Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #187 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Tue, 28 Nov 00 Volume 17 : Issue 187 Today's Topics: [*] TidBITS#557/27-Nov-00 [*] Activity & Expense Tracker v2 [*] ASCIIEnc [*] AutoShare 4.2.1 released [*] Chocoletters 1.6 - A puzzle game [*] ChocolettersVF 1.6 - French version [*] Clipboard Edit 1.0, a clipboard editot [ftp: [*] CWPT_full_demo.sea.hqx [*] emailcleaner.sit.hqx Convenient cleaning on emails and newsgroups posts [*] redbikini Plakativo Postscript font 0.1 [*] redbikini Plakativo Truetype font 0.1 [*] redbikini Significa Postscript font 0.1 [*] redbikini Significa Truetype font 0.1 [*] Shade: a text adventure [*] Skully [*] Vanessa Chess 2.0.1 [*] White Christmas [*] WYSIWYG Font Preview 1.0 [Q] dead 6500/225 Ethernetting iMac and Laserwriter Pro 630 HP DeskJet 970cxi iMac suddenly soundless 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 V17 #187" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 23:00:00 -0800 From: TidBITS Editors To: digest@info-mac.org, Mac-L@clio.lyris.net, evangelist@macevangelist.com Subject: [*] TidBITS#557/27-Nov-00 TidBITS#557/27-Nov-00 Struggling to put together the right outfit for holiday festivities? Fear not: TidBITS clothing is here, along with mugs and mousepads! Also this week, we look at ICANN, the just-approved new top-level domains, and how they might impact you. Also, Tom Gewecke examines multilingual support in Mac OS 9 - including the language kits you might not know are included - and we note the release of MacSpeech's iListen 1.0, Graphing Calculator 3.0, and NetCloak 3.1. Topics: MailBITS/27-Nov-00 TidBITS T-Shirts... Finally! ICANN and the Seven New Top-Level Domains Unleashing Your Multilingual Mac [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-557.etx; 34K] ------------------------------ Date: 28 Nov 2000 From: Garth Catterall-Heart To: Subject: [*] Activity & Expense Tracker v2 Redwood Valley, CA 11/22/2000 -- Today, SpiritWorks Software Development released their improved project, activity and expense tracking system. Activity & Expense Tracker v2 helps self-employed individuals, or small businesses, to keep track of time and expenses spent on any number of projects. Now writers, programmers or any consultant can easily record the amount of time they spend on specific activities and make notes on tasks and expenses. They can then quickly generate invoices and reports that can be printed or exported to word processing or spreadsheet programs. Features include: Multiple Timers - quickly switch between projects by pausing and restarting timers for each activity; Quick Check - an instant report on the number of hours spent on a project or activity; Customize background and button colors as well as the highlight color; Generate reports and invoices for projects, activities and expenses, with customizable headers and footers. Activity & Expense Tracker works well for small businesses or work groups too. Each person keeps track of their own time and expenses, exports the data and sends it to an administrator, who imports them all, and then generates invoices and time and expense reports. Students, teachers, athletes and hobbyists can use Activity & Expense Tracker to keep track of time spent on their projects too. Volunteers will find the program useful for keeping track of time and expenses for tax purposes. Users can try out the software free for 30 days, before registering it for only $35. Activity & Expense Tracker runs on most computers including, Windows 95/98/2000/NT, Macintosh and many UNIX operating systems. Activity & Expense Tracker helps you be more productive, by keeping track of the time you spend on both billable and non-billable activities. It also makes generating invoices and reports a quick and painless task. John Hedley comments, "As a former administrator of a 500+ seat enterprise project tracking system, I've found most of the single seat user shareware systems to be sorely lacking in coherency or practicality. This is a first rate, user friendly system." For more information, go to http://about-the-web.com/aetracker/?infomac on the World Wide Web or e-mail aet-info@about-the-web.com. ##### Contact: ********** ABSTRACT CROPPED ********** [Archived as /info-mac/app/bus/ae-tracker.hqx; 1842 K] ------------------------------ Date: 28 Nov 2000 From: David Kibrick To: Subject: [*] ASCIIEnc ASCIIEnc is an AppleScript implementation of the Theta Pi TI-83 Encryption. It is a straight text-encryption program, able to encrypt text messages only. It offers a level of security somewhere between ROT13 and full-fledged ciphers such as DES and IDEA. What are the two programs? HexiEnc is a (possibly) more secure implementation of the encoding scheme, while ASCIIEnc is an optimized version that encodes the text much faster. How do I use the program? Upon opening the program, you will see a dialog box entitled "Input Options." You can choose to enter or paste a message directly