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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3164" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3164">There has been a flurry of discussion on CompuServe about a controversial implementation decision that Salient made when creating AutoDoubler. For those of you who haven't paid much attention to compression software, AutoDoubler is a program that compresses files on your hard disk while you aren't using the Mac and then expands them quickly when you open them</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> | 30 Mar 1992</div></div>
<a href="/article/3165"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('3165', 'show')">Apple Distribution Changes</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3165" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3165">You won't be able to pick up a Classic at your local fruit stand, but given the recent changes in Apple's distribution channels, that's not far off.The most recent, and in some ways most shocking, change is that Apple will be working with Sears to sell special Macintosh bundles</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> | 30 Mar 1992</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3168" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3168">Michel Langereis writes, "The 1992 MACWORLD Expo Benelux, to be held in Amsterdam from May 4th to 6th, has been cancelled, as confirmed by the organizers</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> | 23 Mar 1992</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3169" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3169">PowerBook Modem Fix? -- Jonathan Feinstein of Shrink2Fit Software passes along a useful hint for people having problems connecting to remote modems from their PowerBook's internal Apple modem</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> | 23 Mar 1992</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3170" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3170">Pythaeus tells us that Apple is preparing to ship its internal 80 MB hard disk drives for the PowerBook series. This should come as welcome news for PowerBook power users who have been feeling scrunched between the small 20 MB and 40 MB standard hard drives that have been shipping in Apple's notebooks.More interesting, and a bit more surprising, is the rumour that Apple will offer a trade-up deal to owners of the smaller drives</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> | 23 Mar 1992</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3172" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3172">These things come in fits and spurts. We went a long time without a new virus, and the world was a better place for it. Then wham, two viruses within a few weeks of each other</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> | 23 Mar 1992</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3173" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3173">QuickDraw was pretty neat when it came out, since it allowed the Mac to be a true graphics-based machine. Later on, Apple added color, turning it into Color QuickDraw, the standard in color-capable Macs today</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> | 23 Mar 1992</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3175" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3175">The unwashed masses of computer users do have clout, though it has seldom been used to effect change in the overall strategy of a company bent on, well, screwing its 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> | 23 Mar 1992</div></div>
<a href="/article/3176"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('3176', 'show')">Panorama II Clarifications</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3176" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3176">Well, no one's perfect, and I missed a few things in my review of Panorama II last week. My overall comments stand, but there are a few things I feel the need to clarify.It is easy to display the results of calculations on forms using what Panorama II calls an auto-wrap text object and a variable merged in with the text</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> | 23 Mar 1992</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3178" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3178">VIM explanation -- Roger D. Parish writes:I heard a good explanation for the "VIM" acronym at the SHARE IBM mainframe user's group conference in Anaheim last week: Vendors Ignoring Microsoft :-)Information from: Roger D</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> | 16 Mar 1992</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3179" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3179">A while back we ran an article about Downline, a utility that does a wonderful job at decoding Binhex files and StuffIt 1.5.1 archives. Of course, it would be nice if Downline understood Compact Pro and StuffIt Deluxe as well, since many people use those formats</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> | 16 Mar 1992</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3180" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3180">When NeXT or Amiga owners feel the need to disparage the Mac in conversation, they often mention the fact that Mac doesn't have "true" multitasking, tacking a little verbal sneer on the tail end of "true." That generally means that the Mac uses what's called "cooperative multitasking" instead of "pre-emptive multitasking."I'm telling you this because Apple announced last week that it will be remodeling the Macintosh operating system to add pre-emptive multitasking and other operating system goodies including multi-threading, memory protection, support for dynamic link libraries, and some new I/O (input/output) features that will help peripherals to keep up with the CPU</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> | 16 Mar 1992</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3181" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3181">Those of you who try to make it to every MACWORLD Expo possible have probably noticed that it's becoming harder and harder as World Expo increases the number of expos around the world</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> | 16 Mar 1992</div></div>
<a href="/article/3182"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('3182', 'show')">Panorama II Review</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3182" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3182">I think it's fair to say that everyone has need of some sort of database software, even if only for keeping track of names and addresses. I'll admit that I'm no database guru, although I have worked with Double Helix a bunch, rescued some data from an old version of R:Base, and fiddled with various other programs.For a long time I used HyperCard to do all my database work, but I was always frustrated by the way my stacks looked and worked, not to mention the fact that HyperCard is not exactly speedy</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> | 16 Mar 1992</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3184" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3184">Some of you may notice that this issue does not contain the "end" tags that we've used for the past few issues. We decided to take them out for several reasons</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> | 09 Mar 1992</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3185" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3185">Survey happenings -- Thanks to all those who have returned the survey! We've decided to stop considering survey entries for buttons as of 17-Mar-92, which is one month after we sent it out, so please get your survey in if you wish to be in the running for a button</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> | 09 Mar 1992</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3186" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3186">QuickMail comment -- Mark H. Anbinder writes in response to our comment last week that it would be silly to run a QuickMail client on an AppleShare Server 3.0 server machine:Nothing at all silly about it</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> | 09 Mar 1992</div></div>
<a href="/article/3188"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('3188', 'show')">Additions to Aldus</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3188" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3188">Quark XPress has had its XTensions out for a while, and Aldus is trying hard to catch up with Additions for PageMaker. Based on some of the ones we've seen, used, or heard about, PageMaker is well on its way in the race.A number of Additions ship with PageMaker, ranging from fairly simple ones to an Addition that takes a multiple page publication and rearranges all the items and pages so that it will print correctly so that it can easily be folded to create a booklet</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> | 09 Mar 1992</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3190" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3190">Almost everyone believes AppleEvents will be cool when applications start seriously using them. I think that's the appropriate belief; I just wish that AppleEvent-savvy applications would start saturating the market</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> | 09 Mar 1992</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3193" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3193">Anyone who has been to a Macworld Expo has probably seen the Voice Navigator people demonstrating how easy it is to create their corporate logo with Voice Navigator even when speaking at the speed of a trained auctioneer</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> | 09 Mar 1992</div></div>
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