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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 05 Jun 01 Volume 18 : Issue 86
Today's Topics:
[*] Pitbull Pro v2.0
[*] PixelToy 2.5 beta 3 Visual Display/Animation Generator
[*] Screen Catcher 2.3.4 - screen capture utility with "Catch-All"
[*] Screen Catcher D-2.3.4 - German screen capture utility with"Catch-All"
[*] Screen Catcher DK-2.3.4 - Danish screen capture utility with"Catch-All"
[*] SessionTimer 3.1
[*] Stopwatch CSM 2.0 E - Spanish Version
[*] TidBITS#582/04-Jun-01
[*] World Clock Deluxe 3.1 E - Spanish Version
[*] YooZ 1.71FR
[*] YooZ 1.71US
determining true IP of DSL line
determining true IP of DSL line
determining true IP of DSL line
eye strain
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Date: 5 Jun 2001
From: support
To:
Subject: [*] Pitbull Pro v2.0
Application: Pitbull Pro v2.0 (Advanced Hotline Client)
License: Shareware (Fully functional 30 day trial)
Price: $11 (US)
Email: [email protected]
Web Site: www.hotline-tools.com
Requirements: PPC
OS 7.5 or higher (with OpenTransport installed)
Pitbull Pro is a complete, powerful client for the Hotline protocol.
Pitbull Pro combines the functionality of the regular Hotline Client with
advanced administration features and the power of Pitbull, allowing it to
automatically recover from virtually any connection problem that can
occur without user interference.
For Hotline users, the most notable features are the superior messagebot
protection, the support for multiple connections, the
one-window-per-connection interface, the private message pane, and the
enhanced file transfer support.
It also offers Hotline server administrators a large number of advanced
tools to take full control over their Hotline server. With Pitbull Pro,
they can automatically kick people who do not queue, check all file
transfers at a glance, send a welcome message, automatically capture
chat, manage all incoming private messages without dialogs cluttering
their screen, and they have a powerful weapon against messagebots.
Like the proverbial "pitbull", once Pitbull Pro puts its "teeth" into the
connection, it will not stop until the job at hand is done or until you
call it off.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/pitbull-pro-20.hqx; 2345 K]
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Date: 5 Jun 2001
From: Leon McNeill
To:
Subject: [*] PixelToy 2.5 beta 3 Visual Display/Animation Generator
Dance clubs and cafes around the world dazzle audiences with
PixelToy's live visual effects. What's more, visual artists have
added PixelToy to their arsenal of video effects generation software,
using QuickTime movies from PixelToy in non-linear video editors such
as Adobe Premiere or After Effects.
PixelToy 2.5 is Mac OS X native, courtesy of Apple's Carbon
technology! This version also adds a wide variety of features and
improvements, including a new Sound Visuals action and editor,
sound-reactive palette animation, vertical and horizontal image
mirroring control, improved resolution switching, improved AutoPilot
control, improved sound input handling, and more.
PixelToy 2.5 requires a PowerPC processor, Mac OS 8.6 or newer,
QuickTime 3.0 or newer and CarbonLib 1.2 or newer. PixelToy is
shareware. (US $15)
[Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/pixel-toy-25b3.hqx; 1560 K]
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Date: 5 Jun 2001
From: Jon Gotow
To:
Subject: [*] Screen Catcher 2.3.4 - screen capture utility with "Catch-All"
Screen Catcher is a full-featured, scriptable screen capture
application. It is capable of taking snapshots of screen images and
saving them as PICT, GIF, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PNG, Photoshop, SGI,
MacPaint, TGA, and QuickTime files. It also allows images to be
captured to the clipboard or to Screen Catcher's own windows, where
they can manipulated to change the color palette or reduce the number
of colors in the image before copying or saving.
Screen Catcher also includes a "Catch-All" mode, which automatically
scrolls the contents of windows to capture an entire document or web
page, even if it's too long to fit on the screen.
Version 2.3.4 includes the following changes:
* Corrected a bug that caused BBEdit 6.1 to crash.
* Added additional scripting options to allow setting of size and
scaling parameters from AppleScript.
Changes in recent releases include:
* Added "send a snapshot" email support for Mulberry.
* Worked around a conflict with Kensington MouseWorks that could
cause buttons and controls in some dialog boxes to disappear.
* Fixed a bug that caused the AutoFile dialog to crash if the
format was previously set to GIF without interlacing.
