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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 28 Feb 00 Volume 17 : Issue 35
Today's Topics:
[*] Gif.gIf.giF 68K 1.5.3J - Japanese Version
[*] Gif.gIf.giF PPC 1.5.3J - Japanese Version
[*] MultiMode 3.0.2
[*] Pork Barrel 1.5
[*] Rainbow Painter 1.8.0
[*] Stock Calculator 2.0 for Macintosh
[*] The Eraser Pro 2.6.0
[*] Ultima III (Exodus) fantasy role playing game 1.4.2
[*] Ultima III (Exodus) fantasy role playing game 1.4.2
[*] YA-Decoder 3.0.2
[Q] Eudora Pro 4.2.2 menus missing
Anybody try the PetiScan from NEC?
Appearance Extension and Desktop Pictures?
Best USB keyboards
Configuring OS X server
PB 3400 Expansion Bay
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Date: 26 Feb 2000
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Gif.gIf.giF 68K 1.5.3J - Japanese Version
This is the Japanese version of the Gif.gIf.giF package. This is the
68K version of Gif.gIf.giF, there is also a version for PPC
Macintoshes.
Gif.gIf.giF is a small shareware program for producing GIF animations
from screen captures. It is especially useful for producing animated
software demonstrations or tutorials. GIF animations produced with
Gif.gIf.giF are automatically displayed by web browsers, such as
Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer, without requiring
any add-ons, plug-ins, or helper applications. Gif.gIf.giF offers unique
advantages over other GIF animation utilities for producing animations of
software. Gif.gIf.giF offers an English, a Danish, a Swedish,
and a Japanese interface.
[Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/gifgifgif-68k-153-jp.hqx; 425 K]
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Date: 26 Feb 2000
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Gif.gIf.giF PPC 1.5.3J - Japanese Version
This is the Japanese version of the Gif.gIf.giF package. This is the
PowerPC version of Gif.gIf.giF, there is also a version for 68K
Macintoshes.
Gif.gIf.giF is a small shareware program for producing GIF animations
from screen captures. It is especially useful for producing animated
software demonstrations or tutorials. GIF animations produced with
Gif.gIf.giF are automatically displayed by web browsers, such as
Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer, without requiring
any add-ons, plug-ins, or helper applications. Gif.gIf.giF offers unique
advantages over other GIF animation utilities for producing animations of
software. Gif.gIf.giF offers an English, a Danish, a Swedish,
and a Japanese interface.
[Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/gifgifgif-ppc-153-jp.hqx; 455 K]
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Date: 26 Feb 2000
From: Chris Smolinski
Subject: [*] MultiMode 3.0.2
MultiMode allows your Macintosh to decode and transmit several different
modes of non-voice communication often heard on shortwave radio.
In the past, dedicated hardware, often costing hundreds or thousands of
dollars, was necessary to demodulate and decode this transmissions. Today,
you can use the processing power of your Macintosh to decode and display
these modes, without any additional hardware, other than your Mac and a
radio.
MultiMode supports the following modes:
Morse Code (CW)
RTTY (Baudot)
ASCII
SSTV (Slow Scan TV)
SITOR-A
SITOR-B / FEC / NAVTEX
WEATHER / SATELLITE FAX
ACARS (Aircraft Message System)
PSK31
Hellschreiber
DTMF, EIA, CCIR Tone Modes
Audio Spectrum Display to aid in properly tuning in stations
Requires a PPC Macintosh
Shareware: $89
-
Web URL: http://www.blackcatsystems.com
Macintosh Software, Shortwave Radio, Spy Number Stations
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/multi-mode-302.hqx; 510 K]
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Date: 28 Feb 2000
From: Shari
Subject: [*] Pork Barrel 1.5
Pork Barrel 1.5
Version 1.5 squashes bugs, enhances game play, makes accomplishing
goals a little easier, and includes a few new Easter Eggs.
