Info-Mac Digest V14 #91
Posted: April 15th, 1996, 4:00 am
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Info-Mac Digest Sun, 14 Apr 96 Volume 14 : Issue 91
Today's Topics:
[*] "All Good Things"
[*] A.D. Mono update
[*] Apple Easter Eggs 1.4
[*] AppleTalk Access OSAX 1.0
[*] BeyondPress 2.0 Evaluation
[*] Big Dreams 3/4
[*] Button Circle March/April 1996 Release
[*] Clean Shave TT Font
[*] Compact Maps Set 2
[*] Cosette TrueType font
[*] Disk Charmer 3.0.2; disk utility
[*] DoubleScroll 2.1.1
[*] Dragon Cavern Lite
[*] DragSelectRect XFCN 1.0
[*] Eudora Cyrillic
[*] Female AudioClock Sounds (v2)
[*] Folder Icon Cleaner 2.0.1; wipes out custom icons
[*] FreePPP 2.5b4 - The first "public beta"
[*] HierPop XFCN 1.01r
[*] HTML Editor
[*] HyperCard Menus 1.0r
[*] Isotope Pattern Calculator v1.6.6
[*] Joe's Pager 1.5.6
[*] Jungular1.1.sit.hqx
[*] LogoMation 1.1.2 -- A Programming Language and Environment
[*] MacNow Apr 96 (New Macintosh Periodical)
[*] MailSniffer 1.1.4
[*] Mirage File Transfer Utility
[*] Plug-in Manager
[*] Smart Dubbing 1.1
[*] Stereo "Arabian Beep"
[*] Tangram 3.2
[*] UltraDice 2.0.2
[*] World of Weirdness #6
[A] Missing Finder Icons
Apple adjustable keyboard
Cross Platform from PC to MAC
IIsi, battery, monitor, boom
Info-Mac Digest V14 #86
LCD Projectors for Macs
Open Transport for 7.1?
poser for mac lovers
Spanish Dictionary
System 7.5.3 and OT woes???
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:18:03 -0700
From: (Monster)[email protected]
Subject: [*] "All Good Things"
This is a program my company and another has jointly created. We are
uploading this to you hoping you will add it to your archive. It is a star
trek trivia game, following a star trek interface. It is part one of a
larger project, namely a simulation. This product is no way endorsed by
Paramount, and all copyrights are owned by their respective holders. Please
feel free to comment on the program, if you wish/are able to.
Creative Thunder and ArrowSoft
[Archived as /info-mac/game/all-good-things.hqx; 2714K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:18:19 -0700
From: (Matt M. Denton)[email protected]
Subject: [*] A.D. Mono update
This version of the font A.D. Mono replaces all previous versions. I have
corrected path directions that may have caused certain characters to print
incorrectly, and fixed the "apple" character so that it is more
recognizable yet still quirky. Thanks for your support!
Matt M. Denton
[email protected]
http://www.slip.net/~sweetpea/GEEKBOY
San Francisco, CA, USA
[Archived as /info-mac/font/ad-mono.hqx; 112K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:17:47 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Apple Easter Eggs 1.4
What secrets lurk inside the heart of your Mac? Are you too frightened to
look? I didn't think so.
Grab this self-viewing DocMaker file to discover what those zany Apple
engineers and programmers have hidden inside your Macintosh and Newton. You
may be amazed!
Welcome to the first Easter release of the world's largest collection of
Apple easter eggs. In fact, there are over 200 of them! This is a
compilation of secrets stuffed inside of your Macintosh or Newton by Apple
programmers and engineers, which are not accessible without doing something
that you wouldn't normally do. Easter eggs include random jokes, elaborate
credit screens, or hard-to-find games that are meant to give the creator a
little fame, also adding a personal touch to the best computer on earth.
For Example: One well known easter egg is if you type "secret about box", in
System 7.5, in Stickies and drag it to the desktop. You will be able to play
a game, or you can see and move a virtual flag on the new PCI Macs in System
7.5.2 & 7.5.3. Download this file for more info.
All eggs only apply to Apple Computer made products so any Mac or Newton
owner can try them without having to deal with other software. This file has
been mentioned in MacWorld Magazine, put on CD's, mentioned in books and
E-Zines, was a most popular download on AOL, and is a top download at many
other software sights.
The upgrade: Version 1.4 has all of the eggs in previous versions and plenty
more. I did not have a main focus for this release but there are many
excellent and detailed additions, and even a peek at the first Copland easter
egg. I also fixed spelling, made many corrections, and added roughly 50 more
eggs to the collection. Also, with the release of DocMaker 4.6, there is a
much better interface and I cleaned things up a bit. There are so many
changes I can not list them all. Download this file, look around, and have
fun!
Made with DocMaker, which means it is stand-alone. It requires no other
helper applications but a decompressor. A Newton only list of easter eggs is
also available for all PC owners.
[Archived as /info-mac/info/apple-easter-eggs-14.hqx; 389K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:18:36 -0700
From: (Michael J. Gorski)[email protected]
Subject: [*] AppleTalk Access OSAX 1.0
This OSAX replaces my earlier released AppleTalk Access OSAX. This one
will allow an AppleScript to perform the following additions:
Turn AppleTalk On
Turn AppleTalk Off
Get the current status of AppleTalk
I have found it very useful on my PowerBook where I only have one serial
port to use. This OSAX allows me to turn off AppleTalk when I need to run
an application which will use the serial port.
It is freeware yet I retain all rights to the software.
Enjoy!!
Michael J. Gorski [email protected] [email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/osa/appletalk-access-osax-10.hqx; 7K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:17:38 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] BeyondPress 2.0 Evaluation
This is an evaluation version of BeyondPress 2.0, the premier QuarkXPress
to HTML conversion and authoring tool (Macintosh only). BeyondPress gives
you the tools you need to turn your QuarkXPress documents into cutting edge
web pages. Here are a few of the things you can do with BeyondPress 2.0:
Content List
* List the content elements of a document
* Drag icons to arrange contents into web pages
* Use hot keys to position images and label text
* Select and operate on multiple items
Web Page Formatting
* Specify colored and tiled backgrounds
* Choose custom colors for text and links
* Include headers, footers and metatags
* Export for Windows, MacOS, or UNIX
Text Conversion
* Maintain paragraph alignment, bold and italic
* Convert accented and special characters
* Maintain superscript and subscript, underline, strike-thru and text color
* Apply HTML styles to text based on font size
Style Sheet Mapping
* Map Style Sheets to HTML styles, lists, and tables
* Create custom HTML styles
* Override style sheet mapping for any selection
Tables and Lists
* Convert tabular data to tables
* Set table border, width, alignment, and other attributes
* Create ordered, unordered, menu, directory, and definition lists
* Strip duplicate numbers and bullets
Image Creation
* Convert styled text to an image
* Convert any group of items to an image
* Antialias images
* Load custom color palettes
* Create optimal color palette for each image
* Share images between multiple documents
Image Formatting
* Export images to GIF format, with optional interlacing and transparency
* Export images to JPEG format, controlling image quality, and optionally
as Progressive JPEG
* Crop and scale images
Please contact Astrobyte at [email protected], or visit our web site,
at http://www.astrobyte.com for more information.
[Archived as /info-mac/text/qark/quark-beyond-press-20.hqx; 1030K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:19:36 -0700
From: (Duncan Stickings)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Big Dreams 3/4
Here is the April issue of Big Dreams. It is a newsletter on personal
development and business topics. It is in Mac postcard format. This month
features the following articles:
Tape Review
More on Worrying
Networking
Focus
Note that this is also available in WWW format at
http://www.wimsey.com/~duncans/BigDreams
Submissions are welcomed, you can see the submission guidelines under
http://www.wimsey.com/~duncans/BigDream ... lines.html
Duncan Stickings Tel: (604) 760-1631
Alpine Training and Development Fax: (604) 931-2135
[Archived as /info-mac/art/zine/big-dreams-v3-04.hqx; 145K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:17:45 -0700
From: (Dan Crevier)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Button Circle March/April 1996 Release
This archive contains several buttons and palette's for WestCode
Software's OneClick, including:
* AudioCD Palette 1.0.1: Controls Audio CDs
* Canned Response for Emailer: Sends a canned message to someone with
Claris Emailer
* Contact the Circle: Conacts the Button Circle, WestCode, or the
OneClick-Talk mailing list
* File Duck: A simple file management utility
* IC Click: Handles drag and dropped URL's
* Load/Save Desktops: Saves/restores the desktop icon positions when
switching resolutions
* Mac Error Codes: Displays explanations of system error codes
* Mark's Button Tools: Discerns the status of active palettes and buttons
* OC-PPP-1.1: Keeps track of PPP being open or closed, and gives you some
menu options, such as checking your mail
* OCSigs: Lets you use mulitple signatures in *any* application
* PEP: Pretty Easy Privacy: Provides easy access to privacy services from
within Eudora and Eudora Pro
* OSAMenu: Keeps a universal list, and application specific list of files
or scripts that can be clicked on to launch
* Mailto: Maintains a list of names/e-mail addresses for you to call up
>From any program
For more information on the button circle, see
Dan Crevier
[Archived as /info-mac/per/oc-button-circle-96-04.hqx; 221K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:18:20 -0700
From: (John W. Young)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Clean Shave TT Font
Attached is Clean Shave, a True Type Font. Previous versions have been
very popular. The shareware fee is only $5! After sending the fee, you
will recieve a password to open the archive included with Clean Shave, this
contains 3 additional fonts, which are FREE upon payment for Clean Shave!
Not a bad deal, huh?
Info-Mac has the author's permission to distribute this file, as long as
all of the parts of it are included.
[Archived as /info-mac/font/tt/clean-shave-tt.hqx; 317K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:18:12 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Compact Maps Set 2
Another file for you! The Compact Maps Set 2! Another 4 1-level sets
for the Wolfenstein player on the run. Needs at least 2nd or 3rd
encounter and/or WolfEdit Enhanced with ResEdit 2.1.1. The four
scenerios are: Worse than Hell On Earth, Save the Lone Guard!, Castle
of Lost Souls Dungeon, and Chamber of Torture, and they're HARD!
