Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #190 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Tue, 20 Oct 98 Volume 16 : Issue 190 Today's Topics: [*] 3D-Box [*] AppSwitcherControl1.1 [*] AutoShare 3.0, a freeware list server [*] backup_by_stuffit_222e/AppleScript [*] Blobs 2.0 [*] Bookmark Thing 1.0b10. [*] cheaphtml-10-jp.hqx [*] cheaphtml-10.hqx [*] Color Picker Pro 2.5.0 [*] DockZone 1.0.7 update [*] Duplicate Type/Creator Database v1.0 [*] EasySwitcher [*] Falcon NC 2.0 RPN/Algeabraic calculator [*] FinderPop1.7.2F - Rehausse les menus contextuels sous MacOS8 [*] Function Generator 2.3(PPC) [*] Gantt Chart for FMPro [*] GrooveMaker1.1 [*] Mac CallerID 1.2.1 [*] MacTypingTutor [*] OneApp CineSlider 4.0 Italian Version - Movies, sounds and [*] Palms Kaleidoscope scheme [*] Pharaoh Kaleioscope scheme [*] PictureSnooper98 [*] Power Windows 2.0.4 [*] ShockBox Version 1.0.2 [*] Smile 1.5.2, a free AppleScript editor [*] tetratrap-10.hqx [*] TidBITS#451/19-Oct-98 [*] Un-SourceSafe Abstract [*] YellowView 2.1.1 [*] YP Refraction (french version) 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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We'd also like to thank AOL for the main Info-Mac machine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V16 #190" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:49:06 -0700 From: busse@magnet.at Subject: [*] 3D-Box 3D-Box * Requirements: PPC, 6 MB RAM, MacOS 7.55 and up, (8.0 and before also need the Appearance manager; info at the website) * Description: 3DBox is an application that creates boxes in OBJ format and matching texture map templates as PICTs. You give the heigth, width and length of the box and decide in which resolution you would like to get the texture map. The created models can be used in any 3D program that supports OBJ import and parametric mapping of textures. 3DBox provides the option to leave gaps at certain edges in the texture map, so you can create completely different designs for the different sides of your box without getting the usual inaccuracies at the edges of the box. * Further notices: 3D-Box may be included in commercially available CD-ROM of the archives. [Archived as /info-mac/dev/3d-box.hqx; 225K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:48:46 -0700 From: appswitcher@pascal.com Subject: [*] AppSwitcherControl1.1 Description: AppSwitcher Control is a handy application which allows you to customize the appearance and behavior of the Application Switcher in Mac OS 8.5. AppSwitcher Control is free. Requirements: AppSwitcher Control requires a PowerPC Macintosh running Mac OS 8.5. Version History: v1.0 1998-09-17 - Initial Release. My first Macintosh application ever. v1.1 1998-09-21 - Revised layout of options using more visual elements. Eliminated popup menus. - Added miniature representation of the screen which allows you to visually set position, orientation, and grow direction, all at once. - Added ability to edit name width. Click the arrows to increment or decrement by 10 pixels. Shift-click to increment or decrement by 1 pixel. - Added ability to order by name or launch order, normal or reverse. - AppSwitcher Control now reads the Application Switcher's settings only the first time you launch it. When you quit AppSwitcher Control, it saves your settings to its own preferences file. From then on, it reads settings from its preferences file at launch. This results in much faster launch times. - AppSwitcher Control now does a better job of loading the existing settings. - AppSwitcher Control now remembers which tab was frontmost when you last used the application. - Added balloon help for just about everything. - General cleanup of the internal workings of the app. Questions? mailto:appswitcher@pascal.com http://www.pascal.com/software/ [Archived as /info-mac/gui/app-switcher-control.hqx; 382K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:49:18 -0700 From: meh@dnai.com Subject: [*] AutoShare 3.0, a freeware list server AutoShare is a robust and speedy list server and auto-responder for the Macintosh. Available for both 68K and Power Macs, requiring little memory and tested with Mac OS 8.1, AutoShare can handle hundreds of mailing lists and thousands of subscribers for each list. Full scriptability is supported, and an Admin application with balloon help makes it easy to configure the richly featured server application. The AutoShare archive comes complete with script samples and documentation covering features such as multiple preference sets, standard and database subscriber formats, fully automated web archives, remote administration by email, multiple language support for subscribers, subscriber and administrator web forms