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TidBITS#335/08-Jul-96

After a week off, we return with the second part of Geoff’s detailed look at the PowerPC chip and other bits of Macintosh architecture. Adam weighs in with advice for people who have to give Internet presentations, and Tonya looks at a couple of Web browser plug-ins that help browsers both talk and listen, along with a new mailing list called Disabled-Talk. MailBITS about the release of the commercial System 7.5.3 and BBEdit 4.0.1 round out the issue.

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Apple’s Call for Unity

Apple's Call for Unity -- Apple has finally released the long-awaited retail version of System 7.5.3. This version can install a universal system that will boot anything from a Mac Plus onwards

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BBEdit 4.0.1 Update

BBEdit 4.0.1 Update -- Bare Bones Software released an update to BBEdit 4.0.1, which includes improved HTML tools, the ability to edit and store text files on an FTP server directly, and (notably!) multiple undos

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Plain Talk on the Internet

Interested in interfacing with the Web using sound? Two browser plug-ins, ListenUp and Talker, enable you to do just that. I've used both plug-ins without crashes in both Netscape Navigator 2 and Internet Explorer 2 on my Power Macintosh 7100

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Presenting the Internet

I've been giving a number of talks recently at conferences like the Adobe Internet Solutions Conference, and I thought I'd share some of the tricks and techniques that I've worked up for Internet presentations. While I was a student at Cornell, my part time job involved managing a seminar room with a projector

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Fishing For Chips: Part 2

In TidBITS-334, we looked at the PowerPC processor family and some of the terms and technologies associated with it. If you read the article, your probably know the difference between 68K and PowerPC chips, why clock speed and clock multipliers are important, the difference between Level 1 and Level 2 caches, and the differences among different PowerPC chips