HP Inkjets to be Mac Compatible -- Now that Apple's StyleWriters are history, Apple and Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced last week that future inkjet printers from HP will be compatible with the Mac OS, and that Apple will resell some HP inkjet printers directly to customers in education, presumably so schools can order machines and printers with a single purchase order

Add a VISE to Your Freeware or Shareware -- MindVision Software has announced a free license that makes their Installer VISE installation software available for free to shareware and freeware developers

Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.1 Released -- Qualcomm has released a free updater that takes Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.0 or 2.0.1 to version 2.1. Important new features include IP multihoming support under Open Transport 1.3, remote viewing and manipulation of the outgoing message queue, import and export of users, and assigning IP address restrictions on mail relaying

Nearly three years after the last Macintosh-specific virus appeared on the scene, a new piece of Macintosh malware (code designed with malicious intent) has appeared

I have a song stuck in my head, only the words are slightly twisted. I keep hearing Pete Seeger singing, "Where have all the manuals gone, long time passing?" I'm worried that it will be a while before I stop mentally humming along. Aside from this week, when I pleasantly surprised by the excellent WebSTAR 3.0 manual written by Avi Rappoport, I can't remember the last time a product's documentation really impressed me

Dantz Development has released the free Retrospect 4.0 Driver Update 1.4, which adds support to Retrospect for a number of new CD-R drives, tape drives, and autoloaders (devices that automatically swap among multiple tapes)

Qualcomm has released a free updater that takes Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.0 or 2.0.1 to version 2.1. Important new features include IP multihoming support under Open Transport 1.3, remote viewing and manipulation of the outgoing message queue, import and export of users, and the capability to assign IP address restrictions on mail relaying

MindVision Software has announced a free license that makes their Installer VISE installation software available for free to freeware and shareware developers

After a two year lull, Apple has released an incremental upgrade to HyperCard, its venerable authoring and scripting tool. HyperCard 2.4 adds extensive support for QuickTime 3.0 (including real time scripting of QuickTime effects and playback), support for QuickTime VR scenes, and the capability to script connections to URLs via Internet Config

Qualcomm has released a free updater that updates the commercial Eudora Pro 4.0 to version 4.0.1. Although the update adds few new features, it includes numerous small fixes and tweaks, including vastly improved find performance within the Filters window, improved HTML parsing and performance, better nickname completion performance, and the capability to send copies of both styled and plain text in a single message using MIME

Eudora Pro 4.0.1 Updater Released -- Qualcomm has released a free updater that takes Eudora Pro 4.0 to version 4.0.1. Although the update adds few new features, it includes many small tweaks, including vastly improved find performance within the Filters window, improved HTML parsing and performance, better nickname completion performance, and the capability to send copies of both styled and plain text in a single message using MIME

Apple Releases HyperCard 2.4 -- After a two year lull, Apple has released an incremental upgrade to HyperCard, its venerable authoring and scripting tool

New Virtual Desktop -- After the mention of Virtual Desktop in "Monitor Shielding and Background" in TidBITS-426, Ross Brown of AWOL Software Productions advises us that you need Virtual Desktop 1.9.2, not 1.9.1, for compatibility with Mac OS 8.0 and 8.1

Dreamweaver 1.2 Update Available -- Macromedia's latest update to the $299 Dreamweaver, Web authoring software that supports modern features such as cascading style sheets and animated buttons, continues to tempt designers

CE Sells QuickConference -- CE Software has announced that the Iowa-based Prairie Group will take over development and sales of QuickConference IP, instant messaging software that evolved from CE's long-standing QuickMail email software