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TidBITS#440/27-Jul-98

Adam Engst is a man of many talents, including convincing others to do his dirty work! Read how he maneuvered Technical Editor Geoff Duncan into creating a knockout Web archive for TidBITS Talk. Also this week, Adam continues his review of crash detection devices and notes Adobe’s real plans for PageMill 3.0 for the Mac. Plus, we have news about HyperCard 2.4.1, a new version of Default Folder, and Dartmouth College’s recommending the iMac to students.

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Dartmouth Picks iMac

Dartmouth Picks iMac -- Dartmouth College, home of one of the largest academic, mostly Mac networks in the world, recently sent a letter to incoming freshmen recommending they purchase Apple's new iMac to fulfill the college's computer ownership requirement

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HyperCard 2.4.1 Update

HyperCard 2.4.1 Update -- Apple has released HyperCard 2.4.1, a minor update to its long-lived authoring tool. HyperCard 2.4.1 fixes problems when using HyperCard with disks larger than 2 GB, and removes the persistent display of the Get QuickTime Pro movie when using HyperCard 2.4 with QuickTime 3.0

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Macintosh PageMill Lives

In "Closing the Book on Visual Page" in TidBITS-439, I commented that Adobe seemed to be ignoring the Mac version of PageMill, given that Adobe made no mention of future Mac development in the PageMill 3.0 for Windows press materials

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The Battle of the Bouncers, Part 2

In the first part of this article in TidBITS-439, I looked at how three crash detection devices - the PowerKey Pro, Rebound, and Lazarus - compare in terms of hardware, restart method, and crash detection capabilities