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If you thought flu season was bad, just imagine what Word users
   with macro viruses are going through! This week we also bring you
   news on how to find Japanese and German versions of TidBITS, plus
   info on updates to Claris Emailer, HyperCard, and a new beta of
   Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Plus, Adam weighs in on Internet
   commerce (and tries to sell James Bond a new car), and Tonya
   rounds out the issue with a detailed review of SoftQuad's
   HoTMetaL PRO 2.0.

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Copyright 1990-1996 Adam & Tonya Engst. Details at end of issue.
   Information: <[e-mail]> Comments: <[e-mail]>
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Topics:
    MailBITS/12-Feb-96
    TidBITS Translations
    Net Commerce
    Getting Warmer: HoTMetaL PRO 2.0
    Reviews/12-Feb-96

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MailBITS/12-Feb-96
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**More Word Macro Viruses** -- According to a recent CIAC
  bulletin, new Microsoft Word macro viruses have been discovered,
  and at least two of the new varieties are damaging. (See TidBITS-
  312_ for a related story.)

http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/bulletins/g-10a.shtml

  Although the worst effects are still reserved for Windows users
  (apparently the virus engineers aren't up-to-date on cross-
  platform concerns), users of Microsoft Word 6.0 or 6.0.1 on the
  Macintosh should be concerned. Microsoft has released new tools to
  combat these viruses, and many commercial anti-virus products are
  being updated to detect them as well.

http://www.microsoft.com/msoffice/freestuf/msword/download/mvtool/mvtool2.htm

  I haven't examined or tested Microsoft's new virus protection
  tools, and though Microsoft claims these tools work on a
  Macintosh, they're posted in a self-extracting ZIP format for
  DOS/Windows machines. StuffIt Expander with Expander Enhancer will
  decompress the file; so will Thomas Brown's popular Mac shareware
  utility ZipIt. As with Microsoft's earlier anti-virus tool,
  Microsoft's new utility only scans files opened by choosing Open
  from the File menu; documents which are double-clicked in the
  Finder or chosen from the recent documents list are not scanned.
  Microsoft -- 206/635-7200 -- <[e-mail]> [GD]

ftp://mirror.aol.com/pub/info-mac/cmp/stuffit-expander-352.bin
ftp://mirror.aol.com/pub/info-mac/cmp/drop-stuff-with-ee-352.hqx
ftp://mirror.aol.com/pub/info-mac/cmp/zip-it-135.hqx


**Emailer 1.0v3 Updater** -- Fog City Software has released an
  updater for Claris Emailer which updates versions 1.0 and 1.0v2 to
  version 1.0v3. The update offers better support for enclosures and
  Internet Config, the ability to drag text files directly into
  messages, and the ability to set a default encoding for enclosures
  sent via the Internet. The update weighs in around 1.5 MB. [GD]

http://www.fogcity.com/10v3ReadMe.html
ftp://ftp.fogcity.com/pub/Emailer/Updates/10v3Update.hqx


**Internet Explorer Beta 2** -- Microsoft has released the second
  beta of its Internet Explorer Web browser for the Macintosh. (See
  TidBITS-311_.) In addition to several bug fixes, this version
  revises some of Internet Explorer's interface (including its
  History function, tool bar, settings, and keyboard shortcuts);
  unfortunately, it has yet to eliminate that embarrassing animated
  Windows logo, and it still creates one file per bookmark. Although
  I've seen mixed reports, in my experience this release is
  considerably less stable than the first beta. [GD]

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/mac/macdl.htm


**HyperCard 2.3.5 Stack Update** -- Apple has released a HyperCard
  2.3.5 update in the form of revised versions of the Color Tools,
  Power Tools, and Audio Help stacks. Most significantly, Audio Help
  now works properly on PCI Macs and has been revised significantly
  to conform more closely to Apple's guidelines for sound input. In
  addition, Color Tools should be more reliable on systems with the
  Japanese or Chinese Language Kits installed, and the Picture XCMD
  in the Power Tools stack has been updated to support HyperTalk's
  support for the clipboard property. The update is about 850K. [GD]

ftp://ftp.support.apple.com/pub/apple_sw_updates/US/mac/utils/
HC_2.3.5_Stacks.hqx


TidBITS Translations
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  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  Apart from an occasional translated issue, TidBITS has been
  written almost entirely in English throughout our almost six years
  of publication. That's because, quite simply, we aren't fluent in
  many other languages, and translation is hard work. Now, however,
  several teams of dedicated volunteers have been translating
  TidBITS into Japanese (Kanji) and into German. For their work,
  they've certainly earned our heartfelt thanks. Needless to say,
  the translations aren't available immediately after publication,
  but if reading English is difficult for you, the wait is probably
  worth it.


