Info-Mac Digest V18 #38
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 08 Mar 01 Volume 18 : Issue 38
Today's Topics:
[*] MaxBulk Mailer v1.4.3
[*] Spanish Nouns 1.1.1 - foreign language learning
[*] Y! Groups Extractor [Cbn]1.2: Yahoo! Groups binary downloader
[*] Y! Groups Extractor [PPC]1.2: Yahoo! Groups binary downloader
[A] CD labels
[A] Printer output to Mac screen.
CD labels
CD Labels
CD labels
IP forwarding
LaCie Silverlining Updater and Mac OS 9.1 (C)
Sherlock quit working on IE 5
System 9.1 on Wall Street G3
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Date: 8 Mar 2001
From: Maxprog
To:
Subject: [*] MaxBulk Mailer v1.4.3
Now you can group mails by 5, 10, 15, 25, 50... recipients. Much more
reliable when sending big mailings as Maxbulk will send a mail every x
recipients and mark it as sent so you can easily resume if some error
occurs or Cancel button pressed.Also many ISP has a recipient list count
limit set sometimes to 25 or 50...now you can tell Maxbulk to send
your mailings following your ISP rules!
MaxBulk Mailer is a full featured mail merge software for Macintosh, a
program able to send commercial mailings to up to several hundreds of
email addresses very easily. MaxBulk Mailer is fast and fully
customizable. It uses mailings as documents with configuration data,
mailing text and mailing list built-in. Furthermore MaxBulk do HTML
Mail Merge using a complete customizable tags set.
Maxbulk is perfect for sending:
- Newsletters
- Customer mailings
...etc...
Features
--------
- Able to send Text or HTML mails in a way client always shows
the format it supports.
- Multiple customizable mail accounts.
- Drag and drop support for mailing text and address list files
- Easy import/export address list files easy to use functions.
- Powerful tools in order to rewrap and justify text.
- Customizable SMTP Headers.
- Mail attchments.
- SMTP log control.
- Duplicate mails address filter.
- Mails can be sent all at once, grouped or one by one allowing
full customization with tags.
- Custom tags "FullName", "Firstname", "Surname", "Company" and
"Date" for mail merge.
- Preview function in order to check document appearance before
sending it.
- Internet Config preferences autofill.
- Each recipients in list can be enabled or disabled easily
without the need of deleting.
- Recipient address list Find/Find next functions.
- Easy-to-use installer (Aladdin)
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/mail/max-bulk-mailer-143.hqx; 1202 K]
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Date: 8 Mar 2001
From: Jacek Iwanski
To:
Subject: [*] Spanish Nouns 1.1.1 - foreign language learning
Spanish Nouns 1.1.1 is a module written by Juan Manuel Soto Arrivi for the
language learning programs 'Verbs & Nouns' and 'V&N Lookup'. It is for
students learning Spanish as a foreign language.
This module helps you to study and practise the different ways of forming
the plural of Spanish nouns, and the use of the definite article. It
contains more than 1800 nouns.
You can change or delete existing entries, add new words, and construct
groups of nouns that you want to practise. Translations in English are
included, and you can use it to practise translation. You can also do
exercises based on sound, but at present you have to record the sound for
yourself (or use text-to-speech feature).
To use this module, you need to have the application program 'Verbs &
Nouns' available from Info-Mac archives.
For more information, visit http://users.netmatters.co.uk/dandaforbes
[Archived as /info-mac/edu/lang/spanish-nouns-111.hqx; 360 K]
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Date: 7 Mar 2001
From: Kem Tekinay
To:
Subject: [*] Y! Groups Extractor [Cbn]1.2: Yahoo! Groups binary downloader
Y! Groups Extractor 1.2 will automate downloading of binaries from the
Yahoo! Groups service (http://groups.yahoo.com/). You can get your list of
subscribed groups, choose the ones you want to download, set the starting
message and number of downloads, and go. Y! Groups Extractor will cycle
through those groups efficiently to figure out which messages have binaries
attached and process the number you requested.
This version adds support for proxy servers, more preferences, true sorting
and post-processing of files based on Internet Config.
Y! Groups Extractor is PowerPC-only and requires MacOS X or MacOS 8.6 or
later with CarbonLib 1.2 or later installed. A PowerPC version for MacOS 8.1
or later is also available, as is a Windows version. Y! Groups Extractor is
made with REALbasic.