* If the AutoFile folder is deleted, Screen Catcher will save
snapshots to the Desktop rather than complaining and then not
saving them.
* Screen Catcher can automatically attach pictures to email messages.
Use the "Send Mail" command in Screen Catcher's "File" menu.
* The filename in Save As dialogs is now initially selected without
the filename extension.
* Fixed a conflict with Chronos StickyBrain.
* Fixed a crash in Control Strip when window captures were done.
* Corrected problems in the Screen Catcher Extension which could
cause some applications to open very slowly.
* Eliminated a condition in which Screen Catcher could end up
running without any menus.
Additional information is available at:
Screen Catcher will operate on any Macintosh running System 7 or
higher, including Mac OS 9.1, and is $25 shareware.
[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/screen-catcher-234.hqx; 1343 K]
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Date: 5 Jun 2001
From: Jon Gotow
To:
Subject: [*] Screen Catcher D-2.3.4 - German screen capture utility with"Catch-All"
Screen Catcher is a full-featured, scriptable screen capture
application. It is capable of taking snapshots of screen images and
saving them as PICT, GIF, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PNG, Photoshop, SGI,
MacPaint, TGA, and QuickTime files. It also allows images to be
captured to the clipboard or to Screen Catcher's own windows, where
they can manipulated to change the color palette or reduce the number
of colors in the image before copying or saving.
Screen Catcher also includes a "Catch-All" mode, which automatically
scrolls the contents of windows to capture an entire document or web
page, even if it's too long to fit on the screen.
Version 2.3.4 includes the following changes:
* Corrected a bug that caused BBEdit 6.1 to crash.
* Added additional scripting options to allow setting of size and
scaling parameters from AppleScript.
Changes in recent releases include:
* Added "send a snapshot" email support for Mulberry.
* Worked around a conflict with Kensington MouseWorks that could
cause buttons and controls in some dialog boxes to disappear.
* Fixed a bug that caused the AutoFile dialog to crash if the
format was previously set to GIF without interlacing.
* If the AutoFile folder is deleted, Screen Catcher will save
snapshots to the Desktop rather than complaining and then not
saving them.
* Screen Catcher can automatically attach pictures to email messages.
Use the "Send Mail" command in Screen Catcher's "File" menu.
* The filename in Save As dialogs is now initially selected without
the filename extension.
* Fixed a conflict with Chronos StickyBrain.
* Fixed a crash in Control Strip when window captures were done.
* Corrected problems in the Screen Catcher Extension which could
cause some applications to open very slowly.
* Eliminated a condition in which Screen Catcher could end up
running without any menus.
Additional information is available at:
Screen Catcher will operate on any Macintosh running System 7 or
higher, including Mac OS 9.1, and is $25 shareware.
[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/screen-catcher-234-de.hqx; 1353 K]
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Date: 5 Jun 2001
From: Jon Gotow
To:
Subject: [*] Screen Catcher DK-2.3.4 - Danish screen capture utility with"Catch-All"
Screen Catcher is a full-featured, scriptable screen capture
application. It is capable of taking snapshots of screen images and
saving them as PICT, GIF, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PNG, Photoshop, SGI,
MacPaint, TGA, and QuickTime files. It also allows images to be
captured to the clipboard or to Screen Catcher's own windows, where
they can manipulated to change the color palette or reduce the number
of colors in the image before copying or saving.
Screen Catcher also includes a "Catch-All" mode, which automatically
scrolls the contents of windows to capture an entire document or web
page, even if it's too long to fit on the screen.
Version 2.3.4 includes the following changes:
* Corrected a bug that caused BBEdit 6.1 to crash.
* Added additional scripting options to allow setting of size and
scaling parameters from AppleScript.
Changes in recent releases include:
* Added "send a snapshot" email support for Mulberry.
* Worked around a conflict with Kensington MouseWorks that could
cause buttons and controls in some dialog boxes to disappear.
* Fixed a bug that caused the AutoFile dialog to crash if the
format was previously set to GIF without interlacing.
* If the AutoFile folder is deleted, Screen Catcher will save
snapshots to the Desktop rather than complaining and then not
saving them.
* Screen Catcher can automatically attach pictures to email messages.
Use the "Send Mail" command in Screen Catcher's "File" menu.
* The filename in Save As dialogs is now initially selected without
the filename extension.
* Fixed a conflict with Chronos StickyBrain.
* Fixed a crash in Control Strip when window captures were done.
