Monday, August 11, 1997

From julian.love@sierra.com: A new feature of OS8 (I think) is the ability to speak dialogs when they appear. The funny part is the Speech Manager pronounces Frontier as "Frontire" or "front tire!" It almost sounds a bit snooty. Try it!

A historical and literary view of the Microsoft-Apple deal.

A biblical view of the Microsoft-Apple deal.

Wed 5:30PM in SF: Free beer for webmasters at Internet Alfredo.

I'm running WinMac on my NT machine and it works as advertised. Key benefits: an Apple menu and an apps menu, and the clock is in the right place. I don't care for the about dialog ("About this Macintosh"), or the Apple logo in the upper left corner of the screen.

A TCP scripting revolution for the Mac OS!

• Chuck Shotton's stream-level NetEvents app goes gold.

• NetEvents support is included in Frontier 4.2.3 and documented on the Frontier site.

• Alan German's TCPCMD provides high level interfaces for the standard Internet protocols, HTTP, FTP, etc; to scripts running in the Frontier environment, including scripts written in AppleScript.

• The NetEvents interface is being implemented in the Windows version of Frontier. Cross-platform net apps. Wow! Coming sooooon.

• Frontier experts, please review ODB Server, a high level way to write net servers hosted in the Frontier environment. This interface will be baked into Frontier 5.

"Mail Starting 8/11/97".

PC WEEK: Fusion to get workgroup features, Sun to go direct with Java for Windows.

Time cover story: Steve Jobs Restarts Apple.

BTW, I was quoted in today's Time piece. {qbullet.imageref ("smiley")}

News.com: It's official, Jobs sold his Apple stock.

Another fact gleaned from the Time piece: Scroll to the bottom of this page, read the last paragraph. Does Jobs use an IBM laptop at home too?

BusinessWeek cover story: How Silicon Valley Really Works.