May 1995 Volume 2 Issue 3
by John Haley
Quarantine Alert — This document is infested by Swoopers. Although they will do no harm to your system or software, we can not guarantee your personal safety.
A lot of folks are curious about just who is behind the scenes here at Ambrosia Software. A core staff of four full time employees orchestrates the activities of a family of outside developers, contract talent, beta-testers, and vendors.
The staff of Ambrosia’s home office having a corporate bad hair day.
Andrew Welch: (bottom center) Ambrosia’s fearless leader and resident Macintosh wizard. Currently, a large portion of Ambrosia’s software library has been authored by Andrew. This talented young programmer is the founding father of Ambrosia, and continues to lead Ambrosia into the uncharted waters of digital distribution of commercial quality products.
Ed Ota: (not pictured) When Andrew first incorporated Ambrosia, Ed was right there with him. Originally, the company was run out of their dorm room (we have since upgraded to a suite of offices). While Andrew programmed, Ed handled the operations side of things. Ed is pursuing his Bachelors in Civil Engineering and a commission in the United States Marine Corps, but he still pitches in when needed.
“Cajun” David Richard: (far right) This Southern gentleman is Ambrosia’s technical support guru and sorcerer’s apprentice. If you have a question or concern about any of Ambrosia’s products, Cajun is your man. Thanks to Cajun, Ambrosia can boast of an average 24 hour turn around time for E-mail technical questions. If you are surfing the online networks, stop by one of our forums and say hello.
John Haley: (far left) If you have read a review of one of Ambrosia’s products, chances are John is doing his job. As Marketing Manager, John promotes Ambrosia’s products and services. Most of the text for press releases, this newsletter, and just about anything else comes from John’s desk. As developer liaison, John also manages Ambrosia’s growing list of outside developers.
Gayle Haarr: (smack dab in the middle) With the addition of Gayle’s accounting skills, Ambrosia will be better able to squeeze the most out of your shareware dollar. Gayle is responsible for processing orders and keeping the company books. If you are feeling neighborly, say hello to Gayle on your next registration form.
Chances are, if you have a question or concern about software, you are not the first person to ask it. By sharing questions and answers we hope to help everyone out a little. So send in your bugs (computer variations only, please), your questions, or just a comment. We live for mail.
This is the sixth issue of this newsletter. If you haven’t seen previous issues, you may want to take a look at them. We are using a version number system similar to software. This issue is 2.3, which means it is the third issue of the second year of publication. Thanks to everyone who appreciated the previous issues so much.
Navigating through this newsletter is simplified with the use of pictures and icons. Click once on each icon to find out what it does. Also be sure to click on pictures & graphics for hidden surprises.
This newsletter is published every odd-numbered month. Currently, this is one of many projects under way here at Ambrosia central. To produce this newsletter on a monthly basis would steal valuable time away from the development and testing of programs. Can’t have that. Also, we wanted to allow time to get enough information of interest, and format it properly. If you are interested in a free online subscription, please drop us a line with your E-Mail address.
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Where to find The Ambrosia Times & other Ambrosia Software Goodies
America Online: While you’re on AOL, choose “Keyword...” from the “GO TO” menu, type Ambrosia and hit the return key. You’ll be taken to our forum, where you’ll find a message base (for comments and questions) and a software library stocked with the latest versions of our software products.
CompuServe: While you’re signed on CompuServe, use GO word Ambrosia to reach the Mac Vendor D area, where Ambrosia Software maintains a forum. There you’ll find a message base (for comments and questions), a software library stocked with the latest versions of our software products, and a conference area for occasional live chats.
eWorld: Once online, choose “Go to Shortcut...” from the “PLACES” menu, type Ambrosia and hit the return key. You’ll be taken to our forum, where you’ll find a message base (for comments and questions) and a software library stocked with the latest versions of our software products.
ZiffNet: Offered by Ziff-Davis publishing, ZiffNet is a comprehensive information service available on both CompuServe and eWorld. For CompuServe Go Downtech and search on either Ambrosia or the actual product name. For eWorld use Go to Shortcut:Ziff.
GEnie: Ambrosia’s support area is in the Macintosh Product Support Round Table, located on page 606. To get there, while signed on and in terminal mode, type M606 at any GEnie prompt. Our message base can be found by choosing option 1 from the page 606 menu. This will take you to the message boards. The Ambrosia Section can be found by typing SET 4. Our software library can be found by choosing option 3 from the page 606 menu. This will take you to the software libraries. Then choose option 8 to set the software library to Ambrosia’s library, which is library 14.
Internet: Ambrosia Software’s products can be found at the “mac.archive.umich.edu” or “sumex-aim.stanford.edu” FTP sites. For specific paths for individual products, contact us directly at AmbrosiaSW@aol.com.
WWW: Digital Madness runs an Ambrosia home page on the World Wide Web. It can be reached at: http://www.digitmad.com/ambrosia/ambrosia.html
Credits
This sixth edition of The Ambrosia Times is written by the staff of Ambrosia Software with contributions from users and customers [All of our customers are users, but not all of our users are customers :<( ]. The text was compiled, edited and formatted by John Haley.
Ambrosia would like to extend gratitude to our volunteer proofreader, Herb Schulsinger.
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