Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #53 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Thu, 30 Mar 00 Volume 17 : Issue 53 Today's Topics: [*] Maths Tester [*] Quick-Launch/Macro Utility: TriVectus Launch Key 3.0 [*] uCalendar 2.1 68K [*] uCalendar 2.1 PPC [*] Variable Creator freezing iMac on shutdown Info-Mac Digest V17 #49 Info-Mac Digest V17 #51 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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It needs a PowerMac and 1mb of RAM [Archived as /info-mac/edu/maths-tester.hqx; 434 K] ------------------------------ Date: 30 Mar 2000 From: TriVectus Subject: [*] Quick-Launch/Macro Utility: TriVectus Launch Key 3.0 Launch Key allows you to assign an unlimited number of Finder objects--applications, scripts, etc.--to a hot key of your choice. This is incredibly useful: imagine hitting one key, and having all the folders for your current project quickly open up, then the applications for your project, then the documents, and finally the server that you are using as scratch space. Further, Launch Key allows you to create an unlimited number of these sets of Finder objects. As useful as that is, that's not all that Launch Key can do. It can also quickly and accurately type a text block at the touch of a key. Tired of typing your e-mail address all the time? Assign it to a hot key. Same for your postal address, your phone number, your company's URL, even your name! After you've assigned these text items to a hot key, Launch Key can type them for you in almost any application--and do so faster than the fastest human typist! Launch Key is comprised of a background application and a control panel application--no extensions or control panels. Thus, it's unlikely to cause conflicts with other software. Version 3.0 adds many new features, including: * Optional hot key activation sounds * Application-specific sets * New Switch to App object * New Switch to Next App object * New Switch to Previous App object * New Restart object * New Sleep object * New Type Keyboard Combination object * Text items can now contain more than 32,000 characters * ...and much more Launch Key is shareware; a single-user license costs $10. For more information, download the demo or visit Launch Key's home web site at: [Archived as /info-mac/gui/trivectus-launch-key-30.hqx; 898 K] ------------------------------ Date: 30 Mar 2000 From: Waki Riuzo Subject: [*] uCalendar 2.1 68K uCalendar 2.1 What is uCalendar? uCalendar is a personal scheduling calendar with text, banner & icon reminders. Features: * Very simple and easy to use interface. * Three different views -- Calendar / Week / Day view * Unique banner memo with selected shape and color * Simple memo and repeated event which is weekly, biweekly, monthly etc. * Plot Icon and customize it by Drag & Drop. * Add Alarm and ToDo facilities into each memo. * Customize background colors, day number font and others. * Add the categories with color to memo and banner. * International the names of months and days. * Week number * Apple Script (GetMemo, PutMemo) * Customized holidays, birthdays and other special days * Importing / exporting * Save memos as TEXT like setext format and calendar as HTML System requirements: MacOS 7.6 or later 2 MB RAM 2 MB Hard Disk Shareware fee: US$25 [Archived as /info-mac/app/time/u-calendar-21-68k.hqx; 918 K] ------------------------------ Date: 30 Mar 2000 From: Waki Riuzo Subject: [*] uCalendar 2.1 PPC uCalendar 2.1 What is uCalendar? uCalendar is a personal scheduling calendar with text, banner & icon reminders. Features: * Very simple and easy to use interface. * Three different views -- Calendar / Week / Day view * Unique banner memo with selected shape and color * Simple memo and repeated event which is weekly, biweekly, monthly etc. * Plot Icon and customize it by Drag & Drop. * Add Alarm and ToDo facilities into each memo. * Customize background colors, day number font and others. * Add the categories with color to memo and banner. * International the names of months and days. * Week number * Apple Script (GetMemo, PutMemo) * Customized holidays, birthdays and other special days * Importing / exporting * Save memos as TEXT like setext format and calendar as HTML System requirements: MacOS 7.6 or later 2 MB RAM 2 MB Hard Disk Shareware fee: US$25 [Archived as /info-mac/app/time/u-calendar-21-ppc.hqx; 1037 K] ------------------------------ Date: 30 Mar 2000 From: Subject: [*] Variable Creator Variable Creator