Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #257 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Sat, 06 Feb 99 Volume 16 : Issue 257 Today's Topics: [*] Austrian Keyboard Patch 1.1 for German MacOS 8.5.x [*] PandoCalendar - Customizable desktop calendar for your Mac. [*] Andy's Pay Calculator 0.2 [*] Bi-Product [*] Cheesy Group New Mail Sound [*] Cuzco Regular [*] DesignWorksLite 4.0.2 [*] DocJet 1.3.1 [*] European Actress Icon (32 bits) [*] Europrice 1.0 [*] HeartCalc [*] MacAT - A New Task Scheduling Application [*] MacCRO PPC 1.0 [*] MacTicker 1.0.3 -- Put the stock market on your desktop [*] Many Moons 1.0.0, offbeat calendrical program [*] NavCom Cache Control 1.1.1 [*] PhotoCat 2.5 [*] PowerCalc 3.1 [*] StuffCM 2.1.2J - Japanese Version [*] Tape Measure.sit- macshareware & web tool The Info-Mac Network is a volunteer organization that publishes the Info-Mac Digest and operates the Info-Mac Archive, a large network of FTP sites containing gigabytes of freely distributable Macintosh software. 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We'd also like to thank AOL for the main Info-Mac machine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V16 #257" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 04:57:11 -0700 From: h.prill@magnet.at Subject: [*] Austrian Keyboard Patch 1.1 for German MacOS 8.5.x This little patch corrects the problem that pressing the apostrophe key on the keyboard ['] produces an accent circonflexe [^] if the Austrian keyboard layout is selected on the German version of Mac OS 8.5 and 8.5.1. Please read the ReadMe file before applying the patch. This file is not to be confused with the "Austrian Patch for Mac OS 8.5", which does a completely different thing. Download this and other software by my humble self from http://aardvark.magnet.at/software/ Regards, -H.P. [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/austrian-keyboard-11.hqx; 40K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 19:33:27 -0700 From: PandaSystems@PandaCorner.com Subject: [*] PandoCalendar - Customizable desktop calendar for your Mac. PandoCalendar is a freeware Macintosh application that places a small customizable calendar on your desktop. The calendar may be customized by changing the frame, background color, text color, font, and font size. You can also attach notes to specific days for past or future events, and have PandoCalendar automatically plot the days you work. Great for people who don't have a Monday-Friday work schedule! Version 4.2 - Added the ability to specify a note's label, which consists of both a name and circle color. Added an option to display the daily entry from the devotional Faith's Checkbook. Fixed a bug with Partial Months not correctly displaying the last part of February during leap years. The calendar is now reset to the default position on startup, if it is not on the visible screen. Panda Systems http://www.PandaCorner.com/ [Archived as /info-mac/app/time/pando-calendar.hqx; 804K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 19:33:28 -0700 From: awatters@ucla.edu Subject: [*] Andy's Pay Calculator 0.2 This program provides an easy way to figure out how much you have made over the course of your employment in a particular job. It also takes shift differential into account. Shift differential is the policy of paying workers an extra amount per hour after a certain time of day. For example, as incentive to work after 5 p.m., my job pays me an extra $0.32 per hour. Not much, but it helps. I wrote Andy's Pay Calculator in a few minutes, and it has all the functionality I need. Version 0.2 adds the option to make up to ten separate calculations. I did this by adding a "while ()" loop. This program was written in C++ and compiled for PowerPC. If *anyone* asks, I will compile a 68k version. It was my first project, so I'm sorry that I slighted all 680x0 users. Give me a break- there are 2.2 million G3 users out there alone. Andy's Pay Calculator is e-mailware; I retain rights to the code, but you are free to use it in your own program, provided you quote me. This program is absolutely free. If included in a CD-ROM or other compilation, I require a copy of the disc or archive. Use it well and distribute it freely, provided that all four of the files in the archive remain unaltered. Visit me on the web! Email me! http://andy.cool.st awatters@ucla.edu [Archived as /info-mac/app/bus/andy-paycalc-ppc.hqx; 87K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 19:33:23 -0700 From: kotka@sierra.net Subject: [*] Bi-Product Please post, Bi-Product is a shareware application for anyone interested in math. Bi-Product is a Character, ASCII, Hex, Octal