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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 95 08:32 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Tony Lindsey)
Subject: Mac*Chat#086/17-Aug-95

Mac*Chat#086/17-Aug-95
======================

Welcome to Mac*Chat, the free, weekly electronic newsletter biased
   toward Mac users who are production-oriented professionals.  Other
   Mac users may find many, many items of interest as well.  I'd enjoy
   hearing your feedback and suggestions.  Unfortunately, due to the
   massive numbers of messages I get every day, I can't guarantee
   a personal reply.

  Tony Lindsey, <[e-mail]>.
  http://www.cts.com/browse/xxltony

  Mac*Chat back-issues may be found within any Info-Mac ftp archive at
      info-mac/per/chat

See the end of this file for legalisms and info on how to subscribe.

Any [comments in brackets] are by Tony Lindsey.

Topics:
Highlights Of This Issue
Being Part Of A Community
Excellent Tips
Favorite Freeware
Excellent Questions For The Week
Charities Need Help
More About Claris Works 4.0
Tips For Consultants
Online Support For Consultants
Online User Groups
Boston MacWorld '95 Reviewed
Legalisms
Free Subscriptions To This Newsletter

Highlights Of This Issue
------------------------
  Jeff Porten shares some of his newest nuggets of wisdom, Mel
  Halbert tells us about a whole pile of exccellent software,
  several readers ask questions of wide interest, a representative
  of a charity presents an idea, ClarisWorks4 gets further reviewed
  by more readers, Jeff Porten talks about the Macintosh Consultant
  Network, Michael Robertson tells consultants where to get the
  best software and tips, a Belgian Mac User Group is revealed
  online, and Shrimmy raves about the newest Boston MacWorld.

Being Part Of A Community
-------------------------
  By Tony Lindsey <[e-mail]>

  Editing a newsletter like Mac*Chat has forced a few changes in my
  viewpoints, and I feel that I'm a better person for it.  I'd like
  to spend a few paragraphs talking about this.

  Anyone who spends more than a couple of minutes online becomes
  aware of the noise and extreme levels of diversity that exist on
  the other side of your screen.  People who normally would only be
  found under rocks are online and in your face.  On the other
  hand, kind, decent, mature people have also been finding their
  way around, and are congregating into affinity groups of all
  kinds. Of course, we all have our own interpretation of "good"
  versus "bad."  That's expected.

  Mac*Chat's readers, if gathered into a BIG stadium, would be a
  very, very diverse group.  As a soft-headed idealist, I like to
  think that what we share is a sense of courtesy, plus a
  willingness to give something to our sub-group of the planetary
  community.  Wisdom is a fine gift, and civility is a great way to
  express it.  I use those qualities as the main criteria to select
  which messages get passed along.

  I'm glad we can't see the faces of the folks who share their
  helpful tips in every issue.  Rather than being pre-judged by
  external features, sex, or locality, Mac*Chat's contributors are
  able to express their more-important qualities and inborn
  talents.  I like that.

  Speaking of locality, Mac*Chat is being read and contributed to
  by your brothers and sisters in Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina,
  Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica,
  the Czech Republic, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany,
  Great Britain, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia,
  Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Kuwait, Latvia,
  Luxembourg, the Mariana Islands, Malaysia, Mexico, the
  Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Saudi-Arabia,
  Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
  Taiwan, Thailand, the Ukraine, the USA, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe.
  Did I miss anyone?

  The planet is very small.  Let's work together to help each
  other.  I like to think I'm doing my part, through editing
  Mac*Chat, acting as Neighborhood Watch Block Captain in my
  neighborhood, raising my nephew as my own son, and being a good
  consultant, friend, brother, son and husband. I don't aspire to
  more.

  When people use the Internet or traditional media to attempt to
  force their views on others, I find it humorous.  Someone once
  said "Fads come from the top down - Trends come from the bottom
  up."  I like to think this means that real, important changes
  can't be forced on the general public, by leaders (or folks who
  want to be leaders).  No matter how hard some folks may try, they
  can't influence our planetary society as much as kindness and
  honesty among trusted friends.

  If you feel the same way, pass it along to the next person.

