EvangeList Digest Tuesday, July 7 1998 Volume 01 : Number 1226
In this issue:
PR - SalonTRAK Salon Management Software for Mac OS Tidbit - MacSense Reviews Returns PR - Battle Girl for the Mac (Game) Followup - HyperCard Success Stories $$ - Word 98 for Macintosh Visual QuickStart Guide PR - Apple Expands Apple Store for Education to Students and Faculty Tidbit - G3 Powerbook and NY Theater Job - FileMaker Pro Solution Training (Minneapolis, MN)
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Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 02:06:40 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: PR - SalonTRAK Salon Management Software for Mac OS
This announcement is from:
Bill Zelman, <info@powermed.com>
SalonTRAK salon management software. Point of sale entry made easy. SalonTRAK keeps track of your clients, sales of products and services with just a few simple screens. So easy in fact, you can use this software as soon as it's installed. A blizzard of reporting options keep you completely informed about your business. With its highly intuitive interface, full feature set and straighforward design, SalonTRAK is the software you'll want to use everyday. SalonTRAK puts you in control of your business - where you belong.
MacSense Reviews <http://www.macsense.com/> returns to cyberspace on July 1 with a giveaway: twenty copies of CE Software's QuicKeys 3.5.2. MacSense Reviews features tips, tutorials, and evaluations of the best Macintosh software for graphics, multimedia, and web design.
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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 02:06:41 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: PR - Battle Girl for the Mac (Game)
Keyword: Market by market, Games
This announcement is from:
Jenni Collins, <jennic@powermedia.com>
Power Media, Inc., offers Battle Girl from Ulta/United Games for the Macintosh.
THE OBJECTIVE: Stop the ultimate weapon, Terminus, the invincible, robotic creation of Chaos, from destroying the Great Machine, or the armies of Chaos will obliterate all order.
THE MISSION: The registers outer defenses have been breached. Now you must stop the programmers from disassembling the function pods. If the function pods are destroyed, the program will fail, if the program fails, CHAOS WILL PREVAIL.
Terminus has dispatched fighter escorts to protect the programmers as they go about their business of destruction ... You must eliminate them while protecting the function pods and destroying the programmers ... The attackers come at you from all directions ... How long can you survive? Only the quickest and most skillful will prevail.
An overwhelmingly fast-paced game with frenzied action to challenge your abilities; impressively powerful, explosive, mind-numbingly fast firepower; and an awesomely addictive soundtrack to empower your play and ignite your desire to BATTLE, BATTLE, BATTLE. Battle Girl is intense, absolute action. MSRP $39.95
COMPANY INFORMATION: The company information number for Power Media, Inc., is 503-684-8232: the eMail address is <info@powermedia.com:> www.powermedia.com.
This is a follow-up to a posting by samu, <samu@golden.net> regarding the effectiveness of using HyperCard as a solution for many of the custom software inquiries which are often posted to the Evangelist.
Those of us who use HyperCard regularly to solve specific software problems have no trouble imagining the vast number of possible solutions which can be created with this powerful, yet easy-to-use software. HyperCard's capabilities are so varied that it is difficult to explain to novices exactly what HyperCard is. Many people don't even know what the HyperCard Player is which shipped on their Mac. Others still hold the outdated view, based on a brief experience with an older version, that HyperCard is only for recipe collections and address books. HyperCard has come a long way over the years.
In order to evangelize HyperCard and familiarize people with its potential, I have collected stories from users and developers which illustrate the sophisticated software you can create using HyperCard.
Need a custom movie player? Want to send signals to a satellite? How about intelligent tests and training programs, or the automated page layout of custom catalogs? Or maybe you just want to generate web pages using spoken commands, or control and monitor the equipment in your laboratory remotely from your home. You can read about all these things, and much more. Where are you going to find a Macintosh version of Swedish-language software that evaluates foreign diplomas? Probably nowhere, unless you have HyperCard. This "temporary prototype," developed by a non-programmer, continued in use for years beyond its expected life span when it proved to be more reliable than the $80,000 system that was developed to replace it, and which was later scrapped.
I encourage you to take a look at these pages. It will give you an idea of what HyperCard can do, and may inspire you to begin creating your own unique software. Apple still sells this incredible product for under $100, which will pay for itself many times times over once you have created a custom software package of your own that does exactly what you want.
