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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1852" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1852">Ashley Barnard of the Arizona Mac Users Group writes to tell us that AMUG has released the latest version of their BBS in a Box CD-ROM (Volume XII) in ISO format, which means that PC-based BBSs can now provide files from the CD-ROM for Macintosh users</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 05 Sep 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1860" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1860">The quote of the week goes to Bill Gates, who was paraphrased in a MacWEEK article in the 22-Aug-94 issue as saying that no company has produced more titles for Power Macs [than Microsoft]</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 29 Aug 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1861" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1861">LISTSERV Reminder -- Just as a quick reminder, you can subscribe to TidBITS via an Internet mailing list (yes, this works for people on America Online, CompuServe, and so on)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 29 Aug 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/1862"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1862', 'show')">Submitting to TidBITS</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1862" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1862">Submitting to TidBITS -- I just ran into a situation that I feel bad about, and I hope this note might help matters in the future. Someone sent me email about a product he had used and liked, and several issues later, Mark independently wrote an article about the same product</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 29 Aug 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1864" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1864">Joshua Weinberg writes to say that he purchased System 7.5 for $99 last Saturday at CompUSA in New York City. Although he noted that the CompUSA folks said they had gotten System 7.5 in ten days early, it sounds like it will be available for the masses soon</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 29 Aug 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1865" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1865">Many people wrote in to comment on my article about fat binaries in TidBITS-240, in the process raising a few issues that I hadn't previously considered.Peter Lewis notes:The Umich archive people said they don't want two different versions at , so a fat binary is pretty much the only choice</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 29 Aug 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1868" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1868">[Excerpted from Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh, 2nd edition.]As time goes by in the Internet world, software that once ran solely on local area networks such as LocalTalk or Ethernet is migrating to the Internet</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 29 Aug 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1870" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1870">The second edition of my Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh is now available. It's significantly different from the first edition (a larger disk with an installer, and approximately twice as much actual text, although the appendices are smaller) and I'm still working on a change list</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 22 Aug 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/1871"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1871', 'show')">Bounce of the Week</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1871" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1871">Bounce of the Week -- Every now and then you get a sign that lets you know that creativity is not dead, even among those who write mailer error messages</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 22 Aug 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1873" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1873">Now that the Power Macs are increasingly common, a few issues need to be addressed in terms of how to best accommodate them when distributing software</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 22 Aug 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1878" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1878">Ah, to return home after an extended tour of Boston and the Northeast, complete with an ongoing bout of the Martian Death Flu. There's nothing like returning to hundreds of messages that I didn't read while on the road (mostly mailing lists, luckily) and to a foot of snail mail</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 15 Aug 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1880" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1880">A 4 Crabs price correction comes thanks to a few readers who wrote in to let us know that the $50 price for the 4 Crabs of Thai CD mentioned in last week's issue (TidBITS-238) was a show special only</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 15 Aug 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/1883"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1883', 'show')">The Internet Adapter</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1883" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1883">On various different occasions I've seen postings wondering why someone hasn't written a program to enable graphical programs that normally require a MacTCP-based connection to work with a normal Unix shell account</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 15 Aug 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1886" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1886">Our sincere apologies for missing the netters' dinner last week in Boston. I was stricken with the Martian Death Flu on Thursday, and decided that a three-hour nap in the middle of the day was the better part of valor (and dinner)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 08 Aug 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/1888"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1888', 'show')">IBM is contacting Mac consultants</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1888" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1888">IBM is contacting Mac consultants, asking them to work on the Mac OS personality module team in Austin, according to Pythaeus. What a radical thought, asking people who know the Mac well to help out</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 08 Aug 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1889" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1889">It was a rough show. As usual, Boston obliged with heat and humidity so thick you had to wonder if the wetness on your skin was sweat or condensed essence of city</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 08 Aug 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1894" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1894">We're in Boston for Macworld Expo this week, which means several things. First, although we are receiving email, replies may be delayed. Secondly, since this is the first time we've created and released an issue completely on the PowerBook 100, there may be some glitches, and in particular, we can't double-check URLs contained in this issue</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Aug 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1896" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1896">Aladdin Systems reports that they have released a bug fix update to StuffIt Expander and DropStuff with Expander Enhancer (see TidBITS-235 and TidBITS-236)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Aug 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1902" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1902">In the bloody PowerPC/Pentium marketing war, Intel has fired another shot (well, what did you expect them to do?). Several people have reported that the magazine Computer Shopper is running a poll to see if people are interested in the PowerPC chip</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Aug 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/1904"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1904', 'show')">New TidBITS Web URL</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1904" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1904">Due to various changes at Dartmouth, the URL for the World-Wide Web version of TidBITS has changed. The new URL is:http://mmm.dartmouth.edu/pages/tidbits/ tidbits.html</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 25 Jul 1994</div></div>
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