EvangeList Digest Tuesday, September 22 1998 Volume 01 : Number 1280
In this issue:
Job - Filemaker -- Tango Developer (Salt Lake City, UT) PR - Back To School Bonus Offer On BBEdit Tidbit - Mac Age Survey Standings ?? - PeopleSoft Clients On the Mac Tidbit - The iMac In Action Followup - Tebbe At InfoWorld Admits iMac Is A Business Machine Tidbit - The Mac Wins Over Business Chair Tidbit - A Unique Collection Of iMac Maritime Pictures PR - PracticeMaker4 Medical Office Management System PR - Star Patrol 2.0 $$ - Excel 98 For Macintosh Visual QuickStart Guide
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Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 08:06:42 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Job - Filemaker -- Tango Developer (Salt Lake City, UT)
This job announcement is from:
Jason Vance, <jason@conceptkitchen.com>
Concept Kitchen, a leading provider of accessories for PDA is looking for a web-developer in Salt Lake City, Ut to help lead the development of our internal database as well as our e-commerce site. You must be familiar with Macintosh, FileMaker Pro, Tango for FileMaker, HTML and Webstar. You must be energetic, motivated, a self-started and a strong team player, with strong demonstrated experience in database development for the web. The successful candidate thrives in a dynamic and fluid organization where priorities shift to changing business needs.
This position is an 8 week contract that may turn into a full time position for the right candidate. Please forward your resume to <jason@conceptkitchen.com> with cover letter, resume and salary requirements. Principals Only.
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Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 08:06:49 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: PR - Back To School Bonus Offer On BBEdit
This announcement is from:
Sales Department, <sales@barebones.com>
Bare Bones Software is offering a special bonus offer to customers who purchase BBEdit, the company's award-winning HTML editing tool, direct from BBSW during the "Back to School" season. BBEdit is widely regarded as the best choice for Web authoring, due largely to its simplicity, depth and flexibility. In conjunction with an introductory guide, BBEdit is an excellent tool for teaching and learning HTML.
To make it even easier to get started with BBEdit, we've extended the following offer: purchase BBEdit directly from us, and we'll include, free of charge, a copy of the "BBEdit Visual Quickstart Guide", written by Mark Bell and published by Peachpit Press.
The BBEdit Back-to-School Bonus offer is available immediately for $79(US) + shipping through the end of September, direct from Bare Bones Software only. The Bonus package includes BBEdit 4.5 on CD-ROM, printed documentation, and a copy of the BBEdit Visual Quickstart Guide by Mark Bell, part of the VQS Guide series published by Peachpit Press. The regular suggested retail price for BBEdit 4.5 is $119(US).
To order the BBEdit Back-to-School Bonus Offer, call the sales department at 781-687-0700, send email to <sales@barebones.com>>, or use the secure online order form at:
<https://www.barebones.com/store/store.html>
Please mention (or note) the "Back-to-School Bonus" offer by name when placing your order.
BBEdit is the premier text and HTML editor for the MacOS(tm). It has long been regarded by Macintosh users as the essential tool for both HTML and software development. BBEdit features a complete set of palette-based HTML tools for quick, easy, correct markup generation as well as an HTML syntax checker, HTML-aware spelling checker, and web-safe color palette. Additional information is available at:
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 08:06:43 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - Mac Age Survey Standings
This tidbit is from:
<gwagner@macconnect.com> (George Wagner)
Many of you recall that I am rerunning my survey from a couple of years ago tracking the age of Mac systems still in use today. I currently have 1460 eligible systems entered into the survey. Here are some of the results thus far:
RAM eligible - 1459, unknown - 1 4 mb or less - 4.59% (67) more than 4, up to 8 mb - 4.66% (68) more than 8, up to 16 mb - 8.09% (118) more than 16, up to 32 mb - 21.52% (314) more than 32, up to 64 mb - 32.08% (468) more than 64 mb - 29.06% (424)
HD eligible - 1456, unknown - 4 100 mb or less - 8.93% (130) 101-500 mb - 17.79% (259) 501-1000 mb - 12.98% (189) 1001-2000 mb - 20.81% (303) 2001-5000 mb - 26.85% (391) More than 5000 mb - 12.64% (184)
Age eligible - 1458, unknown - 2 3 yrs or less - 44.79% (653) more than 3, up to 5 yrs - 34.57% (504) more than 5, up to 7 yrs - 8.92% (130) more than 7, up to 10 yrs - 7.75% (113) more than 10 yrs - 3.98% (58)
If you have not participated, and are interested, please go to <http://38.152.91.101> and enter.
Thanks,
George L. Wagner Jr. Computers, Support, & Consulting <g.wagner@macconnect.com>
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Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 08:06:47 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: ?? - PeopleSoft Clients On the Mac
This request is from:
Ed O'Neal <EdONeal@aol.com>
Regarding Keith Olson's post about the standardization to the Wintel platform at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The thing that caught my eye was the comment on PeopleSoft Clients for Mac.