Excellent Tips
--------------
  By Jeff Porten, Millennium Consulting Washington, DC
  <[e-mail]>

  Do-it-yourself HTML:

  It's true that there are tons of ways to learn good HTML
  programming on the 'Net, and that it's silly to hire a consultant
  for personal home page construction.  However, the point must be
  made that just as in desktop publishing, knowing the code does
  not mean good end results.  I *strongly* recommend that people
  who want to use the Web for commercial purposes (either
  professional information sharing, or commerce) hire a consultant
  to design the pages, or at least review works-in-progress.  A
  consultant should be chosen on the basis of PRIOR WORK viewed
  live on the Net, not marketing pitches.

  For anyone who wants to learn good commercial HTML practices, I
  recommend reading the "Inet-Marketing" mailing list, run by Glenn
  Fishman:

  mail "subscribe inet-marketing Your Name" to <[e-mail]>

  [I also subscribe to that mailing list - It's fine quality, and
  fascinating reading!]

  Iomega drives:

  Iomega has announced the development of the Viper drive, due for
  release in 3Q '95.  It's a Zip drive, with 1 gig on each disk.
  Prices are slated (and obviously, all this is vaporous and might
  change) to be $599 for the drive and one disk, $100 for
  additional disks.

  Publish and subscribe:

  A very good use for P&S is to use editions when you have to
  change a block of text and have that automatically ripple through
  a large document.  I publish the original block, and have the
  rest of the document subscribe to itself.  This has helped with
  tables of contents and indices, and occasional boilerplate
  documents.  Keep all editions in a separate folder, out of the
  way.

  Improvements on Stickies:

  I am using Now QuickPad, an integral part of the highly
  recommended Now Up-to-Date 3.5 and Now Contact 3.5.  A hotkey
  brings up a dialog box (a fast, small application), with a notes
  field and the option to attach it to an appointment, to-do, or
  contact.  URLs, or anything else that I want to remember later, I
  toss into a to-do, which I later classify as Back Burner
  priority.  Then I go through them after my higher priority items
  are finished.

  This is a very efficient way of dealing with lots of incoming
  data.  I read it using EasyView on my external monitor, with
  QuickPad on the PowerBook internal monitor.  Anything that bears
  remembering, I toss into the QuickPad, and trust Up-to-Date to
  bring it to my attention later, but only when appropriate.  I
  have another QuickPad window, where I kept running notes on what
  to include in this letter.  AOL is running in the background;
  when I choose to reply to anything I see, I type it up offline
  and get right back to work.

  For those who do not want to switch to Now Software, there is a
  utility that seems to be similar to QuickPad called Guy Friday,
  available in shareware.  (I have a copy that came with my La Cie
  drive, but I recall seeing it in the Info-Mac archives.)  I was
  impressed with the design, but have not used it extensively.

Favorite Freeware
-----------------
  By Mel Halbert <[e-mail]>

  In case you are still running your Favorite Freeware collection,
  I have several useful items to mention.  Some of these were
  perhaps not in existence when you first called for such items,
  but at least the first two were.  All of these programs are
  currently available from Info-Mac sites.

  Hexedit:  A program by Jim Bumgardner that displays the contents
  of any file byte by byte in hex and ASCII, and allows the user to
  change or insert/delete bytes.  According to his documentation,
  it has some advantages over Apple's FEdit utility, but I am not
  familiar with that.  (I do have ResEdit, but have never figured
  out how to examine files with it.)

  /info-mac/dev/hex-edit-107.hqx

  Drop*PS: A program by Rich Siegel that prints a PostScript file
  with a minimum of fuss.

  /info-mac/prn/drop-ps-113.hqx

  SimpleText Color Menu:  A program by Alessandro Levi Montalcini
  that adds features to SimpleText.  It includes a Color menu that
  allows inserting text in color, but to me its most important
  feature is the addition of Find and Replace to SimpleText, making
  it a much more useful program.

  /info-mac/text/simpletext-color-menu-211.hqx

  Drop*Rename: A program by Bob Bradley that allows similarly-named
  files to be renamed with one entry of the desired replacement
  string.   For example, when I download a bunch of
  mac-chat-0xx-etx.txt files and want to change their names to
  Mac*Chat#0xx-etx.txt, I just select the group of files, drop them
  onto the Drop*Rename icon, and type in the appropriate Search and
  Replace character strings.  (This kind of operation is normally a
  pain with a Mac, though it is easy on a computer having a
  command-line interface.)