[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/wolf/compact-maps-set-2.hqx; 24K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:18:22 -0700
From: (Nikos Goulandris)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Cosette TrueType font
Well, *Cosette.TT* is a sort of (pseudo-) history of female hair style in
twenty-six (a-z) portraits.
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/font/tt/cosette-tt.hqx; 125K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:18:35 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Disk Charmer 3.0.2; disk utility
You don't have to wait for Copland to initialize disks in
background...
Disk Charmer is a neat utility that lets you conveniently erase and
copy disks, and handle disk images in DiskCopy and DiskDup+ format.
Disk Charmer lets you create larger disks: you gain 9K on 800K disks,
19K on HD disks, 1.5MB on Zips.
At least System 7 is required.
Help Balloons are everywhere.
Disk Charmer has a nice, modeless interface.
It fully supports drag&drop.
It supports the handy "Undo" feature we all know and love.
New since version 3.0.1:
properly restores the message text when a disk with open files or a CD
is encountered;
compiled with the latest CodeWarrior, and linked with MoreFiles
1.4.2;
various tweaks and docs updates.
Fabrizio Oddone
http://www.di.unito.it/pub/WWW/www_stud ... zioOddone/
http://www.kagi.com/authors/fab/
[Archived as /info-mac/disk/disk-charmer-302.hqx; 142K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:17:48 -0700
From: (Edward Voas)[email protected]
Subject: [*] DoubleScroll 2.1.1
DoubleScroll is a control panel/extension which gives your scroll bars
double arrows on each end for easier scrolling back and forth. It also has
a live scrolling feature as well as a 'scrolling throttle' for controlling
your scrolling speed. If you are running the Aaron extension, it uses the
Aaron look instead of the 7.x look.
Changes in Version 2.1.1 (4/5/96)
* Corrected visual problem in filters pane
* Fixed Unimplemented Trap problem under 7.1 and lower on 68K machines
* Fixed option-live scrolling toggling.
* Changed documentation a bit.
* Fixed command-clicking arrows for home/end.
* Fixed background color problem when dragging thumb in the Info window of
the control panel.
* Possibly also solve anomolous crash while doing the above.
* Took out PPC scroll bar CDEF. There is a bug in 7.5.3 on some machines
which prevented it from loading properly. You will not notice any speed
degradation. Native scroll bars do not effectively scroll any faster than
non-native scroll bars because of the amount of non-native code still in
the system that the scroll bar code must call. The speed difference ends up
being negligible.
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/double-scroll-211.hqx; 145K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:18:17 -0700
From: (horace)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Dragon Cavern Lite
And now, the moment you've been waiting for: The Beta Version of the
Dragon Cavern! About 10 levels of absolute, horrid, MISERY and it's
even harder than The Castle of Lost Souls! Requires Wolfenstein 3D 3rd
encounter or later! Doesn't need WolfEdit or ResEdit at all! Works
great with my custom sounds. Hope you like it!
[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/wolf/dragon-cavern-lite.hqx; 48K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:18:38 -0700
From: (Perry Barton)[email protected]
Subject: [*] DragSelectRect XFCN 1.0
DragSelectRect is an XFCN for HyperCard 2.x which enables you to drag a
gray or "marching ants" selection rectangle within the card window of your
stack. It returns the local or global coordinates of that rectangle.
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/card/drag-select-rect-xfcn-10.hqx; 37K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:19:24 -0700
From: (Andreas Prilop)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Eudora Cyrillic
If you want to exchange mail in Cyrillic script with Eudora [Lite],
you need certain translation tables.
Existing tables are defective in not being reversible and in supporting
only one alphabet (Russian) and only one character set (KOI8-R).
On the contrary, my reversible tables support all Slavic Cyrillic
alphabets and the following character sets:
Mac Cyrillic, KOI8 (ISO-IR-111), ISO-8859-5, Code Page 1251.
Fonts and keyboards are included.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/mail/eudora-cyrillic.hqx; 65K]
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Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 14:04:32 -0700
From: (Jeff Click)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Female AudioClock Sounds (v2)
Enhance your Macintosh by utilizing great sound features that you may not
have known you have!
The "Audio Clock v2" sounds make an excellent addition to any Mac with
System 7.5 or above. Used with the "Date and Time" control panel that
comes standard with the Mac OS, these sounds enhance your computer by
making a sound play at 1/4 past, 1/2 past, 1/4 'Til, and at the top of
the hour. If you choose, you can even have it chime the same number of
times as the hour.
The Audio Clock v2 sounds are of a crystal clear, attractive female voice
in stereo. AucioClock contains five stereo sound files. They say "Top
of the Hour," "1/4 Past," "1/2 Past," "1/4 'Til," and there is also an
alternative "Chime."
Audio Clock v2 is available in both 16-bit and 8-bit, stereo formats. The
16-bit samples are at a 44kHz sample rate and are virtually CD quality
and work well if you have a nice audio set-up for your Mac. If you are
wishing to minimize memory usage, the 8-bit version is still a quality
set, but are not as clear as the 16-bit version. Either version can be
downloaded here or at the Clixsounds WWW site,
http://www.edmondsun.com/clix/.
Installation of the Audio Clock v1 sounds is very easy, and step-by-step
instructions are included for proper set-up. You must have System 7.5 or
above installed.
You can reach Clixsounds at:
Internet: [email protected]
America Online: CLIXSOUNDS
[Archived as /info-mac/art/snd/audioclock-v2-8-bit.hqx; 318K]
[Archived as /info-mac/art/snd/audioclock-v2-16-bit.hqx; 1229K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:17:49 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Folder Icon Cleaner 2.0.1; wipes out custom icons
Folder Icon Cleaner is a small utility that lets you get rid
correctly of those space and time wasting custom icons, stuck
right there on your folders.
The Finder keeps every folder icon in a separate hidden file.
The known versions of the Finder do not
delete this file when removing a custom folder icon. They only
delete the icon resources from the file. Note that no other
information is kept into these "Icon" files. Folder Icon Cleaner
correctly removes the icon by deleting the file (and by updating
the "Use custom icon" attribute of the folder). No data is lost,
you only gain a little more free space on your disk.
You can even erase every custom folder icon on your disk.
Folder Icon Cleaner can only be used under System 7 or later;
however, it is rather useless on a System 6-or-older Macintosh.
New since 2.0:
Recompiled with the latest Codewarrior;
linked with MoreFiles 1.4.2;
minor tweaks.
Fabrizio Oddone
http://www.di.unito.it/pub/WWW/www_stud ... zioOddone/
http://www.kagi.com/authors/fab/
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/folder-icon-cleaner-201.hqx; 144K]
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Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 14:03:44 -0700
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] FreePPP 2.5b4 - The first "public beta"
This is the first "Public Beta" of FreePPP 2.5. It will expire on May 13th
(don't worry, there will be additional releases before then). The
installer will place a folder called "FreePPP Folder" in the root directory
of your startup hard drive. This folder contains the FreePPP Setup
application and a few Read Me files.
Since this release is a beta it is expected to have problems but no
major/showstopper ones. Most known problems are described in one of the
Read Me's mentioned above. As bugs are reported there will be a summary
posted to comp.sys.mac.comm - please DO NOT report a bug until you see if
it appears in the posted summary.
Additional known issues with the 2.5b4 build:
* Global Inits String option in modem setup does not work
Use autodetect or per server options instead.
* Enable modem audio feedback while connecting option in modem setup may cause
problems with modem init string being recognized if it's turned off.
Turn it on if you run into this problem.
* In the account setup information there are fields to enter Domain name,
Primary DNS and Secondary DNS. These fields are not saved as the feature
they are intended for will not be implemented until FreePPP 2.5.1.
The new docs and AppleGuide file will appear over the next few releases.
My illness since I got back from vacation is directly responsible for the
delay in the former and indirectly for the latter so my apologies to
everyone who would actually use these items if they were provided.
Steve Dagley
FreePPP Group Chief Bottle Washer
(Who is now going to take some good medication and crawl back into bed)
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/conn/free-ppp-25b4.hqx; 281K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:18:39 -0700
From: (Perry Barton)[email protected]
Subject: [*] HierPop XFCN 1.01r
HierPop displays a hierarchical popup menu that can contain up to 32K of
characters. It can also have as many as 244 submenus attached to the main
menu. Version 1.01r contains the _final_ registration information.
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/card/hier-pop-xfcn-101r.hqx; 9K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:17:40 -0700
From: (Rick Giles)[email protected]
Subject: [*] HTML Editor
HTML Editor 1.1.3 features include
- simple text editing.
- edit text of size > 32K.
- insertion of common HTML 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, and Netscape tags through
button clicks, menu selections, and key strokes
- styled text to indicate styles a browser may use when viewing a document.
These styles can be edited.
- undo and redo of basic tag insertion.
- editable palette of user tags.
- single key strokes for insertion of HTML escape codes for composed
characters.
- find and replace commands for text editing.
- edit list of URLs from the current document.
- setting of a root directory for the URL of a local file.
- standard file dialog for constructing the URL of a local file.
- switch to a browser such as Netscape, Mosaic or MacWeb with the click
of a button. Switching to a browser will open a browse window for the
current document.
- hide tags for a quick document preview.
- restyle complete document.
- automatic styling of documents from other applications.
- conversion of UNIX and DOS text files to Macintosh text.
- conversion of non-ASCII characters from a text file or the clipboard to
HTML escape codes for composed characters.
- printing.
- support for Internet Config Preferences.
- support for Menu Sharing.
- command-click launch of selected URL.
- drag and drop text editing.
- drag and drop linking to desktop files.
- support for AppleGuide.
- export as DOS or UNIX file.
- link to HTML validator.
HTML Editor 1.1.3 is shareware. Registration is $25. Registered users will
receive free electronic updates of all version 1 software.
[email protected]
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[Archived as /info-mac/text/html/html-editor-113.hqx; 986K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:18:45 -0700
From: (Perry Barton)[email protected]
Subject: [*] HyperCard Menus 1.0r
HyperCard Menus is a set of external commands and external functions that
allow you create and manipulate your own custom menus within HyperCard.
Includes support for hierarchical menus with AS MANY levels of submenus as
you desire, and ICONs, SICNs, and scaled-down ICONs for menu items.
Version 1.0r contains the _final_ registration information.