I think you will be impressed, and maybe inspired. And if you already use HyperCard yourself, please add your own story to the collection -- just follow the link at the bottom of every story page. Oh, and one more thing - -- purchasing HyperCard from the Apple Store is not only a great way to support Apple and the Macintosh, but is very effective in showing those PC users that Macintosh offers a unique, powerful development platform that doesn't exist anywhere else. They'll be astounded when they see what you can do.
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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 02:06:43 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: $$ - Word 98 for Macintosh Visual QuickStart Guide
This special offer is from:
Giles Road Press Orders, <orders@gilesrd.com>
Giles Road Press is pleased to announce the availability of "Word 98 for Macintosh Visual QuickStart Guide," the latest book by Maria Langer. This new addition to Peachpit Press's bestselling Visual Quickstart Guide series provides step-by-step, fully illustrated instructions for using the world's most popular word processor.
For the month of July, Giles Road Press has a special offer FOR EVANGELIST READERS ONLY. The book, which retails for $17.95, will be available until July 31 for only $12 + $3 priority mail shipping in the US (international shipping rates vary; visit our Web site at <http://www.gilesrd.com/> for details). You must order by July 31 and mention EvangeList to get this special pricing. (Giles Road Press regular pricing for this book is $14 + shipping.)
Giles Road Press accepts payment by check, money order, or major credit card. Payment or payment information MUST accompany the order; Giles Road Press does NOT accept purchase orders. Check orders are not shipped until the check clears our bank.
Orders may be mailed to Giles Road Press, P.O. Box 20337, Wickenburg, AZ 85390-0337 or faxed to 520-684-3965. Due to its tiny part-time staff, Giles Road Press does not accept telephone orders.
For more information about Giles Road Press, links to companion Web sites, and discounts on Macintosh books, visit us on the Web at <http://www.gilesrd.com/>.
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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 02:06:45 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: PR - Apple Expands Apple Store for Education to Students and Faculty
This announcement is from:
Apple PR
Apple Computer, Inc. today expanded services of the popular Apple Store for Education to include individuals at K-12 and higher education institutions who are purchasing equipment for their own personal use. Now faculty, staff and students at higher education institutions, as well as faculty and staff at K-12 schools, can benefit from Apple's special discounted education prices on it's complete education product line when they purchase via the Apple Store.
"In the two months since the launch of the Apple Store for Education, we have seen tremendous online activity from K-12 schools and higher education universities around the country, " said Mike Lorion, vice president of Education Sales for Apple. "Now the Apple Store complements buying from our campus resellers and toll-free number by giving individuals access to education discounts, online information and our build-to-order capabilities."
Beginning today, individuals at K-12 schools and higher education institutions in the U.S. can order systems online--at special education prices--by locating their institution on The Apple Store for Education Individuals (www.apple.com/education/store). To order from the Apple Store for Education, individual customers are required to submit proof of eligibility. For more information about eligibility requirements, please visit the Apple Store for Education Individuals website or call 800-780-5009.
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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 02:06:43 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - G3 Powerbook and NY Theater
Keyword: Advocacy, Wicked Cool Stuff, Macintosh in Action
This tidbit is from:
<kimpark@interport.net>
I saw an off-Broadway play, Death of a Damn Nation, playing at the Trilogy Theater (reservations 212-656-1456), that had a movie projected onto a wall in the set during a particularly harrowing act. I spoke with the projections manager, Jason Wishnow, and the director, N'Gai Croal (his sister Aida wrote the play), and they told me that the movie was created only that day during a subway ride from Brooklyn on a G3 Powerbook with Adobe Aftereffects/Quicktime. They ran the movie off of the G3 for the play and they tell me that it was the only way they could have brought the concept to production in the span of several hours -no sweat. Everybody who saw it was blown away. The play was extremely compelling as well. Hooray for Apple!
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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 02:06:44 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Job - FileMaker Pro Solution Training (Minneapolis, MN)
This job announcement is from:
John A. Funk, <john@zpix.com>
Z-Pix Company, the developer of Promote!, has an opening for a FileMaker Pro savvy Trainer / Writer to help our team to train and support the leading cross platform solution for Advertising / Promotion departments. Z-Pix Promote! is an enterprise wide Promotion Managements System based on FileMaker Pro designed to allow full Database Publishing of all advertising material; circulars, ROP,Direct Mail and to parallel publish to the internet.
We are looking for a motivated Mac / PC literate individual that can work close with our users understand their needs and develop the documentation. This position is full time in Minneapolis and approximately 30% travel within the US is required.
Please send resumes via email to:
<john@zpix.com> <http://www.zpix.com>
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