The Internet for Macs For Dummies Starter Kit

This book shows how to access and navigate the Internet like a pro. Rewritten to include special chapters on the newly emerging world of Internet business, this book also features a newly added kit software which includes a disk containing TCP/Connect II software. This book is the easiest, fastest most fun way for any Mac user to get connected. This book: includes software offers Internet connection tools for e-mail, newsnet reader, browse assistance and more; covers the basics of e-mail, mailing lists and network news; shows how TCP/Connect II organizes the Internet and puts information at your fingertips; covers Archie, FTP, Gopher and WWW, critical to Net exploration; top ten lists of Mac software sites, TCP/IP connections and free access sites. The software, from InterCon, provides an integrated package with: E-Mail, UseNet NewsReader, FTP, Telnet, Gopher, MacWeb - for browsing the World Wide Web. It includes PowerMac support. The e-mail component supports MIMI and makes message handling easier. It can filter and sort incoming messages by multiple user-designated criteria, including sender and subject.
Along with supporting multiple connections, it lets users preview files before downloading them and automatically decodes several file types. What this means is that you'll be able to travel the Internet, communicate with other people and services, and extract information such as news articles and stock photo images with the same ease as if you'd been doing it for a millennium. Charles Seiter is a Macworld contributing editor and also designs software and electronic bioanalytical instruments. He has been using the Internet for ten years and is the author of IDG's "Internet for Macs For Dummies".