* Corrected problems in the Screen Catcher Extension which could
cause some applications to open very slowly.
* Eliminated a condition in which Screen Catcher could end up
running without any menus.
Additional information is available at:
Screen Catcher will operate on any Macintosh running System 7 or
higher, including Mac OS 9.1, and is $25 shareware.
[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/screen-catcher-234-dk.hqx; 1413 K]
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Date: 5 Jun 2001
From: Stefan Schramm
To:
Subject: [*] SessionTimer 3.1
http://www.rootsolutions.de/sessiontimer/
PPC, OS 8.1 or later (68K version available)
The session timer is a handy tool for logging multiple project time on your
computer. It is not affected by accidental closing, quitting, or even a
system crash. Up to three timers (freeware) or an unlimited number
(shareware) may be used.
[Archived as /info-mac/app/time/session-timer-31.hqx; 2547 K]
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Date: 5 Jun 2001
From: MaBaSoft
To:
Subject: [*] Stopwatch CSM 2.0 E - Spanish Version
This is the Spanish version of Stopwatch CSM.
Stopwatch CSM puts one or more stopwatches in your Control Strip, so
that you can time different events or keep track of how long you work
on your projects.
With Stopwatch CSM you can:
- add and run as many stopwatches as you need;
- time up to a duration of 1000 hours;
- automatically start and reset a stopwatch at startup;
- apply different formats to different stopwatches;
- freeze and resume displaying the elapsed time (split).
Stopwatch CSM is 5 US$ shareware.
* * *
System Requirements
Stopwatch CSM needs a Mac with 68020 processor or better, System 7.5
or higher and, for System 7.x.x, Appearance Extension.
Control Strip, Extensions Strip (2.0bx or higher) and ACTION GoMac
can be used as module host.
* * *
Stopwatch CSM is also available in English, Japanese, German, Dutch,
French and Italian.
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/stop-watch-csm-20-es.hqx; 298 K]
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Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 21:00:00 -0700
From: TidBITS Editors
To: [email protected], [email protected],
Subject: [*] TidBITS#582/04-Jun-01
TidBITS#582/04-Jun-01
The Web may be based upon hypertext, but this week Matt Neuburg
reviews the rejuvenation of Eastgate's Storyspace, a hypertext
authoring tool that predates the Web. This issue also brings a
shift in the TidBITS universe - the Engsts are moving back to
Ithaca, NY. Also, we note PC Connection purchasing Outpost.com,
the releases of Frontier 7, Now Up-To-Date & Contact 4.0, and
BBEdit Lite 6.1, plus Internet Explorer 5.1.1 and OmniWeb 4.0 for
Mac OS X.
Topics:
MailBITS/04-Jun-01
TidBITS Returns to Ithaca
Tell Me a Storyspace
[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-582.etx; 33K]
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Date: 5 Jun 2001
From: MaBaSoft
To:
Subject: [*] World Clock Deluxe 3.1 E - Spanish Version
This is the Spanish version of World Clock Deluxe.
World Clock Deluxe is a powerful but easy-to-use time tool. With
World Clock Deluxe you can:
- display up to 24 clocks in the Control Strip;
- show seconds, weekday, date, local time offset and assign labels
and colors to clocks;
- display Universal Time Coordinated (UTC) and Internet Time;
- keep clocks arranged by city or time zone abbreviation, longitude and label;
- rotate clocks so that minimum Control Strip space is required;
- edit cities and time zones and add custom cities and time zones;
- calculate date and time conversions.
World Clock Deluxe is 10 US$ shareware.
* * *
System Requirements
World Clock Deluxe needs a Mac with 68020 processor or better, System
7.5 or higher and, for System 7.x.x, Appearance Extension.
Control Strip, Extensions Strip (2.0bx or higher) and ACTION GoMac
can be used as module host.
* * *
World Clock Deluxe is also available in English, Japanese, German,
Dutch, French and Italian.
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/world-clock-deluxe-31-es.hqx; 520 K]
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Date: 5 Jun 2001
From: Pascal CARDON sur Club Internet
To:
Subject: [*] YooZ 1.71FR
A quoi peut servir YooZ ?
=========================
* YooZ enregistre automatiquement dans un fichier les noms des differents
programmes utilises, les dates et heures de lancement, ainsi que leur duree
d'utilisation.
* YooZ permet de connaitre l'utilisation de votre Macintosh ou d'un parc
de Macintosh.