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/card/hypercard-menus-10r.hqx; 41K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:17:42 -0700
From: (Les)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Isotope Pattern Calculator v1.6.6
Isotope Pattern Calculator v1.6.6
This a shareware program which I wrote to calculate Isotopic Ratio Patterns
for molecular fragments. We have used it here at Waikato for awhile now and
there doesn't appear to be any problems with it ( although nothing is bug
free ). Full online help is available.
This fixes a bug in the colour MDEF which caused problems on Black and
White monitors, added support for multiply charged species and display of
Isotope Patterns with a fixed mass range are now centered on the X-axis.
This should be archived under science or chemistry and should replace
version 1.6.5 in your archive.
Les Arnold.
[Archived as /info-mac/sci/isotope-pattern-calc-166.hqx; 108K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:18:48 -0700
From: (Tom Schmidt)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Joe's Pager 1.5.6
Joe's Pager sends text messages from your Macintosh computer to personal
pagers, via your modem and a commercial pager service's Motorola protocol.
Messages can be sent to individuals or groups of individuals. A phone book is
built-in.
If you have a modem, and a phone number for a commercial pager service, then
open Joe's Pager. You will find Help under the Joe's menu. HyperCard 2.1 is
needed for this version of Joe's Pager. Notice that Joe's Pager (App), also
available as shareware, is a standalone application and does not need
HyperCard(r).
First, to set up your modem, use the Modem Setup from Joe's menu. This is
where you will enter the phone number for your commercial pager service. All
other settings can be left to their default for your first use.
Then, to add someone to your list of names, or to learn how to send them a
page, see the Help text, under Joe's menu.
System Requirements
...HyperCard 2.1 or greater, or HyperCard Player*
...System 6.07 or greater
...Modem (Hayes compatible. Some incompatibility with Teleport Gold II
modems)
...Paging service using Motorola protocol
...A pager which can receive full text messages (not just numbers)
* Note: A standalone version of Joe's Pager, which does not need HyperCard,
is available. The name of that product is Joe's Pager 1.55 (App).
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/joes-pager-156-hc.hqx; 207K]
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Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 14:04:05 -0700
From: (Chris Lawson)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Jungular1.1.sit.hqx
Executive summary: E-zine of mostly post modern fluff. First issue includes
first hand account of peace keeping in Bosnia, a short story about a cheeky old
man and a treatise on annoying jazz fans. Requires Acrobat Reader 2.1.
>From the introduction:
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Oh the arrogance.
To think that the speck-like callers of a veritable information donkey trail
would dare assume that their pathetic prose would be deemed worthy of a wider
audience. The shirty-ness of this venture most assuredly would make even the
most self-absorbed cyberscreed artist red with embarrassment.
No matter. This is the Internet.
The Jungle is a teensy weensy computer bulletin board in very snowy Ottawa
Canada. It's been around since 1988 and has long been revered as, well, an
interesting place to be; if we can use that term. (Apparently so, since we just
did.)
The board expires messages after about a month, so this is our meagre, flimsy,
halting effort to make these writings (which are actually pretty good,
relatively speaking) less ephemeral. It's also a bit of an experiment. We're
trying to capture dynamism of that peculiar form of interaction known as the
message thread.
I hope you choose to read on and let me know if the thing amuses you, makes you
smile, growl or vomit.
Feel free to give this to your friends, enemies or whoever you want. If for
some
inexplicable reason you want to reproduce anything you find in here, please
contact the author first for permission. It's only fair. Feel free to include
it
on CDs. But please let me know first.
This is an Adobe Acrobat file and requires Acrobat Reader 2.1.
Chris Lawson
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/art/zine/jungular-11-pdf.hqx; 2831K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:19:37 -0700
From: (Chuck Shavit)[email protected]
Subject: [*] LogoMation 1.1.2 -- A Programming Language and Environment
Are you interested in an introduction to computer programming? LogoMation
is programming language that you can learn all by yourself.
Or perhaps you are an experienced programmer, and just want to find out
what LogoMation is all about and what can be done with it.
LogoMation is used by individuals at home, in schools, and in universities.
It has registered users in the North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Version 1.1.2 runs on 68020-based Macs and higher. It runs in native mode
on PowerPC. The package comes complete with a tutorial, a reference manual
and many examples.
LogoMation is not Logo.
Shareware.
You are welcome to include the LogoMation 1.1.2 package on CD-ROMs.
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/logo-mation-112.hqx; 1024K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:17:43 -0700
From: (Thomas C. Kepler)[email protected]
Subject: [*] MacNow Apr 96 (New Macintosh Periodical)
MacNow Magazine
Volume 1, Issue 1 - April 1996
Some of you may remember us from way back in September when we went under
the name of "MacMagazine". Some of you may have absolutely no idea who we
are. Either way, we invite you to vist our web site for our April issue,
the first of hopefully many more to come.
MacNow Magazine is filled with eye catching graphics, interesting yet down
to Earth articles, and a chance for the reader to get involved. A "News"
section provides a look into the events and updates of the previous months,
while our "New From Apple" section provides a look at the latest Apple
Products released the previous month.. All of our articles are written by
everyday, down to earth people like you, providing what we hope to be a
friendly, easy to understand and apply publcation.
Also be sure to visit our web site at: http://www.rust.net/~kepler for our
April Issue in HTML format, Internet Links, daily Updated News, comment
forms, and more!
If you don't have access to the web but would like to keep up with the
latest news, join the MacNow News Updates Service. As soon as we post an
"Updated News" article, we'll send it out to your mailbox, absolutely free!
To subscribe, send mail to [email protected] with the the
text "Subscribe News YourFirstName YourLastName". You should recieve
notification within 45 minutes.
Contents Of Our April Issue (Volume 1 Issue 1)
In The News: System Update 2.0 Playing Hard To Get, Plastic Thought Brings
3D To The Web, PageMill 1.0.2 Updater Released, Cyberdog Beta 2 Released,
Aaron 1.3 Update, FirstClass Client 3.1, Stufit Deluxe 4.0, MegaPhone
1.0.3P, Apple Predicts $700 Million Loss, Netscape Navigator "Altas
Preview", PC Magazine Slams Apple Computer
New From Apple: System 7.5 Update 2.0, New Workgroup Servers From Apple,
Two New Color Pritners and EtherTalk Adapter, Newton MessagePad 130, Color
OneScanner 600/27, AIX Network Servers
Feel free to mail any comments and suggestions to [email protected] or
use the form in our April Web Issue.
Thomas C. Kepler [email protected]
Editor, MacNow Magazine http://www.rust.net/~kepler/
[Archived as /info-mac/per/mac-now-96-04.hqx; 721K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:19:34 -0700
From: (William S. Leshner)[email protected]
Subject: [*] MailSniffer 1.1.4
MailSniffer is a minimal POP client that interacts with any POP3 server to
count the messages in a user's mailbox. MailSniffer will optionally list
the subjects and senders of either new or all messages. MailSniffer can
also optionally perform several actions, such as run a script, when the
mailbox contains more than a user specified number of messages. MailSniffer
can be configured to sniff automatically at a user specified interval.
MailSniffer is fully asynchronous and supports multiple simultaneous
sniffs.
In this release:
* Added Debug to the Sniffer menu
* Clear Log and Save Log were permanently disabled
* Fixed a bug whereby a LIST command was issued in place of a UIDL command
* Fixed a bug whereby non-multiline messages weren't always received correctly
* Fixed a bug involving checking for server errors
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/mail/mail-sniffer-114.hqx; 141K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:17:54 -0700
From: (Darrin Cardani)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Mirage File Transfer Utility
Mirage File Transfer Utility
This is a utility for transferring sounds between an Ensoniq Mirage and a
Macintosh via MIDI. You can use it to archive your Mirage Sounds, or
exchange them over the net. You will need the MIDI Manager (available at
http://www.support.apple.com/pub/apple_ ... upported/M
IDI_Management_Tools_2.0.2.hqx) to run this program.
Darrin
[Archived as /info-mac/gst/midi/mirage-midid-file-transfer.hqx; 18K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:19:08 -0700
From: (Mike Tilstra)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Plug-in Manager
Is your Netscape Plug-in folder starting to look like your Extensions folder?
Want some control over those Plugs? Well, this application works like
System7.5's extension Manager, but for Netscape's plug-ins.
Mike Tilstra------TaDPoL-------Limiter Task
mailto:[email protected]
http://www.tc.umn.edu/nlhome/g019/tils0007/
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/netscape-plugin-manager.hqx; 21K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:19:19 -0700
From: (Alco Blom)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Smart Dubbing 1.1
Now puts Sound on a Webpage. New GIF-Animation features.
Smart Dubbing is a tool to automatically create Animated GIFs with Sound.
Smart Dubbing takes as input QuickTime and animation files (PICS).
It automatically outputs GIF-Videos with Java sound.
The Smart Dubbing site is:
New in 1.1
---------
- Built-in sound conversion. Java-technology.
- Color options. Reduce the number of colors to reduce file size.
- Open 'PICS' animation files.
- Specify 'in' and 'out' points of a movie. Only the selection will be
converted.
- Add movement over the screen without adding a lot of file size.
- Preview and simulation of Animated GIF attributes.
Smart Dubbing requires System 7 and QuickTime 2.0.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/smart-dubbing-11.hqx; 192K]
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Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 14:04:28 -0700
From: (Jeff Click)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Stereo "Arabian Beep"
The "Arabian Beep" brings an ancient mystic touch of sound to your Mac
when used as a System Alert Beep. It begins with a short blast of a deep
gong that is followed by a mellowing windpipe that harmonizes in
variation from the left speaker to the right as each speaker's tone
fluctuates in vibrato. The beep concludes as the windpipes settle and
fade along with the reverb of the gong, the total sound lasting just
under 2 1/2 seconds. Indeed it is a unique sound to the other beeps,
bringing a new style to the sound of your Mac.
The Arabian Beep is available in both 16-bit/44kHz and 8-bit/22kHz
versions and both can be downloaded here or at the Clixsounds WWW site at:
http://www.edmondsun.com/clix/ .
Instructions are included for installation as a system alert beep, and
you need no extra software.
