Subject: Info-Mac Digest V18 #130 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Sat, 13 Oct 01 Volume 18 : Issue 130 Today's Topics: [*] FloatingNotes 1.0.4J - Japanese Version [*] FloatingNotes 1.1 [*] FloatingNotes 1.1J - Japanese Version [*] LockOut 3.1.2 [*] Miles Manager (American Airlines version) v1.0 [*] PopChar Pro 1.3.3 [*] RetroactiveCamera 1.0 (Picture 3D analysis software) [*] TimeSliceCarbon [A] initializing new drive [A] OS X: Insufficient privileges to empy trash?! [A]: Second Hard Drive in G3 [A]: Second Hard Drive in G3 [Q] audio transfer All-in-one-Device (Laserjet 3200M) G3 to G4 (C) Help How to check ethernet port initializing new drive (C) Outlook Express 5.02 problem... 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What's the point of having notes if they're buried by other application windows and you can't see them? Sure, Stickies is free, but FloatingNotes "floats" on top of all other application windows so you can always see them. FloatingNotes uses no system extension, and best of all, FloatingNotes is a Carbon application so it works under OS X as well! FloatingNotes automatically saves all open notes when you quit. To delete a note, simply close the window. FloatingNotes requires OS X, or OS 8 or 9 and CarbonLib 1.3 or later. CarbonLib is free and can be obtained from your "Software Update" control panel. Changes: 1.0.4 *Notes are automatically saved when the application is switched to the background. 1.0.3 *Fixed a problem with Japanese font display on Mac OS X. [Archived as /info-mac/app/floating-notes-104-jp.hqx; 268 K] ------------------------------ Date: 12 Oct 2001 From: Bill Modesitt To: Subject: [*] FloatingNotes 1.1 What's the point of having notes if they're buried by other application windows and you can't see them? Sure, Stickies is free, but FloatingNotes "floats" on top of all other application windows so you can always see them. FloatingNotes uses no system extension, and best of all, FloatingNotes is a Carbon application so it works under OS X as well! FloatingNotes automatically saves all open notes when you quit or when it moves to the background. To delete a note, simply close the window. FloatingNotes requires OS X, or OS 8 or 9 and CarbonLib 1.3 or later. CarbonLib is free and can be obtained from your "Software Update" control panel. New for FloatingNotes 1.1: -- Notes auto-save as soon as FloatingNotes moves to the background. -- Edit windows and floating windows now display quicker (no more zoom effects). -- Click on a FloatingNotes floating window and FloatingNotes is brought to the front so you can edit the note. -- Maui Software info@mauisoftware.com [Archived as /info-mac/app/floating-notes-11.hqx; 273 K] ------------------------------ Date: 12 Oct 2001 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] FloatingNotes 1.1J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the FloatingNotes package. 4 Cows at Tucows! What's the point of having notes if they're buried by other application windows and you can't see them? Sure, Stickies is free, but FloatingNotes "floats" on top of all other application windows so you can always see them. FloatingNotes uses no system extension, and best of all, FloatingNotes is a Carbon application so it works under OS X as well! FloatingNotes automatically saves all open notes when you quit. To delete a note, simply close the window. FloatingNotes requires OS X, or OS 8 or 9 and CarbonLib 1.3 or later. CarbonLib is free and can be obtained from your "Software Update" control panel. Changes: 1.1 *Edit window and floating window now display quicker (no more zoom effects). *Click on a FloatingNotes floating window and FloatingNotes is brought to the front so you can edit the note. 1.0.4 *Notes are automatically saved when the application is switched to the background. 1.0.3 *Fixed a problem with Japanese font display on Mac OS X. [Archived as /info-mac/app/floating-notes-11-jp.hqx; 269 K] ------------------------------ Date: 12 Oct 2001 From: Bill Modesitt To: Subject: [*] LockOut 3.1.2 LockOut is a $15 shareware security application that helps keep people from using your Mac while you1re away. Helps keep your Mac safe from your co-workers while at the office, and from your kids while at home. LockOut features: -- Cannot be aborted by Force-Quit (command-option-escape-shift keys) and command-tab application switching circumvented. -- People can leave a message for you while you're gone. -- Session log lists lock time, unlocked time, and any break-in attempts. -- Administrator Mode -- Have an email message sent to you if someone attempts to circumvent LockOut. -- And more... -- Maui Software mailto:info@mauisoftware.com [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/lockout-classic-312.hqx; 700 K] ------------------------------ Date: 11 Oct 2001 From: Splash IT Consulting To: Subject: [*] Miles Manager (American Airlines version) v1.0 Miles Manager (American Airlines version) allows you to: 1. Track all your activities that earn you AAdvanatage points with American Airlines. These include flights, car hire, credit card points, telecard calls, hotel points, currency exchange etc. You can then verify that all points have been awarded when you receive your statement from American Airlines. 