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Full story: <http://www.insanely-great.com/news/00/9/12-eudora.html> **** Apple Protest IGM is also one of several sites reporting that the proposed protest at MacWorld Expo Paris during Steve Jobs' keynote has now been canceled. I guess the news stories commenting on how bad an idea it is helped changed their mind. More at: <http://www.insanely-great.com/news/00/9/11-appleprotest.html> **** Excite For along time now I have used Excite's Apple branded site as my home page on my home machine and used GoExpress at work for the PC to do my Internet searches. I enjoy using both products. Now Excite has announced an Assistant for Macs to go along with the PC version. It lets you access Excite's information without having a browser running. **** MS Tips WordTips and ExcelTips are two weekly e-mail newsletters published by Discovery Computing Inc. The two newsletters I have received appear to be well written and give useful advice. You should check them out. The sign up sites are at: (with sample newsletters) WordTips: http://www.VitalNews.com/WordTips/ ExcelTips: http://www.VitalNews.com/ExcelTips/ BTW - they are free. **** Think Secret sees cracks in G4 Cube? ThinkSecret.com is reporting that the Macintosh G4 Cube is showing cracks along the mold (seems) of the computer. Seems Apple needs to address this issue pretty soon. See the story at: http://www.thinksecret.com/ **** Corel has released Corel Draw 8 LE ...as a free down load from their web site. They also announced that versoin 10 will be available for OSX. Assuming of course, that they are still in business in 2001. <http://www.corel.com> **** Kawasaki The New York Times has run a news story on Guy Kawasaki. Perhaps one of the best profiles of him I have seen it is at: http://199.97.97.16/contWriter/cnd7/2000/09/08/cndin/6050-0014-pat_nytimes.html And is title: "For Early Mac Evangelist Guy Kawasaki, Nothing Is Sacred" Note: to get to the article you will need to register. (Free) **** Apple Cable Apparently Apple is listening to all the complaints about the length of the cable on their new keyboard and mouse. A USB extension cable is available for free by calling 800-977-6173. I do not know if you have to provide a serial number. But at least you should be able to sit your G4 on the floor and still have the cable reach your desk top. **** FatBrain One of my favorite on-line books stores has been purchased. Barnesandnoble.com has announced that they are purchasing FatBrain for $64 million in stock and cash. While I am glad to see the founders of FatBrain making out, I hope the new owners won't change the site too much. Full Story: http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/155182.html **** Dead User Group Society? Did you know that 32% of the user groups who listed in The User Group Locator between September 1998 and 1999 are now dead? Email addresses: dead . . . web site URL addresses: dead. Do you plan to join? 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