His new group will focus on tightly integrating Apple software and hardware, overseeing Newton development and the Advanced Technology group, as well as the company-wide operating systems and licensing efforts. Apple Research and Development will be led by David Nagel, currently head of AppleSoft. Interestingly, both Claris and eWorld will report to Eilers under this new organization. Worldwide Marketing and Customer Solutions will be headed by Daniel Eilers (who you may recognize as the current president and CEO of Apple's subsidiary Claris) and will focus on consumer, home, business, and education markets, as well as adding a new group to concentrate on the entertainment industry. This is Apple's first major restructuring since 1993 by some accounts that puts them behind schedule. Īpple Announces Reorganization - Apple announced a sweeping reorganization last week, combining several groups into two primary divisions: "Worldwide Marketing and Customer Solutions" and "Apple Research and Development." The reorganizations should allow Apple to focus more closely on consumer, education, and entertainment markets while maintaining and expanding its core businesses. I've also edited Gilbert Rankin's message splitting submission slightly and uploaded it for FTP if you'd like to see how he provided an interface to Eudora's message splitting settings.
My major complaint with Wagner's Eudora Prefs is that it also changes the quote character to a non-standard one, and it does so in a way that changing it back requires using ResEdit. Thanks to the many people who either sent me Eudora plug-in files that provide a simple interface within Eudora's Settings dialog for changing the settings I talked about in TidBITS-271 or who told me about Wagner's Eudora Prefs, a single plug-in that provides an interface for a number of less commonly changed settings in Eudora's Settings dialog. Although calling an atomic clock requires a long distance call, the call cost one reader a whopping 12 cents, so it would take a number of calls to add up to even a standard shareware fee. In addition, AutoClock can use a modem to dial an atomic clock and update the time. Both help you deal with Daylight Savings Time and also automatically fix deviations in the Macintosh clock. Although these utilities don't use the Internet (can you imagine!), many will find them useful.
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News this week of Apple's reorganization and its compelling new line of Mac-based World-Wide Web servers, plus information on a new virus and a new release of John Norstad's popular anti-virus utility Disinfectant, a review of Iomega's fast-selling Zip drive, and coverage from Matt Neuburg of the latest update to Now Utilities.
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