User group Newsletter Editors: Utilize this content in your newsletter -- PLEASE ... reference UG Network Channel ... Shareware Manager is coming: YUM! Show us the shareware! The Info Manager is looking for your rumors and tidbits... give him a post! ...or subscribe... see subscription notes below Info Manager - 10/27/Y2K What is it? Mac IE 5.0 Scrapbook; the Woz; Amiga; SkyCorp; Windows "Fix" . What is it? Could it be the 21st Century Newton? Could it be the legendary "Knowledge Navigator"? If you know let us know! It arrived on our desk in today's mail adorning the front cover of the 2000 Microsoft annual report. At first skimming, there seems to be no mention of it inside, either. . RightOnMac About.com's RightOnMac section has a really good article on using the Scrapbook feature in Internet Explorer. This is a Mac only feature and helps to show that the guys in the Microsoft Mac division really do understand the Mac. To read about this useful feature go to: http://rightonmac.com/articles/00/10/20-scrapbook.html . Internet Phone I have briefly talked in the past about Internet Phone services. Here is a company that sells such products including a device that will let your telephone connect directly to the Internet for the purpose of calling any other phone in the world at local rates. For more on this go to: http://www.ctdepot.com/store/telephony_service/telephony_service.htm PC to phone . The Woz Steve Wozniak recently appeared at a Mac convention. That prompted Mac Central to do an article about the appearance at: http://www.maccentral.com/news/0010/23.keynote.shtml. He even admitted to some of his rebelliousness in his school days. Today of course, he teaches school and is enjoying life without the pressures he would have if he had stayed at Apple. One of the people responding to the article says: "Nitrozac and I had the extreme pleasure of teaching his class this year... it was an amazing and inspirational experience. Woz stands out as one of the nicest, warmest, and most generous people we've ever met. ... If you're interested, here's a page on our Woz visit... http://www.geekculture.com/geekycomics/Aftery2k/fanclub/woz/index.html " . RightOnMac At this web site, there is an article called "Get a Compaq and put the old Mac to rest - revisited" which should be read by anyone tempted to part with their old Mac and go to the dark side. This is a follow- article to one that had started: "I've been pricing out a new machine for home. A 550 MHz Compaq with a 40 GB drive, CD-RW drive, and DVD-ROM drive is going for $600 at auction. Now we just need to find a place for the old Mac to rest." Of course things don't work as well as he expects. To read the article go to: http://www.rightonmac.com/articles/00/10/23-compaq.html . Amiga Yep, a new Amiga has been announced. Bill McEwen announced plans for a new computer soon after he bought the rights to Amiga from Gateway. The AmigaOne's specs sound like an iMac. USB, firewire, Ethernet ports, 56K modem, DVD drive. Quality audio card and NO floppy dirve. What is surprising is that they are not yet saying what processor it will use. The full story is at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/14164.html . SkyCorp Earlier in the year, I mentioned that a company was planning on putting a G4 into orbit. Well, accoring to MacWeek, SkyCorp will be the one to do. Sometime next year, they are going to put a satellite on board a space shuttle for launching. Once in orbit, the shuttle will merely push it out a door. This web server will be accessible from text-enabled cellphones and other wireless items. More at: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=233 . Microsoft Windows Fix Newsday is reporting that Microsoft has developed a new control panel that will solve many problems in Windows 95 & 2000. For example, its repair options can force Windows to redraw all the icons on your screen when it starts scrambling its icons, and you can repair the "Temporary Internet Files" or fonts folders when they start acting like normal folders. This "fix" is available at: http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/PowerToys/Networking/NTTweakUI.asp . Quote of the Week: "This won't blow Microsoft Office off the desktop, but there is room for alternative [productivity suites] in some places." --Tracy Corbo, an analyst at Hurwitz Group, in Framingham, Mass., speaking about StarOffice. (Which is now open sourced. Thanks InfoWorld for the quote.) . 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