* YooZ permet de controler les licences d'utilisation des logiciels en
dressant la liste des programmes executes.
* YooZ aide a mieux repartir un parc de Macintosh en fonction de la
charge reelle de chaque machine.
* YooZ permet tout simplement de satisfaire votre curiosite : passez-vous
plus de temps avec votre traitement de texte qu'avec votre simulateur de vol
?
* YooZ est disponible en version anglaise, francaise, icelandaise et
italienne
* YooZ necessite le systeme 8.5 ou au dela, cependant la version 1.62
fonctionnant sur Mac 68k sous systeme 7 a 8.5 est disponible en
telechargement sur le site YooZ.
* YooZ est compatible an 2000
* YooZ fonctionne sous MacOS 9
Ameliorations
=============
* Support des derniers modeles de Macintosh
[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/yooz-171-fr.hqx; 519 K]
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Date: 5 Jun 2001
From: Pascal CARDON sur Club Internet
To:
Subject: [*] YooZ 1.71US
What can you use YooZ for?
==========================
* YooZ keeps track of all applications launched on your Macintosh,
providing the date and duration of each session.
* YooZ is completely automatic
* It provides many kinds of lists, like chronological history, total by
program, usage graphics by day, month or year, resumed activity for a given
period, user log under MacOS 9 and some information about the Macintosh.
* It can access another Macintosh data via file sharing.
* It helps you assess what your Macintosh is being used for.
* It helps you organize your network by distributing the right sized
Macintosh according to each user's principal needs.
* YooZ will reveal whether you spend more time on your favorite games
than on your word processor.
* YooZ is available in English, French, Icelandic and Italian versions
* A Macintosh or compatible
* Mac OS 8.5 or later is required.
* YooZ 1.62 is always available for those who dont have PowerPC Macintosh
or Mac OS 8.5
* YooZ is year 2000 ready
* YooZ works fine with MacOS 9
What's new in 1.71 Version?
===========================
Improvements
* Supports latest Macintosh models
mailto:[email protected]
mailto:[email protected]
http://www.club-internet.fr/perso/pcardon
[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/yooz-171.hqx; 529 K]
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Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 13:34:34 -0700
From: Kee Nethery
To: [email protected]
Subject: determining true IP of DSL line
snip ...
>My ISP says IP addresses are dynamically assigned by their server.
>Fair enough. When I ask them if I can track the number that has been
>assigned down, they start their favorite mantra: "We don't support
>that function."
snip ...
Easiest way to find out your IP address if it is dynamically assigned
is to find a web site that tells you your IP address.
I don't have a link to a web page that returns this information but I
have seen it in WebStar tutorials. Perhaps someone on info-mac has a
link to a web page that tells you your IP address as seen by that web
server?
Kee Nethery
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Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 14:40:12 -0700
From: "Chambers, Ed"
To: "'Tito and Shari Poza'" , [email protected]
Subject: determining true IP of DSL line
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tito and Shari Poza [mailto:[email protected]]
> Subject: determining true IP of DSL line
>
> The problem is now that I can't get an IP address that works. That
> is, I get an IP address from the game but when I tell those who want
> to join the game the address, they can't join because it's not the
> real address. I've had this problem on a PC before but using a DOS
> prompt and ipconfig brings up the true IP address. On the Mac, I
> usually find the correct address in the TCP/IP control panel but now
> that is not the right address either.
>
> My ISP says IP addresses are dynamically assigned by their server.
> Fair enough. When I ask them if I can track the number that has been
> assigned down, they start their favorite mantra: "We don't support
> that function."
>
My question is, can I track down the IP address using some Mac
> software? Or is it impossible?
>
> Presently, I have IPNetMonitor and IPNetRouter which appear to be
> pretty serious tools for working with my line but I'm not very savvy
> about such things. I use IPNetRouter to share my line with other
> machines on my network (something else my ISP doesn't support, of
> course...yet here I can do it) on a G3 DT/266 with plenty of RAM (160
> MB). I'm running System 9.04.
First, do a search of the archive (MIT Hyperarchive). I remember seeing at
least one tool that displayed a little box on the desktop with your IP for
just this sort of situation.
Or, not sure which tool can do this, but you might try either to ping or do
a traceroute to a known server out on the net. Maybe your mail server.
Either of these should reveal your true IP address. You might even just try
to ping "localhost" and see if that displays your current address.
