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Tune in this week to find out more about Cyberdog, Apple's
   upcoming OpenDoc-based Internet client. We also have information
   about a few deals: a way to get Informed Designer for free and a
   rebate offer for the Newton MessagePad 120. MailBITS and
   articles about Apple's first quad-speed CD-ROM drive, Now
   Software taking over DateBook and TouchBase, a Windows version
   of Timbuktu Pro, and part III of Tonya's desktop launcher
   series round out the issue.

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Topics:
    MailBITS/15-May-95
    Apple Reveals Cyberdog
    Making Choices: Desktop Launchers, Part III of IV
    Reviews/15-May-95

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MailBITS/15-May-95
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**Apple CD600 Quad-Speed CD-ROM** -- In mid-April, Apple announced
  plans to make their first quad-speed CD-ROM drives available to
  customers in May at about the same price they currently charge for
  their double-speed CD-ROM drives ($350 to $450). The new 600e
  CD-ROM drive is caddy-less, has an improved seek time, and has a
  streaming data transfer rate of 684.4 Kbps, with a burst transfer
  rate of 5.1 Mbps (although performance in any given application
  can of course vary widely). These specs make the CD600 more than
  twice as fast as Apple's current CD-ROM drives, and slightly
  faster than most quad-speed drives on the market today. Apple
  expects to build the 600e into Macs beginning this summer, with
  external and upgrade models also available. [GD]


**Newton News** -- Thinking about buying a Newton? If so, you'll
  want to note that between now and through the last day in July,
  Apple is offering a $50 rebate on the purchase of a MessagePad
  120. Or, you can get a $100 rebate for purchasing a MessagePad 120
  along with an "eligible accessory." Eligible accessories include
  Apple's Newton Connection Kit version 2.0 for Macintosh or
  Windows, an external or PCMCIA fax modem, 2 MB or 4 MB flash
  storage cards, the Newton Print Pack, a battery charging station,
  a leather zip case, or a Newton enhancement pack.

  To receive the rebate, you must send the appropriate coupon, along
  with your proof-of-purchase, to the rebate fulfillment center
  before 31-Aug-95. Coupons are (or will be soon) available at a
  variety of sources, including Apple's FTP site or by calling
  800/999-0260 to have the form faxed to you. [TJE]

ftp://ftp.info.apple.com//Apple.Support.Area/Newton.and.StarCore.
Info/MessagePad120.Rebate.Form.US/


**Conflict Catcher 3 Conflict** -- Nathan Ainspan <[e-mail]>
  writes:
  There is one problem with Conflict Catcher 3 that has been
  recognized and corrected. People with Open Sesame from Charles
  River Analytics will find that CC3 will conflict with this
  application and cause the computer to either hang or crash. When I
  called Casady and Greene's tech support line, we spent about
  twenty minutes trying to figure out the problem until the
  telephone rep heard that I had Open Sesame on my machine. He
  instantly knew what the problem was - the two applications try to
  write to or utilize the same bit of the system. A patch is
  available from Charles River Analytics. [The patch is available in
  Casady & Greene's online forums on the commercial services,
  although not their Web page yet. I've uploaded the patch to
  Macgifts, so it should appear on the Internet in a few days. -Adam]


**Get Informed** -- If you've ever wanted to try Shana
  Corporation's $295 Informed Designer, a application for designing
  forms, now's your chance to pick up the package at a minimal cost.
  If your modem can handle it, you can download the free 2.5 MB
  archive from a variety of online sites, or you can call Shana and
  request the package (on a CD) for a $15 shipping fee (more than
  $15 if you live outside the U.S.). Informed Designer offers an
  array of features for creating paper and onscreen forms, as well
  as features that help with filling out forms onscreen. The
  application requires a Macintosh with at least 2 MB RAM, System
  6.0.7 or later (some features require later versions), and a hard
  disk. Shana says they are giving Informed Designer away to
  encourage people to learn about form design software and to
  generate sales for their add-on products. Shana isn't kidding
  about wanting to generate sales - when you launch the downloaded,
  freebie version, you get a series of splash screens telling you
  about Informed Designer's add-on products. The first screen
  reminds you that you must register in order to "suppress this
  sales pitch," and if you click the Register Now button, you are
  given an 800 number (or a toll number), to call in order to
  register. When you register, you won't be charged any money, but
  Shana will ask for your contact information and give you a serial
  number. Shana Corporation -- 800/386-7244 -- 403/463-3690 --
  <[e-mail]> [TJE]