and Binary converter. James Kotka kotka@sierra.net [Archived as /info-mac/app/bi-product.hqx; 619K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 19:33:21 -0700 From: email@clixsounds.com Subject: [*] Cheesy Group New Mail Sound "Cheesy Group" Email Replacement Sound Announce the arrival of new email with the "Cheesy Group" email sound. This is a high fidelity recording of a group of cheerful people exclaiming "You Have New Mail!" in unison, reminiscent of the old radio announcement blurbs of the fifties. The sound can easily be used as an email notification sound by assigning it through most email programs' preferences to be played at the arrival of new mail. Other programs that don't have the option of assigning sounds can still utilize this sound with the help of "Agent Audio," available for download at Clixsounds' web site. The "Cheesy Group" Email Sound is available in both 16-bit and 8-bit stereo and can be downloaded here or at the Clixsounds WWW site at: This file is freeware and may be redistributed freely providing it is unaltered and includes the accompanying document. Note that a portion of this archive is information concerning Clixsounds products and services. Contact Information: Internet: email@clixsounds.com Support: support@clixsounds.com Sales: sales@clixsounds.com America Online: CLIXSOUNDS World Wide Web: http://www.clixsounds.com/ [Archived as /info-mac/art/snd/16-cheesygroup.hqx; 422K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 04:57:09 -0700 From: mshroud@znet.com Subject: [*] Cuzco Regular Cuzco Regular =A9 1999 by Michael Schrauzer A shareware font based upon the calligraphy found in the 16th Century Chronicle of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala which describes the customs of the Incas. The original writing is rather crude and definitely quirky: note in particular the reversed "N". Think of it as 16th Century grunge. The shareware fee is US $5.00. As an incentive to pay, those who do send the fee and include their e-mail address will the receive the very useful companion Cuzco Small Caps font and some eps ornaments. Kindly send the fee in US dollars to: Michael Schrauzer 175 Alameda Blvd. Coronado, CA 92118 mshroud@znet.com If you have any problems with this font, please let me know specifically what's up and I'll see what I can do. Thanks. Permission is given to redistribute this font in commercial cds and other sites as long as this readme file is included. [Archived as /info-mac/font/cuzco-regular-font.hqx; 220K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 04:57:03 -0700 From: neil@capilano.com Subject: [*] DesignWorksLite 4.0.2 New!!! Get DesignWorks Lite for the iMac and Power Macintosh!!! To introduce you to the world of electronic design using DesignWorks we are now offering a new lightweight version for free download. DesignWorks Lite is easy to install and uninstall and it is yours to try out for 30 days! Once you have tried the package, you can register on-line for only $39.95!Here's what you can do with DesignWorks Lite: * Draw, save, edit and print complete, professional circuit diagrams using powerful features like bussing, multi-level Undo/Redo, and automatic gate packaging. * Use the library of common 74XX and discrete symbols provided or create your own libraries using the built-in symbol editor. * Send compact circuit diagram files to friends or colleagues over the 'net. They can get their own free copy of DesignWorks Lite to view, edit and print the circuits. [Archived as /info-mac/sci/dw-lite-402.hqx; 1514K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 04:57:12 -0700 From: yellowsoft@iol.it Subject: [*] DocJet 1.3.1 DocJet is a wonderful utility for opening: 1) objects (files, applications, controls, folders, disks and so on), 2) groups of different objects by using specified applications, 3) specified kind of objects by using alternative applications, 4) specified kind of objects by using Internet Config's Post Process setting. The first option works by means of keystrokes, the second through dragging+keystrokes, the remaining by simple dragging. Naturally you may also work from within DocJet, by using buttons. You may create a data base containing all entries you need then remove all aliases from desktop, leaving DocJet alone: it may supersede all af them! DocJet is Internet Config, Drag Manager and Navigation Manager aware, moreover it's Appearance savvy. It requires at least System 7 to run. Author: Rocco Moliterno mailto:yellowsoft@geocities.com http://yellowsoft.tsx.org/ DocJet page: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/7162/docjet.html What's new in 1.3.1 version Unique FAT version. Ability to open