Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #103 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Mon, 26 Jun 00 Volume 17 : Issue 103 Today's Topics: [*] 3D Setback aka Pitch 1.2 [*] 3D Spades Deluxe 2.2 [*] BBTidy v1.0b6: BBEdit plugin checks and corrects HTML and XML [*] Beasts and monsters [*] Bi-Product 1.1 [*] fileFinagler 1.0 - file properties utility [*] FontBuddy 2.0.1 Japanese [ftp: FontBuddy-2.0.1-J.sit.hqx] [*] FTP MATH DITTOS 2: Fact Controlled ADDITION & SUBTRACTION for Special Learners, v2.9 [*] FTP MATH DITTOS 2: Fact Controlled MULTIPLICATION for Special Learners, v3.2 [*] geditcom-280.hqx [*] glidel_411_fr [*] glidel_411_us [*] GPS Plotter 1.0 [*] Idea Keeper 2.0 (ik2.hqx) [*] MacTidy v1.0b9: checks and corrects HTML and XML source [*] mathemania.hqx [*] money2mac 1.0 - financial data conversion tool [*] MoonMenu 1.2 [*] Nigiri-zushi (Japan) 1.1 - CULTURE INTERCHANGE Square [*] PandoCalendar (68K) - Customizable desktop calendar for your Mac. File Synchronization iMac Hesitation - summary MacWrite Pro 1.5v3 update no longer at Claris OS 8.6 growing PowerBook CD Drive 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. Working with the Info-Mac Digest: * To submit articles to the digest, email . * To subscribe, send email to with the words subscribe info-mac in the message. * To unsubscribe, send email to with the words unsubscribe info-mac in the message. * To change your address, unsubscribe from the old address, then subscribe from the new address. * Please send administrative queries to . Downloading and Submitting Files from the Info-Mac Archive: * A full list of Info-Mac mirror sites is available at: * Search the archive via the MIT HyperArchive at: . * To submit files for the archive, email the binhexed file with a description to . 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America Online donated the main Info-Mac machine . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V17 #103" ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jun 2000 From: "Dan 'Remy' Dickinson" To: Subject: [*] 3D Setback aka Pitch 1.2 Setback, (or "Pitch" as it is sometimes called), is a quick card game that mixes luck and skill to create an incredibly fun game! In Setback aka Pitch, you get dealt 6 cards. The player who starts defines which suit is trump and thus a quick game of Setback begins! Setback is a team game which mixes luck and skill. Hey, you'll love it! - Internet Play. - Voice Recognition. - 3D Animated, Interchangeable, Talking Opponents - Music menu with full MP3 player capabilities. - Uses Freeverse Software's award-winning 3D card engine! Requires MacOS 8.1 or later, 8 Megs of RAM, and 15 Megs of Storage. Setback is $19.95 shareware, or $29.95 for the CD-Rom version full of extra opponents. More information available at http://www.freeverse.com/freeverse/setback/index.html Freeverse Software http://www.freeverse.com/ [Archived as /info-mac/game/crd/3d-setback-pitch-12.hqx; 16975 K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jun 2000 From: "Dan 'Remy' Dickinson" To: Subject: [*] 3D Spades Deluxe 2.2 Freeverse's 3D Spades Deluxe is the best Spades game for the Macintosh. Solo or Net play, take a look! Starting with the assumption that card games are as much about social interaction as about following suit, Freeverse Software has designed an interface that is fun, easy and remarkably social. Play against the computer, or log-on and find a human opponent. 3D Spades Deluxe makes it easy. Whether you're a novice or an old pro, this is the Spades game for you! - Internet Play. - Voice Recognition. - 3D Animated, Interchangeable, Talking Opponents - Music menu with full MP3 player capabilities. - Uses Freeverse Software's award-winning 3D card engine! Requires MacOS 8.1 or later, 8 Megs of RAM, and 15 Megs of Storage. Spades Deluxe is $19.95 shareware, or $29.95 for the CD-Rom version full of extra opponents. More information available at http://www.freeverse.com/spades/index.html Freeverse Software http://www.freeverse.com/ [Archived as /info-mac/game/crd/3d-spades-deluxe-22.hqx; 12366 K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jun 2000 From: Terry Teague To: Subject: [*] BBTidy v1.0b6: BBEdit plugin checks and corrects HTML and XML When editing HTML it's easy to make mistakes. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a simple way to fix these mistakes automatically and tidy up sloppy editing into nicely layed out markup? Well now there is! Dave Raggett's HTML TIDY is a free utility for doing just that. It also works great on the atrociously hard to read markup generated by specialized HTML editors and conversion tools, and can help you identify where you need to pay further attention on making your pages more accessible to people with disabilities. Tidy is able to fix up a wide range of problems and to bring to your attention things that you need to work on yourself. Each item found is listed with the line number and column so that you can see where the problem lies in your markup. Tidy won't generate a cleaned up version when there are problems that it can't be sure of how to handle. These are logged as "errors" rather than "warnings". BBTidy is a BBEdit (and BBEdit Lite) plugin for Mac OS designed to check and correct HTML and XML source. It is based on the freely available "tidy" program by Dave Raggett (). For more information on "tidy", visit the author's web site at Visit for the latest version of BBTidy. 04 Jun 00: v1.0b6 Updated to latest "tidy" source of 30 Apr 00. System Requirements: (Any Macintosh with a 68020 or better processor, any version of System software (although it has NOT been tested on anything earlier than 7.0). Also requires BBEdit or BBEdit Lite. Regards, Terry Teague [Archived as /info-mac/text/html/bb-tidy-10b6.hqx; 812 K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jun 2000 From: Sebastian Brytting To: Subject: [*] Beasts and monsters Beasts & monsters is a very old black and white game... I think it runs on any working macintosh with a monitor. It's freeware... (Of course...) [Archived as /info-mac/game/beasts-and-monsters.hqx; 1315 K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jun 2000 From: kotka To: Subject: [*] Bi-Product 1.1 Please replace the application Bi-Product.hqx with this upgraded one. Bi-Product a freeware application for programers or anyone interested in computer math conversions. It converters Characters or ASCII# into Hex, Octal and Binary. If you find it useful please email me. James Kotka kotka@renonevada.net "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" ----Albert Einstein---- [Archived as /info-mac/sci/calc/bi-product-11.hqx; 1065 K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jun 2000 From: "Bruce A. Pokras" To: Subject: [*] fileFinagler 1.0 - file properties utility Permission granted to include on Info-Mac CD-ROM. ---------- fileFinagler(TM) 1.0 Copr. 2000 Bruce A. Pokras All rights reserved worldwide FileFinagler allows you to finagle (play around with) the files and folders on your Mac: 1) Make files or entire folders invisible to keep them from prying eyes. 2) Make the invisible files or folders on your Mac visible to see what they are hiding. 3) Copy invisible files from read-only media to your hard drive so that you can make them visible. 4) Open your sensitive invisible files for editing without having to make them visible first (that way you won't have to remember to make them invisible again after you finish editing them). 5) Change the application that starts when you double-click a file from the Finder by changing the file's CREATOR code. Build a list of often-used CREATOR codes that you can access from a pop-up button. FileFinagler allows you to easily change the CREATOR code for an entire folder full of files with a single mouse click. 6) Change a file's TYPE code if it does not have one (such as can happen with files downloaded from the Web) or if the TYPE is incorrect. Build a list of often-used TYPE codes that you can access from a pop-up button. FileFinagler allows you to easily change the TYPE code for an entire folder full of files with a single mouse click. Requires: HyperCard(R) Player 2.3 or higher (or equivalent); for Macs having System 8.6 or higher pre-installed, the Player is found on the System CD-ROM in the Apple Extras folder (simply drag the HyperCard folder to your hard drive). A Mac having a 68030 processor or faster is preferred. License fee: $10 Initially in free, limited evaluation mode. May be licensed worldwide through the Kagi payment service Brought to you by the Mac-Stacks Emporium: http://www.kagi.com/mac-stacks [Archived as /info-mac/gui/file-finagler-10.hqx; 548 K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jun 2000 From: Vincent Jalby To: Subject: [*] FontBuddy 2.0.1 Japanese [ftp: FontBuddy-2.0.1-J.sit.hqx] FontBuddy 2.0.1 J [2000/06/19] by Vincent Jalby, vjalby@kagi.com http://members.aol.com/vjalby/ Japanese translation: Yoshi Sakuma, ukkie@din.or.jp Product description -------------------- FontBuddy 2 is a Font Viewer. It shows all the characters of any font. It provides keystroke(s), ASCII and Unicode for any characters. It can print samples of both installed and uninstalled fonts. It is easy to use and MacOS 9 savvy. New in this version ------------------- FontBuddy 2 is the new version of FontBuddy. It was almost completely rewritten. There are many new features and improvements, including: New user interface, New online help New font browser to view and print uninstalled fonts Better font information New "Font Inspector" to track duplicate fonts Support for ATM/Suitcase, Japanese 2-byte fonts, drag and drop, Support for any keyboard English, French and Japanese versions Localized printout in 10 languages And much more... System Requirements ------------------- FontBuddy 2 requires a Power Macintosh with MacOS 8.1 and later. Shareware Fee ------------- FontBuddy is distributed as Shareware. A license for a single user will cost $20 ($100 for a Site License, $200 for a WorldWide License). Upgrade from previous version costs $10. [Archived as /info-mac/font/util/font-buddy-201-jp.hqx; 1139 K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jun 2000 From: macsteve To: Subject: [*] FTP MATH DITTOS 2: Fact Controlled ADDITION & SUBTRACTION for Special Learners, v2.9 fcas29.sit.bin MATH DITTOS 2: Fact Controlled ADDITION & SUBTRACTION for Special Learners, v 2.9 NEEDS: Acrobat Reader 3.0 or better ¨1995-2000 Steven L. Wood MATH DITTOS 2: Fact Controlled ADDITION & SUBTRACTION for Special Learners is a remedial, "ground-up" reteach of addition and subtraction. Addition & subtraction facts are presented in "Clusters," including the fact and its complement. Practice problems are controlled, or limited, to the clusters shown on each page, allowing for review of the facts, a prompt for unknown facts, and, most importantly, allowing the student to progress operationally even though facts are not mastered. MD2:FCA&SfSpL is unique in that it is published as a series of Adobe PDF computer documents, and in that it supplies comprehensive fact support. Educators can now have a complete addition & subtraction workbook on their computer hard drive and run as many copies as needed. Students who have not, or can not, master their facts can continue learning the processes of addition and subtraction with fact control. MATH DITTOS 2: Fact Controlled ADDITION & SUBTRACTION for Special Learners consists of 52 blackline worksheets and answer keys, color masters, flashcard masters, and no fact pages. Blackline master and answer key pages 1-26 are available for preview. The remaining blacklines and answer keys, along with the color masters, small flashcard masters, and no fact pages are password protected. Passwords are provided upon registration. Contact: Steve Wood swood@kagi.com http://www.mathdittos2.com/ Steve Wood swood@kagi.com macsteve@indy.net http://www.mathdittos2.com/ [Archived as /info-mac/edu/fcas-29.hqx; 3392 K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jun 2000 From: macsteve To: Subject: [*] FTP MATH DITTOS 2: Fact Controlled MULTIPLICATION for Special Learners, v3.2 fcm32.sit.bin MATH DITTOS 2: Fact Controlled MULTIPLICATION for Special Learners v3.2 NEEDS: Acrobat Reader ¨1995-2000 Steven L. Wood MATH DITTOS 2: Fact Controlled MULTIPLICATION for Special Learners is a unique tool for teaching multiplication computation. Based on a thorough and logical task analysis of the steps in multiplication, it is a sequential, ground up, alternative approach to teaching multiplication. Fact Controlled MULTIPLICATION uses fact support, much like a controlled vocabulary in reading. Each page includes fact bars which present only the facts to be used on the page. Both special learners and regular education students benefit from its thorough and systematic approach. Ninety-nine blackline masters comprise the basic package. Each page contains a factstrip or factbar presenting and