Apple History Bonanza!
Three - yes three new entries in the continuing series "This Week in Apple History" by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin at The Mac Observer!
July 25-31: Lisa, Apple Setback in Microsoft Lawsuit
July 18-24: Last 68k Mac, OS 8, Be
July 10 - 17: The Executive Shuffle, Profits, Jaguar Introduced
Old Macs Never Die
A great column on the continued usefulness of Vintage Macs by Roger Born at MyMac.com!
Old Macs Never Die
Color Classic Web Server
We've featured an SE/30 Web Server, a Mac Plus Web Server, a Newton Web Server - now here's a Color Classic Web Server! If you know of any other vintage Apples serving as Web Servers (Server serving?) let us know!
Color Classic Web Server
Mail Factory Drawing
BeLight Software, developers of Mac OS X business productivity software, offers Mail Factory Drawing, a great event to take part in! To win the Grand Prize - a DYMO LabelWriter 330 printer, participants need to purchase Mail Factory, a tool to print envelopes and mailing labels, from October 27th to November 27th, 2004. Each participant gets also 50% discount for Business Card Composer, the elegant software to make business cards.
Find detailed information at:
http://www.belightsoft.com/special/drawing.php
Woz Inducted into Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame
Macsimum News coverage of further recognition of The Woz and his achievements! From the article:
"The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and leaders from throughout the consumer electronics industry have honored 11 new inductees in to the class of 2004 of the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame, including Apple co-founder Steve (Woz) Wozniak."
Macsimum News
System 6 Screensaver!
Now, this is cool. It's a screensaver that simulates a Mac running System 6 booting up and mousing around. We're generally not big fans of screensavers, but this is worth a try! It's available for Macintosh OS8 or OS9, Macintosh OSX and even Windows.
Portable8
Mac Creator Ridicules OS X as a Mess
An article at MacUser begins:
"Jeff Raskin, the man who conceived the Macintosh, has described its latest iterations as a 'mess' in an interview with The Guardian. His comments echo those in a recent interview with Macuser."
MacUser Interview
BeLight Software Delivers Mail Factory 1.4
Today BeLight Software delivers Mail Factory 1.4, a Mac OS X application to design and print envelopes, address and shipping labels. This version adds direct data import from FileMaker databases, recognition of addresses, pasted from other applications (such as MS Word, Safari, Mail), and the ability to crop images:
http://www.belightsoft.com/mailfactory/
Mail Factory 1.4 update contains:
-Added direct data import from FileMaker database files.
-Possibility to paste an address into Mail Factory via the Clipboard from virtually any application - Word, e-mail program, web browser and other. The program automatically recognizes address elements such as street address, city, ZIP, etc.
-Support for Mac OS X System Services. An ability to select an address in any System Services compliant application, and print it on a label or envelope in Mail Factory by using the Services menu.
-Added Image Crop. You can crop images to remove the parts you don't like directly in Mail Factory.
-A lot of improvements.
Find detailed information at:
http://www.belightsoft.com/products/mailfactory/versch/versions.php
The update file is available at:
http://www.belightsoft.com/download/
Submitted by: BeLight Software, 10/21/04
Crazy Apple Rumors Goes Retro!
In a rare fit of sanity, Crazy Apple Rumors publishes a Crazy Apple Help Desk feature from 1988! (It really is from 1988, right?)
Crazy Apple Help Desk 1988
Great Moments in Tech History
The 600th episode of The Joy of Tech features the two Steve's and is subtitled, "Apple Computer's Steve Jobs on attempts to generate interest in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer..."
The Joy of Tech 600th Episode