ftp://mirror.aol.com//pub/info-mac/app/informed-designer-demo.hqx
http://www.shana.com/special/tidbits.html


**More PIMs, Now** -- Late last month, Adobe and Now Software
  announced that Now Software would take over the development,
  marketing, and support of Adobe's DateBook (for both Mac and
  Windows) and TouchBase personal information managers. The
  applications, which don't fit with Adobe's product focus, came
  originally from Aldus, and before that from After Hours Software.
  The move gives Now Software an immediate foothold in the Windows
  market, and users can expect an easy migration to Now Software's
  future product offerings, such as data and file compatibility with
  its more-powerful Now Up-to-Date and Now Contact. Now Software --
  503/274-2800 -- 503/274-0670 (fax) -- <[e-mail]> [ACE]


**Macs Control Windows** -- Last week Farallon announced Timbuktu
  Pro for Windows, a program that enables collaboration between
  Windows and Macintosh users over local networks or over the
  Internet. Timbuktu Pro for Macintosh has been out for over a year
  now, and has proven especially popular among folks who run
  Macintosh-based Internet servers since it enables them to control
  the servers over the Internet. Mixed platform sites might do well
  to take a look at Timbuktu Pro for Windows and see how well it
  integrates with Macs and various different types of connections.
  Farallon -- 510/814-5100 -- 510/814-5020 -- <[e-mail]>
  [ACE]

http://www.farallon.com/


Apple Reveals Cyberdog
----------------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  Two of the more important products revealed at last week's
  Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), OpenDoc and Cyberdog, may
  find themselves among the most important products in Apple's near
  future.

  OpenDoc (see TidBITS-256_) is a next-generation model of software
  that uses small, reusable components that can be combined in
  different ways to create the equivalent of today's programs
  (although that's not to say that OpenDoc parts can't be combined
  in unique ways). An OpenDoc word processor might combine a spell-
  checker part, a search & replace part, and a part that might
  generate a continuously updated index. That's relatively cool in
  its own right, but let's face it, we've got those capabilities
  now. It will be nice to be able to mix and match, but we're not
  talking revolutionary yet.

  Apple's Cyberdog project, though, could pull OpenDoc into the big
  time. Cyberdog is a collection of OpenDoc parts that provide
  Internet functionality. So, instead of Netscape or Anarchie, you
  could use the equivalent Cyberdog Web or FTP parts. Other Cyberdog
  parts planned include Gopher and email (and possibly Usenet news),
  along with viewers for common Internet file types like GIF, JPEG,
  and various sound formats.

  So why did some of the Internet folks we spoke with after WWDC in
  San Jose last weekend call Cyberdog "compelling?" I can't remember
  who it was precisely who said this, but the term "killer app" was
  applied to Cyberdog in relation to OpenDoc as well. Cyberdog
  stands out in a number of ways:

* Cyberdog includes a Notebook part that can store URLs for any
  Internet service, promising the universal hotlist/bookmark list
  that I've wanted for so long.

* Cyberdog can log everything you do, and although that may seem
  pointless, I've found logs tremendously useful in the past. Just
  last week, someone asked me where they could retrieve the latest
  version of ARNS, a utility that can (in theory, I've had trouble
  with it) enable someone to connect to an AppleTalk network over
  the Internet. I retrieved the file many months ago, but a quick
  search in Anarchie's log turned up the FTP site in question (and
  before you ask me for that URL, here it is).

ftp://munnari.oz.au/mac/arns_mac/

* Cyberdog is a completely open system, so developers can either
  write OpenDoc parts that supplement Cyberdog's parts (I doubt it
  will ship with an IRC part, for instance) or replace them.