I work in an entirely Wintel environment, except for my PowerBook 2400c/180. We are currently in parallel testing of a PeopleSoft Payroll and HR system. I get no encouragement from PeopleSoft on a Mac solution, although I understand that it is possible to get some functionality out of PeopleSoft with a web browser rather than their client.
I'm the VP of Human Resources and, as such, PeopleSoft is mine. What I don't want to do is:
1) Run SoftWindows unless I have to.
2) Use a web browser if it doesn't give me the full functionality of a PeopleSoft client.
3) Put a WINTEL box in my office. (I made the IT guys take the Pentium Paperweight out over a year ago.)
Am I dreaming? I'm interested in any help I can get regarding PeopleSoft on Macs.
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Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 08:06:51 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - The iMac In Action
Keyword: Advocacy, Macintosh in Action
This tidbit is from:
Daniel Cloud, <daniel@ozi.com>
On Saturday Sept 12 our local community in Mullumbimby, northern NSW Australia hosts the Chincogan Fiesta. The highlight of the day's events is the annual Chincogan Charge, a 6.95km footrace up the 300 metre Mount Chincogan, the prominent local landmark.
For the 3rd year running, my Mac business PowerMax Computers, has handled the registrations for the event. Using 3 Macs, an Apple laser printer and a custom FileMaker Pro database, the runners are entered and assigned race numbers. On completion their race times & placings are added and a results listing is printed out for the prize-givings after the race and for publishing in the local media.
This year however, it was made remarkably easier and a lot more fun with the addition of 2 iMacs to the job. We had some large iMac posters prominently displayed behind us and while we were busy entering the info into the database, we were also happily promoting the iMacs which were drawing a LOT of attention.
It seemed everyone had to come close to check them out. Many already had heard about them and this was their first sighting. Everyone was really impressed with what they saw and many said "I want one!" What was really noticeable was that its appeal was right across the board - youngsters, teenagers, adults and seniors all were attracted.
The only slightly negative comments I received were from a single PC user who I felt was jealous of the iMac receiving so much positive attention. As a result of using the ethernetted iMacs, we were able to set up the registration desks, do the job with ease and pack up in record time. So chalk one up to iMac!
Daniel Cloud PowerMax Computers Australia
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Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 08:06:44 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Followup - Tebbe At InfoWorld Admits iMac Is A Business Machine
This follow-up message is from:
heath m rezabek, <rez@autonym.com>
This is interesting. When I read this article in the print edition, I cut it out to take home. At the end, he asks for commentary once again; "Can you envision the iMac as a productive NC? Should Apple put corporate computing on their radar screen? Send me your comments via email." <mtebbe@lante.com>
I certainly plan to write and let him know of our agency's plan [spearheaded by myself] to integrate 2 iMacs with our otherwise NT network. And, given the positivity of this article and the column's prominent role in the eyes of enterprise admins, I hope plenty of us write him again and reinforce what we've been doing so far. It's an excellent opportunity to get some opinions turned around.
If Mr Tebbe can go from a fairly dismissive stance to a very open stance in the space of a week simply through our feedback, we'd be fools not to continue reinforcing what we've shared so far. *This* is one place where word of mouth matters a great deal: among IT professionals, who trust the likes of InfoWorld for commentary and opinion. So write Mark, and let him know about your iMac plans. __________________________ Digital Guy Sez:
Remember, it's the CALM, well thought out e-mails that impress people, not the "You Suck!!" ones. Only write if you have a plan as an IT professional to integrate iMacs into your network, OK? Thanks.
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Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 08:06:49 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - The Mac Wins Over Business Chair
This tidbit is from:
Rodney Schmidt, <schmidtr@mail.ecu.edu>
I work at a large southern regional university that literally lives in IBM's back yard. As a result, Big Blue has a strong presence especially with our business school. Nonetheless, the Macintosh enjoys success in music, art, and the English dept., to name only three units on campus, and maintains a 40% Mac to 60% PC ratio with faculty. Our university has made a strong effort to achieve leadership in technology through many initiatives and was recognized by Yahoo magazine recently as the 25th most wired campus in the country.
Our university graduate curriculum committee moved to electronic distribution of all course and degree proposals a year ago, an effort that has been successful and appreciated for the ease of access to information needed for critical curriculum review. Recently, the university undergraduate curriculum committee decided to make the same change in its operation. Its chair, from the School of Business (a unit that eliminated all Macs and moved to Windows two years ago), came to visit and asked to just sit, watch, and take notes while I worked as usual to publish files to the web for graduate curriculum committee review.