  /info-mac/disk/drop-rename-110.hqx

  Dos2Mac: A drag & drop utility by Thierry Sourbier to convert
  PC-style text files to Mac format, and vice versa (automatically
  knows which way to convert!).  It has some features that
  DosWasher does not have that may be important for text containing
  special characters.  He has also posted a French-language version
  which is amusing to compare to see the translation of various
  menu items.

  /info-mac/text/dos-to-mac-10.hqx

  FileList+: By Bill Patterson.  This is a disk cataloging utility
  with lots of options, almost too many for a beginner to
  understand. After some playing around with it, I developed a set
  of options than suit my needs and I use the program every day.

  There are, of course, a large number of disk cataloging programs
  out there and more appearing every month or so.  Most are not
  free, and most that I have checked out omit some feature present
  in FileList+ that I can't live without.  Among the better
  alternatives that I am aware of is Disk Wizard 2.0 (shareware),
  by Francois Pottier, and Floppy Catalogue 2.0, by Antoine Maklouf
  (free).

  The last version of FileList+ was 1.0b21 and it still is
  available on Info-Mac and elsewhere.  However, this version
  introduced a bug in one of the sorting features I really wanted,
  so I went back to version 1.0b20 (released in Dec. 1991!).  The
  author wrote in his last release that he was going commercial and
  there would be no further public domain releases.  In August 1994
  I sent him a letter outlining the problem I just mentioned and
  asking what was the name and publisher of the commercial version.
  Alas! I received no response whatever despite having enclosed a
  stamped, self-addressed envelope.  So I just keep on with 1.0b20.

  /info-mac/disk/disk-wizard-2.0.hqx
  /info-mac/disk/floppy-catalogue-2.0.hqx
  /info-mac/disk/file-list-plus-10b21.hqx

  (Note that the URL given is for version 1.0b21 because version
  1.0b20 was purged from all Internet archives long ago.  If you do not
  need the Sort option "Files by path (& last)", 1.0b21 will work fine.

Excellent Questions For The Week
--------------------------------
  By Rick Sciacca <[e-mail]>

  Have there been any reviews of Connectix's Speed Doubler?  There
  ads/hype say it will  speed up most macs, but I've heard
  elsewhere that its basically useless on anything but a  PPC.  How
  about aasking your readers if they have it installed on a non-PPC
  and if it  really works, or does it just take up RAM and Disk
  space?

  --------

  By Jake Peters, MacSupport, Boston, Ma <[e-mail]>
http://www.shore.net/~jhp/jakehome.html

  How about posting a question that asks readers to review the Zip
  vs. SyQuest's EZ135.  I am in the market for one of these drives
  for backup and my small consulting business for transporting the
  many Apple System software updates around (don't worry I am a
  student at work in Boston for mainly families that I know who own
  Macs, so no local consulting competition here).

  But, while the EZ is clearly faster, I read something about how
  their cartridge platters were second rate. Do you know if this
  true?  Also I think that Zip seems to be head the way of becoming
  the industry standard as the next floppy disk.  Do you think this
  will happen?

Charities Need Help
-------------------
  By Lynn D. Gottlieb <[e-mail]>

  Don't know where you reside, so I'll assume it's not in WA, AK,
  ID or MT.  I work for Harborview Medical Center, the trauma/burn
  center for 25% of the US land mass.  I manage the Rehabilitation
  Learning Center, a privately funded project (gets its money from
  individual contributions) that is developing multimedia to teach
  persons with spinal cord injuries (like Christopher Reeve) the
  skills they need in order for them to leave the in-patient
  rehabilitation environment and function successfully in society.
  I'm also a well-known Mac User and bigot - I met my first Mac in
  1984 (oh, those 128k Macs!), fell in love, and haven't fallen out
  of love yet.

  I commend your not wanting to take handouts from companies.  I do
  have a suggestion.  There must be a charitable organization in
  your hometown or neighborhood that uses Macs.  If they're
  anything like us, they live a hand-to-mouth existence.  Much time
  is spent trying to get money to survive. Today's political
  climate doesn't help non-profits one whit.  Most of us look at
  up-to-date hardware and software as a pipe dream.

