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<a href="/article/1054"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1054', 'show')">Apple to Lose $700 Million</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1054" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1054">Apple to Lose $700 Million -- In a press release last week, Apple CEO Gil Amelio announced that Apple anticipates posting a net after-tax loss of about $700 million for the second fiscal quarter</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Apr 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1055"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1055', 'show')">QuickDNS Pro 1.1 Released</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1055" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1055">QuickDNS Pro 1.1 Released -- Men & Mice of Reykjavik, Iceland has released QuickDNS Pro 1.1, which brings a fully-featured domain name server to the Macintosh</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Apr 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1057" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1057">GeoPort News -- A common question we receive at TidBITS concerns faster versions of Apple's GeoPort Telecom Adapter. We often avoid writing about unreleased products because such articles tend to result in a flurry of messages asking where to buy the unavailable product</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Apr 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1058" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1058">AISS Upgrades -- In TidBITS-317 I commented that upgrades for the software bundled with the Apple Internet Server Solution 1.0 depended on each individual software company</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Apr 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1061"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1061', 'show')">Open Door Enables Multihomed Web Servers</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1061" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1061">The ability to serve multiple domains from a single Mac is perhaps the most commonly requested feature on mailing lists related to running Macintosh Web servers</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Apr 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1062"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1062', 'show')">InterviewBITS with Darryl Peck, Part 2 of 2</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1062" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1062">Welcome to the second and final installment of the Darryl Peck interview. Last week, in TidBITS-320, Darryl, , talked about how he became a Macintosh enthusiast and his experiences in running Inline Design</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Apr 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1072" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1072">Netscape plug-ins are all the rage these days (see Jeff Carlson's MailBIT above), stuffing multimedia features galore into the overburdened Netscape Navigator browser window</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Apr 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1075" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1075">The Macintosh was treated to a blast from the past today, as startup Dogcow Software announced that it has acquired rights to the popular disk editor FEdit from its original developers</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 01 Apr 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1077" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1077">If you're interested in reading a short interview I did recently and learning more about the computer book industry, check out: [ACE]</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 Mar 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1078" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1078">EarthLink Network Sponsoring TidBITS -- We're pleased to welcome our latest sponsor, the national Internet provider EarthLink Network. EarthLink is best known for expanding from being a Los Angeles-area provider to offering flat-rate nationwide dialup service in 210 cities and also an inexpensive (as it goes) 800 number for dialup access</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 Mar 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1079"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1079', 'show')">Newtons in the Dark</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1079" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1079">Newtons in the Dark -- Apple recently announced the Newton MessagePad 130, which resembles its predecessor, the MessagePad 120, but adds several key features, including a user-controllable backlit screen, a new writing surface that's more durable and less prone to glare, and 512K of additional system memory</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 Mar 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1083"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1083', 'show')">InterviewBITS with Darryl Peck, Part 1 of 2</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1083" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1083">Welcome to the second installment of InterviewBITS. This interview is with Darryl Peck whose name is less familiar than that of our previous interviewee, Peter N Lewis</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 Mar 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1091"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1091', 'show')">Cool Tools - Where are They Now?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1091" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1091">In his interview in TidBITS-305, Peter Lewis suggested checking in on the recipients of Apple's Cool Tools Awards from September of 1994. It was such a good suggestion that I gathered up email addresses for those folks and sent out some queries, and I received responses from everyone other than the Cornell CU-SeeMe folks</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> | 18 Mar 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1093" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1093">Thanks to a number of enthusiastic volunteers, TidBITS is now available in French, Spanish, Chinese (Big-5) along with Japanese (Kanji) and German. We hope to add Dutch, Italian, and Portuguese as well</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> | 11 Mar 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1097"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1097', 'show')">Requiem for a Featherweight</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1097" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1097">Gil Amelio wasted no time focusing Apple's attention on projects at the core of the company's business. As of 31-Mar-96, Apple will discontinue its online service eWorld and turn to America Online for help</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> | 11 Mar 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1098"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1098', 'show')">Personal Web Publishing Redux</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1098" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1098">A number of folks wrote in regard to my article about personal Web publishing in TidBITS-316, but Scott Dickson and John Kawakami offered a more realistic and generally better solution to some of the problems I outlined: a Web folder synchronization utility.Most people use Internet through a local Internet provider (or even one of the commercial services like AOL and CompuServe) have access to some space on that provider's Web server</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> | 11 Mar 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1104"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1104', 'show')">Help Apple's Internet Story</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1104" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1104">In TidBITS-311 I wrote about a dinner Apple gave at Macworld Expo to solicit feedback from various Internet folks. In that article I said Apple planned to set up a way for you to provide your opinion on how Apple should market the Mac as an Internet machine</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> | 04 Mar 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1105"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1105', 'show')">Serving Up Servers</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1105" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1105">Last week Apple announced a slew of new servers, ranging from the high-end Network Servers to the second release of the popular Apple Internet Server Solution machines</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> | 04 Mar 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1109" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1109">NetDay 96 -- On 09-Mar-96, thousands of volunteers in California will go to their local schools and help connect them to the Internet. In each school, volunteers will pull Category 5 twisted pair cable from five classrooms and a library or computer lab to a central wiring closet</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> | 26 Feb 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1111"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1111', 'show')">Cheap Macs Via Apple Employees</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1111" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1111">Cheap Macs Via Apple Employees -- Through 31-Mar-96, Apple is running a program that allows employees to purchase up to four Macs, four Newtons, and four printers at seriously low prices</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> | 26 Feb 1996</div></div>
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