**Japanese** -- There are now twelve folks working on the Japanese
  translations of TidBITS, and they've been at it for several months
  now. You can receive TidBITS-J issues via a mailing list; to
  subscribe, send email to <[e-mail]> with "subscribe
  your email address" (replace "your email address" with your actual
  email address) in the body of the message. If you prefer to read
  TidBITS-J on the Web, the HTML version can be found at the first
  URL below, and the issues that go to the mailing list are archived
  for access via FTP. You can also find TidBITS-J on Nifty-Serve and
  some FirstClass BBSs; email <[e-mail]> for more
  information.

http://www.axes.co.jp/TidBITS-J/TidBITS-J.html
ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/issues/kanji/


**German** -- The German translations of TidBITS started
  relatively recently, and they are currently available only on the
  Web. They're done by Walter J. Ferstl, with invaluable assistance
  from his colleague, Gregor Retti. Due to the effort involved, not
  all issues are being translated. Still, some is better than none,
  if you want to read in German. You can find the TidBITS-Deutsch
  at:

http://www.carrier.co.at/res/mac/tidbits/


**Others?** If you're fluent in English and another language and
  have enough spare time on your hands to want to translate issues
  of TidBITS, let us know and we'll see how we can help.


Net Commerce
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  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  I wrote in TidBITS-311_ about Apple and marketing the Macintosh on
  the Internet, but - on further reflection - I don't think many
  companies take Internet marketing seriously. That may be because
  it's a totally different world than traditional marketing, and the
  folks making marketing decisions don't know how to take advantage
  of the Internet's strengths.

  I'd like to offer a few concepts to anyone doing business and
  trying to work on the Internet. First, think information. Fizzy
  Web pages that leave users with more questions than they had when
  they arrived are a bad thing. Provide _real_ information. Second,
  think community. For the most part, the Web stinks at creating
  community because it's so easy to pop from one site to another,
  and sites that require a userid and a password annoy users who
  must try to remember their userids and passwords. Mailing lists
  are ideal for creating community. Third, think customer contact.
  I'm talking about frequent contact here, via email and other
  methods, and aside from the obvious utility of staying in touch
  with the customer, consider the fact that contact promotes trust,
  which is tremendously important on the Internet.

  In the past, some of these concepts were hard to put into practice
  because the tools weren't present, and when they were, they
  weren't easy to experiment or play with. Now that problem no
  longer applies, thanks to cheap Apple Internet servers and a
  decent set of server software from a variety of companies. Of
  these companies, StarNine (now Quarterdeck) stands out, first
  because of WebSTAR, which they were clever enough to buy from
  Chuck Shotton back when it was MacHTTP, and also because of
  ListSTAR, which was developed internally and based in part on
  StarNine's email gateway code. Being acquired by Quarterdeck
  recently gave StarNine yet another Mac Internet server, an IRC
  server for the Mac called GlobalChat (currently in beta, due out
  in February).

  For the most part, I think StarNine realizes the power of Internet
  marketing. While we were at Macworld Expo, StarNine's Director of
  Marketing, David Thompson, gave us a demo that involved all the
  above tools along with the recently announced WebSTAR Commerce
  Toolkit (also in beta and due in February), a CGI that aids in
  creating sites that can accept payment over the Internet. More on
  that in a minute.

  Imagine, if you will, a European maker of expensive automobiles
  whose initials, to provide anonymity, are BMW. They recently paid
  what must have been a small fortune to have a new model featured
  in the latest James Bond flick. It had all sorts of features,
  probably including bulletproof glass, forward mounted missile
  launchers, and a passenger eject seat for getting rid of pesky
  co-stars. BMW could set up a Web site with WebSTAR, provide full
  specs on the car, and even include movies of it driving, blowing
  up bad guys, and so on. Of course, Java and Shockwave are just
  more data to WebSTAR, so yes, BMW could use them as well. But
  let's face it. The kind of people who buy this sort of car don't
  often need a test drive, so BMW could have a secured page served
  by WebSTAR/SSL (the secure version of WebSTAR) that let clients
  and secret agents order cars over the Web, pick whatever options
  seem appropriate, and then have the cars drop-shipped overnight to
  their mountaintop or undersea hideaways by Federal Express's
  Parachute Division (and tracked via the FedEx Web page).

http://www.fedex.com/

  The WebSTAR Commerce Toolkit, written by Chuck's cohort Louis
  Slothouber, lets customers choose payment options and calculate
  the total. It also works with First Virtual or a program called
  MacAuthorize to complete the transaction. First Virtual works best
  with information right now, but enables secure payment over the
  Internet, whereas MacAuthorize takes credit card numbers and
  authorizes them in real time. Great, so BMW has just sold a car
  for more money than the cost of most houses. But what next?

