Aug 96 URLs
Volume Number: 12
Issue Number: 8
Column Tag: Uniform Resource Locators
Uniform Resource Locators 
By Jim Straus, URLs@mactech.com
Note: Source code files accompanying article are located on MacTech CD-ROM orsource code disks.
Don’t hesistate to email me with any new sites! The full list is always available
on-line at http://www.mactech.com/URLs.html.
Quickies
Internet-Related
Today’s Browser Idea http://www.smartbrowser.com/idea/index.html
Tell It Discussion Forum http://cmp.goshen.net/tellit/
Vendors, Products and Miscellaneous
MacSense Shareware
http://www.macsense.com/MacSense/Resources/Shareware.html
Miracle Software http://webster.northnet.org/
Vietnamese for Mac http://www.webcom.com/hcgvn/software/mac/mac.html
Water’s Edge Software http://www.interlog.com/~wateredg
Web Watch
The rapid advance in Internet browsers is amazing. Microsoft and Netscape are
fighting over your disk space and each is introducing new versions of their software at
a breakneck pace. You owe it to yourself to make sure you have the latest of whichever
browser you prefer (or do as I do and have both). To keep abreast of what is happening
with browsers, there is the very useful BrowserWatch site. Here you can find all the
rumors of upcoming releases and information on plug-ins, bugs, and statistics on
which browsers are the most popular.
Netscape Navigator http://home.netscape.com/comprod/mirror/index.html
Microsoft Internet Explorer
http://www.microsoft.com/ie/platform/macmsie.htm
BrowserWatch http://www.ski.mskcc.org/browserwatch/
To go along with the new capabilities of the browsers, the Web page creation and
editing tools are having to chase to keep up. Besides Adobe’s PageMill, there is the
World Wide Web Weaver and PageSpinner. I’ve also heard about an editor called Loma
Prieta; maybe it will be available when you read this. And there is always BBEdit with
the HTML extensions.
Adobe PageMill http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/pagemill/main.html
World Wide Web Weaver http://webster.northnet.org/Web.Weaver/WWWW.html
PageSpinner http://www.algonet.se/~optima/pagespinner.html
BBEdit http://www.barebones.com/
ScriptWeb has been updated and has more script system information than ever.
This comprehensive source of information about scripting on the Macintosh is
invaluable to anyone doing any script development.
ScriptWeb http://www.scriptweb.com/
Apple’s Developer University is making its courses available on the Internet.
Based on its self-paced courses and updated and hypertext-linked together, these will
be a great resource for developers. Even if you’re an experienced Mac developer,
sometimes you have to delve into new areas. The Mac system software is getting so big
that it is difficult to keep up with everything. The first sets of courses available are
Drag and Drop, Thread Manager, QuickDraw GX, and PowerTalk.
Apple Developer U. On-line
http://dev.info.apple.com/du/7.5online/7.5TopicsText/ST01-7.5Intro.html
Ambrosia is hosting a large number of sites interesting to Mac aficionados and
developers. Available here is information on Mac Game resources, MacMedia magazine
for users, the alt.sources.mac archive, the Mac Internet Page, the PowerMac Pruning
Page, and others. They don’t create all this content, but are hosting a lot of good stuff.
Ambrosia Cafe http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/Cafe.html
Neat Non-Macintosh Site
If you never read it, you can now. Engines of Creation by K. Eric Drexler is now
available on the Web. This seminal book talks about how nanotechnology is going to
radically change the world. If you have not heard about nanotechnology, you probably
should. It is likely to become part of the political and scientific debates in the future.
Even if you have read the book, it might be worth it to read it again, and the on-line
version has links to sources of further information.
Engines of Creation http://reality.sgi.com/whitaker/EnginesOfCreation/
I originally mentioned this site back in one of my first columns, as having a page
for looking at fractally generated planets. Besides that, there are various code sections
that might be useful to a developer (such as a string macro language, the Hacker’s
Diet, and code to compress voice to 2400 bps). There are also speculations on
semi-autonomous mining robots, a “final chapter” to Rudy Rucker’s novel The Hacker
and the Ants, and a 900-page history of Autodesk.
Index Librorum Liberorum http://www.fourmilab.ch/
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