2. Determine the possible destinations available with your current points balance. Miles Manager lets you select your starting region, preferred class, type of award and number of available points and returns a list of available cities/regions that you can fly if you redeem your points. Modules for other airlines, such as British Airways and Continental, are being planned. System Requirements For Mac OS 8/9 *Power Macintosh Computer or later *32MB of RAM required *Hard Disk with 24mb free space *Monitor capable of 800*600 resolution *Supports Mac OS version 8.1 through Mac OS 9.1. For Mac OS X *Apple G3 computer or higher (excluding G3 upgrade cards) *128MB of RAM required *Hard Disk with 24mb free space *Monitor capable of 800*600 resolution *Mac OS X This database was developed using the Verdana font. You can download this font from the Microsoft Font website at: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm [Archived as /info-mac/app/miles-manager-aa-10.hqx; 5333 K] ------------------------------ Date: 11 Oct 2001 From: PopChar Pro Support To: Subject: [*] PopChar Pro 1.3.3 This is PopChar Pro version 1.3.3. PopChar Pro extends your menu bar with a menu that shows all characters available in the current font. Select a character from that menu to "type" it into the currently edited text. Version 1.3.3 is a maintenance release with the following changes: Problems Fixed: * Opening the PopChar Pro menu under Mac OS 9.2 (and 9.2.1) sometimes caused a crash. * When a font file was open in the Finder, PopChar Pro didn't show that font. Improvements: * Display of the PopChar Pro menu has been accelerated. PopChar Pro is distributed by UNI SOFTWARE PLUS. This submission contains the PopChar Pro Installer that will ask for a license key. If you don't have a license key, the installer will create a full-featured but time-limited demo. UNI SOFTWARE PLUS GMBH Softwarepark Hagenberg Tel: +43 7236 3338-82 A-4232 Hagenberg, Austria Fax: +43 7236 3338-30 Sales: mailto:popchar-sales@unisoftwareplus.com Support: mailto:popchar-support@unisoftwareplus.com WWW: http://www.unisoftwareplus.com/products/popchar.html [Archived as /info-mac/gui/pop-char-pro-133.hqx; 1839 K] ------------------------------ Date: 12 Oct 2001 From: Philippe-Michel Canarelli To: Subject: [*] RetroactiveCamera 1.0 (Picture 3D analysis software) The Author : Philippe-Michel Canarelli Bat 3-1, 2 av. de la Gare 74500 Evian France email: canarelli.phi-mi@wanadoo.fr site: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/canarelli/ The Program : RetroactiveCamera Picture 3D analysis software The purpose of this program is to help you to paste a 3D rendering in an already existing picture in a realistic way. When you want to paste a 3D object in an already existing photography, the problem is to find a distance and a view angle to obtain the same perspective as the one of the objects in the picture. RetroactiveCamera will help you to find where the photographer was and what was the view angle and will create a 3DMF or DXF file integrating a reference object in the picture and a camera in situation. By including this model and putting it, with the reference volume, at the place it must have in your 3D project, the camera will then be itself located in the right place. System requirements : Mac OS 8.1 & PPC Mac [Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/retroactive-camera-10.hqx; 1908 K] ------------------------------ Date: 12 Oct 2001 From: Bill Modesitt To: Subject: [*] TimeSliceCarbon TimeSlice is used for recording time tasks on the Macintosh. TimeSlice is useful for consultants, attorneys, graphic designers, or anyone who bills for time, or just wants a simple solution for keeping track of time events. Click a button to start recording time, and click again to stop. Each time record contains the date and start/stop time values, as well as client, category, project, expense, hourly rate and other related information. All major functions are accessible via a tool bar, and the main window can be reduced to a very small size. The time-tracking data can be searched, sorted, and exported for use by other software applications. TimeSlice is a Carbon application so it works in OS 8.6 - 9.x with CarbonLib 1.3.1 or greater, or OS X. -- Maui Software mailto:info@mauisoftware.com [Archived as /info-mac/app/time/time-slice.hqx; 1428 K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 09:50:35 -0400 From: Ken Laskey To: solitude@flash.net, digest@info-mac.org Subject: [A] initializing new drive ===== original email ======= Just bought an 80 gig firewire external drive. CharisMac is touting their Anubis Utility as the best initializer. Any opinions or experiences to share? Why should I not just use Apple's Drive Setup? Actually, I tried Drive Setup and it did not recognize the drive although it was on the desktop.TIA ============================ I bought a CharisMac SCSI drive from Club Mac several years ago, and it came with the Anubis Utility. I found it easy to use and remember it having more functionality (although I don't quite remember what) than Apple Drive Setup. I have several partitions (used for backups and occasional scratch) that I typically do not have mounted, and I use the Anubis Mounter to mount and dismount these as needed. Hope this is useful, -- Ken Laskey kenneth.j.laskey@saic.