Macintosh WWW Pointers

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Table of Contents

1. Essential Macintosh Sites - pointers to essential Macintosh information on the Internet.
2. Macintosh Software Archives - freeware/shareware software archives.
3. Interesting Macintosh Pages - miscellaneous resources and cool stuff on the Internet.
4. Macintosh Periodicals - newletters and e-zines.
5. <="http://www.nmia.com/~jjm/product.html#Favs">Favorite Macintosh Products - these are the products I think you must have.
6. <="http://www.nmia.com/~jjm/product.html#TopTen">Top 10+ Macintosh Internet Clients and Utilities - I couldn't pick just 10.
7. <="http://www.nmia.com/~jjm/product.html#Shopping">Macintosh Shopping/Price Guides - prices and sources for new and used Macintosh computers, peripherals and software.
8. <="http://www.nmia.com/~jjm/newsgroups.html">Macintosh Newsgroups - a collection of Macintosh-related Usenet newsgroups.
9. <="http://www.nmia.com/~jjm/program.html">Macintosh Programming - source code, developer support and information.
10. <="http://www.nmia.com/~jjm/ppp.html">PPP Instructions - a guide to connecting a Macintosh to the Internet with Mac PPP.
11. <="http://www.nmia.com/~jjm/jobs.html">Macintosh Jobs & Consultants - links to placement firms, consultant directories and so forth.

1. Essential Macintosh Sites

• <="http://www.mcp.com/hayden/iskm/">Adam Engst's Internet Starter Kit - a resource for those navigating the net with a Macintosh computer.
• <="http://www.macfaq.com/">Elliotte Rusty Harold's The Well Connected Mac - a comprehensive collection of Web pointers to anything related to the Macintosh. There are pointers to the <="http://www.macfaq.com/faqs.html">FAQs for the Macintosh newsgroups and a huge <="http://www.macfaq.com/vendor.html">directory of vendors.
• <="http://www.astro.nwu.edu/lentz/mac/home-mac.html">Robert Lentz's Mac Resources
• <="http://kasbah.chm.bris.ac.uk/apple/mac.html">Karl Harrison's Macintosh World Wide Web Connections
• <="http://www.comvista.com/net/Directory.html">ComVista's Macintosh Internet Services Directory
• <="http://ici.proper.com/1/mac">ICI's Index to Macintosh sites on the Net
• Apple Computer:
  <="http://www.info.apple.com/">Apple WWW Home Page | <="http://www.support.apple.com/">Apple World Wide Product Support Page | <="http://www.eworld.com/">eWorld
• <="http://www.apple.com/documents/usergroups.html">Apple User Groups on the Internet
• Yahoo's Macintosh links:
  <="http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Personal_Computers/Macintosh/">Macintosh sites | <="http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Software/Macintosh/">Macintosh software | <="http://www.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Companies/Computers/Systems/Personal_Computers/Apple_Computer__Inc_/">Apple Computer
  <="http://www.nmia.com/bin/search?Computers_and_Internet/Personal_Computers/Macintosh">Options
  Search all of Yahoo Search only in Macintosh

2. Macintosh Software Archives

Can't wait? Search the Info-Mac Hyperarchive at MIT:
• Info-Mac Software Archives (sumex-aim):
  <="http://www.netam.net/~baron/infomac/">Search the Info-Mac Archive - with mirror sites | <="http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive.html">Info-Mac WWW HyperArchive (with search) | <="http://www.wais.com/wais-dbs/info-mac.html">WAIS search
  <="http://dutera.et.tudelft.nl/people/vdham/info-mac/index.html">Info-Mac Digest (in html format)
• U Michigan Software Archives (merit):
  <="http://www.netam.net/~baron/umich/">Search the U Mich Archive - with mirror sites | <="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sdamask/umich-mirrors/">UMich WWW with Mirror Sites | <="http://www.msc.wku.edu/Dept/MSC/Macintosh/search_umich.html">Search UMich | <="http://web.nexor.co.uk/public/mac/archive/welcome.html">Nexor (UK) WWW UMich | <="http://www.wais.com/wais-dbs/merit-archive-mac.html">WAIS search
• Higher Education Gophers:
  <="gopher://info.hed.apple.com/">Apple's | <="gopher://userserve.ucsd.edu:70/1">UC San Diego | <="gopher://mac-gopher.mic.ucla.edu:70/1">UCLA | <="http://micros.hensa.ac.uk/micros/mac.html">the UK
• <="ftp://ftp.apple.com/dts/">Apple's FTP Archives - a busy site so you may not get in.
• <="http://wwwhost.ots.utexas.edu/mac/main.html">UTexas Mac - a limited archive but a nice interface.
• <="http://rever.nmsu.edu/~bgrubb/mac-ftp-list.html">mac-ftp-sites.html - Bruce Grubb's ftp list.