If you were running OS X, I would say open a terminal window and type
"netstat". Hope this is of some help.
Ed Chambers
Cubic Defense Systems Inc
[email protected]
www.cubic.com
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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 11:48:42 -0400
From: "Michael G. Schabert"
To: Tito and Shari Poza
Subject: determining true IP of DSL line
>Before using DSL, I used to host Diablo II games on my Mac. No
>problems but slow.
>
>The problem is now that I can't get an IP address that works. That
>is, I get an IP address from the game but when I tell those who want
>to join the game the address, they can't join because it's not the
>real address. I've had this problem on a PC before but using a DOS
>prompt and ipconfig brings up the true IP address. On the Mac, I
>usually find the correct address in the TCP/IP control panel but now
>that is not the right address either.
Chances are, when you ask your Mac what its IP is, you get something
in the order of 192.168.x.x or 10.0.0.x. These are designated by the
IETF as being internal-only addresses & are set up so that you can do
things like setting up NAT. Chances are that your DSL modem is
getting the proper IP address & is forming a 2-computer LAN with your
computer, & acting as a router between the LAN and the Internet.
>My ISP says IP addresses are dynamically assigned by their server.
>Fair enough. When I ask them if I can track the number that has been
>assigned down, they start their favorite mantra: "We don't support
>that function."
>
>I don't know if this is the truth or if they really can't help me. My
>ISP has a history of claiming things can't be done because they don't
>want them to be done (for fear that it'll suck up more of their
>precious bandwidth...they want me to buy their service, they just
>would prefer I used it as little as possible).
Hi Shari,
They didn't tell you it couldn't be done. They told you that they
weren't going to waste *their* time doing it.
>My question is, can I track down the IP address using some Mac
>software? Or is it impossible?
>
>Presently, I have IPNetMonitor and IPNetRouter which appear to be
>pretty serious tools for working with my line but I'm not very savvy
>about such things. I use IPNetRouter to share my line with other
>machines on my network (something else my ISP doesn't support, of
>course...yet here I can do it) on a G3 DT/266 with plenty of RAM (160
>MB). I'm running System 9.04.
Again, you're confusing them supporting something with them telling
you it can't be done. If you have problems with your line, the first
thing that they'll do in troubleshooting is get rid of everything
except 1 computer. It's the proper way to track down whether the
problem is with their end or with your (unsupported) network.
There's a couple ways that you can get your proper IP address. The
easiest way to do it is to simply connect to a computer and ask that
computer where you connected from...for instance, while hosting
Diablo, can the "master" computer see where people are connected
from? If so, connect to someone else's game & see what your IP is. If
you can't find a suitable computer to connect to, email me & I'll set
up an account on my un*x machine that you can telnet to, which will
simply echo your IP to you & disconnect. Also, your DSL modem may
have administrative access modle (probably by a web interface) which
can tell you your IP address. This would depend on the modem model,
so you should consult the manual if you have one.
Hope this helps,
Mike
--
Michael G. Schabert, Mac Guy
Miranda Graphic Systems, publishers of Graphic Power
http://www.graphicpower.com
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Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 13:39:30 +0000
From: JIM BRUNSWICK
To: [email protected]
Subject: eye strain
I had a strange incident while sitting at the computer, PPC 7300, 15
inch Apple monitor. Reading something onscreen, I felt something odd but
unrecognizable, I didn't see anything with my eyes, but I instinctively
closed my eyes, then saw a bright blinding residual image, as if an
enormous flash had occured !
The image was EXTREMELY brilliant, it actually hurt, and that is
while my eyes are closed .
The image was a perfect circle, but not made of a smooth line,
instead it was composed of small horizontal rectangles. Each rectangle
would be the equivalent of 4 pixels, if this was a bitmap image and
you zoomed in to see it. Or, in otherwords, if I drew this circle in a
graphics program, that's how it would look, more or less.
I was very disoriented, slightly dizzy, and the bright residual image
remained
active in my eyes for almost 3 minutes. I kept them closed but this did
not diminish the image untill 2 minutes had passed.
The optometrist dork at the hospital doesn't know anything about
computers, and he implied that it was unlikely a residual image,
powerfull enough to remain for that length of time would occur without
causing
evidence. What a dork ! I was accompanied by a friend during the
incident and the 3 minute duration, realtime, is accurate.
Is there any expert who could shed some light [ no pun ] on this
occurence ?
I found it kind of frightening.
regards,
Jim Brunswick
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