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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_991" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_991">Metrowerks recently announced the availability of CodeWarrior 9, the latest installment of its Mac software development environment. CodeWarrior 9 offers full support for Java as well as third-party plug-ins, including compilers from Apple and Motorola</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> | 20 May 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/995"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('995', 'show')">Crazy Ideas from Apple</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_995" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_995">Over the years, Apple has talked about, released, and made popular all kinds of new products: personal computers with graphical user interfaces, PostScript printers, Newtons, personal file sharing, and more</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> | 20 May 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_998" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_998">StuffIt Expander 4.0.1, DropStuff 4.0 -- Last week, Aladdin Systems released new versions of their popular utilities StuffIt Expander and DropStuff with Expander Enhancer</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> | 13 May 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1000"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1000', 'show')">DNS on Macintosh Heats Up</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1000" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1000">DNS on Macintosh Heats Up -- Apple has released version 1.0.2 of MacDNS (its DNS server software) for free. (DNS software maps the names of Internet machines to their IP addresses; before Macs had DNS capabilities, they were forced to rely on other platforms for DNS service.) MacDNS is included in Apple's Internet Server Solution package, and while it seems to function relatively well, it has been criticized for not providing recursive or secondary name service.Not to be out-done, Men & Mice of Reykjavik, Iceland, released the results of performance comparisons between MacDNS, Unix BIND, and their QuickDNS Pro product</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> | 13 May 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1001" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1001">AOL 2.7 -- America Online released version 2.7 of its client software last week. The new version fixes a number of outstanding bugs and offers an improved Web browser, although Web performance through AOL's network still seems quite slow (although that's not the browser's fault)</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> | 13 May 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1003" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1003">Each year, Apple's World Wide Developer's Conference in San Jose spawns a host of product releases and announcement and, as usual with any trade show or conference these days, the emphasis is on the Internet</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> | 13 May 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1005"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1005', 'show')">Waiting with Beta'd Breath</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1005" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1005">It's funny, but at TidBITS hardly a day goes by that we don't hear about some new piece of "beta" software. Maybe it's a utility program, a Web browser, a plug-in, or a major commercial application</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> | 13 May 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1007"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1007', 'show')">IBM Gets Wide-Ranging Mac OS License</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1007" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1007">IBM Gets Wide-Ranging Mac OS License -- As noted in TidBITS-324, IBM today announced an agreement with Apple allowing it to sell PowerPC processors along with a Mac OS sub-license to any manufacturer</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> | 06 May 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1008"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1008', 'show')">PowerTower & PowerCenter</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1008" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1008">PowerTower & PowerCenter -- Power Computing announced two new lines of Mac clones last week, including a machine that qualifies as the fastest single-processor Mac available</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> | 06 May 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1009" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1009">WebHead Update -- No sooner do I write an article on recent Web browser updates (see TidBITS-326) than it's, well, out-of-date. Netscape released version 2.02 or Navigator last week (primarily fixing security problems); NCSA released 3.0b2 of Mosaic, and beta 4 of Apple's Cyberdog is now available (if you have a Power Mac and OpenDoc)</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> | 06 May 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1010" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1010">Quicken 6 R7 -- Intuit has release R7 of Quicken 6.0 for Macintosh, which is supposed to address limitations of Quicken's online banking features and "a few" other problems reported by customers</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> | 06 May 1996</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1011" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1011">Apple announced last week it has licensed Sun's Java programming environment, joining the massive list of current Java licensees. Apple says it plans to integrate Java into its operating systems (including the Mac OS, the Newton, and Pippin) as well as in media and Internet technologies, including Cyberdog</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> | 06 May 1996</div></div>
<a href="/article/1015"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1015', 'show')">Holding Your Breath?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1015" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1015">Holding Your Breath? Apple is expected to announce this week that Copland (the codename for the next major version of the Mac OS) will not ship until mid-1997, some six months after the previous estimate</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1016" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1016">ShrinkWrap 2.0 -- Chad Magendanz has released a major upgrade to his popular disk image utility ShrinkWrap. ShrinkWrap 2.0 supports large volumes (such as CD-ROMs, hard disks, and removable media), self-mounting disk images, and new image formats (including DiskDup+, Apple Drive Containers, and PC disk image files)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/1019"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1019', 'show')">Browsers on the Brain</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1019" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1019">Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the Web, there's a flare-up in the mind-share wars between Web browsers. Here's a quick run-down of some recent forays.NCSA Mosaic 3.0b1 -- Remember Mosaic, the program that started the avalanche of enthusiasm for the Web? NCSA has released a beta of Mosaic 3.0 for Macintosh, featuring support for Internet Config, Open Transport, and a variety of HTML 3.0 tags</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/1024"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1024', 'show')">Apple Unveils Four New Power Macs, Upgrade Cards</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1024" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1024">Apple Unveils Four New Power Macs, Upgrade Cards -- Today Apple unveiled four new PowerPC 604-based Power Macs: the 9500/150, 8500/150, and 8500/132 (essentially faster versions of current 9500 and 8500 models), plus the Power Mac 7600/120</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/1025"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1025', 'show')">New All-In-One Macs for Education</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1025" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1025">New All-In-One Macs for Education -- Last week Apple announced the Power Macintosh 5260/100 and 5400/120, which are specifically targeted at the education market</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/1026"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1026', 'show')">Apple PC Compatibility Cards for Power Macs</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1026" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1026">Apple PC Compatibility Cards for Power Macs -- Apple has officially announced its next generation of PC Compatibility cards, designed to provide Windows and MS-DOS capability to PCI Power Macs</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/1034"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1034', 'show')">Nagel to Head AT&T Labs</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1034" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1034">Nagel to Head AT&T Labs -- AT&T announced today Dave Nagel will leave his position as senior vice president at Apple Computer to become the first president of AT&T Labs</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/1036"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1036', 'show')">New QTVR Tools and Developer Info</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1036" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1036">New QTVR Tools and Developer Info -- Finally showing motion with its much-touted QuickTime VR technology, Apple is distributing pre-release versions two new QTVR tools to assist authors with making QuickTime VR panoramas and objects from photographs or computer-generated images</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->