News Snippets Just in case you've missed the Mac news you should jump over to www.apple.com and check out the new information on what has been a busy February for World computing and Apple Computer Inc and new postings. Here are some of the highlights. Pentium III Chips Could Hit 1 GHz This Year The gigahertz chips would be only samples or prototypes late this year or early next. IBM Plans System-On-Chip Products Big Blue announces it will start designing custom semiconductors that will hold both memory and logic functions. http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990222S0003?ls=twb_text Microsoft Keeps Cool Over Java Software powerhouse is developing a programming language, tying together C++ with COM+ and Windows 2000, code-named COOL.--- Judge Clarifies Microsoft Injunction and now the software giant is free to sell Java tools that it built itself without help from Sun's Java code. http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/msftdoj/TWB19990219S0026?ls=twb_text AltaVista Buys Zip2 The portal pays more than $220 million for newspaper website network. Nintendo64 Emulator Disassembled As Nintendo continues to ponder what steps to take against developers of a PC-based Nintendo64 emulator, the source code to the emulator has been released on the Internet as freeware. ***** FREE TECH SUPPORT ***** This site is a free technical support site. It is run primarily by volunteers who believe in the Macintosh way, sharing your knowledge with others! http://www.nowonder.com Hot swap UBS Imagine: you want to print a file, so you connect your USB printer and, well, you print. Need to scan a photo? Unplug the printer, plug in the scanner, and scan away. Time to video-conference? Unplug the scanner, plug in the USB video cam and you're ready to conference.Your Macintosh takes care of all of the details (recognizing devices and loading drivers) in the background. And that's just the beginning of our USB story. There's more at: http://www.apple.com/usb/ Mac Game poll online Pfhreak's Game Page is conducting an online poll. Email the official Pfhreak's Game Page webmaster at with "Game Poll" as the subject. Send in 1. the name of your favorite game 2. your name (for record keeping purposes) 3. whether you would classify yourself as a "Mac Game Fanatic", a "Dedicated Mac Gamer", or a "Casual Mac Gamer", and 4. someplace that Pfhreak can go to find out more about the game (such as which genre it would belong under). The Mac is THE platform for gaming, let's prove it by casting our votes for the all-time best Mac games. The more people vote the more proof there is of the numbers of people who want to see good Mac games. The results of the poll tallies will be posted on Pfhreak's Game Page http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Realm/7408