Subject: Info-Mac Digest V18 #8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Tue, 16 Jan 01 Volume 18 : Issue 8 Today's Topics: [*] TidBITS#563/15-Jan-01 [*] eGroups Extractor [Carbon] 1.0: eGroups binary downloader [*] eGroups Extractor [PPC] 1.0: eGroups binary downloader [*] Haru's Beep Sounds No. 5 [*] Haru's Beep Sounds No. 6 [*] Haru's Beep Sounds No. 7 [*] Haru's Beep Sounds No. 8 [*] Haru's Beep Sounds No. 9 [*] J-man's auto tasks 1.5 BETA [*] LockOut 2.1.2J - Japanese Version [*] Lurk 4.2 [*] MacTidy v1.0b13: checks and corrects HTML and XML source [*] OneshotRecorder1.3, sound recorder with simple operation [*] Passenger 1.1.2 Server Account/Password Tool [*] PubMedMakerII 3.7.4 [*] Retrospect2iPatch [*] SweetMail 2.06 [*] TaskMenuBar 2.3.1 [*] URL Manager Pro 2.7.1 (English version) [*] URL Manager Pro 2.7.1 (French version) [*] URL Manager Pro 2.7.1 (German version) [*] Vocab LanguageLab 1.0 HP Printer Driver for parallel Port Making Info-Mac Work for All of Us Re: [Q]Redundant software on info-Mac? 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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 #8" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:00:00 -0800 From: TidBITS Editors To: digest@info-mac.org, Mac-L@clio.lyris.net, evangelist@macevangelist.com Subject: [*] TidBITS#563/15-Jan-01 TidBITS#563/15-Jan-01 Macworld Expo dominates this issue, with Adam's analysis of Apple's vision for the Mac as a hub for the "digital lifestyle," and its new media software, iTunes and iDVD. Jeff Carlson then looks at the star of the Expo, the fast and sleek PowerBook G4 Titanium. We also round up details of Apple's forthcoming Mac OS X 1.0, note the release of Mac OS 9.1, apologize for our mailing list server dying last week, and welcome our latest sponsor, Bare Bones Software. Topics: MailBITS/15-Jan-01 Jobs Aims Apple for the Digital Lifestyle PowerBook G4 Titanium Burns Bright Mac OS X Solidifies at Macworld Expo [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-563.etx; 34K] ------------------------------ Date: 15 Jan 2001 From: Kem Tekinay To: Subject: [*] eGroups Extractor [Carbon] 1.0: eGroups binary downloader eGroups Extractor 1.0 will automate downloading of binaries from the Yahoo eGroups service (http://www.egroups.com/). You can get your list of subscribed groups, choose the ones you want to download, set the starting message and number of downloads, and go. eGroups Extractor will cycle through those groups efficiently to figure out which messages have binaries attached and process the number you requested. eGroups Extractor is PowerPC-only and requires MacOS X or MacOS 8.6 or later with CarbonLib 1.2 or later installed. A PowerPC version for MacOS 8.1 or later is also available. eGroups Extractor is made with REALbasic. eGroups Extractor is shareware. For more information, see our web site at or contact Kem Tekinay, the author, at . Distribution of unmodified versions of eGroups Extractor on commercially available CD's is permitted. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/egroups-extractor-10-cbn.hqx; 995 K] ------------------------------ Date: 15 Jan 2001 From: Kem Tekinay To: Subject: [*] eGroups Extractor [PPC] 1.0: eGroups binary downloader eGroups Extractor 1.0 will automate downloading of binaries from the Yahoo eGroups service (http://www.egroups.com/). You can get your list of subscribed groups, choose the ones you want to download, set the starting message and number of downloads, and go. eGroups Extractor will cycle through those groups efficiently to figure out which messages have binaries attached and process the number you requested. eGroups Extractor is PowerPC-only and requires MacOS 8.1 or later. A Carbon version for OS X or MacOS 8.6 or later with CarbonLib 1.2 or later installed is also available. eGroups Extractor is made with REALbasic. eGroups Extractor is shareware. For more information, see our web site at or contact Kem Tekinay, the author, at . Distribution of unmodified versions of eGroups Extractor on commercially available CD's is permitted. