ABOUT DOUG!






THIS IS A PICTURE OF ME! AND NO, I'VE NEVER SET FOOT IN THE ARIZONA DESERT...



Hi! I'm Douglas Clarke and I'm a 14 year old high school student, living in Australia. If I'm not listening to MODs on my Colour Classic, you'll find me programming in Metrowerks CodeWarrior. If I'm not doing either of those, I'll definitely be surfing my favourite WWW sites, or reading MacFormat. If, however, I'm not doing any of these, you could safely bet I'd be attending the monthly AUSOM (the local Mac Users' Society) meeting, or watching my favourite TV show, Frontline.
However, there's more to life than just Macs (believe it or not). I also play the piano, and I am member of Minsoc, the Mineralogical Society of Victoria.


DOUG ON THE MAC.

Favourite Thing: Drag and Drop. It's a lot faster than doing Copy and Paste - the best thing about it, though, is that nearly all new programs support it.
Equally Favourite Thing: PowerTalk - it's more than just for sending mail! I love the way the key chain operates - I can connect to any server I want, and if it's on my key chain I don't even have to type in my name and password.
Least Favourite Thing: Inviting DOS friends 'round, and when you proudly show them your Mac, they reply, "Hey, what version of Windows is this?"
Favourite Mac: Performa 5300 (of course!) Look at what it comes with: 16 Megs of ram, 1.2 gig hard disk, TV capture card, 28.8kBit fax/modem, quad-speed CD, 16-bit stereo sound, microphone, in-built 15 inch multi-sync monitor, MPEG card optional, infra-red remote control, 100 MHz PowerPC 603e chip, and heaps of cool software. I rest my case.
Favourite Commercial Software: ClarisWorks 4.0. It's everything you need in an integrated package in under a couple of Megs.
Least Favourite Commercial Software: Microsoft Word 6. It's big, it's slow, it's ugly. Aaaaaagh!!
Favourite Hardware: Iomega zip drive. It's zip. It's hip.
Equally Favourite Hardware: Apple Design Speakers II. Great for blasting MODs.
Least Favourite Hardware: Dongles. They make it hard for some sad, sad people who find it necessary to pirate software. How I hate software pirates.
Favoutire Company: Apple ... and Power Computing ... and Metrowerks ... and Maxis ... and Motorola.
Least Favourite Company: Microsoft - big hate #1.
Favourite Easter Egg: Under System 7.5.2 (which, naturally, we all have) open SimpleText, and type "secret about box", and then select the three words and drag them to the Finder. An animated 3D flag appears.
Equally Favourite Easter Egg On any of the new PCI Macs, open SimpleText and type "secret ROM image", select the three words and drag them to the Finder. You'll see a picture of the people who made your Mac!
Best Interface: I love the way all Claris programs share the same dictionary, custom dictionary, thesaurus, and translators.
Worst Interface: Microsoft Excel. Bill thinks that all Mac users envy DOS boxes that use the ALT key to select menu commands. So Bill came to the rescue and added the feature to Excel 5. Gee, thanks Bill!


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