Subject: Info-Mac Digest V19 #80 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Tue, 08 Oct 02 Volume 19 : Issue 80 Today's Topics: [*] TidBITS#650/07-Oct-02 [*] FinKit 1.0.1 [*] Mac-Site-list, Version 4.7.5 [*] My Money Minder v1.1.1 [*] Yahoo Mailto Handler 1.2 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. Working with the Info-Mac Digest: * To submit articles to the digest, email . * To subscribe, send email to with the words subscribe info-mac in the message. * To unsubscribe, send email to with the words unsubscribe info-mac in the message. * To change your address, unsubscribe from the old address, then subscribe from the new address. * Please send administrative queries to . 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America Online donated the main Info-Mac machine . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V19 #80" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 21:00:00 -0700 From: TidBITS Editors To: digest@info-mac.org, mac-l@sparky.listmoms.net, Subject: [*] TidBITS#650/07-Oct-02 TidBITS#650/07-Oct-02 What happens when you put a few hundred Mac and Unix users together in the same room? Read on for Adam's report from last week's O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference. Along with his description of the event, Adam also grades Mac OS X in a variety of categories. Do you agree? Take this week's poll to register your own grade! Finally, people who have bought Adam's iPhoto Visual QuickStart Guide can now download the entire book in PDF format for free. Topics: MailBITS/07-Oct-02 O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Report Mac OS X Report Card: October 2002 [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-650.etx; 35K] ------------------------------ Date: 3 Oct 2002 From: Patrick Van der Perre To: Subject: [*] FinKit 1.0.1 DESCRIPTION FinKit is a multi-function financial calculator that lets you calculate: - effective and equivalent rates - present and future value for single and multiple payments - annuities, perpetuities, amortizations and sinking funds - time between dates - simple interest between dates using fixed and variable rates FinKit can be used as a currency independent application. It can also do currency conversions between the currencies of the Economic and Monetary Union. WEBSITE For more info visit: http://web.newsguy.com/patvdp SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FinKit requires Mac OS 8.5 or higher and a PPC processor to run. [Archived as /info-mac/sci/calc/finkit-101.hqx; 1153 K] ------------------------------ Date: 3 Oct 2002 From: Bruce Grubb To: Subject: [*] Mac-Site-list, Version 4.7.5 This is the latest edition (Oct 1, 2002) of the Mac-site-list and should replace version 4.7.4 of the Mac-Site-list. The Mac-Site-list lists over 50 mac anonymous ftp sites (some with notes), over 100 Mac web pages, and contains some instructions on how to use anonymous ftp and find files as well a format chart showing which programs decompress and decode which files. Also there is a section on how to use certain files. This Stuffit Deluxe 7.0 archive contains both the text and html versions of the Mac-Site-list. To ensure that the columns in the Format Chart section line up correctly the document's text must be in a monospaced typeface such as Courier, Monaco, or a PC equivalent. Permission is given for this program to be included on the Info-Mac CD-ROM. Changes: format chart updated; Added sites/URLs: http://www.stuffit.com/; Defunct sites/URLs: all unconnectable sites; mac files gone at ftp.auckland.ac.nz/pub/mac/, ftp.euro.net/Mac/, ftp.linkline.be/pub/info-mac/, ftp.orst.edu/pub/systems/, and ftp.unsw.edu.au/pub/mac/; cannot connect to ftp.bitcon.no/pub/mac/info-mac/, ftp.calvacom.fr/pub/info-mac/, ftp.ou.edu/mirrors/info-mac/, ftp.telelink.net/pub/mac/, ftp.web.ad.jp/info-mac/, ftp.ucs.ubc.ca/pub/mac/info-mac/, mac.uio.no/info-mac/, mvxgl8.fis.uniroma2.it/Info-Mac/, and proper.com/mac/general/; [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/mac-site-list-475.hqx; 50 K] ------------------------------ Date: 4 Oct 2002 From: Ben Blake To: Subject: [*] My Money Minder v1.1.1 My Money Minder v1.1 is a Made with Real Basic application that lets you keep track of your expenses, income and bank account balances. By organising these into Categories and placing the Categories into Groups a summary of a financial year can be calculated, these results can also be graphed (on either a bar, pie or line graph). Recurring items (such as Rent or Pay) can be setup to be automatically be entered. All the data in My Money Minder is displayed in a spreadsheet style grid. This new version fixes several bugs: - International decimal separators work correctly - Yearly Summary no longer gives an error when the Totals are deselected (in the Prefs) - Date fields reduce the day or month from 1 correctly - Column resize cursor no longer works beyond the limit of all the columns - Generating the Yearly Summary grid on Mac OS 8.5/9 is much faster (also a small speed increase for the My Money grid) My Money Minder requires a Power Macintosh running Mac OS X v10.1 or greater or Mac OS 8.5/9 with the Carbon Library 1.1 installed. [Archived as /info-mac/app/bus/my-money-minder-111-cbn.hqx; 1833 K] ------------------------------ Date: 4 Oct 2002 From: "Daniel A. Shockley" To: Subject: [*] Yahoo Mailto Handler 1.2 New in version 1.2 full -- contains both a Mac OS Classic and Mac OS X applet. You'll need CarbonLib for it to run in Classic. This little AppleScript applet can be used to handle mailto URLs. So, when you click on an email address on a web page, it goes to the Yahoo web mail Send Message page, with the email address filled in. If there are other parts, they will also be filled in (subject, cc, bcc, body, and perhaps other) You will need to open the Internet control panel and select this as your Email Application at the bottom of the Email tab. I plan on extending it to work with other major webmail sites, as long as they support sending mail by adding text to a URL. Let me know if you'd like to work on it. Most useful utilities out there only help people who use stand-alone POP/SMTP clients, not us web-mail users. I got some information that was helpful about this from: Kirk Klingbiel - the "open location" part of AppleScript Cory S. Moll - the webPath for Yahoo that works independently of which us.f**.mail.yahoo.com server you are on [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/mail/yahoo-mailto-handler-12.hqx; 87 K] -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************