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700 years from now, Agent Silverman is a renowned Exorcist on the case of a missing person. His investigation leads him to the end of the world, a small ghost town called 'Town of Machine'. This unearthly place is filled with nightmares beyond imagination. Additionally many beacons are only configurable for a short period after power-on. The biggest risk with beacons is someone spoofing your beacon somewhere else, since the UUID, major and minor are broadcast, but so is the MAC address, so that won't help you as it can also be spoofed.

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While Intego's announcement of 'the first OS X Trojan horse' lastweek was more than a bit alarmist, spam remains a plague to Mac usersas well as PC users. There are a couple of cool little sharewareapplications that make coping with spam much less of a hassle andtime-waster, especially if you, like me, are on a dialupconnection.

Mail Beacon

Mail Beacon allowsyou to read, delete, and filter email on the server without downloadingit. Mail Beacon is both a mail checker and online email client.

Mail Beacon checks an unlimited number of POP3, IMAP, and Hotmailaccounts and instantly notifies you of new messages. You can then read,reply, and delete email from the server without downloading a singlemessage. This means less wasted time downloading spam or unwantedattachments.

You simply open Mail Beacon, clean out any spam, and quickly respondto important messages, all before opening your regular email client anddownloading your messages to hard drive. Mail Beacon alerts you whennew messages arrive and/or when messages are deleted.

The first time Mail Beacon is launched, it will gather informationfrom your System settings and display an 'Add Account' window. In thatwindow you'll see two tabs: General and Sending. Note that Mail Beaconallows you to check an unlimited number of accounts, and thatadditional accounts can be added later by pressing the 'Add' button inthe main window.

Setup is pretty much the same procedure you use to configure emailaccounts in any email client.

Next to each account in the main window (titled 'Mail Beacon'),there's a checkbox, which is used to indicate whether or not theaccount should be checked for new mail. To check for new mailimmediately, simply click the 'Check Now' button. Scheduling optionscan be found in the Preferences window.

When Mail Beacon finds new mail, any account containing new messageswill be displayed in bold, and Mail Beacon may present a dialog or playa sound, depending on your Alert options. Alert options can becustomized from the Preferences window.

To view an account, just double-click it in the main window. MailBeacon lets you access the mail on server, deleting spam beforedownloading to your hard drive. New in v2.1, Mail Beacon will attemptto detect spam automatically; messages it thinks are spam will appearin red.

You are presented with a window with two buttons: Read and Trash.You'll also see a list of messages in your account, with new messagesappearing in bold.

The Read button retrieves the selected message for viewing. Notethat this button will be disabled if the message is larger than 50K, asMail Beacon is currently unable to download attachments. Mail Beaconhas some interesting options related to reading messages in thePreferences window.

The Trash button tells Mail Beacon that you want to delete thismessage. When you close the window, you'll be prompted to confirm yourdeletions before they're actually deleted. You can also change yourmind and 'Rescue' a trashed message at any time before you close thewindow (which executes the delete), which has saved me from deletingwanted mail a few times. It works well, but I really wish there were away to change the default selection in this dialog to the affirmative(trash), which would save some clicking and let you dump the garbagejust by hitting the Return or Enter key.

The view window will display special icons next to messages you'vereplied to, forwarded, or redirected.

I've been using Mail Beacon for a couple of months now and like it alot. It's very fast, and I like the high degree of manual user controlover the various function options Mail Beacon offers.

I would, however, prefer there to be a one-click method for checkingjust one account at a time, rather than the cumbersome checking andunchecking of checkboxes. I also wish there was a progress bar and textreadout during a mail check.

I've also found that highlighting of some messages in the view listfor deletion does not always show until you click the trash button,although functionally it works fine.

If you need to reply to a message but don't have time at the moment,or if you feel it's important in some way, you can highlight it fromthe Message menu. The message will be displayed in bold blue with a redstar icon.