Y! Groups Extractor is shareware. For more information, see our web site at
or contact Kem Tekinay, the author, at
.
Distribution of unmodified versions of Y! Groups Extractor on commercially
available CD's is permitted.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/y-groups-extractor-12-cbn.hqx; 1072 K]
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Date: 7 Mar 2001
From: Kem Tekinay
To:
Subject: [*] Y! Groups Extractor [PPC]1.2: Yahoo! Groups binary downloader
Y! Groups Extractor 1.2 will automate downloading of binaries from the
Yahoo! Groups service (http://groups.yahoo.com/). You can get your list of
subscribed groups, choose the ones you want to download, set the starting
message and number of downloads, and go. Y! Groups Extractor will cycle
through those groups efficiently to figure out which messages have binaries
attached and process the number you requested.
This version adds support for proxy servers, more preferences, true sorting
and post-processing of files based on Internet Config.
Y! Groups Extractor is PowerPC-only and requires MacOS 8.1 or later. A
Carbon version for OS X or MacOS 8.6 or later with CarbonLib 1.2 or later
installed is also available, as is a Windows version. Y! Groups Extractor is
made with REALbasic.
Y! Groups Extractor is shareware. For more information, see our web site at
or contact Kem Tekinay, the author, at
.
Distribution of unmodified versions of Y! Groups Extractor on commercially
available CD's is permitted.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/y-groups-extractor-12-ppc.hqx; 841 K]
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 03:35:24 -0500
From: Saint John
To: [email protected]
Subject: [A] CD labels
At 16:33 -0500 3/7/01, Paul Brians wrote:
>Does anybody know of a good free or cheap Photoshop template or other
>software for creating CD labels?
With the label applier that I bought, the Neato, came a disk full of clipart and templates. Most of the other appliers, like the Stomper, ought to have similar. The included "CD-face" software was no great shakes, but it had files that might be useful for you.
I put together an Illustrator template for the Avery 5931 CD/DVD labels, which you can have if you write to me offlist. (It's not fancy, but it gets the job done.) Since Avery only includes a Windows version of the free formatting software, I would recommend using a generic knockoff instead of their product.
+- Saint John -+
+- "Rust puppies are everyones' best friends." (Dream, 13 Dec 1999) -+
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 03:27:23 -0500
From: Saint John
To: [email protected]
Subject: [A] Printer output to Mac screen.
At 16:33 -0500 3/7/01, Trebor Nesnarf wrote:
>I have been using a so-called Receiver Multi-Reader (a radio readout
>device) what has a Centronics 25 pin printer output. Not willing to connect
>a printer to it since it would waste great amounts of paper does any one
>know how to connect this Centronics printer output to a Mac so that it
>shows up on the screen?? I think it can be done but how.
It's probably going to require some tweaking, but my guess is that it can be done.
First thing to do is to connect the thing. There are parallel to serial adapters available; you may need a parallel to USB connector, depending on your Mac. Griffin Technologies can help with either of these: .
Next thing is to run a terminal emulator such as ZTerm. I know it's possible to get it to use the serial port to connect to a device, but never having done it myself, I can only wish you good luck.
Actually, it might be worthwhile to get a painfully old IBM-PC clone and use that as a dedicated Multi-Reader terminal. You can probably get one for the cost of shipping, and I know that terminal software exists for such beasts.
+- Saint John -+
+- "Rust puppies are everyones' best friends." (Dream, 13 Dec 1999) -+
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 10:16:52 -0600
From: "Chaz Larson [mailing lists]"
To: Paul Brians , [email protected],
Subject: CD labels
At 9:39 AM -0800 3/2/01, Paul Brians wrote:
>Does anybody know of a good free or cheap Photoshop template or other
>software for creating CD labels?
The CD-labelling widgets [Stomper, Memorex] come with a CD full of
templates for a wide range of applications. Those kits usually sell
for $10-20.
Memorex is $16.99 online.
CD Stomper wants $40 online. Yeah, right.
IT's $25 at outpost:
I paid $10 or so apiece on sale at MicroCenter here in Mpls, and it
seems to me that these things are on sale every other week at MC or
CompUSA or Circuit City or Best Buy or elsewhere. In the versions
that I got, the applicators in the two brands were identical except
for color, so I have no idea what makes the stomper people think
theirs is so much better.
