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 Manageris looking for your rumors and tidbits... give him a post! ...or subscribe... see subscription notes below. I've posted my favorite Quotes-of-the-week... enjoy . November 20, 2001 [*]  iPod updater;   [*]  HyperBee catalogs the internet;   [*]  Airport 2.0;   [*]  VJ Editing for OSX;   [*]  Window software for iPod;   [*]  Web Site of the Week: Plops;   [*]  Quote of the week: Albert Einstein;   [*]  Quote 2 of the week: "What people Want";   . iPod updater According to Ron Carlson of the Insanely Great Mac staff, Apple has posted an updater to iPod. (So soon too. Actually the day before the iPod was released to stores.) __ Meanwhile, there is a new utility that allows users to manually update the files on their iPods. (Doesn't require iTunes.) This utility is an OS9 one only. It is being offered as a "a good guy ware". That is do something nice to the person next to you. __ Get the utility at: http://www.cooc.de/softies/ipodfreefileaccess/index.htmlOf course, Apple's updater is at Apple.com For the full story, go to: http://www.insanely-great.com/news/01/1164.html . HyperBee catalogs the internet A student at Georgia Tech is hoping to follow in the footsteps of other search engine developers such as Yahoo and take a student project and turn it commercial.Using the example of SETI@Home, they are looking at getting volunteers to do the cataloging of the Internet in their computer's downtime. He is planning on turning loose of the HyperBee search engine on January 1st. __ No word yet if it is a Macintosh compatible program. The story is at Newsbytes and sounds like a cool idea, IF he can get more than the 12 volunteers he currently has signed up. The HyperBee site is at http://www.hyperbee.com For the full story, go to: http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172049.html . Airport 2.0 Apple has announced the latest version of Airport. Version 2.0. __ It now has 128 bit encryption and it will handle up to 50 computers. Another interesting feature is that it comes with a built-in Firewall. Of course, it also works with OS X. For the full story, go to: http://www.apple.com/airport/ . VJ Editing for OSX Ron Carlson of Insanely Great Mac reported on 11/13 that ArKaos, at Comdex released their real time video authoring software in OSX compatible format. It can edit and manipulate a visual performance while it is running. * See the ArKao's web site too: http://www.arkaos.net For the full story, go to: http://www.insanely-great.com/news/01/1172.html . Window software for iPod Meanwhile, Ron Carlson also reported that Mediafour has announced that they are developing software to connect PCs using Windows to the iPod. (Named Xpod.) This is the company that developed MacDrive to allow Windows users to access Mac disks. Of course, the PC will have to have Firewire ports to work. * The Mediafour site is: http://www.mediafour.com/ For the full story, go to: http://www.insanely-great.com/news/01/1180.html . Web Site of the Week: Plops Plops is a new experimental comic from Scott Adams the creator of Dilbert. My nephew David told me about it. Scott uses Macs in the production of his strip and therefore deserves our feed back. See the first 20 days of the strip on the Plop web site * (BTW - David also has an article on Go2Mac. See it at: http://www.go2mac.com/story.lasso?newsID=8659) For the full story, go to: http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/plop/ . Quote of the week: Albert Einstein "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." For the full story, go to: . Quote 2 of the week: "What people Want" "People want the front of the bus, back of the church and center of attention." - Unknown For the full story, go to: . .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, 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. Thanks . The Info Manager is a veteran of the UGN (AOL User Groups Forum) and User Group Network. He's been a supporter and volunteer on many, many UGNet and User Group Academy projects. As a long time user group member, he's served as volunteer from Honolulu to Boston and many points in between. Currently working with the Apple Corp of Dallas, the Dallas Mac Pack, Cowtown MUG of Ft. Worth and TUMS (the Tulsa Users of Macintosh Society) doing newsletter articles and the monthly CD-ROM Update. Post a lead Info Manager should follow up on. 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