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P`CGDC Times Zapf Dingbats AppleGaramond Bk P Architect A Giles Road Press Publication Volume II Issue 12 December 1993 I s s u e . . . *x Features: Fail Safe: Security for Y Mac, Part III: Are Y Flirting with Disaster? by Brian Pomeroy ............. (Editor s note: This article does not appear in the elec tronic version of Macintosh Tips & Tricks Little Known (But Useful) ord Commands by Maria L. Langer ........... ips for Polishing Y Printed Documents by Maria L. Langer ........... ip: Can t UnStuf erry W ilson ................. Departments: From the Editor s Desktop by Maria L. Langer ........... Masthead (information about us) ....... Quick T by Sandee Cohen ............... Quick W ord Processing and Printing T by Kevin Savetz ................ Product News from press releases ............ Letters from readers worldwide Sales Positions Open (job openings at Giles Road Press) ....................... 0Editor's Note: This is the end of the third part *.-of Brian Pomeroy's excellent security series. *.,Because of space constraints, we ve found it *-(necessary to break this article into two *.-pieces. Look for the beginning of Part III in *.,last month s issue of the printed version of Macintosh Tips & Tricks . - MLL That Certain Magnetism ]$loods and fires are obvious hazards, but there s one not-so-obvious pitfall "that can wreak havoc on your data *2#magnetism. Magnetic storage devices *3(such as disk and tape drives use magnets *2)(read/write heads) to arrange metal parti )cles on a disk or tape so that the comput &er can recognize them as data. Another *2(magnet can just as easily un-arrange the *3 particles and destroy the data. *D&Always keep magnets far away from disk *3'and tape drives. Magnets can show up in unlikely places telephones, for *2#instance, all contain magnets. Also *3$beware of magnetic door locks, which *2&can data when you carry disks or tapes through a door When the Big One Hits *M*Electrical disruptions are relatively easy *3&to guard against; more challenging are the lar )s!ge-scale disasters beyond the con trol of the average user ou may simply have to write of f your hardware in the )face of a major calamity (needless to say &saving yourself and others is far more J%important than saving machinery). But you don t have to lose your data. J$Keeping one or more backup copies of J)site is perhaps the simplest way of disas )/%-proofing your data (providing you J&resolved any security problems first). )?$ger firms may want to consider disas J$ter recovery arrangements in which a *2&consultant maintains backup data. Make sure, however , that all your backup J&copies are up-to-date; if you suddenly *2&find yourself relying on a backup that t been updated in six months, J&you re looking at six months worth of work down the toilet. ))'ith backup software in hand, you can at least pick up where you left of f. If your hardware is damaged, however , you will J'need to secure new equipment so you can *3'service customers while getting back to full capacity . For this reason, it is wise to J'have in mind some firms who can rent or *2)lend you Mac equipment on short notice. ))$ith Hurricane Andrew leading the way J(1992 was a banner year for calamities of *2)all sorts. After a year like that, there J'longer an excuse for not being prepared for emer gencies. There s a voice inside all of us that says, It can t happen to J'me! when in fact, we have no idea what *2,will or will not happen to us in the future. *3&The best we can hope for is to try and *2'think ahead, so we can rebuild when it all over A I L A F E E C U R I T Y O U R Part III: Are Y ou Flirting W ith Disaster? Times Zapf Dingbats AppleGaramond Bk P Architect T i p s T r i c k s R O M T H E D I T E S K T Special Holiday Issue *b#This is a special holiday issue of Macintosh T ricks )e$that we re distributing two formats: DOCMaker and Common Ground. Regular readers of should be familiar with d.the DOCMaker version which we normally use. It )%1fers a hypertext table of contents, find feature, d5and the ability to print all or part of the document. *2!As usual, this DOCMaker issue of d/excludes the Figures often found with articles. *3,DOCMaker is distributed as shareware by Mark )(&all of Green Mountain Software, 9409 V alley Lane, Huntsville, AL 35803. Y ou can contact d!Mark electronically on GEnie (MSW ALL), d+CompuServe (73047,1233), and