Subject: Info-Mac Digest V18 #63 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Tue, 17 Apr 01 Volume 18 : Issue 63 Today's Topics: [*] Extension Overload v5.8 [*] Refill Maker v1.1.0 [*] TidBITS#576/16-Apr-01 [*] Tile-iT 2.7.0 Info-Mac Digest V18 #62 Must CDROM remain as Slave? These TidBITS go to eleven 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 . 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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 V18 #63" ------------------------------ Date: 17 Apr 2001 From: Teng Chou Ming To: Subject: [*] Extension Overload v5.8 Extension Overload is an extensions, control panels, control strip modules and contextual menus management application. It offers detail information of 4430 extensions and control panels, control strip modules and contextual menu items in your system. It also lets you activate and deactivate them, so that you can always easily tailor your system to your current requirements. In addition, Extension Overload includes a useful collection of helpful information and tidbits. Extension Overload require a 601 or newer processor with 2 MB of free RAM. System 7 to Mac OS 9.1 are supported. The official homepage for Extension Overload is http://www.ExtensionOverload.com [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/extension-overload-58.hqx; 1455 K] ------------------------------ Date: 17 Apr 2001 From: Takashi Suzuki To: Subject: [*] Refill Maker v1.1.0 Do you buy dated refill every year? Don't you feel them expensive? With "Refill Maker", there's no need to buy them any more! Refill Maker is an application for the Macintosh which allows you to print these 15 kind refills for 6-hole bible-size or pocket-size (81 x 126mm) binder : - Calendar 1 : 1 year / 1 page - Calendar 2 : 3 years / 1 page - Yearly : 1 year / 1 page - Monthly 1 : 1 month / 2 pages (Calendar Type) - Monthly 2 : 1 month / 2 pages (Column Type) - Monthly 3 : 1 month / 2 pages (Mono-width Calendar Type with vertical scedule) - Weekly 1 : 1 week / 2 pages (Notes on right pages) - Weekly 2 : 2 week / 2 pages - Weekly 3 : 1 week / 2 pages - Daily : 1 day / 1 page - Notes : Notes - Section : Section - Score : for music score - Address : 6 guys / 1 page - To Do : 16 pcs / 1 page What's changed in v1.1.0: - May crash when you close some window -> fixed. Features : - You can create/edit holiday files. - Fat Binary. - Navigation Services aware. (PowerPC only) This application requires : - Macintosh with 68020 or higher / PowerPC - System7 + QuickTime or System7.1 or later - Printer -- T.Suzuki [Archived as /info-mac/prn/refill-maker-110.hqx; 398 K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 22:00:00 -0700 From: TidBITS Editors To: digest@info-mac.org, mac-l@sparky.listmoms.net, Subject: [*] TidBITS#576/16-Apr-01 TidBITS#576/16-Apr-01 Eleven years - has it really been that long since we started TidBITS? Adam looks back at what's changed and what's remained the same in the Macintosh industry. Dr. Ron Risley concludes his article on communicating with your doctor via email with thoughts about minimizing the risks of using electronic communications. We also cover the important releases of Mac OS X 10.0.1 and the public beta of Retrospect Client for Mac OS X. Topics: MailBITS/16-Apr-01 What's Up, eDoc? Emailing Your Doctor, Part 2 TidBITS Goes to Eleven [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-576.etx; 32K] ------------------------------ Date: 17 Apr 2001 From: appajt@nbnet.nb.ca (appajt) To: Subject: [*] Tile-iT 2.7.0 Tile-iT Icons is an application that use the custom Icons of System 7.X to display pictures or text on the desktop or in any windows. Tile-iT takes any PICT from the clipboard, break it into 'Tiles', convert those tiles to icons, assign those icons to documents and finally arrange those documents so that they touch each other. In other words, a Tile-iT frame of 3 x 3 icons is composed of 9 documents each having a custom icon representing a portion of the original picture. Version 2.7 introduce auto masking and gradual transparency. These two options are close to magic. There easy to setup and are very user friendly. You can also apply a transparent filter globally on ALL the tiles produced. Tile-it use 32 bits 'icns' resources so that you can display pictures in thousand and millions of colors. Tile-it is also the most userfriendly of these kind of application. **No other applications in its class is as easy to use **. You must try it to believe it. The perfect companion for CD burners and shareware developers or just for the fun of it. This is a major update and a lot of bugs have been fixed. There is a rebuild option available in case you loose the alignment of the tiles. This has been tested up to PowerPc G4 running MacOS 9.1. It needs MacOS 7.1 to run properly. [Archived as /info-mac/gui/icon/tile-it-icons-270.hqx; 1075 K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 08:27:02 -0700 From: Helen Rousseau To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Info-Mac Digest V18 #62 on 4/17/01 12:42 AM, The Info-Mac Network at digest@info-mac.org wrote: > I have a beige G3 PowerPC, that has the original 64 M RAM. I would > finally like to upgrade the RAM, and can easily do so myself, but does > it matter if each slot has a different size RAM chip? I thought that, > years ago, each slot have to have the same amount of RAM, for example > 64-64-64 or 128-128-128. Is this true, or can I just add maybe 128 M > and then have 64-128-0 across the 3 RAM slots? You can have any amount of Ram in each slot. Example, I have 64-64-128. Helen hrouss@pacbell.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 13:51:57 -0500 From: "Chaz Larson [mailing lists]" To: carolynb , digest@info-mac.org Subject: Must CDROM remain as Slave? At 9:16 AM -0400 4/16/01, carolynb wrote: >SO, can I make the CD a slave? Or does it need to be a master for >booting off of the CD? If the CD should remain as a master, then I'll >have to go cable hunting again. I've run my Beige G3 in the past few weeks with the CD-ROM set to both slave and master [not simultaneously, of course ;)]. Everything's been fine. I was able to boot from a CD in both cases. chazl -- I'm gonna tell my son to grow up as pretty as the grass is green and as smart as the English Channel is wide... - Liz Phair, Whip Smart Chaz Larson - chaz at spamcop dot net - http://www.visi.com/~chaz ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 08:37:22 -0700 From: "Adam C. Engst" To: Friends of TidBITS:; Subject: These TidBITS go to eleven Hey folks, In these days of dot.coms dropping like the proverbial flies, I thought you might appreciate a spot of good news and longevity. This week's issue of TidBITS (#576) marks our 11th anniversary of continuous Internet publication, cementing our status as one of the oldest solely electronic publications on the Internet. To commemorate the event, I've gone back and re-read all the TidBITS issues from our second year of publication - April of 1991 to April of 1992. It's fascinating to see how far we've come, but also just how little some things have changed. RAM was $40 per megabyte, versus 35 cents per megabyte today, and we were talking about 88 MB SyQuest cartridges that cost about the same as an 80 GB hard disk disk now. But even back then we were covering topics like adding protected memory to the Mac OS, distributed computing, and wireless networking. You might find the article amusing - it's at: Hope you enjoy the brief retrospective! cheers ... -Adam ______________________________________________________________________ Adam C. Engst #2 in MDJ Power 25 / #5 in MacDirectory Top 10 TidBITS Publisher XNSORG Chairman =Adam Engst Computer Book Author Macworld Contrib. Editor -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************