previewing the facts to be used on the page. Worksheets follow a logical and thorough progression through the operation of multiplication computation. A similar number of complete answer sheets is included. Sub-answers are always included, for easy grading and diagnosis of error patterns. Presented in the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), the MATH DITTOS 2 series features fast and easy navigation throughout the documents. Additional support pages include: "No Fact" pages--still with restricted facts, but no fact bars. These are an essential item for checking mastery after specific fact sections in the regular masters are completed. Speed Drill Worksheets--twenty-one pages of fact drill pages include single and multiple-fact pages that parallel the fact progression in MD2. Small flashcard masters--just the right size to fit in a student's pocket. They stand at least a 50-50 chance of actually making it home with your students. Large flashcard masters--ideal for in-front-of-the-class drill. Shareware fee: $10 Steve Wood swood@kagi.com macsteve@indy.net http://www.mathdittos2.com/ [Archived as /info-mac/edu/fcm-32.hqx; 2608 K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jun 2000 From: John Nairn To: Subject: [*] geditcom-280.hqx GEDitCOM 2.8 is a customizable genealogy application for the Power Macintosh for viewing and editing GEDCOM files. GEDCOM is a genealogy data base standard that stands for GEnealogical Data COMmunication files. All genealogy applications can read and write GEDCOM files and most genealogy files on the Internet use the GEDCOM format. With GEDitCOM, you can tap 100% of GEDCOM's features and all aspects of the viewing/editing interface are customizable by the user. No one has to settle for the rigid forms and data entry methods provided by typical commercial packages. You can create your own genealogy interface and you can even switch interfaces at will depending on your needs that day. Although you can customize GEDitCOM as much as you want, it comes equipped with several powerful user interfaces and many genealogy features. Some prominent features are customizable family trees, printing of books from genealogy files, and Internet features that let you access genealogy web sites or create links from your genealogy data to web sites. GEDitCOM is available free as a GEDCOM browser. The browser download is also a demo of the full shareware GEDCOM editor. GEDitCOM requires a Power Macintosh with a color monitor. You can visit the GEDitCOM home page at for more information and various downloads. [Archived as /info-mac/sci/geditcom-28.hqx; 1393 K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jun 2000 From: Berkovitch To: Subject: [*] glidel_411_fr Glidel est une extension qui sert, € partir de la s‰lection du Finder, € : - d‰clencher les actions correspondants aux articles du menu Fichier ; - ouvrir des documents par des applications ne les ayant pas cr‰‰s ; - mouvoir ou copier la s‰lection ; - cr‰er des alias de la s‰lection. Nouveaut‰s de la version 4.1.1 : - Meilleure compatibilit‰ avec le menu pomme hi‰rarchique de FinderPop (merci Turlough O'Connor) ; - Meilleure compatibilit‰ avec Option menu Pomme (merci Peter Mulderry) ; - Remplacement du pointill‰ par 3 points dans A propos de Glidel... (merci Mark Nagata). Glidel 4.1.1 est disponible € http://www.imaginet.fr/~gberkovi/index.html Meilleures salutations. [Archived as /info-mac/gui/glidel-411-fr.hqx; 207 K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jun 2000 From: Berkovitch To: Subject: [*] glidel_411_us Here is the announcement of the release of Glidel 4.1.1. Glidel is a system extension that extends the Finder's drag-and-drop abilities within System 7 and later. You can select any icon currently visible, either on your Desktop or in an open folder, and drag it to: * The Open, Print, Get Info, Sharing..., Duplicate, Make Alias, Put Away options (Reveal Original starting with system 7.5) on the File menu; * Any application or folder in the Apple menu, including those accessible via a third-party hierarchical menu utility such as BeHierarchic, NowMenus, Apple Menu Options, or OtherMenu; * Any currently running application, via the Application menu on the right-hand side of the menu bar. New in version 4.1.1: - Better compatibility with FinderPop (thanks to