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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1961" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1961">According to MacWEEK, Apple's eWorld online service is here, opening its doors today to thousands of people. TidBITS should appear on eWorld officially at some point, but despite some external efforts, Apple Online Services still has yet to send us a contract</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> | 20 Jun 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1963" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1963">Randy Gresham passed on a URL for a Web server that provides stock quotes. You must know the ticker symbol (AAPL for Apple), and quotes are delayed somewhere between 15 and 60 minutes</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> | 20 Jun 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/1964"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1964', 'show')">A new PC emulator</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1964" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1964">A new PC emulator from a small Arizona company called Utilities Unlimited International can supposedly run PC software on a Power Mac at Pentium speeds</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> | 20 Jun 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/1965"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1965', 'show')">MacUser arrives on the Internet</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1965" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1965">MacUser arrives on the Internet in the form of an email address for sending letters to the editor. The address now accepts comments about MacUser or the state of the Mac for consideration for publication</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> | 20 Jun 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/1966"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1966', 'show')">InterOp Apple Rumors</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1966" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1966">Pythaeus passed on various rumors regarding Apple from the InterOp conference a while back, and I thought those of you on the Internet might find them intriguing.Apple was somewhat clandestinely demonstrating a DDP-to-IP gateway for the Apple Internet Router 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> | 20 Jun 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1969" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1969">One of the problems that Apple has faced with the Power Macs is that SoftWindows doesn't always behave as you might expect a real PC-clone to behave. That's not surprising, given that SoftWindows does in software what a PC does in hardware</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> | 20 Jun 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1980" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1980">Matt Neuburg's article above touched a nerve in me almost immediately, not so much because I disagree with him (I don't) but because I've had a number of email discussions with people over the last few months that tie into 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> | 13 Jun 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/1982"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1982', 'show')">TidBITS Web URL Change</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1982" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1982">The URL for the TidBITS World-Wide Web home page has changed slightly due to some changes on the server. It is now:http://www.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> | 06 Jun 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1983" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1983">Internet Providers! -- In an attempt to provide more complete information about Internet providers in the second edition of Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh, I'm seeking information about providers around the world who are not listed in Peter Kaminski's excellent PDIAL 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> | 06 Jun 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1984" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1984">Pythaeus notes in relation to our question about what happens to the LC line now that Performas can be sold into the higher education channel that the LC line (including a new one numbered 636, so they're not ditching the line entirely) will stick around only in the K-12 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> | 06 Jun 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/1985"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1985', 'show')">AOL & Internet - The Real Story</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1985" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1985">Thanks to Art Sanderson and Sunil Paul at America Online, we finally have the real details on accessing America Online via the Internet. From what they tell us, the information about the beta program provided over the phone and then reported to us is almost completely wrong</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> | 06 Jun 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1989" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1989">[Excerpted from Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh, 2nd edition.]A few days ago, while browsing through comp.sys.mac.comm, I spotted an announcement for a new World-Wide Web browser called MacWeb, written by John Hardin for MCC's EINet 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> | 06 Jun 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1991" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1991">I'm in crunch mode again to finish the text of the second edition of Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh, so if you could send TidBITS-related mail to Tonya at , I'd appreciate 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> | 30 May 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1992" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1992">Macintosh Updates Updated -- We just released a new version of the Macintosh Updates database (with all the formats in the same archive, along with a text-only file) and I've uploaded to all the usual places</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 May 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/1994"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1994', 'show')">Performas are moving</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1994" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1994">Performas are moving into the higher-education retail channels, just to confuse matters when you're buying a Macintosh. This means that colleges and universities can now compete with Big Bob's Computer and Vegetable Warehouse (our motto, "Buy a Performa, get a rutabaga free!")</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 May 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1996" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1996">An alert reader writes to report on a phone call with America Online's tech support. Like many other people who have called, the phone person at first didn't know what our alert reader was talking about in relation to the America Online TCP/IP Internet access we reported on after hearing about it on Usenet</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 May 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3923" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3923">Sorry for the slight delay on this issue - we were out of town visiting family and couldn't face putting out the issue late at night after dining in the airplane's sumptuous surroundings and enjoying the scintillating entertainment</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 May 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/3926"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('3926', 'show')">SuperMac and Radius</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3926" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3926">SuperMac and Radius announced plans to merge in an $80.5 million stock swap. The combined company will have revenues of $340 million, and in standard merger propaganda, said that they intended to market and support all major products from both companies</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 May 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/3928"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('3928', 'show')">America Online via the Internet</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3928" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3928">America Online via the Internet is indeed much faster if you have a direct connection to the Internet, and some have reported faster connections even over modems with SLIP and PPP</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 May 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/3930"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('3930', 'show')">Apples and TV Oranges?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3930" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3930">Pythaeus passed on some interesting information from the World-Wide Developers Conference that Apple held recently. Two of the important and somewhat related technologies that showed there (although one to a limited audience) were QuickTime 2.0 and ITV</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 May 1994</div></div>
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