* You can combine Cyberdog parts within an OpenDoc container
  (think of it as a blank generic document) to perform what I call
  "ad-hoc publishing." Apple's example is of a teacher creating a
  document that combines the full text of a Shakespeare play
  (retrieved live from the Internet) along with Gopher links to
  other Shakespeare plays and a Usenet news part pointing at a
  newsgroup for discussing the play. It's a relatively simple
  example, but strikes me as potentially useful integration of the
  Internet into education. Sure beats those purple-on-white
  mimeographed sheets that fill my grade-school notebooks.

* Once other OpenDoc parts start appearing, it should be trivial
  to combine them with the Cyberdog parts to create new, customized
  interfaces to both local and Internet information.

  These and other Cyberdog features serve to make Cyberdog the best
  hope OpenDoc has against Microsoft's heavily pushed OLE (Object
  Linking and Embedding) technology. In addition, although Apple now
  bundles MacTCP with System 7.5, making Cyberdog readily available,
  hopefully as part of the MacOS, could provide Apple with a much-
  needed boost in public perception regarding Internet support for
  the Mac. Helping this will be Microsoft's recent announcement that
  the Internet tools slated for Windows 95 won't ship with Windows
  95 itself, but will come on the so-called Internet Jumpstart Kit
  that's part of a separate commercial product called the Microsoft
  Plus Pack.

  Do keep in mind that Cyberdog isn't slated for release until the
  beginning of 1996, and its feature set isn't yet complete.
  Although Apple's goal is to release fully functional, feature-
  competitive parts for Cyberdog, there's no way to know how well
  Cyberdog's parts will compete with the versions of popular
  Internet programs like Anarchie and NewsWatcher available in 1996,
  and there's also no telling how quickly the major Internet
  developers will move to OpenDoc, if at all. Also, like current
  MacTCP applications, Cyberdog knows nothing about the Internet
  connection, and Apple's replacement for MacTCP, Open Transport,
  will play a large part in Cyberdog's overall success. Finally, it
  remains to be seen what Apple will do about email. Cyberdog is
  slated to have an email part that could combine with the rest, but
  there are undoubtedly some internal pressures relating to the
  misbegotten PowerTalk Mail functionality and to email via eWorld.

  A few recommendations to Apple. Get Cyberdog out and make it good.
  That's the first step. Consider keeping the name - Cyberdog has
  personality and verve, something recent Apple names lack in spades
  (look at the recent "Apple Internet Server Solution for the World
  Wide Web" - you must be kidding!) Then, let people know about it.
  Jean-Louis Gassee (an ex-Apple executive with plenty of
  personality and verve) recently suggested to me a few brash
  Internet marketing slogans that Apple will never use (but should
  still consider):

* At last, the executive-proof Internet...
* You don't have to be Warped to be well-connected...
* Faster than waiting for OS/2 on the PowerPC...
* The gateway, not the Gates way, to Plug & Play Internet...

  Finally, and most important, make sure as many people as possible
  can get and use Cyberdog. I'm talking about modem bundles, deals
  with phone companies offering ISDN services, drop-dead simple
  configuration (Cyberdog will support the public domain Internet
  Config, which is rapidly gaining acceptance among Internet
  developers), and inexpensive Internet connections. Apple must
  _not_ hide Cyberdog in custom installation options or require
  users to squirrel around in advanced settings dialog boxes to
  establish an Internet connection.

  I won't make any silly statements about how Cyberdog must succeed
  for Apple to survive since $9 billion companies like Apple don't
  just disappear. However, the Internet is still wide open, and
  Cyberdog could enable the Mac, especially with Apple's strength in
  the Internet-savvy education market, to continue to cement its
  position as the Internet client platform of choice.