America Online ALL). d$The Common Ground document displays d1the way it goes out to paid subscribers and corpo d-rate licensees. Common Ground creates special *3/documents that can be viewed and printed on any *20Macintosh. All layout, formatting, and fonts are *2,preserved. The Common Ground version of this *3 issue of "includes a subscription/order form that we don &t usually include with the printed ver d(sion. Common Ground is distributed by No *2)Hands Software, 1301 Shoreway Road, #220, *3-Bellmont, CA 94002. Call No Hands at 800/598- 3821. *Y+Why distribute this issue in two formats? T reasons. First, I wanted to of fer a complete, desk top published issue of as a holiday gift to d.regular readers. Second, I wanted to show non- *2(subscribers what they re missing out on. *2*Common Ground lets me do both. But, at the *3/same time, I realize that many readers like the convenience of DOCMaker s table of contents d-and find features, which are not available in Common Ground. *h Holiday W ishes d like to extend my warmest holiday wishes to all readers of d especially like to thank d&those readers who have supported my ef forts by sending Quick T %ips, articles, postcards, and letters and subscribing to . Thanks! - MLL Tips & Tricks A Giles Road Press Publication ISSN 1070-6720 Editor -in-Chief: Maria L. Langer AppleGaramond Lt CompuServe: 70461,1663 America Online: GilesRdPrs AppleLink: MLANGER Internet: gilesrdprs@aol.com Fidonet: 1:2605/157 OneNet: Mac Tips & Tricks a0Contents of this document 1993 Giles Road Press +71.and contributing authors. All rights reserved; 0reproduction in whole or in part without written ]7permission is strictly prohibited. Please call or write for reprint information. Macintosh Tips & Tricks is published in two formats: X5as a printed document distributed to paid subscribers +F1,and as an electronic document distributed as h2shareware and widely available on online services, _0BBSs, and CD-ROM disks. Estimated circulation is 1 10,000-15,000 readers worldwide. }1A 12-issue subscription to the printed version of Macintosh Tips & Tricks is available in North f0America for $14.95 and outside North America for Y3$24.95 from Giles Road Press. Fax subscriptions are 12also availableat the same price in the Continental `5Untited States. The printed version contains articles *16and illustrations not found in the electronic version. Writer s Guidelines for Macintosh Tips & Tricks -available from Giles Road Press. Send a self- d-addressed stamped envelope to obtain a copy. \4electronically submitted material will be considered 1/for inclusion; do not send printed manuscripts. T7Editor-in-Chief reserves the right to refuse to include +310material she considers outside the scope of this 1-publication and to edit material accepted for inclusion. ,Macintosh is a registered trademark of Apple 1)Computer, Inc. Other product names may be 1,trademarks or registered trademarks of their |/respective owners. Neither Giles Road Press nor Macintosh Tips & Tricks are affiliated with Apple /Computer, Inc. Giles Road Press, its staff, and f3contributing authors cannot be held responsible for a5any losses resulting from instructions that appear in this publication. Y/The Giles Road Press Logo was designed by Tom & S1Jeannine O'Connell of T&Z Dezines, Glen Rock, NJ. ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" Times Zapf Dingbats AppleGaramond Bk P Architect T i p s T r i c k s (hen I write a book, I learn all kinds of *2)things I never knew before. Perhaps that 4one of the reasons I like to write. In any case, I *3¤tly hard at work on the upcoming Macintosh Bible Guide to W . And although I thought I knew all about W ord, I m discovering new things every day . In this article, I d like to share some W ord commands I just discovered #ones I think you might find useful. Activating the Commands *M(Since none of these commands appear on W 0default menus, to use these them, you ll need to become familiar with the Commands command %or learn their Shortcut Keys. Choose Commands from the ools menu. The Commands dialog box ,which is illustrated in Figure 1, displays a *21scrolling list of the over 300 commands available in Microsoft W ord. T o use a command once, find "it in the list and then click the Do It )p button. T +add the command to a menu so you can easily *3"access it anytime time, click the )_ button in Menu area of the dialog box. (Y