3. Interesting Macintosh Pages

• <="http://www.global1.net/evergreen/startup">Startup Central - I was skeptical about a site devoted to Mac startup screens, but see for yourself
• <="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~mcrae/projects/macjava/">Apple Flavored Java - check it out!
• <="http://cyberdog.apple.com/">Cyberdog is here!
• Mark Sproul has provided a resource for those struggling with <="http://pilot.njin.net/~msproul/macintosh/OpenTpt.html">Open Transport.
• <="http://live.apple.com/">QuickTime Live! - Apple's done it again, this time with live Quicktime feeds.
• <="http://www.users.interport.net/~jashear/mac_graphics.html">Macintosh Graphics Resources - a nice page of links
• <="http://hypatia.dartmouth.edu/~tcurtin/mac/mac.html">Macintosh Tips and First Aid - this page looks oddly familiar
• <="http://www.rpi.edu/~johnsd10/macline/">Dave's "The Mac Line" - specs on all Mac computers (including PowerPC clones) since 1984
• Struggling to manage all those URLs and bookmarks? There are now several alternative approaches to check out:
  <="http://www.hotwired.com/staff/userland/clay/">Clay Basket | <="http://www.aladdinsys.com/">CyberFinder | <="http://www.onbasetech.com">DragNet | <="http://www.rsphere.com/sitemarker">Sitemarker | <="http://www.cesoft.com/">WebArranger
• <="http://www.scorecard.com/">Scorecard - interactive reviews of Macintosh hardware and software.
• <="http://www.dronf.org/">Jourvian Group - free Mac Internet software including MIND, a Mac DNS nameserver. Telnetd is in the works.
• <="http://www.realaudio.com/">Real Audio - Not just for the Macintosh. Audio-on-demand for the Internet (ABC, NPR).
• <="http://qtvr.quicktime.apple.com">QuicktimeVR from Apple - Awesome.
• <="http://www.umsl.edu/~sbmeade/macway/">Who is Guy Kawasaki? - find out more about this Macintosh Evangelist.
• <="http://www.biap.com">MacHTTP/WebSTAR home page - a World Wide Web server for the Macintosh now marketed by <="http://www.starnine.com/">StarNine Technologies.
• <="http://www.arpp.sfu.ca/tools/">Tools for Macintosh Web Developers - when you're ready to set up a Macitosh WWW server.
• <="http://www.hotwired.com/Staff/userland/aretha/">Aretha release of Frontier - a free scripting system for the Macintosh thanks to <="http://www.hotwired.com/Staff/userland/">Dave Winer.
• <="http://bambam.cchem.berkeley.edu/~schrier/mhz.html">Clock chipping - techniques to squeeze some extra speed out of your Macintosh.
• <="http://CU-SeeMe.cornell.edu/">CU-SeeMe - videoconferencing on a budget. See also <="http://www.jungle.com/CU-SeeMe/">CU-SeeMe (using QuickCam).
• <="http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~grgcombs/htmls/crypto.html">Mac cryptography - encryption without the Clipper chip.
• <="http://www.netins.net/showcase/macintosh/">Macintosh Educators Page
• Unix on a Macintosh:
  <="http://liber.stanford.edu/linuxppc/">Linux for PowerPC | <="http://cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu/MacBSD/">MacBSD
• Other Macintosh WWW hotlists:
  <="http://www.freepress.com/myee/ultimate_mac.html">The Ultimate Macintosh | <="http://pc027.radonc.nemc.org/scripts/MacTools.html">Mac Resources on the Web | <="http://www.mindspring.com/~mcameron/hotlist.html#Macintosh Info">Michael Cameron | <="http://www.europa.com/~bubba/mac/appleindex.html">MacMania | <="http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~xray/mac.html">Everything Macintosh | <="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~tuc/mac/">Brian's Mac Repository | <="http://q.continuum.net/~valliere/Dave's_Macintosh_Homepage.html">Dave's Macintosh Homepage | <="http://silver.ucs.indiana.edu/~crondot/mac.html">Chip's Macintosh Resource Page
• WAIS databases:
  <="http://www.wais.com/wais-dbs/info-mac.html">Info-Mac Digests | <="http://www.wais.com/wais-dbs/comp.sys.mac.programmer.html">comp.sys.mac.programmer | <="http://www.wais.com/wais-dbs/macintosh-tidbits.html">TidBITS | <="http://www.wais.com/wais-dbs/macintosh-news.html">Combined | <="http://www.wais.com/wais-dbs/merit-archive-mac.html">UMich | <="http://www.wais.com/wais-dbs/mac.FAQ.html">Mac FAQs | <="http://www.support.apple.com/wwwdocs/usenet_archive.html">Apple's comp.sys.mac archives

