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Do you receive either Microsoft Word or Excel documents from friends and colleagues via email or on floppy, but you don’t have Microsoft Office and thus can’t open them?
Do you have the same problem accessing ClarisWorks or AppleWorks Word Processor documents or Spreadsheets?
Well, now there is an extremely economical solution to open all these files on your Macintosh – Panergy’s icWord and icExcel applications. Continue Reading
Apple Spec Database
The database was originally developed by Apple Computer but only covered Macintosh systems as it was designed for those who had a regular need for this kind of information, such as sales and support professionals. It also became an easy way for others to learn more about some of the products Apple has introduced over the years. Continue Reading
2001 iMac Family
Get Paid to Surf the web
That view has recently changed – I know people here in Australia who have been paid by AllAdvantage and a Macintosh version of the ViewBar software is now available. Continue Reading
The #1 Resource for Macintosh Software
VersionTracker is located at and its’ basic function is to provide a central resource of all the updates to Macintosh Software.
The site is updated hourly, has an extensive and searchable database, provides daily and weekly newsletters and reviews of new products. Continue Reading
Uses for older Macintoshes
In these articles, we assume that you already own at least two machines, one been an older Macintosh that you’ve owned for a few years and got a lot of use out of, and then a new machine you purchased recently as the other one was getting a bit long in the tooth. Since the introduction of the iMac, this situation has been come quite common, people have finally taken the plunge and upgraded from their trusting PowerMac 6100, or even from an LCII, to a nice sexy looking iMac. Continue Reading
On Wednesday January 10, 2001 4am Melbourne Daylight Saving Time (9:00am on Tuesday 9 in San Francisco) I joined nearly 40,000 people world wide to listen to Apple Computer, Incorporated’s CEO, Steve Jobs, open the MacWorld Expo 2001 San Francisco with his keynote speech.
The 40,000 “attendees” consisted of over 5,000 people packed in the Moscone Centre, San Francisco where the Expo was held and over 35,000 who viewed it via the live QuickTime webcast, which was the largest number of concurrent viewers for a scheduled, live Webcast. Continue Reading
No doubt a number of members receive many “Virus Warning Alerts” via email and these are normally are along the lines of “AOL and Microsoft announced that ‘Virus XXX’ has just been released to the internet and it is more dangerous then Melissa but no one else knows yet, so pass it on to everyone in your address book and that it uses “Nortons Utilities or Internet Explorer to erase your hard drive”
However, these “Virus Announcements” from “IBM & AOL” are FAKES. The “Virus” is actually the message itself and it “spreads” when people forward the message on to others. The actual “virus” they mention usually DOESN’T exist. To let you know neither AOL, nor IBM, issue Anti-Virus warnings and they certainly do not release joint virus announcements. Continue Reading
A beta release of Eudora 5.0 has been posted to Eudora’s web site. Continue Reading