Subject: Info-Mac Digest V19 #16 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Wed, 06 Feb 02 Volume 19 : Issue 16 Today's Topics: (A) sharing a printer over a network [*] PhotoGrid 2.71, a quick image viewer with resizable thumbnail [*] PhotoGridX 1.41, a quick image viewer with resizable thumbnail for OS X [*] SwitchBack Classic 3.6J - Japanese Version [*] SwitchBack for OS X 3.6J - Japanese Version [*] SwitchBack Lite 3.6J - Japanese Version [Q] trying to free infrared port Answer about powering up SCSI drive ATA60 vs ATA 100 Personnal LaserWriter 300 powering up scsi after mac is running sharing a printer over a network sharing a printer over a network 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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If you already have a router, then a small print server _should_ work on a parallel printer (e.g., D-Link's DP-101 for under $100). They provide ethernet connectivity. My problem has been configuring it without a Windows machine. ------------------------------ Date: 6 Feb 2002 From: NattaWorks-Nagano To: Subject: [*] PhotoGrid 2.71, a quick image viewer with resizable thumbnail *PhotoGrid is a simple image viewer that shows a lot of images at a time. *TreeView which is like Finder's list view lets you select the folders and files you want to view. *GridView lists all the image files as thumbnails in a grid structure. You can resize the thumbnails at anytime so you can view the images with various scales. *Convenient Move/Copy dialog. *Slideshow. *System requirements: PPC Mac like iMac. MacOS 8 or higher. MacOS 8.6 and QuickTime 4 are recommended. *Shareware price : U.S.$15. *homepage: http://www.pluto.dti.ne.jp/%7Enatta/english.html ver 2.71 - Exif/DCF date/time display - Multiple file selection [Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/photo-grid-271.hqx; 1360 K] ------------------------------ Date: 6 Feb 2002 From: NattaWorks-Nagano To: Subject: [*] PhotoGridX 1.41, a quick image viewer with resizable thumbnail for OS X *PhotoGrid is a simple image viewer that shows a lot of images at a time. *TreeView which is like Finder's list view lets you select the folders and files you want to view. *GridView lists all the image files as thumbnails in a grid structure. You can resize the thumbnails at anytime so you can view the images with various scales. *Convenient Move/Copy window *Slideshow. *System requirements: MacOS X *Shareware price : U.S.$15. *homepage: http://www.pluto.dti.ne.jp/%7Enatta/english.html ver X1.41 - PhotoGrid2.71 base - Exif/DCF date/time display - Multiple file selection [Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/photo-grid-x-141.hqx; 1377 K] ------------------------------ Date: 6 Feb 2002 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] SwitchBack Classic 3.6J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the SwitchBack for Mac OS 8 & 9 package. "Synchronize your files with ease and confidence." SwitchBack is a file synchronization and backup utility. SwitchBack makes it easy and safe to synchronize two disks, so that both contain your most recently updated documents. Simply choose two folders to compare, and SwitchBack does the rest, quickly and painlessly. The two folders can reside on the same or different disks, or on two computers connected by a network, or even over the Internet (such as an iDisk). You can ask SwitchBack to tell you in detail what it is doing, or let it go to work, only advising you when there's a problem. Changes in this version: *Many performence improvements under OS X *Fixed errors with locked files and bundles under OS X *Moving obsolete files to the trash works correctly under OS X *Copy Folder Attributes once again optional in OS X *New icons courtesy of Mike Berg *Remains in the background during scheduled synchronizations *Commencing a backup will wake a desktop computer from 'light' sleep *A newly scheduled document is automatically enabled when first set up *Added Show Activity Log to the File menu *No longer flashes a notification after a successful synchronization *A 'reopen' appleevent opens a new window regardless of user start up preference [Archived as /info-mac/disk/switchback-classic-36-jp.hqx; 312 K] ------------------------------ Date: 6 Feb 2002 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] SwitchBack for OS X 3.6J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the SwitchBack for Mac OS X package. "Synchronize your files with ease and confidence." SwitchBack is a file synchronization and backup utility. SwitchBack makes it easy and safe to synchronize two disks, so that both contain your most recently updated documents. Simply choose two folders to compare, and SwitchBack does the rest, quickly and painlessly. The two folders can reside on the same or different disks, or on two computers connected by a network, or even over the Internet (such as an iDisk). You can ask SwitchBack to tell you in detail what it is doing, or let it go to work, only advising you when there's a problem. Changes in this version: *Many performence improvements under OS X *Fixed errors with locked files and bundles under OS X *Moving obsolete