4. Macintosh Periodicals

• Macintosh publications online:
  <="http://www.ziff.com/~macuser">MacUser | <="http://www.macworld.com/">MacWorld | <="http://www.ziff.com/~macweek">MacWeek | <="http://www.macchicago.com/">Mac/Chicago
• <="http://www.dartmouth.edu/pages/TidBITS/TidBITS.html">TidBITS - the Engst's Macintosh newsletter. Now featuring an html <="http://www.dartmouth.edu/pages/TidBITS/tags/tags-95.html">index. And you can search back issues with <="http://www.wais.com/wais-dbs/macintosh-tidbits.html">WAIS.
• <="http://dutera.et.tudelft.nl/people/vdham/info-mac/index.html">Info-Mac Digest
• Apple publications:
  <="http://www.info.apple.com/info.alley/info.alley.html">Information Alley Journal | <="http://www.info.apple.com/dev/appledirections.html">Apple Directions | <="http://www.info.apple.com/dev/develop.html">Develop
• Other Macintosh WWW e-zines and newsletters:
  <="http://www.precursor.mb.ca/macsense/">MacSense | <="http://www.macintouch.com/">MacInTouch | <="http://www.mactoday.com/">Mac Today | <="http://www.ese.ogi.edu/macchat/">Mac*Chat | <="http://rampages.onramp.net/~rtfm/currentissue.html">Life Online | <="http://www.dgr.com/web_mnj/">Mac Net Journal | <="http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/Ambrosia_Times/AT_Library.html">Ambrosia Times | <="http://www.awa.com/net/software/maclead.html">MacHead | <="http://www.atcon.com/maccentral/home.html">MacCentral | <="http://www.mymac.com">My Mac Online | <="http://the-tech.mit.edu/KPT/MacArt">MacArt | <="http://apt.usa.globalnews.com/powerpc/ppchome.htm">PowerPC News home page | <="http://www.mactech.com/">MacTech | <="http://www.rust.net/~kepler/index.html">MacNow
• Non-US Macintosh publications:
  <="http://www.futurenet.co.uk/computing/macformat.html">MacFormat (uk) | <="http://www.atom.co.jp/MACLIFE/index-e.html">MACLIFE (jp) | <="http://www.atlas.co.uk/macuser/macuser.htm">MacUser (uk) | <="http://uk.macworld.com/">MacWorld (uk) | <="http://www.idg.se/macworld/macworld-sweden-eng.html">MacWorld (se)

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