  So why not give the folks who want to give you freebies a list
  with the names, addresses and phone numbers of 3 charities that
  you know of who use Macs.  Tell them that you don't want any
  freebies, but you'd appreciate it if they would donate the stuff
  to one of these organizations instead...

  If you do live in WA, AK, ID or MT, I'm sure you know of
  Harborview's stellar reputation.  Perhaps we could be one of
  those three charities.  If you live outside of our serving area,
  I'm sure you could find some worthwhile Mac-using charitable
  organization.

  [I can't say the idea of allowing ANY outside influence
  completely appeals to me, but I will gladly pass your request
  along.  Folks reading this should also look at the shelves above
  their Mac - Are there older versions of Word, Illustrator, or
  whatever that you don't use any more? Those manuals and diskettes
  are badly needed by schools and every other kind of charity.]

More About Claris Works 4.0
---------------------------
  By [e-mail] (Russell Gold)

  I saw a very complimentary mention on ClarisWorks 4 in your last
  Mac*Chat and, while I largely agree, I want to point out one
  discrepancy:  Claris claims that the product "supports
  Worldscript."  Actually, it only supports the Japanese and
  Chinese Language Kits.  If you delve deeply into the
  documentation, you discover that it has no support for
  right-to-left or contextual scripts, such as Hebrew and Arabic.
  In fact, I find it extremely easy to crash the program if I have
  the Hebrew script installed.

  Claris justifies this omission by pointing out that only the
  Japanese and Chinese Language kits are officially released by
  Apple as commercial products; however, the resources for other
  languages are readily accessible from Apple's ftp site:

ftp://ftp.apple.com/dts/mac/sys.soft.intl/

  in the foreign versions of System 7.0.1 and work just fine in
  System 7.0-7.5 (directions for using them are found in IM VI).
  Unfortunately, only SimpleText, Nisus Writer, and Worldwrite
  actually give true support for Worldscript.  I am not crazy about
  the latter two because they require a hardware dongle to use
  non-Roman scripts, and SimpleText, of course, is wholly
  inadequate for serious work processing.

  I find Claris's claim particularly egregious because of their
  association with Apple - they really should know better!

  --------

  By Guy Howe, Australia <[e-mail]>

  I have been using ClarisWorks 4.0 for a couple of months fairly
  heavily now. And it's *sort of* great.

  What I mean is, I was a big fan of earlier versions, and this one
  does everything they do and more, and all of the new things are
  good things (eg. sections, and I particularly like the way you
  can free rotate *anything*).

  But the styles, in particular, are just a bit too odd.

  Try taking a paragraph and setting it to one paragraph style,
  then another. Try a few different ones. Then, click the edit
  button in the styles palette, and notice the italicised
  formatting in the styles definition. Those are, so far as I can
  tell, formatting that is applied to the paragraph over and above
  or instead of the style definition.

  So, by applying styles and then overriding them, you seem to wind
  up with parts of the previous styles left hanging around. And
  that's just plain daft. That said, I use the styles, but I have
  to work around them a lot. By the way, the manual doesn't tell
  you, but you can remove the extra, italicised formatting
  information -- or at least *most* of it (it doesn't always
  entirely work for reasons I can't work out) by switching the
  styles pallette to edit mode and use click/shift-click to select
  all the italicised formatting information, then you choose Clear
  Properties from the little Edit menu in the pallette. Play with
  the styles for a while; you'll soon see what I mean.

  On the other hand, I like being able to use styles in the drawing
  module and whatnot. Oh yeah, and it's annoying that there is no
  'Keep with Next', 'Keep Lines Together', or 'Page Break Before'
  settings for paragraphs or paragraph styles. And it's too hard to
  edit the outline hierarchy's definitions -- you can't get at the
  subsidiary styles (say, Harvard level 3) without clicking in a
  paragraph in an outline style.

  The second major annoyance is the outliner. Okay, it is useful,
  but still badly thought out.