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 11:36:54 -0400 From: Dan Peck To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: [A] OS X: Insufficient privileges to empy trash?! I ran into this problem with files that I copies onto the OX partition while running OS9. If you have separate partitions, just startup in OS9 and delete the files from the OSX volume. There is a more complicated solution in this month's Mac Addict, but the above method has worked for me. >I'm the only user of my Mac, but I cannot empty my trash. I get a >dialog that I don't have the privileges. Some items will be deleted, >but others remain. How can I get rid of them?!?! Thanks! Cheers, >-- >-- >Gib Henry > -- ======================================================= Dan Peck Milesquare Associates Living Traditions Co-Author of Filemaker 5 Advanced: Visual Quick Pro Guide (Peachpit Press) Member: Filemaker Solutions Alliance Old Time Music ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 06:40:37 -0400 From: Richard Smykla To: Scott Horton , Subject: [A]: Second Hard Drive in G3 Hi, Scott, This is the reply I got from SmartDisk (VST) when I asked the same question: We do not have any timetable for compatibility of this product with OS X as of yet, but I assure you we're working on support for nearly all of our products. I encourage you to check back periodically on our Web site for more information. Not completely encouraging. I would recommend that any and all purchasers of the Tempo Ultra-66 PCI IDE card contact VST and make their interest known. I also called their support staff and received much the same answer, which was friendly but noncommittal. Rick -- http://rsmykla.home.pipeline.com/index.htm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 06:41:30 -0400 From: Richard Smykla To: Scott Horton , Subject: [A]: Second Hard Drive in G3 Scott, Ooops. Apparently the confusion is mine, and no fault of yours. I was referring to the Ultra-Tek card by VST, as you correctly surmised. Please forgive the misplaced rant. Rick >On 10/11/01 6:40 AM, "Richard Smykla" wrote: > >> Hi, Scott, >> >> This is the reply I got from SmartDisk (VST) when I asked the same question: >> >> We do not have any timetable for compatibility of this product with OS X as >> of yet, but I assure you we're working on support for nearly all of our >> products. I encourage you to check back periodically on our Web site for >> more information. >> >> Not completely encouraging. I would recommend that any and all >> purchasers of the Tempo Ultra-66 PCI IDE card contact VST and make >> their interest known. I also called their support staff and received >> much the same answer, which was friendly but noncommittal. >> >> Rick > >Rick, I hope that I haven't caused any confusion, but the Tempo Ultra-66 >card that I am referring to is made by Sonnet, not VST. I just checked their >web site and Sonnet states that the Tempo Ultra-66 card is Mac OSX (10.1) >compatible and also they JUST released a Tempo 100 card, also built for os9 >or os10. > >Scott -- http://rsmykla.home.pipeline.com/index.htm ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 10:19:52 -0400 From: Allan Hunter To: solitude@flash.net Subject: [Q] audio transfer At 9:43 PM -0500 10/8/01, solitude@flash.net wrote: >I have audio tapes that I want to digitize. How can I do this? I used >1/8 inch plugs from the small tape recorder to the Powerbook G3 but >this did not work. If the "small tape recorder" contains its own amplifier, like a Walkman does, that should've worked. If your "small tape recorder" is normally plugged into an amp (and the speakers plug into the amp, not the tape recorder), you need to plug your PowerBook into the amp as if it were another musical device. (You can use "Aux", for example). > The programs I tried using were SoundJam, the free >program included with Toast (CD Spin Doctor), and SoundEdit. >SoundEdit seemed to have recorded but it was useless as the sound was >too low. I use SoundEdit 16 to do mine. From your description of the sound being too low, I'm pretty sure you were piping in an unamplified signal. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 16:28:38 +1000 From: Graham Haultain To: Subject: All-in-one-Device (Laserjet 3200M) >From Graham Haultain Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Re: All-in-one device (LaserJet 3200M) > I had bought a LaserJet 3200M, because I wanted a fax and a laser > printer in one device. > The hardware is really superb, it works like a charm. > > But the software is a plain disaster, a total mess. > > - The installer did delete some of my fonts and replaced them with > different ones of the same name. This very effectively destroyed a > lot of layouts in my database, as the new fonts had differences in > size. According to German law, the deletion of use files is criminal! > > - The Fax driver, which is the very same of as used by the Officejet > G85 was not working at all at the beginning. After some serious > hacking with a debugger, I found that this extension REQUIRES > ColorSync. Without it, is refuses to work, and it will of course NOT > give you an appropriate error message. That would have been far to > easy. > > - The "HP-All-In-One Communication" extension is the most buggy piece > of software I have ever seen. Often it claims that the door of my > printer would be open, but of course it isn't. Often it will just > lock up my computer, effectively destroying my recent work. Also, > sometimes it will just not print at all, but just generating a > strange error message in the printer, and again locking my Mac. > > - The CDROM does not contain a manual, only a huge amount of > cluttered HTML files, that don't contain anything useful, and that is > not even useable with Internet Exploder. There is a PDF file, but I > had to download it from the web site. > > HP support for this beast is not existing, several requests have > never been answered, and the folks at the telephone hotline are > surprised that this machine even works with a Mac. > > What a waste of money. I never buy another HP product. I mean, there > are always problems, but completely ignoring them does not help. > > Norbert M. Doerner (Doerner@kagi.com) My experience with the LJ3200M is a parallel to yours with some exceptions. I agree the hardware is excellent. I did not check my fonts but as yet have not seen anything untoward. The fax driver worked from the outset but I have ColourSync permanently installed. Have you tried putting a sheet of paper into the front copy/fax slot before booting up with printer on, this invariably triggers HP AIO Communication menu window for me. My G4 has not hung due to printing. I could not print in PageMaker without producing pages of rubbish at the top until I had changed the options to ASCII instead of Binary. HP Support told me of this and it is in a TIL. Yes HP AIO Comm is a piece of software needing a bit done to it, have you updated to the HP printer software dated September 2001. This may solve you problem as it SEEMS more stable. Ah! the manual. I ended extracting the Help files and printing them in colour, nearly a ream on single side. A shame really as for a few bucks more a book could have been printed. The printer itself is not all that cheap in Sydney (Australia). I found that HP support in Oz was not all that good, I was assured they had a later version of the software and sent me a CD which turned out the be exactly the same as the original. HOWEVER the email support from the US HP organisation has been excellent throughout. Their replies came back overnight and they made plenty of effort to see me through a couple of problems. So Norbert do not give up on HP just yet! (Contact me if you have a problem printing in MacOS 10.1 with Classic running. The problem appears to be with AppleTalk and not the HP software. It is exercising some of the Apple Techs brains at present.) Graham Haultain ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 21:52:26 +0100 From: Christian F Buser To: Chris McVay/Karen McVay Subject: G3 to G4 (C) Chris McVay/Karen McVay wrote: > I have a G3 266 beige desktop with 512mb ram. I need better performance > and want to replace the processor with a faster G3 processor or a G4. Of coure, your speed will be increased. But only your processor will be faster - the system bus remains the same speed as before. If you install, say, a G4 of some speed, your Mac won't be as fast as an "original G4" which has the same processor installed. So you should deduct some amount from the price difference of a "new" computer to what you would get when you try to sell yours. Best wishes, Christian. -- Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) Look at Korruption ist die Autobahn neben dem Dienstweg. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 17:43:31 -0400 From: "Clare N. Shumway" To: mailto: Subject: Help I need either advice or referral to a source of information. I have a Blue&White G3 Mac, a new iBook and a Canon Hi8 video-camera; I'd like to use the computer(s) to edit tapes and create brief Quicktime movies from the Hi8 format. Can someone tell me what additional equipment (other than a new digital video-camera) that I will need to accomplish this, or direct me to the source of such information? Hopefully (and gratefully) yours. Clare Shumway ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 10:46:50 -0400 From: Allan Hunter To: Charles Freund Subject: How to check ethernet port At 9:13 PM -0500 10/7/01, Charles Freund wrote: >I have a beige G3/300 desktop with built-in ethernet. I'm getting ready to >go to either cable modem or ADSL, and wanted to check out the ethernet port >to make sure it was functional before ordering broadband service. > >I created a 10baseT crossover cable and connected the Mac to my work >Windows laptop (with PCMCIA ethernet that is known good). The light on the >Windows interface came on, indicating