I bought both just to have templates for whatever brand of label went
on sale; I'm old enough that I figured that if I spent more than 15
minutes messing with a Memorex template to print on a Stomper label
sheet, the $10 was worth it.
I can't recall if either of the kits came with templates for the
Avery label sheets, or if the Avery label sheets come with templates
in the package. They haven't gone on sale yet, so I haven't had
cause to check.
A free template source [assuming you have a scanner] would be to drop
a CD on the scanner and scan it. Bring it into Photoshop, erase the
existing label and leave the border, and you're good to go. You'll
have to fuss around a bit to align the template with the diecut
labels on whatever label sheets you're using. See above comments
about value of time, unless you want to to it for the Joy Of The Hunt
or whatever.
There are also labelling applications that will suck the filenames
off the CD and make that sort of label.
Here are some::
I've never used any of those.
Hope that helps.
chazl
--
I'm gonna tell my son to grow up as pretty as the grass is green
and as smart as the English Channel is wide...
- Liz Phair, Whip Smart
Chaz Larson - chaz at spamcop dot net - http://www.visi.com/~chaz
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Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 18:25:56 -0800
From: "\"Julius Friede >\"
To:
Subject: CD Labels
Disk Label Printer Pro and Ultimate Label Printer Pro are excellent
shareware products for printing disk and case labels respectively
. They do a lot more than just CD s. You
can also get templates in MS Office formats for CD and other type of Avery
Labels from
.
Hope this helps.
Julius
_____________________________________
"If the thunder don't get you than the lightning will."
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Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 10:39:42 -0800
From: "Cyrus Roton"
To: "info-mac letters"
Subject: CD labels
Paul Brians wrote:
> Does anybody know of a good free or cheap Photoshop template or other
> software for creating CD labels?
There is a $10 shareware program, UnCoverIt, which I use;
UnCoverIt is a shareware application that automatically generates labels for
different kinds of storage media.
Unlike other label printing applications you don't have to enter the name of
the files on your disk manually. UnCoverIt places icons and file names
automatically at the right place and the right size. You choose what files
should be displayed on the cover. For CDs, the labels are for the jewel
boxes. If you have a picture for the front label of a CD, you can paste it
into UnCoverIt.
UnCoverIt 1.3 adds support for Audio-CDs, so all you have to do is naming
the tracks, in case you macintosh doesn't already know their names.
Currently these storage medias are directly supported:
-CD-ROM
-Audio-CD
-Iomega ZIP
-Iomega JAZ
-Iomation SuperDisk
-MO-Cartridges
Download it from
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Bach Chorale - The place behind the barn where one keeps the horse
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Cyrus W. Roton
MITA tech
Chairman, Ridgecrest Apple User Group
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 16:51:12 -0800
From: Bill Rausch
To: [email protected]
Subject: IP forwarding
A friend with Macs (all running OS 9) on a mostly PC network just told me
that their IT folks were complaining about the Macs because of the results
of a network security audit. Apparently the Macs all "IP Forward". Anyone
know how to verify that and/or how to change it?
I was under the impression from my UNIX work that IP Forwarding was
something that must be specifically configured and am surprised to learn
that all Macs do it.
Bill
---
Bill Rausch, Software Development, Unix, Mac, Windows
Numerical Applications, Inc. 509-943-0861 [email protected]
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:14:08 +0100
From: Christian F Buser
To: Info-Mac Digest
Subject: LaCie Silverlining Updater and Mac OS 9.1 (C)
Ted Logan wrote
>LaCie has two Silverlining Updaters online for Mac OS 9.1, but I have
>been told to use *only* Silverlining Updater 6.4 with Mac OS 9.1. Do
>not use Updater 6.3.2, which has Airport (and maybe other) problems.
>
>Don't know why LaCie doesn't remove the bad updater from their
>site
Well maybe the earlier version is okay for earlier OS versions, and
the newer would not work there?
>And I was told that Silverlining Updater 6.4 has not been designed to
>work with Mac OS X.
Just the Updater won't work under OS X, or the updated application
won't be usable? I thought that OS X offers a "classic" MacOS
environment for applications which don't run natively on OS X? At
least that's what we were told here.
