Apple Internet Products

The Internet is a truly global resource, containing prodi-
gious amounts of information on virtually every area of
interest and offering incredible communications oppor-
tunities worldwide. So it should come as no surprise
that the Internet is being used by millions of people
from all walks of life: business professionals who want
to show the world their products and services, teachers
Internet Access
who want to bring the world into their classrooms (and
offer their students’ output to the world), and anyone
who needs to keep in touch with others electronically.
It should also be no surprise that Apple, the company
that made computing easy and accessible to everyone
with the Apple® Macintosh® computer and graphical
Mac® OS system software, is working to make the
Publishing and Delivery
Internet and its valuable resources just as accessible. With
the ever-increasing integration of communications
technologies into the Mac OS and the products listed
below, Apple has the solutions you need for accessing
Internet technology–based information, publishing your
materials on the World Wide Web or an organizational
intranet, and authoring your own content.
Authoring and Creating

Apple Internet Connection Kit
The Apple Internet Connection Kit is
an integrated collection of Apple and
“best-of-class” third-party software that
allows a Macintosh computer user to
connect directly to the Internet quickly
and easily. An all-in-one solution for
people who desire the flexibility and
convenience of direct Internet access,
the kit helps users automatically create
an account with a qualified Internet
service provider, establishing an
Internet connection within minutes. It
includes a “Getting Started” guide,
Apple Guide online support, third-party
documentation, and the following
Internet software:
• Apple Internet Dialer, service
registration and connection software
• Netscape Navigator™
• Claris® Emailer™ Lite
• Dartmouth Fetch
• NewsWatcher
• NCSA Telnet
• QuickTime® plug-in
• QuickTime VR player
• Macromedia Shockwave plug-ins
• RealAudio™ Player
• Adobe™ Acrobat™ Reader
• Aladdin StuffIt Expander
• OnBase Technology DragNet
• Farallon Look@Me
• Dartmouth MacPing
• PPP and SLIP software
Cyberdog
Cyberdog™ is a unique suite of compo-
nents for e-mail and browsing that lets
more experienced users customize their
Internet access and combine Internet
functionality with existing applications
under a single, seamless user interface.
It brings the ease of use of the
Macintosh computer to the Internet—
providing a simple, consistent way of
dealing with its wealth of informational
content and communications services.
Cyberdog offers unique opportunities
for personalizing and enhancing Internet
use, through the following components:
• Navigation/Browsing parts: web,
Gopher, news, e-mail, FTP, Telnet,
AppleTalk® networks
• Internet protocols: web (HTML),
FTP, Gopher, mail (POP3/SMTP),
newsgroups (NNTP), MIME 1.0 for
mail/news text, Telnet
• Viewer parts: Text, PICT, JPEG, GIF,
TIFF, QuickTime, sound (.au, .WAV,
and .AIFF)
• Notebook, log, and buttons
• Cyberdog DocBuilder—an application
for creating Internet Starting Points
(five Starting Points included).
Cyberdog is available for downloading
at http://cyberdog.apple.com/
(Note: Cyberdog requires the installa-
tion of OpenDoc component software
technology, as well as Internet access
through a network or service provider.)
Apple Internet Server Solution for
the World Wide Web
This “web server in a box” is an all-
in-one solution that consists of a
Workgroup Server 6150/66, 7250/120,
or 8550/200 and a CD-ROM that con-
tains all the software needed to get
established as a web presence or to
set up an organizational intranet server.
The Apple Internet Server Solution is a
multiplatform solution, enabling access
by Mac OS, Windows, and UNIX® clients.
It includes the following software:
• WebSTAR server software from
StarNine
• Adobe PageMill and Acrobat Pro
• NetCloak from Maxum Development
• HomeDoor from Open Door Networks
• RealAudio Server from Progressive
Networks
• BBEdit from Bare Bones Software, an
HTML editor
• Netscape Navigator single-user client
software for previewing content
• MacDNS™ Domain Name Server
software
• AppleSearch® and AppleSearch ACGI
• Clickable maps and e-mail Common
Gateway Interfaces (ACGIs)
• Customizable web pages and forms
QuickTime Technologies
QuickTime, Apple’s interactive media
technology, has become a content de-
livery standard for the Internet. It’s a
system software extension that provides
for editing video, animation, music, text,
and other time-based information.
Publishers can use QuickTime to
create and deliver compelling Internet
content by using existing material and
adding interactivity to produce new
experiences. In addition, QuickTime
makes electronic shopping a more real-
istic experience for consumers by let-
ting them “pick up” items and examine
them from all angles. QuickTime is the
core of Apple’s QuickTime Media Layer
(QTML), which includes:
• QuickDraw™ 3D, which provides for
real-time, workstation-class, three-
dimensional graphics capabilities.
• QuickTime VR, which creates virtual
reality experiences by piecing
together photos from a standard
35-mm camera to product panoramic
views, as well as allowing for viewer
interaction with three-dimensional
objects.
• QuickTime Conferencing, which
allows users with a videocamera to
set up a multiparty conference over
the Internet in real time.
• PlainTalk™ speech technology, which
encompasses both speech recogni-
tion and speech synthesis.
Additional Internet
Access and Publishing
Options
America Online
America Online (AOL) is the online
service that Apple bundles with many
Macintosh Performa®, PowerBook®,
and Power Macintosh® models. AOL
offers its subscribers a wide variety
of capabilities, including electronic
mail, conferencing, software and soft-
ware updates, computing support,
and news, as well as easy access to
Internet services. This communica-
tions service is ideal for first-time
Internet users or for those who desire
the additional content and services
offered by AOL.
UNIX-based Servers
Apple’s Network Server family offers
the best price/performance Internet
and intranet platform available from
Apple. These servers enable network
managers, LAN managers, and web-
masters to select from a broad range
of leading server applications from
Netscape, Lotus, and Oracle, and to
take advantage of built-in AIX operat-
ing system features such as FTP,
mail, and DNS. Apple’s Network
Servers provide fast, reliable access
to web content regardless of the client
environment (Mac OS, Windows, or
UNIX) or client software (Netscape
Navigator, Microsoft Explorer,
Cyberdog, and so on).
* Third-party Internet software not included.
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Apple Networking Software