I opened a file drawer and retrieved an envelope with a disk and several hard copies of course proposals. After putting the disk in I copied the files onto my Mac. Opening Word from Office 98 I translated the PC files through File/Open and saved them as HTML. Afterward I opened them in Simpletext to copy and paste "boilerplate" html header and footer text into the html file and did "Save As" in Simpletext. All the while my friend was taking notes and asking a questions while I kept up a running dialog about the process.
One page of a course proposal was not on disk so I popped the page into my Visioneer PaperPort and scanned it into Simpletext, followed by a repeat of the copy/paste routine for beginning and ending html tag code.
The web server was mounted on my desktop so I moved the files onto the server, opened the main html page in Simpletext, put in the anchor links, fired up Navigator and took a look. Everything looked fine and the whole process had taken about 5-6 minutes for three course proposals. I turned to my friend and said something to the effect that there really was not much to this, and asked him what he thought since he wanted to use a similar process with the undergraduate curriculum committee.
After a moment of silence, I heard a deep breath and he said, "Well, my first reaction is that I have to get a Mac. This would be just too hard on my PC."
Hey, how about that!
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Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 08:06:53 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - A Unique Collection Of iMac Maritime Pictures
This tidbit is from:
Hellmuth Stuven, <hellmuth@avalonia.dk>
From Denmark, the tiny country in Northen Europe :
The iMac as a maritime object?
Avalonia-Net the only Mac-only ISP in Denmark and the natural meeting place of all Mac users, distributors and consultants is pleased to confirm the avaliability of a unique series of pictures (copyright Michael Jensen, former editor of MacWorld Denmark) of the new iMac.
The pictures were taken in the charming environment of the New Harbour (Nyhavn) a quarter of Copenhagen dated 1750, on the harbour, on sail boats, as a simple object of avant-garde, etc.
No commercial use of the pictures without the specifical authorization of Michael Jensen.
The present URL is:
<http://www.katlink/dk/copenhagen_imac/>
to be moved to the proper URL within 1 week:
<http://www.northsupply.dk/> (there will be a link for this collection).
Note : The Danish Carlsberg beer is unfortunately not included as afree-bee in this website!
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Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 08:06:51 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: PR - PracticeMaker4 Medical Office Management System
Keyword: Market by market, Medicine
This announcement is from:
SZ, <medeyedb@ComCAT.COM>
I am proud to announce that PracticeMaker4, the medical office management system for Macintosh and Windows using FileMaker Pro, is now available. Our website now has multiple screen shots and information about PracticeMaker4. Demo CDs are available on request. Also, on October 31st there will be a price increase and this is specifically discussed on the website at:
<http://www.medeyedbs.com/pm3_features.html>
When at MacWorld demonstrating our software the response was overwhelming.
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Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 08:06:54 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: PR - Star Patrol 2.0
Keyword: Market by market, Games
This announcement is from:
Don Carlile, <carlile@kagi.com>
Quandir Software, makers of the utility DP Autochanger <http://www.kagi.com/carlile/DPAutochanger.html>, today announced the release of the next version of its Mac first, Mac only shareware game, Star Patrol 2.0.
Star Patrol, first available in 1991, is a classic trek-style game specifically created for the advantages of Macintosh technologies. Emphasizing strategy rather than arcade style skills, this continuous action game will challenge your mind.
Version 2.0 marks a quantum leap for Star Patrol. The user interface has been unified, now incorporating both color and sound. Apple's QuickTime provides a music track, and important events are reported by speech. Extensive help, including Apple Guide, Balloons and traditional help screens, is available throughout. Star Patrol 2.0 is Power PC only.
For more information, including downloading, go to:
<http://www.kagi.com/carlile/StarPatrol.html>.
Quandir Software, dedicated to creating quality software for Apple products, has been developing fine software since 1982. For more information, including information on other products, visit our web site at:
<http://www.kagi.com/carlile/>.
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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 08:06:09 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: $$ - Excel 98 For Macintosh Visual QuickStart Guide
This special offer is from:
Giles Road Press Orders, <orders@gilesrd.com>
EXCEL 98 FOR MACINTOSH VISUAL QUICKSTART GUIDE, a 260-page Peachpit Press book by Maria Langer, is now available. With fully illustrated, step-by-step instructions, this book Maria's tenth Visual QuickStart Guide. Like the other books in the series, it teaches you what you need to know quickly and easily, without dumb jokes or author chatter.
As usual, Giles Road Press is pleased to offer this book at a discount to EvangeList readers. The book regularly sells for $17.95, but from now until October 31, EvangeList readers can buy the book for only $12 plus shipping.
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But wait, there's more! If you missed out on our special offer for WORD 98 FOR MACINTOSH VISUAL QUICKSTART GUIDE, here's your chance to buy it for $12 plus shipping, too -- but only if you order it WITH the Excel book.
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