Subject: Info-Mac Digest V18 #62 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 62 Today's Topics: [*] Peek-a-Boo 1.6 [*] Poker Dice 1.0 [*] QT Pad v1.0.6 [*] QuoEdit 1.0.0b [*] SweetMail 2.09 [*] UGather version 2.2.2 [*] UPresent Viewer (Carbon) - free viewing companion to UPresent. [*] UPresent Viewer - free viewing companion to UPresent. [*] x-launch 2.11 -- Enhanced replacement for Apple's Launcher Adding RAM, must each slot be consistant? Does Apple have plans for a Low-Cost thin client? Fwd: Re: Disk Warrior Compatibility with Norton Utilities macintosh512k Must CDROM remain as Slave? 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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Info-Mac volunteers include Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Hugh Lewis, Tom Coradeschi, Shawn Bunn, Christopher Li, Patrik Montgomery, Ed Chambers, and Chris Pepper. America Online donated the main Info-Mac machine . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V18 #62" ------------------------------ Date: 16 Apr 2001 From: Bob Clark To: Subject: [*] Peek-a-Boo 1.6 Peek-a-Boo 1.6 is a $20 utility to monitor and manipulate all running processes. You can watch and adjust how much CPU time each process uses. You can view any piece of information available through the Process Manager, sorting processes by a variety of attributes. Peek-a-Boo "Special Technology" can adjust how much of the CPU a program is allowed to use. For example, if a web browser is using up too much CPU time when it should be idling, Peek-a-Boo can lower that process's priority. Alternatively, if a number-crunching program in the background needs more CPU time, Peek-a-Boo can raise its priority. Peek-a-Boo is well-suited to this task since it both shows CPU usage and adjusts it, so you can see what processes need their priorities changed, and you can watch how well the adjustments worked. Peek-a-Boo does not need to be running for Special Technology to take effect: once a process's priority is adjusted, it remains set until it's adjusted again. Peek-a-Boo lets you open CPU history windows to track how much processor power a process uses, and logging windows for more detailed CPU and memory usage analysis, including the ability to save the results to a tab-delimited log file. **** What is new in Peek-a-Boo 1.6 **** Peek-a-Boo has implemented an Apple Event interface to enable third-party programs to use Peek-a-Boo's Special Technology feature to set process priorities. Another Clarkwood Software product, CSM Pack, includes a module that uses this interface to set priorities using a control strip module. This Apple Event interface, and an earlier one for telling Peek-a-Boo about Temporary Memory usage, are now available for programmers using a newly-available SDK. Peek-a-Bo 1.6 allows you to start typing a process name and it selects that process. This feature has been frequently requested, and we're glad to announce its availability. Peek-a-Boo 1.6 also allows left- and right-arrow keypresses to cycle through processes in the order that they're located in memory. This can make it easier to select specific processes when you're trying to make a contiguous range of memory available. Several minor bugs have been fixed. [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/peek-a-boo-16.hqx; 364 K] ------------------------------ Date: 13 Apr 2001 From: "Shari L. Coxford" To: Subject: [*] Poker Dice 1.0 A cross between poker and the traditional 5-dice games, with several variations to play. Standard, Down the Line, Wild Cards, and Lots of Zingers. High scores bring out Madame Murghi the fortune teller to tell your fortune. Over 1000 fortunes. For those of you who loved Killer Dice, this is the logical sequel, with several variations and added categories to score in, and the introduction of Madame Murghi the fortune teller in all her wicked glory. Shareware $19.99 http://www.gypsyware.com [Archived as /info-mac/game/crd/poker-dice-10.hqx; 2230 K] ------------------------------ Date: 15 Apr 2001 From: Takashi Suzuki To: Subject: [*] QT Pad v1.0.6 Can you remember where is your favorite movie files? QT Pad is the solution. QT Pad is an application for the Macintosh which allows you to make up library of QuickTime movie file. One window, ie. one file, can hold references for 50 movie files. Just a click to playback movie files. What's changed : - May crash when you close some window -> fixed. Features : - Fat Binary. - Macintosh Drag and Drop support. - Navigation Services support. (PowerPC Only) This application requires : - Macintosh with 68020 or higher / PowerPC - System7 + QuickTime or System7.1 or later -- T.Suzuki [Archived as /info-mac/gst/qt-pad-106.hqx; 138 K] ------------------------------ Date: 14 Apr 2001 From: Lyomei Sakai To: Subject: [*] QuoEdit 1.0.0b QuoEdit is a text editor for plain (monostyled) text that runs on System 7.1 or later of Mac OS (classic environment). The archive includes both PowerPC version and 68K version. It's free for a while (while beta version). Features: Intended to provide quick operations with simple interface. Supports AppleScript powerfully; you can also record and replay your tasks by the scripting features. Some menus are customizable. You can also add up to three menus. Supports regular expression search as well as multi-file search. Multiple levels of undo/redo for each document. WorldScript savvy. This version: fixed several bugs. removed user interface conflict with the Aqua for the future. As a result, some keyboard shortcuts were changed. And so forth. Enjoy! Lyomei Sakai [Archived as /info-mac/text/quo-edit-100b.hqx; 1113 K] ------------------------------ Date: 16 Apr 2001 From: sweetmail@mac.com To: Subject: [*] SweetMail 2.09 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 7.1 or later. (PPC/68K, including MacOSX) * 4MB of Memory. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/mail/sweet-mail-209.hqx; 2229 K] ------------------------------ Date: 14 Apr 2001 From: Kyle Hammond To: Subject: [*] UGather version 2.2.2 A multimedia database manager for multimedia files. [Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/ugather.hqx; 3398 K] ------------------------------ Date: 13 Apr 2001 From: Kyle Hammond To: Subject: [*] UPresent Viewer (Carbon) - free viewing companion to UPresent. This is the Built for MacOS X version of UPresent Viewer. UPresent Viewer is the free viewing companion to UPresent - Multimedia Presentation Manager, the multimedia authoring and presentation application from CodeBlazer Technologies, LLC. The UPresent Viewer lets you view, navigate, and print pre-assembled multimedia presentations authored in UPresent. The Viewer works like Adobe Acrobat's Reader for viewing PDF documents, no editing functions are available. System Requirements: PowerPC based Macintosh running MacOS 8.6 or higher (including MacOS X). For MacOS 8.6 - 9.x, requires CarbonLib 1.1 or later and 15 MB free RAM. QuickTime 4.0 or later. [Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/u-present-viewer-carbon.hqx; 1552 K] ------------------------------ Date: 13 Apr 2001 From: Kyle Hammond To: Subject: [*] UPresent Viewer - free viewing companion to UPresent. UPresent Viewer is the free viewing companion to UPresent - Multimedia Presentation Manager, the multimedia authoring and presentation application from CodeBlazer Technologies, LLC. The UPresent Viewer lets you view, navigate, and print pre-assembled multimedia presentations authored in UPresent. The Viewer works like Adobe Acrobat's Reader for viewing PDF documents, no editing functions are available. System Requirements: PowerPC based Macintosh running MacOS 8.1 - 9.x with 15 MB free RAM QuickTime 4.0 or later [Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/u-present-viewer-classic.hqx; 1249 K] ------------------------------ Date: 14 Apr 2001 From: David Yeh To: Subject: [*] x-launch 2.11 -- Enhanced replacement for Apple's Launcher X-Launch is a small launcher intended to be a replacement for Apple's Launcher. It is designed to work in much the same way as Launcher and offers similar functionality, while at the same time occupying a smaller footprint and offering some customization features that hopefully make it more aesthetically pleasing. In addition, it features extra conveniences such as allowing the user to reorder buttons and category icons, to navigate folder contents via contextual menu, and to bring the launch window to the front via a hot corner. Version 2.11 adds bring-to-front hot key, Tooltips for categories, and several other bug fixes and improvements. Requirements: PowerPC and MacOS 8 and higher Homepage: http://homepage.mac.com/dyeh/x-launch/ Author: David Yeh [Archived as /info-mac/gui/x-launch-211.hqx; 322 K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 09:23:08 -0400 From: carolynb To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Adding RAM, must each slot be consistant? Hello, 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? TIA, Carolyn carolynb@mindspring.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 18:58:29 -0500 From: Chris Dart To: comp-sys-mac-digest@moderators.isc.org Subject: Does Apple have plans for a Low-Cost thin client? I am an IT person in a 30+ workstation, virtually all-Mac, organization. I am eager to move toward a thin-client setup for low cost and easier maintenance. Has anyone heard anything about Apple's plans to create a really low-cost (less than $400) thin client that can only operate when connected to a netboot server? If true, this would represent a genius move on the part of Apple because, with the arguably lower cost of ownership with Macs and a dramatically reduced-price desktop box, the CFOs will have to take notice. I seem to recall reading about a device using the cube design with just a mainboard, video, USB, & ethernet. I hope this is true. If it is it would be Apple's best move to dramatically increase their market share and really scare Microsoft into writing code worth the dollars we pay them. My IT peers are ultimately sensible and practical. While I don't generally enjoy their company in social settings because they still think Macs cost $3000 and run