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Mac Site of the Moment

This is my space to highlight some of the most useful and interesting Macintosh sites on the net. This link is changed periodically though I haven't yet determined the exact periodicity (hence the rather non-descript "Moment"). And the current Mac Site of the Moment is: (Drum roll please...)

The Complete Conflict Compendium

The Complete Conflict Compendium is an attempt to create a detailed listing of all of the software conflicts on the Macintosh, and how to fix them. (cf. Prometheus, Tantulus, Sisyphus). You can search by symptom, product name, Mac model or System Software. Each conflict is assigned a confidence rating from 1 to 5 where 1 is dubious and 5 is completely certain. Contact information and links to the software vendors is provided.

If you'd like to nominate a site for Mac Site of the Moment email the URL to me and let me know why you think it's cool. If you'd like to see Mac Sites of Previous Moments just follow this link.

Vendor Bookmark Lists: A Well Connected Mac Exclusive

You can now Download FTP site Bookmark Lists from the Well Connected Mac Vendor Directory for use with Anarchie and Fetch.

What's New?

I've updated the periodicals page. I was amazed at the number of electronic zines that are still using proprietary formats like DocMaker and Acrobat and don't have real web sites. In 1996 there are only three formats that matter:

HTML on the web
ASCII text in email
Paper in my mailbox

Anything else wastes people's time and makes them far less likely to read the journal. Dead-tree-based journals are doing a far better job of transitioning to the web than most electronic journals. It's time for e-zines to get with the program. In the near future I'll be removing all periodicals from my pages that aren't available primarily in one of these three formats, and I may go so far as to remove any publication that does not place its entire contents on the web.

The Mailing List page has been updated.

The vendor directory has been updated and now contains over 1800 listings.

Studio B has published an interview with me you may find interesting.

In the Summer of 1996, starting in June, this site is undergoing the most massive updating and reorganization it's ever seen. There's going to be new material here almost every day. The vendor directory is going to be updated and verified and should reach 2000 vendors for the first time. The FAQ lists will all be updated and revised and two new FAQ lists will be added. A context sensitive search engine for the entire site will be installed, you'll get an opportunity to hear what some other people are saying about this site. and a lot, lot more. Stay tuned. If you have suggestions or comments, now is the time to let me know.

What's Here Now

Macintosh FAQ lists

Frequently asked questions lists from many Usenet newsgroups including

comp.sys.mac.misc
comp.sys.mac.system
comp.sys.mac.apps
comp.sys.mac.hardware
comp.sys.mac.wanted
comp.sys.mac.comm
comp.sys.mac.games
comp.sys.mac.programmer

Last updated June 10, 1996.

Vendor Information

Addresses (both electronic and geographical), phone numbers, and ftp and WEB sites for commercial vendors involved with the Macintosh.
Last updated June 17, 1996

Macintosh Software

Look here for just about any freely distributable software in the Macintosh universe, organized by topic and location.
Last updated June 17, 1996.

Mac Trade Show Calendar.

See what's coming soon to a convention center near you.
Last updated June 17, 1996.

Reviews of Macintosh Hardware, Software and Books

Four star reviews of products of interest to the Macintosh community.
Last updated June 6, 1996.

Periodicals

Electronically published, online journals covering the Macintosh universe.
Last updated June 26, 1996.

Mailing Lists

Mailing Lists with some topicality to the Mac.
Last updated Sunday, June 13, 1996.

Other Web sites

Other Web sites dealing with the Macintosh including the home sites of over 400 hardware and software vendors and a few dozen user groups.
Last updated June 10, 1996.

Newsgroups

Usenet newsgroups about the Mac.
Last updated June 19, 1996.

What's New

As well as a chronological listing of changes and additions to The Well Connected Mac, this page contains a form you can fill out to be notified of changes and additions at the Well Connected Mac.
Last updated June 26, 1996.

About the Logo

The winner of the Well Connected Mac Art Contest and the artist who produced the wonderful logo you see at the top of this page is Matthew William Schroeder. Matthew is a sophomore at Penn State University. Although his technical major is Geography/Geographical Information Systems (GIS), his emphasis is in multimedia authoring and graphic design. He is currently involved in several projects, including the construction of two CD-ROMs: one to teach botany to middle-school students, and another to aid in the instruction of a college-level course. In his spare time, he does freelance graphic design. He can be reached via email at mws147@psu.edu.

Matthew also designed an alternate vision for the entire page that I've elected not to use in the interests of keeping this page reasonably quick to download. However if you have a fast connection take a look at it.

Matthew won four packages of Clip Art from T/Maker and Docucomp and Word for Word from MasterSoft. Congratulations Matthew!.

What's Coming Down the Road?

I have many plans for this site. However experience has taught me that those plans are almost completely uncorrelated with what actually gets done. Still the site is growing rapidly, and in the near future you may or may not see

Pages for essential and useful software.
FAQ lists split into more manageable pieces, perhaps a section or a single FAQ on each page.
Better previewing of vendor submissions
A way to update vendor listings
A more categorical approach to the vendor listings

If there's something you think should be here that isn't, tell me. If there's something you think might better be done differently, talk to me about it. And certainly if you find a mistake or something doesn't work the way it should, let me know. This site is still very much a work in progress. Your comments are greatly appreciated. Please direct them to elharo@shock.njit.edu. However my time is severely overloaded, and I cannot respond to all messages personally.

Please note that this page and all other pages on the Well Connected Mac are copyrighted by their respective authors. In most cases that's me, i.e. assume a "Copyright 1996 Elliotte Harold" on all pages except where another author is specifically credited.

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