If you've ever wanted to be president, you'll get your chance in Pork
Barrel. Sex scandals, terrorist attacks, hostage crises, bombs
falling from the skies, the budget, the Y2K bug, and clerk Ditzmeyer
converge on you. Better watch your step, because if the populace
gets antsy enough, you might find a bullet whizzing past your ear.
You make the decisions, and you pay the piper when the results of
your choices are borne.
Can you keep your campaign promises? Balance the budget? Pay off
the national debt? Can you keep America happy? Will an assassin get
you? Want the chance to blow Saddam away? Can you stay clean and
out of trouble? Have you been itching to eliminate welfare? What
will you do with social security?
Pork Barrel is full of surprises. Play poker with the Big Boys.
Throw darts at Saddam Hussein. Play Pork Barrel trivia. Come face
to face with extraterrestrials. All work and no play makes for a
grumpy president, so you'll have plenty of playtime once you're
elected.
Shareware $15
[Archived as /info-mac/game/pork-barrel-15.hqx; 3425 K]
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Date: 27 Feb 2000
From: PR
Subject: [*] Rainbow Painter 1.8.0
ABOUT THE NEW VERSION
New image editing features:
*New picture tools: 'Exploder', 'Imploder', 'Sandblaster'.
*New mask operation: 'Laplace'.
*New layer operations: 'Clear', 'Bluescreen'.
Improved image editing features:
*A 'Ctrl'-click on any of the green display layer buttons in the Picture
Editor now selects all layers.
*An 'Alt' ('Option')-click on a green
display layer button in the Picture Editor now selects that layer, while
deselecting all others (note that the edit buttons work in the opposite
way).
*A 'Ctrl'-click on any of the red edit layer buttons in the
Picture Editor now selects all layers. Improved user interface features:
*'Info' buttons added to the dialogs of all picture tools. Clicking on
the 'Info' button will bring up info about the picture tool and how it
works.
*'Info' buttons added to the dialogs of all mask tools. Clicking
on the 'Info' button will bring up info about the mask tool and how it
works.
*Manual extended to cover improvements.
*Quick Help extended to cover improvements.
*Tips revised to cover improvements.
Killed bugs:
*A very rare bug has been fixed.
ABOUT RAINBOW PAINTER
Rainbow Painter is a brand new painting and photo retouching program for
the PowerPC Macintosh! Featuring innovative design, up to 8 image layers
with alpha channels, a mask layer and more than 60 effects and tools.
It's shareware and the fee is 20 US. Dollars.
REQUIREMENTS
Computer: A MacOS compatible computer with a PowerPC processor.
Colors: Thousands (15bits) or millions (24bits).
10+ MB of free hard disk space.
[Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/rainbow-painter-18.hqx; 414 K]
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Date: 26 Feb 2000
From: "System Support Products, Inc."
Subject: [*] Stock Calculator 2.0 for Macintosh
Stock Calculator 2.0
(c) Copyright 1998 System Support Products, Inc.
Written by Lou Forlini
Stock Calculator is the perfect assistant for anyone doing on-line
stock trading!
Stock Calculator is a stock trade profit/loss and share price
calculator application. Stock Calculator is also ideal for performing
'what if' analyses, such as determining what share price a stock
needs to attain in order to return a specified profit.
When buying stock, Stock Calculator can determine the total cash
outlay, per share buying price, or number of shares.
When selling stock, Stock Calculator can determine the net profit
amount and total return percentage, or the per share selling price.
Stock Calculator can optionally include flat rate, percentage, per share, or
custom commissions in the calculations. The custom option allows advanced
flexibility in defining commission rates. User-defined taxes on the
net profit can also be deducted.
Calculations can be saved, opened, and printed for future reference.