Turlough O'Connor); - Better compatibility with Apple Menu Options (thanks to Peter Mulderry); - Substitution of the ellipsis by 3 periods in About Glidelè (thanks to Mark Nagata). Glidel 4.1.1 is available at http://www.imaginet.fr/~gberkovi/welcome.html Best regards. [Archived as /info-mac/gui/glidel-411.hqx; 214 K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jun 2000 From: Aaron Proman To: Subject: [*] GPS Plotter 1.0 GPS Plotter 1.0 GPS Plotter displays Waypoints, Routes and Tracks. GPS Plotter can also read and write data to/from a GPS receiver connected to the serial port. While tested with the Magellan GPS315, GPS Plotter can process standard NMEA data from any source, including text files. Maps can be imported for backgrounds to the plot displays. Waypoints and Routes can be edited, saved, and uploaded to a GPS receiver. GPS Plotter is a fat binary and will run on 68k and PPC machines using OS 7.0 or higher, and OpenTransport 1.1.1 or higher. The GPS Plotter disk image contains: GPS Plotter 1.0 GPS Plotter 1.0 ReadMe GPS Data File (some Waypoints and Routes) Boston Plot (a saved plot of the Boston area) Sample NMEA Data (example of data from a GPS receiver) June 15, 2000 [Archived as /info-mac/app/gps-plotter.hqx; 569 K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jun 2000 From: Software from Plum Island To: Subject: [*] Idea Keeper 2.0 (ik2.hqx) Idea Keeper is an Outliner, Free-Form Ddatabase & Research/Writing Tool for your Macintosh. It provides a place to do everything from storing clippings and URLs to preparing complex assemblages of documents and outlines with hypertext-like links. It can even dial your phone and remind you of important dates and times! This is a binhexed, Stuffit 5.0 archive. mailto:ideakeeper@plumisland.com http://www.plumisland.com [Archived as /info-mac/app/idea-keeper.hqx; 3151 K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jun 2000 From: Terry Teague To: Subject: [*] MacTidy v1.0b9: checks and corrects HTML and XML source When editing HTML it's easy to make mistakes. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a simple way to fix these mistakes automatically and tidy up sloppy editing into nicely layed out markup? Well now there is! Dave Raggett's HTML TIDY is a free utility for doing just that. It also works great on the atrociously hard to read markup generated by specialized HTML editors and conversion tools, and can help you identify where you need to pay further attention on making your pages more accessible to people with disabilities. Tidy is able to fix up a wide range of problems and to bring to your attention things that you need to work on yourself. Each item found is listed with the line number and column so that you can see where the problem lies in your markup. Tidy won't generate a cleaned up version when there are problems that it can't be sure of how to handle. These are logged as "errors" rather than "warnings". MacTidy is a standalone application for Mac OS designed to check and correct HTML and XML source. It is based on the freely available "tidy" program by Dave Raggett (), but has a graphical user interface (GUI). For more information on "tidy", visit the author's web site at Visit for the latest version of MacTidy. 04 Jun 00: v1.0b9 Updated to latest "tidy" source of 30 Apr 00. This version will use Temporary Memory if there is less than 250 KB of memory left available to the MacTidy application. This is the first version that has been "Carbonized" - it will run with Mac OS 8.1 and later using CarbonLib 1.0.x; or Mac OS 8.6 and later using CarbonLib 1.1; or Mac OS X. Limited testing has been done - primarily Mac OS 9.0.4 with CarbonLib 1.0.4, Mac OS 9.0.4 with CarbonLib 1.1d9, and Mac OS X (DP4). Some crashes have been observed with Mac OS X. The dialog layout spacing was improved a little so that the Aqua interface displays correctly. System Requirements: (Any Macintosh with a 68020 or better processor, any version of System software (although it has NOT been tested on anything earlier than 7.0). Regards, Terry Teague [Archived as /info-mac/text/html/mactidy-10b9.hqx; 847 K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jun 2000 From: Dennis Levesque To: Subject: [*] mathemania.hqx Mathemania is an easy-to-use application designed to allow teachers to quickly make timed