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/egroups-extractor-10-ppc.hqx; 767 K] ------------------------------ Date: 13 Jan 2001 From: Haruhiko Nakasu To: Subject: [*] Haru's Beep Sounds No. 5 These sounds are able to use for system sounds. When you put sounds into 'System', System can recognize these Sounds. These files are Freewares. You may freely copy and redistribute it. Have Fun! Home Page: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~mn5h-nks/ [Archived as /info-mac/art/snd/harus-beep-5.hqx; 500 K] ------------------------------ Date: 13 Jan 2001 From: Haruhiko Nakasu To: Subject: [*] Haru's Beep Sounds No. 6 These sounds are able to use for system sounds. When you put sounds into 'System', System can recognize these Sounds. These files are Freewares. You may freely copy and redistribute it. Have Fun! Home Page: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~mn5h-nks/ [Archived as /info-mac/art/snd/harus-beep-6.hqx; 583 K] ------------------------------ Date: 13 Jan 2001 From: Haruhiko Nakasu To: Subject: [*] Haru's Beep Sounds No. 7 These sounds are able to use for system sounds. When you put sounds into 'System', System can recognize these Sounds. These files are Freewares. You may freely copy and redistribute it. Have Fun! Home Page: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~mn5h-nks/ [Archived as /info-mac/art/snd/harus-beep-7.hqx; 587 K] ------------------------------ Date: 13 Jan 2001 From: Haruhiko Nakasu To: Subject: [*] Haru's Beep Sounds No. 8 These sounds are able to use for system sounds. When you put sounds into 'System', System can recognize these Sounds. These files are Freewares. You may freely copy and redistribute it. Have Fun! Home Page: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~mn5h-nks/ [Archived as /info-mac/art/snd/harus-beep-8.hqx; 469 K] ------------------------------ Date: 13 Jan 2001 From: Haruhiko Nakasu To: Subject: [*] Haru's Beep Sounds No. 9 These sounds are able to use for system sounds. When you put sounds into 'System', System can recognize these Sounds. These files are Freewares. You may freely copy and redistribute it. Have Fun! Home Page: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~mn5h-nks/ [Archived as /info-mac/art/snd/harus-beep-9.hqx; 657 K] ------------------------------ Date: 15 Jan 2001 From: J-man To: Subject: [*] J-man's auto tasks 1.5 BETA New version of autotasks (JAT) these have only been tested on 9.1, 3 new features: Lock a file from the apple menu or F1-F15 shortcut If you got Finder pop beta scripts for it. (not approved by the autohor) A system support control panel i.e. support Sience this is BETA no support (use @ own risk) Download instructions: 1. Download it 2. Un-stuff it 3. Open the file "JAT1.5 beta.img" 4. A disk will pop-up take it from there. to get rid of just eject. [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/j-mans-auto-tasks-15b.hqx; 1081 K] ------------------------------ Date: 13 Jan 2001 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] LockOut 2.1.2J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the LockOut package. Rated 4 stars at ZDNet! Rated 4 cows at Tucows! Rated 5 Dudes (highest rating) by FileDudes! LockOut is a simple application to help keep people from using your Mac while youØre away. LockOut helps keep your Mac safe from co-workers while at the office, and from your kids while at home. Once LockOut is activated, all anyone will see on your Mac is the LockOut security screen: *A valid password must first be entered to access your Mac *Messages can be left by others *Create your own custom voice warning *Easily activated with a customizable hot key *Activate automatically after a pause time *Monitor security warnings from anywhere via e-mail. *And more... Here's what people say about LockOut: *I'm a writer, tv mainly, and I drag my G3 lap-top around hotels and studios all over the country (UK). LockOut is a beautiful programme. Nice and simple, and simply keeps prying eyes off my scripts. -- Leslie S. *I really like the product. It saved me a lot of grief while I was on vacation and didn't want people "messing" in my files. One person here has the touch-of-death on computers and I wanted to make sure he didn't kill mine! I am recommending LockOut to others. Thanks again. -- Christine L. *I think that (LockOut) is great since living alone and an artist/businessman with a maid service that has access to my apartment room here affords the paranoia of wondering if anyone