Welcome to...

I don't purport to be an expert on Cyberdog, OpenDoc, Open Transport, or indeed much of anything. I am not a programmer by trade, nor do I have contacts in the dark hallways of the Cupertino headquarters. I am, however, an enthusiastic user of these Apple technologies. I thought I'd do these pages to collect some of the wisdom that I, and others (most notably those in the cyberdog.general newsgroup), have run across in the course of using Cyberdog.

I've been getting a ton of emails...

...about where people might be able to find a copy of Cyberdog 2.0, since Apple has yanked it from it's websites (and, yes, I know that a bunch of links to Apple OpenDoc and Cyberdog pages are broken at the moment. I justify leaving them up because if I don't have faith in Apple putting them back up, who will? :-)

Anyway, you can find a download for Cyberdog 2.0 at The Tucows Site. Good luck!

Cyberdog Frequently Asked Questions

If you have a question that you think someone has probably asked before, check out these Frequently Asked Questions about Cyberdog (including the original "Cyberdog Top 18" from Cyberdog Central). And the list keeps growing.

Getting started

• Starter Questions -- What Cyberdog is and what it does.
• The Cyberdog Way -- The philosophy behind Cyberdog's form and function.
  • Yet Another Cyberdog Method to Crashlessness by Paul Lindblad. OpenDoc, the technology underlying Cyberdog, needs some memory tweaking from the initial settings to keep Cyberdog happy. Paul Lindblad has tested different memory configurations, and passes on his findings to you.

The Parts

Cyberdog is actually a collection of OpenDoc editors, rather than a monolithic Internet application like Netscape Communicator. This makes the Cyberdog framework both simple and extensible. If you don't need a part, then you don't have to use it, but, on the other side of the coin, if you want to extend Cyberdog's functionality, it is possible to add on different editors.

The main suite consists of the following Cyberdog parts:

• Web Browser
• E-mail Client
• News Client
• FTP Client
• Telnet Client

Links to other information

Onsite:

• Tips submitted by visitors -- Cyberdog users share their tips.
• Cyberdog and OS8 -- For the latest OS,the greatest Internet software...
• A peek at the future -- a preview of Kantara's upcoming HTML part replacement/update, Blake.
• A Page of Useful Links (courtesy of Jim Hill and Blair Buscareno from cyberdog.general)
• Cyberdog Multiplex -- Requires Cyberdog. Sorry. This is the only place, though, that's browser specific. Maximize your window before visiting. Maximize your available memory, too. Praying will probably not hurt, either.

Offsite:

• Peter Gort'sAppleScripts for Cyberdog -- Scripted tricks for the 'Dog.
• Jade's End Software: Cyberdog 2.0 and Mac OS 8 Tips -- How to use OS8's Internet integration features with Cyberdog.

• Brad Hutchings, of Hutchings Software created a Bookmarks part for Cyberdog. This puts a Bookmarks menu on the menubar, which hooks into a specified Notebook. Since it uses a Notebook for storage, you can access not only webpages through this menu, but also e-mail addresses, newsgroups, telnet sessions to a UNIX host, even applications. Let's see IE or Navigator do that!
• John David Dionisio, of Jade's End Software has designed an NTP Service for Cyberdog. This part lets you synchronize your Mac's clock with an NTP server to correct for any "drift" on your system. Not only does it reset the clock, it can also tell you (with PlainTalk Speech installed) how far off your clock was.

Show your support!

Apple recently announced that it would not license OpenDoc and Cyberdog to any outside parties. This keeps valuable information out of the hands of third-party developers. To show your support for licensing, sign up at: Cyberdog Petition.