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TidBITS#267/13-Mar-95

The Web gets stickier this week as we bring you news on updates to all the major World-Wide Web browsers and details on StarNine’s announcement of Mac-based Web server products. Plus, important news on Harry Mangalam’s new incarnation of the Info-Mac WAIS database, a new Federal lawsuit regarding encryption technology and electronic privacy, and reviews of ZipZAPP and ZipQuest Pro, two ZIP Code/Area Code databases for the United States.

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ftp.tidbits.com Down

ftp.tidbits.com Down -- For various reasons, the machine that runs died yesterday. Northwest Nexus is working on getting a new machine up in its place, but they currently estimate a 10 to 12 day downtime. The upshot of this is that none of the Anarchie bookmarks that ship with my book, The Internet Starter Kit will work, since they point at a directory on that machine

Geoff Duncan No comments

QuarkXPosure Announced

QuarkXPosure Announced -- Brent Bossom wrote to let us know about the announcement of QuarkXPosure at Macworld Tokyo last month. Jointly developed by Quark and JVC (with the core technology originally developed under Unix by JVC), QuarkXPosure is an image-editing application that uses object-oriented databases to track editing operations

Geoff Duncan No comments

Revving Your Browsers

Early last week, new versions of three major Macintosh World-Wide Web clients - EINet's MacWeb, NCSA Mosaic, and Netscape Navigator - hit the virtual streets with some fanfare

Mark H. Anbinder No comments

StarNine Focuses on Internet Servers

Director of Technical Services, Baka Industries Inc. StarNine Technologies has stepped into the limelight of Macintosh-based Internet server software with its announcement at the Mactivity conference this week of plans to market new versions of the MacHTTP Web server software as WebSTAR and WebSTAR Pro

Tonya Engst No comments

Zip Zapping Away – Lookups for the United States

If you rarely call or send mail to people within the United States, the software reviewed in this article will probably be of limited interest, but if you frequently send piles of mail or talk on the phone to people in the U.S., keep reading to find out about two utilities that might help you out - TrueBASIC's ZipZAPP and Montage Software Systems' ZipQuest Pro