might be accessing info. or tampering with my PowerMac while I am away at work. -- Jerry B. Changes in version 2.1.2: *Fixed a bug where LockOut wouldn't activate automatically upon startup. *Fixed some minor bugs. *Added ÓAlert via eMailÔ to the Settings. All security messages can now be emailed. [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/lock-out-212-jp.hqx; 606 K] ------------------------------ Date: 15 Jan 2001 From: "Joop Laan" To: Subject: [*] Lurk 4.2 Lurk is a FreeWare webcam browser. Use it to view and archive webcam pictures. Features: - login with password feature - archive the pictures - create Quicktime movies from archives Changes in this version: - New way to organize the bookmarks. You can now use iCam Master bookmark files with Lurk! - When archiving the picture is saved only if it's newer than the last - More info about the picture in the View or Archive windows [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/lurk-42.hqx; 2070 K] ------------------------------ Date: 15 Jan 2001 From: Terry Teague To: Subject: [*] MacTidy v1.0b13: 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 laid out markup? Well now there is! MacTidy is a Macintosh application designed for doing just that. MacTidy checks and corrects HTML and XML to make it compliant with the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) HTML standards. MacTidy 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. MacTidy 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. MacTidy 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 corrects the markup in a way that matches where possible the observed rendering in popular browsers from Netscape and Microsoft. MacTidy is based on the freely available "Tidy" program by Dave Raggett. MacTidy performs in a compatible way to "Tidy", but has a graphical user interface (GUI). Balloon Help is available for the configuration dialog. For more information on Dave Raggett's "Tidy", browse the enclosed HTML file "overview.html", visit the author's web site at , or EMail . The current version of MacTidy and other products based on "Tidy" for Mac OS can be found at . System Requirements : Any Macintosh (except Macintosh 128K, Macintosh 512Ke, Macintosh Plus, Macintosh Portable, PowerBook 100, Macintosh Classic) running System 7.0 or later (debug versions require System 7.5 or later). A/UX is also supported. The "Carbon" version of MacTidy requires Mac OS 8.1 + CarbonLib 1.0.2 or later (Mac OS 8.6 + CarbonLib 1.1 or later), or Mac OS X (DP4 and Public Beta currently supported). [Archived as /info-mac/text/html/mac-tidy-10b13.hqx; 1007 K] ------------------------------ Date: 15 Jan 2001 From: NattaWorks-Nagano To: Subject: [*] OneshotRecorder1.3, sound recorder with simple operation *A sound recorder. Record sound onto your hard disk. *Simple operation. *Timer recording. *Your Mac might have a variety of sound input ports. Don't let them sleep! *System requirements: PPC Mac like iMac. MacOS 8 or higher. QuickTime 3 or higher is recommended. *Shareware price : U.S.$10. http://www.pluto.dti.ne.jp/~natta/english.html mailto:NattaWorks@Kagi.com ver 1.1 -> 1.3: - bug fix: Pause didn't work on some model of Mac with QuickTime 4. - runs more efficiently (that means the old PPC Macs can run it.) - intuitive recording settings dialog - useful recording options (see Options menu) - better support for USB audio input devices - record time display [Archived as /info-mac/gst/one-shot-recorder-13.hqx; 357 K] ------------------------------ Date: 13 Jan 2001 From: "Jay E. Lichtenauer" To: Subject: [*] Passenger 1.1.2 Server Account/Password Tool Passenger is a server account creation and password generation tool that will import tab and comma-delimited text files and ASIP 6.3 XML Users and create account information and passwords for AppleShare IP 6.3, Macintosh Manager, Eudora Internet Mail Server, WebSTAR FTP, WebSTAR Web, Master Spell and Master Key. Usernames can be formulated from names using tags. Users may also create user folders and set their privileges or define their own export formats for most tab or comma-delimited export. Passenger uses an algorithm for passwords so that they can be regenerated. Standard Edition ($60) offers importing and processing up to 150 user accounts at once. Professional