Subject: Info-Mac Digest V18 #70 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Tue, 01 May 01 Volume 18 : Issue 70 Today's Topics: [*] [*] DiskSurveyor 2.0.1 [*] FractalGeneration [*] image-sxm-166-2.hqx [*] Italian Nouns 1.2 - Italian language learning [*] Italian Verbs 1.2.8 - Italian language learning [*] Magellan 1.8.2 [*] MyWill 3.0 [*] PowerMail 3.0.9 Carbon [*] PowerMail 3.0.9 Classic [*] SFX Machine 1.50 - Audio Multi-Effects Plug-In [*] WhizGraph 1.0 - data analysis and graphic presentation Chinese language input methods StarMax 5500 and printers 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 #70" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 17:49:33 -0700 From: 01rocket@gte.net (Jerry Irvine) To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: [*] [*] DiskSurveyor 2.0.1 In article <9aef5u$1u1q$1@traf.lcs.mit.edu>, digest@info-mac.org wrote: > From: Tom Luhrs > Subject: [*] [*] DiskSurveyor 2.0.1 > your hard drive any bigger, but it does show you, *GRAPHICALLY*, what's > using up all that space. > [Archived as /info-mac/disk/disk-surveyor-201.hqx; 406 K] I have already found this immediately useful. I can see if you have multiple online drives it would be even more useful for transfer/backup. I used it when I was 96% full on a drive. I am now 70% full on that drive. I would like to see the feature added to the software of defragmenting. Or a freeware defragmenter that is reliable. "Do or do not, there is no try." - Yoda Macintosh sidenote. Disc First Aid and 1st Aid HFS do not trecognize PC discs and they need to. ------------------------------ Date: 30 Apr 2001 From: Laurent Thil To: Subject: [*] FractalGeneration Latest release of FractalGeneration. FractalGeneration 1.2 ( rel March 2001 ) is a still images and movie fractal renderer. This version bring a sequence editor tool used used to generate fractal animations. The animations produced are quicktime movies. Other additions are altivec support and other bugs ( mainly memory leaks ) fixed. FractalGeneration is freeware and run on MacOs8.6 and above. It requires QuickTime 4.0 or above. Feel free to distribute FractalGeneration on any of your archives CD-ROM. [Archived as /info-mac/sci/fractal-generation-12.hqx; 1144 K] ------------------------------ Date: 30 Apr 2001 From: Steve Barrett To: Subject: [*] image-sxm-166-2.hqx I give permission for my program to be included on the Info-Mac CD-ROM. Image SXM is a version of the public domain image analysis software NIH Image that has been extended to handle the loading, display and analysis of scanning microscope images. Image SXM supports images from the following systems: Burleigh Instruments Digital Instruments NanoScope DME Rasterscope Gatan DigitalMicrograph (DigiScan) JEOL SEM, WinSem and SPM Klocke Nanotechnik SPM and SNOM LEO SEM Molecular Imaging Noran Vantage Omicron and Omicron SCALA Oxford Instruments TOPSystem Park Scientific Instruments Philips Quesant Instruments RHK Technology ThermoMicroscopes TopoMetrix Vacuum Generators WA Technology Zeiss LSM To keep up to date with news of the latest version of Image SXM, check the web page http://reg.ssci.liv.ac.uk/ If you have problems, or any comments or suggestions for new features that you would like to see in future versions of Image SXM, then please email me. Steve Barrett April 2001 S.D.Barrett@liv.ac.uk [Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/image-sxm-166-2.hqx; 3566 K] ------------------------------ Date: 30 Apr 2001 From: Jacek Iwanski To: Subject: [*] Italian Nouns 1.2 - Italian language learning Italian Nouns 1.2 is a plug-in module for the language-learning program 'Verbs & Nouns'. The 'Verbs & Nouns' program helps Macintosh users to practise verbs and nouns in several languages. You can download this program from the same place as this module. This plug-in module helps you to practise Italian nouns, including plural forms, the definite article, and translations. The module already contains more than 2000 nouns, and you can add your own nouns to it. Jacek Iwanski. [Archived as /info-mac/edu/lang/italian-nouns-12.hqx; 461 K] ------------------------------ Date: 30 Apr 2001 From: Jacek Iwanski To: Subject: [*] Italian Verbs 1.2.8 - Italian language learning The inflection of verbs is one of the difficult parts of learning Italian since there are numerous inflection patterns. "Italian Verbs" is a dictionary module that helps you to learn these