MacFair -- Those in New York City who haven't been frozen to the quick should mark their calendars for the New York MacFair, which runs from 9 AM to 4 PM on 26-Feb-94 at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel

Some recent data from Dataquest confirms what many people have believed all along - that the PowerBook Duo is the best selling subnotebook computer in the U.S

Technical Support Coordinator, BAKA Computers Various media reports tell us that Apple's upcoming PowerPC Macs will arrive in mid-March. This will no doubt mean a shuffling of Apple's product line, and the existing Quadra systems will likely move out of the high end, or out of the lineup entirely in some cases

I have a short attention span, and I almost forgot to finish my look at some of the more interesting programs that I saw at Macworld San Francisco. Again in no particular order... Arrange your life with Common Knowledge's new personal information manager

Apple's eWorld was one of the most loudly trumpeted announcements at Macworld, but it will take a few months before we'll know how the electronic gold will pan out for Apple

I mentioned WIRE's Internet access above, and eWorld's people have said that they too plan to provide Internet gateways. That's good, if not surprising or exciting

We'd like to congratulate John Norstad, author of Disinfectant and NewsWatcher among others, for his John J. Anderson Distinguished Achievement Award from MacUser

La Cie Recalls Drives -- While perusing my Navigator session on CompuServe, I noticed this warning in the Macintosh Hardware forum. I'm currently unable to confirm this due to the timing, but it appears that La Cie has recalled 1,900 of their new 340 MB Tsunami hard drives

PowerTalk to Internet Gateway -- Jim Gaynor tells us that StarNine has released an evaluation version of their PowerTalk to Internet gateway. I've played briefly with the shipping version, which works, although it currently isn't ideal for use with SLIP or PPP since it tries to dial out a bit too frequently

Andy Williams passed on the news that the American Physical Therapy Association is sponsoring two free days of phone help to help those affected by the "Information Revolution." Sounds like a good time to call to chat about your carpal tunnel or tendonitis

Some comments on things you've said recently about upcoming Apple technologies. In regard to QuickDraw GX, you left out the coolest thing about QuickDraw GX

You want to complain, complain here. In some discussions on Usenet, I was falsely accused of being continually upbeat because I live in California. That's not true - I live in Seattle, where it rains all the time (or so we're supposed to tell people from California)

Technical Support Coordinator, BAKA Computers Patient MessagePad owners were rewarded in late January with the release of the long-awaited 1.05 system software upgrade

Beginning this month, Apple is shipping Macs with an improved internal CD ROM drive, the AppleCD 300i Plus. The new unit offers a tray-loading feature similar to that found in home CD audio decks, eliminating the need for CD caddies

Apple provides a brushed aluminum replacement stylus to MessagePad purchasers who register, but it's no more attractive a writing instrument than the original; it's just a different color