Mar 96 URLs
Volume Number: 12
Issue Number: 3
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.
Spare your fingers and find the full list online at:
http://www.mactech.com/URLs.html
Or (for a limited time), send mail to: MacTech-URLs@class.com and you
will receive the latest list back.
Latest Updates
Internet Related
CyberFinder http://www.aladdinsys.com/cfintro.htm
MacTCP/IP Notes http://www.math.niu.edu/~behr/docs/mactcp.html
Natural Intelligence Roaster
http://www.natural.com/pages/products/roaster.html
Key Internet Services http://www.key.com/
POBox http://www.pobox.com/pobox/
USEmail http://www.usemail.com/
New Technologies
Mac Artificial Life http://www.bdt.com/home/brianhill/elsewhere.html
QuickTime Live! http://live.apple.com/
Other Programmer Resources
TMON http://www.tmon.com/
Vendors, Products and Miscellaneous
Adobe http://www.adobe.com/
Allegiant Technologies http://www.allegiant.com/
MacWare Revue http://piazza.com/index.html
NetDreams http://www.netdreams.com/net.dreams/
Swaine’s World http://www2.cruzio.com/personal/mswaine.html
Interest in Java has been brewing for a while; now there are three development
environments available. Natural Intelligence is developing a Java development
environment called Roaster. It should be available by the time you read this.
Metrowerks and Symantec have also released Java development environments. Check
them out, too.
Natural Intelligence Roaster
http://www.natural.com/pages/products/roaster.html
Metrowerks http://www.metrowerks.com/
Symantec http://www.symantec.com/lit/dev/javaindex.html
As an Internet user, you might consider getting a permanent mailbox. Most of us
get e-mail through our employers or an Internet service provider we pay for
ourselves. What will happen if you change employers or find a better service
provider? You have to inform all your friends, contacts, mailing lists, etc. of your
new address. If you are lucky, you can leave a forward at your old account for some
period of time (like a change of address at the post office). An alternative is to get a
permanent Internet address that forwards your mail to your current mailbox. For
example, you can send me mail at jims@key.com (I must disclose that I am associated
with Key Internet Services). The mail goes from there to me at whatever address I
specify. I can change where the mail is forwarded at any time. This way, I only give
people my jims@key.com account and they will never have to update their address for
me. Several companies are providing this service.
Key Internet Services http://www.key.com/
POBox http://www.pobox.com/pobox/
USEmail http://www.usemail.com/
If you are interested in setting up MacTCP or understanding how TCP/IP works,
check out Eric Behr’s page full of MacTCP information. It has lots of good stuff
including configuring InterSLIP, MacPPP, what all the options in the MacTCP control
panel do, and information on OpenTransport’s TCP/IP implementation.
MacTCP/IP Notes http://www.math.niu.edu/~behr/docs/mactcp.html
Apple has set up a demonstration QuickTime site. Here you can get the tools to
view QuickTime VR movies and see some demonstrations. They were running
simulcasts on New Year’s Eve with a west coast TV station. I’m sure they’ll have
something new by the time you read this.
QuickTime Live! http://live.apple.com/
Allegiant is building tools to allow you to script (Apple, Hyper, or Super) the
Internet. You will be able to create Internet savvy applications using normal scripting
tools. It provides high level support for most Internet protocols (HTTP, FTP, SMTP,
etc). Another tool, the TCP/IP Scripting addition provides lower level TCP/IP tools
where you read and write the TCP stream to create higher level protocols yourself.
Allegiant Technologies http://www.allegiant.com/
Eric Scouten (TCP guide) http://www.metrowerks.com/tcpip/index.html
Piazza has completely revamped their site and change the name to MacWare
Revue. They are using Netscape 2.0 enhancements to make a very attractive site with
lots of good revues of commercial software, shareware and freeware. It is definitely
time to check it out again.
MacWare Revue http://piazza.com/index.html
Neat non-Macintosh site of the Month
Well, it isn’t non-Macintosh, but it isn’t in the main stream. I wanted to point
you towards a page of artificial life programs for the Macintosh. Lots of fun programs
that can really suck up the CPU cycles. Included are evolving programs like MacTierra
and Evolv-o-matic, cellular automata programs (including one in three dimensions),
and other miscellaneous stuff. Also check out Santa Fe Institute’s page, sponsored by
MIT Press. The Santa Fe Institute is the center of artificial life research.
http://www.bdt.com/home/brianhill/elsewhere.html
http://alife.santafe.edu/
Well, that’s it for this month. As always, if you find something interesting, or
have updates, send them to URLs@MacTech.com.
Thanks this month to Chris Andrichak, Chris Hawk, Bob Krause, Bill Moore, and
many others for their contributions and their suggestions and pointers to new and old
sites.
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