Clixsounds can be reached at:
Internet: [email protected]
America Online: CLIXSOUNDS
[Archived as /info-mac/art/snd/arabian-8-bit.hqx; 231K]
[Archived as /info-mac/art/snd/arabian-16-bit.hqx; 627K]
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Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 14:19:35 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Tangram 3.2
Tangram is an ancient Oriental toy which has 7 pieces, 5
triangles in different size, 1 square and 1 parallelogram.
The objective of this game is to form a given shape using all 7
pieces.
Now, you can pay shareware fee with your credit card, a wide
variety of cash from different countries and checks in US Dollar.
Thousands of shapes can be made by moving simple shaped pieces
around. This puzzle game is specially great for children to
practice matching skill. You may think this is only children's
game, but you will find it challenging once you try it.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/tangram-32.hqx; 358K]
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Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 14:19:38 -0700
From: (Jacob Weber)[email protected]
Subject: [*] UltraDice 2.0.2
UltraDice is a Macintosh version of the classic dice game Yahtzee. It
allows four players to compete in a single, double or triple game. Other
features include sound effects, colored dice, Apple Guide help, and a good
user interface. Shareware: $15.
Jacob Weber [email protected]
Oberlin College http://www.oberlin.edu/~jweber/
[Archived as /info-mac/game/ultra-dice-202.hqx; 180K]
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Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 14:04:21 -0700
From: (Paxton Lee Frombaugh)[email protected]
Subject: [*] World of Weirdness #6
Faith and begob, it's the long-anticipated 6th issue of World of Weirdness,
the e-zine voted most likely to exist in the fourth dimension. Think your
cottage cheese is just an innocent refrigerator occupant? Think again. In
this issue we reveal all the sordid facts in a true-ish crime story hot
>From the files of the Oshkosh special dairy squad.
Download now, and I personally guarantee that a rabid horde of giant purple
iguanas will not devour your automobile.
[Archived as /info-mac/art/zine/world-of-weirdness-006.hqx; 794K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 22:10:41 -0700
From:
Subject: [A] Missing Finder Icons
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I believe I have found a solution to the MISSING FINDER ICONS dilemma.
These steps have worked for me:
1. Rebuild the desktop to get your icons back. DO NOT RESTART AFTERWARDS.
2. Single-click on the icon of the application that has the "icon loss"
problem.
3. Choose GET INFO from the file menu.
4. Click on the icon in the resulting window and COPY it.
5. Paste it to the SCRAPBOOK.
6. Repeat for any other applications which may have the same problem.
The next time your icons disappear, simply open the scrapbook, copy the
icon, and paste it back into the application's GET INFO window. Repeat
for other troublesome applications. From that point on, the icons should
be there to stay!
Best of luck,
Brett L. Nordby
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 06:02:16 -0400
From: Jeff Frankel
Subject: Apple adjustable keyboard
On April 9 Jeffry Burns wrote about problems with his Apple adjustable
keybboard. Jeff, I use one at home and one at work. Both of them started
displaying muuuuultiple characters like you described. On the advice of my
local Apple dealer, I tried two things, both of which worked.
(1) The brute force method-- bang on the offending key really hard for thirty,
forty or fifty times. If there's a little dust in the mechanism, this seems to
pound
it out of existence.
(2) The finesse method-- gently pry the plastic keycap off the striking
mechanism. Try to lift the cap straight up, as opposed to popping it off at an
angle. Once you have removed it, dab a teeny bit of lightweight oil into the
mechanism, and then replace the cap.
--
Jeff Frankel
Windsor, Maine USA
"Where the woodpecker pecks
and the porcupine plays"
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 09:07:19 -0800 (PST)
From: "Patrick Wong"
Subject: Cross Platform from PC to MAC
>I've got an 8.x-MB database file
>that I have to move from a PeeCee to a venerable but accelerated SE on
>a monotonously regular basis, and there's no cross-platform network.
You have a couple of solutions:
1. Use MacLink with cables to directly connect the two machine together
and transfer the files.
2. Use pkzip on the PC side and Zipit on the MAC side. pkzip will allow
you to segment the 8Mg file across several 1.44 disks. You will then
need to use zipit on the mac side to unsegment the several files/disks
into the 8Mg file.
Of the two methods, I like using MacLink.
Good Luck
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 15:31:58 -1000
From: Jerry Levinson
Subject: IIsi, battery, monitor, boom
I have 2 identicals IIsi Macs in my lab. The other day, one of the IIsi
screen stayed black (power light went on) at power-up time. Having read
about the 475 screens being controlled by the battery, I popped out the
IIsi battery, tested it, and it was dead. So I replaced it. The monitor
stayed dead. I swapped monitors with the other IIsi and the monitor is
dead. The monitor, by the way, is the original (cheapie) Mitsubishi
monitor that came with the IIsi 5 years ago.
The questions is: did the battery dying have anything to do with the
death of the monitor? The events happened simultaneously which is
suspicious, but not logical. Ideas?
After this, I did replace the battery in the other IIsi just in case...
Thanks for any ideas.
Jerry
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 21:42:06 -0700
From:
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #86
I cannot possibly be alone. Back in the days when my Quadra 840AV was
young and strong, I used to enjoy navigating the Mac user interface using
spoken commands with PlainTalk 1.3 speech recognition. I had that system
tweeked to respond almost immediately, and I could say almost anything
and it would react accordingly. Menu items, complex tasks, simple
functionality like "print page three to five" and a lot of other things
were speakable. Unfortunately, that is no longer.
I just installed PlainTalk 1.4.1 on my new PowerMac 9500/132 with 72mb
RAM and am wholly disappointed. Apparently Apple decided to "optimize"
the performance of PlainTalk by deleting all it's useful features,
leaving it with a short list of speakable "scripts" in the Apple Menu
Items folder. Yuck. Gone are the days when I can print a chapter with a
spoken command. Sure, I can do the scripting, but it was so nice... so
GLOBAL and so FAST to have the "speech rules" built right in.
Does anyone know of a way to get that old functionality back? Is there
an extension, a commercial package, anything? I really would love to be
able to control my mac by speech again. I heard a rumor about Apple
selling speech recognition commercially... if this is true, will it
include more functionality? At least give the customer a choice,
Apple... during the installation, ASK the customer if they'd like the
full (slower) install or the install optimized for the slower machines.
Any hints/tips would be greatly appreciated!!
Brett L. Nordby
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 10:36:05 -0400
From: [email protected] (Spencer Marks)
Subject: LCD Projectors for Macs
Hi,
I need to recommend a good quality (easy to setup and use) LCD projector that
will work with both the Mac and (sigh) Windows. Unfortunately, I don't know
much about these products, so I'd really appreciate any comments and / or
recommendations people have.
Thanks in advance.
Sincerely, Spencer Marks
digital Solutions
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 18:14:49 -0700
From: [email protected] (Simon Avery)
Subject: Open Transport for 7.1?
Given all the great things being said about Open Transport, especially
the higher modem throughput I was wondering if it would work with System
7.1. If so where could I get it and does it work with MacSLIP? Thanks.
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 08:00:56 -0500
From: [email protected]
Subject: poser for mac lovers
>ok guys,
>
>here's the poser:
>
>a lot of software applications (especially ones on cd-rom) are written for
>640x480 screens (they call for 13" or 14" monitors). i have a 12" monitor.
>consequently, applications like this (e.g. bodyworks 4.0, mayo clinic's
>cd-roms, jeopardy, chess etc) either don't run on my machine or the
>screens are truncated.
>
>i know that broderbund used to make a doodah which knocked the black strip
>around the view on apple monitors. they don't make that any more.
>
>can someone come up with some solution to this problem?
>
>here's the rest of the poser. i use a mac lc (yes, the original lc). it
>has a 68020 processor. i have 10mb ram installed and 512K vram (gives me
>24 bit or 1,000's of colours). the monitor is a 12" which is the way they
>sold lc's back in the dark ages of 1990! i use system 7.5.3. the machine
>works fine for me. it does everything that i want/need -- except for the
>above problem.
i really don't want to spend money on hardware (i know that if i had a 13
or 14" monitor, i wouldn't be sending this msg out!).
>
>and i love my mac -- its part of my family.
>
>so, die hard mac lovers, can someone come up with an answer to the problem?
>
>i'm waiting to hear.
>
>thanx and cheers,
>
david king
toronto, canada
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 14:08:32 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: Spanish Dictionary
Does anyone know where to obtain a Spanish dictionary for spellchecker use
with Clarisworks? Thanks.
[email protected]
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 22:39:06 -0800
From: [email protected] (Stephen Grady)
Subject: System 7.5.3 and OT woes???
I just "upgraded" my PB520c, 12 meg RAM doubled to 24, internal GVC
PowerPort Mercury 19,200 to system 7.5.3. I can no longer work with the
28,800 phone number of my internet provider. I dial up using MacPPP 2.5,
and connect. Everything, Eudora Lite 1.5.3, Newswatcher 2.1.1, Netscape
2.0, Fetch 3.01, either crashes (Netscape) or is unable to locate the
appropriate DNS to function. Everything works fine on the 14,400 phone
number, with no changes to settings.
A couple of other users of the internet provider I use have expressed
similar problems--with OT 1.1, they are having problems with the 28,800
phone numbers, but the 14,400 numbers are fine. Could this be the IP's
fault with their 28,800 modems and MacPPP 2.5 or actually problems with OT?
While the other users have tended to cite OT as a possible culprit. I tend
to discount that in my case but ...
All of this is with "classic" networking turned on. With OT networking
turned on, nothing works on either number. I get various written
descriptions, almost all ending with a reference to error -3212 (in the
case of Eudora:
"Error involving Domain Name System.
1
{37:456}"
).
As an aside, it is most annoying, the GVC menu in the menu bar is full of
garbage and I am unable to see what is happening with the modem when
"classic" networking is used (the menu is fine with OT networking, but of
course, I can't go anywhere, as mentioned above). MacPPP 2.2.0 and System
7.5.3 did not cause this, but after a couple of connections, the system
would drop into MacsBug with addressing errors and I would have to reboot
using the control+command+power keys (for those unfamiliar the PB5x0, I
believe this is the "reset" button combination)
Any suggestions from the minds out there in the ether?