A built-in stock fractions table lets you perform at-a-glance
conversions between dollar amount share prices and stock fractions in
1/64 increments. Version History
[Archived as /info-mac/app/bus/stock-calculator-20.hqx; 488 K]
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Date: 27 Feb 2000
From: Yellowsoft
Subject: [*] The Eraser Pro 2.6.0
Make The Eraser Pro the cleaning application of your choice! There are
its features:
- ERASING:
* Security method. The Eraser Pro deletes your files by using
a sophisticated procedure. It lets you customize many details of this
job. The recovery of deleted files becomes impracticable: there are no
utilities able to do it!
* Simple method. You may also choose some
details of this job. The Eraser Pro returns several informations while
is using the features of above and allows you to stop its performance at
any time. It works fine and fast in background, deleting large groups of
items, you may also instruct it to ask you the permission, before
deleting...
- DISK ERASING: The Eraser Pro may initialize your disks by using its
own, customizable, method. Through a co-operation with System, The
Eraser Pro allows you to take advantage of HFS+ and FSM, if you want.
- PREFERENCES SEARCH: The Eraser Pro scans this folder searching for
orphan preferences files.
- SYSTEM FOLDER SEARCH: The Eraser Pro scans the whole System Folder
searching for orphan files.
- ORPHAN FILES SEARCH: The Eraser Pro scans your disks and folders,
searching for orphan files (you may also check individual files). You
may get a more accurate analysis, searching for orphan files, by
activating a couple of special options, but slackening the scan speed.
- CACHE SEARCH: The Eraser Pro may scan the cache folders of your
Browsers, excluding some files according to theirs modification dates.
- EMPTY ALIASES SEARCH: The Eraser Pro may scan disks and folders (and
individual files) searching for empty aliases.
- EMPTY FOLDERS SEARCH: The Eraser Pro may scan disks and folders
searching for empty folders.
- FOLDER ICONS SEARCH: The Eraser Pro may scan disks and folders
searching for folder icons.
- DUPLICATE FILE NAMES SEARCH: The Eraser Pro may scan disks and folders
searching for duplicate file names.
[Archived as /info-mac/disk/the-eraser-pro-26.hqx; 362 K]
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Date: 26 Feb 2000
From: Leon McNeill
Subject: [*] Ultima III (Exodus) fantasy role playing game 1.4.2
Ultima III (Exodus) is a modern update of the original computer
fantasy role playing game that served as inspiration for so many
games that followed. Ultima III Macintosh features animated 32-bit
color graphics, digital sound effects, a beautiful stereo soundtrack,
characters that speak to you, and 3D raytraced dungeons. DANGER: You
will become addicted to this game!
Items new to version 1.4.2:
o Fixed a bug which caused crashes on pre-Mac OS 8.5.
o Menu bar & Control Strip now properly hide themselves in all OS versions.
o Compiled 68K code (largely untested)
o More small bug fixes and improvements.
Version 1.4.1:
o Fixed bug in character creation dialog.
Version 1.4:
o Many graphics now 32-bit (millions of colors)
o Party organization interface greatly improved
o Optional auto-heal feature
o Character statistics screen can be used to trade and equip items
o Minor improvements and bug fixes
This file has been uploaded to info-mac.org as "ultima3-142.hqx"
This binary archive may be included on any freeware/shareware
collection CD-ROMs.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/adv/utlima-3-142.hqx; 3746 K]
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Date: 27 Feb 2000
From: Leon McNeill
Subject: [*] Ultima III (Exodus) fantasy role playing game 1.4.2
Ultima III (Exodus) is a modern update of the original computer
fantasy role playing game that served as inspiration for so many
games that followed. Ultima III Macintosh features animated 32-bit
color graphics, digital sound effects, a beautiful stereo soundtrack,
characters that speak to you, and 3D raytraced dungeons. DANGER: You
will become addicted to this game!
Items new to version 1.4.2:
o Fixed a bug which caused crashes on pre-Mac OS 8.5.
o Menu bar & Control Strip now properly hide themselves in all OS versions.
o Compiled 68K code (largely untested)
o More small bug fixes and improvements.
Version 1.4.1:
o Fixed bug in character creation dialog.
