EvangeList Digest Thursday, June 4 1998 Volume 01 : Number 1202
In this issue:
$$ - The New Age of Pirates! Job - Filemaker Pro 4.0 Consultant (Phoenix/Tempe AZ) Tidbit - MacOS X Posters Followup - GISTICS ROI Report Online PR - ClearWay NITRO PowerPlug 1.0 Tidbit - This Week's Farr Site --"I Love This Stuff" Tidbit - Apple Wizards June Issue is Here! Tidbit - G3's Flying Off the Shelves Tidbit - Using An OLD Mac File and Application Tidbit - Apple User Group Tour in Cincinnati, Ohio
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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 02:06:13 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: $$ - The New Age of Pirates!
This special offer is from:
Allen, <scruffy@earthlink.net>
Announcing the New Age of Pirates!
Back in the days of the development of the Macintosh, Steve Jobs had a saying at Apple Computer: "Why join the navy when you can be a pirate?
He even realized this concept by actually flying a Jolly Roger over the Macintosh development building on the Apple campus.
Well, in commemoration of that event in that long-ago age, and in celebration of the recent resurgence of that ol devilish glint in the eyes of Macintosh users everywhere, we here at The Ultimate Flag Source are announcing a special offer on PIRATE FLAGS for EvangeListas!
The Ultimate Flag Source is an online flag store, and is designed and built entirely on Macintoshes (in fact, several over the last year, from an old Centris to my current 9600/300 with 704 megs of RAM), and it owes its very life to the computer for the rest of us. So, we decided to show some appreciation by offering EvangeListas (and your friends, too, if they ask nice) a discount of15%, just for mentioning the EvangeList when you order. In fact, bump that discount up to 20% if you order two or more. And these discounts are off of what are already some of the best prices on the Internet.
The Ultimate Flag Source offers flags of countries, states, historical, military, and novelty/alternative. And we specialize in pirate flags. In fact, we currently have three different designs, so you can pick the one that suits you best for your own particular brand of piracy!
Find the New Age of Pirates special section at:
<http://www.ultimateflags.com>
Remember: mention the EvangeList to receive your discount!
AAHHR!
Captain Scruffy
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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 02:06:13 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Job - Filemaker Pro 4.0 Consultant (Phoenix/Tempe AZ)
This job announcement is from:
Ed Nusbaum, <esn66@primenet.com>
Looking for someone local who is skilled with FileMaker Pro 4.0 and Blue World Lasso 2.5 to assist in polishing up a web database application ("Made on a Mac, Served on a Mac!")
Note that we are located in Tempe, AZ and will ONLY consider people who are local to the Phoenix metro area (there must be _somebody_ here with these skills!?!?)
Please respond via email with the URL of a sample of your work should you be interested in learning more about this opportunity - or if you have suggestions on who might be able to help us out...
Thanks!
Ed Nusbaum
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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 02:06:14 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - MacOS X Posters
This tidbit is from:
Misha Sakellaropoulo, <misha@macnn.com>
The MacNN Review <http://www.macnn.com/thereview/> has a posted a collection of 4 MacOS X "posters" created by Bob Suh. Visit The Review to see thumbnails of the images and download the collection (which make great desktop pictures). On an ambitious note, if the demand is high enough we might roll out a limited print of these as actual posters! :)
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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 02:06:15 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Followup - GISTICS ROI Report Online
This follow-up message is from:
Jan Borchers, <jan@tk.uni-linz.ac.at>
I'm sorry! I underestimated the demand for the GISTICS report. As my poor old Mac was practically mangled with connection requests to download the report, I set up a second site. You can now get the report directly via ftp from
Please use a real ftp client like Fetch for downloading (Text transfer mode). This is more reliable than using Netscape or other browsers.
Thanks for your patience, and let me know if the report helps you!
TD (Think Different), ;-)
Jan
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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 02:06:14 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: PR - ClearWay NITRO PowerPlug 1.0
Keyword: Market by market, Internet
This announcement is from:
Susan Marlett, <marlett@clearway.com>
ClearWay Technologies today shipped "ClearWay NITRO PowerPlug 1.0," the completed version of their WebSTAR plug-in that accelerates the execution speed of all other WebSTAR plug-ins up to 200% or more. With NITRO installed, WebSTAR SSI runs at nearly triple its normal speed; WebSTAR Search runs 20% faster. NITRO also accelerates most third-party WebSTAR plug-ins including Lasso, Tango, and WebCatalog. NITRO demos can be downloaded:
<http://www.clearway.com/NITRO/>
ClearWay is encouraging Webmasters to run their own real-world NITRO tests. Hundreds of Webmasters have already tested NITRO, and many are describing their NITRO-boosted servers as "definitely faster," "several times faster," and "way faster." ClearWay is publishing contributed "field reports" on the NITRO Web site. NITRO runs on WebSTAR 2.x and 3.0, on PowerPC and 68K processors.
