NVMUG eNews 7/13/01
Last updated 7/13/01
There was no meeting in July
Mac Expo starts in less than a week, and Steve Jobs will have something to say. What do you think that something will be? What changes will be announced in iMacs and G4s? Will iMacs actually get liquid crystal displays, and drop to less than 20 pounds? What we write today is apt to be obsolete in a week.
1. AppleWorks 6.2 is Available for OS X
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1. AppleWorks 6.2 is Available for OS X
More than 200,000 people downloaded AppleWorks 6.2 preview, either to try it out on Mac OS X, or to get AppleWorks 6..1.2 for System 8.1 to 9.1, or both.
Now AppleWorks 6.2 is officially available for Mac OS X. It adds the ability to automatically create a PDF document for viewing and sharing over the Internet plus the features included in AppleWorks 6.1.2. (Could creating PDF documents in Mac OS X be one reason for some strained relations between Adobe and Apple?)
If you have AppleWorks 6.1.2 and do not have Mac OS X, there is no reason to download 6.2, the installer will only put 6.1.2 on your machine again.
Otherwise, if you have System 8.1 or newer, and AppleWorks for Macintosh between 6.0 and 6.1.2, download the new update to AppleWorks. Get the information from
http://www.apple.com/appleworks/update/
The new installer will install either 6.1.2 for System 8.1 to 8.9, or AppleWorks 6.2 for Mac OS X., depending the operating system you have installed. You will have the best AppleWorks ever, and that is something!
2. OS X for Unsupported Macs?
Peter Cohen on MacCentral reported a Free utility that supports OS X on unsupported
Macs. Unsupported UtilityX by Ryan Rempel makes it possible to install Mac OS X on a processor-upgraded Mac or some other system that is outside of Apple's designated specification for Mac OS X with no more than three extra clicks. It is available free from Other World Computing, (OWC) Inc.'s Web site
http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/
3. Invisible Web
The basis for this article came from Eds Up, a Small Dog newsletter by Dawn D'Angelillo.
The invisible web
is a term coined in 1994 to describe information that is not visible to search engines (which only search static HTML pages that link to other pages). To search the deep web,
which includes large government and education databases, message boards, etc., you need to use different search technology.
BrightPlanet has uncovered the deep
Web, a vast reservoir of Internet content that is 500 times larger than the known surface
World Wide Web. What makes the discovery of the deep Web so significant is the quality of content found within. There are literally hundreds of billions of highly valuable documents hidden in searchable databases that cannot be retrieved by conventional search engines.
- Public information on the deep Web is currently 400 to 550 times larger than the commonly defined World Wide Web
- The deep Web contains 7,500 terabytes of information, compared to 19 terabytes of information in the surface Web
- The deep Web contains nearly 550 billion individual documents compared to the 1 billion of the surface Web
- More than an estimated 100,000 deep Web sites presently exist
- 60 of the largest deep Web sites collectively contain about 750 terabytes of information, sufficient by themselves to exceed the size of the surface Web by 40 times
- More than half of the deep Web content resides in topic specific databases
- A full 95% of the deep Web is publicly accessible information not subject to fees or subscriptions.
For more information about the deep Web, or to simultaneously search the deep Web and the regular surface
Web, go to
http://www.completeplanet.com/
To start content searching of the deeper web, go to
or
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6. Bits
David Pogue reviewed Portable Keyboards in the New York Times, Portable Keyboards Let You Process Words Anywhere.
The article's last paragraph:
All these smart keyboards are available for free two-week trials. But beware: once you've tried one, especially the cool, collected AlphaSmart, you may not feel like returning it. These strange devices, populating a rarefied product space somewhere between handheld devices and laptops, require about as much power and maintenance as a Frisbee. Having one around can change the rules of the game for anyone who has to write whether it's a book report, senior thesis or implausible science-fiction novel.
For more information, read David Pogue's review, in the New York Times on the web,
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