Hail to the Knife
Although his disastrous stint as the write-in Freak Power candidate for mayor of Yorba Linda, Calif., curdled his own political aspirations like warm ricotta in the trunk of a 1972 Plymouth Satellite, Mac the Knife has never lost his pie-eyed enthusiasm for representative democracy. In particular, the big shoulders, ab-fab war wounds and massive hairstyles of the U.S. government's executive branch have always induced a frisson of atavistic glee in this Son of the Golden West.
From the weighted plastic Franklin Pierce bobbing endlessly into a glass of water on his desk to the James Knox Polk CPU cozy adorning his Apple IIGS, the Knife is a die-hard presidential groupie. Small wonder, then, that Presidents Day sees this implement pulling on the Spandex and breaking out the head cheese in a fit of carnal glee. Sweet Rutherford B. Hayes in a barrel! It doesn't get any better than this.
Manifest Destiny
Speaking of chief executives and the people who love them: Interim Apple Muckety-Muck Steve Jobs will reportedly enchant keynote attendees with his august presence and Doug Henning-style barrage of magic tricks at March's Seybold New York.
His appearance will signal Apple's renewed presence at Seybold, where pro publishers have recently been terrorized by antlike swarms of PC manufacturers. From its three big booths, Apple will reportedly show off both the Wall Street and Main Street PowerBooks and a new pair of Power Mac servers.
While Apple's server group has been wheezing harder than William Henry Harrison after a moonlight dip in the Potomac, the company has apparently settled on its Gossamer logic board design as the jumping-off point for two G3-based server models rated at 233 and 275 MHz. The new boxes will reportedly pack oodles of RAM and may come with Version 6 of AppleShare IP. Tippecanoe and Tyler, too!
Great Society
Apple won't be the only authoritarian father figure publicly polishing its wares at Seybold. Proving that Seybold is great for Net jockeys as well as adults, GoLive Systems will reportedly roll out Version 3.0 of CyberStudio, the WYSIWYG Web authoring studio that's fun to wear. GoLive had intended to go public at Macworld San Francisco, but quick, decisive action by the Secret Service prevented the company from reaching the podium in time.
New Deal
Like Martin Van Buren guiding his ship of state through the crash of 1837, Apple has been thrashing out novel new ways of raising a little chump change. Taking a page from the Microsoft playbook, the company is reportedly about to expand the pay-for-play basis of its developer-support program.
Meanwhile, the bug-pluggers at Symantec are apparently about to start charging for the virus updates that transform its SAM package into a supple, lissome vehicle of pure virus-pounding pleasure.
Bully pulpit
Finally, the Knife is as pleased as William Howard Taft at a pie-eating contest to learn that Qualcomm is not sitting still when it comes to the technology it acquired along with Now Software.
According to the Knife's faithful secretary of defense, the company plans to fold the capabilities of Now Contact and Now Up-to-Date into a swank unified package dubbed Eudora Planner. The package will include unlimited custom fields and cross-platform sharing and scheduling among its many other commanding features.
Although his disastrous stint as the write-in Freak Power candidate for mayor of Yorba Linda, Calif., curdled his own political aspirations like warm ricotta in the trunk of a 1972 Plymouth Satellite, Mac the Knife has never lost his pie-eyed enthusiasm for representative democracy. In particular, the big shoulders, ab-fab war wounds and massive hairstyles of the U.S. government's executive branch have always induced a frisson of atavistic glee in this Son of the Golden West.
From the weighted plastic Franklin Pierce bobbing endlessly into a glass of water on his desk to the James Knox Polk CPU cozy adorning his Apple IIGS, the Knife is a die-hard presidential groupie. Small wonder, then, that Presidents Day sees this implement pulling on the Spandex and breaking out the head cheese in a fit of carnal glee. Sweet Rutherford B. Hayes in a barrel! It doesn't get any better than this.
Manifest Destiny
Speaking of chief executives and the people who love them: Interim Apple Muckety-Muck Steve Jobs will reportedly enchant keynote attendees with his august presence and Doug Henning-style barrage of magic tricks at March's Seybold New York.
His appearance will signal Apple's renewed presence at Seybold, where pro publishers have recently been terrorized by antlike swarms of PC manufacturers. From its three big booths, Apple will reportedly show off both the Wall Street and Main Street PowerBooks and a new pair of Power Mac servers.
While Apple's server group has been wheezing harder than William Henry Harrison after a moonlight dip in the Potomac, the company has apparently settled on its Gossamer logic board design as the jumping-off point for two G3-based server models rated at 233 and 275 MHz. The new boxes will reportedly pack oodles of RAM and may come with Version 6 of AppleShare IP. Tippecanoe and Tyler, too!
Great Society
Apple won't be the only authoritarian father figure publicly polishing its wares at Seybold. Proving that Seybold is great for Net jockeys as well as adults, GoLive Systems will reportedly roll out Version 3.0 of CyberStudio, the WYSIWYG Web authoring studio that's fun to wear. GoLive had intended to go public at Macworld San Francisco, but quick, decisive action by the Secret Service prevented the company from reaching the podium in time.
New Deal
Like Martin Van Buren guiding his ship of state through the crash of 1837, Apple has been thrashing out novel new ways of raising a little chump change. Taking a page from the Microsoft playbook, the company is reportedly about to expand the pay-for-play basis of its developer-support program.
Meanwhile, the bug-pluggers at Symantec are apparently about to start charging for the virus updates that transform its SAM package into a supple, lissome vehicle of pure virus-pounding pleasure.
Bully pulpit
Finally, the Knife is as pleased as William Howard Taft at a pie-eating contest to learn that Qualcomm is not sitting still when it comes to the technology it acquired along with Now Software.
According to the Knife's faithful secretary of defense, the company plans to fold the capabilities of Now Contact and Now Up-to-Date into a swank unified package dubbed Eudora Planner. The package will include unlimited custom fields and cross-platform sharing and scheduling among its many other commanding features.