NITRO costs US$99 per server, $350 for five servers, and site licenses are $1900; educational discounts are available for five servers and site licenses. NITRO can be purchased by e-mailing <sales@clearway.com> or by calling 1-888-55-CLEAR.
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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 02:06:13 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - This Week's Farr Site --"I Love This Stuff"
This tidbit is from:
Applelinks.com, <webmaster@applelinks.com>
This week's Farr Site is entitled "I Love This Stuff" and features Verboten at Parties, Aunt Mary Marches On, and What's That Lying on My Information Highway? Digital dreams keep the lessons coming as author revisits where the coyotes and the antelope play.
<http://applelinks.pair.com/farrsite/june1.shtml>
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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 02:06:13 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - Apple Wizards June Issue is Here!
This tidbit is from:
Daria Aikens, <daria@applewizards.net>
<http://applewizards.net>
SPECIAL FEATURE: Mac OS X!
Apple Wizards, <http://applewizards.net>>, is pleased to announce the release of our June issue. This month's feature article, Mac OS X-files, a cooperative effort between David K. Every of MacKiDo and Apple Wizards' own Brian Kelley, is the most complete and correct set of information on Mac OS X. This article can't be missed! Check out our comprehensive reviews of Adobe Photoshop 5.0 and Palimpsest, and our comparison of textSOAP and Text Cleaner Lite. Last but not least, our new column, "Medicine Man", offers beginner to advanced help with all of your computer ails! Stop by the website at <http://applewizards.net> and download your copy of Apple Wizards today!
Apple Wizards is a free e-zine committed to serving the Macintosh community with insightful opinions, news, tips and tricks, software and hardware reviews, and much more. We publish a monthly e-zine in DOCMaker format and PDF format, available for download or through an email subscription. Go to <http://applewizards.net> for more information and to download the current and past issues.
Sincerely, Daria M. Aikens
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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 02:06:14 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - G3's Flying Off the Shelves
This tidbit is from:
Claire Daccurso Latham, <cdaccy@snh-lond.mv.com>
My neighbor is a corporate sales account manager with the top rated PC/Mac mail order company. She told me that the last three weeks she has been selling nothing but Apple computers! She added that the new Apple owners were so awed by the G3's and as a result were returning to order more!!! She seemed absolutely suprised when a "rock group" ordered three G3's to use on tour to run all their sound and lighting equipment. Imagine that! :-)
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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 02:06:14 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - Using An OLD Mac File and Application
Keyword: Advocacy, Macintosh in Action
Christopher Wright, <chrisw@skypoint.com>
I gotta brag about this to someone.
I was digging around an engineering file archive I wrote off in 1989--two years after I got the Mac Plus I used to write the report. I extracted the sketches I needed, but I'd done them with the paint module of SuperPaint 2.0. Remember SuperPaint? If not just drag a copy onto your hard disk, double-click on a SuperPaint document and take a look. My 9 year old sketch done on a long gone 11 year old Mac Plus boots without a hiccup from 1989 vintage software running under MacOS 8.0 on my Power Computing PTP250. Report came up clean as though I'd archived it yesterday. If I'd bought that cheap 286 machine I was thinking about at the time, my report would have been as inaccessible as the far side of the moon.
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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 02:06:13 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - Apple User Group Tour in Cincinnati, Ohio
This announcement is from:
Chris Tarnowieckyi <tarny@eos.net>
The AppleSiders of Cincinnati will host the Apple User Group Tour on Saturday, June 6, 1998 at 10:00 AM at the Forest Fair Mall (lower level across from the Little Professor Bookstore). Admission is FREE and open to the public. Come join us for a fun and information filled morning. See a present ion on Apple's new products and OS plans. Free T-Shirts and other items to be awarded.
The AppleSiders of Cincinnati is a computer users group based in Cincinnati, Ohio for people who enjoy using their computers. Our general membership meeting is open to the public and is on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at the Forest Fair Mall at 7:30 PM. Our topics of interest include all subjects associated with Apple brand computers. Our club newsletter, "The AppleSiders Press" is published 12 times a year. We have several Special Interest Groups. Club membership entitles members to special deals on some computer products. For more information call 513-741-4329 or visit our web page at <http://www.applesiders.com/>
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