ou can also )add a Shortcut Key to any command that .something that we discussed in a past issue of Macintosh T ips & T ricks Change Font Change Style *These two command enable you to change the *35font or style of a selection by typing in the font or *20style name. But they re easier to use with their Shortcut Keys, Command-Shift-E Command-Shift-S respectively . When you press .one of these key combinations, the Page Number *3-Area at the bottom of the window becomes high lighted and the word Font Style appears there, as shown in Figure ype in the name of the font or style you want and press Return %. The font or style for the selection changes. In reality , you don t even have to type in the .whole font or style name. Just type enough for )')ord to recognize it. For example, typing rather than helvetica should still give you Helvetica font. By the way , there s a command similar to this called Inser )e t Glossar y Entr . Press Command- Delete )z$, type in the entry name, and press Return &I use this all the time to insert the Date glossary $entry at the top of letters I write. Copy as Pictur 0This is a neat command that copies the selection *24to the Clipboard as a picture rather than as text or *3-a mixture of text and graphics. Again, there .Keyboard Shortcut that makes it easy to use. T /try it, select some text in your document, then press Command-Option-D o see the picture ord created, either choose the Paste command on the Edit )`#menu to paste it into your document or choose the Show Clipboard command on the indow menu to display the Clipboard. Delete Next W Delete Pr evious W -These two commands let you delete the next or *22previous word (in relation to the insertion point) *3/with a command or keystroke. The keystrokes are Command-Option-G Command-Option- Delete respectively . When you use one of these keystrokes, W $ord deletes from the insertion point 1to the end of the word. It counts spaces and punc tuation as words. Inser t Nonbr eaking Hyphen Inser t Optional Hyphen , and Inser t Nonbr eaking Space &These are three things I always knew W ord could 0do, but since I never needed to do them, I never )X I T T L E N O W N B U T U S E F U L I C R O S O F T O R D O M M A N D S (continued on page ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" !Figure 1: The Commands Dialog Box ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" Figure 2: Page Number Area at the bottom of the Word window. Times bothered finding out how e0A nonbreaking hyphen is a hyphen that will never *20appear at the end of a line. In other words, the hyphenated word never splits. Command-` e-makes one of these. An optional hyphen is one *22that does not appear if the word splits at the end of a line. Command-- (that Command-Hyphen )E,) makes one of these. A nonbreaking space is e,a space between two words that will keep the words together u$, even at the end of a line. They often called sticky spaces. Command- Spacebar %gives you one of these. They look dif ferent in your W ord documents, as Figure 3 e shows. (Y &ou must display paragraph marks to see the dif )u ference.) Inser Above Row e0Ever put a cell table at the very beginning of a *3/document and later find that you need to insert *21lines above it outside the table? This command or *2)its Shortcut Key will help you out. Press Command-Option-Spacebar while the insertion e4point is in the first cell of a table to get a blank *30paragraph with the Normal style above the table. Use Shor t Menu Names e-If you ve got a compact Macintosh like an SE, *30SE/30, Classic, or Color Classic, you might find that W )I$s menu bar is simply too long to dis play all the W !ord menus along with the System 7 e*Help menu, Application menu, and any other *3.menus or icons you might have in your menu bar Use Shor t Menu Names command can help e,by reducing the number of characters in most ord menu names, thus making W ord's menu bar shorter . Figure 4 shows the results. een T e.This is the command that got me thinking about *2-writing this article in the first place. The command is W s built-in screen saver >,Activate the command and your screen darkens *21and fills with moving patterns. Click anywhere on *32the screen to display a dialog box like the one in *22Figure 5. This lets you adjust the settings to cus >,tomize the patterns on the screen. Clicking >/brings the screen saver patterns back. Clicking Cancel lets you get back