Subject: Info-Mac Digest V18 #11 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Thu, 18 Jan 01 Volume 18 : Issue 11 Today's Topics: (Q) Stickies Window Hack? [repost] [*] FileBuddy 6.0.3 - Japanese Version [*] Smart Scroll 3.7.1J - Japanese Version [*] SwitchRes 2.5J - Japanese Version [Q]Redundant software on info-Mac? Hayes 56k + Fax Updater Info-Mac digest and Eudora Information Transfer (R) Laserwriter 16/600 & PoerBook G3 Screen capture where to post message? 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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Now collapse it and it will return to the last location it was in the collapsed position and the next time you open it it will return to the last position it was in when in its open state. Joseph Pilon ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jan 2001 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] FileBuddy 6.0.3 - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the FileBuddy package. File Buddy is quite simply the most powerful and popular high-level file utility available for your Macintosh. File Buddy 6 requires a PowerPC-based Macintosh with System 7.6 or later. If your system does not meet these requirements, you may be able to use File Buddy 5. *View and edit a wide range of file and folder information in the info window. *Create droplet applications that automatically apply changes to items dropped on them, including the contents of folders. *Find files and folders using an extensive set of search criteria. Enhance file searches with plug-ins that extend file search capabilities. Conveniently perform a wide variety of actions on found items. Make File Buddy your default file finding application using the File Buddy CP control panel. *Modify the names of multiple files at once. For example, remove ".txt" from the names of a group of files. *Much, much more... Changes: *File Buddy now displays an alert if an error is encountered while displaying the online help, and adds the option to move the File Buddy Help folder to the system's Help folder in addition to copying it. Fixes: *The custom install to install only the File Buddy application would not install all of the online help. Fixed. *Erasing unused space on large volumes could still cause File Buddy to hang. Fixed better. *Check Aliases could report one good alias as unattached. Fixed. *The Connect button in the Unattached Aliases window was not relocating when the alias list was resized. Fixed. *The View Icon Family window no longers draws 1-bit icons in the spaces for 32-bit icons if 32-bit icons are not supported. *Expanding the list of disks in the Find window could cause a crash. Fixed. *Information in the File Buddy CP control panel has been updated. *A few people have reported that File Buddy crashes when they try to use the desktop rebuilding command. We believe what may be happening is a hang that results from a process that will not quit. That code has been rewritten to prevent hanging if a process won't quit, and it no longer tries to get background processes to quit. [Archived as /info-mac/disk/file-buddy-603-jp.hqx; 1555 K] ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jan 2001 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] Smart Scroll 3.7.1J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the Smart Scroll package. Smart Scroll: Scrolling speed control, Proportional scrollbar tabs and Live scrolling. Smart Scroll allows setting a comfortable Scrolling Speed in all situations and for all Mac models. Users of fast G3 and G4 Macs may now select text past the edge of a window before it speeds by, as well as navigate long menus with ease! And while Apple's "Smart Scrolling" concerns mostly the Finder, the original Smart Scroll brings Proportional Thumbs and Live Scrolling to applications such as Netscape, Emailer, AppleWorks, Word, and most system add-ons such as control panels. Version 3.7.1 adds support for Mac OS 9.1, runs under Mac OS X's Classic, and fixes a few minor issues. Smart Scroll runs on Mac OS 9.1 and previous versions (going back to System 7.0). It is shareware, so you can try it for free then buy only if you like it. Registered users of previous versions may upgrade for free. [Archived as /info-mac/gui/smart-scroll-371-jp.hqx; 230 K] ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jan 2001 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] SwitchRes 2.5J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the SwitchRes package. Rated 5 Cows by Tucows (highest rating)! SwitchRes is a little utility that will allow you to switch the resolution of all your monitors. You can access to all the resolutions of all your displays in a simple, customizable menu. SwitchRes incorporates features from the Monitor Resolution, Monitor BitDepth, and Video Mirroring Control Strip Modules bundled with your system. You can use its menu in the Menu Bar, use its provided Control Strip Module, or click on the Finder Desktop with its Contextual Menu Plugin. SwitchRes has an extensive list of features: *You can show and use all available resolutions of your video card, not just those limited by your monitor. For example, 20 video modes are available on my PowerMac 7300 internal video board. Enjoy your Apple 15" monitor in 1024 x 768, or 640 x 480 in 120Hz ! *SwitchRes is totally configurable. You can define which resolutions are really accessible, and which will require a confirmation. × *You can also create display sets which will allow you to change the resolution and the depth of all your monitors with just one mouse click, or just one key. With this new version, you can add scripts to display sets. That gives SwitchRes the ability to launch a script with just one key, or when an application is launched... *You can assign a specific set to an application, so that every time you use this application, your Mac will automatically switch to your predefined resolutions. You will find this extremely useful for most games. × *You can save the position of the icons and the windows on your desktop, independently from one resolution to the other, unlike the Finder. The configuration is restored at startup. *You can script SwitchRes for resolutions and color depth changes. SwitchRes is even recordable: When SwitchRes is running, every resolution change is automatically recorded in the script editor [Archived as /info-mac/gui/switch-res-25-jp.hqx; 674 K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 07:41:15 -0500 From: Vincent Cayenne To: The Info-Mac Network Subject: [Q]Redundant software on info-Mac? At 10:36 PM -0800 1/14/01, you (prosoul@dimensionarc.com) wrote: > > >>>I was just wondering why there seems to be so much redundant software > >>on info-mac? > > >>Trying to make a better mouse-trap??What if Apple said"Adobe has the >>film editing field sewn up with Premiere and After Effects,why >>bother with Final Cut Pro?" > >Ok, sure, but what I am trying to say is the redundant software I >have found on Info-Mac that I am talking about is inferior to the >other software available! >How can you build a better moustrap if you don't bother to find out >how the original moustrap is built? One man's meat/poison... 