In Adam's "Eudora Tips & Tricks" article in TidBITS 405, he promised to be at the Peachpit Press booth at Macworld Expo in San Francisco next month

Launching a preemptive strike against Mac OS 8.1 incompatibilities, Casady & Greene updated Conflict Catcher to version 4.1 last week. Previous versions of the powerful extension manager and troubleshooting utility will not work at all under Mac OS 8.1

Question: How do I convert email nicknames? Daniel Mao asks, "I recently purchased a copy of Eudora Pro 3.1 and installed it on my Mac at home. I couldn't find instructions in the manual for importing email addresses from Netscape Navigator

InstantMessageGram for Mr. Mongo! In "You've Got Call Waiting" in NetBITS-011, I failed to mention one of the most popular instant messaging tools - ICQ - which claims 5.4 million subscribers and over a million daily users

Question: Can I be identified by my IP address? Greg Newman asks, "I have noticed a number of Web sites that display my IP address. As a member of CompuServe, can people use this address to identify me and add me to their mailing lists either directly using the IP address, or indirectly by asking CompuServe to identify the user of that IP address?" Answer: The answer is "probably not." Here's why

Search Me -- In response to last week's FAQtoid explaining how a search engine would work on an individual site, several readers pointed out that a little ingenuity enables you to co-opt a Web search engine to focus in on your Web site

If you're interested in attending the 1998 Netter's Dinner at Macworld Expo, visit Jon Pugh's Netter's Dinner Web page for information and a link to the Kagi-based signup form ($16 per person) for the necessary pre-registration

See You in 1998! This is the final issue of NetBITS for 1997, so tune in next year for the 08-Jan-98 issue. Thanks for all the kind words and support you've given us so far, and remember, we always appreciate recommendations to friends or colleagues

If you're tired of the ever-increasing size and complexity of today's major Web browsers, you may be pleased to know there's now a reasonable alternative: the Norwegian-produced Opera browser

Mea Culpa -- It may be just the end-of-the-year race to the finish, but we've been making more mistakes than we find acceptable, and for that we apologize

In response to "Apple Store Reality Check" in TidBITS 410, Sean Carte writes, "In your article regarding the Apple Store, you don't mention its value as a source of information

Hotels and modems are like oil and water: nothing is worse than getting to your hotel after a long flight only to spend the next hour trying to configure your laptop to communicate

Ilene Hoffman has once again posted the Robert Hess Memorial Party List, a list of parties and other events at the upcoming Macworld Expo. Robert was a MacWEEK editor who produced the party list before every Macworld Expo; he passed away 12-Jan-96 from complications due to pneumonia

In "Apple Store Reality Check" in TidBITS 410, Adam made a mistake in calculating how much money the Apple Store would contribute to Apple's bottom line if you assumed that all of the Apple Store sales would otherwise have gone through the dealer channel

Frontier 5.0 Alphas for Mac and Windows -- UserLand Software has released the first public alphas of Frontier 5.0 for the Mac and, for the first time ever, Windows