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TidBITS#292/28-Aug-95

Do you receive TidBITS via America Online? Find out how AOL suddenly changed your subscription last week! Also inside: information on a new virus potentially affecting users of Microsoft Word 6.0, a review of Connectix’s widely-discussed utility Speed Doubler, a few notes on the marketing excesses surrounding the Windows 95 launch, and a comprehensive overview of Apple’s forthcoming PowerPC-based PowerBooks.

Geoff Duncan No comments

Open Transport 1.0.7

Open Transport 1.0.7 -- Last week, Apple released a patch that updates Open Transport 1.0.6 to 1.0.7. Version 1.0.7 can only be used on the Power Macs 7200, 7500, 8500, and 9500, and won't work on other Power Macs or on releases of Open Transport other than 1.0.6

Mark H. Anbinder No comments

Frank Imburgia

Frank Imburgia probably didn't anticipate a flood of calls from TidBITS readers when he gave us his office phone number for T-shirt inquiries (see TidBITS-291)

Geoff Duncan No comments

Problems With AOL’s New Email Handling

A week or so ago America Online significantly changed the way they handle Internet mail and file attachments to and from the Internet. Though these changes will better serve many AOL users, they have confused many TidBITS readers. Previously, AOL's Internet mail gateway would split email messages over 25K into multiple segments, and AOL subscribers to TidBITS received each issue as two email messages

Mark H. Anbinder No comments

Cross-Platform Virus Strikes Word Users

Though the possibility of a cross-platform virus moving as interpreted commands in data documents has been considered by computer experts, none had been seen in the user community until this month's discovery that a new virus was spreading within document macros interpreted by Microsoft's WordBasic macro language

Richard C.S. Kinne No comments

Speed Doubler Quickens the Pace

The world is obsessed with speed and nowhere is that more prevalent than in the computer industry. Anyone who can find a way to make our computers work faster gains our appreciation - and our dollars. Connectix Software has a reputation of doing more with less

Adam Engst No comments

Power PowerBooks Arrive

Today Apple announced the long-awaited upgrades to its well-designed but aging line of PowerBooks in the form of the PowerBook 5000-series, the PowerBook 2000-series, and the PowerBook 190