Making Choices: Desktop Launchers, Part III of IV
-------------------------------------------------
  by Tonya Engst, <[e-mail]>

  Welcome yet another installment of our series about desktop
  launchers. Parts I and II covered DragStrip and Square One, two
  commercial desktop launchers. In parts I and II, I said the series
  would have three parts, but given the large number of launchers
  and the wide range of features that they offer, this series will
  continue next week, when I do hope to wrap things up. This and the
  next article look at a wide range of launcher utilities with the
  goal of pointing out what you can do with a launcher these days,
  what applications are available, and how you might choose among
  them.

  Many of these applications have features that require System 7.5
  (or later) or System 7.1.1 with the Drag Manager installed. If you
  don't meet that requirement, be prepared to forgo certain
  features, particularly those that involve dragging. All the
  launchers and patches mentioned (except for Launcher, which comes
  from Apple) are available in the /gui directory in any Info-Mac
  archive site.


**Launching and Switching** -- Typically, a desktop launcher looks
  like a column, row, or grid of tiles, usually enclosed in a
  palette, which can be resized and moved about. Tiles are usually
  square and about the size of a thumbnail, and the palettes that
  enclose the tiles are often called bars or strips. Each tile
  represents a application, and sometimes tiles can represent
  documents, folders, and more. Desktop launchers typically launch
  applications and may help you efficiently switch among launched
  applications.

  If you have Drag Manager capabilities, you can usually "drag-open"
  documents by dragging them onto tiles that represent applications,
  thus causing the application to try to open the document as though
  you had used the application's Open command.

  A desktop launcher is usually an application, and you would
  typically place it in the Startup Items folder in the System
  Folder, so that the application launches on startup and is always
  available unless you quit it. Some desktop launchers are control
  panels or extensions. This makes them available at all times, but
  can increase the complexity of troubleshooting extension
  conflicts.


**Malph** -- Consider Malph 2.3 as an example of a typical desktop
  launcher application that helps with launching and switching,
  without adding many additional features. Written by Nitin Ganatra,
  Malph begins on your Mac as two bars: the first bar shows tiles
  for launched applications, and the second bar sports four tiles
  for tools that help you use Malph. Using the tools on the tool
  bar, you can create new tiles for applications, and those tiles
  are added to the first bar (enabling you to quickly launch the
  applications related to the tiles). You can also use the tools on
  the tool bar to remove tiles that you added to the first bar, hide
  a tile on the first bar belonging to a launched application, and
  open the parent window of an alias or of an application showing on
  the second bar.

  Malph shows the active application's tile with a dark outline, and
  you can click any tile to switch to or launch its application.
  Malph uses a hot spot (a configurable corner of the screen that
  you drag your pointer to) for bringing its bars quickly to the
  front. Malph bars can be oriented horizontally or vertically,
  display large or small tiles, and optionally display the names of
  items on the tiles. If you have Drag Manager capabilities, you can
  drag-launch documents. Malph has been around for some time now and
  is a standard on many desktops. Malph is free, though Nitin would
  like Malph users to send him a postcard.

ftp://mirror.aol.com//pub/info-mac/gui/malph-23.hqx


**QuickList** -- Not all desktop launchers take the bar and tile
  approach, though most do. QuickList 1.0.1, a $5 shareware program
  by Daniel McGloin, takes a window approach. When you launch
  QuickList, you get a list window which you can freely resize. If
  you wish, you can create additional windows, and any window can
  list documents, and folders, and applications, which you add by
  dragging or through an Add Item to List dialog box. As you would
  expect from a launcher utility, a QuickList window does not hold
  actual items, it just shows representations of them. You can open
  or launch any item in the list by double-clicking it. Although you
  can turn them off, the default settings make it so that when you
  double-click an item, the item's QuickList window minimizes to the
  size of a large tile and QuickList beeps once. You can also
  minimize the a QuickList window by clicking its Zoom box. Maximize
  the window by clicking anywhere on the minimized tile. You can
  also have QuickList quit when you double-click an item.

