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So you've surfed to your heart's content and you still can't find the Macintosh information you're looking for. Or you think, Wouldn't it be nice to have all the links I want in one place? Short of creating a truly elegant bookmark system, I suggest you shoot on over to these sites. They contain links to an amazing potpourri of Mac-related sites.
Imagine if Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert had their own Macintosh Web pages, and you've got the idea of, respectively, Jay J. Myers's Macintosh WWW Pointers at http://www.nmia.com and Elliotte "Rusty" Harold's The Well Connected Mac at http://www.macfaq.com. Besides links to other sites, they also provide capsule reviews of their favorite hardware, software, utilities, and books. Interested in current events? Each site has an impressive newsstand of Macintosh magazines (including ours and the competition's), newsletters, and E-zines (electronic magazines). In addition, Myers's site has pricing information for used Macs. He's built in links to the Yahoo search engine and the MIT software archives, so you can search for information not found on his page-although that seems unlikely, since you can link to archives at the University of Michigan, the University of California at San Diego and at Los Angeles, Apple, and the University of Texas. Harold offers an excellent list of Macintosh-related trade shows. Everything Macintosh, at http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~xray/macalt.html, was created by Nathan Raymond specifically because of the poor way in which Netscape Navigator 1.X handles bookmarks (this has been improved in Navigator 2.0). It's like one of those amazing Greenwich Village bookstores where bibliophiles go to die. Want to link to Apple's Web sites? Sure. How about finding user groups worldwide, from the Hershey Apple Core in Pennsylvania to the Western Australia Macintosh Users Group? Interested in software development? Games? Newsgroups? The Apple II? Raymond's site offers all of these. Other highly recommended compendium pages: Michael Yee's Ultimate Macintosh page at http://www.freepress.com/myee/ultimate_mac.html; University of Chicago astronomy professor Robert Lentz's Macintosh Web Resources from "The Rest of Us" at http://www.astro.nwu.edu/lentz/mac/net/net-rest-of-us.html; the Cult of Macintosh page at http://cult-of-mac.utu.fl/; and MacSense, an E-zine devoted to the Mac, at http://www.precursor.mb.ca/macsense/default.html.
Once you've figured out all that Apple technology, you deserve a little fun. We highly recommend you log onto users http://members.aol.com/ixist/apple.html, a page that reveals all the so-called Easter eggs built into the Macintosh-that is, the hidden system text that the developers have inserted into the operating system, extensions, and control panels. If you're a developer, this is the digital equivalent of having your initials inside the first Macintosh cases. On the Power Macintosh Cool Page at http://rampages.onramp.net/~stevent/pmr/coolstuff.html, you can also find links to Apple start-up and crash sounds, a list of 300 reasons why the Mac is great, and an Internet configuration utility called IceTee, which, when installed in your extensions folder, lets you simultaneously click on the 1-key and a URL to link to that page.Finally, for a completely biased look at how Macs are being used and should be used, I recommend dipping into Kathy Gill's MacFacts at http://www.halcyon.com/kegill/mac/; she's compiled a bibliography of articles from the mainstream and technical media about the MacOS and its obvious superiority to Windows 95.
Oh, and there's also one called «http://www.macworld.com».