Stephen Grady
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Info-Mac Digest Sun, 14 Apr 96 Volume 14 : Issue 91
Today's Topics:
[*] "All Good Things"
[*] A.D. Mono update
[*] Apple Easter Eggs 1.4
[*] AppleTalk Access OSAX 1.0
[*] BeyondPress 2.0 Evaluation
[*] Big Dreams 3/4
[*] Button Circle March/April 1996 Release
[*] Clean Shave TT Font
[*] Compact Maps Set 2
[*] Cosette TrueType font
[*] Disk Charmer 3.0.2; disk utility
[*] DoubleScroll 2.1.1
[*] Dragon Cavern Lite
[*] DragSelectRect XFCN 1.0
[*] Eudora Cyrillic
[*] Female AudioClock Sounds (v2)
[*] Folder Icon Cleaner 2.0.1; wipes out custom icons
[*] FreePPP 2.5b4 - The first "public beta"
[*] HierPop XFCN 1.01r
[*] HTML Editor
[*] HyperCard Menus 1.0r
[*] Isotope Pattern Calculator v1.6.6
[*] Joe's Pager 1.5.6
[*] Jungular1.1.sit.hqx
[*] LogoMation 1.1.2 -- A Programming Language and Environment
[*] MacNow Apr 96 (New Macintosh Periodical)
[*] MailSniffer 1.1.4
[*] Mirage File Transfer Utility
[*] Plug-in Manager
[*] Smart Dubbing 1.1
[*] Stereo "Arabian Beep"
[*] Tangram 3.2
[*] UltraDice 2.0.2
[*] World of Weirdness #6
[A] Missing Finder Icons
Apple adjustable keyboard
Cross Platform from PC to MAC
IIsi, battery, monitor, boom
Info-Mac Digest V14 #86
LCD Projectors for Macs
Open Transport for 7.1?
poser for mac lovers
Spanish Dictionary
System 7.5.3 and OT woes???
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:18:03 -0700
From: (Monster)[email protected]
Subject: [*] "All Good Things"
This is a program my company and another has jointly created. We are
uploading this to you hoping you will add it to your archive. It is a star
trek trivia game, following a star trek interface. It is part one of a
larger project, namely a simulation. This product is no way endorsed by
Paramount, and all copyrights are owned by their respective holders. Please
feel free to comment on the program, if you wish/are able to.
Creative Thunder and ArrowSoft
[Archived as /info-mac/game/all-good-things.hqx; 2714K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:18:19 -0700
From: (Matt M. Denton)[email protected]
Subject: [*] A.D. Mono update
This version of the font A.D. Mono replaces all previous versions. I have
corrected path directions that may have caused certain characters to print
incorrectly, and fixed the "apple" character so that it is more
recognizable yet still quirky. Thanks for your support!
Matt M. Denton
[email protected]
http://www.slip.net/~sweetpea/GEEKBOY
San Francisco, CA, USA
[Archived as /info-mac/font/ad-mono.hqx; 112K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:17:47 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Apple Easter Eggs 1.4
What secrets lurk inside the heart of your Mac? Are you too frightened to
look? I didn't think so.
Grab this self-viewing DocMaker file to discover what those zany Apple
engineers and programmers have hidden inside your Macintosh and Newton. You
may be amazed!
Welcome to the first Easter release of the world's largest collection of
Apple easter eggs. In fact, there are over 200 of them! This is a
compilation of secrets stuffed inside of your Macintosh or Newton by Apple
programmers and engineers, which are not accessible without doing something
that you wouldn't normally do. Easter eggs include random jokes, elaborate
credit screens, or hard-to-find games that are meant to give the creator a
little fame, also adding a personal touch to the best computer on earth.
For Example: One well known easter egg is if you type "secret about box", in
System 7.5, in Stickies and drag it to the desktop. You will be able to play
a game, or you can see and move a virtual flag on the new PCI Macs in System
7.5.2 & 7.5.3. Download this file for more info.
All eggs only apply to Apple Computer made products so any Mac or Newton
owner can try them without having to deal with other software. This file has
been mentioned in MacWorld Magazine, put on CD's, mentioned in books and
E-Zines, was a most popular download on AOL, and is a top download at many
other software sights.
The upgrade: Version 1.4 has all of the eggs in previous versions and plenty
more. I did not have a main focus for this release but there are many
excellent and detailed additions, and even a peek at the first Copland easter
egg. I also fixed spelling, made many corrections, and added roughly 50 more
eggs to the collection. Also, with the release of DocMaker 4.6, there is a
much better interface and I cleaned things up a bit. There are so many
changes I can not list them all. Download this file, look around, and have
fun!
Made with DocMaker, which means it is stand-alone. It requires no other
helper applications but a decompressor. A Newton only list of easter eggs is
also available for all PC owners.
[Archived as /info-mac/info/apple-easter-eggs-14.hqx; 389K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:18:36 -0700
From: (Michael J. Gorski)[email protected]
Subject: [*] AppleTalk Access OSAX 1.0
This OSAX replaces my earlier released AppleTalk Access OSAX. This one
will allow an AppleScript to perform the following additions:
Turn AppleTalk On
Turn AppleTalk Off
Get the current status of AppleTalk
I have found it very useful on my PowerBook where I only have one serial
port to use. This OSAX allows me to turn off AppleTalk when I need to run
an application which will use the serial port.
It is freeware yet I retain all rights to the software.
Enjoy!!
Michael J. Gorski [email protected] [email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/osa/appletalk-access-osax-10.hqx; 7K]
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:17:38 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] BeyondPress 2.0 Evaluation
This is an evaluation version of BeyondPress 2.0, the premier QuarkXPress
to HTML conversion and authoring tool (Macintosh only). BeyondPress gives
you the tools you need to turn your QuarkXPress documents into cutting edge
web pages. Here are a few of the things you can do with BeyondPress 2.0:
Content List
* List the content elements of a document
* Drag icons to arrange contents into web pages
* Use hot keys to position images and label text
* Select and operate on multiple items
Web Page Formatting
* Specify colored and tiled backgrounds
* Choose custom colors for text and links
* Include headers, footers and metatags
* Export for Windows, MacOS, or UNIX
Text Conversion
* Maintain paragraph alignment, bold and italic
* Convert accented and special characters
* Maintain superscript and subscript, underline, strike-thru and text color
* Apply HTML styles to text based on font size
Style Sheet Mapping
* Map Style Sheets to HTML styles, lists, and tables
* Create custom HTML styles
* Override style sheet mapping for any selection
Tables and Lists
* Convert tabular data to tables
* Set table border, width, alignment, and other attributes
* Create ordered, unordered, menu, directory, and definition lists
* Strip duplicate numbers and bullets
Image Creation
* Convert styled text to an image
* Convert any group of items to an image
* Antialias images
* Load custom color palettes
* Create optimal color palette for each image
* Share images between multiple documents
Image Formatting
* Export images to GIF format, with optional interlacing and transparency
* Export images to JPEG format, controlling image quality, and optionally
as Progressive JPEG
* Crop and scale images
Please contact Astrobyte at [email protected], or visit our web site,
at http://www.astrobyte.com for more information.
[Archived as /info-mac/text/qark/quark-beyond-press-20.hqx; 1030K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:19:36 -0700
From: (Duncan Stickings)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Big Dreams 3/4
Here is the April issue of Big Dreams. It is a newsletter on personal
development and business topics. It is in Mac postcard format. This month
features the following articles:
Tape Review
More on Worrying
Networking
Focus
Note that this is also available in WWW format at
http://www.wimsey.com/~duncans/BigDreams
Submissions are welcomed, you can see the submission guidelines under
http://www.wimsey.com/~duncans/BigDream ... lines.html
Duncan Stickings Tel: (604) 760-1631
Alpine Training and Development Fax: (604) 931-2135
[Archived as /info-mac/art/zine/big-dreams-v3-04.hqx; 145K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:17:45 -0700
From: (Dan Crevier)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Button Circle March/April 1996 Release
This archive contains several buttons and palette's for WestCode
Software's OneClick, including:
* AudioCD Palette 1.0.1: Controls Audio CDs
* Canned Response for Emailer: Sends a canned message to someone with
Claris Emailer
* Contact the Circle: Conacts the Button Circle, WestCode, or the
OneClick-Talk mailing list
* File Duck: A simple file management utility
* IC Click: Handles drag and dropped URL's
* Load/Save Desktops: Saves/restores the desktop icon positions when
switching resolutions
* Mac Error Codes: Displays explanations of system error codes
* Mark's Button Tools: Discerns the status of active palettes and buttons
* OC-PPP-1.1: Keeps track of PPP being open or closed, and gives you some
menu options, such as checking your mail
* OCSigs: Lets you use mulitple signatures in *any* application
* PEP: Pretty Easy Privacy: Provides easy access to privacy services from
within Eudora and Eudora Pro
* OSAMenu: Keeps a universal list, and application specific list of files
or scripts that can be clicked on to launch
* Mailto: Maintains a list of names/e-mail addresses for you to call up
>From any program
For more information on the button circle, see
Dan Crevier
[Archived as /info-mac/per/oc-button-circle-96-04.hqx; 221K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:18:20 -0700
From: (John W. Young)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Clean Shave TT Font
Attached is Clean Shave, a True Type Font. Previous versions have been
very popular. The shareware fee is only $5! After sending the fee, you
will recieve a password to open the archive included with Clean Shave, this
contains 3 additional fonts, which are FREE upon payment for Clean Shave!
Not a bad deal, huh?
Info-Mac has the author's permission to distribute this file, as long as
all of the parts of it are included.
[Archived as /info-mac/font/tt/clean-shave-tt.hqx; 317K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:18:12 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Compact Maps Set 2
Another file for you! The Compact Maps Set 2! Another 4 1-level sets
for the Wolfenstein player on the run. Needs at least 2nd or 3rd
encounter and/or WolfEdit Enhanced with ResEdit 2.1.1. The four
scenerios are: Worse than Hell On Earth, Save the Lone Guard!, Castle
of Lost Souls Dungeon, and Chamber of Torture, and they're HARD!
[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/wolf/compact-maps-set-2.hqx; 24K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:18:22 -0700
From: (Nikos Goulandris)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Cosette TrueType font
Well, *Cosette.TT* is a sort of (pseudo-) history of female hair style in
twenty-six (a-z) portraits.