  QuickList windows do not list all launched applications, but if
  you do Option-click a launched application in its list, the
  previously active application will be hidden. QuickList does not
  support drag-launching documents and has only a few capabilities,
  but it's easy to learn, easy to set up, and easy to use.

ftp://mirror.aol.com//pub/info-mac/gui/quick-list-10.hqx


**Documents and Folders** -- Some desktop launchers let you add
  documents and folders to tiles, such that you can more quickly
  open them, or - in the case of folders - so you can more quickly
  look inside the folders or move and copy items into the folders.


**DragThing** -- To better understand how all the common features
  mentioned so far might work in a utility, consider DragThing 1.0,
  written by James Thomson. DragThing is a solid, easy, elegant
  application with two bars: one that shows launched applications
  and another where you can set up tiles for documents, folders, and
  applications by dragging icons onto empty tiles on the bar. The
  bar can be large or small, and have just one row or have many
  rows, depending on how you size it. Once you have a document on a
  tile, you can click it to open it in its expected application.
  Once you have a folder on a tile, you can open the folder, or copy
  or move items into the folder. Once you have a application on a
  tile, you can click it to launch the application, or drag-launch
  documents on the tile. You can also open any tile item's Get Info
  window, and open its parent window.

  DragThing must be specifically activated if it is beneath a
  different window. You can minimize DragThing strips to a one-tile
  large strip that sports the name of the strip. DragThing's tiles
  can be displayed by small icon, size, or name. Unless you view by
  name, files and folders do not show with their names, though most
  applications are easily distinguished by their icons. If you use
  and like DragThing, James requests that you send him a "cool
  thing," of which there is a list in DragThing's ReadMe file.
  Postcards don't count.

ftp://mirror.aol.com//pub/info-mac/gui/drag-thing-10.hqx


**Launcher** -- Launcher 2.7, a control panel from Apple that
  comes with System 7.5 and various (but not all) earlier systems,
  also serves as an example of a desktop launcher, though it has
  limited capabilities. Launcher displays items on tiles (called
  buttons), surrounded by a colored background, inside a proper
  window. You can Command-click the Launcher window to bring up a
  menu for changing the size of the buttons. To create a button for
  an item, you either drag the item into the window, or add it (or
  an alias) to the Launcher Items folder in the System Folder.

  Once you make a Launcher button for a application, you can open
  documents in that application by drag-launching them on the
  button. You can move items into a folder represented on a Launcher
  button by dragging them over the button. You can also copy items
  by Option-dragging them to a button. To have Launcher open up
  while you start your Mac, you turn on a checkbox in the General
  Controls control panel.

  Launcher does not automatically create tiles for launched
  applications, so it doesn't work well as a application switching
  tool, though if you do have a tile that represents a launched
  application, you can Option-click that tile to switch to its
  application and hide the previously active application. Launcher
  has very few additional features, and you could achieve similar
  results just by making a new folder, called perhaps "My Launcher
  Folder," and placing a bunch of documents, folders, and
  applications (or aliases) in the folder. The point of Launcher is
  to help inexperienced users more easily use the Macintosh, and
  though it succeeds at that, after you pass the novice level, you
  will almost certainly want to move to something more fully
  featured.


**Control Strips** -- Desktop launchers have tiles that represent
  icons on your desktop, including - if you wish - icons for control
  panels, which you might put on tiles to make it super-quick to
  open them. Now, take that idea a step further, and consider a tile
  that doesn't open a control panel, but enables you to change the
  setting in a control panel, such as the sound level, perhaps with
  a miniature pop-up menu. Tiles such as this have been around for
  years in various applications, some give you quick access to
  control panel functions, others perform a variety of helpful or
  fun tasks.

  Recently, Apple took this concept and embodied it in a control
  panel called Control Strip, which they initially released on the
  disks that ship with the 500-series PowerBooks. A Control Strip
  strip can be minimized or stretched out, taking up about a small
  tile's worth of desktop space when minimized. Control Strip tiles
  represent Control Strip modules (which you install in the Control
  Strip Modules folder in the System Folder). Each module helps you
  do something with your Mac, such as change the sound level, turn
  AppleTalk on or off, and put your PowerBook to sleep.

