Subject: Info-Mac Digest V18 #80 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Tue, 29 May 01 Volume 18 : Issue 80 Today's Topics: [*] Colibricks abstract for version 1.3 [*] Default Folder D-3.1.1 - German Open/Save dialog enhancement [*] Surfer 1.1 [*] URL Manager Pro for Mac OS X 3.0b11J - Japanese Version [*] virtual wine cellar 3.2 [*] Wealth Game [*] Web Confidential for Mac 2.2.2J - Japanese Version [*] Web Confidential for Mac OS X 3.0b2J - Japanese Version [*] Web Confidential for Palm 1.2.1J - Japanese Version [A] Auto start [A] Reading PC disks on a MAC adding an ATA100 drive to a beige G3 Applescript Problem Auto Start a Mac Filemaker advice Font coloring related print error Info-Mac Digest V18 #79 Iomega Findit for Macintosh Movie assembly Reading PC disks on a MAC Reading PC disks on a MAC Reading PC disks on a MAC screen flicker from nearby equipment Sorenson video compression supported by web plug-ins? 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The goal of the game is to destroy all bricks using one or more balls. Unlike other brick games, it features accurate ball behaviour, using very precise physical laws. Balls bounce off corners correctly, and even bounce with each other. And instead of boring horizontal grids, Colibricks features rotated bricks, even making circles and spirals with them. Graphics are antialiased with beautiful backgrounds. Of course, it's also a lot of fun. With special kinds of bricks that activate special effects or spawn prize balloons. Balls can grow or shrink to any size. The demo lets you play 6 levels of various difficulties. After registering, you'll get access to all 50 levels. [Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/colibricks-13.hqx; 8 K] ------------------------------ Date: 29 May 2001 From: Jon Gotow To: Subject: [*] Default Folder D-3.1.1 - German Open/Save dialog enhancement This is the latest version of Default Folder, localized for German-speaking users by Christoph Sahm. Default Folder D-3.1.1 should replace any previous German-language versions of Default Folder in the archives. Default Folder is a Mac OS 9.1 and OS X Classic savvy control panel that enhances Open and Save dialog boxes to make it easier for you to manage files on your Macintosh. It provides many of the essential features of commercial utilities like Action Files, SuperBoomerang, and Directory Assistance, but without the infrequently used extras that take their toll in compatibility, memory, and CPU usage. In addition, Default Folder fully supports the Navigation Services Open and Save dialogs available in Mac OS 8.5 and higher, allowing you to access your recently used and favorite folders everywhere. What's New ---------- Version 3.1.1 includes compatibility improvements for Adobe Acrobat 5, Photoshop 6.0.1, and Omnis databases. In addition, there are fixes for cmd-up-arrow not working in Navigation Services dialogs under Mac OS 8.6, "Click on greyed-out filenames" getting disabled in Navigation Services save dialogs, and truncated Get Info comments in Default Folder's Get Info window. Full details are available at: More About Default Folder ------------------------- Default Folder's time-saving Open and Save dialog enhancements allow you to: - Set up a default folder for any or all applications. - Switch among recently used folders from a pop-up menu. - Easily navigate to your favorite folders. - Share common sets of recent and favorite folders between all Open and Save dialogs, including Navigation Services dialogs. - Click on a Finder window to list its contents in an Open or Save dialog. - See available disk space and switch between disks from a pop-up menu. - Open the folder shown in an Open or Save dialog in the Finder. - Create folders, get information (including changing name, type, and creator), and move items to the Trash from within file dialogs. - "Rebound" back to the last file you used. - Make "Replace" the default option instead of "Cancel" when saving a file with the same name as an existing file. ********** ABSTRACT CROPPED ********** [Archived as /info-mac/gui/default-folder-311-de.hqx; 1144 K] ------------------------------ Date: 26 May 2001 From: John Rethorst To: Subject: [*] Surfer 1.1 Load any number of URLs automatically, some daily and others just on certain days of the week. Supports any number of sets of bookmarks. Works with all major browsers. Applescript easy to update for OS X. Free. New in version 1.1: drop a URL list to load it. Press Command key to change web browsers. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/surfer-11.hqx; 133 K] ------------------------------ Date: 25 May 2001 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] URL Manager Pro for Mac OS X 3.0b11J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the URL Manager Pro on OS X package. "In the shareware arena, my pick is URL Manager" - Adam C. Engst "You have got me addicted" - Henry Norr, San Francisco Chronicle "A must have for serious Web users" - Tucows rating: 5 out of 5 "It's a polished, professional-standard application packed with useful features, neat shortcuts and quality design. Brilliant." - MacFormat UK. URL Manager Pro is a repository for your favorite Internet addresses or URLs (Uniform Resource Locators). URL Manager Pro allows you to organize and collect URLs in a hierarchical structure. Organizing bookmarks between and within folders is easy with Drag & Drop. Drag HyperText links from your Web Browser to the URL Manager Pro window to add a URL to the repository. To go to a URL, Drag & Drop a bookmark to the window of a Web Browser or double click. URL Manager Pro adds tight integration with Navigator, Explorer, iCab, Anarchie, Fetch, NetFinder, Claris Emailer, Outlook Express and Eudora. With URL Manager Pro you can add bookmark menus to the menu bar of these applications. Also, URL Manager Pro adds the URL Manager shared icon menu to the menu bar. With this menu you can create bookmarks for Web Pages from --within-- Navigator, Explorer, iCab, Add Notes, Grab All URLs on a Web Page or in an E-Mail message, and explore the Internet with a predefined set of Search Engines. This is a preview version of URL Manager Pro on X. This is not the final release. Some features are missing or not working correctly: a) Printing b) Sherlock support Requirements: Mac OS X or Mac OS 8.6 or 9.x with CarbonLib 1.1. However, please use URL Manager Pro 2.x on Mac OS 8 or 9. Note: this version expires on July 24, 2001 [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/urlmpro-osx-30b11-jp.hqx; 1702 K] ------------------------------ Date: 28 May 2001 From: Info To: Subject: [*] virtual wine cellar 3.2 virtual wine cellar 3.2 http://www.rootsolutions.de/vwc/ PPC, OS 8.1 or later (68K version available) virtual wine cellar helps you track your inventory. It keeps you informed about stock and history, shows the current value of your wine collection, keeps track of your suppliers, and gives you the option of ordering directly from within wine cellar. Order forms can be customized for any language. Key features: *intuitive, point and click interface. *fields for wine name, country, appellation, grape, year, maturity, etc. in logical grouping. *summaries for number of bottles, total cost, market value, and appreciation. *automatic reminders for wines that reached/passed maturity. *easy order - order directly from within virtual wine cellar. *extensive finding and sorting functions. *displays your own rating both numerically and graphically. *import function for scanned wine labels. *optimized print form. *report function for further editing in your favourite word processor. *extensive, context-sensitive on-line help. [Archived as /info-mac/data/virtual-wine-cellar-32.hqx; 2690 K] ------------------------------ Date: 24 May 2001 From: Harley N Bradley To: Subject: [*] Wealth Game This is a game that is fun and entertaining. The idea is to try to retire a millionaire. Be careful !!! You might just learn what the rich teach their young about how easy it is to develop wealth. The principles are all here in the game. GOOD LUCK Harley Bradley nomsdos@en.com [Archived as /info-mac/game/wealth.hqx; 1635 K] ------------------------------ Date: 27 May 2001 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] Web Confidential for Mac 2.2.2J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the Web Confidential for Mac OS package. Web Confidential is an intuitive, easy-to-use program for managing user IDs, passwords, registration numbers, and the like. While Web Confidential is suitable for a wide variety of personal data, from credit card numbers to serial numbers, Alco Blom designed Web Confidential particularly for the World Wide Web in mind. "Increasing numbers of Web sites maintain some form of user registration," points out Blom. "You may not realize it, but in the course of time you may registered at a couple of dozen sites. Do you remember the passwords you entered for all of them?" Web Confidential allows Web surfers to store URLs, user IDs, and passwords in one secure location. Web Confidential can automate the process of logging into a password-secured Web page by automatically passing URL, user ID, and password to your Web browser. For opening pages containing personal account information at commercial sites, Web Confidential allows you to automatically fill in WWW Forms with user ID and password fields. To ensure the personal information stored in Web Confidential remains confidential, the program's password files can be encrypted using state-of-the-art encryption technology. Changes in version 2.2.2 Included is a new version of the Conduit which fixes the occurrence of duplicate records, which would appear when synching your handheld with two different Macs. These items are new in the application: *Shortcut Command-Backspace for the Delete Card command. *Added an 'Encrypt' command to the File menu. *Minor bug fixes. *Web Confidential files are now binary-cross platform with the Windows application. *Import command. You can import tab delimited text files. *A new preference to show the passwords as text instead of bullets. *The Conduit for use with the Palm application has been rewritten to accomodate the new file format. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/webcon-222-jp.hqx; 1233 K] ------------------------------ Date: 27 May 2001 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] Web Confidential for Mac OS X 3.0b2J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the Web Confidential for Mac OS X package. This is the preview (beta) version of the Mac OS X package. Web Confidential is an intuitive, easy-to-use program for managing user IDs, passwords, registration numbers, and the like. While Web Confidential is suitable for a wide variety of personal data, from credit card numbers to serial numbers, Alco Blom designed Web Confidential particularly for the World Wide Web in mind. "Increasing numbers of Web sites maintain some form of user registration," points out Blom. "You may not realize it, but in the course of time you may registered at a couple of dozen sites. Do you remember the passwords you entered for all of them?" Web Confidential allows Web surfers to store URLs, user IDs, and passwords in one secure location. Web Confidential can automate the process of logging into a password-secured Web page by automatically passing URL, user ID, and password to your Web browser. For opening pages containing personal account information at commercial sites, Web Confidential allows you to automatically fill in WWW Forms with user ID and password fields. To ensure the personal information stored in Web Confidential remains confidential, the program's password files can be encrypted using state-of-the-art encryption technology. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/webcon-osx-30b2-jp.hqx; 1690 K] ------------------------------ Date: 27 May 2001 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] Web Confidential for Palm 1.2.1J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the Web Confidential for Palm OS package (Mac OS version). "Web Confidential is easy to use, secure, and well-integrated" - Adam C. Engst, TidBITS (Web Confidential for Mac review) Web Confidential is an intuitive, easy-to-use program for managing user IDs, passwords, registration numbers, and the like. While Web Confidential is suitable for a wide variety of personal data, from credit card numbers to serial numbers, Alco Blom designed Web Confidential particularly for the World Wide Web in mind. "Increasing numbers of Web sites maintain some form of user registration," points out Blom. "You may not realize it, but in the course of time you may registered at a couple of dozen sites. Do you remember the passwords you entered for all of them?" Web Confidential allows Web surfers to store URLs, user IDs, and passwords in one secure location. To ensure the personal information stored in Web Confidential remains confidential, the program's password files can be encrypted using state-of-the-art encryption technology. Web Confidential for Palm is a solution to keep your data secure while you travel with your Palm and need access to your confidential data. Web Confidential for Palm is supplied with a Macintosh Conduit, so that you can synchronize your data with your Mac. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/webcon-palm-mac-121-jp.hqx; 419 K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 20:33:39 +0100 From: DssW Support To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: [A] Auto start > Other than the unreliable Energy Saver control panel, is there a way > to get a G4 to start up and shut down at given times? I currently use > Sleeper because the Mac Energy Saver won't wake up when the computer > goes to sleep. However, Sleeper does not have the capability of auto > start a Mac. Any ideas? Our product, DssW Power Manager, includes the ability to automatically start up, shut down, wake up and sleep your Macintosh. Yours sincerely, DssW Support -- support@dssw.co.uk Powerful Macintosh Software Dragon Systems Software Limited (DssW) http://www.dssw.co.uk/support/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 22:04:17 +0200 From: Hans Rudolf Schelling To: digest@info-mac.org, Arthur Snoke Subject: [A] Reading PC disks on a MAC Arthur Snoke wrote: >I have CDs written on a PC with files that, on the PC, were not >restricted to the 8.3 DOS naming convention. Example: index.html. >When I look at the CD on a MAC (or on Unix), it portrays the 8.3 >naming convention. Example, index.html becomes INDEX-1.HTM. >I want to have the longer file names appear when I bring up the CD >on any platform. >[...] >My question is if there might be a solution either in how the CD is >burned or adding utilities to the Mac. The solution might be the "Joliet Volume Access" extension, freeware by Thomas Tempelmann, . Hope that helps! -- Hans ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 21:44:05 -0400 From: William Beckett To: Neil Fiertel Subject: adding an ATA100 drive to a beige G3 I have a Beige G3 300 desktop and have replaced my drive. First I went to the Accelerate Your Mac web site , read a couple of articles and decided that "you can do this". I never had opened up my Mac up to this time. I went to uBid auction site and bought a "Maxtor Diamondmax Plus60 60GB ATA-100 IDE HDD" for $189 plus shipping. This is the 7200 RPM version which has a faster access and should be better for running the system. I backed up everything on the 6GB drive. Then I opened up my Mac for the first time, found everything where I expected it to be and replaced the hard drive with the Maxtor. I set the drive to be a