  The Web site could feature a form that lets customers join a
  ListSTAR-based mailing list devoted to discussion of the cars, a
  list where BMW employees spend time. After all, if BMW drivers are
  continually destroying traffic in front of them with missiles when
  they just want to change the radio station, that's something the
  engineers should know. The mailing list will also let customers
  share information about their cars, such as warnings about using
  the smoke screen in California because of strict pollution control
  laws. And, of course, the digests of those discussions should be
  converted to HTML and posted on the Web site to provide a
  searchable archive of the information.

  But a good marketing person shouldn't stop there, and our
  imaginary BMW marketing people do not. When they get the
  customer's email address as part of the order, they add the
  address to several lists. One of these lists is used to send out a
  letter from BMW soliciting comments about the purchase a month or
  so afterwards, perhaps directing customers to a Web-based survey
  form. Another list is used purely for information from BMW itself,
  like a recall notice for that badly designed missile launching
  switch, or even a message informing current customers BMW has
  perfected the submarine conversion kit. All of this is fairly
  easily done via ListSTAR right now, and although I'd hesitate to
  serve a truly huge mailing list with ListSTAR, it's proven it can
  handle thousands of users without trouble.

  The final part of the scenario is an IRC channel devoted to BMW
  car buffs, run from StarNine's GlobalChat server, but I have to
  admit that I think using IRC for support is stretching reality a
  bit far. I can imagine BMW-designed missile launchers, but chat-
  based tech support is just too much. The simple fact of the matter
  is that real-time discussions can only support a certain number of
  people before things become too chaotic, no matter what the
  medium. I'm being negative; I'm sure someone could figure out how
  to merge IRC into an overall marketing plan. In further
  discussions with David Thompson, he suggested a chat server could
  provide online "event-marketing" to draw people to the site for,
  say, a chat with Sean Connery. David also commented that chat is
  only the tip of the event-marketing iceberg, and audio and video
  can't be far behind.

  Now imagine that instead of BMW, this company was Apple.

  I won't pretend this marketing situation would be trivial to set
  up, since most serious things in life require real thought, and
  tools can only do so much thinking for you. There are places in
  the description above where a magic tool suddenly appears and
  takes care of a problem. But, if you're in business to make money,
  you can probably afford to find someone who can write tools in
  AppleScript, Frontier, C++, or something. Or,  you can figure it
  out for yourself, if that's cheaper in your personal time to money
  ratio.

  In the end, although I started writing this article because I
  think StarNine's stuff is pretty neat, I think the demo David
  Thompson cooked up is as good a tutorial on the basics of Internet
  marketing as it is a demo of StarNine's tools. The demo provides
  information, creates community, and fosters trust via frequent
  customer contact. All of those things aid both in making money and
  providing happy customers, who will then be inclined to plunk down
  more money after they've been forced to drive their BMW off a
  cliff and utilize the hang-glider option to escape the obligatory
  explosion.

  You can find more information about StarNine's products and
  mailing lists on their Web server. Oh, and you can check out
  civilian BMWs online, too.

http://www.starnine.com/
http://www.bmwusa.com/ultimate/roadster/z3downloads.html


Getting Warmer: HoTMetaL PRO 2.0
--------------------------------
  by Tonya Engst <[e-mail]>

  SoftQuad's HoTMetaL PRO 1.0 for Macintosh came out in early 1995
  amid some fanfare, since it was one of the first commercial Web
  authoring tools for the Mac.

http://www.sq.com/products/hotmetal/hmp-org.htm

  The Macintosh world gave HoTMetaL PRO 1.0 a poor reception, and -
  based on my half-hour trial - I wasn't surprised. In particular, I
  didn't like HoTMetaL PRO's DOS-style preferences (in which you
  edited text files to set preferences). I wouldn't write about
  HoTMetaL PRO 2.0 if it hadn't improved, but the 2.0 version rates
  a lukewarm nod of welcome.