math practice sheets. You simply enter the types of problems you want (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division), the range of numbers to cover, and how many per page. Mathemania will randomly generate a sheet for you! Every sheet will be different! [Archived as /info-mac/edu/yng/mathemania.hqx; 1197 K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jun 2000 From: "Bruce A. Pokras" To: Subject: [*] money2mac 1.0 - financial data conversion tool money2mac(TM) 1.0 Copr. 2000 Bruce A. Pokras All rights reserved worldwide Money2mac converts monetary transaction information that you download from your online banking service into a spreadsheet-ready file. You can easily open this file on your Mac with any spreadsheet or "works" program. Once you have your monetary transactions in a spreadsheet, you can use all of your spreadsheet's functions (such as sorting, summing, etc.) to analyze your transactions. The files that money2mac uses are ".ofc" files that are compatible with MICROSOFT MONEY. Many banks provide the option of downloading your monetary transactions in .ofc format, so now you can use them even though MICROSOFT MONEY is not available for the Mac. Requires: HyperCard(R) Player 2.3 or higher (or equivalent);a Mac having a 68030 processor or faster is preferred Shareware $5 May be registered worldwide through the Kagi payment service Brought to you by the Mac-Stacks Emporium: http://www.kagi.com/mac-stacks [Archived as /info-mac/app/bus/money-2-mac.hqx; 366 K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jun 2000 From: "Sanford H. Selznick" To: Subject: [*] MoonMenu 1.2 MoonMenu is an extension that adds a small moon in the current lunar phase to the right side of your menubar. It serves as a subtle, unobtrusive reminder that there's an entire universe out there, even without your web browser. MoonMenuü also comes with an application that can compute the lunar data for any given date. We also had an "out of this world" time writing it, and we hope you like it. MoonMenu has been tested extensively on old and new Macintoshes with MacOS 8.1 or later. It uses a minimum of your computer's CPU power so it won't slow your machine down. Be sure to visit for more information! [Archived as /info-mac/gui/moon-menu-12.hqx; 767 K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jun 2000 From: Fuminori Takeda To: Subject: [*] Nigiri-zushi (Japan) 1.1 - CULTURE INTERCHANGE Square Welcome to CULTURE INTERCHANGE Square and thank you for your interest in nigiri-zushi in Japan. This is the updated version. This program will introduce you nigiri-zushi, a popular Japanese dish. More than 40 nigiri-zushi in my homeland are introduced with their ingredients by using color images and illustrations. I ported the content to a Hypercard stack. Incidentally, if you're making culture introductory/interchange programs to post on the InfoMac archives, would you name your program's subject line with a title that conforms to the "title (your country, province, or state) - CULTURE INTERCHANGE Square" rule? For more details, please read the "CULTURE INTERCHANGE Square ?" document. This program may be copied and distributed as long as it isn't altered and is distributed at no charge, but it may not be included in any commercial package. I hope you enjoy it. Thank you, Fuminori Takeda mailto: ftakeda@ike.tottori-u.ac.jp [Archived as /info-mac/data/nigiri-zushi-11-jp.hqx; 4185 K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jun 2000 From: Panda Systems To: Subject: [*] PandoCalendar (68K) - Customizable desktop calendar for your Mac. I give permission for my program to be included on the Info-Mac CD-ROM. Abstract: PandoCalendar is a useful Mac-only program places a fully functional calendar on your desktop. The look is completely customizable. You can change the calendar font and its size, and the calendar's background color; you can center the current week (so you are always able to look back and ahead a full month at a time), display the numerical number of the weeks of the year, display the calendar with European style weeks (Monday being the first day and Sunday being the last), assign notes to any day of the year by clicking on the day in the calendar, and set alarms to remind you of time sensitive events. You can also have PandoCalendar automatically