master. Total time spent in doing all the work was about a half hour. This included opening and closing up the Mac. I started up my Mac from a CD and there was the 60 GB icon mounted on the desktop. I partitioned it into eight segments and restored my backup with no problem. There was none of this nonsense regarding what Western told you. I used the Apple Hard Drive Setup program for partitioning and everything worked fine. I had a number of false starts and repeats regarding setting up the hard drive because I was educating myself regarding what I really wanted. Everything is running fine. I call it a positive experience. Best of luck Bill If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kick boxing. >Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 10:03:33 -0600 >From: Neil Fiertel >To: digest@info-mac.org >Subject: adding an ATA100 drive to a beige G3 > >I want to install a larger hard drive in a first generation G3 >minitower beige which means replacing the 6 gig boot-up drive as it >cannot be run as a master/slave in this model. I found a very large >and fast Western Digital EIDE ATA100 drive which the company says is >Mac compatible. They also said that I would have to install it first >on a PC in order to run the Windows only utility to reset the drive >to run as an ATA66 unit. Does anyone know if this could be done in >some other way using Virtual PC on an external scsi drive, setting >the utilities on the drive and carrying on or am I stuck having to >find a PC and go through what seems to be an onerous install-reset >and uninstall and then a Mac install of the drive. If that is the >case, Western Digital is missing the boat on selling to Mac users. >Any ideas would be welcome. Please email me at nfiertel@ualberta.ca >if you have some brilliant suggestions or personal experience with >this. >-- > Neil Fiertel > > Email: > nfiertel@ualberta.ca or nfiertel@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca > > The opinions expressed are mine alone. > > "THE EYE EXISTS IN A WILD STATE. THE ARTIST KNOWS NO OTHER." > Andre Breton ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 20:27:30 -0500 From: "Clare N. Shumway" (by way of Hugh Lewis) To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Applescript Problem I'm running OS 8.6 on a Blue&White G3 and am unable to write scripts using Applescript. The error report states "Could not compile the script because the dialect is not available." The following items are present and loaded: AppleScript extension v 1.3.7; AppleScriptLib 1.2.2; English Dialect v 1.3.6; in System folder there is a Scripting Additions Folder that contains among other things AppleScript Dictionaryè and a sub-folder containing English dialect v 1.1.2, French Dialect v 1.1 and Japanese Dialect v 1.1. Script Editor is version 1.1.2 and Scriptable Text Editor 1.1. I've tried changing and these items from my backup disks but this did not correct the problem. I tried to find Applescript items on the OS 8.5 and 8.6 CD's but could not locate them. The Apple web site lists only an update for OS 9.0. Is there any way for me to go short of reinstalling the whole system? Clare Shumway ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 07:04:13 -0500 From: "Erica W. Hunter" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Auto Start a Mac Egidio, Check out a product called PowerKey at: It sounds like it might do what you want. The Classic version is selling at a discounted $35 right now. Sam M. Hunter smhdvm@ldd.net > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [Q] Auto start > Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 16:12:01 -0500 > From: Egidio Leitao > To: Info Mac > > Other than the unreliable Energy Saver control panel, is there a way to get > a G4 to start up and shut down at given times? I currently use Sleeper > because the Mac Energy Saver won't wake up when the computer goes to sleep. > However, Sleeper does not have the capability of auto start a Mac. Any > ideas? > > -- > Eg*dio > > "Que essa fonte que ninguëm nunca bebeu ë toda sua" (Aparecida Silvino) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 07:59:25 -0400 From: Nick Pappas To: Subject: Filemaker advice Is there an e-mail forum where one can ask questions about using Claris Filemaker? And just in case anyone in this forum can help, I want to print labels for my ice cream packages and am trying to figure out how to print a page of identical labels (i.e all one flavor of ice cream) when my database of flavors has one record for each flavor. In other words, I am trying to force data from the same record to print 6 labels for that flavor on one page. The manual (version 4) doesn't cover this point. Nick Pappas Lizzy's Ice Cream ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 09:57:34 +0900 From: fons@etl.go.jp To: BusMac@lists.themacintoshguy.com Subject: Font coloring related print error First off let me say this is a really strange problem. The system is as below System 9.1 (Japanese) G3 Blue & White 500 MHz, 1 GB RAM, standard internal ATA, external 1 GB Jaz New standard system install Here is the background. I ungraded a G3 to system 9.1 from 8.5. First I updated the firmware with some difficulty (the internal disk system had died - hence the sudden upgrade) via a system installed on an external Jaz drive. In the end, I did get the confirmation tone of the firmware upgrade and system 9.1 was happy to install. After the upgrade, I copied the relevant initial settings files from the old system (broken) system folder along with a few (non-apple) necessary extensions. In particular I copied Adobe's printer driver library and AdobePS. The new system worked fine - printing also worked fine, but a strange error message popped up everytime a print was initialed with Adobe's drivers saying there was not enough memory to proceed. If the message was acknowledged everything still printed fine. The user of the machine was happy. This continued for a month. Of course, I thought there is a problem, I'll just install the new Adobe PS driver and fix the error message. I downloaded the latest adobe PS driver from www.adobe.co.jp (all software is the japanese version in this discussion) and installed it. While the error message about insufficient memory went away, the user found that japanese characters (kanji 16 bit code) characters showed up as blank space on printouts, but english characters printed just fine. A little fiddling and I discovered that if the print option was set to black and white, all characters printed (kanji and english) while if color or gray scale was set, only english characters showed up. The tempting conclusion is that the 16 bit characters (worldscript II) were being set to white. The user in question is quite unhappy as we have a color printer and he needs to use color for presentations etc.. This problem happens for all applications. What I tried: I tried swiching to laserwriter 8 drivers, no change; I installed a new system (new system install from the 9.1 CD) and used laserwriter 8, no change, I installed a new system on to a Jaz cartridge on another machine and attempted to print using laserwriter 8, no change; I reset the open firmware, no change; I reset the pram (I was getting desperate), no change; I printed to another printer (original was a Tektronix 740, tried a Xerox DP400), no change. I am out of ideas. Any help. What I can't understand is how a new system install can't fisx the problem. Is it possible this is a firmware issue? I am not subscribed to the list (yet), so please if you have any ideas or similar experiences, send me an email to fons (at) etl.go.jp. Thanks. Paul Fons in Japan, Advanced Institute for Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 17:23:58 -0700 From: William Rausch To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Info-Mac Digest V18 #79 > >Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 10:03:33 -0600 >From: Neil Fiertel >Subject: adding an ATA100 drive to a beige G3 > >I want to install a larger hard drive in a first generation G3 >minitower beige which means replacing the 6 gig boot-up drive as it >cannot be run as a master/slave in this model. I found a very large >and fast Western Digital EIDE ATA100 drive which the company says is >Mac compatible. They also said that I would have to install it first >on a PC in order to run the Windows only utility to reset the drive >to run as an ATA66 unit. Does anyone know if this could be done in >some other way using Virtual PC on an external scsi drive, setting >the utilities on the drive and carrying on or am I stuck having to >find a PC and go through what seems to be an onerous install-reset >and uninstall and then a Mac install of the drive. If that is the >case, Western Digital is missing the boat on selling to Mac users. >Any ideas would be welcome. Please email me at nfiertel@ualberta.ca >if you have some brilliant suggestions or personal experience with >this. A while ago, I bought a 20 gig Maxtor and just plugged it in to my desktop beige G3/233 in place of the 4 gig original. There wasn't anything necessary to set or reset; just used Apple's disk formatting software and away we went. I ended up selling the 4 gig drive to a PC user who replaced an older 1 gig drive with it. -- --- Bill Rausch, Mac, Unix, Windows Programmer _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 11:46:42 -0400 From: "Brian Whitney" To: Subject: Iomega Findit for Macintosh Dear Sirs, I am in dier need of Iomega Findit software utility for the macintosh. I know that in the mid to late 90's it shipped with the tools disk. However, I don't see anything even close to relating to this little utility even on Iomega's website. Can you help. Do you know where I can get a copy of this on disk? It is great software. Thanks for your help. Brian C. Whitney BWhitney@mail.eastland.k12.oh.us Brian C. Whitney Eastland Career Center (614) 836-4521 ext. 339 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 19:56:42 -0500 From: Pepper & Joe To: Subject: Movie assembly I recently downloaded a movie that is in several parts and of an unknown type. Can anyone tell me how to assemble the movie and once assembled, is it a "realplayer" movie if the extensions are all r00, r01, r02 . . . rxx. Thanks for any help sent my way ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 10:56:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Arthur Snoke To: Matti Haveri Subject: Reading PC disks on a MAC Thanks for the suggestion. I include my experience -- mostly positive -- in case anyone else might be interested in this. I downloaded and installed the extension for Joliet 1.4.1. It was mostly successful. 