This creates RealBasic variables out of strings. You enter a string (including ones with spaces and returns in it) into a large field, press the button on the window, and it turns it into RB Code for a variable! [Archived as /info-mac/dev/rb-code-maker.hqx; 376 K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:09:38 +0000 From: "Charles Arthur, The Independent" Subject: freezing iMac on shutdown On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 09:32:54 -0300 "J. Froilan Gonzalez" wrote: >Hello, I have read about the sleep bug in the iBook and new PowerBook >(FireWire) that do not properly wake up from sleep. >My problem is different: My iMac (Firewire, 400 MHz), running system 8.6 >in spanish, freezes most of times (but not all) when we try to shut it >down. > I have looked for extensions conflicts, but no result. Any info or >suggestion to solve this would be greatly appreciated At a guess it's something to do with the Ethernet conflict which plagues 8.6. If you have Appletalk or Ethernet connected, you can get freezes - usually when you start up. (It's something to do with DCHP, as I recall, and trying to find where it is on the network.) If any of your network extensions are active (eg Appleshare, file sharing, Ethernet) try creating an extension set without them and see if that makes a difference. Also try www.macfixit.com which has answers and experiences of all sorts of things like this. Charles ------------------------------------------------------------------- The Independent newspaper on the Web: http://www.independent.co.uk/ It's even better on paper Live in the US? Get a new worldview: http://www.independenceavenue.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 05:23:35 -0500 From: "Michael G. Schabert" Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #49 > >Dear Digest readers, >>This is most annoying...everytime I reboot, even when I hit the mute >>button on my Powerbook, the sound comes back on, and even if I change >>the alert sound, it defaults to Simple Beep upon reboot. >> >>Powerbook G3/233/512k backside /192MB of RAM >>MacOS 9. >> >>Any reason why this may happen? I wouldn't think the PRAM would be >>the cause since my clock is working just fine. > >Sorry, boot chord volume isn't affected by sound level settings. This >has been true since the chord was introduced. Very annoying, isn't >it?! Cheers, That's not entirely correct...Boot chord is affected by sound settings...it is just that when sound is set to volume 0, the boot chord still goes on (unfortunately full-volume), because Apple designed the boot chords to be informational, and wants to make sure that they can be heard if there are boot problems. But if you set the volume to 1, the boot chord should be soft. Mike Bikers don't *DO* taglines. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 05:19:59 -0500 From: "Michael G. Schabert" Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #51 >Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 22:03:33 -0500 >From: Allan Hunter >Subject: FireWire-to-SCSI? > >OK, so we've upgraded our slow (ADB) bus (to USB) and our fast (SCSI) >bus (to FireWire) as well, and this is all wonderful and good. > >The USB technology is actually so fast that you can hook up SCSI >devices, via an adapter, and they work, kind of, sort of, give or >take some performance loss if the SCSI device in question made full >use of the throughput of SCSI. > >For those of us with a more substantial investment in SCSI, wouldn't >a FireWire- to-SCSI adapter, rather than another USB-to-SCSI adapter, >look downright delicious, all things considered? > >Correct me if I'm wrong, but there doesn't seem to be such an entity >in MacWarehouse, MacMall, Mac Zone, the back pages of MacAddict or >MacWorld, or described as the hit of this or that conference... > >Is there something I'm missing here? Is there any obvious (to >everyone but me) reason why Adaptec and Macally and Macsense and VST >and Newer Technology and Microtech and so on are not falling all over >each other trying to sell us a FireWire-to-SCSI adapter? > >-- >Allan Hunter > > > Oddly enough, almost every FireWire hard drive on the market has a built-in SCSI-to-FireWire adapter built in which is what allows it to connect to FireWire. I think that there are only two or three companies that have already started using native FireWire drives that aren't just retrofitted SCSI. Mike Bikers don't *DO* taglines. -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************