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/font/tt/cosette-tt.hqx; 125K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:18:35 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Disk Charmer 3.0.2; disk utility
You don't have to wait for Copland to initialize disks in
background...
Disk Charmer is a neat utility that lets you conveniently erase and
copy disks, and handle disk images in DiskCopy and DiskDup+ format.
Disk Charmer lets you create larger disks: you gain 9K on 800K disks,
19K on HD disks, 1.5MB on Zips.
At least System 7 is required.
Help Balloons are everywhere.
Disk Charmer has a nice, modeless interface.
It fully supports drag&drop.
It supports the handy "Undo" feature we all know and love.
New since version 3.0.1:
properly restores the message text when a disk with open files or a CD
is encountered;
compiled with the latest CodeWarrior, and linked with MoreFiles
1.4.2;
various tweaks and docs updates.
Fabrizio Oddone
http://www.di.unito.it/pub/WWW/www_stud ... zioOddone/
http://www.kagi.com/authors/fab/
[Archived as /info-mac/disk/disk-charmer-302.hqx; 142K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:17:48 -0700
From: (Edward Voas)[email protected]
Subject: [*] DoubleScroll 2.1.1
DoubleScroll is a control panel/extension which gives your scroll bars
double arrows on each end for easier scrolling back and forth. It also has
a live scrolling feature as well as a 'scrolling throttle' for controlling
your scrolling speed. If you are running the Aaron extension, it uses the
Aaron look instead of the 7.x look.
Changes in Version 2.1.1 (4/5/96)
* Corrected visual problem in filters pane
* Fixed Unimplemented Trap problem under 7.1 and lower on 68K machines
* Fixed option-live scrolling toggling.
* Changed documentation a bit.
* Fixed command-clicking arrows for home/end.
* Fixed background color problem when dragging thumb in the Info window of
the control panel.
* Possibly also solve anomolous crash while doing the above.
* Took out PPC scroll bar CDEF. There is a bug in 7.5.3 on some machines
which prevented it from loading properly. You will not notice any speed
degradation. Native scroll bars do not effectively scroll any faster than
non-native scroll bars because of the amount of non-native code still in
the system that the scroll bar code must call. The speed difference ends up
being negligible.
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/double-scroll-211.hqx; 145K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:18:17 -0700
From: (horace)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Dragon Cavern Lite
And now, the moment you've been waiting for: The Beta Version of the
Dragon Cavern! About 10 levels of absolute, horrid, MISERY and it's
even harder than The Castle of Lost Souls! Requires Wolfenstein 3D 3rd
encounter or later! Doesn't need WolfEdit or ResEdit at all! Works
great with my custom sounds. Hope you like it!
[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/wolf/dragon-cavern-lite.hqx; 48K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:18:38 -0700
From: (Perry Barton)[email protected]
Subject: [*] DragSelectRect XFCN 1.0
DragSelectRect is an XFCN for HyperCard 2.x which enables you to drag a
gray or "marching ants" selection rectangle within the card window of your
stack. It returns the local or global coordinates of that rectangle.
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/card/drag-select-rect-xfcn-10.hqx; 37K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:19:24 -0700
From: (Andreas Prilop)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Eudora Cyrillic
If you want to exchange mail in Cyrillic script with Eudora [Lite],
you need certain translation tables.
Existing tables are defective in not being reversible and in supporting
only one alphabet (Russian) and only one character set (KOI8-R).
On the contrary, my reversible tables support all Slavic Cyrillic
alphabets and the following character sets:
Mac Cyrillic, KOI8 (ISO-IR-111), ISO-8859-5, Code Page 1251.
Fonts and keyboards are included.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/mail/eudora-cyrillic.hqx; 65K]
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Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 14:04:32 -0700
From: (Jeff Click)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Female AudioClock Sounds (v2)
Enhance your Macintosh by utilizing great sound features that you may not
have known you have!
The "Audio Clock v2" sounds make an excellent addition to any Mac with
System 7.5 or above. Used with the "Date and Time" control panel that
comes standard with the Mac OS, these sounds enhance your computer by
making a sound play at 1/4 past, 1/2 past, 1/4 'Til, and at the top of
the hour. If you choose, you can even have it chime the same number of
times as the hour.
The Audio Clock v2 sounds are of a crystal clear, attractive female voice
in stereo. AucioClock contains five stereo sound files. They say "Top
of the Hour," "1/4 Past," "1/2 Past," "1/4 'Til," and there is also an
alternative "Chime."
Audio Clock v2 is available in both 16-bit and 8-bit, stereo formats. The
16-bit samples are at a 44kHz sample rate and are virtually CD quality
and work well if you have a nice audio set-up for your Mac. If you are
wishing to minimize memory usage, the 8-bit version is still a quality
set, but are not as clear as the 16-bit version. Either version can be
downloaded here or at the Clixsounds WWW site,
http://www.edmondsun.com/clix/.
Installation of the Audio Clock v1 sounds is very easy, and step-by-step
instructions are included for proper set-up. You must have System 7.5 or
above installed.
You can reach Clixsounds at:
Internet: [email protected]
America Online: CLIXSOUNDS
[Archived as /info-mac/art/snd/audioclock-v2-8-bit.hqx; 318K]
[Archived as /info-mac/art/snd/audioclock-v2-16-bit.hqx; 1229K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:17:49 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Folder Icon Cleaner 2.0.1; wipes out custom icons
Folder Icon Cleaner is a small utility that lets you get rid
correctly of those space and time wasting custom icons, stuck
right there on your folders.
The Finder keeps every folder icon in a separate hidden file.
The known versions of the Finder do not
delete this file when removing a custom folder icon. They only
delete the icon resources from the file. Note that no other
information is kept into these "Icon" files. Folder Icon Cleaner
correctly removes the icon by deleting the file (and by updating
the "Use custom icon" attribute of the folder). No data is lost,
you only gain a little more free space on your disk.
You can even erase every custom folder icon on your disk.
Folder Icon Cleaner can only be used under System 7 or later;
however, it is rather useless on a System 6-or-older Macintosh.
New since 2.0:
Recompiled with the latest Codewarrior;
linked with MoreFiles 1.4.2;
minor tweaks.
Fabrizio Oddone
http://www.di.unito.it/pub/WWW/www_stud ... zioOddone/
http://www.kagi.com/authors/fab/
[Archived as /info-mac/gui/folder-icon-cleaner-201.hqx; 144K]
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Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 14:03:44 -0700
From: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] FreePPP 2.5b4 - The first "public beta"
This is the first "Public Beta" of FreePPP 2.5. It will expire on May 13th
(don't worry, there will be additional releases before then). The
installer will place a folder called "FreePPP Folder" in the root directory
of your startup hard drive. This folder contains the FreePPP Setup
application and a few Read Me files.
Since this release is a beta it is expected to have problems but no
major/showstopper ones. Most known problems are described in one of the
Read Me's mentioned above. As bugs are reported there will be a summary
posted to comp.sys.mac.comm - please DO NOT report a bug until you see if
it appears in the posted summary.
Additional known issues with the 2.5b4 build:
* Global Inits String option in modem setup does not work
Use autodetect or per server options instead.
* Enable modem audio feedback while connecting option in modem setup may cause
problems with modem init string being recognized if it's turned off.
Turn it on if you run into this problem.
* In the account setup information there are fields to enter Domain name,
Primary DNS and Secondary DNS. These fields are not saved as the feature
they are intended for will not be implemented until FreePPP 2.5.1.
The new docs and AppleGuide file will appear over the next few releases.
My illness since I got back from vacation is directly responsible for the
delay in the former and indirectly for the latter so my apologies to
everyone who would actually use these items if they were provided.
Steve Dagley
FreePPP Group Chief Bottle Washer
(Who is now going to take some good medication and crawl back into bed)
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/conn/free-ppp-25b4.hqx; 281K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:18:39 -0700
From: (Perry Barton)[email protected]
Subject: [*] HierPop XFCN 1.01r
HierPop displays a hierarchical popup menu that can contain up to 32K of
characters. It can also have as many as 244 submenus attached to the main
menu. Version 1.01r contains the _final_ registration information.
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/card/hier-pop-xfcn-101r.hqx; 9K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:17:40 -0700
From: (Rick Giles)[email protected]
Subject: [*] HTML Editor
HTML Editor 1.1.3 features include
- simple text editing.
- edit text of size > 32K.
- insertion of common HTML 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, and Netscape tags through
button clicks, menu selections, and key strokes
- styled text to indicate styles a browser may use when viewing a document.
These styles can be edited.
- undo and redo of basic tag insertion.
- editable palette of user tags.
- single key strokes for insertion of HTML escape codes for composed
characters.
- find and replace commands for text editing.
- edit list of URLs from the current document.
- setting of a root directory for the URL of a local file.
- standard file dialog for constructing the URL of a local file.
- switch to a browser such as Netscape, Mosaic or MacWeb with the click
of a button. Switching to a browser will open a browse window for the
current document.
- hide tags for a quick document preview.
- restyle complete document.
- automatic styling of documents from other applications.
- conversion of UNIX and DOS text files to Macintosh text.
- conversion of non-ASCII characters from a text file or the clipboard to
HTML escape codes for composed characters.
- printing.
- support for Internet Config Preferences.
- support for Menu Sharing.
- command-click launch of selected URL.
- drag and drop text editing.
- drag and drop linking to desktop files.
- support for AppleGuide.
- export as DOS or UNIX file.
- link to HTML validator.
HTML Editor 1.1.3 is shareware. Registration is $25. Registered users will
receive free electronic updates of all version 1 software.
[email protected]
--------------
[Archived as /info-mac/text/html/html-editor-113.hqx; 986K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:18:45 -0700
From: (Perry Barton)[email protected]
Subject: [*] HyperCard Menus 1.0r
HyperCard Menus is a set of external commands and external functions that
allow you create and manipulate your own custom menus within HyperCard.
Includes support for hierarchical menus with AS MANY levels of submenus as
you desire, and ICONs, SICNs, and scaled-down ICONs for menu items.
Version 1.0r contains the _final_ registration information.