Edition ($90) offers no hard limit on the number of users that can be imported and processed. Only limited by RAM and disk space. PowerPC required, Mac OS 8.5 or higher recommended. New in this release: - Overwriting imported usernames now defaults to off - Fixed folder import so that it does not fail when exporting its data - Spaces, commas and apostrophes are now only stripped out of the username formulation for EIMS, WebSTAR and ASIP Internet Alias - Folder import now only imports visible folder names http://macinmind.com/Passenger/ [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/passenger-112.hqx; 929 K] ------------------------------ Date: 15 Jan 2001 From: kinda@wa2.so-net.ne.jp To: Subject: [*] PubMedMakerII 3.7.4 PubMedMakerII is a bibliographic software for Macintosh users who are familiar with PubMed : a free on-line MEDLINE. PubMedMakerII automatically transfers PubMed text data to FileMakerPro file. PubMedMakerII also makes Reference list with rich text format (RTF), HTML format, or plain text. You can easily arrange it to fit the journal's format to which you are going to contribute. What's new in this version [PubMedMakerII 3.7.4, Jan 14, 2001] A bug of PDF button of PubMedMakerII 3.7 for FileMaker Pro 3.0-4.1 is fixed. If you had downloaded PubMedMakerII 3.7, you can updated template for FileMaker Pro 3.0-4.1 at MedFiles homepage . FileMaker Pro 5.0 users do not need to update from PubMedMakerII 3.7 to 3.7.4. [PubMedMakerII 3.7, Jan 10, 2001] 1. Duplicate records delete function: You can delete duplicate records at once by duplicate records delete button. 2. Improvement of Reference setup: You can set issue number and delimitors without space in the Reference list. The pop-up menus of delimitor and font are editable. 3. IGMconverter 1.1: IGMconverter 1.0 included in PubMedMakerII 3.6 makes the first empty record if Internet Explorer is used to download data from Internet Grateful Med. This conversion error is fixed in IGMconverter 1.1. 4. Removal of trial period of 60 days: A splash screen appears after unregistered use of 60 days, but limitation of usage is eliminated. System Requirements FileMakerPro 3.0 or later. [Archived as /info-mac/text/pub-med-make-ii-374.hqx; 1669 K] ------------------------------ Date: 15 Jan 2001 From: James Prescott To: Subject: [*] Retrospect2iPatch Retrospect International 2.0 (and possibly other old Retrospect versions) has a Y2K-Plus-One bug. The symptom is that after the beginning of the year 2001 the program, on launch, says "Your Macintosh clock/calendar appears to be wrong", and asks you to either Quit or to Set Clock. The reason is that the code contains a date sanity check which is set to treat as wrong any system clock time after 23:59:59 on 2000-December-31. This patch, for Retrospect International 2.0 (2.0i) only, extends the date sanity check for an additional 39 years or so. The ReadMe file gives details that can be used (with ResEdit) to help fix other Retrospect versions that exhibit this bug. [Archived as /info-mac/disk/retrospect-2i-patch.hqx; 38 K] ------------------------------ Date: 15 Jan 2001 From: sweetmail@mac.com (Ichise) To: Subject: [*] SweetMail 2.06 SweetMail is an internet e-mail client for Macintosh that provides most powerful features with sweet interface. SweetMail has multiple POP3 accounts, very fast searching, thread-view, filtering, templates, auto-wrap and many useful functions. System Requirements: * System 7.5 or later. (including MacOSX public beta) * 4MB of Memory. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/mail/sweet-mail-206.hqx; 2053 K] ------------------------------ Date: 13 Jan 2001 From: Hugh Kawahara To: Subject: [*] TaskMenuBar 2.3.1 TaskMenuBar is a control panel that uses the empty space on the menu bar for many operations such as launching and switching applications, and opening files. Because it only uses the menu bar, unlike other utilities, it will never obscure or be obscured by other windows. The version 2.3.1 fixes several bugs and is compatible with OS 9.1. Requires System 7.1 or later including OS-8 and 9 with a 68K or PPC processor. Shareware fee: $15. [Archived as /info-mac/gui/task-menu-bar-231.hqx; 188 K] ------------------------------ Date: 15 Jan 2001 From: support@url-manager.com To: Subject: [*] URL Manager Pro 2.7.1 (English version) URL Manager Pro 2.7.1 New in version 2.7 of the popular bookmark manager for the Mac is support for the the new Explorer and iCab Web Browsers. There is a new option to automatically save copies of bookmark files to other hard disk volumes and the HTML export feature has been much improved. URL Manager Pro, the professional bookmark manager for the Macintosh for use with Netscape Navigator and Communicator, Microsoft Internet Explorer and iCab, gives users a more convenient way to manage bookmarks, E-mail addresses and news groups. URL Manager Pro 2.7 is Mac OS 8.6 and Mac OS 9 savvy. It features support for the Keychain of Mac OS 9 and fully supports the new iCab Web Browser. URL Manager Pro can now track the History for multiple browsers concurrently. URL Manager Pro is available in English, Japanese, German, French, Italian, Swedish and Spanish. URL Manager Pro will soon be native for Mac OS X, but also still supports System 7.5. URL Manager Pro has garnered many glowing accolades in the Macintosh press, including TidBits and MacWorld. "URL Manager is fast, slick, and easy." says Adam C. Engst, Tidbits. "Un des meilleurs utilitaires d'adresses sur le Net" says UniversMac. URL Manager Pro is a Kagi Top 10 shareware product. URL Manager Pro is $25 shareware. Online Sales: http://order.kagi.com/?AB&S Home Page: http://www.url-manager.com [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/url-manager-pro-271.hqx; 1120 K] ------------------------------ Date: 15 Jan 2001 From: support@url-manager.com To: Subject: [*] URL Manager Pro 2.7.1 (French version) URL Manager Pro 2.7.1 New in version 2.7 of the popular bookmark manager for the Mac is support for the the new Explorer and iCab Web Browsers. There is a new option to automatically save copies of bookmark files to other hard disk volumes and the HTML export feature has been much improved. URL Manager Pro, the professional bookmark manager for the Macintosh for use with Netscape Navigator and Communicator, Microsoft Internet Explorer and iCab, gives users a more convenient way to manage bookmarks, E-mail addresses and news groups. URL Manager Pro 2.7 is Mac OS 8.6 and Mac OS 9 savvy. It features support for the Keychain of Mac OS 9 and fully supports the new iCab Web Browser. URL Manager Pro can now track the History for multiple browsers concurrently. URL Manager Pro is available in English, Japanese, German, French, Italian, Swedish and Spanish. URL Manager Pro will soon be native for Mac OS X, but also still supports System 7.5. URL Manager Pro has garnered many glowing accolades in the Macintosh press, including TidBits and MacWorld. "URL Manager is fast, slick, and easy." says Adam C. Engst, Tidbits. "Un des meilleurs utilitaires d'adresses sur le Net" says UniversMac. URL Manager Pro is a Kagi Top 10 shareware product. URL Manager Pro is $25 shareware. Online Sales: http://order.kagi.com/?AB&S Home Page: http://www.url-manager.com [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/url-manager-pro-271-fr.hqx; 1109 K] ------------------------------ Date: 15 Jan 2001 From: support@url-manager.com To: Subject: [*] URL Manager Pro 2.7.1 (German version) URL Manager Pro 2.7.1 New in version 2.7 of the popular bookmark manager for the Mac is support for the the new Explorer and iCab Web Browsers. There is a new option to automatically save copies of bookmark files to other hard disk volumes and the HTML export feature has been much improved. URL Manager Pro, the professional bookmark manager for the Macintosh for use with Netscape Navigator and Communicator, Microsoft Internet Explorer and iCab, gives users a more convenient way to manage bookmarks, E-mail addresses and news groups. URL Manager Pro 2.7 is Mac OS 8.6 and Mac OS 9 savvy. It features support for the Keychain of Mac OS 9 and fully supports the new iCab Web Browser. URL Manager Pro can now track the History for multiple browsers concurrently. URL Manager Pro is available in English, Japanese, German, French, Italian, Swedish and Spanish. URL Manager Pro will soon be native for Mac OS X, but also still supports System 7.5. URL Manager Pro has garnered many glowing accolades in the Macintosh press, including TidBits and MacWorld. "URL Manager is fast, slick, and