Best wishes, Christian.
--
Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland)
Look at
Die Natur gab uns zwei Ohren, aber nur eine Zunge (Zulu).
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 10:06:21 -0800
From: [email protected] (Andy Dannelley)
To: [email protected]
Subject: Sherlock quit working on IE 5
A couple of days ago I noticed that the Sherlock Icon/option on IE 5 was
greyed out. Now I get the message that Sherlock is not available on IE
5 because it "may be installed incorrectly".
Well, I've not changed anything. Still running OS 9.1, Sherlock is
still in the Applications (Mac OS 9), where the OS 9.1 install put it.
Sherlock still works from the Apple menu, and from the command-f key
combination.
What items are necessary, where for Sherlock to work with IE 5
Thanks,
AndyD
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Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 10:58:56 -0800
From: "Cyrus Roton"
To: "info-mac letters"
Subject: System 9.1 on Wall Street G3
Paul Brians wrote:
> I'm thinking about upgrading my Wall Street G3 to System 9.1 so I can
> run iTunes on it. It's now running 8.6. Will I notice any performance
> hit or other problems?
You might want to search the web for reported problems and incompatibilities
of OS 9.1.
is a good place to start. I found a disturbing
lot of such reports. Also, I installed 9.1 and immediately started having
problems. Soon had to re-init my drive (Thank God for backups).
In all fairness, though, I must admit that I also installed some other
things, and tested some downloaded software for my user group library. So, I
can not say for sure what caused the problems.
As for iTunes, I tested it under OS 9.04 with no problems. So, you don't
have to have 9.1 for that. Later, I removed it, since the CDT Remote, and
the AppleCD Audio Player work fine for the occasional times I want to play a
CD on my computer (and I don't play MP3 files, except for experimenting).
When I want to create a CD, Toast works fine. Besides, iTunes does not
appear to support SCSI CD recorders (yet). Although I don't need it, iTunes
does appear to me to be a good program for playing music files and for
converting between formats.
----------------
English Horn - A woodwind instrument so named because it is neither English
nor a horn. Not to be confused with the French Horn, which is German.
-----------------
Cyrus W. Roton
MITA tech
Chairman, Ridgecrest Apple User Group
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 08 Mar 01 Volume 18 : Issue 38
Today's Topics:
[*] MaxBulk Mailer v1.4.3
[*] Spanish Nouns 1.1.1 - foreign language learning
[*] Y! Groups Extractor [Cbn]1.2: Yahoo! Groups binary downloader
[*] Y! Groups Extractor [PPC]1.2: Yahoo! Groups binary downloader
[A] CD labels
[A] Printer output to Mac screen.
CD labels
CD Labels
CD labels
IP forwarding
LaCie Silverlining Updater and Mac OS 9.1 (C)
Sherlock quit working on IE 5
System 9.1 on Wall Street G3
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Date: 8 Mar 2001
From: Maxprog
To:
Subject: [*] MaxBulk Mailer v1.4.3
Now you can group mails by 5, 10, 15, 25, 50... recipients. Much more
reliable when sending big mailings as Maxbulk will send a mail every x
recipients and mark it as sent so you can easily resume if some error
occurs or Cancel button pressed.Also many ISP has a recipient list count
limit set sometimes to 25 or 50...now you can tell Maxbulk to send
your mailings following your ISP rules!
MaxBulk Mailer is a full featured mail merge software for Macintosh, a
program able to send commercial mailings to up to several hundreds of
email addresses very easily. MaxBulk Mailer is fast and fully
customizable. It uses mailings as documents with configuration data,
mailing text and mailing list built-in. Furthermore MaxBulk do HTML
Mail Merge using a complete customizable tags set.
Maxbulk is perfect for sending:
- Newsletters
- Customer mailings
...etc...
Features
--------
- Able to send Text or HTML mails in a way client always shows
the format it supports.
- Multiple customizable mail accounts.
- Drag and drop support for mailing text and address list files
- Easy import/export address list files easy to use functions.
- Powerful tools in order to rewrap and justify text.
- Customizable SMTP Headers.
- Mail attchments.
- SMTP log control.
- Duplicate mails address filter.
- Mails can be sent all at once, grouped or one by one allowing
full customization with tags.