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/card/hypercard-menus-10r.hqx; 41K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:17:42 -0700
From: (Les)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Isotope Pattern Calculator v1.6.6
Isotope Pattern Calculator v1.6.6
This a shareware program which I wrote to calculate Isotopic Ratio Patterns
for molecular fragments. We have used it here at Waikato for awhile now and
there doesn't appear to be any problems with it ( although nothing is bug
free ). Full online help is available.
This fixes a bug in the colour MDEF which caused problems on Black and
White monitors, added support for multiply charged species and display of
Isotope Patterns with a fixed mass range are now centered on the X-axis.
This should be archived under science or chemistry and should replace
version 1.6.5 in your archive.
Les Arnold.
[Archived as /info-mac/sci/isotope-pattern-calc-166.hqx; 108K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:18:48 -0700
From: (Tom Schmidt)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Joe's Pager 1.5.6
Joe's Pager sends text messages from your Macintosh computer to personal
pagers, via your modem and a commercial pager service's Motorola protocol.
Messages can be sent to individuals or groups of individuals. A phone book is
built-in.
If you have a modem, and a phone number for a commercial pager service, then
open Joe's Pager. You will find Help under the Joe's menu. HyperCard 2.1 is
needed for this version of Joe's Pager. Notice that Joe's Pager (App), also
available as shareware, is a standalone application and does not need
HyperCard(r).
First, to set up your modem, use the Modem Setup from Joe's menu. This is
where you will enter the phone number for your commercial pager service. All
other settings can be left to their default for your first use.
Then, to add someone to your list of names, or to learn how to send them a
page, see the Help text, under Joe's menu.
System Requirements
...HyperCard 2.1 or greater, or HyperCard Player*
...System 6.07 or greater
...Modem (Hayes compatible. Some incompatibility with Teleport Gold II
modems)
...Paging service using Motorola protocol
...A pager which can receive full text messages (not just numbers)
* Note: A standalone version of Joe's Pager, which does not need HyperCard,
is available. The name of that product is Joe's Pager 1.55 (App).
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/joes-pager-156-hc.hqx; 207K]
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Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 14:04:05 -0700
From: (Chris Lawson)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Jungular1.1.sit.hqx
Executive summary: E-zine of mostly post modern fluff. First issue includes
first hand account of peace keeping in Bosnia, a short story about a cheeky old
man and a treatise on annoying jazz fans. Requires Acrobat Reader 2.1.
>From the introduction:
-------------------
Oh the arrogance.
To think that the speck-like callers of a veritable information donkey trail
would dare assume that their pathetic prose would be deemed worthy of a wider
audience. The shirty-ness of this venture most assuredly would make even the
most self-absorbed cyberscreed artist red with embarrassment.
No matter. This is the Internet.
The Jungle is a teensy weensy computer bulletin board in very snowy Ottawa
Canada. It's been around since 1988 and has long been revered as, well, an
interesting place to be; if we can use that term. (Apparently so, since we just
did.)
The board expires messages after about a month, so this is our meagre, flimsy,
halting effort to make these writings (which are actually pretty good,
relatively speaking) less ephemeral. It's also a bit of an experiment. We're
trying to capture dynamism of that peculiar form of interaction known as the
message thread.
I hope you choose to read on and let me know if the thing amuses you, makes you
smile, growl or vomit.
Feel free to give this to your friends, enemies or whoever you want. If for
some
inexplicable reason you want to reproduce anything you find in here, please
contact the author first for permission. It's only fair. Feel free to include
it
on CDs. But please let me know first.
This is an Adobe Acrobat file and requires Acrobat Reader 2.1.
Chris Lawson
[email protected]
[Archived as /info-mac/art/zine/jungular-11-pdf.hqx; 2831K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:19:37 -0700
From: (Chuck Shavit)[email protected]
Subject: [*] LogoMation 1.1.2 -- A Programming Language and Environment
Are you interested in an introduction to computer programming? LogoMation
is programming language that you can learn all by yourself.
Or perhaps you are an experienced programmer, and just want to find out
what LogoMation is all about and what can be done with it.
LogoMation is used by individuals at home, in schools, and in universities.
It has registered users in the North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Version 1.1.2 runs on 68020-based Macs and higher. It runs in native mode
on PowerPC. The package comes complete with a tutorial, a reference manual
and many examples.
LogoMation is not Logo.
Shareware.
You are welcome to include the LogoMation 1.1.2 package on CD-ROMs.
[Archived as /info-mac/dev/logo-mation-112.hqx; 1024K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:17:43 -0700
From: (Thomas C. Kepler)[email protected]
Subject: [*] MacNow Apr 96 (New Macintosh Periodical)
MacNow Magazine
Volume 1, Issue 1 - April 1996
Some of you may remember us from way back in September when we went under
the name of "MacMagazine". Some of you may have absolutely no idea who we
are. Either way, we invite you to vist our web site for our April issue,
the first of hopefully many more to come.
MacNow Magazine is filled with eye catching graphics, interesting yet down
to Earth articles, and a chance for the reader to get involved. A "News"
section provides a look into the events and updates of the previous months,
while our "New From Apple" section provides a look at the latest Apple
Products released the previous month.. All of our articles are written by
everyday, down to earth people like you, providing what we hope to be a
friendly, easy to understand and apply publcation.
Also be sure to visit our web site at: http://www.rust.net/~kepler for our
April Issue in HTML format, Internet Links, daily Updated News, comment
forms, and more!
If you don't have access to the web but would like to keep up with the
latest news, join the MacNow News Updates Service. As soon as we post an
"Updated News" article, we'll send it out to your mailbox, absolutely free!
To subscribe, send mail to [email protected] with the the
text "Subscribe News YourFirstName YourLastName". You should recieve
notification within 45 minutes.
Contents Of Our April Issue (Volume 1 Issue 1)
In The News: System Update 2.0 Playing Hard To Get, Plastic Thought Brings
3D To The Web, PageMill 1.0.2 Updater Released, Cyberdog Beta 2 Released,
Aaron 1.3 Update, FirstClass Client 3.1, Stufit Deluxe 4.0, MegaPhone
1.0.3P, Apple Predicts $700 Million Loss, Netscape Navigator "Altas
Preview", PC Magazine Slams Apple Computer
New From Apple: System 7.5 Update 2.0, New Workgroup Servers From Apple,
Two New Color Pritners and EtherTalk Adapter, Newton MessagePad 130, Color
OneScanner 600/27, AIX Network Servers
Feel free to mail any comments and suggestions to [email protected] or
use the form in our April Web Issue.
Thomas C. Kepler [email protected]
Editor, MacNow Magazine http://www.rust.net/~kepler/
[Archived as /info-mac/per/mac-now-96-04.hqx; 721K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:19:34 -0700
From: (William S. Leshner)[email protected]
Subject: [*] MailSniffer 1.1.4
MailSniffer is a minimal POP client that interacts with any POP3 server to
count the messages in a user's mailbox. MailSniffer will optionally list
the subjects and senders of either new or all messages. MailSniffer can
also optionally perform several actions, such as run a script, when the
mailbox contains more than a user specified number of messages. MailSniffer
can be configured to sniff automatically at a user specified interval.
MailSniffer is fully asynchronous and supports multiple simultaneous
sniffs.
In this release:
* Added Debug to the Sniffer menu
* Clear Log and Save Log were permanently disabled
* Fixed a bug whereby a LIST command was issued in place of a UIDL command
* Fixed a bug whereby non-multiline messages weren't always received correctly
* Fixed a bug involving checking for server errors
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/mail/mail-sniffer-114.hqx; 141K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:17:54 -0700
From: (Darrin Cardani)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Mirage File Transfer Utility
Mirage File Transfer Utility
This is a utility for transferring sounds between an Ensoniq Mirage and a
Macintosh via MIDI. You can use it to archive your Mirage Sounds, or
exchange them over the net. You will need the MIDI Manager (available at
http://www.support.apple.com/pub/apple_ ... upported/M
IDI_Management_Tools_2.0.2.hqx) to run this program.
Darrin
[Archived as /info-mac/gst/midi/mirage-midid-file-transfer.hqx; 18K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:19:08 -0700
From: (Mike Tilstra)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Plug-in Manager
Is your Netscape Plug-in folder starting to look like your Extensions folder?
Want some control over those Plugs? Well, this application works like
System7.5's extension Manager, but for Netscape's plug-ins.
Mike Tilstra------TaDPoL-------Limiter Task
mailto:[email protected]
http://www.tc.umn.edu/nlhome/g019/tils0007/
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/netscape-plugin-manager.hqx; 21K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:19:19 -0700
From: (Alco Blom)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Smart Dubbing 1.1
Now puts Sound on a Webpage. New GIF-Animation features.
Smart Dubbing is a tool to automatically create Animated GIFs with Sound.
Smart Dubbing takes as input QuickTime and animation files (PICS).
It automatically outputs GIF-Videos with Java sound.
The Smart Dubbing site is:
New in 1.1
---------
- Built-in sound conversion. Java-technology.
- Color options. Reduce the number of colors to reduce file size.
- Open 'PICS' animation files.
- Specify 'in' and 'out' points of a movie. Only the selection will be
converted.
- Add movement over the screen without adding a lot of file size.
- Preview and simulation of Animated GIF attributes.
Smart Dubbing requires System 7 and QuickTime 2.0.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/smart-dubbing-11.hqx; 192K]
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Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 14:04:28 -0700
From: (Jeff Click)[email protected]
Subject: [*] Stereo "Arabian Beep"
The "Arabian Beep" brings an ancient mystic touch of sound to your Mac
when used as a System Alert Beep. It begins with a short blast of a deep
gong that is followed by a mellowing windpipe that harmonizes in
variation from the left speaker to the right as each speaker's tone
fluctuates in vibrato. The beep concludes as the windpipes settle and
fade along with the reverb of the gong, the total sound lasting just
under 2 1/2 seconds. Indeed it is a unique sound to the other beeps,
bringing a new style to the sound of your Mac.
The Arabian Beep is available in both 16-bit/44kHz and 8-bit/22kHz
versions and both can be downloaded here or at the Clixsounds WWW site at:
http://www.edmondsun.com/clix/ .
Instructions are included for installation as a system alert beep, and
you need no extra software.
