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<p><p>Can't tell if you've turned off your Apple Wireless Keyboard to prevent it from waking up an iOS device or running down its batteries? Tap the Caps Lock key, and if it illuminates, the keyboard is on; otherwise not.</p></p>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1725" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1725">Internet mailing lists are often hard to find, since there are so many. However, there's a Web page that supposedly lists all of them. It enables you to sort alphabetically or by category, and when you sort by category, you can get more detailed information on the 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> | 28 Nov 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1729" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1729">DeskTape Price -- Oops, the list price I quoted for DeskTape in TidBITS-253 was out of date. The current list price is $329, and you can get it via mail order from Club Mac for $289</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> | 28 Nov 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/1730"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1730', 'show')">Dantz Development Contact Info</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1730" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1730">Dantz Development Contact Info -- I keep accidently including old phone numbers and contact information for Dantz Development because I go back to old TidBITS issues to extract 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> | 28 Nov 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/1731"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1731', 'show')">Mosaic Name Changes</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1731" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1731">Mosaic Name Changes -- While I'm cleaning up administrative details, it's worth noting that Mosaic Communications Corporation has changed its name to Netscape Communications Corporation and the name of its excellent Web browser from Mosaic Netscape to Netscape</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> | 28 Nov 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/1733"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1733', 'show')">I Don't Think We're in Kansas Anymore</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1733" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1733">Life isn't as simple as it used to be in the Mac world. A few weeks ago, I decided the time had come for some fall cleaning on my Mac. A few things were happening on my hard disk that I couldn't quite explain (disk accesses at strange times, primarily), and I wanted to install System 7.5, a SCSI Manager 4.3-savvy driver, and generally fix things up</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> | 28 Nov 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1735" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1735">For all those who have been asking, Tonya is recovering nicely from her neck injury of five weeks ago. It's been a slow process, but luckily she has the luxury of healing properly</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> | 21 Nov 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/1736"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1736', 'show')">APS on the Internet</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1736" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1736">APS on the Internet -- Two weeks ago, I visited APS after giving an Internet presentation the night before to a great crowd at the Kansas City MacCORE users' group</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> | 21 Nov 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/1740"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1740', 'show')">DeskTape as a TapeWORM</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1740" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1740">These days, people mainly use removable storage media for distribution, backup, and data sharing. SyQuests are perhaps the most common removable media, but the most frequently used SyQuests are limited to 44 and 88 MB of data</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> | 21 Nov 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/1748"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1748', 'show')">Mainlining the Internet</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1748" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1748">Tonya and I recently put in a direct connection to the Internet, and I promised to pass on some of the details so others would know just how hard it is</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> | 14 Nov 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1750" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1750">We very much appreciates the email condolences we've received in regard to Tonya's neck injury, and we'd especially like to thank Martin Stoermer of the University of Queensland in Australia for collecting get-well messages from lots of wonderful people on several mailing lists</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> | 07 Nov 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/1751"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1751', 'show')">TidBITS Web Server Moves</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1751" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1751">TidBITS Web Server Moves -- Andy Williams of Dartmouth College, who runs the public TidBITS Web server recently moved it to a more capable machine to improve access and reliability</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> | 07 Nov 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1756" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1756">One of the least well-publicized bits of semi-recent technology from Apple has been SCSI Manager 4.3, which I've seen discussed mostly in MacWEEK, primarily in Ric Ford's MacInTouch columns</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> | 07 Nov 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1758" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1758">Just a quick note to let people know that the mirror script for the utilities directory on now works properly, so it holds Internet and communication utilities from various parts of the Info-Mac Archive.ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/tisk/util/</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> | 31 Oct 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/1759"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1759', 'show')">Power Mac 8100/110</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1759" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1759">Power Mac 8100/110 -- Look for Apple to announce a new, faster Power Mac 8100 next week. The Power Mac 8100/110 uses a 110 MHz PowerPC 601 chip, has a 256K cache, and will ship in a configuration with 16 MB of RAM, a 2 GB hard drive, and 2 MB of VRAM</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> | 31 Oct 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1763" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1763">PlainTalk Easter Egg -- Marcus Stewart passes on an Easter Egg that we hadn't heard about yet. Apparently, if, using PlainTalk 1.3, you ask, "Computer, are there any Easter Eggs?" it will respond with "If there were any do you think I would tell you?" Nice to have computers that are up front about all this</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> | 31 Oct 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/1764"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1764', 'show')">International Internet Initiatives</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1764" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1764">Last week's article about free Internet access in Bologna, Italy prompted a number of responses from other parts of the world that are also providing free Internet access to citizens, as well as a comment about Bologna's history of innovation.Frans Hoffman writes:The Digital City in Amsterdam has been offering free access in Amsterdam and surroundings since January 1st, 1994</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> | 31 Oct 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1770" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1770">It was a dark and stormy night that Thursday the 13th of October, and the pavement had broken out into an oily sheen of sweat. And then, to use the Reagan/Bush passive voice cop-out, mistakes were made, resulting in an automobile accident involving Tonya and our Honda Civic</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> | 24 Oct 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1771" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1771">Internet Video -- One of the things I'm doing in the next few weeks is working on a video about the Internet, and the producer is looking for images to use in 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> | 24 Oct 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/1781"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1781', 'show')">Free Internet Access in Italy</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1781" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1781">Mario Marinelli tells us that, in what may be a first, the Italian city of Bologna now provides free Internet access to all its citizens.http://www.infn.it/pub/CNAF/Bologna.htmlCINECA, a semi-public organization owned in part by the City of Bologna, has leased a 128K high speed link to the Internet and provides Internet access in several ways, including basic Unix shell accounts, a BBS (probably SoftArc's FirstClass) that will provide news and email, and also, for a fee of $20 per month, SLIP or PPP accounts for more advanced users who want their own Internet nodes</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> | 24 Oct 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/1783"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1783', 'show')">Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh, Second Edition</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1783" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1783">The second edition of Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh ($29.95, ISBN 1-56830-111-1) should be readily available now. You can still order direct from Hayden with a 20 percent discount, just send email to for the information</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> | 24 Oct 1994</div></div>
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