- Custom tags "FullName", "Firstname", "Surname", "Company" and
"Date" for mail merge.
- Preview function in order to check document appearance before
sending it.
- Internet Config preferences autofill.
- Each recipients in list can be enabled or disabled easily
without the need of deleting.
- Recipient address list Find/Find next functions.
- Easy-to-use installer (Aladdin)
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/mail/max-bulk-mailer-143.hqx; 1202 K]
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Date: 8 Mar 2001
From: Jacek Iwanski
To:
Subject: [*] Spanish Nouns 1.1.1 - foreign language learning
Spanish Nouns 1.1.1 is a module written by Juan Manuel Soto Arrivi for the
language learning programs 'Verbs & Nouns' and 'V&N Lookup'. It is for
students learning Spanish as a foreign language.
This module helps you to study and practise the different ways of forming
the plural of Spanish nouns, and the use of the definite article. It
contains more than 1800 nouns.
You can change or delete existing entries, add new words, and construct
groups of nouns that you want to practise. Translations in English are
included, and you can use it to practise translation. You can also do
exercises based on sound, but at present you have to record the sound for
yourself (or use text-to-speech feature).
To use this module, you need to have the application program 'Verbs &
Nouns' available from Info-Mac archives.
For more information, visit http://users.netmatters.co.uk/dandaforbes
[Archived as /info-mac/edu/lang/spanish-nouns-111.hqx; 360 K]
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Date: 7 Mar 2001
From: Kem Tekinay
To:
Subject: [*] Y! Groups Extractor [Cbn]1.2: Yahoo! Groups binary downloader
Y! Groups Extractor 1.2 will automate downloading of binaries from the
Yahoo! Groups service (http://groups.yahoo.com/). You can get your list of
subscribed groups, choose the ones you want to download, set the starting
message and number of downloads, and go. Y! Groups Extractor will cycle
through those groups efficiently to figure out which messages have binaries
attached and process the number you requested.
This version adds support for proxy servers, more preferences, true sorting
and post-processing of files based on Internet Config.
Y! Groups Extractor is PowerPC-only and requires MacOS X or MacOS 8.6 or
later with CarbonLib 1.2 or later installed. A PowerPC version for MacOS 8.1
or later is also available, as is a Windows version. Y! Groups Extractor is
made with REALbasic.
Y! Groups Extractor is shareware. For more information, see our web site at
or contact Kem Tekinay, the author, at
.
Distribution of unmodified versions of Y! Groups Extractor on commercially
available CD's is permitted.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/y-groups-extractor-12-cbn.hqx; 1072 K]
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Date: 7 Mar 2001
From: Kem Tekinay
To:
Subject: [*] Y! Groups Extractor [PPC]1.2: Yahoo! Groups binary downloader
Y! Groups Extractor 1.2 will automate downloading of binaries from the
Yahoo! Groups service (http://groups.yahoo.com/). You can get your list of
subscribed groups, choose the ones you want to download, set the starting
message and number of downloads, and go. Y! Groups Extractor will cycle
through those groups efficiently to figure out which messages have binaries
attached and process the number you requested.
This version adds support for proxy servers, more preferences, true sorting
and post-processing of files based on Internet Config.
Y! Groups Extractor is PowerPC-only and requires MacOS 8.1 or later. A
Carbon version for OS X or MacOS 8.6 or later with CarbonLib 1.2 or later
installed is also available, as is a Windows version. Y! Groups Extractor is
made with REALbasic.
Y! Groups Extractor is shareware. For more information, see our web site at
or contact Kem Tekinay, the author, at
.
Distribution of unmodified versions of Y! Groups Extractor on commercially
available CD's is permitted.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/y-groups-extractor-12-ppc.hqx; 841 K]
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 03:35:24 -0500
From: Saint John
To: [email protected]
Subject: [A] CD labels
At 16:33 -0500 3/7/01, Paul Brians wrote:
>Does anybody know of a good free or cheap Photoshop template or other
>software for creating CD labels?
With the label applier that I bought, the Neato, came a disk full of clipart and templates. Most of the other appliers, like the Stomper, ought to have similar. The included "CD-face" software was no great shakes, but it had files that might be useful for you.
I put together an Illustrator template for the Avery 5931 CD/DVD labels, which you can have if you write to me offlist. (It's not fancy, but it gets the job done.) Since Avery only includes a Windows version of the free formatting software, I would recommend using a generic knockoff instead of their product.