  Control Strip modules are reasonably easy to write for programmer
  types, and additional modules have turned up here, there, and
  everywhere, including in the /gui and /cfg folders in the Info-Mac
  archives.

  Control Strips caught on quickly, and owners of other PowerBooks
  began clamoring for Apple to make Control Strip available to them,
  while owners of desktop Macs clamored for a way to run Control
  Strip modules as well. Control Strip is now available as part of
  System 7.5 or 7.5.1, but it only works on PowerBooks. You can,
  however, patch Control Strip to run on desktop Macs, using
  ControlStripPatcher, by Robert Mah. Also, DragStrip (the
  commercial utility reviewed in Part I of this series) and Desktop
  Strip (reviewed here in Part III) can run Control Strip modules.
  Additionally, although PowerBar (reviewed next week in Part IV)
  does not support Control Strips, it does come with several special
  modules of its own, and those modules offer similar capabilities.

ftp://mirror.aol.com//pub/info-mac/gui/control-strip-patcher-20.hqx


**Desktop Strip** -- Petur Petursson's $20 shareware Desktop Strip
  1.1.2 is a control panel that supports Control Strips and does a
  nice job at helping you switch among launched applications.
  Because it is the only shareware-type launcher that currently
  supports Control Strips, I'm using it as an example of a typical
  one.

  I rather like Desktop Strip because it always stays in the
  foreground and because its limited rule set makes it easy to
  master. Desktop Strip respects your screen space, offering
  vertical or horizontal strips that can be shrunk to just a tiny
  title bar (though you cannot name the strips - the title bars are
  blank) and petite (though not miniature) tiles. Desktop Strip
  comes with three modules that - without any supplementation - make
  it a useful utility: application menu, a tile/pop-up menu of
  launched applications; Monitor Depth, a tile/pop-up menu that
  changes your monitor settings; and Program List, a module that
  displays a separate tile for each launched application.

  Using Program List, you can drag-launch documents. You can switch
  to any launched application by clicking its tile (or Option-click
  to switch to it and hide the current application, or Option-click
  the tile for the current application to hide all other
  applications). Command-clicking a tile from any of the three
  Desktop Strip modules brings up a short menu of options for
  configuring the module. You can temporarily hide the Desktop Strip
  palettes and set whether Desktop Strip hides itself when a screen
  saver is active.

  In terms of common features, Desktop Strip lacks the ability to
  hold items on tiles (such as inactive applications, documents, and
  folders) - it can only display Control Strip modules and launched
  applications. If you find this a fatal flaw, have heart. The next
  version should be released with an additional module, called
  HandyMan, which lets you put documents, folders, and applications
  on a strip. You can also expand the strip out into a grid, where
  each row (or column, depending on how you set it up) represents
  the contents of specific folder. I've seen a pre-release version
  of HandyMan and it fits nicely with Desktop Strip.

  If you like the fact that Desktop Strip sits on top of other
  windows (a feature that I like enormously, especially since its
  easy to shrink the strips down to almost nothing), you may also
  want to try HoverBar - it's not as fully featured as Desktop
  Strip, but it is the only other launcher that floats on top of
  windows, and I plan to discuss it more next week.

ftp://mirror.aol.com//pub/info-mac/gui/desktop-strip-112.hqx


**Choosing a Launcher** -- Choosing a launcher is hard work if you
  have to look at them all, so I hope this part of the desktop
  launcher series gave you a better idea of the basic possibilities,
  and perhaps alerted you to an interesting utility that you hadn't
  already tried. The desktop launchers that I mentioned in this part
  were those that I felt most cleanly illustrated how a set of
  common features might work in a real life application. Next week's
  installment will focus on additional desktop launchers that do not
  as easily serve as typical examples or that are more fully
  featured. Also, thanks to everyone who wrote in plugging their
  favorites.


Reviews/15-May-95
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 08-May-95, Vol. 9, #19
    Live Picture 2.0 -- pg. 25
    Conflict Catcher 3.0 -- pg. 25


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