into the program or have it open a plain text file with your message or encrypted text. Next, choose Encode to encrypt your plain text, or choose Decode to decipher a previously encoded message. After this prompt, enter your password. It can be anywhere from 1 to 255 characters, but a password longer than 4 characters is recommended. After en/decrypting the text, you can have the program display a short message in a dialog box, or export to a new text file. Do I need to Register ASCIIEnc? No. ASCIIEnc, like the TI-83 version, is distributed free of charge. You may also redistribute ASCIIEnc, as long as the readme file is included. Notes on ASCIIEnc Please keep in mind that the current version of ASCIIEnc is relatively slow. If you want to encode more than a few paragraphs, be prepared to wait for a minute or two. Hopefully, subsequent versions will be real programs, and as such will be able to process the text much faster. [Archived as /info-mac/cmp/asciienc.hqx; 62 K] ------------------------------ Date: 28 Nov 2000 From: Mikael Hansen To: Subject: [*] AutoShare 4.2.1 released AutoShare 4.2.1 is available at Version 4.2.1 introduces configurable formats used for the automated web archives and offers minor improvements and bug fixes. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/autoshare-421.hqx; 2838 K] ------------------------------ Date: 28 Nov 2000 From: pierre07@kagi.com To: Subject: [*] Chocoletters 1.6 - A puzzle game Chocoletters is a puzzle game. You have to find how the computer mixed up 36 letters and figures in a 6 by 6 grid. To succeed you may ask for paths leading from one letter to another. With several paths you can deduce the positions of the letters. The score depends on the number of paths and the time spent to finish. You can see examples at: http://perso.club-internet.fr/pierre07/pages/chocopage.htm Chocoletters should run on all of the 68020 System 7 + Quicktime Macintoshes and later with a 640x480 color screen or more. You need Quicktime 3.0 to hear good sounds in Midi files. You need Quicktime 4.0 to play mp3 files. What's new in version 1.6 ? - Better look, even if the tiles resemble more caramel than chocolate - Pressing an "A...Z" or "1...9" key hilites the corresponding tiles in the paths list. - The animation is faster. Chocoletters is a $10 US shareware. Payments are handled by Kagi. Pierre Durand 14 rue de Montenegro 71200 Le Creusot France [Archived as /info-mac/game/word/chocoletters-16.hqx; 785 K] ------------------------------ Date: 28 Nov 2000 From: pierre07@kagi.com To: Subject: [*] ChocolettersVF 1.6 - French version Chocoletters is a puzzle game. You have to find how the computer mixed up 36 letters and figures in a 6 by 6 grid. To succeed you may ask for paths leading from one letter to another. With several paths you can deduce the positions of the letters. The score depends on the number of paths and the time spent to finish. You can see examples in English at: http://perso.club-internet.fr/pierre07/pages/chocopage.htm and examples in French at: http://perso.club-internet.fr/pierre07/pages/chocopageVF.htm Chocoletters should run on all of the 68020 System 7 + Quicktime Macintoshes and later with a 640x480 color screen or more. You need Quicktime 3.0 to hear good sounds in Midi files. You need Quicktime 4.0 to play mp3 files. What's new in version 1.6 ? - Better look, even if the tiles resemble more caramel than chocolate - Pressing an "A...Z" or "1...9" key hilites the corresponding tiles in the paths list. - The animation is faster. Chocoletters is a $10 US shareware. Payments handled by Kagi. ChocolettersVF 1.6 is the French version. Pierre Durand 14 rue de Montenegro 71200 Le Creusot France [Archived as /info-mac/game/word/chocoletters-16-fr.hqx; 790 K] ------------------------------ Date: 28 Nov 2000 From: Vincent Jalby To: Subject: [*] Clipboard Edit 1.0, a clipboard editot [ftp: Clipboard Edit 1.0 [2000/10/26] by Vincent Jalby, vjalby@kagi.com http://members.aol.com/vjalby/ Product description -------------------- Clipboard Edit is a simple application which allows to edit the content of the clipboard (both text and graphic clipboards). You can save it as a clipping file or as a SimpleText file. Moreover, you can use several filters to clean up and convert text clipboard. System Requirements ------------------- Clipboard Edit runs on any Power Macintosh with MacáOSá8.1 and later. Shareware Fee ------------- Clipboard Edit is freeware. This product may be included on the commercially available CD-ROM of the archives. [Archived as /info-mac/gui/clipboard-edit.hqx; 769 K] ------------------------------ Date: 28 Nov 2000 From: "Palmer" To: Subject: [*] CWPT_full_demo.sea.hqx Crossword Puzzle Thing is a program that generates crossword puzzles. The program is interactive, allowing the user to modify the crossword as it is being constructed to make it more customized or to otherwise improve the puzzle. The program is shareware at $1. Version 1.0. Program requires a System 