Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #78 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Wed, 10 May 00 Volume 17 : Issue 78 Today's Topics: [*] MediaWrapper Light 2.0.9 [*] Menuette 3.0.1J - Japanese Version [*] Obsidian Trial Size 1.0.6 [*] Window Monkey 1.3J - Japanese Version [*] WindowMenu v1.2.1J - Japanese Version Appletalk conundrum Audio input plug for G4 Consumer Reports Opinions Keyboard Commands Locking Finder Window Locations Quote of the Day 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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You can create your own custom layout in Quark, Microsoft Word, AppleWorks (ClarisWorks) or just about any Word Processing/ Page Layout program you like. 2.0.9 fixes 2 bugs. the first would cause MediaWrapper to ask you for another disk when scanning (caused by aliases on the volume being scanned). The second cause MediaWrapper to crash on certain machines when two disks in a row were scanned. Both problems have been fixed. Please contact me at: 12ftguru@mindspring.com if any other problems appear. [Archived as /info-mac/disk/media-wrapper-light-209.hqx; 1638 K] ------------------------------ Date: 10 May 2000 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com Subject: [*] Menuette 3.0.1J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the Menuette package. Menuette 3.0.1 replaces those boring, old-fashioned words in your menu bar with fun and colorful animated icons. That's not all, Menuette also lets you choose the font and size of menu text. It also adds WYSIWYG menu fonts! *The folks at CNET's download.com called Menuette 3 the "ideal utility for PowerBook users", including it in their picks of the "best software available". *MacUser Magazine's Software Central awarded Menuette a perfect five-mouse rating in an online review of Menuette. *Menuette is a two-time America Online Macintosh Utilities Forum Shareware Award winner. *Apple Wizards gave Menuette 3 a gold medal in a mini-review. [Archived as /info-mac/gui/menuette-301-jp.hqx; 752 K] ------------------------------ Date: 10 May 2000 From: "David C. Oshel" Subject: [*] Obsidian Trial Size 1.0.6 Obsidian 1.0.6 is military-grade drag 'n drop personal file encryption WITHOUT PASSWORDS. Data protection in the full version is provided by Rijndael, Serpent or Twofish, and may not be freely distributed because of U.S. export restrictions. The full version is $15 shareware payable via Kagi. Obsidian Trial Size 1.0.6, on the other hand, is an evaluation copy which has all the features of the full version -- except that it uses a low-security cipher comparable to PrngXor for demo purposes, and will not write codebooks larger than 5 Mb. This demo does not expire, and may be freely distributed if all files remain intact. Passwords are dead at last. And the concept of key escrow is proven moot. [Archived as /info-mac/disk/obsidian-trial-size-106.hqx; 383 K] ------------------------------ Date: 10 May 2000 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com Subject: [*] Window Monkey 1.3J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the Window Monkey package. Choose patterned backgrounds for Macintosh Finder windows. You even get a handy way to navigate through windows and folders, so it's useful, too. MacAddict magazine rates Window Monkey among the top 20 Mac shareware programs, CNET calls the software "too cool," and MacWorld magazine chose it as a Pick of the Week. For Mac OS. Window Monkey adds background pictures or textures to any window in the Finder -- it's like "Desktop Patterns" or "Desktop Pictures", but for folder window backgrounds instead of the desktop. You can color-code your windows to see at a glance what they contain, or use wild patterns just for fun. Give your folder of "work stuff" a background that looks like a legal pad, or choose a background of hearts for that ZIP disk full of love letters. This program also helps you better manage your windows in every application (not just the Finder): You can use the handy Window Monkey menu to quickly go to any window in any application, even if it's buried beneath many other windows. Window Monkey also remembers recently used folders and lets you instantly jump to any open or recently used folder from an Open or Save dialog box. Many background patterns are included, and you can add as many as you wish by simply pasting or dragging your own pictures into the control panel. Window Monkey is compatible with System 7 and Mac OS 8 and later (including 9.X). [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/window-monkey-13-jp.hqx; 688 K] ------------------------------ Date: 10 May 2000 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com Subject: [*] WindowMenu v1.2.1J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the WindowMenu package. WindowMenu is a utility that exists to let you do one thing: jump directly to a specific window in an application. Although I have a big monitor, I often find myself going through all kinds of contortions to get to a window I know is open but that is buried under a hundred others. Applications with "Windows" menus help things somewhat, but you still have to make the trip to the menu bar. WindowMenu will pop up a menu of all open windows in the current application and let you select one directly when you click anywhere while holding down control keys that you choose. It also lets you define a hotkey to cycle forward and backwards through all open windows. I use it every day and I think if you give it a try, you may too. [Archived as /info-mac/gui/window-menu-121-jp.hqx; 233 K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 14:04:15 -0700 From: Lisa Bjarke Subject: Appletalk conundrum