files by using Internet Config's Post Process setting. Windows position saving. Optimized Drag Manager support. Improved Modal Dialog filters. Better alerts. Better error checking. Better error infos. Improved "Internet" routines. New trial time term. Moved preferences file to Yellowsoft folder. Balloons updated. Removed custom CDEFs. Appearance savvy. Navigation Manager aware. Notification Manager support. Linked with Internet Config 2.0. Linked with MoreFiles 1.4.9. Recompiled with Interfaces-Libraries 3.2. Recompiled by using the newest compiler. Addresses update. All code revisited. [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/docjet-131-fat.hqx; 139K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 04:57:07 -0700 From: rhwlee@chat.carleton.ca Subject: [*] European Actress Icon (32 bits) Here are 26 32-bit icons of my most favourite actresses: Ir=E8ne Jacob Julliete Binoche Ingrid Bergman Sophie Marceau The Icons are free. However, if you use them, I will ask you to do something for the environment (e.g. recycle, reuse or reduce). MacOS 8.5 or later are required. R. Lee rebylee@hk.super.net [Archived as /info-mac/gui/icon/european-actress-icon.hqx; 159K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 19:33:30 -0700 From: tencas@kagi.com Subject: [*] Europrice 1.0 What is Europrice? Europrice is a Macintosh application that lets you convert any European national currency value in Euro and viceversa. It makes conversions even with currencies outside the European community. It calculates even possibile rounded values for market prices. Europrice requires MacOS 7.0. What's new? - several national currencies added - added the ISO currency tags - added the Other Exchange Rates dialog Europrice 1.0.1 requirements: - System 7.0 - Memory: 512 kB available for Europrice - any processor, 68020, 68030, 68040 or PowerPC Ciao Marco Tenuti http://www.kagi.com/tencas/ [Archived as /info-mac/app/bus/europrice-101.hqx; 318K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 04:57:13 -0700 From: astore@ifb.co.uk Subject: [*] HeartCalc Heart Calc is a simple application for the Macintosh for use with a Heart Rate monitor, such as one of the Polar range. It overcomes the problem that most exercise programmes express intensity of exercise as a percentage of maximum heart rate, while most heart rate monitors must be programmed as an absolute number of heart beats per second, based on the user's resting and maximum heart rates. [Archived as /info-mac/sci/heartcalc-11-68k.hqx; 231K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 19:33:25 -0700 From: g.hammond@garvan.unsw.edu.au Subject: [*] MacAT - A New Task Scheduling Application MacAT is a Windows AT/UNIX cron-like task scheduling application for Macintosh server administrators. It is a fat binary application that allows 14 of the most common MacOS tasks to be run daily, weekly, monthly or yearly without user intervention. These scheduled tasks include: Launching Applications, Files and AppleScripts; Quitting individual applications or alternatively quitting all currently running processes; Rename and Delete any File or Folder; Mount remote AppleShare volumes; Copy Files or Folders to mounted AppleTalk volumes; Unmount nominated AppleShare volumes; Restart or shutdown the Macintosh Cheers, Dr Gerard Hammond Garvan Institute of Medical Research 384 Victoria St. Darlinghurst NSW 2010 Australia eMail: g.hammond@garvan.unsw.edu.au Erskinevillans rule... [Archived as /info-mac/app/macat.hqx; 1086K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 04:57:15 -0700 From: pderrin@hotpop.com Subject: [*] MacCRO PPC 1.0 MacCRO is a simple, easy-to-use audio frequency oscilloscope and spectrum analyser for the Macintosh. It suffers from the limitations of the Macintosh's sound input port - it works at audio frequencies only - but it has a major advantage over a "real" oscilloscope: low cost. While a typical, cheap 20MHz scope may cost a few hundred dollars, MacCRO is only $20 shareware, or $10 for students and schools. System Requirements * A PowerPC * About 2MB of free RAM * About 1MB of free hard disk space * QuickTime. If you don't have it, you can get it from http://www.apple.com/quicktime/. * Navigation Services and the Appearance Manager will be used, if they are available (Mac OS 8 is required for proper support of Kaleidoscope schemes). ________________________________ Philip Derrin [Archived as /info-mac/sci/maccro-ppc.hqx; 487K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 19:33:31 -0700 From: roy@galleon.com Subject: [*] MacTicker 1.0.3 -- Put the stock market on your desktop MacTicker is a specialized Internet browser that lets you view the free