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 - 6/30/Y2K MacOS Radio; Opera; IA Expo?; Adcritic.com; Wireless Palm **** MacOS Radio Finally a competitor to MacShowLive. Starting July 10th MacOS Radio will be broadcasting weekly with a plan to go to 3x a week. This one will be done in Quicktime. The are promising to archive the broadcast until the next show if you can't make the Monday 6:55 ET broadcast. I would hope that they would keep it up longer, but I suppose they will bow to public pressure if that is wanted. Duane Burghard will be the host and will interview Roger Kaster of Newer Technologies for that show. More info at www.macosradio.net **** Opera EWeek (aka PCWeek) is reporting on PC Expo that is happening this week in NYC. Opera is just about the only browser that is not free. ($39) The features in the 4.0 version being announced is integrated e-mail; fast rendering speed; low resource requirements; 128-bit encryption; XML; cascading style sheets; HTML; ECMAScript; and JavaScript support. It is also touted as being the fastest browser on earth. (Available for most platforms) For more info: www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2594503,00.html **** Internet Applicances eWeek also says that PC Expo should have a name change to Internet Applicance Expo as PCs are not what is creating the excitement. Or is it NetPhones? See the article at: www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2591526,00.html (One interesting comment is that Cisco is moving to iPhones on its campus. iPhone is the product they sell for use as a NetPhone.) **** AdCritic.com Is a great place to go and get copies of the terrific advertising you have seen on TV. However don't look for Apple ads there any more. Under threat of legal action, the web site was required to remove Apple's advertisements. Seems like a stupid move on Apple's part, but I suppose they have to protect their copywrite. But you would think they could have worked out something. See: www.adcritic.com **** Wireless Internet for all Palms Brent Hecht is reporting on the PC Expo in his Insanely Great Mac newsletter. On Tuesday 6/27 Pam unveiled its Palm Mobile Internet Kit, a new software product that allows users to access the Internet on their Palms via a mobile phone. The idea is to provide all Palm users with the capabilities of the wireless Internet-enabled Palm VII. It is nice that Palm hasn't abandoned their early users. For the complete story: www.insanely-great.com/news/00/6/28-palm.html **** IEEE 1394 Also Known As iLink and Firewire is already sold as part of over 8 million PCs. According to a Cahner's Instat report it will soon take off and be used in the following: TV set-top boxes; Video game consoles; Consumer audio products; DVD players; Digital TV sets; Internet appliances; PCs; Multimedia storage devices; Web cameras; Scanners and printers; and last, but not least Cable modems. Sounds to me like there is going to be less of a demand for USB2. For more see ZDNet's AnchorDesk at: zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2595404,00.html **** Quote of the Week: "I'm comfortable with money, and it's comvortable with me." -- Diana Ross **** Web site of the Week: The San Jose Mercury News web site: www.mercurycenter.com is one of the best places to get technology news. But what I like is its 100+ comics. I picked the ones I want to see and then everyday I can go back to the site and because of the cookie on my machine I don't even have to sign in to read my comics. Some of them aren't even available in either the Dallas Morning News or the Fort Worth Star Telegram that dominate my home area. I particularly like PC & Pixel about a computer nerd and his cat. Enjoy! **** Shareware of the week: For the Mac or PC: From the description on Download.com: "QDesign MVP is a cross-platform, QuickTime-based digital music application that can play your CD audio, MP3, WAV, AIFF, and QDesign music files. MVP can also record directly from CD to MP3 and QDesign music formats. Online search and download of digital music is also possible using MVP's direct interface to the Internet. MVP even plays back music videos produced in QuickTime and AVI formats. Version 1.2 has full support for QDesign MPEG-1 and 2; layer 2 encode, decode, and playback; expanded MP3 encoding; enhanced file conversion capabilities; bug fixes; and more. The unregistered version of MVP can encode MP3s for only 30 days, but allows unlimited encoding capabilities in the QDesign file format. The shareware registration fee for QDesign MVP is $19.95." pau **** Don't forget ... 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. Any suggestions for topics and reports of rumors are always welcome. Please me know at the address below. 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