  In Word (I know Word 5 backwards, and styles and the outliner
  were the ONLY things I liked about it; but I liked them a *lot*),
  you can have outline levels which applied paragraph styles, just
  like in ClarisWorks 4.0, but there was one outline for the entire
  document. This meant you could have non-outline styles (ie body
  text and the like) in between the outline paragraphs, and it
  would treat them as 'attached' to the immediately preceding
  outline heading, and you could hide them, move them with it, etc.

  In ClarisWorks, any non-outline styles between outline paragraphs
  breaks the outline. They are not hidden when you collapse the
  outline level, they don't move with the heading when you move it,
  and they cause the numbering to restart after them. Is Claris
  kidding here? Sure, I can use the outline style really nicely for
  bullet points and whatnot, and for planning the document when I
  am just tossing the structure around, but once I start typing in
  the text of my document, suddenly, the outliner is of little use.
  Oh yeah, and you can't drag outline paragraphs if they don't have
  any space or a number of bullet or something to their left.

  ClarisWorks would be a total Microsquish killer (in
  functionality, if not in marketing...) if it had styles that
  worked like Microsquish's (or rather, which kept the best parts
  of the way they're done now, 'coz there's some good ideas in
  there), and an outliner that worked like Microsquish's, and had
  Keep with Next and so on in paragraph formatting.

  But frankly, and I hate to have to say this, but I can produce
  most text documents faster in Word than in anything else,
  including the latest versions of WordPerfect, Write Now, Nisus,
  and so on, just because of the synergy between the simple but
  elegant outliner and the simple but elegant styles. I can't
  believe that there *still* isn't a word processor or integrated
  package on the Mac with a decent outliner, other than that horrid
  Microsquish monster.

  The really astounding thing is that Claris got styles almost
  exactly right in MacWrite Pro. All it needed was an outliner.
  *Sigh*.

Tips For Consultants
--------------------
  By [e-mail] (Dave Weston, CDP)

  Consultants travel fast.  Per Rudyard Kipling: "he travels the
  fastest who travels alone."   My view: consultants travel all by
  themselves much of the time.

  I've been full-time computer consultant 24 years.  For me,
  working alone is the one shortcoming of consulting:  No one to
  talk with.  No one to test new ideas.  To stay sharp, I need
  sparring partners.

  Wish someone had given me this advice when I started:  If you're
  thinking about going out on your own consulting, be prepared for
  intense, professional, aloneness.  Find antidotes to that to keep
  your mind fresh.

  I currently have three valuable sources for meeting other
  consultants who feel the same:

  #1:  Macintosh Consultants Network.  International group of
  approximately 200 professional Mac pros.  Informal
  meeting/conference once or twice a year.

      Sparkling exchange of ideas in seminars, at meals, at the
  bar. Never-ending stream of Mac talk from, for, and by
  consultants who make our living doing this.  For me, a joy and a
  rejuvenation.

      For info on Macintosh Consultants Network (MCN), contact
  John Friedlander, Executive Director: <[e-mail]>

  #2:  Macintosh Consultants Dinner Group - Los Angeles / Southern
  California

  #3:  Macintosh Consultants Dinner Group - San Francisco

      Both above are informal, casual groups of Mac consultants
  who get together every few months for dinner.   Lots of
  "Appletalk" and business-talk from consultants' perspective.
  Chance to be with people who are smarter than I am.  For an
  independent consultant, that's nourishment.

      Many who attend are MCN members - but not limited to that.
  Welcome public consultants who offer services to other businesses
  and internal consultants who support Macs within a company or
  organization.   But expect to be among major-league Mac pros ...
  this is not a neighborhood user group.

      Usually one or two vendors attend - software or hardware -
  bringing news of new offerings, questions about what we need in
  Mac market, sometimes NFR samples of their products for desert.

      No dues or fees.  No business meetings.  No formal
  requirements.  We just split the dinner check among ourselves.

      My office maintains the mailing lists for both dinner
  groups.  To be notified of dinners in your area, e-mail to:
  <[e-mail]>

           Your name:
           Snail mail address:
                 city/state/zip:
           Fax:
           Tel:

  Why all that?  Because I am experimenting to find best way to
  notify people of dinner when/where.

  Wrap it up here with Kipling on traveling fast:  My words now,
  paraphrasing his:  Whether you go to hell, or you go to heaven,
  you'll get there fastest if you find your own way!

