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<h6>Launching Maps from Address Book</h6>
<p><p>Need fast directions to a contact's location in Address Book? By Control-clicking on the contact's address and selecting "Map Of" from the resulting menu, a Google map displaying the location immediately opens in your browser.</p></p>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1445" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1445">Eric Garneau recently directed our attention to Everything Macintosh, an excellent Web page that brings together a huge number of links to Macintosh-related resources</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> | 12 Jun 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1448"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1448', 'show')">The Big Gulp Continues</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1448" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1448">After last week's move by AOL to purchase GNN and WebCrawler, Internet access provider PSI decided to show its hand and purchase Mac developers Software Ventures and InterCon</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> | 12 Jun 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1449"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1449', 'show')">AOL Acquisitions & Web Follow-up</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1449" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1449">A few people with more financial knowledge than I have set me straight on the fact that when one company acquires another by paying in stock, it doesn't hurt the purchasing company particularly at all, especially if the companies being bought have no liabilities</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> | 12 Jun 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1450"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1450', 'show')">Key Chain for the Web Follow-up</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1450" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1450">A number of people wrote in about my editorial in TidBITS-279 that proposed that Web browsers support the PowerTalk Key Chain (or at least something akin to it) to deal with the many authenticated Web sites springing up.Andrew Anker , president of HotWired Ventures wrote to defend HotWired's use of authentication:We actually offer a number of sophisticated features that result from our use of authentication</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> | 12 Jun 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1453" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1453">Last Saturday night marked an interesting point in the development of the Internet as a multimedia delivery system. We were invited to the offices of Point of Presence Company in Seattle to watch the first full-length feature film (called Party Girl) played live over the Internet via CU-SeeMe</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 Jun 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1459" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1459">Actually AOL hasn't bought everyone just yet, but at the rate they are acquiring companies, they'll put even acquisition-hungry Symantec to shame. There have been a number of purchases, so sit down, catch your breath, and pay attention to the new list of AOL's wholly-owned subsidiaries.The first purchase in recent history was AOL's acquisition of WAIS, Inc., the firm that spun off from Thinking Machines after the development of the WAIS (Wide Area Information Servers) technology</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 Jun 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1463" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1463">This issue is a touch late partly due to the Memorial Day holiday in the U.S., and partly due to us helping Chad and Galen Magendanz ShrinkWrap their apartment and mount the resulting disk image in their new house</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 May 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1469"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1469', 'show')">PowerTalk to the Rescue?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1469" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1469">I'm no fan of PowerTalk, but I've found the perfect use for part of the PowerTalk technology that could not only make the Web easier to use but could also give the Macintosh a notable advantage over other platforms</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 May 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1474"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1474', 'show')">Windows 95 Internet Tools</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1474" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1474">Windows 95 Internet Tools -- I implied in the Cyberdog article in TidBITS-277 that Windows 95 wouldn't come with Internet tools. That's sort of true - the latest word is that the Microsoft Plus Pack will contain the Web browser, the SMTP/POP extensions for Microsoft Exchange, extensions that map Windows 95 Shortcuts (they're like hard-coded aliases) to URLs, and a setup wizard</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 May 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1478"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1478', 'show')">Listen to Some RealAudio, or The Birth of InteRadio</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1478" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1478">I'm increasingly unimpressed by the so-called Internet breakthroughs that continually appear. Most trumpet their presence then fade away because they need too much bandwidth, are badly done, or don't solve any existing problems</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 May 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1485" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1485">More PIMs, Now -- Late last month, Adobe and Now Software announced that Now Software would take over the development, marketing, and support of Adobe's DateBook (for both Mac and Windows) and TouchBase personal information managers</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 May 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1486"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1486', 'show')">Macs Control Windows</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1486" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1486">Macs Control Windows -- Last week Farallon announced Timbuktu Pro for Windows, a program that enables collaboration between Windows and Macintosh users over local networks or over 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> | 15 May 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1487" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1487">Two of the more important products revealed at last week's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), OpenDoc and Cyberdog, may find themselves among the most important products in Apple's near future.OpenDoc (see TidBITS-256) is a next-generation model of software that uses small, reusable components that can be combined in different ways to create the equivalent of today's programs (although that's not to say that OpenDoc parts can't be combined in unique ways)</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 May 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1488"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1488', 'show')">Making Choices: Desktop Launchers, Part III of IV</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1488" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1488">Welcome yet another installment of our series about desktop launchers. Parts I and II covered DragStrip and Square One, two commercial desktop launchers</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 May 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1490" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1490">InfoSeek has made a number of changes recently that might be of interest. They've added a 20 cent per search "pay as you go" plan and a $1.95 per month for 10 free searches plan for less frequent users, brought online several new databases of information (including a database of 200,000 Web pages), made the full text of InfoWorld part of the Computer Periodicals standard collection rather than a premium collection, and created a Personal Newswire service that enables you to record and replay frequent searches</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 May 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1494" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1494">My review of Aladdin Desktop Tools in TidBITS-275 prompted a number of email messages last week, a few due to an oversight about SpeedyFinder7, and a few due to points I missed or cut for space reasons.First, I must clarify that SpeedyFinder7 has been removed from distribution</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 May 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1503"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1503', 'show')">Aladdin Desktop Tools Goes to Work</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1503" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1503">After an extremely long commute, Aladdin Desktop Tools (ADT) has finally arrived for work, and some users - especially those who have bought other Aladdin products - will appreciate this set of seven utilities.I do wonder how well ADT will do in the marketplace, since a number of utility packages have come and gone since this project started at Aladdin</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 May 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1516"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1516', 'show')">CompuServe as a PPP Internet Provider</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1516" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1516">CompuServe recently announced that it's upping the ante on Internet access from commercial online services by providing Web access via its own 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> and <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 24 Apr 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1520"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1520', 'show')">The Third GVU World-Wide Web User Survey</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1520" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1520">The Third GVU World-Wide Web User Survey has started, and we encourage TidBITS readers to go and be counted. One of the problems that has stymied people trying to figure out who uses the Internet is that there isn't much hard research</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> | 17 Apr 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1523" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1523">This issue marks the fifth year of TidBITS, making it one of the oldest edited electronic publications on the Internet. We have survived 273 issues, a format change from HyperCard to setext at TidBITS-100, the rise of the World-Wide Web, and the inevitable burnout that Tonya and Geoff have helped eliminate from what is no longer a one-person job</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> | 17 Apr 1995</div></div>
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