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TidBITS#248/17-Oct-94

Matt Neuburg weighs in with a hefty look at the latest version of one of the most popular utility packages of all time, the Now Utilities. Chuck Bartosch passes on news of Apple’s financial results (they’re good), and we announce several new Internet sites aimed at Mac Internet users and readers of Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh. Finally, we have MailBITS about Microsoft’s purchase of Intuit, important new programs, and a super fast CD-ROM drive.

Adam Engst No comments

Internet arachnids

Internet arachnids will want to check out the public beta release of a new World-Wide Web browser from Mosaic Communications , the company formed from a number of the original developers of Mosaic

Adam Engst No comments

Acrobat flips to 2.0

Acrobat flips to 2.0 -- In a welcome change from Acrobat 1.0, Adobe has released a free viewer for Acrobat 2.0, enabling users to view, navigate, and print any PDF (Portable Document Format) file

Pythaeus No comments

Faster CD-ROM access

Faster CD-ROM access is promised by PLI's upcoming 15X CD-ROM drive, based on a PLI-designed mechanism rather than the typical OEM product. The SCSI device, which works in Macintosh, DOS, and Sun environments, provides data transfer of up to 2.25 MB per second and an effective access time of 40 milliseconds (ms), much faster than the 300K per second transfer rate and 300 ms access time offered by drives such as Apple's double-speed CD300

Klaus Fechner No comments

Now Utilities and System 7.5 deal

Now Utilities and System 7.5 deal -- Klaus Fechner researched a deal regarding the pricing of System 7.5 (see TidBITS-243): I confirmed with MacWarehouse (two weeks ago) that one can get a 7.1 upgrade kit without any restrictions and then qualify for the 7.5 upgrade

Chuck Bartosch No comments

Apple Expects Heavy Gains

Apple's financial results for the final quarter of the company's last fiscal year should be released tonight. Reliable sources indicate that the results are "wildly better" than most predictions. Apple sold more in its fourth quarter (ended 30-Sep-94) than predicted, and dropped costs further than they said they would