Online Support For Consultants
------------------------------
  By [e-mail] (MR Mac - Michael Robertson) (by way of
  [e-mail] (Peter Morgan  Morgan:Newsletters))

  Just a quick reminder to use the WWW to get all the information
  you would possibly want about supporting Macs.

  Apple continues to improve their www site:

         www.apple.com

  (but if you log in to use it, be sure and leave them an email
  message telling them to make it SEARCHABLE!!! - Come on Apple.)

  There's a list of Apple sponsored (one way) mailing lists so
  you'll be the first on the block to know about new releases. Sign
  up for these at:

         http://www.info.apple.com/listproc/lists.html

  End all, be all Mac WWW starting points with pointers to great
  sources of info including Mac software/hardware vendors, price
  lists, etc.:

         http://www.macfaq.com/
         http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~xray/mac.html

  You'll find FAQs (frequently asked questions) at:

         http://rever.nmsu.edu/~elharo/faq/Macintosh.html

  And when in doubt, it doesn't hurt to try:

         www.companynamehere.com (with your favorite www browser)
         ftp.companynamehere.com (with your favorite ftp browser)

Online User Groups
------------------
  By Bart De Gruyter, Bureau Studenten Raad van Bestuur
  <[e-mail] >

  Here's some info on the Belgian Macintosh User Group, MacBel UG
  in short.  We are non-profit, more info can be found on:

http://www.ping.be/~macbel/

  We provide bimonthly magazines, internet access, and meetings to
  all Belgian Members.

Boston MacWorld '95 Reviewed
----------------------------
  By The Mac*Chat ListOwner <[e-mail]>

  The MacWorld Experience!

  MacWorld 95 - Boston was such an interesting experience. If it
  was a scorcher sun outside, inside it was the mammoth crowd
  experimenting with the new Clones and some of the very cool third
  party software that goes hand in hand to make the Macintosh what
  it is today!

  The Clones arrive with a BANG!

  Radius, Power Computing and Daystar unfolded the Apple Macintosh
  Clone myth into reality to the public as Apple introduced the new
  PowerMacs the 7200, 7500 and 8500 series. While you can get a
  7200 for a mere US$1700, PowerComputing lowered its Power100 line
  to the same US$1700 too. This prompted Radius to reduce its
  lower-cost Radius 81/110 (110MHz 601, 16M, 730M, QuadSpeed
  CD-ROM) to US$3500. Radius has the superb monitors best suited
  for high end digital  imaging applications. The GenesisMP from
  Daystar is a high end media- publishing workstation comes with
  (4)132 MHz 604, 16-32M, 2GB, Quad Speed CD-ROM, (6) PCI slots and
  nPOWER multiprocessing extension for Adobe Photoshop 3.0, Kodak
  Color Management and PhotoCD.

  The future looks very promising, but with all this competition
  does it mean high-end Mac/Compatibles at astonishingly lower
  prices remains to be seen.

  <http://www.info.apple.com/launch/>
  <http://www.radius.com/>
  <http://www.daystar.com/gen.html>
  <http://www.powercc.com>

  On the software front there were hordes of them. There was an
  striking emphasis on 3D Modeling and Web publishing tools.

  Starnine introduced WebStar 1.2 with built-in SSL support and
  Ceneca's PageMill - a fantastic HTML editor - stole the show on
  the WebServer/Publishing front.

  <http://www.starnine.com>
  <http://www.ceneca.com>

  Strata's StudioPro, Specular's Infini-D, Avid VideoShop, Adobe's
  Photoshop booths were always filled up to the brim if not
  overcrowded. Deneba Software demonstrated Canvas5 while Apple's
  QuickTime VR booth was flooded. QuickDraw 3D-savvy applications
  were very popular.

  <http://www.specular.com>
  <http://www.adobe.com>
  <http://www.strata3d.com>

  Gary Hornbuckle swiftly cleared the myth revolving around Open
  Transport. Right now OT1.0.6 ships as a built-in Mac OS component
  with the newer PowerMacs and also the 9500, and the release v1.1
  expected in the later part of the year will have support for
  68030 and 68040s.

  <ftp://seeding.apple.com/ess/public/opentransport/>

  All in all, yet another fruitful MacWorld Experience!

Legalisms
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