+- Saint John -+
+- "Rust puppies are everyones' best friends." (Dream, 13 Dec 1999) -+
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 03:27:23 -0500
From: Saint John
To: [email protected]
Subject: [A] Printer output to Mac screen.
At 16:33 -0500 3/7/01, Trebor Nesnarf wrote:
>I have been using a so-called Receiver Multi-Reader (a radio readout
>device) what has a Centronics 25 pin printer output. Not willing to connect
>a printer to it since it would waste great amounts of paper does any one
>know how to connect this Centronics printer output to a Mac so that it
>shows up on the screen?? I think it can be done but how.
It's probably going to require some tweaking, but my guess is that it can be done.
First thing to do is to connect the thing. There are parallel to serial adapters available; you may need a parallel to USB connector, depending on your Mac. Griffin Technologies can help with either of these: .
Next thing is to run a terminal emulator such as ZTerm. I know it's possible to get it to use the serial port to connect to a device, but never having done it myself, I can only wish you good luck.
Actually, it might be worthwhile to get a painfully old IBM-PC clone and use that as a dedicated Multi-Reader terminal. You can probably get one for the cost of shipping, and I know that terminal software exists for such beasts.
+- Saint John -+
+- "Rust puppies are everyones' best friends." (Dream, 13 Dec 1999) -+
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 10:16:52 -0600
From: "Chaz Larson [mailing lists]"
To: Paul Brians , [email protected],
Subject: CD labels
At 9:39 AM -0800 3/2/01, Paul Brians wrote:
>Does anybody know of a good free or cheap Photoshop template or other
>software for creating CD labels?
The CD-labelling widgets [Stomper, Memorex] come with a CD full of
templates for a wide range of applications. Those kits usually sell
for $10-20.
Memorex is $16.99 online.
CD Stomper wants $40 online. Yeah, right.
IT's $25 at outpost:
I paid $10 or so apiece on sale at MicroCenter here in Mpls, and it
seems to me that these things are on sale every other week at MC or
CompUSA or Circuit City or Best Buy or elsewhere. In the versions
that I got, the applicators in the two brands were identical except
for color, so I have no idea what makes the stomper people think
theirs is so much better.
I bought both just to have templates for whatever brand of label went
on sale; I'm old enough that I figured that if I spent more than 15
minutes messing with a Memorex template to print on a Stomper label
sheet, the $10 was worth it.
I can't recall if either of the kits came with templates for the
Avery label sheets, or if the Avery label sheets come with templates
in the package. They haven't gone on sale yet, so I haven't had
cause to check.
A free template source [assuming you have a scanner] would be to drop
a CD on the scanner and scan it. Bring it into Photoshop, erase the
existing label and leave the border, and you're good to go. You'll
have to fuss around a bit to align the template with the diecut
labels on whatever label sheets you're using. See above comments
about value of time, unless you want to to it for the Joy Of The Hunt
or whatever.
There are also labelling applications that will suck the filenames
off the CD and make that sort of label.
Here are some::
I've never used any of those.
Hope that helps.
chazl
--
I'm gonna tell my son to grow up as pretty as the grass is green
and as smart as the English Channel is wide...
- Liz Phair, Whip Smart
Chaz Larson - chaz at spamcop dot net - http://www.visi.com/~chaz
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Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 18:25:56 -0800
From: "\"Julius Friede >\"
To:
Subject: CD Labels
Disk Label Printer Pro and Ultimate Label Printer Pro are excellent
shareware products for printing disk and case labels respectively
. They do a lot more than just CD s. You
can also get templates in MS Office formats for CD and other type of Avery
Labels from
.
Hope this helps.
Julius
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"If the thunder don't get you than the lightning will."
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Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 10:39:42 -0800
From: "Cyrus Roton"
To: "info-mac letters"
Subject: CD labels
Paul Brians wrote:
> Does anybody know of a good free or cheap Photoshop template or other
> software for creating CD labels?
There is a $10 shareware program, UnCoverIt, which I use;
UnCoverIt is a shareware application that automatically generates labels for
different kinds of storage media.
