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TidBITS#566/05-Feb-01

Wondering if the Internet is a positive or negative influence on little kids? Child development specialist Dr. John Laurence Miller weighs in on that topic this week, and Jeff Carlson passes on his good experience having new business cards printed by an online company. In the news, Apple offers discounts on Mac OS X and starts shipping the PowerBook G4 Titanium on schedule, plus Chuck Shotton resurrects his venerable MacHTTP Macintosh Web server.

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Apple Offers Mac OS X Discounts to Beta Testers

Apple Offers Mac OS X Discounts to Beta Testers -- In a unsurprising but still welcome move, Apple has sent out email to people who purchased Mac OS X Public Beta informing them of a $30 discount (the cost of the public beta) on Mac OS X when it ships on 24-Mar-01, bringing its cost down to $100 from $130

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Chuck Shotton Resurrecting MacHTTP

Chuck Shotton Resurrecting MacHTTP -- Chuck Shotton, the man who created the first Web server for the Macintosh, is resurrecting that early program, MacHTTP, and is once again making it available to the Macintosh community

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Printing Business Cards Online

It was finally time to get new business cards. Although my work address changed in the middle of 1999, I had gotten away with handing out copies of my TidBITS business card with the address and phone number crossed out

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Do Little Kids Belong on the Net?

Is the Internet a safe and healthy place for little kids? A lot of parents worry that it is not. Many of us feel the same way as Tonya Engst when she recently mentioned in an article in TidBITS the "mixed feelings" she has about kids (and adults) and "the immersive qualities of Web sites, computer games, and television" (see "Parenting with a Net" in TidBITS-556) Her concerns arose out of a report by the American Academy of Pediatrics recommending that children under the age of two not be exposed to television