**Questionable Heritage** -- To give you a better idea of HoTMetaL
  PRO 1.0's problems, here's a list that Roz Ault <[e-mail]>
  posted in the Apple Internet Authoring mailing list some time ago:

* Don't buy this program unless you have lots of RAM to spare. The
  program itself wants 8 MB (minimum is 6 MB) and you must run a
  browser alongside it.

* It feels like a Windows program ported to a Mac, rather than
  something written to Mac standards and guidelines.

* Although it's not bad for adding codes, it doesn't have the
  full-featured set of editing tools I want in a word processor.

* On a IIci, it took a two minutes or more to load. The program is
  not PowerPC native, and on a Power Mac 6100/66 it took well over a
  minute to load.

* The documentation is poor, and the accompanying HTML files
  (basically the manual) aren't well presented.

* Entering HTML is easy, but making changes is not. You can't just
  delete a tag - you must follow certain procedures in the right
  order because of the way the program validates HTML.

* The spell checker window usually hides the misspelled word in
  context, so you have to keep moving it around the screen. When you
  try to add a word to the dictionary, you get a file dialog box
  with no instructions (it apparently wants you to find the user
  dictionary).

  The programmers at SoftQuad have been hard at work, and 2.0
  requires just over half the memory, launches twice as fast, looks
  like a Mac program, and has numerous improvements to its overall
  operation. The program requires System 7 and runs on a 68030 or
  above, though SoftQuad recommends at least a 68040. The program
  prefers 4.5 MB of application RAM, and you'll want additional RAM
  for launching a Web browser.

  This review is based on version 2.0, release 3.69, which has a
  number of improvements over previous 2.0 releases. Although I did
  not test this, release 3.69 can import word processing documents
  and automatically apply HTML tags. Formats supported include
  WordPerfect for the Mac, Word 5.x, text, and RTF. This release
  also comes as a fat binary (the previous releases were 68K only),
  improves table editing, and fixes a number of minor bugs
  (including several I encountered in an earlier 2.0 release).

  HoTMetaL PRO shows most tags onscreen as you work. To see a
  document sans tags, you use the preview, which loads the document
  into a Web browser. HoTMetaL PRO is rule oriented - it won't let
  you insert tags willy-nilly, and it won't let you edit, delete, or
  paste anything that breaks a rule. If HoTMetaL PRO were a person,
  it wouldn't have even considered inhaling. The program supports
  HTML 2.0 (tags most Web browsers understand), some HTML 3.0, and a
  smattering of Netscape extensions. SoftQuad plans to release an
  updated rules file shortly (perhaps by mid-February), which will
  enable HoTMetaL PRO to support additional Netscape extensions
  (such as frames) and some Internet Explorer extensions. The rules
  file will be available on SoftQuad's Web site.

  The interface is Mac-like, though not particularly elegant. Until
  you learn the cogs and wheels of the program, you'll use its three
  Microsoft-like toolbars a lot. I'd like to see more white space in
  the toolbars, but the images on the buttons work well, especially
  on the <DT>, <DD>, and <DL> buttons, which use gray and black
  greeking to indicate which part of a glossary list each button
  controls.

  Several important preferences now live in a Preferences dialog
  box, including the font and size of displayed tags and an autosave
  feature. You still must edit a text file to change a number of
  other preferences.


**Writing Tools** -- HoTMetaL PRO includes a spelling checker and
  thesaurus; unfortunately, both are mediocre. The spelling checker
  window still tends to cover the document so you can't see
  misspelled words and it lacks an Ignore All option [which, as far
  as I know, is properly implemented only in Nisus Writer 4.1.x,
  where it ignores a word for the life of that document - Adam].
  When it finds a mistake, it offers a hard-to-read, vertical list
  of fourteen suggestions for a replacement in what looks like
  12-point Courier. The Thesaurus's features for browsing among
  different words are limited.

  HoTMetaL PRO offers an outline view which has nothing to do with
  outlining ideas, but does vaguely show the nested structure of
  your tags. You can't re-arrange anything, the indentations of the
  levels are too small, you can't tell if a level is fully
  displayed, and you cannot enter text.

  The Find and Replace is sophisticated and complex (that's a nice
  way of saying that I couldn't figure out how to make all of it
  work!). It can do pattern matching, and it can "replace with
  found," though many users will find the syntax confusing.