7.1 and a PPC processor. The included file may be distributed freely. David T Palmer, file author. [Archived as /info-mac/game/crossword-puzzle-thing.hqx; 265 K] ------------------------------ Date: 28 Nov 2000 From: Theo To: Subject: [*] emailcleaner.sit.hqx Convenient cleaning on emails and newsgroups posts Email Cleaner 1.84 Convenient line re-wrapping on emails and NewsGroup posts. Email Cleaner does line re-wrapping on badly wrapped emails and NewsGroup-posts. Badly wrapped lines is a problem every Internet User comes across, Email Cleaner solves it! Email Cleaner has other features: Wrapping to any width, adding / removing quotes, adding spaces before each line, turning HTML to text, extensive AppleScriptability. * Why Email Cleaner is good Email Cleaner has a "floater", that floats above all of your other windows, making it easily accessible anytime you are using your Mac Put the insertion point anywhere inside the text that you want cleaned, press "Clean" on the floater, and the whole text is cleaned. Overall it is an intuitive, useful and flexible program. á * Also features HTML file shrinking Email Cleaner batch shrinks folders of HTML files, removing un-needed lines and spaces. It knows to avoid pictures, programs and other non-text files. * Who else thinks Email Cleaner is good Email Cleaner got a 5 out of 5 rating from Tucows, a large shareware distributor. Email Cleaner has a lot of support for AppleScript. It needs any PowerMac at all, and MacOS 7.5 or later. -- This email was probably cleaned with Email Cleaner, by: Theodore H. Smith - co.uk/> Status: U ilored version for CD's is available from our web site. Status: U system requirements: MacOS 8.1+, QuickTime 4 version number: 0.9.3, 09 Nov 2000 ********** ABSTRACT CROPPED ********** [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/mail/email-cleaner-184.hqx; 940 K] ------------------------------ Date: 28 Nov 2000 From: "redbikini.com" To: Subject: [*] redbikini Plakativo Postscript font 0.1 redbikini design S. Heyckendorf Stresemannstrasse 254 22769 Hamburg Germany office@redbikini.com For more info visit: http://www.redbikini.com or see the readme file included DISCLAIMER - AGREEMENT Users of REDBIKINI FONTS must accept this disclaimer of warranty: REDBIKINI FONTS are supplied as is. The author disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the use of REDBIKINI FONTS. [Archived as /info-mac/font/ps/plakativo-ps.hqx; 143 K] ------------------------------ Date: 28 Nov 2000 From: "redbikini.com" To: Subject: [*] redbikini Plakativo Truetype font 0.1 redbikini design S. Heyckendorf Stresemannstrasse 254 22769 Hamburg Germany office@redbikini.com For more info visit: http://www.redbikini.com or see the readme file included DISCLAIMER - AGREEMENT Users of REDBIKINI FONTS must accept this disclaimer of warranty: REDBIKINI FONTS are supplied as is. The author disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the use of REDBIKINI FONTS. [Archived as /info-mac/font/tt/plakativo-tt.hqx; 99 K] ------------------------------ Date: 28 Nov 2000 From: "redbikini.com" To: Subject: [*] redbikini Significa Postscript font 0.1 redbikini design S. Heyckendorf Stresemannstrasse 254 22769 Hamburg Germany office@redbikini.com For more info visit: http://www.redbikini.com or see the readme file included DISCLAIMER - AGREEMENT Users of REDBIKINI FONTS must accept this disclaimer of warranty: REDBIKINI FONTS are supplied as is. The author disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the use of REDBIKINI FONTS. [Archived as /info-mac/font/ps/significa-ps.hqx; 135 K] ------------------------------ Date: 28 Nov 2000 From: "redbikini.com" To: Subject: [*] redbikini Significa Truetype font 0.1 redbikini design S. Heyckendorf Stresemannstrasse 254 22769 Hamburg Germany office@redbikini.com For more info visit: http://www.redbikini.com or see the readme file included DISCLAIMER - AGREEMENT Users of REDBIKINI FONTS must accept this disclaimer of warranty: REDBIKINI FONTS are supplied as is. The author disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the use of REDBIKINI FONTS. [Archived as /info-mac/font/tt/significa-tt.hqx; 117 K] ------------------------------ Date: 28 Nov 2000 From: Andrew Plotkin To: Subject: [*] Shade: a text adventure "Odd, how the light just makes your apartment gloomier. Pre-dawn darkness pools in the corners and around the tops of walls. Your desk lamp glares yellow, but the shadows only draw your eyes and deepen." ...A one-room game set in your apartment. *** SHADE *** A brief story by "Ampe R. Sand" (Andrew Plotkin) Release 3 SHADE is copyright 2000 by Andrew Plotkin. SHADE may be distributed for free, but not sold or included in any for-profit collection without written permission from the author. This application requires System 7, and 1.6 megs of free memory. If you don't have System 7, or you want a non-Mac version of this game, or you just want to try a different interpreter, please look in ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/. There are also lots of other text adventures there. If you wish to discuss putting this game on a CD-ROM, or anything like that, please contact: Andrew Plotkin (erkyrath@eblong.com) http://www.eblong.com/zarf/if.html [Archived as /info-mac/game/adv/shade.hqx; 277 K] ------------------------------ Date: 28 Nov 2000 From: Mondo Ltd To: Subject: [*] Skully Skully - Skully's eyes follow an unsuspecting burger as it dances randomly around the screen. If the burger gets too close the greedy skull gobbles it up. This unique screensaver includes a variety of disguises for Skully as well as recording the survival rate of each burger that Skully eats. [Archived as /info-mac/app/ss/skully-demo.hqx; 3048 K] ------------------------------ Date: 28 Nov 2000 From: Schubert it Support To: Subject: [*] Vanessa Chess 2.0.1 Vanessa×Chess is the first multi-document, multithreading chess program for Macintosh with an intuitive interface and a strong chess engine. Features: * Completely customizable 2D×chessboard with 3 piece sets and several chessboards, resizable to virtually any size * Multiple documents * Multithreading * Support for variations * Annotation editor with text styles, move annotations, and diagrams * Several levels - from easy to pretty hard, including Blitz and tournament chess * Game analysis * Position editor * ExaChess compatibility * PGN import and export * HTML export including diagrams for web publishing * Speech * Multiple undo and redo * Extensive HTML help including rules of chess [Archived as /info-mac/game/brd/vanessa-chess-201.hqx; 2341 K] ------------------------------ Date: 28 Nov 2000 From: Mondo Ltd To: Subject: [*] White Christmas White Christmas - Dreaming of a white Christmas? Well dream no more. Not only does snow fall inside this virtual snow shaker, it even settles on the ground! This festive screensaver combines snow, sleigh bells and twinkling fairy lights to bring the spirit of Christmas direct to your desktop. [Archived as /info-mac/app/ss/xmasdemom.hqx; 3143 K] ------------------------------ Date: 28 Nov 2000 From: Brian Kelley To: Subject: [*] WYSIWYG Font Preview 1.0 WYSIWYG Font Preview (WFP) is a utility to quickly and easily view fonts in their own typefaces. Preview font, size and style from within one convenient location. WFP was designed to be utilized like a desk accessory accessed from the Apple Menu. WFP's "File" menu includes an "InstallS" option, so an alias of WFP can be installed into the Apple Menu with the click of one button. System Requirements: PowerPC, Mac OS 8 or later [Archived as /info-mac/font/util/wysiwyg-font-preview-10.hqx; 849 K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:11:33 -1000 From: Jerry Levinson To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: [Q] dead 6500/225 Our 6500/225 is apparently dead, the display shows a staticy checkerboard type pattern. Tested various parts. A local tech says that the motherboards on this model often fail, more often than other models. He also said replacement boards are hard to find and will cost around $500. Anyone have any experience with these problems? Is he correct about the failure rate? Is there another motherboard (with more reliability) that we can put in the case? Thanks, Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 06:32:54 -0500 From: Vincent Cayenne To: The Info-Mac Network Subject: Ethernetting iMac and Laserwriter Pro 630 At 10:20 AM -0500 11/26/00, you (Allan Balliett) wrote: >Do I need a x-over cable? Yes. Over-simplification: Ethernet is "normally" effected by means of a hub to which all the devices are connected using straight-through cables. If only two devices are being connected, the hub sometimes can be omitted but a crossover cable has to be used to connect the two. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 16:07:20 +0200 From: "Michael S. Silverstein" To: Info-mac Subject: HP DeskJet 970cxi Can I simultaneously connect a HP DeskJet 970cxi to a Mac via USB and to a PC via a parallel connection? Thanks for the info! Michael Silverstein Materials Engineering Technion ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 11:33:08 +0100 From: "Piero Severi" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: iMac suddenly soundless Hi everybody, I have a 233 iMac, rev. B. Last night I opened it to do a long due memory upgrade with a 32 Mb Ram module. I followed the instructions step by step (I already had done it on another machine) and all went apparently well. But when I restarted it (pushing the reset button with a paper clip, because the on button did not respond at first) it woke up completely soundless. All else worked perfectly. I tried zapping the PRam, to no avail. I did have had some trouble in reconnecting cables but they seemed to be correctly plugged eventually. Did I by any chance damaged the sound circuitry, or is there something I miss? Thanks for help Piero. -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************