Version 1.4:
o Many graphics now 32-bit (millions of colors)
o Party organization interface greatly improved
o Optional auto-heal feature
o Character statistics screen can be used to trade and equip items
o Minor improvements and bug fixes
This file has been uploaded to info-mac.org as "ultima3-142.hqx"
This binary archive may be included on any freeware/shareware
collection CD-ROMs.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/adv/ultima-3-142.hqx; 3746 K]
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Date: 27 Feb 2000
From: Brian Clark
Subject: [*] YA-Decoder 3.0.2
YA-Decoder 3.0.2 has just been released. This new version is typically 3
times faster at decoding or combining files than earlier versions. It also
better handles long Windows-style filenames.
Yet Another Decoder is an application that can decode files that have been
encoded using the most common encoding methods (BinHex, MacBinary, MIME
Base64, uuencode). It easily handles multiple attachments per post and
posts that have erroneously been encoded multiple times. It recognizes and
properly decodes many of the unusual and non-standard encodings found in
usenet binary posts. It can also recombine binary files that have been
split into multiple segments.
As a droplet it acts to decode MIME Base64 (including AppleSingle and
AppleDouble), BinHex, MacBinary (including MacBinary III), and uuencoded
files that are dropped upon it. It assumes that all segments of the
original encoded document have been concatenated into the file being
decoded, and that the segments are in order.
When run as a regular program, the File menu Open command can be used to
select files to be decoded individually, combined into one long file, or
combined and then decoded. This means it can be used to decode a single
file that was saved as multiple attachments, or reassemble a binary file
that was segmented prior to being encoded and transmitted.
YA-Decoder is $15 shareware. YA-Decoder 3.0.2 requires System 8.5 or later
and Internet Config 2.0 is strongly recommended for proper operation. The
older YA-Decoder 2.4.1 remains available for people using older system
software.
[Archived as /info-mac/cmp/ya-decoder-302.hqx; 200 K]
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Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 13:53:39 -0500
From: Donald Webb
Subject: [Q] Eudora Pro 4.2.2 menus missing
I hope the solution to this problem is obvious and I'm just being
dumb, but it looks a bit arcane to me.
Software: Eudora Pro 4.2.2
Platform: PowerBook G3
System: 8.5.1
Problems:
(1) The "Settings" menu does not appear. It is present, though,
hiding under "Special / Empty Trash." What's happened to "Empty
Trash," I don't know.
(2) A "Find" box can be displayed with -F, but "Find" does not
appear in any menu, and it doesn't seem to be hiding anywhere else,
either. Also, the Find box is crippled; it will search for text only
in mailbox message titles, not text strings in the messages
themselves.
I did not have these problems with Eudora Pro 3.0.1 using exactly the
same system configuration.
Qualcomm help has offered two suggestions:
(1) Eudora Pro 4.2.2 needs the "Appearance" extension. However, this
extension cannot be enabled, because its function has been
incorporated into system 8.5.1. Perhaps the obsolete extension can
be restored by turning off the Appearance control panel. However,
that seems like a drastic step backwards for the OS, even if it's
possible, and it takes Eudora back to a stage prior to version 3. I
fail to see the point in it.
(2) There is an extension conflict; use system 8.5 Base in the
Extensions Manager. I've tried that -- although I had to re-enable
PPP -- but it has no effect; the problems remain. Conflict Catcher
8.0.4 did not find any conflicts with Eudora Pro.
I have reinstalled the Settings from scratch and rebuilt the desktop.
My impression is that Qualcomm help has no experience with these
problems and hasn't a clue what to do about them. Is Eudora Pro
4.2.2 partially incompatible with system 8.5.1? Would system 8.6 or
Eudora Pro 4.3.1 fix these bugs? Any suggestions will be mightily
appreciated.
Don Webb
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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:26:41 -0500
From: Gary Radice
Subject: Anybody try the PetiScan from NEC?
I'm thinking of buying the NEC PetiScan portable scanner, specifically to
scan family pictures into my Powerbook when I go visit relatives abroad.