patterns and refresh your knowledge about the rules for the inflection of verbs. The dictionary contains approximately 490 irregular verbs, and 560 regular ones. To open this dictionary module you should use the application "Verbs & Nouns" version 2.4.7 or higher. You can download the program "Verbs & Nouns" from the same place as this dictionary. You can visit: to get more information. Jacek Iwanski. [Archived as /info-mac/edu/lang/italian-verbs-128.hqx; 567 K] ------------------------------ Date: 27 Apr 2001 From: "MAKI Enterprise Inc." To: Subject: [*] Magellan 1.8.2 Following problems of version 1.8.1. has been fixed. - A space in subject line of received email is lost, when it includes non us-ascii characters. - Once RightToLeft language has been sent, indication is saved as RightToLeft even email does not RTL language. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/mail/magellan-182.hqx; 1327 K] ------------------------------ Date: 29 Apr 2001 From: Robert Presender To: Subject: [*] MyWill 3.0 MyWILL is a 'do it yourself' shareware program for the average person who may or may not be married, may or may not have children and whose estate may or may not be large enough to be subjected to probate costs, professional fees and taxes. Its creation provides for the distribution of your possessions, estate, property and so forth upon your death. The program walks you through all the steps of creating a Will, and generates an editable, printable copy at the end of the process. Online Help is available for each step. Upon our death, do we want the result of our labors eaten away by unnecessary court costs, professional fees and taxes? More importantly, do we want the State to distribute our property and appoint a guardian for our minor children if we don't leave a Will? Changed format to the modern look in this version. PowerPC and 68K formats are available. MyWill ReadMe contains version history. Home page: http://www.geocities.com/rpresender [Archived as /info-mac/app/mywill-30.hqx; 774 K] ------------------------------ Date: 30 Apr 2001 From: PowerMail info To: Subject: [*] PowerMail 3.0.9 Carbon GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - April 28th, 2001 - CTM Development releases a new version of its $49 flagship e-mail application for Macintosh, PowerMail, now natively supported both on Mac OS X (Carbon) and on Mac OS 9 and 8 (Classic). Designed as a fully-featured, user friendly alternative to Microsoft's Outlook Express/Entourage and Eudora, PowerMail features the highest performance mail searching capability, excellent compatibility with complex languages such as Japanese, Chinese and Hebrew as well as a state-of-the-art Mac-like design with Aqua support. The new version offers 14 new features, 26 bug fixes and has been successfully tested with Mac OS X version 10.0.1 and Mac OS 9.1 (all releases since 8.5 are supported). PowerMail 3.0.9 can be ordered, or evaluated as a 30-day trial, from http://www.ctmdev.com; this version is free upgrade for PowerMail 3.0 registered users. For additional information regarding PowerMail, kindly contact info@ctmdev.com [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/mail/power-mail-309-cbn.hqx; 2780 K] ------------------------------ Date: 30 Apr 2001 From: PowerMail info To: Subject: [*] PowerMail 3.0.9 Classic GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - April 28th, 2001 - CTM Development releases a new version of its $49 flagship e-mail application for Macintosh, PowerMail, now natively supported both on Mac OS X (Carbon) and on Mac OS 9 and 8 (Classic). Designed as a fully-featured, user friendly alternative to Microsoft's Outlook Express/Entourage and Eudora, PowerMail features the highest performance mail searching capability, excellent compatibility with complex languages such as Japanese, Chinese and Hebrew as well as a state-of-the-art Mac-like design with Aqua support. The new version offers 14 new features, 26 bug fixes and has been successfully tested with Mac OS X version 10.0.1 and Mac OS 9.1 (all releases since 8.5 are supported). PowerMail 3.0.9 can be ordered, or evaluated as a 30-day trial, from http://www.ctmdev.com; this version is free upgrade for PowerMail 3.0 registered users. For additional information regarding PowerMail, kindly contact info@ctmdev.com [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/mail/power-mail-309.hqx; 2730 K] ------------------------------ Date: 29 Apr 2001 From: Earl Vickers To: Subject: [*] SFX Machine 1.50 - Audio Multi-Effects Plug-In The new version of SFX Machine is the most powerful, easy-to-use sound mangling appliance available for the Mac. SFX Machine has won Electronic Musician's Editor's Choice Award, a Key Buy award from Keyboard Magazine, and acclaim from dozens of leading sound designers and composers. It is now available direct from its author, The Sound Guy, at a new low price. This try-before-you-buy copy of SFX Machine is fully functional the first ten times you launch it; thereafter, it will act as a demo until purchased. This plug-in can be used as a sample creation tool, a sound design tool, or a multi-effects unit that goes far beyond the usual types of effects. It has a simple front-end that lets you load presets and modify them using sliders. Almost 400 presets are included, and others will be available from our web site. In addition, a powerful modular synthesis engine lets you create your own effects. If you want, the Randomize button will make something up for you. We've eliminated the pesky key-disk and challenge/response copy protection. Also, SFX Machine 1.50 SOUNDS BETTER THAN EVER BEFORE. Instead of using 4-byte floats for our computations and delay-lines, we're now using 8-byte doubles. The result: less noise, more transparency. We want to crunch your numbers, not your signal. (Unless you want your signal crunched.) Finally, version 1.50 fixes a bug when running with Deck or Digital Performer. Real-time plug-in formats are great, but most effects programs don't allow arbitrarily bizarre patches and twisted feedback loops, precisely because they may not be computationally efficient enough to run in real time. If you're tired of traditional been-there-done-that effects and you're ready to hear the sound of a super-computer giving itself a groin injury, you've come to the right place. By the way, SFX Machine 1.50 is now optimized for G4s! SFX Machine requires a Power Macintosh and a Premiere-format host program. It works with Peak, Deck, Vision, Premiere, Digital Performer, Logic Audio, Metro, and TurboMorph. SFX Machine 1.50 is available only from the Sound Guy, sfx@sfxmachine.com, . [Archived as /info-mac/gst/sfx-machine-15.hqx; 1050 K] ------------------------------ Date: 27 Apr 2001 From: DG Contact To: Subject: [*] WhizGraph 1.0 - data analysis and graphic presentation WhizGraph 1.0 by DeepGreen Solutions WhizGraph is a great tool for your data analysis and graphing demands. The program provides an intuitive and easy-to-use user inteface and offers you clear and accurate data management combined with versatile layout options to customize your plots. WhizGraph was developed with a special focus on people doing scientific or educational work on a restricted budget. System Requirements MacOS 7.5 or higher on a PowerPC Macintosh Purchase Information Shareware $45 Company Information DeepGreen Solutions E-mail: contact@deepgreen.de HTTP: www.deepgreen.de [Archived as /info-mac/sci/whiz-graph-10.hqx; 1197 K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 12:10:52 -0500 From: Pepper & Joe To: Subject: Chinese language input methods For weeks I have been trying to find software that will allow me to enter traditional Chinese (Big 5) into various (or any) applications. I have run up against brick walls everywhere I go. The main obstacle seems to be an inability to locate Apple's Chinese Language Kit and, more recently, the Apple extension "inputbacksupport". I would appreciate any assistance anyone is willing to offer with this problem. Gracias Joey Pilon and Pepper Lin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 16:18:14 -0400 From: Rick Schultz To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: StarMax 5500 and printers I have recently aquired a Motorola StarMax 5500/200. It is based upon the PowerMac 4400 motherboard. The only real difficulty that I am having is with a HP Laserjet 4m Plus printer. I can't see it in the chooser. I am on System 9.1 (have tried other lower ones) and am using the latest Laserwriter software. Have also tried the HP software for this printer. All to no avail. Can't see it in the chooser. This same setup worked fine on a PowerMac 8100/80. Same printer. Same cable. Same driver. Any help would be appreciated. Rick Schultz Rick.Schultz@oracle.com -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************