plot the days you work. Great for people who don't have a Monday-Friday work schedule! Version 5.5.1 - Added support for Weekend and Weekday to the Day of week type of recurring note. Resolved a conflict with Kaleidoscope that could cause a crash when opening the Recurring Notes window. Fixed a bug that could cause the calendar not to redraw when using a QuickView corner with Hide calendar in background enabled. Fixed a bug that could cause a Day of month type of recurring note to display in a month with fewer days than necessary if Adjust for day of week was enabled. Panda Systems [Archived as /info-mac/gui/pando-calendar-68k.hqx; 850 K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 12:59:17 -0400 From: "Scott L. Horton" To: , Info- Mac Subject: File Synchronization I haven't been following the thread (sorry), but I use a piece of shareware called Synchcronize! and it works very well, is highly customizeable and automatable and, best of all, is highly reliable. You can check it out and get a demo from www.qdea.com Good luck, SH ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 10:15:40 +1000 From: Geoffrey Heard To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: iMac Hesitation - summary At 8:32 PM -0400 21/6/00, "Quattlebaum.Bill" wrote: > >My thanks to every suggestion that came in about the hesitating iMacs. > >I will list several of the comments but the first one turned out to have >been the solution I had overlooked at the Apple support site. > > In September 1999 Apple released a CD ROM Update that fixed a >10-second pause cause when no CD was in the ROM Drive. This appears to have >fixed every iMac the patch has been applied to. See: >http://asu.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/artnum/n11129 > That's interesting, Bill. As I said, I had been having pauses on my G3 266, beige, OS9.0.4. This iMac patch doesn't appear to apply. I tried removing the energy saver control panel, and I haven't had a pause since then. I have heard my HD spinning up at apparently odd times, though. -- cheers, geoff Geoffrey Heard - GH&A Public Relations Demand Indonesia return the 100,000 East Timorese held in limbo in West Timor. Demand Indonesia pay reparations to East Timor. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 12:17:25 -0500 From: Lewis Anderson To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: MacWrite Pro 1.5v3 update no longer at Claris The Claris web site no longer is posting the update for MacWrite Pro 1.5v3. I know it's old, but it's still the cleanest word processor around. Does anyone know where else to find the updater? Thanks. Lewis Anderson lew@mobius.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:08:18 -0700 From: John Fitzgerrel To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: OS 8.6 growing I recently bought a (floor model) Blue and White G3. It came with 64MB RAM. When operating with that size of RAM the OS 8.6 showed a size of about 19MB. We installed an additional 256MB RAM bringing the total to 320MB (my wife uses Photoshop which is a RAM hog). Now with virtual memory off (the much preferred mode when using Photoshop) the system boots at 35 MB and with virtual memory off it boots at 27 MB. Worse, as we use applications the RAM used by MACOS 8.6 grows. I have seen it at 42 MB. Am I missing something in the control panels? The system has an Adaptec 2906 SCSI card (DAT, disk drive, Zip, Scanner, and Alps printer on the SCSI chain), and a Global Village modem. I have turned off a few extensions, mostly Apple printers, which bought about a MB. Any advice? Thanks John Fitzgerrel ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 17:36:03 +0200 From: Jean-Philippe Pellet To: Info-Mac Digest Subject: PowerBook CD Drive Hello, I have a PowerBook G3 and I use DVD drive that comes with it. My problem is that, when I access information on a CD, the drive spins down after about 15 seconds inactivity (it is probably designed to use few battery power). So, if I don't have to read from the CD for a while, it spins down -- and then I have to wait again till it spins up to read from it again. What I would like to do is set the spin-down time to a few minutes, so that I can avoid this annoying waiting time. Is it possible to do so? TIA, JPP -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************