stock market information provided online by financial websites around the world. You can watch any number of your stocks roll by on the ticker, or call up a detailed report for each of your favorites. MacTicker updates this information once a minute right on your desktop. You can configure it to alert you to stocks that are doing particularly well, or warn you to sell that stinker. MacTicker's stock ticker is a dynamic display of the status of the stocks in your personal portfolio, but MacTicker can also display detailed information on individual stocks that is updated along with the information on the ticker, from a comprehensive stock report to a tiny display that you can stick in the corner of your desktop and watch in the background. To run MacTicker 1.0.3 you need the following things: -- A PowerPC-based Macintosh computer Visit for a 68K version. -- MacOS 7.5 or later. -- 4 MB of application RAM -- An IP connection to the Internet For more information, read the documentation included in the MacTicker archive, or visit our website at Roy Schulze Galleon Software ----- Changes since version 1.0.2 The sources from which MacTicker gathers its information typically offer two levels of details in their stock reports: detailed quotes return all the data available for a particular stock, while "quick" quotes return only the data that is likely to change throughout the day. Whenever you start MacTicker, it requests detailed quotes from each of its sources. Regular updates throughout the day request only quick quotes. The update button on the large stock report, however, requests a detailed quote for that stock and updates all fields on the report. [Archived as /info-mac/app/bus/macticker.hqx; 820K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 04:57:04 -0700 From: rwhe@apocalypse.org Subject: [*] Many Moons 1.0.0, offbeat calendrical program Many Moons is an offbeat calendrical program. The goal of Many Moons is to expand the user's consciousness by making her aware of the many different ways it is possible to measure time. It was originally inspired by Robert Anton Wilson's article "How to Live Eleven Days in Twenty-Four Hours." Many Moons currently supports the Gregorian calendar, the World Calendar, Swatch Internet Time, J.R.R. Tolkien's Shire Reckoning and Eldarin Calendar of Imladris, and STAR TREK Stardates. Version 1.0.0: Initial release. Requires a PPC or 68020 or higher, and System 8.0 or higher, or System 7.5 plus the Thread Manager. This file has been scanned with Virex 5.8.1. -- Ron Hale-Evans: rwhe@apocalypse.org & http://www.apocalypse.org/~rwhe/ Center for Ludic Synergy & "Kennexions" Glass Bead Game & Hexagram-8 I Ching Mailing List & State-Specific Sciences List & Positive Revolution FAQ [Archived as /info-mac/sci/many-moons.hqx; 305K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 19:33:17 -0700 From: jackb@io.com Subject: [*] NavCom Cache Control 1.1.1 NavCom Cache Control is a shareware, PowerPC application that allows you to activate and adjust the memory cache on your Netscape 4.x Web browser (Navigator or Communicator). By using memory for your browser's cache, instead of your hard drive, Web browsing can become quicker, more responsive, and more enjoyable. NavCom Cache Control requires a PowerPC Macintosh. It uses the Appearance Manager, so it will run without any additional software on OS 8 or later. To run on Systems earlier than 8, you may need the Appearance extension, which is available from Apple. Details about this can be found in the documentation accompanying NavCom Cache Control. NavCom Cache Control is buckware. You can register it by mailing a buck (US $1.00) to the author. If you want to register by credit card or with foreign currency, you can register N3C using Kagi. Due to the increased costs of processing payments that way, the registration fee for users of Kagi is US $3.00. Complete information on NavCom Cache Control can be obtained from the Day Job Softwerks home page at: http://www.io.com/~jackb Enjoy the software! Jack Browning Day Job Softwerks [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/nccc.hqx; 109K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 04:57:08 -0700 From: PhotoCat@Kagi.com Subject: [*] PhotoCat 2.5 PhotoCat 2.5 PRESENTATION Web Site: http://www.macinsearch.com/users/PhotoCat/Index.html PhotoCat is a great tool for working quickly and efficiently with a large database of pictures. It's also the ideal tool to put one's holiday pictures in order. PhotoCat allows you to build catalogs of pictures easily, for example from a Photo-CD. All QuickTime compatible file formats can be read (along with BMP from PC's world, ART, etc). It also