December 1, 2000Toad Hollow Software Co. is pleased to announce the dawn of               H O L I D A Y S  2 0 0 1Imagine a black object whose dimensions closely follow the sequenceof the squares of the first three integers: one by four by nine.  Thisobject has amazing powers from reading our handwriting to rememberingMother's Day for us.  This object is a ... Newton ... (add timpani here).Holidays2001 is a NewtonOS 2.0 freeware utility that adds over one hundredU.S. civil, Christian, Islamic, UK Banking, and just plain fun holidays tothe Newton datebook.  These holidays are entered in the datebook just as ifyou added them in the usual way, so after adding them, this package cansafely be removed from your Newton.This freeware package is available on Toad Hollow's web page located at:     http://www.pobox.com/~toadhollow/This package will also be available shortly at your favorite Newtonshareware/freeware site (AMUG, AOL, etc.).Please note that all Islamic dates are approximate since they are based on predicted lunar observations.  As is the custom on civil calendars, all Jewish holidays are shown on the appropriate day even though theybegin at sundown on the previous day.  If users decide that they don'tneed all these holidays, they can simply search for the string "2001"in Dates and delete the holidays they do not need since every holidayhas "2001" in it name.  It may take a minute or two on older Newtons to add all the holidays, so a small progress bar is displayed.  If you use a European locale setting supplied by a someone other thanApple, you may experience problems using this package; the fix is to temporarily set your locale back to any Apple supplied locale originalto your Newton and run the program.  You can then change back to yourthird-party locale without further problems.Toad Hollow's other Newton applications are also available on our web page including Jewish Holidays (1996-2001), TMap (a map of the BostonSubway), Freedom Trail (a guide to Boston's historic walking trail),and now free The Elements of Style, a re-publishing of the 1918 editionof William Strunk's little black book of grammar, with full hypertextlinks!Brian K. OgilvieToad Hollow Software Co.toadhollow@pobox.comhttp://www.pobox.com/~toadhollow/