to work. So if you don E"t have a screen saver but you have )''ord, you can still protect your screen. More Another T )a.s about all I have room for in this issue, but >0there are plenty of other useful commands tucked away in the recesses of W ord. Use the > Commands #dialog box to explore them for your >3self. If you find one you think is particularly use >/ful, write to me at Giles Road Press and let me know what it is. Y ou might find it in the Quick ips column of a future issue. About the Author 1993 Maria L. Langer. All rights reserved. Used with permission. *@3Maria L. Langer is a freelance writer, computer con >5sultant, and the author of four Macintosh books. When *.5she isn t hard at work on her Macintosh, she s explor >0ing the menus of programs like Word, looking for *.%things she can share with readers of Macintosh Tips & Tricks Zapf Dingbats AppleGaramond Bk P Architect T i p s T r i c k s ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" z%Figure 3: Special Hyphens and Spaces Look Special ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" Figure 4: The Use Short Menu Names !command makes menu names shorter. ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" /Figure 5: Specify settings for Word s built-in screen saver. Times Zapf Dingbats AppleGaramond Bk P Architect T i p s T r i c k s p+s Macintosh users, we have an extraordinary *2,amount of flexibility over the formatting of ,our documents. Although not all printed docu ments warrant the time and ef fort needed to make 0them typographical masterpieces, there are a few *3.simple things you can do to give all your docu *ments a professional, polished appearance. Curly vs. Straight Quotes *M1In most typefaces, there are two kinds of quotes: straight and curly X . While straight quotes are prop 1er to indicate units of measurement, curly quotes *20should be used in all other instances. Most word *3,processing and page layout programs can auto ,matically insert curly quotes as you type. Y ou can /also type them in manually with these key combi nations: Option-] Shift-Option-] Option-[ Shift-Option-[ Bold vs. Underlined *M.Underlining for emphasis is a throwback to the *2/days of typewriters when it was not possible to *31create bold and italic characters. Underlining is *20considered a design no-no these days. Use a bold *2*or italic version of the typeface instead. Small Caps vs. All Caps *M1Using all uppercase letters for emphasis within a *30document attracts attention, but may not be visu ally appealing. T ry using small caps, instead. ,Small caps formatting converts all lowercase *3/characters to uppercase characters in a smaller *21font size. The result is far more professional in appearance. Dashes vs. Hyphens *M0There are two basic kinds of dashes: the em-dash and en-dash. While there isn t any real rule -regarding which dash should be used, consider *3+using the em-dash when there are hyphenated *2-words within your document. This helps distin guish a dash from a hyphen. Y ou can type these +dashes with the following key combinations: en-dash Option-Hyphen em-dash Shift-Option-Hyphen And don $t use two hyphens to simulate an em- 2dash! (This is something that I m often guilty of, but it s sheer laziness!) Ellipses vs. Three Periods *M0While the ellipses character may look like three periods, it isn t. It s a single character you can 0type in most fonts by pressing Option-Semicolon. *22Not only does the ellipses look better in your doc ument, but since it s one character , it will never be broken at the end of a line. *g What Do Y ou Think? /Figure 1 shows examples of a paragraph prepared *2.two ways: with and without using these tips. T /a good look and decide for yourself which looks more polished. Don t you think your documents are worth the extra ef fort? About the Author 1993 Maria L. Langer. All Rights Reserved. Used with permission. *?7Maria L. Langer is a freelance writer who tries hard to */3practice what she preaches about document design. I P S F O R O L I S I N G O U R R I N T E D O C U M E N T S THE TYPEWRITER IS DEAD! The typewriter --and its formatting /*limitations--is just about dead. Macintosh *7,users all over are rejoicing by using "curly *7.quotes," bold and italicized type, small caps, *7.em-dashes, and real ellipses characters in all *7+their documents. As you'll see when you use these characters, they make a dif ference. There's no excuse... )$ YPEWRITER !The typewriter and its formatting *7)limitations is just about dead. Macintosh *7,users all over are rejoicing by using curly *7.quotes, bold and italicized type, small caps, *7.em-dashes, and real ellipses characters in all *7+their documents. As you ll see when you use these characters, they make a dif ference. There s no excuse $2Figure 1: Which example do you think looks better? Times Zapf Dingbats AppleGaramond Bk P Architect T i p s T r i c k s Series Conclusion *M*Life, unlike a Mac, has no Undo command. W d$can bring criminals to justice or of fer comfort after a disaster , but the damage cannot be reversed. That s why you, the Mac user 5 , have to d.be your own front line against computer theft, *2-sabotage, and vandalism. The best way to deal *2/with computer crime is to ensure that it doesn happen in the first place. About the Author 1993 Brian Pomeroy. All rights reserved. Used with Permission. *@4Brian Pomeroy is a copywriter with Giresi Associates *.5in Holmes, PA. He holds a B.A. in Journalism from the *.4University of South Carolina, and is a member of the *.,Macintosh Users of Delaware (M.U.D.) and the *-2Association of Professional Writing Consultants. Disaster Recovery User Group Delaware V #alley Disaster Recovery Information Exchange Group (DVDRIEG) *E+This user group provides information on com w$puter data recovery after a disaster . Meetings are held quarterly and annually . For more infor w+mation, call Jack Bannon at (609) 778-5702. !o you ever double-click on a stuf fed file downloaded from AOL, watch Stuf fit/AO B01.5.1 open up, but not your file? So you double- *2-click on it again and get this message: *3 documents could not be opened. T ry opening the B.documents from within the application. So you choose Stuf $fit from the application menu and go B to Open the file, only it doesn t appear in the doc ument list! If you have Stuf j!fit Deluxe elsewhere on your hard B5drive and launch it, it recognizes the file, and lets *3 you go so far as to start unstuf fing the individual B2files, only to be met with the dialog box with the *2+stop sign: This item was compressed with a *3 method that this version of Stuf fit Deluxe does not handle. Y ou may need a newer version. Geez! *D+How do you get at the files inside? Through AOL. If AOL isn t already open, open it (no need to log on) and choose Open from the file menu. Find your stuf E$fed file. Double click on it. Before B clicking Continue to decompress it, you have a B-chance to decide whether or not to delete the )D+fed file afterwards. Who would have thought B'you have to open a file that has a Stuf fit icon through the AOL application? *E#If you let AOL automatically unstuf f your down B2loads and get rid of the evidence, you ve probably *3-never seen these confusing messages (unless a friend passed the stuf fed AOL file along to you). AOL comes with the Auto-Unstuf option turned on, and the Delete Stuf fed Files option turned f. From the Members menu, choose ences , then Downloading Pr ences B$and you can change these settings. I prefer to unstuf v!f files when I finally get around B+to looking at my downloads, otherwise I for B!what I looked at and what I didn t. But if you )S,t download much, letting AOL take care of it B$for you is probably more convenient. About the Author 1993 Terry Wilson. Reprinted from PMUG Dialog B2newsletter of the Princeton Macintosh Users Group. Terry Wilson is the editor of Dialog U I C K T U F F )/ i l s o n U I C K I P S QuarkXPress Dingbats *M,As you are typing, when you get to the point *2(where you would like a dingbat character , press Command-Shift-Z . The font listed in the mea d.surements palette will not change but the next *2"character that you type will be a Zapf Dingba .ype the keystroke for the dingbat and keep typ ing. Y )n-ou are automatically restored to the original d-font you were typing in. The same trick works *2!with the Symbol font by pressing Command- Shift-S ord Style Sheets d0If you want to send a printed copy of your style *31sheets and their definitions to someone, open the Style dialog box and then Print ll be print d)ing the contents of the Style dialog box. Times Zapf Dingbats AppleGaramond Bk P Architect T i p s T r i c k s About R )9+TF? It stands for rich text format and it 2is a method for converting text files across appli .cations and platforms. Each word processor and *2/page layout application saves the