What’s afoot with AppleCare? Read on for Adam’s look into Apple’s AppleCare extended warranty program, how it has changed recently, what products could use AppleCare, and what alternatives exist. Also this week, we follow up on Jeff Hecht’s recent article about fax software. In the news, Apple releases a firmware update for blue and white Power Mac G3s, Microsoft releases a FileMaker Pro importer for Office 98, and a QuickTime 4 preview appears.
Update Firms Performance for Blue G3 Macs -- Apple is recommending that all owners of blue and white Power Mac G3 computers install the Power Macintosh G3 Firmware Update 1.0.2
Free Office 98-FileMaker Pro Importer from Microsoft -- Microsoft has released a free Office 98-FileMaker Pro Importer that enables users of Word 98 or Excel 98 to integrate information from FileMaker Pro databases directly into Word and Excel documents
QuickTime 4 Preview with Open Source & Final Cut -- Sporting enhanced features and a radically revised brushed-metal facade, a public preview of Apple's QuickTime 4 has appeared, along with the completed version of Apple's $1,000 video editing application Final Cut Pro
The number and variety of responses to Jeff Hecht's article "FaxSTF Echoes Sad State of Fax Software" in TidBITS-476 surprised us, in large part because with the exception of contributing editor Mark Anbinder, who's been a fan of Global Village's GlobalFax forever, we simply don't like fax software enough to use it for anything
About a year after you purchase Apple hardware, if you returned your registration card, you may receive a sales pitch from Apple for an extended warranty, called AppleCare