CyberSTrider Files

Denesh Bhabuta gets on his soapbox...

The Internet is becoming more useful by the day with on-line stores popping up all over the place.
Companies like Apple have all but abandoned high street marketing in favour of their "virtual" Internet
Apple Stores where you can browse the latest models, select the exact spec of the machine you'd like
and pay for it there and then.
Here's a few examples:

All the examples above allow instant payment methods and fast turnaround of your order.

So what's in it for Atarians?

Sadly nothing at the moment which is why I'm throwing down the gauntlet to Atari dealers.
It's easy enough to come up with excuses - there's no software to do this, how much will it cost,
not enough Atarians are on-line, it isn't secure, blah, blah...

The software is certainly available right now, in the form of CAB, Light of Adamas and WenSuite.
OK, they'll need updating to offer secure transactions but these facilities are already offered by Internet
Explorer and NetScape and it's a chicken and egg situation.
If ASH updated CAB to support secure on-line transactions then uploaded a virtual store I'm sure a lot of us would use it,
or am I dreaming?

No one can doubt better and cheaper Internet access methods will continue to see growth in on-line usage
and they'll be other companies taking advantage of the marketing opportunities.
I'll certainly be creating an on-line store for CyberSTrider services in the near future
and I'm constantly on the lookout for ways to make my web site more user friendly - so keep an eye on:
http://www.cyberstrider.org/


To infinity and beyond!

Back to CyberSTrider country, and the first really exciting project I have come across in a long time is
an email client program called Infitra by Cybermaxx in The Netherlands.
Infitra will eventually be released as a commercial program but you can download usable beta versions
right now and give it a try for yourself:
 

http://www.worldaccess.nl/~koenrad9/
 

The projected final feature list is mouth watering and would offer a professional quality email client to rival Eudora and Outlook on the Mac/PC platforms.

Infitra works with STiK/STiNG and includes a relations feature for email contacts which are a bit like aliases. Files can be attached to emails using the built-in UUE and MIME options. Configuring Infitra is fairly straightforward and user friendly. The nicest feature has to be the ease with which you can neatly store, organise and access your email in folders within the program. Infitra is coded in pure assembler and the raw speed is demonstrated by the speed processes within the program occur.



That's NEWSie to me

NEWSie is an easy to use GEM based package to read Usenet news, send and receive email, browse web pages as text only, and transfer files using the FTP protocol and has just been updated to v0.88.

There's been a serious bug hunt which makes this release the most stable release yet. Amongst the new features there's the ability to highlight URLs within emails and news articles, and by selecting these links, open the link via the text browser module. The HTML parsing of the browser has been improved and offers better support for URL handling. NEWSIE is a must have download for anyone using previous releases, grab your copy from:
 

http://www.primenet.com/~rojewski
 

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