Messages can be sorted by Date, Subject, or Sender; in eitherascending or descending order. The default is ascending, with messagesappearing in chronological order. To toggle the sort order, or changethe sort field, use the 'Sort' submenu under the 'Message' menu.

Mail Beacon keeps track of a variety of information about messages.To access this information, select a message, and choose 'MessageInfo...' from the 'Message' menu.

Mail Beacon automatically saves message headers/text to disk sothey don't have to be retrieved the next time you view that account. Ifyou're offline and need to refer to a message, you can view MailBeacon's cache. To do this, select an account, and use the 'View'submenu under the 'Accounts' menu. The 'Cache' window is virtuallyidentical to the 'View' window; you'll be able to read any messageyou've already seen, view message information, reply to messages,etc.

Mail Beacon also keeps track of messages you send. To access thesemessages; select an account from the main window, and use the 'View'submenu. This window is also identical to the 'View' window.

Mail Beacon also has the facility to send email messages as well aspreview and edit incoming email.

To compose a new message, choose 'New Message' from the File menu.The 'New Message' window looks pretty much like those found in othermail programs, with a few additions. Choose the account you'd like tosend this message with from the menu next to the 'From' field. Themessage will be sent through the SMTP server specified in thataccount's settings. The default account, which is selectedautomatically when you compose a new message, can be specified in thePreferences window.

You can add your buddies to the 'Friends' list for easy access,which can be found next to the 'To' field.

Mail Beacon includes a handy 'Reminders' tool to help you keep trackof your schedule. You check your mail every day, so what better placecould there be for reminders? To access this feature, choose 'ShowReminders' from the File Menu.

If security is a concern, Mail Beacon can prompt the user for apassword at launch. To enter a password, choose 'Set Password' from theFile menu.

Mail Beacon is shareware, so you can check it out for 30 days beforemaking any financial commitment. A great little spam-fighting tool.

Features

• Checks an unlimited number of email accounts
• Supports both POP3 and IMAP4
• Built-in address book, reminders, and password protection
• Filters email on server
• Sort by Date, Subject, or Sender
• Easy-to-use interface

System Requirements: Mail Beacon supports any Mac running Mac OS 8.0or later, including Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X 10.3.

Mail Beacon is $15 shareware (30 trial uses)

POPmonitor

POPmonitor,Vechtwijk Automatisering's email filtering and management application,is available in both OS X and Classic versions. It allows you tonot only preview the contents of your mailboxes before downloading butalso to instantly create blocking filters that can automatically deletesubsequent messages from blocked addresses without ever previewingthem. You can also 'bounce' previewed messages that you want returnedto the sender.

You can configure POPmonitor to automatically delete messages fromblocked senders or match any filter, and set POPmonitor to switchdirectly to your email application after it has checked and filteredyour mailbox. POPmonitor will first remove any unwanted messages fromyour mailbox and then tell your email application to receive theremaining messages.

You can display selected messages in separate windows. POPmonitorwill not show the entire message but just downloaded part of it. Youcan specify the size of the downloaded part in the Account Settingswindow under Read X lines of the message body. You can also saveselected messages to your hard drive using POPmonitor alone.

POPmonitor can also act as an automatic filter between your ISP'smailbox and your email application, check and filter your mailbox atscheduled intervals, and afterwards instruct your email application toreceive the remaining messages.

Creating filters In POPmonitor is easy: select Filters from the Editmenu to open the Filters overview window, then click the Add button tocreate a new filter. Give the filter a name, select the appropriatecriteria from the pop up menus, and enter keywords or a 'regularexpression' in the text fields. There is also a selection of ready-madefilters that can be downloadedfrom the POPmonitor website, including the new mydoom/novarg filters.Just drag downloaded filters into the POPmonitor Filters dialog.

