New Additions to the Archives

December 8, 1999

We've added (lucky) thirteen new NewtonBooks from Jerry Chervek. These books run the gamut from fun to serious, but they're all great. There's even a Pokemon reference guide!

All of these books, plus many, many more, can be found in our books section.

• Aesop's Fables
• Astronomy Terms
• Common Abbreviations
• Dictionary of Fears and Phobias
• Fun Facts and Lawyer Jokes
• Guide to the World's Highest Geographic Locations
• Just the Facts (Historic events that happened on each day of the year)
• Legal Terms
• Pokemon Information
• Scientific Terms and Descriptions
• Songs for Children
• Superstitions
• Topical Quotes

March 28, 1999

After quite a bit of effort, we've managed to enable anonymous FTP access for everyone (previously, some people weren't able to connect to our FTP server, hence the need for links on our Web page). We've fixed the main link on this page, and the remaining links (as well as a few new ones) should be brought back online within the next day or so...

March 17, 1999

Selected new additions to the Archives for the week of 03/16/99:

• From Newton's Prism:
  • MathLib 3.02 -- a library of advanced math functions for the Newton. The demo is available from the calc-science-medical/ directory. (the MathLib Developer's Kit is available from the programming/ directory)
  • NewtonGL -- the first 3D graphics language for the Newton (or any PDA platform). Download your copy from the programming/ directory today!
  • Newton's Prism also served as the main source of contributions to our new Fonts directory. Now you can write notes and produce NewtonWorks documents using these new fonts:
    • American Sign Language
    • Astrology
    • Cairo
    • Calligraphy
    • Cherokee
    • Cyrillic (Russian)
    • Egyptian Hieroglyphics
    • Gallaudet Sign Language
    • German Runes
    • Hebrew
    • Klingon (for those of us who are fans of Star Trek)
    • Kroebern (old German script)
    • Symbol
    • and a collection of fonts inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings":
      • Cirth
      • Elvish
      • Lothlorien
      • Rivendell
      • Tengwar-Gandalf
• Cigar afficionados will be pleased to hear that Mark Peters has recently released Cigar Newtador, a tool for keeping track of your inventory of cigars. You can find it in the applications/ directory.

More files are added to the Archives all the time; be sure to check back here to see what's new!

February 22, 1999

We've added the latest version of TimeTrax (version 1.1b final) to the "Time and Contact Management" section of the Archives. The English, German, and Norwegian versions are all available from the Dates subdirectory. Spruce up your schedule with this great replacement for the built-in Dates application!

April 7, 1998

The archives now contain a number of Newton manuals, mirrored from Apple's FTP site (ftp.info.apple.com), in the FAQ_and_documentation/apple_manuals/ directory. At the moment, they're all stored in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format, but NewtonBook versions are in the works for the future. Be sure to take a look at the "Legend.txt" file to see what each document contains. If you don't already have a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader, several versions for different platforms are available in the tools/acrobat/ directory.

Coming Soon

Here is a brief list of some of the things that we will be adding to the archives in the near future. Don't forget to check back here occasionally to see what we've added and what new things are on the way!

• Publications
  • The latest issues of
    • NewtNews
    • TidBits
    • Gecko
    • Mobilis

• Apple Software
  
  • MessagePad System software updates
  • Newton programming tools, utilities, and sample code
  • Newton-related documents from Apple's Technical Information Library

• And much, much more!

Comments? Questions? Feedback?

Do you have any suggestions for new additions to the archives? Are we doing a good job? Care to discuss the weather? Let us know. We'd love to hear from you!

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