the Multi-Finder, they aren't as wedded to a particular OS as you might think. Show them something that is cheap, reliable, efficient and stable, and they will take notice. Give them a true thin-client with most of the advantages of desktop PC running a modern, efficient, stable OS off a server, and they will universally wet themselves. They would have to take action on it soon because, most IT trends for corporate office environments indicate a move back to thin clients. Has anyone else heard about this? Chris Dart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 12:54:32 -0700 From: Ted Logan To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Fwd: Re: Disk Warrior Compatibility with Norton Utilities This information from Alsoft may be of interest to those concerned about possible Disk Warrior-Norton Utilities conflicts, which have been suggested previously. >X-Sieve: cmu-sieve 2.0 >Subject: Re: Disk Warrior Compatibility with Norton Utilities >Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 12:26:20 -0000 >From: Mike Rogers >To: "Theodore Logan" > > >Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted by Theodore >Logan (tedlogan@uneedspeed.net) on Wednesday, April 11, 2001 at 16:32:25 >>--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>a_Product: DiskWarrior >> >>b_Product_Version: 2.1 >> >>c_Product_Serial_Number: RR215895 >> >>d_Question_or_Problem: Can I use Norton Utilities and Disk Warrior >interchangeably on the same system? If I optimize a disk with Disk >Warrior, can I still use Norton Disk Doctor for diagnosis and repair? I >have been told that once I optimize a disk with DW I can no longer >optimize it with NDD without causing a crash. Is this true? >> >>g. Mac OS Version: Mac OS 9.1 >> >>h. Mac Model: Power Mac G3/266 >> >>i. Mac Processor: G3 (PPC 750) >> >>j. Mac RAM: 96 >> >>p. Phone: 520-855-6279 >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>IP Address: 24.246.33.101 >> >> > > >Theodore Logan, > >You can run DiskWarrior and Norton's interchangeably without a problem. >We recommend that at the first sight of directory damage you run >DiskWarrior or Apple's DiskFirstAid. When you run DiskWarrior or >DiskFirstAid they will not try to repair the disk if they know they >cannot. > >"I have been told that once I optimize a disk with DW I can no longer >optimize it with NDD without causing a crash. Is this true?" > >There is no reason for Nortons to crash after running DiskWarrior. I'm >not sure of the algorithm Nortons uses to optimize but running >DiskWarrior before hand should not cause it to crash. > >Mike Rogers >Alsoft Tech Support >www.Alsoft.com >281-353-1510 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 19:15:04 -0500 From: "S.Mahanay" To: digest@info-mac.org, A.I.Hughes@e-eng.hull.ac.uk Subject: macintosh512k Hi I found one of these old macs in some junk, it's a macintoash512k, to my surprise it fired right up, but is missing and operating system. When it boots up you get the floppy disc picture with a blinking question mark. I did not find the key board or mouse. I opened it up and the inside had about forty signatures molded into the frame backing including Steve Jobs. Does anyone know of anyway I can install a system into it if I found a key board, the floppy disc seem broken also. Can it connect to my power tower pro 200? Thanks, Steve Subject: old old software for macintosh512k Dear mac users I have recently rescued a fatboy from a scrap yard and have now got the operating system 0.01(after much searching!) and would now like you all to send any old software/manuals/information or anything else you may find relevant (NO insults please:) so I throw myself on the kindnesses of strangers once again. One point all downloads will be made to an AMIGA machine so any type of amiga/macintosh cross talk programmes would also be appreciated. So amiga heads I call on you also! SO The ADDRESS is A.I.Hughes@e-eng.hull.ac.uk I thank you for your time... Reply to: A.I.Hughes@e-eng.hull.ac.uk Reply to: digest@info-mac.org ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 09:16:19 -0400 From: carolynb To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Must CDROM remain as Slave? Hello, I have a Beige G3 powerpc, which came with a Zip drive and a CDROM. I am installing another hard drive in the extra bay. The original configuration is such that the original HD is on it's own cable, while the CD and Zip are on a second cable. I had planned to use one cable to go to the original HD and CD, and the second cable to go to the Zip drive and second HD. I planned to do this because it's been very difficult to find the right cable length/plug configuration to run between the original HD and anything else, and I can make it work for the CD only. However, the CD is set to master, so unless I make it a slave, I can't place the CD on the same cable as the main HD. The Zip and second HD are set to slave. 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. Any advice is appreciated! TIA, Carolyn carolynb@mindspring.com -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************