In Info-Mac Digest V17 #76, abrody@smart.net wrote: >But nowhere can I find the Appletalk control panel in my custom >installer of MacOS 9 that is part of the MacOS 9 CD. I don't want to >reinstall the whole OS just to get Appletalk back. I don't have OS 9, but perhaps TomeViewer might help. It is available from the MacFixit Library and has the following description: TomeViewer lets you view and extract individual files contained within the compressed tome files that accompany most Apple's Installers. This can be useful for files that may otherwise be inaccessible from a normal Easy or Custom Install on a particular Mac model. This is a pre-release unsupported utility from Apple. You should be able to use TomeViewer to extract the files you need. Hope this helps, Lisa ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 07:58:10 -0400 From: Saint John Subject: Audio input plug for G4 At 20:32 -0400 5/9/00, The Info-Mac Network wrote: >Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 15:02:40 +0100 >From: "Charles Arthur, The Independent" >Subject: Audio input plug for G4 > >On Mon, 8 May 2000 16:54:09 +0200, "Michael S. Silverstein" > wrote: > >>I would like to hook up my stereo system to my G4 400 MHz. >>The trouble is, there is only the microphone input and I cannot find >>an adaptor with the extra-long plug that is used by Apple. > >The microphone input is all you get. Are you sure it's an extra-long plug? >I think you'll find it's the same as the plug that fits into headphones. Unless something has changed on the G4, the Macintosh microphone input jack requires a special long plug, specifically to defeat standard (nonpowered) microphones. >>Where do they sell these adaptors? > >I don't think they need to. They do, and "they" in this case is Griffin Technologies , one of the most trusted names in the Mac hardware world. Their "NE-mic" product allows you to take a nonpowered microphone, the kind you'd get on a PC, and hook it up to a Mac. It also has the long plug that fits into the Mac's microphone port. You can buy a patch cable that will go from your stereo's headphone jack to a stereo miniplug, which hooks into the NE-mic. +- Saint John -+ | "If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend | | my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty | +-- woman." (Dr. Samuel Johnson) ------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 10:01:21 -0600 From: Jerry Spangrude Subject: Consumer Reports Opinions Digest Readers, Can anyone tell me how on earth the people at Consumer Reports, in their latest issue's article on computer monitors, can conclude that the iMac monitor is "OK" but has "less brightness and lower contrast" compared to some of the other monitors they evaluated? My experience with iMacs and with the new G3 and G4 monitors is that, unlike almost every other Mac monitor I have owned in the past, the brightness and contrast controls need to be decreased to mid-range in order to not burn out my eyes. I think the new monitors are exceptionally clear and bright. The CR people also point out that the iMac monitor is too small compared to the 17, 19, and 21 inch monitors they evaluated on PeeCee systems. Let's compare apples to lemons, shall we? Although I value CR for its insightful and helpful reviews of most consumer electronics, appliances, and autos, I find their constant anti-Mac attitude irritating! I have to wonder if the technicians realized that brightness and contrast can be adjusted with those little knobs! Or maybe they simply purchased a faulty iMac. Comments? Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 07:57:18 -0400 From: Saint John Subject: Keyboard Commands At 20:32 -0400 5/9/00, The Info-Mac Network wrote: >Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 06:42:25 +1200 >From: Mike Isle >Subject: Keyboard Commands > >Does anyone know a programme that will allow me to, easily, add keyboard >commands to my Finder and application menus? I know Action Menus does this, >but it slows my old Mac 68k something awful and I am looking for an >alternative for this function only. I am running System 7.5. >Thanks, >Mike. If you don't mind doing a little programming for the ones you use most often, a macro program will do this for you. You'd write a little program to intercept the keystroke and "pull down" the appropriate menu. So it won't automatically work with every menu, but it'll work for the ones you set up. I like OneClick , but QuicKeys and KeyQuencer should also be suitable. You still might get a slowdown with them, but it may be bearable. +- Saint John -+ | "If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend | | my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty | +-- woman." (Dr. Samuel Johnson) ------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 15:24:24 -0700 From: Doug Hardie Subject: Locking Finder Window Locations Is there a way in OS 8.6 to prevent finder's windows from being dragged around the desktop? I have a specific arrangement I want to keep but occasionally my mouse button releases and clicks again while moving it thus causing a window to get moved. -- Doug ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 17:59:06 +0000 From: The Norths Subject: Quote of the Day Quote of the Day is a simple shareware program that, when placed in your Startup Items folder inside your System Folder, will greet you each day with a random quote from a list including humorous, motivational, famous and business quotes. The quote list in version 1.0 is contains over 100 quotes, but by registering you are entitled to free updates that will contain many more quotes. Perpetual Notion Software -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************