In continued show of appreciation, Apple Computer, Inc. has chosen several US MacUser Groups to showcase the revolutionary iMac computer on the road to Macworld Expo New York happening July 8-10, 1998. The iMac has already caused great excitement among computer enthusiasts worldwide because of its innovative design, powerful features and low price.
Bye, bye.
Rhapsody is Officially gone.
June 1998
It is official: Rhapsody as a new strategy for Apple is dead. The technology, however, lives on in Mac OS X. After the WorldWide Developers Conference it became pretty clear that the Rhapsody technology would be repositioned in the tenth Macintosh Operating System. Although Rhapsody is gone, no one doubts the exceptional technological awesomeness. Ken Bereskin, Apple's Director of OS technologies, says that the rumors stating that Apple intends to port Mac OS X and Carbon to Intel processors are "completely unfounded." For more information, email me at
jeremy@1984-online.com or clifford_colby@macweek.com
OS 8 lays the facts on the table.
Allegro all the way.
June 1998
Mac OS 8 has been one incredible success for Apple Computer, Inc with over 2.2 million copies sold and installed on nearly 3.5 million machines. 1998's version of the Mac OS 8 is Mac OS 8.5 which is code-named Allegro and will deliver many new enhancements and some interesting new features.
Mac OS 8.5 will pump out speedier file copying and native AppleScript. This PowerPC native version of Apple's scripting software will be one of the better features of Mac OS 8.5. Also the find-file feature is truly one of my most used and I'm happy to announce that it will be speeded up and have the ability to scan the contents of files and run Internet searches.
 
New Record for Apple Store
The Apple Store set a record of US$ 2.8 million in sales on May 28, fueled by sizzling sales from education accounts, including one order for 300 Build-to-Order G3 computers from a Texas school.
<http://www.apple.com/store>
FileMaker Tool News: Web Broadcasting, Web FM
Web Broadcasting is now shipping the WEB FM 4.0 Solutions Distribution Kit (SDK) for use with FileMaker Pro 4.0 Developer Edition. WEB FM includes easy-to-use, Internet-standard template files with context-sensitive [field name] token support. It also supports virtual hosts, add-on processors, and enhanced record-level security.
<http://webfm.com/>
FM@iler 1.1 from Web FM is a software suite consisting of an e-mail logging AppleScript for Emailer 2.0, a backend database application powered by the FileMaker Pro 3.0 runtime database engine, and a web server plug-in that provides a searchable web browser interface to archived email messages on W*API-compatible Mac OS web servers. It is a useful tool for listmasters or webmasters who quickly need to automate the archival of online discussion mailing lists with a searchable web browser interface.
<http://macweb.com/fmailer/>
 
Disk First Aid 8.2 Mends Startup Volumes
Disk First Aid 8.2, a utility that verifies and repairs hard disk drives, now repairs some disk damage caused by disk repair utilities that are not compatible with the Mac OS Extended format. It's also the first version of Disk First Aid that can repair startup volumes.
Our very own Andrew McNaughton, the author of My Disk Copy Scripts, is looking for beta testers of the Allegro operating system to test the Preview Release 4 of his product. My Disk Copy Scripts now supports the creation of self-mounting images, available with Disk Copy 6.3, the release included with Allegro seed versions.
<http://www.patsy.demon.co.uk/Downloads/Dev/>
Apple software updates online.
The following URL will take you to the Apple Software Updates home
page. This information is kept up-to-date by Apple's own people.
http://www.info.apple.com/swupdates
Wall street see the light.
"Apple has introduced an elegant new model that evokes the company's great past," yes the Wall Street Journal technology columnist Walter Mossberg really did say that, when reviewing the PowerBook.
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