'Tis the season! We denizens of the far northern hemisphere lay blanketed under a mantle of snow, and we're sharing it with you. Click the download button to enter MacSense's very own, 795k winter wonderland!
Apple's making a big comeback—and you can read all about it in MacSense December! Learn about the future of Kaleida and Taligent, and where to get the new QuickDraw 3D update. Contemplate Adobe's new PhotoDeluxe, Now Utilities' System 7.5.2 update and RealAudio's new server software. Let John Nemerovski remind you that you're a human, and not a machine. Use our Santa's 7 Gift Guide to help you shop this holiday season. Drop your jaw in awe at this month's Tech Support Tale. Get the scoop on SPEC Marks, Kai's Power Tools 3.0 and WarCraft. Drop in on The Game Warden, at his brand new home. And, finally, let Jim Hines put some holiday spirit in your stockings—and catalogs in your mailbox.
MacSense: The Macintosh® E-Zine is a FREE monthly electronic magazine which focuses on the mainstream Macintosh computer market. Each issue of MacSense details the most significant news stories in the world of Macintosh computing and explores how these new developments will affect every-day Mac users. Packed with vibrant color graphics and in depth product reviews, it is the founding goal of MacSense to shed light on a rapidly evolving industry. Moreover, because MacSense is created and distributed electronically, it is the most environmentally friendly method of publishing. We hope you enjoy this issue!
MacSense December 1995 takes advantage of many of the new features of DOCMaker 4.5 (from Green Mountain software):
• With System 7.5 installed, MacSense readers can now grab text within the magazine and drag and drop it into the Finder (or any other application which supports Macintosh drag and drop). This can be especially useful for people who want to copy the many URLs we list in the magazine.
• MacSense now supports last chapter return. In any chapter, readers can simply click on the graphic MacSense footer and be transported back to the most recent chapter they were reading.
To determine which graphics in MacSense perform a task, watch for the cursor to change from a standard pointer to the MacSense Light Bulb.
The attached file is a Stuffit archive. You will need Stuffit Expander or another Stuffit compression utility to extract it.
The color edition of MacSense requires a Macintosh with at least 16 shades of grey. For optimal viewing, we recommend 16-bit color. The black and white edition of MacSense can be viewed on any Macintosh.
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NEWS: Apple storms Comdex; new 'PowerPC Platform' unveiled, Apple and IBM fold Kaleida and Taligent ventures.
APPLEBITS: OpenDoc open for business; new QuickDraw 3D and printing updates, ColorSync Plug-Ins and more!
QUICKBITS: Adobe PhotoDeluxe 1.0, Now Ulilities updates, and Internet tools and hard drive tools roundups!
EDITORIAL: Why Macintosh? Chris McVeigh asserts his commitment to the Mac OS.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Warrented Protection?, Wither your Roots?...and more!
BRAVE NEW WORLD: John Nemerovski muses about the effects of technology and the evaporation of time.
FEATURE: Santa's 7: The MacSense Gift Guide
MACADEMIA: Stuart Chalk looks to the future of Macs in education.
ABOUT THIS MACINTOSH: SPEC marks, ClarisWorks 4.0 Styles, RealAudio Servers and expanding email.
TECH SUPPORT TALES: "Tight Security" and "You don't say..."
SOFTWARE REVIEWS: Kai's Power Tools 3.0, American Heritage Talking Dictionary and PhotoFix.
ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE REVIEWS: WarCraft: Orcs and Humans and ShadowWraith.
THE GAME WARDEN: From the co-author of the Macintosh Bible Guide to Games, MacSense's new gaming column.
BLUE SUNSHINE: Jim Hines finds four Christmas buying myths this holiday season.
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eWorld and CompuServe: Within the ZiffNet/Mac areas, path: Software Center/Software Central/Electronic Publications/Additional Publications.
America Online: The Macintosh Computer Hardware File Library. Keyword: 'Hardware'; in the 'New Uploads' folder. Also see the Macintosh Multimedia File Library, keyword: 'MMW'; in the 'New Uploads' folder.
World Wide Web: MacSense has a new home on the Web! For the latest news, views and reviews and a complete library of our issues, set your sites to http://www.macsense.com/macsense/
Internet FTP site: The Periodicals folder of the Info-Mac archives at Stanford University, internet address: sumex-aim.stanford.edu, path: /info-mac/per.
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