and advanced mail-back confirmations. AutoShare is the only Macintosh list server offering a built-in automated bounce and unsubscribe module, supporting both hard and soft bounces. It can be used to launch external applications and includes built-in Cron support. Process extenders, often small AppleScript applications, allow the administrator to extend the AutoShare server's normal processing. Version 3.0 introduces two database formats for subscribers as its major feature and furthermore offers support for list-specific languages for subscribers, MIME digests as attachments, additional commands for remote administration by e-mail and support for more bounce formats plus minor improvements and bug fixes. The AutoShare web site at offers information on releases and discussion lists. -- Mikael Hansen [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/mail/autoshare-30.hqx; 1879K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:49:20 -0700 From: t-hana@mh1.117.ne.jp Subject: [*] backup_by_stuffit_222e/AppleScript backup_by_stuffit_221e/AppleScript (Freeware),only for users of MacOS8.0 or later. * This is an AppleScript script that will make a stuffed backup file by StuffIt LIte 3.5 or later and automatically replace its content with modified files. * If you make a backup file into a floppy disk,the disk will be soon full with files. But if backup files are stuffed,you can save backup files almost twice as many. * Once you choose which folder to backup into which disk,and let this make a stuffed backup file in the disk, only by double-clicking,this will choose files which in the original folder are modified after the modification date of the backup file ,and replace these files in the backup file. * THIS VERSION COPES WITH THE CHANGE OF APPLESCRIPT WITH MACOS8. 　 USER OF MACOS7.6.1 OR BEFORE HAD BETTER USE 2.1.2.VERSION WHICH IS FASTER. * Ver2.2.2 removed the bug of causing error when folder contains only one file. * System requirement: MacOS8.0 or later,AppleScript1.1.2 * You need a registered version of StuffIt Lite 3.5 or later Tomokazu Hanafusa t-hana@mh1.117.ne.jp http://www.117.ne.jp/~t-hnfs [Archived as /info-mac/cmp/backup-by-stuffit-222e.hqx; 78K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:49:03 -0700 From: gafvert@kagi.com Subject: [*] Blobs 2.0 A fun and really addictive strategy game the features 3D rendered graphics, lots of animation and sound effects! by Lars Gafvert Foxchange Shareware www.foxchange.com [Archived as /info-mac/game/blobs-200.hqx; 871K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:49:16 -0700 From: sam@elegantchaos.com Subject: [*] Bookmark Thing 1.0b10. Bookmark Thing is a light-weight bookmark assistant, intended to work in conjunction with Internet Config and your favourite internet applications. It was designed with these two principles in mind: 1. I don't want yet another application for managing hierarchical collections of things - I've already got something called the Finder, which works quite nicely thank you very much. 2. I don't want all my bookmarks linked to any particular application - today I'm using IE4 and Anarchie; a while ago, it was Netscape and Fetch; tomorrow, who knows... More details can be found at: =========================================================================== == Sam Deane Elegant Chaos sam@elegantchaos.com 5th October,1998 [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/bookmark-thing.hqx; 600K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:48:38 -0700 From: sato@het02.ph.tsukuba.ac.jp Subject: [*] cheaphtml-10-jp.hqx Here is my software entitled "CheapHTML(J)". This application is Japanese version. This makes a simple text with HTML4.0 settings. This is FAT application. The package contains no virus. The abstract is below. Thank you. 10/5/98 Junzo Sato email:sato@het02.ph.tsukuba.ac.jp -------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract: CheapHTML(J) makes a simple text with HTML4.0 settings. The parameters: doctype, title, charset, lang, and email are available. This application is Japanese version. -------------------------------------------------------------- [Archived as /info-mac/text/html/cheaphtml-10-jp.hqx; 548K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:48:39 -0700 From: sato@het02.ph.tsukuba.ac.jp Subject: [*] cheaphtml-10.hqx Here is my software entitled "CheapHTML". This makes a simple text with HTML4.0 settings. This is FAT application. The package contains no virus. The abstract is below. Thank you. 10/5/98 Junzo Sato email:sato@het02.ph.tsukuba.ac.jp -------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract: CheapHTML makes a simple text with HTML4.0 settings. The parameters: doctype, title, charset, lang, and