New in POPmonitor 2.1.3:

• Improved existing filters and added new powerful filters
• Improved ISO character set decoding to properly deal with encodedcharacters
• Fixed bug where ISO character set decoding was not carried outwhile applying message body filters causing some filters toincidentally skip messages that should have been flagged ordeleted
• Fixed issue where the Check All Accounts menu item would be enabledonly if at least one account window was visible
• Fixed cosmetic issue where message without subject is now titled'Untitled message' when shown in a separate window
• Enlarged text fields in the Create Filter window to allow easierediting of keywords
• Added warning dialog to the Create Filter window to notify when afilter's keyword string exceeds the 243 character limit
• Fixed bug where multiline subject would be truncated
• Fixed bug where missing From email address could cause unexpectedmessage actions
• Fixed bug where incorrectly formatted email addresses could beshown in the Select Bounce Address window
• Fixed bug where canceled bounce messages would get deleted ifAutomatically Delete Mail After Bouncing It was enabled
• Added Apple Mail 1.3 and Eudora 6 to the list of supported emailapplications [Mac OS X]
• Added support for Mac OS X 10.3's Address Book [Mac OS X]
• Improved vCard support [Mac OS X]
• Fixed cosmetic issue where two Help menus would appear when runningMac OS X 10.3.0 or newer [Mac OS X]
• Fixed bug where POPmonitor would show a 'Where is?' dialog windowafter selecting the User Guide option from the Help menu [MacOS X]

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System requirements:

• Any Apple Macintosh computer with a PowerPC processor
• Mac OS 8.x, 9.x, or X 10.x
• AppleScript system software (to communicate with your emailapplication)
• Stuffit Expander software (to process downloaded attachments)
• A connection to the Internet or to your local network
• A POP3 compatible email account (POPmonitor does not work withHotmail and AOL)

POPmonitor is compatible with Emailer, Entourage, Eudora, MagellanPro, Netscape Communicator, Outlook Express, and PowerMail, as well asthe latest release of Apple Mail (version 1.2, part of Mac OS X10.2). However POPmonitor is not compatible with Netscape 6/7 orMozilla, because they do not support email related AppleScriptevents.

POPmonitor includes a 19-page user's manual and troubleshootingguide in PDF format.

POPmonitor is $25 shareware. The unregistered version of POPmonitorlets you work with one mail account, three trusted senders, threeblocked senders, and three custom filters. After registering you cancreate an unlimited number of each.

Which do I like best? Well, they're both very good.

I used POPmonitor for a couple of years before I discovered MailBeacon, which is what I've been using lately. As I noted above, I likethe speed and degree of manual control Mail Beacon offers. If youprefer a higher degree of automation and everything happening in onewindow, you may incline toward POPmonitor. On the other hand, MailBeacon has basic email client features, although I don't think I'veused them except to check them out.

Both support OS 8 and later, so that won't be the decidingfactor. The price difference might be the clincher for some.

Since they're both shareware and relatively small downloads, I wouldsuggest checking out both and then deciding which you like best.

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Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is an application software program designed to teach touch typing.

According to Vice, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is not a game, rather a 'system for teaching you how to type without looking at the keyboard'.^[4]

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History[edit]

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The typing program was initially released in late 1987 by The Software Toolworks and has been published regularly ever since. The original version was written by Charles R. Haymond, an independent computer programmer living in Berkeley, California, who later worked for the Department of Homeland Security.^[5] The first version written for MS-DOS was created by Norm Worthington, Walt Bilofsky, and Mike Duffy.^[2] Editions of Mavis Beacon are currently published by Encore Software (hybrid Mac and Windows) and Software MacKiev (macOS only) and are available throughout the retail sales world. An early version supported both QWERTY and the alternative Dvorak Simplified Keyboard layout. Later versions supported only QWERTY until the 2011 Ultimate Mac Edition from Software MacKiev which returned full Dvorak keyboard lessons to the product. Earlier versions were made for Apple II, Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit family (version 1 only), Apple IIGS, Atari ST, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, Palm OS (version 16), and Amiga. The current^[when?] Windows and Mac versions are published under the Broderbund trademark by both Encore and Software MacKiev.