  As you set up a Find that involves pattern matching, you may have
  to try more than once before it works correctly. As you use trial
  and error, you must always remember to click out of the Find and
  Replace dialog box and to click back in. If you accidently close
  the box, or if you accidently press Command-F to bring the box to
  the front, the text in the Find and Replace fields disappears.
  SoftQuad is aware of this problem. Fortunately, the 3.69 release
  does permit you to paste into the dialog box, making the problem
  slightly less annoying.

  Of course, if your text doesn't require this level of massaging,
  you can turn off pattern matching and use the Find and Replace
  options much as you would in a word processor. Finding and
  replacing becomes more complicated (or impossible) if you want to
  look for text that includes a tag. The manual explains the rules,
  and - overall - the basic Find and Replace feature is usable.


**Styles** -- HoTMetaL PRO's styles help you see what's happening
  as you compose a document. They do not change the appearance of
  the document when it displays in a Web browser; that is, even
  though you can set all your <H1> headers to 24-point purple with
  20 points of Space Above, that setting does not translate into the
  final HTML document. This is as it should be, because it's up to
  Web browsers to determine what a <H1> header should look like. Of
  course, given time, HTML will support optional style sheets, and -
  once that becomes reality - I'll expect more of HoTMetaL PRO.

  The Style dialog is easy to use, and the styles work acceptably.
  You must set each style from scratch - there's no hierarchical
  style feature that enables you to indicate quickly that <H2>-
  tagged text should appear like <H1>-tagged text, only smaller.
  Styles are automatically saved in a separate file (and HoTMetaL
  PRO shows its non-Mac roots by naming the file hmpro2.stl). If you
  wish, you can save styles yourself in a file you name. You can
  load any style file into any HoTMetaL PRO document.


**Support for European Languages** -- Recently, I received a
  message from Jean-Pierre Queille <[e-mail]>. Jean-
  Pierre wrote about difficulties in composing HTML in languages
  that use lots of upper ASCII, such as French: "The problem for me
  in looking at the plain text version of an HTML document is not
  with the HTML tags, which I can read and understand. But I really
  can't edit text with tags like "é" scattered all over the
  place." The good news is that HoTMetaL PRO would work fine for
  Jean-Pierre. Characters display as themselves, not as entities.


**Tables** -- When you create a table, HoTMetaL PRO shows a rough
  grid; this pseudo-WYSIWYG approach is much easier to work with
  than a display of raw table tags. Some of the table tools are
  quite good, such as a palette for adding and deleting rows and
  columns, as well as for joining and splitting cells. Other tools
  are surprisingly lacking - you cannot select multiple cells, so
  there is no way to make a row of text bold quickly, or to change
  an entire row of <TD>-tagged cells (regular cells for table data)
  into <TH>-tagged cells (cells for table headers). You cannot press
  Tab to move between cells. Although you can align text in
  different ways and make borders of different thicknesses, these
  formats don't display in HoTMetaL PRO.


**Macros, Links, and Images** -- HoTMetaL PRO's macro-making
  abilities are far from elaborate, but they do let you create
  keyboard shortcuts for inserting tags (for example, I made a macro
  that changes a <TD>-type cell  to a <TH>-type cell). They also let
  you quickly insert pre-typed chunks of text. Macros must be
  recorded (you can't write them using a scripting language).
  HoTMetaL PRO does not support AppleScript.

  Like most HTML authoring tools, HoTMetaL PRO has a dialog box that
  helps you set up links. The Links dialog also offers a hotlist
  feature for storing frequently linked URLs. HoTMetaL PRO users can
  also import Bookmark files from Netscape or Mosaic into the
  hotlist.

  HoTMetaL PRO supports inline graphics and offers a nice dialog box
  for setting up <IMG> tags. The dialog has a field for ALT text,
  and a checkbox for indicating if a graphic is an image map (though
  HoTMetaL PRO does not help you set up the image map file that
  makes the image map work behind the scenes). The IMG tag does not
  display with its attributes, and you must open a dialog box in
  order to change them.


**In Conclusion**-- HoTMetaL PRO is worth consideration by
  experienced HTML authors who want a tool that shows HTML tags and
  enforces HTML rules. However, at its current list price of $195,
  HoTMetaL PRO 2.0 stands little chance of luring customers from
  more affordable options such as BBEdit. Even so (and although it's
  too early to work up a sweat over it), I'm looking forward to
  HoTMetaL Pro 3.0, which SoftQuad plans to ship in the first half
  of this year. Given the rate at which SoftQuad has been improving
  HoTMetaL PRO, the 3.0 version may map out noteworthy territory in
  the HTML authoring landscape.