that it saw the connection (also >worked when I swapped ends with the cable, to check both paths of the >cable). But I was unable to complete a ping from either machine. The >laptop was set up with ip of 192.168.30.18, subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. >The mac was 192.168.30.17. > >thanks for any suggestions Go to the AppleTalk Control Panel and see if it will let you set it to Ethernet. Your beige G3 is old enough to have a serial port, and serial port Macs default to Printer Port for AppleTalk UNLESS there is not only an ethernet port in existence, but also a valid connection to another device. (To verify this, try to set up AppleTalk over Ethernet without the PC being connected, and it should refuse to do so). If you can set up AppleTalk over Ethernet, you've got a live port. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 21:52:23 +0100 From: Christian F Buser To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: initializing new drive (C) solitude@flash.net wrote: > Just bought an 80 gig firewire external drive. CharisMac is touting > their Anubis Utility as the best initializer. Any opinions or > experiences to share? Well, if you want only 1 single partition, and no "extras", Apple's formatter is the best choice. If you ever want to update your OS version, the driver is automatically updated by the MacOS installer. If you have used 3rd party formatting software, you need to search for the correct/recommended version of the formatter for your specific OS version. However, Silverlining (from LaCie), Hard Disk Toolkit (from FWB) and others have some advantages if you partition your drive. The partitions may be resized (provided they are not full, of course) without initializing the drive. This is not possible with Apple's formatter. There may be other advantages which I do not remember at the moment. I have never used Anubis. I am a long-time user of Silverlining (SL pro 6.3.2 at the moment), and friends are using HDT successfully. Best wishes, Christian. -- Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) Look at Korruption ist die Autobahn neben dem Dienstweg. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 09:58:34 -0700 From: "[???]" To: Subject: Outlook Express 5.02 problem... according to Jeffrey Alaimo ... [snip] > However, now, when I open the program, in the left side panels, the INBOX is > marked with 25 messages, even when it's EMPTY! The same problem also > affects the OutBox and the Deleted Items Boxes. [snip] > To date, I've deleted and rebuilt the Desktop Database, twice. I've deleted > the OE preferences files, zapped PRAM, virus-scanned with Virex 6.1 with > October's update, all to no avail. not sure what the problem might be, but in my experience OE works much more smoothly if i rebuild my database on a regular schedule. from what you mentioned, it doesn't sound like you've tried this (and may not know how it's done). as OE starts up, hold down the opt key. you will be prompted with some dialog, just hit "ok". OE will proceed to "clean-up" your files. another point you may not be aware of is the location of the *real* info that OE is cleaning. on your hard disk (it may be the startup disk only...can't remember) you will find a "Documents" folder. navigate down until you come to the "Main Identity" folder. herein, you will find the files containing all of your messages, signatures, rules, addresses, schedules, etc. i make it a point to back-up this folder on a *very* regular basis. the strange part about the "Messages" database is that it holds files that have been deleted from within the app. these files are not *completely* eliminated until you do the opt key thing. if you have been using OE for a while, you may find this file to be terribly bloated & in desperate need of some cleaning up. my "Messages" are typically between 60 & 100mb--it has reached as high as 150mb+. once OE has optimized, compressed, & whatever else it does after the opt key trick, you will find files appended with "Old" in the "Main Identity" folder. once you are sure everything is working appropriately with your email, you can dump these "Old" files. depending on the nature & volume of your email you may find that you have drastically reduced the size of your info. ------------------ munsellian@mac.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 00:46:44 +1000 From: Glen Hawkins To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Remote Access startup I have a G3/500 powerbook that does something that is starting to annoy me. When I start up it automatically tries to connect me to the internet via my modem. This is eliminated by turning off the "allow TCP/IP programs to start internet" check box. Then when I want to view my e-mail starting Eudora doesn't initiate the internet link (as expected). My question is: does System 9.1 auto access TCP/IP on startup, and can this feature be turned off without turning off the TCP/IP program access? Cheers Glen -- Dr Glen Hawkins Sydney, Australia glenhawk@ozemail.com.au Ph: +61407700701 Fax: +61407701717 -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************