offers extended index and search capabilities which help you find pictures quickly. You can attach keywords to a picture, allowing for very accurate search of the catalog. Moreover PhotoCat lets you manage large databases of images. Adding, exporting, deleting and transferring pictures are all very easy to do. Moving, renaming or copying the original files are very easy directly from Photocat. Special tools are included to make catalog maintenance easy. =46inally PhotoCat provides many options to distribute databases of images. Printing catalogs is very flexible and the user can customize the page makeup. Catalogs can be widely and easily distributed via the PhotoCat Player, a special addtional program. Different options allow the user to protect the catalog. Thierry MAIRE CH-1545 Chevroux SWITZERLAND T&T ++41 (26) 667.18.10 (T=E9l + Fax) Internet: Thierry.Maire@mcnet.ch [Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/photocat-25.hqx; 2858K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 04:57:05 -0700 From: maurojc@bushbaby.alfred.edu Subject: [*] PowerCalc 3.1 PowerCalc is a powerful shareware calculator with dozens of useful mathematical functions. It has a user-friendly interface, persistent memory, eight layers of parentheses, balloon help, and even a backspace key in case you type the wrong number. It supports normal, scientific, and engineering notations, and it can even do operations with infinity. You have to see it to believe it! PowerCalc is a must-have program for mathematicians anywhere. Requires Mac OS 7.6 or higher and 1024K RAM. Color monitor recommended. [Archived as /info-mac/sci/powercalc-jm-31.hqx; 485K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 19:33:20 -0700 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com Subject: [*] StuffCM 2.1.2J - Japanese Version File Name: stuffcm2.1.2j.sit.hqx This is the Japanese version of the StuffCM package. *Rated at 5 Cows (highest rating) from Tucows: http://www.tucows.com/ **Check out MacUpdate's review of StuffCM at http://www.macupdate.com/reviews/adam/stuffcm.html: "StuffCM is such a sublime addition to the Mac OS, it's a wonder that it's not built in." StuffCM is a contextual menu plugin that works with Aladdin Systems' StuffIt Engine. It can stuff, unstuff, convert, BinHex, segment and join files directly in the Finder through the contextual menu commands. The StuffCM package also includes a control panel with lots of settings to play with, plus the option to assign modifier keys to toggle those settings on the fly. And it's 100% Appearance Manager savvy! Plus it supports contextual menus - something many of Apple's own control panels don't! Version 2.1.2J features the following improvements: *You can now choose between StuffIt 4 and 5 when Stuffing files (provided you have both versions of the StuffIt Engine). *The Continue Expanding option works properly now. *The StuffCM control panel will run correctly under Mac OS 8.0 and 8.1. *Fixed the text field for entering segment sizes. Christopher Li Bridge 1 Software English/Japanese Japanese/English Software Localization and Management [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/stuffcm-212-jp.hqx; 341K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 04:57:16 -0700 From: colleen@nervecel.com Subject: [*] Tape Measure.sit- macshareware & web tool Tape Measure is a drag & drop application designed to make the creation of html image tags easier. Specifically, it can automatically include the widt= h and height of an image, which makes a page appear to load faster in certain browsers. I created this application in the early days of the web, before programs like Pagemill=99 and Dreamweaver=99 existed, which take care of ima= ge tags automatically. Tape Measure is still useful for quick tweaks when you= =92re editing HTML by hand and you don=92t want to have to launch a big program ju= st to get the width and height of an image. How to Use It: Simply drag a GIF or JPEG image file onto Tape Measure=92s icon. Tape Measu= re will copy an image tag (including the image=92s width and height) to the clipboard, which you can paste into your html document from any text editor. Dragging multiple image files onto Tape Measure will open a list window containing the names of these images. Double-clicking on an image name copi= es its html tag to the clipboard. You can also use the arrow keys to move up a= nd down the list and hit enter or cmd-c to copy the tag. -- Gunnar T. Propp=E9 58 Buena Vista Ave. =46airfax, CA 94930 gunnar@nervecel.com [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/tape-measure.hqx; 157K] -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************