Unlike other label printing applications you don't have to enter the name of
the files on your disk manually. UnCoverIt places icons and file names
automatically at the right place and the right size. You choose what files
should be displayed on the cover. For CDs, the labels are for the jewel
boxes. If you have a picture for the front label of a CD, you can paste it
into UnCoverIt.
UnCoverIt 1.3 adds support for Audio-CDs, so all you have to do is naming
the tracks, in case you macintosh doesn't already know their names.
Currently these storage medias are directly supported:
-CD-ROM
-Audio-CD
-Iomega ZIP
-Iomega JAZ
-Iomation SuperDisk
-MO-Cartridges
Download it from
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Cyrus W. Roton
MITA tech
Chairman, Ridgecrest Apple User Group
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 16:51:12 -0800
From: Bill Rausch
To: [email protected]
Subject: IP forwarding
A friend with Macs (all running OS 9) on a mostly PC network just told me
that their IT folks were complaining about the Macs because of the results
of a network security audit. Apparently the Macs all "IP Forward". Anyone
know how to verify that and/or how to change it?
I was under the impression from my UNIX work that IP Forwarding was
something that must be specifically configured and am surprised to learn
that all Macs do it.
Bill
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Bill Rausch, Software Development, Unix, Mac, Windows
Numerical Applications, Inc. 509-943-0861 [email protected]
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:14:08 +0100
From: Christian F Buser
To: Info-Mac Digest
Subject: LaCie Silverlining Updater and Mac OS 9.1 (C)
Ted Logan wrote
>LaCie has two Silverlining Updaters online for Mac OS 9.1, but I have
>been told to use *only* Silverlining Updater 6.4 with Mac OS 9.1. Do
>not use Updater 6.3.2, which has Airport (and maybe other) problems.
>
>Don't know why LaCie doesn't remove the bad updater from their
>site
Well maybe the earlier version is okay for earlier OS versions, and
the newer would not work there?
>And I was told that Silverlining Updater 6.4 has not been designed to
>work with Mac OS X.
Just the Updater won't work under OS X, or the updated application
won't be usable? I thought that OS X offers a "classic" MacOS
environment for applications which don't run natively on OS X? At
least that's what we were told here.
Best wishes, Christian.
--
Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland)
Look at
Die Natur gab uns zwei Ohren, aber nur eine Zunge (Zulu).
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 10:06:21 -0800
From: [email protected] (Andy Dannelley)
To: [email protected]
Subject: Sherlock quit working on IE 5
A couple of days ago I noticed that the Sherlock Icon/option on IE 5 was
greyed out. Now I get the message that Sherlock is not available on IE
5 because it "may be installed incorrectly".
Well, I've not changed anything. Still running OS 9.1, Sherlock is
still in the Applications (Mac OS 9), where the OS 9.1 install put it.
Sherlock still works from the Apple menu, and from the command-f key
combination.
What items are necessary, where for Sherlock to work with IE 5
Thanks,
AndyD
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Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 10:58:56 -0800
From: "Cyrus Roton"
To: "info-mac letters"
Subject: System 9.1 on Wall Street G3
Paul Brians wrote:
> I'm thinking about upgrading my Wall Street G3 to System 9.1 so I can
> run iTunes on it. It's now running 8.6. Will I notice any performance
> hit or other problems?
You might want to search the web for reported problems and incompatibilities
of OS 9.1.
is a good place to start. I found a disturbing
lot of such reports. Also, I installed 9.1 and immediately started having
problems. Soon had to re-init my drive (Thank God for backups).
In all fairness, though, I must admit that I also installed some other
things, and tested some downloaded software for my user group library. So, I
can not say for sure what caused the problems.
As for iTunes, I tested it under OS 9.04 with no problems. So, you don't
have to have 9.1 for that. Later, I removed it, since the CDT Remote, and
the AppleCD Audio Player work fine for the occasional times I want to play a
CD on my computer (and I don't play MP3 files, except for experimenting).
When I want to create a CD, Toast works fine. Besides, iTunes does not
appear to support SCSI CD recorders (yet). Although I don't need it, iTunes
does appear to me to be a good program for playing music files and for
converting between formats.
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English Horn - A woodwind instrument so named because it is neither English
nor a horn. Not to be confused with the French Horn, which is German.
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Cyrus W. Roton
MITA tech
Chairman, Ridgecrest Apple User Group
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