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Apple Open Transport Apple Remote Access Products Apple Internet Router Apple IP Gateway
Open Transport is the new, modern Apple Remote Access (ARA) software Apple Internet Router software offers With the Apple IP Gateway, Macintosh
networking and communications is the dial-up solution favored by both local and wide area networking users with Apple Remote Access,
subsystem for the Mac OS that organizations that want to extend their flexibility. Two or more local LocalTalk, or any other AppleTalk
simplifies the process of configuring a Internet connection to remote or workgroups can be connected over network connection can connect easily
Mac OS–based system for networking, traveling users. Apple Remote Access industry-standard network types, to an Ethernet-based TCP/IP network
while offering more flexible options and servers, used with Apple IP Gateway including LocalTalk, Ethernet, and to use the full range of Internet
a higher level of control over network software, make it easy to connect Token Ring. If an Internet connection Protocol (IP) Services. These include
configurations. It provides a consistent authorized users of Mac OS–based is already in place, Apple Internet Telnet, File Transfer Protocol (FTP),
framework not just across networks systems such as Power Macintosh and Router software can provide Internet Gopher, World Wide Web, and Wide
(LANs and WANs), but also for serial Macintosh PowerBook computers at a access for users on LocalTalk Area Information Servers (WAISs). The
communications and modem use for remote location to the Internet, as well networks. And, as the network grows Apple IP Gateway requires an Internet
remote or dial-up networking. In as to provide access to local informa- larger and more global, the Apple connection and classic networking; it is
addition, Open Transport makes TCP/ tion and resources. Apple Remote Internet Router lets users choose not compatible with Open Transport.
IP networking a peer to AppleTalk Access solutions are ideal for among several wide area networking Apple IP Gateway:
networking, making it easier than ever workgroups or entire organizations that options. They can link remote sites to
to connect to and take advantage of want to enable employees to work the network through a dial-up connec- • Allows a single MacTCP or Open
the Internet or an organizational productively and efficiently from any tion over a standard modem, or add Transport/TCP configuration for all
intranet. It offers the following location—whether they’re at home, out one of the Apple Internet Router Wide IP users on the LAN, eliminating the
capabilities: of town, or even out of the country. Area Extensions (available separately) need for individual IP addresses.
These solutions: to link AppleTalk networks using X.25 • Lets mobile, remote, and local
• Makes it easy to configure your or TCP/IP—the Internet protocol. The AppleTalk network users access
Mac OS–based computer for • Offer the easiest-to-configure dial-up Apple Internet Router requires classic the Internet—even if the users’
networking. access to the Internet. networking; it is not compatible with AppleTalk network does not directly
• Supports IP multicast under TCP/IP, • Used in conjunction with the Apple Open Transport. support IP services.
for Internet multimedia applications, IP Gateway, allow MacTCP® or • In conjunction with Apple Internet
as well as Dynamic Host Configura- Open Transport/TCP to work without Router software, provides IP access
tion Protocol (DHCP), for improved additional software—the same way it to any Macintosh computer on the
ease of management. works on a LocalTalk® network. router’s network.
• Lets users set up and save multiple • Support both high-speed modems • In conjunction with an Apple Remote
networking configurations and switch and ISDN communications. Access server, provides IP access to
between them easily, without • Are compatible with both classic remote or mobile users.
requiring system restart. networking and Open Transport
• Is optimized for high performance on
PowerPC® processor–based comput-
ers, when used with Open Transport–
enhanced network applications; also
works on Mac OS–based computers
with a 68030 or 68040 processor.

Apple Computer, Inc. ©1996 Apple Computer, Inc. All rights reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, AppleSearch, AppleShare, AppleTalk, LocalTalk, Mac, Macintosh, MacTCP, OpenDoc, Performa, PowerBook, Power Macintosh, and QuickTime are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.
Cyberdog, MacDNS, PlainTalk, and QuickDraw are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Acrobat and Adobe are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated or its subsidiaries and may be registered in certain jusrisdictions. AIX is a trademark of IBM Corporation, registered
1 Infinite Loop in the U.S.A and other countries, and is being used under license. Claris is a registered trademark, and Claris Emailer is a trademark, of Claris Corporation. Netscape Navigator is a trademark of Netscape Communications Corporation. PowerPC is a trademark of
Cupertino, CA 95014 International Business Machines Corporation, used under license therefrom. RealAudio is a trademark of Progressive Networks, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company, Ltd.
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