files to the trash works correctly under OS X *Copy Folder Attributes once again optional in OS X *New icons courtesy of Mike Berg *Remains in the background during scheduled synchronizations *Commencing a backup will wake a desktop computer from 'light' sleep *A newly scheduled document is automatically enabled when first set up *Added Show Activity Log to the File menu *No longer flashes a notification after a successful synchronization *A 'reopen' appleevent opens a new window regardless of user start up preference [Archived as /info-mac/disk/switchback-osx-36-jp.hqx; 376 K] ------------------------------ Date: 6 Feb 2002 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] SwitchBack Lite 3.6J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the SwitchBack Lite package. "Synchronize your files with ease and confidence." SwitchBack Lite is the free version of SwitchBack. SwitchBack Lite is a basic file synchronization utility. SwitchBack Lite makes it easy and safe to synchronize two disks, so that both contain your most recently updated documents. Simply choose two folders to compare, and SwitchBack Lite does the rest, quickly and painlessly. If you like SwitchBack Lite please give the shareware version a try. The shareware version includes many more options for customizing synchronizations including reporting and scheduling options, and a Mac OS X native version is available. You can download the Japanese versions at [Archived as /info-mac/disk/switchback-lite-36-jp.hqx; 237 K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:51:51 -0500 From: Ken Laskey To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: [Q] trying to free infrared port I have a Wall Street G3 Powerbook running OS 9.1. I used to sync up my Palm through the IR port, but all of a sudden it tells me it can't do it because the port is in use by another application. I tried rebooting and tried with nothing else running. Same problem. What may have started this was I tried connecting to Windows through Virtual PC. But Windows doesn't see the Palm and once it too said it couldn't do anything because the port was already in use. I tried throwing away the Infrared prefs, but that didn't help. Any ideas? -- Ken Laskey kenneth.j.laskey@saic.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 22:21:18 -0500 From: carolynb To: InfoMac Subject: Answer about powering up SCSI drive Hi, Thank you all who responded! Everyone agreed that I can do no harm by simply turning on the scsi chain after the Mac is powered up. Although I will have to then mount the drives to access them. However plugging in, or unplugging the drives to the Mac could cause serious electrical damage if the wrong wires crossed. This is not my situation, so I should be safe :) Carolyn ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 15:26:33 +0100 From: "Wechsler, David {PRBC~Basel}" To: "'digest@info-mac.org'" Subject: ATA60 vs ATA 100 Hi is it possible to connect an ATA100 Harddrive to an G4(AGP) with an ATA/60 architecture (with loss of speed of course) or is it incompatible? send me response directly, I will compile it and post it thanks in advance David david.wechsler@roche.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 15:29:06 +0100 From: "Marcel.Vermeire@ulg.ac.be" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Personnal LaserWriter 300 I have a Personnal LaserWriter 300. My question is : It's possible to connect this printer to a PC NT4 or a PC Win2000 Thanks for your help Sincerely yours Marcel Vermeire Marcel Vermeire Institut de Physique B5 Service de Cristallographie Sart Tilman - 4000 LIEGE tel : 00.32.4.3663618 fax : 00.32.4.3663667 E-mail : Marcel.Vermeire@ulg.ac.be ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 20:27:55 -0700 From: Trebor Nesnarf To: carolynb , InfoMac Subject: powering up scsi after mac is running Hello Carolyn, As long as I have had SCSI on my Macs, since 1986, I have switched equipment on and off the SCSI chain, never had any trouble. You have to keep in mind a few things: You can not connect or disconnect the SCSI chain itself (the SCSI connecting cables) with power on, you can switch the power to SCSI item on or off any time. Any time you do switch on an item in the SCSI chain you have to re-start the computer otherwise the computer will not see the item you just switched on. The same with switching off a SCSI item, you have to re-start otherwise the system will refer to a drive what is no longer there and lock up the computer. My experience is with SCSI built-in the computer and not with SCSI cards. However, I do not think there is any difference but I stand corrected if somebody knows better. Hope this helps. Robert pronto103@telusplanet.net =========================== At 14:38 -0700 02.02.02, carolynb wrote: >Hi, > >I feel sort of foolish, this seems like a really ridiculous question- >In the past, I was told that once you've started your Mac, if you then >want to access a SCSI drive that wasn't turned on when you started the >Mac, you had to shut down, power up the SCSI drive, and power up the >Mac. Is this true? > >I would have tried it, but I was afraid of some power surge that would >hurt the Mac from the SCSI suddenly being powered up. (see, I said I >felt foolish!) I know that I would probably have to mount the scsi >drives (I have several on a daisy chain), but that's OK. I'm concerned >about an electrical shock-type event that would fry my mac. > >I have a beige G3, running system 8.6. > >TIA! >Carolyn >carolynb@mindspring.