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Adam Engst

TidBITS#143/21-Sep-92

This week brings news of fixes, upgrades, reworks, and refunds, so pay attention if you use a PowerBook 100, a 8*24 GC Video Card, HyperCard 2.1, a SuperMac hard drive, or a Macintosh Portable. We…

Adam Engst

TidBITS#142/14-Sep-92

Gobs of great stuff this week, including a report on the just- released Performas! Also (deep breath), a bug in Internet email on CompuServe, news about Apple discontinuing more items, an upgrade for PowerPort/V.32 owners,…

Adam Engst

TidBITS#141/07-Sep-92

Hot off the phone lines comes Mark Anbinder’s report on the MBDF authors pleading guilty! We also have the details on how IBM managed full-screen, 30 frame per second video on the Ultimedia, a report…

Adam Engst

TidBITS#140/31-Aug-92

First, the mundane but useful, with an important tip for Excel users, a clarification about Conflict Catcher, a new 32-user license for A/UX, and a report of the imminent demise of the Portable battery supply.

Adam Engst

TidBITS#139/24-Aug-92

A varied catch this issue, starting with quick notes about Morph, Excel 4.0, and European Macintosh distribution, and continuing with an interesting article on gray market mail order vendors. We have a few more notes…

Adam Engst

TidBITS#138/17-Aug-92

Check out the hottest hardware and software from Macworld Boston, ShareVision’s $1500 video-conferencing system and Gryphon’s $149 image morphing program, Morph. Eric Schlegel shares more information on WorldScript, and we look at what’s coming to…

Adam Engst

TidBITS#137/10-Aug-92

What do you think we’d write about? Macworld Boston, of course, and we have so much to say that the Macworld articles will keep coming for another few issues. This first issue brings you Mark…

Adam Engst

TidBITS#136/03-Aug-92

For TidBITS readers, the hottest program of the week is Akif Eyler’s Easy View 2.1, a snazzy viewer for TidBITS. Other news this week includes an analysis of the recent Apple/Microsoft love-fest, an anti-virus author…

Adam Engst

TidBITS#135/27-Jul-92

Psst! Wanna buy a PowerBook 100 cheap? Read on. We also have a report on the 1992 MacHack Conference – including notes on the winning hacks, two articles describing how Apple is racing to save…

Adam Engst

TidBITS#134/20-Jul-92

If you or anyone you know has ever felt hand or wrist pain while at the Mac, read on for more information on carpal tunnel syndrome and a number of easy ways of avoiding serious…

Adam Engst

TidBITS#133/13-Jul-92

By popular request, this week brings you even more on neat Internet services, and the final word from Howard Hansen on Excel 4.0, along with an important warning about saving from Excel. For those of…

Adam Engst

TidBITS#132/06-Jul-92

Malevolence continues with a new virus, T4, and a Trojan Horse whose author’s head now carries a price. Luckily, all is not lost, with CE and Microsoft releasing good things, updates to Alarming Events and…

Adam Engst

TidBITS#131/29-Jun-92

Wondering about expanding a PowerBook’s hard drive space? Want to do some visual programming? Interested in hearing some great music from your Mac? Curious about how you can go to jail by using your color…

Adam Engst

TidBITS#130/22-Jun-92

Hot news arrives in the form of the PowerBook 145 and Salient’s acquisition. Mike O’Connor contributes some little-known tips for working with QuickTime movie players, and for you network junkies we have a detailed look…

Adam Engst

TidBITS#129/ClarisWorks

If you’re a power user and won’t use anything but high-end software tools or ResEdit, don’t read this review. If you have more modest needs and you’re interested in being able to use a number…