Has anyone seen or used the PetiScan yet and can you recommend whether it
would be a good choice or not? I have been trying to find reviews in the
mags and online but no one seems to have really tested it yet.
Gary P. Radice [email protected]
Associate Professor of Biology 804 289 8107 (voice)
University of Richmond 804 289 8233 (FAX)
Richmond VA 23173 http://www.science.richmond.edu/~radice
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Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 11:01:49 -0500
From: Saint John
Subject: Appearance Extension and Desktop Pictures?
At 07:10 -0500 2/25/00, Stephen J. Wright wrote:
>I have the Appearance SDK NDIF disk image from OS8.0 if you want to
>bundle parts of it with your program (in a pre-8.0 users' version,
>advisably). You can also try -- though from where I sit it's a
>notoriously slow download -- emulation.net: they have a set in a Stuffit
>file called "appearance.sit" for Mac users who d/l game emulators for use
>with OSes older than 8.x.
Couldn't find it; this is one thing I like about FTP support in Web
browsers. It's easier to write an HTML document describing the contents of
your site and link to the individual files. Also, Fetch doesn't let you
start a download once one is underway (unless you open a new connection),
and MSIE/NN do.
Thanks for the pointers! ftp.apple.com/developer had two versions of the
Appearance SDK, one being a more recent release than the technotes mention.
They also have a brief licensing agreement there, but it's the standard one
which says you can't repackage the software or distribute it over a network.
If I can package the two INITs at all, they'd be in a separate folder
clearly marked for pre-8.0 OS versions. (Though we both know how well users
read documentation...)
+- Saint John
|
|
| "You want more music, huh? Well, *I'd* like the Virgin Mary to
+-- stop telling me to kill the President." (H.P. Hovercraft)
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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:00:15 -0500
From: "Ira Flatow"
Subject: Best USB keyboards
Looking for good, solid USB keyboards to take the place of ones that come
with Macs.
Thanks.
Ira
----------------------
Ira Flatow
Executive Producer/Host
Science Friday - NPR
www.sciencefriday.com
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Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 12:36:10 +0000
From: Roland Whitehead
Subject: Configuring OS X server
I find it hard to believe that Apple hasn't provided some quick start newbie
readme instructions on configuring OS X server from the box so I hope that
someone here may have seen something or may be inspired to write something.
There must be several thousand Mac system admins who have never touched UNIX
before. Their Mac OS servers are running AppleShareIP, maybe MacDNS, maybe
EIMS, maybe WebStar, Quid Nunc Pro or even NetPresenz. They want to be able
to swap to OS X server and get it running quickly and cheaply. To do this
they need to:
Set up DNS for their domain mycompany.com with added extensions
www.mycompany.com, ftp.mycompnay.com, mailhost.mycompany.com and potentially
another virtual host www.othercompany.com.
Set up DNS for users client macs, giving them a user name based on their IP
address (ie user1.mycompany.com for ip 192.168.1.4 etc)
Set up apache to serve files as www.mycompany.com and as a virtual server
for www.othercompany.com.
Set up sendmail to send and receive mail from Mac OS clients with addresses
[email protected], [email protected] etc and for
[email protected], [email protected] etc all of whom are
obtaining mail from pop3 server mailhost.mycompany.com and sending smtp mail
to mailhost.mycompany.com.
Set up anonymous ftp access to a public directory through ftp.mycompany.com.
Set up secure, password protected ftp access to a directory
/local/users/username for user username with a password userpassword.
Sounds easy doesn't it? Could even be all done via a perl script or, gosh,
someone could learn interface builder and develop a quick app to do it all
for you.
Any takers?
Roland Whitehead
CONTINUUM ID
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Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 16:41:57 -0800
From: Doug Hardie
Subject: PB 3400 Expansion Bay
I am looking for a hard disk, or a CD writer, that fits in the expansion
bay of a PB 3400. Do any such things exist?
-- Doug
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