Washington Apple Pi Journal, January-February 1995
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Dimick WAP Calendar .. ................. .48, 49 Bundle ........... ..................... ...... 20 Mailing Lists: A Lazy Way onto the Index to Advertisers ........ .. ..... 66 by Walter Forlini Internet ..................... ............... 67 TCS Help Sheet ........................ 51 Living Album: Still Photos Via by Terry Wilson Classified Advertisements ........ 95 QuickTime Movies ...... .. ..... ....... 25 ClarisDraw ............................... 72 WAP Membership Form ........... 96 by Dennis R. Dimick review by Bob Rockefeller The Official America Online® for Design Essentials ..................... 76 Macintosh Membership Kit & review by Randy M. Zeitman SIGs and Slices Tour Guide ............................... 28 Cat and Mouse With Modem .... 76 by Dave Kramer Mac Programmers' SIG ............ 11 by David L. Harris by John Barnes American Heritage Dictionarys 30 StockSIG ............. ..................... 12 by Emory Roth II Apple II Articles Macintosh Tutorials ................. 31 by Morris Pelham November Meeting ................... 81 QuickTimeSIG .......................... 12 Tutorial Form ........................... 33 Artists on Exhibit ..................... 34 by Joan Jernigan by Blake Lange Playing IIgs Sounds on General Interest Sailing Master: So You Wanna Be a Your Ile/Ile ........... .. .................. 82 Sailor .... .. .... ..... .............. ....... .... 39 by Geraldine Wright Map to Meeting ........................ 70 SCSI Interface and the Report to the Choir ..................... 5 review by Glenn Paterson Writing Coach ......................... .41 Apple II ......... ............................ 83 by Lorin Evans by Rick Zeman Fifteen Years in the Making: The review by Paul Chernoff TCS Goes Multimedia, Using Word 6.0: Who Loves Ya, Internet Protocols ....................... 8 Baby? ........................................ 44 Apple Ill Articles by Jon C Thomason & the by Neil Shapiro TCS Committee Retrieve It! .............. .................. 46 Procedure for Doing a Hard (or November Meeting ................... 14 review by Emory Roth II Deep) Format on a Profile Hard by Lawrence Charters Rediscovering an Old Friend .... 54 Disk Using an Apple Ill ............. 81 Computer Assisted Literacy ..... 52 by Mark Osborne by Tom Linders by Phil Shapiro Quicken 5: Worth the Wait ...... 56 Apple Ill DISKON .OFF by Using The Morino Institute ................ 71 by Gary Franz the Monitor .......................... ..... 85 A Patron's Perspective: Online MacNovice-Take Advantage of by Tom Linders Public Library Reference those Fonts! ............. ....... ...... .... 57 Services ..... .. ............ ............. .. ... 78 by Ralph J . Begleiter by Phil Shapiro Adobe Premiere 4.0 .. ................ 58 by Stuart Bonwit Disk Libraries Cheap Printing-ImageWriter II Macintosh Disk Library ........... 86 Newton Tips ........................................... 61 by Dave Weikert Letter Express .......................... 17 by Michael T. Porter Macintosh Disk Order Form .... 94 review by Jeff Loving The ~ournal of Washington Apple Pi, Ltd. is an independent publication not affiliated or otherwise associated with or sponsored or sanctto~ed by Apple Computer, Inc. The opinions, statements, positions and views stated herein are those of the author(s) or publisher and are not mtended to be the opinions, statements, positions or views of Apple Computer, Inc. 2 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 Advertising in the Journal ! 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