  HoTMetaL Free 2.0 is available for free on SoftQuad's Web site.
  According to SoftQuad, HoTMetaL Free works much like HoTMetaL PRO,
  except it lacks the spelling checker, thesaurus, conversions,
  macros, and printing.

http://www.sq.com/products/hotmetal/hm-ftp.htm

    SoftQuad -- 800/387-2777 -- 416/239-4801 -- 416/239-7105 (fax)
      <[e-mail]>


Reviews/12-Feb-96
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 05-Feb-96, Vol. 10, #5
    Oracle Power Objects 1.0 -- pg. 1
    Sculpt 3D 4.1 -- pg. 31

* Macworld -- Jan-96
    Power Macintosh 8500/120 -- pg. 52
    Infini-D 3.0 -- pg. 54
    ArcView 2.1 -- pg. 55
    DeltaGraph Pro 3.5 -- pg. 57
    Digital Cameras -- pg. 59
      Kodak Digital Camera 40
      QuickTake 150
    Fargo FotoFun -- pg. 61
    Arcserve for Macintosh 1.5 -- pg. 63
    Radius Telecast -- pg. 65
    HoTMetaL Pro 2.0 -- pg. 65
    Digital Fotovix IIIS-D -- pg. 67
    Meeting Maker XP 3.1 -- pg. 69
    Mac-to-TV converters -- pg. 69
      Encoder Pro
      Presenter TView
    SoftBoard Model 205 -- pg. 71
    Links Pro CD -- pg. 73
    Full Throttle -- pg. 73
    King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride -- pg. 75
    AmoebArena 1.0 -- pg. 75
    The Legend of Kyrandia, Book 3 -- pg. 77
    Out of the Sun -- pg. 77
    1995 Macintosh Game Hall of Fame -- pg. 80
      (too many to list)
    Dye-sublimation printers -- pg. 94
      (too many to list)
    Midrange Accounting programs -- pg. 102
      (too many to list)

* Macworld -- Feb-96
    Power Computing PowerWave 604s -- pg. 54
    Speed Doubler 1.0.2 -- pg. 56
    Kai's PowerTools 3.0 -- pg. 57
    PowerBook 5300c -- pg. 58
    WordPerfect 3.5 -- pg. 61
    PressView 21 SR display -- pg. 62
    Quicken Deluxe 6 -- pg. 65
    Claris Impact 2.0 -- pg. 66
    Mouse input devices -- pg. 68
      Desktop GlidePoint
      QuePoint II
      TouchPad
    DrawTools 1.0 -- pg. 71
    QX-Tools 1.0 -- pg. 73
    Macromedia Freehand 5.5 -- pg. 74
    HP CopyJet M -- pg. 77
    Chagall 2.0.2 -- pg. 78
    At Ease 3.0 -- pg. 81
    StatView 4.5 -- pg. 81
    SPSS 6.1 -- pg. 82
    Boris Effects 1.01 -- pg. 85
    Tracer 1.0 -- pg. 85
    SCSI PowerPlug II -- pg. 86
    SCSI Director Pro 4.0 -- pg. 86
    Quicken Family Lawyer 6.0b -- pg. 88
    Igor Pro 2.0.4 -- pg. 90
    Tools Plus 2.6
    LS FORTRAN 1.1 -- pg. 95
    Full-size displays -- pg. 165
      (too many to list)

* MacUser -- Feb-96
    Radius PressView 17 SR and 21 SR -- pg. 33
    Microfield Graphics SoftBoard 205 -- pg. 40
    NEC SuperScript Color 3000M -- pg. 42
    Slide Scanners -- pg. 44
      Nikon LS-100 SuperCoolscan
      Polaroid SprintScan 35
    Astound 2.0 -- pg. 47
    Adaptive Solutions PowerShop -- pg. 50
    Chagall 1.0 -- pg. 57
    QX-Tools -- pg. 58
    SCSI PowerPlug II -- pg. 59
    DOS Mounter 5.0 -- pg. 59
    GrabNet 2.0 -- pg. 61
    CyberSound FX -- pg. 61
    BeyondPress -- pg. 63
    Quicken Family Lawyer -- pg. 65


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