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 18:13:27 -0800 From: "Fanning, Alan W. (PS, NE)" To: tony stanton , digest@info-mac.org Subject: sharing a printer over a network Printer Sharing --------------- With OS9.x you can use USB printer sharing, which is built into the OS and has worked fine for our little home network of three Mac's and an Epson 900 printer. Unfortunately, Apple has not yet seen fit to include the USP printer sharing function in OSX.x. Thus a dilemna is created which could possible be resolved on your network by purchasing an HP printer sharing widget - I think it's called HP Jet-direct, but this may not be right. In any case, it's kind of like an external LAN card that attaches between the printer and the network. These are kind of expensive, though, (maybe $150) so USB printer sharing was an awfully nice alternative. In our case, I could buy an Epson LAN card that fits into the printer but the darned card is $200, so we're in limbo, hoping for USB printer sharing to return in a future OS update. Shared Internet --------------- Absolutely! We've been doing this for the past year using a wired MacSense router, which includes the function of a hub in it's bag of tricks. For the internet connection, it acts as a traffic cop between the computers on your network (Mac or PC) and your internet connection. We have DSL, allowing multiple users and freeing up the phone so we can receive those all-important evening sales calls. -----Original Message----- From: tony stanton [mailto:tonystanton@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 8:06 PM To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: sharing a printer over a network I have a small network with one G4, a G3 powerbook and a 7300 connected via a network hub. A PC is also connected to chare files using PC-Maclan. I also have one HP1125C printer connected by USB to the G4. I want to share the printer between all the macs when they are connected to the network but cannot find a way to do it. I suspect I may need to connect the printer to the PC and use it as a print server. Is there any way I can share the printer while keeping it connected to the mac side of the network? Also, I want to chare one internet connection between the Macs. Is there a way to do this without having to route everything through the PC? All help much appreciated. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 10:16:31 -0600 From: "Chaz Larson [mailing lists]" To: "tony stanton" , digest@info-mac.org Subject: sharing a printer over a network At 4:05 AM -0600 2/5/02, tony stanton wrote: >I have a small network with one G4, a G3 powerbook and a 7300 connected via >a network hub. A PC is also connected to chare files using PC-Maclan. I also >have one HP1125C printer connected by USB to the G4. > >I want to share the printer between all the macs when they are connected to >the network but cannot find a way to do it. Apple's USB Printer Sharing [UPS] should allow this. You'll need to add a USB PCI card to the 7300, since the UPS software requires a USB-capable Mac on both ends of the connection. Similarly, you may need to add USB to the PowerBook, if it doesn't already have it. UPS doesn't work with MacOS X on either end of the connection. Another option would be to find an old copy of StyleScript; it would run on the G4 and publish the inkjet tpo the network as a LaserWriter-type printer. You'd use the LaserWriter driver to print to it instead of the HP's usual driver. StyleScript has been discontinued for a while, however, and there may be compatibility issues with the G4 and/or MacOS 9 or above. You may be able to print to a StyleScript shared printer from Mac OS X, since the printer appears to be a standard LaserWriter device. If this works, it may be worth buying a cheap [USB-capable] machine to sit under the printer and act as a print server. Another possibility would be to rig up a system where the client machines printed Postscript files to a shared folder on the G4. An AppleScript running on the G4 would then push those PostScript files through Distiller, then send them to the printer via Acrobat or Acrobat Reader. That requires buying Acrobat. >I suspect I may need to connect the printer to the PC and use it as a print >server. I don't believe there's an easy way to do that, either. All of the products I've seen for doing this allow sharing PostScript printers. >Also, I want to chare one internet connection between the Macs. Is there a >way to do this without having to route everything through the PC? chazl -- I'm gonna tell my son to grow up as pretty as the grass is green and as whip-smart as the English Channel is wide... - Liz Phair, Whip Smart Chaz Larson - chaz at spamcop dot net - http://www.visi.com/~chaz -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************