400 the same basic features that the Newer Technologies' VIEWpowr 1400/16 (which works quite nicely) gives the PowerBook 1400?
Since I need to be portable such a product (if it exists) needs to be either an internal daughtercard or something that goes in one of the PC Card (PCMCIA) slots (no external expansion chassis, please).
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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 02:10:29 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Job - Mac Database Programmer (Kansas City)
Paul MacNaughton, <paul.macnaughton@nexus.otrx.com>
OTR Express, (OTRX), in Olathe, KS is looking for an energetic database programmer with 1-2 years experience. Omnis experience with native DML, as well as SQL experience is a plus. A bachelors degree in Computer Science, or equivalent field, is required.
Development work is done on current Macintosh systems for internal business use. Future projects will include conversion of our database from Omnis DML to a Oracle SQL back end, web page development and additional EDI interface systems.
Salary is dependent upon qualifications and experience. A relocation package is available. Some of the benefits at OTRX include health, dental and life insurance, ESOP, 401K plan and education reimbursement.
OTRX is a rapidly growing, innovative transportation company located in a suburb just south of Kansas City. OTRX is a public corporation traded on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol OTRX. The Kansas City metropolitan area offers numerous cultural, educational, and entertainment opportunities. OTRX is an Equal Opportunity employer (EOE,M,F,V,D). Drug screen required for employment.
Please fax or mail resume and salary history to Attn:Human Resources, OTR Express, PO Box 2819, Olathe, KS 66063. Fax: (913) 829-0622. Questions about this full-time job can be directed to myself, via email, at <charles.white@otrx.com>. Please do not reply to the list directly.
Sincerely,
Charles White Senior Programmer OTR Express
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