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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4210" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4210">Speed Doubler 8 -- Connectix has shipped Speed Doubler 8, which adds Mac OS 8 compatibility and a few new features. Speed Doubler's goal is to enhance performance (see the full review of Speed Doubler 1.0 in TidBITS-292), and Speed Doubler 8 speeds up local and network file copies, disk caching, and (on PowerPC systems only) includes a dynamic recompilation 68K emulator that can be almost twice as fast as Apple's - handy when using 68K programs and system components, like AppleScript and the still widely used Microsoft Word 5.1</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 27 Oct 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4093" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4093">Cracked! To the surprise of the Macintosh Internet community, the second-generation Crack-A-Mac Web server security challenge noted in TidBITS-387 was successfully defeated last week</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 18 Aug 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4079"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4079', 'show')">Kicking the Tires on Mac OS 8</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4079" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4079">Last week's article in TidBITS-389 gave an overview of some of the new capabilities and features in Mac OS 8. This article looks at some subtler real-world and technical details.To determine what I should put in this article, I watched as two people used Mac OS 8 for the first time on one of my machines</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/2698"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2698', 'show')">Apple Double-Clicks Mac OS 8</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2698" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2698">This week, Apple will officially release Mac OS 8, a new version of the Macintosh operating system, billed as the most significant update since 1984 (expect ads with a flying saucer motif)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2219" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2219">Disinfectant 3.7.1 -- On the heels of last week's Disinfectant 3.7, John Norstad has released Disinfectant 3.7.1, which corrects an error that could cause a crash while scanning some rare types of large resource files</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/2220"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2220', 'show')">Amelio & Hancock Resign from Apple</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2220" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2220">On 09-Jul-97, Apple Computer announced Gilbert Amelio had resigned as CEO and chairman of Apple Computer. Amelio replaced Michael Spindler as Apple CEO in February of 1996, making his tenure at Apple slightly more than 17 months</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2211" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2211">Disinfectant 3.7 -- John Norstad has released version 3.7 of his venerable anti-virus utility Disinfectant, this time to combat a variation on the MBDF B virus that was detected correctly by the Disinfectant INIT, but not by the application itself</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/2213"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2213', 'show')">Power to the Public</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2213" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2213">Power to the Public -- Last week, documents filed by Power Computing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission revealed that Power Computing plans to become a publicly held company with an initial offering of about three million shares of stock</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/2214"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2214', 'show')">No Sense of Security?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2214" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2214">No Sense of Security? Following my article on Macintosh security challenges in TidBITS-385, I've learned about Dr. John D. Howard's Ph.D. dissertation, which analyzes trends in Internet security from 1989 to 1995 using about 4,300 incidents reported to the Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/2207"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2207', 'show')">Straight from the RumorMill</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2207" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2207">Straight from the RumorMill -- Fans of Peter Lewis and Stairways Software will be pleased to note the release of RumorMill 1.0, a $35 shareware Usenet news server for the Mac</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 30 Jun 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/2204"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2204', 'show')">The Mac Security Challenge Fad</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2204" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2204">Computer security - or, rather, computer data security - is not a new idea. For as long as sensitive information has been stored on punch cards, tapes, and disks, money has been changing hands to make sure that information cannot be accessed without permission</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 23 Jun 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/2179"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2179', 'show')">Yellow Box, Blue Box, Rhapsody & WWDC</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2179" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2179">Every year, Apple puts on the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), a pricey technical get-together for serious Macintosh programmers. Unlike trade shows such as Macworld Expo, WWDC isn't packed with hundreds of vendors; bag-carrying, button-clad attendees; and stages awash with marketers, headset microphones, and plenty of styling gel</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 26 May 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/2165"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2165', 'show')">Even Sexier Wax for Your Browser</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2165" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2165">Maybe it was the steamy title, but Adam's article "Sex Wax Your Browser" in TidBITS-377 (which contained a few tips for efficiently using Web browsers) generated a surprisingly large email response from TidBITS readers</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Geoff%20Duncan">Geoff Duncan</a> | 05 May 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/2157"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2157', 'show')">Info-Mac Back Online</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2157" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2157">Info-Mac Back Online -- After a longer-than-expected hiatus, the Info-Mac archive is up and running at its new home. Unlike the old sumex-aim archive, the new Info-Mac location is not available for anonymous FTP; instead, Info-Mac users need to access the archive using one of the dozens of mirror sites around the world (including the Info-Mac HyperArchive at MIT, AOL's Info-Mac mirror, the selective mirror of the Info-Mac comm directory maintained on TidBITS' FTP site, among many others).The Info-Mac Digest has resumed mailing and posts to the newsgroup, and the Info-Mac moderators have worked their</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2158" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2158">Cyberdog 2.0 -- Apple recently released version 2.0 of Cyberdog, its OpenDoc-based set of Internet tools. This is the version that's expected to ship with Mac OS 8 this July, and it features improved HTML support and performance (especially with Web pages and email handling), the ability to handle multiple email accounts, and Cyberdog DocBuilder for making custom Internet front-ends</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/2159"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2159', 'show')">Do You Re-distribute TidBITS?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2159" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2159">Do You Re-distribute TidBITS? Each week, a number of people receive TidBITS issues that are redistributed via private mailing lists or online forums, rather than via direct email subscriptions</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_660" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_660">Apple Price Cuts -- Last week, Apple announced $200 price cuts on Performa 6360 and 6400-series computers, but (more significantly) cut some prices in the PowerBook 1400 line by more than 30 percent</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_669" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_669">Crack Proof -- In TidBITS-365, we noted the two-month "Crack A Mac" challenge being held in Sweden, offering a cash prize to anyone able to change the contents of a Web page running on a standard Mac OS Web server</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_673" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_673">Microsoft Buying WebTV -- On 06-Apr-97, Microsoft announced a surprising $425 million dollar stock and cash deal to buy WebTV Networks, Inc., makers of the WebTV set-top box that enables users to surf the Web via their television (see TidBITS-367)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_675" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_675">Microsoft says thanks to the TidBITS and Evangelist readers who took part in the "Mac-likeness" survey mentioned in TidBITS-372. Despite problems with their server, Microsoft collected more than ten times the data it was looking for in a week and a half, and says it received a strong message about what Macintosh users expect from software</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
