Tuesday, August 26, 1997

PC Magazine rates ISPs.

InfoWorld: What's in Microsoft Office 98 (and what's not).

It's a Two-Toy-Tuesday: ASCII Table Maker.

I'm listening to Scott McNealy's speech from NY via ZDNN. Requires RealAudio.

Marimba, Netscape, Sun, Novell and @Home propose an open standard for replication thru W3C.

In his latest TidBITS column, Adam Engst questions the value of discussing the Apple-cloners situation. My belief -- by exchanging ideas, which the Mac community is doing so well now, we can do what computer users do best -- use technology to learn and teach. Think about it, Apple has no CEO right now. It's a wierd time! There's never been a better time to influence the outcome.

8/2/97: "The Web is a Conversation".

From the Tom Seaver Museum: The Sporting News article from July 1987 about his retirement from baseball.

Today's Frontier toy: Unix-style args for Finder scripting.

CNN: Federal judge declares encryption export restrictions unconstitutional.

Is it possible to use Sun's Tk user interface runtime to front-end Frontier scripts? They provide source code for Windows, Mac and Unix. Responses on "Mail Starting 8/23/97". Send mail to dave@scripting.com. We haven't ported MacBird to Win32 yet.