documents you *2-create in a unique format, which usually can ,read by other programs. So, your word proces (s files can only be read by a colleague s if he /uses the same program, or can import files from other applications. R TF is generic bridge between (programs. If you save your document in R -chances are a colleague using another program will be able to read it. Putting a LaserW riter Pro to Sleep If you use a LaserW riter Pro laser printer connect ed to a Macintosh computer , it high time for your #printer to sleep on the job. Apple s Ener gy Star (group has released a program that lets a LaserW riter Pro go into an ener gy-saving sleep +mode after a specified amount of inactivity . This 0decreases wear and tear on the printer and saves 3on the electric bill. Give your printer some needed *3 rest. It (s available in the Internet via FTP from sumex-aim.stanford.edu as: /info-mac/prn/laser writer -pro-sleep.hqx oner T 3Despite the fact that the computers let us edit doc 3uments on screen before printing the final version, *2-no one does that. Instead, we print countless *3-drafts and revisions, wasting toner and paper +software product for the Macintosh called T 0uner causes your printer to print light but read 0able versions of your rough drafts, saving toner *2 and money &, and (hopefully) slowing the flood of 5used ink cartridges to the landfills. It works on all *2.PostScript and non-PostScript printers. Get it from W orking Software, 408/423-5696. About the Author 1993 Kevin Savetz. Used with permission. *.3Kevin Savetz is a freelance computer and technology *.6writer who has written news and features for over five years. U I C K O R D R O C E S S I N G A N D R I N T I N G I P S R O D U C T E W S Datawatch Corp. announced version 4.1 of V irex, which rec ognizes and fights the CODE 1 virus. Contact Datawatch at 919/549-071 1 or 919/549-0065 (fax). Adobe Systems Incorporated *2 released version 3.6 of its popu lar A TM font software. This release eliminates incompatibil ities with some software prod ucts. Contact Adobe at 800/521- 1976 or 408/655-6096 (fax). Aldus Corporation is shipping version 1.2 of its graphics man agement software, Fetch. Contact Aldus at 800/685-3612 or 206/292-2467 (fax). Golden T riangle Computers released verion 2.0 of its disk expansion software, T imesT Contact Golden T riangle at 800/780-5977 or 800/891-0299 (fax). PrairieSoft Software will soon be releasing version 4.5 of DiskT op, a file management utility desk accessory former marketed by CE Software. Contact PrairieSoft at 515/225- 3720 or 515/225-2422 (fax). Delrina Corporation announced version 3.0 of it s Far Side Daily Planner and Calendar Publisher software. Contact Delrina at 206/820-7007 or 206/823-0568. CE Software, Inc. is shipping QuickMail AOCE, which uses System 7 Pro PowerT alk facili ties to exchange mail with any AOCE service provider or client. Contact CE at 515/221- 1801 or 515/221-1806 (fax). The FreeSoft Company announced the impending *3!release of version 3.0 of its BBS software program, Second Sight. Contact FreeSoft at 412/846-2700 or 412/847-4436 (fax). Prentice Hall Computer Publishing s Alpha Books imprint released The Essential PageMaker 5 by Carla Rose and Rita Lewis. Contact Alpha Books at 800/428-5331. Inline Software recently *3 released a brand new eight-level action game, Deliverance. Contact Inline at 203/435-4995 or 203/435-1091 (fax). Times Zapf Dingbats AppleGaramond Bk P Architect T i p s T r i c k s From a New Subscriber and Some Others *M1As a new owner of a Mac, I really appreciate your *20newsletter in helping an old DOS user enter into *30the world of the Mac. I certainly understand the *25need for a letter like yours and how helpful it is to *2#users of the various Mac software. - John C. Howdy from T exas! I got my first d+weekend, from the Apple Corp of Dallas BBS. *2"Loved it. My $15.00 is on the way! - Rich d!Graham (Internet: rich.graham@chr ysalis.or d/I recently discovered the electronic edition of Macintosh T ips & T ricks in the File Library of the d,Berkeley Macintosh Users Group and think you *2/guys are great! I have found a number of useful *30tips, and enjoy the high quality of the writing. *21Looking forward to reading your future editions. - Joe Beck (CompuSer ve: 71574,1440) Some Suggestions I receive your and provide it to our user d.group on our BBS. 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