Clixsounds can be reached at:
Internet: [email protected]
America Online: CLIXSOUNDS
[Archived as /info-mac/art/snd/arabian-8-bit.hqx; 231K]
[Archived as /info-mac/art/snd/arabian-16-bit.hqx; 627K]
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Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 14:19:35 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [*] Tangram 3.2
Tangram is an ancient Oriental toy which has 7 pieces, 5
triangles in different size, 1 square and 1 parallelogram.
The objective of this game is to form a given shape using all 7
pieces.
Now, you can pay shareware fee with your credit card, a wide
variety of cash from different countries and checks in US Dollar.
Thousands of shapes can be made by moving simple shaped pieces
around. This puzzle game is specially great for children to
practice matching skill. You may think this is only children's
game, but you will find it challenging once you try it.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/tangram-32.hqx; 358K]
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Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 14:19:38 -0700
From: (Jacob Weber)[email protected]
Subject: [*] UltraDice 2.0.2
UltraDice is a Macintosh version of the classic dice game Yahtzee. It
allows four players to compete in a single, double or triple game. Other
features include sound effects, colored dice, Apple Guide help, and a good
user interface. Shareware: $15.
Jacob Weber [email protected]
Oberlin College http://www.oberlin.edu/~jweber/
[Archived as /info-mac/game/ultra-dice-202.hqx; 180K]
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Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 14:04:21 -0700
From: (Paxton Lee Frombaugh)[email protected]
Subject: [*] World of Weirdness #6
Faith and begob, it's the long-anticipated 6th issue of World of Weirdness,
the e-zine voted most likely to exist in the fourth dimension. Think your
cottage cheese is just an innocent refrigerator occupant? Think again. In
this issue we reveal all the sordid facts in a true-ish crime story hot
>From the files of the Oshkosh special dairy squad.
Download now, and I personally guarantee that a rabid horde of giant purple
iguanas will not devour your automobile.
[Archived as /info-mac/art/zine/world-of-weirdness-006.hqx; 794K]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 22:10:41 -0700
From:
Subject: [A] Missing Finder Icons
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I believe I have found a solution to the MISSING FINDER ICONS dilemma.
These steps have worked for me:
1. Rebuild the desktop to get your icons back. DO NOT RESTART AFTERWARDS.
2. Single-click on the icon of the application that has the "icon loss"
problem.
3. Choose GET INFO from the file menu.
4. Click on the icon in the resulting window and COPY it.
5. Paste it to the SCRAPBOOK.
6. Repeat for any other applications which may have the same problem.
The next time your icons disappear, simply open the scrapbook, copy the
icon, and paste it back into the application's GET INFO window. Repeat
for other troublesome applications. From that point on, the icons should
be there to stay!
Best of luck,
Brett L. Nordby
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 06:02:16 -0400
From: Jeff Frankel
Subject: Apple adjustable keyboard
On April 9 Jeffry Burns wrote about problems with his Apple adjustable
keybboard. Jeff, I use one at home and one at work. Both of them started
displaying muuuuultiple characters like you described. On the advice of my
local Apple dealer, I tried two things, both of which worked.
(1) The brute force method-- bang on the offending key really hard for thirty,
forty or fifty times. If there's a little dust in the mechanism, this seems to
pound
it out of existence.
(2) The finesse method-- gently pry the plastic keycap off the striking
mechanism. Try to lift the cap straight up, as opposed to popping it off at an
angle. Once you have removed it, dab a teeny bit of lightweight oil into the
mechanism, and then replace the cap.
--
Jeff Frankel
Windsor, Maine USA
"Where the woodpecker pecks
and the porcupine plays"
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 09:07:19 -0800 (PST)
From: "Patrick Wong"
Subject: Cross Platform from PC to MAC
>I've got an 8.x-MB database file
>that I have to move from a PeeCee to a venerable but accelerated SE on
>a monotonously regular basis, and there's no cross-platform network.
You have a couple of solutions:
1. Use MacLink with cables to directly connect the two machine together
and transfer the files.
2. Use pkzip on the PC side and Zipit on the MAC side. pkzip will allow
you to segment the 8Mg file across several 1.44 disks. You will then
need to use zipit on the mac side to unsegment the several files/disks
into the 8Mg file.
Of the two methods, I like using MacLink.
Good Luck
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 15:31:58 -1000
From: Jerry Levinson
Subject: IIsi, battery, monitor, boom
I have 2 identicals IIsi Macs in my lab. The other day, one of the IIsi
screen stayed black (power light went on) at power-up time. Having read
about the 475 screens being controlled by the battery, I popped out the
IIsi battery, tested it, and it was dead. So I replaced it. The monitor
stayed dead. I swapped monitors with the other IIsi and the monitor is
dead. The monitor, by the way, is the original (cheapie) Mitsubishi
monitor that came with the IIsi 5 years ago.
The questions is: did the battery dying have anything to do with the
death of the monitor? The events happened simultaneously which is
suspicious, but not logical. Ideas?
After this, I did replace the battery in the other IIsi just in case...
Thanks for any ideas.
Jerry
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 21:42:06 -0700
From:
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V14 #86
I cannot possibly be alone. Back in the days when my Quadra 840AV was
young and strong, I used to enjoy navigating the Mac user interface using
spoken commands with PlainTalk 1.3 speech recognition. I had that system
tweeked to respond almost immediately, and I could say almost anything
and it would react accordingly. Menu items, complex tasks, simple
functionality like "print page three to five" and a lot of other things
were speakable. Unfortunately, that is no longer.
I just installed PlainTalk 1.4.1 on my new PowerMac 9500/132 with 72mb
RAM and am wholly disappointed. Apparently Apple decided to "optimize"
the performance of PlainTalk by deleting all it's useful features,
leaving it with a short list of speakable "scripts" in the Apple Menu
Items folder. Yuck. Gone are the days when I can print a chapter with a
spoken command. Sure, I can do the scripting, but it was so nice... so
GLOBAL and so FAST to have the "speech rules" built right in.
Does anyone know of a way to get that old functionality back? Is there
an extension, a commercial package, anything? I really would love to be
able to control my mac by speech again. I heard a rumor about Apple
selling speech recognition commercially... if this is true, will it
include more functionality? At least give the customer a choice,
Apple... during the installation, ASK the customer if they'd like the
full (slower) install or the install optimized for the slower machines.
Any hints/tips would be greatly appreciated!!
Brett L. Nordby
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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 10:36:05 -0400
From: [email protected] (Spencer Marks)
Subject: LCD Projectors for Macs
Hi,
I need to recommend a good quality (easy to setup and use) LCD projector that
will work with both the Mac and (sigh) Windows. Unfortunately, I don't know
much about these products, so I'd really appreciate any comments and / or
recommendations people have.
Thanks in advance.
Sincerely, Spencer Marks
digital Solutions
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 18:14:49 -0700
From: [email protected] (Simon Avery)
Subject: Open Transport for 7.1?
Given all the great things being said about Open Transport, especially
the higher modem throughput I was wondering if it would work with System
7.1. If so where could I get it and does it work with MacSLIP? Thanks.
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 08:00:56 -0500
From: [email protected]
Subject: poser for mac lovers
>ok guys,
>
>here's the poser:
>
>a lot of software applications (especially ones on cd-rom) are written for
>640x480 screens (they call for 13" or 14" monitors). i have a 12" monitor.
>consequently, applications like this (e.g. bodyworks 4.0, mayo clinic's
>cd-roms, jeopardy, chess etc) either don't run on my machine or the
>screens are truncated.
>
>i know that broderbund used to make a doodah which knocked the black strip
>around the view on apple monitors. they don't make that any more.
>
>can someone come up with some solution to this problem?
>
>here's the rest of the poser. i use a mac lc (yes, the original lc). it
>has a 68020 processor. i have 10mb ram installed and 512K vram (gives me
>24 bit or 1,000's of colours). the monitor is a 12" which is the way they
>sold lc's back in the dark ages of 1990! i use system 7.5.3. the machine
>works fine for me. it does everything that i want/need -- except for the
>above problem.
i really don't want to spend money on hardware (i know that if i had a 13
or 14" monitor, i wouldn't be sending this msg out!).
>
>and i love my mac -- its part of my family.
>
>so, die hard mac lovers, can someone come up with an answer to the problem?
>
>i'm waiting to hear.
>
>thanx and cheers,
>
david king
toronto, canada
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 14:08:32 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: Spanish Dictionary
Does anyone know where to obtain a Spanish dictionary for spellchecker use
with Clarisworks? Thanks.
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 22:39:06 -0800
From: [email protected] (Stephen Grady)
Subject: System 7.5.3 and OT woes???
I just "upgraded" my PB520c, 12 meg RAM doubled to 24, internal GVC
PowerPort Mercury 19,200 to system 7.5.3. I can no longer work with the
28,800 phone number of my internet provider. I dial up using MacPPP 2.5,
and connect. Everything, Eudora Lite 1.5.3, Newswatcher 2.1.1, Netscape
2.0, Fetch 3.01, either crashes (Netscape) or is unable to locate the
appropriate DNS to function. Everything works fine on the 14,400 phone
number, with no changes to settings.
A couple of other users of the internet provider I use have expressed
similar problems--with OT 1.1, they are having problems with the 28,800
phone numbers, but the 14,400 numbers are fine. Could this be the IP's
fault with their 28,800 modems and MacPPP 2.5 or actually problems with OT?
While the other users have tended to cite OT as a possible culprit. I tend
to discount that in my case but ...
All of this is with "classic" networking turned on. With OT networking
turned on, nothing works on either number. I get various written
descriptions, almost all ending with a reference to error -3212 (in the
case of Eudora:
"Error involving Domain Name System.
1
{37:456}"
).
As an aside, it is most annoying, the GVC menu in the menu bar is full of
garbage and I am unable to see what is happening with the modem when
"classic" networking is used (the menu is fine with OT networking, but of
course, I can't go anywhere, as mentioned above). MacPPP 2.2.0 and System
7.5.3 did not cause this, but after a couple of connections, the system
would drop into MacsBug with addressing errors and I would have to reboot
using the control+command+power keys (for those unfamiliar the PB5x0, I
believe this is the "reset" button combination)
Any suggestions from the minds out there in the ether?
Stephen Grady
[email protected]
[email protected]
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