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A useful summary of current Mac events and updates you should know about but probably don't. I've found it to be the most reliable way to keep abreast of essential updates, bugfixes, and other such items. As I was double-checking this page before linking to it here, I found out that Apple was shipping a major update to PowerBook system software that was essential for my 5300. Best of all the important stuff is right up front where you can find it immediately, not hidden deep inside the site. You could do worse than checking this site every couple of days.

If you'd like to nominate a site for Mac Site of the Moment email the URL to me and let me know why you think it's cool. If you'd like to see Mac Sites of Previous Moments just follow this <="http://www.macfaq.com/macsite.html">link.

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What's New?

Other than that there hasn't been much very new in here in a while. Partially this is a result of the confusion in my life caused by multiple, unsynchronized copies of this data spread out across four different machines running Solaris, SunOS, Windows NT and of course the MacOS. The bottom line is that this site had grown beyond my abiity to manage it manually.

I've recently reorganized both my computers and my life in a way that allows me to remove SunOS and NT from the picture. In the future all web serving will happen from the Solaris box, and all editing and updates will be done on my PowerBook. I've begun work on a new auto-synchronization utility that should allow me to more easily keep the files on my PowerBook and the web server in sync. This should buy me a little breathing room until this summer when I hope to have time to develop a completely new database to manage the entire site instead of just a few pieces.

I'm also struggling with frequent database corruption in Filemaker Pro. I'm hoping that FileMaker 3.0 may fix the database corruption problem, but I'm not holding my breath.

I've cleared through most email from the last few months. (You wouldn't believe how much email I get.) I'm still not sure when I'll be able to bring the FAQ lists up to date, but I hope it won't be very much longer. Of course as some of you know, my time is torn between the book I'm writing and the three web sites for which I'm primary developer. Please bear with me until I can pull everything together.

What's Here Now

<="http://www.macfaq.com/faqs.html">Macintosh FAQ lists

Frequently asked questions lists from many Usenet newsgroups including

• comp.sys.mac.misc
• comp.sys.mac.system
• comp.sys.mac.apps
• comp.sys.mac.hardware
• comp.sys.mac.wanted
• comp.sys.mac.comm
• comp.sys.mac.games
• comp.sys.mac.programmer

Last updated January 9, 1996.

<="http://www.macfaq.com/vendor.html">Vendor Information

Addresses (both electronic and geographical), phone numbers, and ftp and WEB sites for commercial vendors involved with the Macintosh.
Last updated February 26, 1996

<="http://www.macfaq.com/software.html">Macintosh Software

Look here for just about any freely distributable software in the Macintosh universe, organized by topic and location.
Last updated December 7, 1995

<="http://www.macfaq.com/tradeshow.html">Mac Trade Show Calendar.

See what's coming soon to a convention center near you.
Last updated March 18, 1995

<="http://www.macfaq.com/reviews.html">Reviews of Macintosh Hardware, Software and Books

Four star reviews of products of interest to the Macintosh community.
Last updated September 11, 1995.

<="http://www.macfaq.com/periodicals.html">Periodicals

Electronically published, online journals covering the Macintosh universe.
Last updated January 9, 1996.

<="http://www.macfaq.com/mailinglists.html">Mailing Lists

Mailing Lists with some topicality to the Mac.
Last updated Sunday, November 26, 1995 10:16:48 PM.

<="http://www.macfaq.com/web.html">Other Web sites

Other Web sites dealing with the Macintosh including the home sites of over 400 hardware and software vendors and a few dozen user groups.
Last updated February 26, 1996.

<="http://www.macfaq.com/newsgroups.html">Newsgroups

Usenet newsgroups about the Mac.
Last updated August 31, 1995.

<="http://www.macfaq.com/whatsnew.html">What's New

As well as a chronological listing of changes and additions to The Well Connected Mac, this page contains a form you can fill out to be notified of changes and additions at the Well Connected Mac.
Last updated December 5, 1995.

About the Logo

Matthew also designed an alnternate vision for the entire page that I've elected not to use in the interests of keeping this page reasonably quick to download. However if you have a fast connection take a look at <="http://www.macfaq.com/newindex.html">it.

Matthew won four packages of Clip Art from T/Maker and Docucomp and Word for Word from MasterSoft. Congratulations Matthew!.

What's Coming Down the Road?

• Pages for essential and useful software.
• FAQ lists split into more manageable pieces, perhaps a section or a single FAQ on each page.
• Better previewing of vendor submissions
• A way to update vendor listings
• A more categorical approach to the vendor listings

Please note that this page and all other pages on the Well Connected Mac are copyrighted by their respective authors. In most cases that's me, i.e. assume a "Copyright 1995 Elliotte Harold" on all pages except where another author is specifically credited.