New & Noteworthy: PCI USB/FireWire card; MacTimes sale; more

October 19, 1999 12:00 AM PDT

PCI USB/FireWire card! Orange Micro has announced a single PCI card with both USB and FireWire to upgrade all legacy Macintoshes and PCs to current technology.

More tutorials MacInstruct has posted two new tutorials: "How To Get The Most Out Of Your Macintosh" (it's 29 pages long) and "SCSI Basics."

Web site for sale MacTimes.com domain is up for auction on eBay.

Search engine zooms! Wow! I was using the MacFixIt search engine this morning, while working on today's updates. Since upgrading our server the other day, searches really fly - especially at off-peak times. Searches that used to take 10 seconds or more, were now taking less than a second!

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