Re: [NTLK] What amazes me about Newt.

From: Laurent Daudelin (nemesys_at_cox.rr.com)
Date: Sat Nov 17 2001 - 21:00:50 EST

on 17/11/01 16:27, Christopher Plummer at plumcakes_at_mac.com wrote:

> I have no problem paying shareware fees except I am poor. So I don't
> hack shareware I just never use it. My big arguement isn't against
> add-ons. It's that the add-ons are needed to make the hardware useful.
> Apple just didn't make the device well enough to start with. Who wants
> to have to spend extra to get it to work? I wish I could get the
> shareware for much less.

You don't need a lot of system enhancements to make the Newton really
useful. For instance, I've had a Newton since 1993 and I've heard literally
for years that the Dates and Names applications are too basic. A lot of
people have been using MoreInfo, others ActionNames, TimeTrax and the likes.
Well, I'm still using the Dates and Names applications like they are
provided. The only extension I use with the Names is "NameHack", which uses
the full screen of a 2x00 when you switch the view to overview.

In term of system wide extensions, the only things I'm using are "SleepAid",
so that I can have a different sleep and backlight delay when I'm connected
or using the batteries, "AppMan", so that I can switch to any opened
application and "'61 Memory Fix". That's it. And I've been a very happy
camper since 1993.

-Laurent. 

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bozotic /boh-zoh'tik/ or /boh-zo'tik/ adj.: [from the name of a TV clown
even more losing than Ronald McDonald] Resembling or having the quality of a
bozo; that is, clownish, ludicrously wrong, unintentionally humorous.
Compare wonky, demented. Note that the noun `bozo' occurs in slang, but the
mainstream adjectival form would be `bozo-like' or (in New England)
`bozoish'.

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