User group Newsletter Editors: Utilize this content in your newsletter -- PLEASE ... reference The User Group Network _ / _ UG Network Channel _ / _ NEWS_/ _ Info Manager The Info Manager is looking for your rumors and tidbits... give him a post! ...or subscribe... see subscription notes below . Info Manager - 6/2/Y2K Who Wants to be a Milionaire; MusicMatch; Apple Profits; Porn-Detection Software **** Millionaire Insanely Great Mac has posted a review of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire: Second Edition." The game based on the hit TV show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire." This version is available for the Mac. The review can be found at: http://www.insanely-great.com/reviews/wwm.html (It does require a G3 processor) **** MusicMatch MusicMatch produces "jukebox" software for PCs. While not as many people have downloaded it as they have similar software from Microsoft and Real Networks, it does have a strong following that according to MusicMatch citing figures from Media Metrix, the Internet tracking firm, "MusicMatch customers used their software about three times more than Real Jukebox customers." MusicMatch will produce its Jukebox 1.0 for the Macintosh. Currently no one else produces a Jukebox for the Mac. The software is available at www.musicmatch.com. So if you enjoy music, check it out. (BTW - Intel is an investor in MusicMatch). **** RealSystem 8 Meanwhile RealNetworks is doing it own thing with video. It what has been described as a "QuickTime killer" in RealSystem 8. Reportedly, this will allow full screen video on a 56K modem. Apple has claimed that they will have QuickTiem 5 out in 2000, but didn't even show a preview at its World Wide Developer Conference. So Real my really have a time advantage on this one. **** Apple I know, we have pretty much started taking profits at Apple for granted. But they did announce a profit of $233 million for its second quarter that ended in March. But some of the reasons for increased profit in what is typically their weakest quarter are interesting. Apple shipped 100,000 PowerBooks and over 350,000 G4 systems during that quarter. In total they sonld nearly 1 million computer systems. That was an increase of 26% over 1999. 28% of iMac customers purchased their first computer and 17% had owned Wintel machines. Truly remarkable for a company that was written off by many analysts just two years ago. **** Porn-Detection Software No, you aren't going to use it to find the latest pictures from Playboy, but it could be used as part of a parental or corporate control software package to make sure people that they want to keep from such sites, aren't able to go there. Heartsoft, Inc. an Oklahoma based educational software publisher has applied for patents for software using technology developed by NASA to scan for flesh tones and curves. The fact, that it is based on government developed technology makes me wonder if it should be able to get a patent. (Ask Ashton-Tate about doing that.) But Heartsoft will use the technology in its Internet Safari browser aimed at children and I am sure the educational market. School systems should lap it up. (I wonder if this browser is based on the Netscape open software project). **** Quote of the Week: "If the average user's privacy is left up to Microsoft's and Netscape's choice of defaults, then God help them all." --Privacy advocate Jason Catlett, president of Junkbusters, in Green Brook, N.J., speaking about the P3P specification. **** Web site of the Week: Confused about networking your Macs? More and more people are wanting to network their Macs to share printers and more frequently to share a cable or ADSL modem so that more people can get on the net at the same time. Three Macs is a website that tells you how to do it in plain English. Check it out at: http://www.threemacs.com/network/index.html pau **** Don't forget For User Group Newsletter Editors there's a TEXT version of this file available for use in your newletter. Any suggestions for topics and reports of rumors are always welcome. Please me know at the address below. Thanks ... the Info Manager invites you to use all or part of his column in your user group newsletter. Please let him know at rumormangr@aol.com and if possible send an electronic copy for the old scrapbook. 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