1. For CDs written using Windows 2000 EZ CD CCREATOR it did indeed expand the file names as desired. The only problem was that it did not recongnize index.html as any kind of file. INDEX.HTM was interpreted as a text file. Dragging either into IE worked fine. Also, linking from one html file to another worked fine. I had a Unix zzz.tar.gz file which it displayed correctly and Stuffit Expander knew how to unzip and de-tar. 2. I have another CD written from an Intel-Linux machine using xcdroast with the unix-rick-ridge format. Without the Joliet extension, it actually worked fine on the mac, except that it did not understand the filetype for index.html and it suppressed the gz in zzz.tar.gz so that my links to it from within a web page could not find the file. However, stuffit expander still knew what to do with it. With the Joliet extension I got exactly the same effects on one disk, but another refused to open even though it had before and does still on another G4 OS8.9 mac which does not have the Joliet extension. On Thu, 24 May 2001, Matti Haveri wrote: > Arthur Snoke : > > > I have CDs written on a PC with files that, on the PC, were not > > restricted to the 8.3 DOS naming convention. Example: index.html. When I > > look at the CD on a MAC (or on Unix), it portrays the 8.3 naming > > convention. Example, index.html becomes INDEX~1.HTM. > > > > I want to have the longer file names appear > > Try Joliet Volume Access . ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 16:00:12 +0200 From: "Andre' van der Ham" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Reading PC disks on a MAC For presenting long file names on the mac, please have a look at: http://www.macwindows.com/disks.html The macwindows site is a valuable resource for Mac vs. Win issues. Best regards, Andre' van der Ham. http://digester.et.tudelft.nl/frames/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 12:30:19 +0300 From: Matti Haveri To: digest@info-mac.org, Arthur Snoke Subject: Reading PC disks on a MAC Arthur Snoke : > I have CDs written on a PC with files that, on the PC, were not > restricted to the 8.3 DOS naming convention. Example: index.html. When I > look at the CD on a MAC (or on Unix), it portrays the 8.3 naming > convention. Example, index.html becomes INDEX-1.HTM. > > I want to have the longer file names appear Try Joliet Volume Access . It is functionally a replacement for Apple's ISO 9660 File Access extension, with the following advantages over Apple's: * Supports Joliet and ISO 9660 Level 3 formats * Uses Internet Config's File Mappings * Browses directories faster * Supports PBCatSearch, thus making searches using Sherlock (aka Find File) on ISO or Joliet formatted disks much faster. * If a file name is longer than 31 characters, you can still see the full name in the comments field of the Finder's Information window. * Folder view is "as List" instead of "as Icons", which makes ISO CDs more pleasant to browse. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 19:11:27 -0400 From: ngpappas To: "digest@info-mac.org" Subject: screen flicker from nearby equipment Since installing my DSL Router, I have had quite a bit of flicker on my 18" monitor that sits about 12" from the router. It is not convenient to move the router or the monitor. I ASSUME the problem is due to the router. Is there any easy solution (like some shielding around something)? It is REALLY inconvenient to move the router. Nick Pappas ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 00:24:14 +0100 From: Pedro Ferraz de Abreu To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Sorenson video compression supported by web plug-ins? Sorenson video compression supported by web plug-ins? I am impressed with the quality of sorenson video compression, when using my quicktime player pro version 5. However, I am afraid to use it when compressing videos for CD-ROM delivery, for playing based on web browser embeded pages (like explorer or netscape); since I don't know if computers only with the quicktime web plug-in (meaning without a quicktime system extension) allow users to play those sorenson-compressed videos. While most Mac OS based computers will have a quicktime extension, most (or all?) windows machines will have to rely only on that web plug in. Will it be enough? what kind of restrictions must I consider , if using sorenson compression? I tried every where on apple sites and docs, and they allways refer back to you on these question. Thank you for any useful information. Pedro Ferraz de Abreu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 19:25:43 +0100 From: Ezra Nathan To: Info-Mac digest Subject: What's happened to PureMac Hello> I've been updating many things in the past by checking the PureMac site now and again () but it hasn't been updated since April 19th. I sent a message of enquiry but received no reply. Does anyone know what's happened to it? Are they all on holiday? It would be a pity if that site disappeared. > Ezra Nathan -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************