Features[edit]

The program includes a number of speed tests and constantly tracks the user's words-per-minute typing speed. It also includes a number of typing games of which some versions have been included since the first release. (The 2011 Ultimate Mac Edition for macOS, published by Software MacKiev, also includes two-player competitive typing network games, integration with iTunes, Dvorak keyboard support, practice typing song lyrics, RSS news feeds and classic novels.) A certificate of achievement can be printed by the user upon the completion of tests.

Name[edit]

Mavis Beacon is not a real person. The original photo of Mavis Beacon was of Caribbean-born model Renee L'Esperance. She was introduced to Les Crane, the former talk-show host, while he was shopping at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills. Crane, who was then a partner in The Software Toolworks, invented the sobriquet.

Mavis Beacon's first name was taken from Mavis Staples, lead vocalist for the Staple Singers. The surname derives from beacon, as in a light to guide the way.^[6]

Reception[edit]

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A favorable review^[7] in 1987 by Peter Lewis, technology writer for The New York Times, gave the program an early boost. Compute! favorably reviewed the program in 1989, stating that children, adults, and experienced typists would find it useful, and citing its support of Dvorak training.^[8] The Washington Post felt the product 'conceals the typing drills rather nicely behind a game'.^[9]

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Paul Tyrrell for Amiga Format wrote that the program was well researched, well written, and easy to use.^[10] Nick Veitch for CU Amiga felt the product was much more interesting than other educational multimedia products.^[10]

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Superkids described it as a 'well-polished program'.^[11]

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Metzo Magic appreciated that the game had only few Americanised words, which increased the game's appeal in areas that use British spelling.^[12]

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The New York Times noted that by 1999, the product wasn't the 'flashiest' option for players.^[13]

Sales[edit]

By 1999, the series had sold over six million copies.^[14]

On April 21, 2000, two products reached the Top Selling Educational Software list: Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 10.0 (4th) and Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 5.0 (8th).^[15]

References[edit]

1. ^Norman Worthington: Executive Profile & Biography, Bloomberg, ...One of Mr. Worthington's earliest ventures was Software Toolworks, one of the first highly successful consumer software companies...
2. ^ ^abBiersdorfer, J. D. (31 December 1998). 'Next They'll Say Betty Crocker Isn't Real, Either'. The New York Times.
3. ^Walt Bilofsky's Home Page - Software Publisher, ... I was one of three programmers who designed and created the perennial software hits The Chessmaster and Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing...
4. ^'What's Mavis Beacon Up To These Days? Nothing. She's Fake'. www.vice.com. Retrieved 2021-04-15.
5. ^Codex Gamicus:Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Retrieved October 31, 2019.
6. ^MACKLIN, William (November 19, 1995). 'Supertypist Mavis Beacon Is A Creation Of Marketing'. Seattle Times.
7. ^Lewis, Peter H. (17 November 1987). 'PERSONAL COMPUTERS; Feedback In Typing Program'. The New York Times.
8. ^Randall, Neil (January 1989). 'Mavis Makes It Easy'. Compute!. p. 70. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
9. ^Reid, T. R. (1992-11-01). 'OF MICE AND KIDS'. Washington Post. ISSN0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-04-15.
10. ^ ^ab'Amiga Reviews: Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing'. www.amigareviews.leveluphost.com. Retrieved 2021-04-15.
11. ^'SuperKids Software Review of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Version 5'. www.superkids.com. Retrieved 2021-04-15.
12. ^'Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing For Kids Review by metzomagic.com'. www.metzomagic.com. Retrieved 2021-04-15.
13. ^'Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, Version 9'. archive.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2021-04-15.
14. ^Biersdorfer, J. D. (1998-12-31). 'Next They'll Say Betty Crocker Isn't Real, Either'. The New York Times. ISSN0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-04-15.
15. ^'GET INFO'. www.washingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2021-04-15.

External links[edit]

• Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing by Encore (Windows and Mac editions)
• Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing by Software MacKiev (Mac OS X edition)