1. Sometimes what might seem to be an inferior product might represent a different, ultimately worthwhile approach. 2. One thousand pieces of junk may be uploaded and then one gem is found amid them. 3. The confidence to expose coding or pose answers may reinforce and encourage the efforts of a budding programmer. Don't stifle 'em. 4. The willingness to invite peer review is a _good thing_. 5. "inferior" is an opinion probably unsupported by the programmer in question. But his over-inflated view of his own coding would remain unchanged in the absence of user feedback (or the feedback implicit in a total lack of interest in the product). 6. A piece of "inferior" software may include one feature that can be incorporated and expanded upon by the developer of one of a _superior_ app. 7. Finding out "how the original moustrap is built" can destroy the clean-room approach to solving a problem. None of the above are written in stone. It's just that _sometimes_ the approach that leads to what you consider to be inferior CAN lead to something better, or different. And then that one item is worth oodles and oodles of the junk that went before... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:23:28 -0800 From: Richard To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Hayes 56k + Fax Updater My ISP changed servers recently. Now I can't connect to their roam numbers. Need this updater. FILE NAME: V1120MAC.SEA.HQX For Macintosh ACCURA modems with version 0.519 firmware. Is Hayes 56K Beta Firmware: This beta code allows a K56Flex Hayes client modem to be interoperable with all Rockwell-based and Lucent-based K56Flex servers, providing that the servers are also running code that complies with the K56Flex 1.1 specification. Hayes is bankrupt and Zoom says they did not purchase any Macintosh updaters from Hayes, only Windows. (!) So, if anyone has this file laying around, could you send it? Thanx. Richard... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 21:17:36 -0500 From: Saint John To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Info-Mac digest and Eudora At 10:33 -0500 1/16/01, Glen Hawkins wrote: >Something that annoys me and I cannot work out why it is happening. >Info-mac digest comes to me in a contents page and then an attached >eudora file that I can open up like any normal e-mail file with the >actual messages listed. But after this has happened I see that Eudora >then has placed a new mailbox entry into my menu bar of the issue of >info-mac digest. It is the only program that does this and it stuffs >up my mailboxes regularly. Can I get a rid of the mode that is doing >this? Sure. In the "Settings" window, "Attachments" panel, uncheck the box labelled "Receive digests as MIME attachments." If I'm remembering correctly, that should do it. +- Saint John -+ | "The Posby goes into a trance | +-- In which it does a little dance." (E. Gorey) --------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 12:24:49 +0100 From: christian001213@rumantsch.ch (Christian F Buser) To: burtpres@netins.net (Roland & Jodi Emond) Subject: Information Transfer (R) Roland & Jodi Emond wrote: > I have been using a Power Mac 7200/90; and recently purchased an Imac > DVD SE (500 MHz). Is there a way I can connect the two via a network > cable to transfer about three years worth of infomation without going > through the trouble of downloading everything on a Zip drive. You need a cross-over ethernet cable (I think the 7200 has Ethernet!) and probably a transceiver from AAUI to 10base-T. Then just use filesharing to mount one drive on the other computer. Christian. -- Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) Look at Korruption ist die Autobahn neben dem Dienstweg (H. Nahr). ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:57:11 -0500 From: "John Hutchens" To: Subject: Laserwriter 16/600 & PoerBook G3 I am looking for a way to use my Apple Laserwriter 16/600 with my PowerBook G3. I considered a USB to Serial adapter but found that the adapters on the market (do far as I know) will not connect to the LaserWriter. Keyspan tells me that that the reason is that this printer supports Localtalk, a proprietary Apple protocol. What would you recommend to make my machines work together? John Hutchens Director Arts and Sciences 252-321-4383 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:51:05 +0100 From: Rik Steuperaert To: "'digest@info-mac.org'" Subject: Screen capture Hello, I'm looking for software to capture my movenments on te screen into a quicktime movie. A bit like adobe uses to make their tutorial movies. Can someone help me rik steuperaert rik@sagam.be ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 12:31:04 -0500 From: Wendy Farkas To: Subject: where to post message? First, thanks for this resource from which I've learned so much and downloaded so many fine things over the years. The 90 day warranty on my G3/400 (OS9.1) PowerBook has just ended (of course), and I can't figure out why most of the time it wakes from sleep just fine, but when asleep for longer periods, it doesn't wake up. I'm pursuing Apple's Technical Note #58645, "USB Enabled Macintosh: Troubleshooting Sleep Issues", but in case that doesn't provide the solution, I'm trying to figure out where to post some requests for help. Here's your chance to tell someone where to go... is this more likely a hardware thing? OS? should I just find a general PowerBook list? Thanks in advance, -- Wendy Farkas farkasw@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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