easy." says Adam C. Engst, Tidbits. "Un des meilleurs utilitaires d'adresses sur le Net" says UniversMac. URL Manager Pro is a Kagi Top 10 shareware product. URL Manager Pro is $25 shareware. Online Sales: http://order.kagi.com/?AB&S Home Page: http://www.url-manager.com [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/url-manager-pro-271-de.hqx; 1011 K] ------------------------------ Date: 13 Jan 2001 From: "'Cab Software" To: Subject: [*] Vocab LanguageLab 1.0 Vocab LanguageLab is a simple to use multimedia authoring suite designed specifically for the teaching of language. Students are able to use the the highly acclaimed Vocab program within Vocab LanguageLab to create interactive multimedia presentations complete with the popular test, slide show and vocabulary components of Vocab. Now students can use Vocab LanguageLab's simple drag and drop tools to add video, audio, images and text to multimedia presentations - creating an enriching language experience. More information can be found at http://www.cabsoft.com/vll.html Vocab LanguageLab requires a PowerPC-based Macintosh in order to run. Unregistered, the author component is a save-disabled demo. Registering costs $35. [Archived as /info-mac/edu/lang/vocab-language-lab-10.hqx; 3896 K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 22:03:47 -0500 From: "John W. Steele" To: Subject: HP Printer Driver for parallel Port Folks, I have a new G4 minitower. My printer is an Epson Color Stylus 800. Epson's workaround to print from USB is a cable to the printers' parallel port and some software. Miracle of miracles, it actually works quite well. Recently, an HP 870 CXI inkjet fell into my lap. It also has a parallel port. I think this is a fine printer and would like to use it with my G4. My question is: will the same trick work with the HP? Are there drivers anywhere that will allow this to happen? I bet I could fabricate the cable if I knew the pinouts that the HP needed. Any info gratefully appreciated, John Steele jsteele@towson.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 10:53:34 -0600 From: Jesse the K To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Making Info-Mac Work for All of Us A gentle reminder to all readers (including myself): Info-Mac is a totally volunteer organization. There is no person who waits patiently to answer the questions that fly in at , much less a person *paid* to provide the answers. There are thousands of people who read the list, and many of them are the "Mac gurus" in their communities. There's a lovely searchable archive of these digests here . When you pose a question to the list, collect answers for at least 36 hours. If you get a real solution, then please post what worked back to the list *using the same subject line.* If you don't get a solution, post what *didn't* work back to the list (with the same subject line). By doing this, you give back to the magic circle, and make it useful for the next person with this question (who may come along in two years!). Thanks for reading and being, -- Jesse the K -- Madison Wisconsin USA -- A miser is hard to live with, but makes a fine ancestor. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:36:24 -0800 From: prosoul@dimensionarc.com To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Re: [Q]Redundant software on info-Mac? > >>I was just wondering why there seems to be so much redundant software >>on info-mac? >>Are Mac programming students required to post shareware on info-mac >>as part of some thesis, or assignments? >>This is the only explanation I can come up with, other than ignorance >>of programs that already exist. Since there's a searchable archive, I >>don't understand this. >>God knows we don't need any more graphics or Audio / MIDI playback >>programs, SoundApp for example is the best, and plays all formats and >>has been around for years. >> >>Just curious, someone enlighten us. Thank god for a digest with TOC!! >> >>- J > > >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? I'm not saying there isn't some good, useful, well made software on Info-Mac, I think my point is justified. thanks, -- Jarome Matthew Pro Soul Discs http://www.prosoul.com Word Noise Studios http://www.wordnoise.com -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************