email are available. -------------------------------------------------------------- [Archived as /info-mac/text/html/cheaphtml-10.hqx; 547K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:48:40 -0700 From: mike@rootworks.com Subject: [*] Color Picker Pro 2.5.0 Color Picker Pro is a small drag and drop savvy application that aids in finding color hex values for use with HTML production. Color Picker Pro is more than just a RGB to hex converter however! It can literally pull colors out of windows, icons and Desktop backgrounds. If you can't find a color that you're interested in using the former method, you can just as easily utilize any of your System-level color pickers a la the Color Picker Pro application. Once you've found the color you want, you're only a click, menu choice or key combination away from pasting your hex value into any text-based HTML editor. Color Picker Pro will also allow you to store frequently used colors, undo and redo color changes as well as finding the nearest Netscape 216 Palette color. System requirements: * System 7.5 * Power Macintosh * Drag and Drop Functionality * 16 or 32 bit color preferred For more information, please read the Read Me file enclosed, or visit our Web page: http://www.rootworks.com/cpp Thanks, Mike McNamara Rootworks http://www.rootworks.com/ [Archived as /info-mac/text/html/color-pickerpro-250.hqx; 753K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:48:47 -0700 From: objectivesw@kagi.com Subject: [*] DockZone 1.0.7 update Objective Software announces the maintenance release of DockZone 1.0.7. * Version 1.0.7 (98/10/10) - fixed a bug with allegro (MacOS 8.5) DockZone delimits an area on the right side of your main screen, where the volumes and the trash are usually located, giving your Desktop a BeOS or Rhapsody look. The control panel lets you customize the dock colors and its width. Support: mailto:objectivesw@kagi.com Author: Harry Alloul Price: $10 (shareware, see docs for more info) Register: http://order.kagi.com/?HL&S Info: http://www.objectivesw.com Have Fun! [Archived as /info-mac/gui/dock-zone-107.hqx; 94K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:48:45 -0700 From: ilans@vms.huji.ac.il Subject: [*] Duplicate Type/Creator Database v1.0 >From the creator of the Type/Creator Database here is: Duplicate Type/Creator Database v1.0, October 6, 1998 A total of 461 code pairs. A collection of problematic Type/Creator pairs - same codes assigned to 2 different applications. These applications and INITs may clash and cause problems if both are active at the same time. Data Base interface program by Daniel Azuma Data Base maintained by Ilan Szekely. Files included are: Duplicate Type/Creator DB v1.0 Duplicate Type/Creator ReadMe (this file) For more details / explanations, take alook at URL: OR Address for snail-mail and shareware fee: Ilan Szekely P.O.B 3942 Jerusalem 91039 ISRAEL E-mail - ILANS@VMS.huji.ac.il [Archived as /info-mac/info/sft/duplicates-tcdb.hqx; 111K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:48:49 -0700 From: Qsys@kagi.com Subject: [*] EasySwitcher Subject: EasySwitcherV1.0 Switch Between/Hide Applications With Hot Keys EasySwitcher 1.0 If you are tired of always moving the mouse to the upper right of the screen to change between open files, or to hide open applications, EasySwitcher can help. EasySwitcher allows for Macintosh users to have the one good feature of Windows users (plus a few things you can't do on a Windows machine). By pressing Control-Tab you will get a Dialog that shows all your applications that are running (Icons). You can toggle through your applications to bring that application to the front. Easy Switcher doesn't stop there! * EasySwitcher is NOT an Extension. Thus, it can be started and stopped like an application at anytime (without having to restart your machine). * EasySwitcher 'Watches' what applications you are using, and keeps them only a few key strokes away. So that Switching between 2 applications is quick and easy. * EasySwitcher even has a hot key to Hide the front application. This helps keep your desktop clean from cluttered windows. System Requirements: * System 7.1 or Later. Thanks, Michael QSys Software Qsys@kagi.com http://www.qsyssoft.com [Archived as /info-mac/gui/easy-switcher.hqx; 431K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:48:43 -0700 From: appajt@nbnet.nb.ca Subject: [*] Falcon NC 2.0 RPN/Algeabraic calculator FALCON-NC vers 2.0.0 RPN/Algeabraic Scientific calculator. This is not your ordinary calculator. It's a true RPN and ALGEABRIC calculator in the same package. You can even switch mode right in the middle of a problem solving sequence. It has superior formatting of results ( 30=B0 23' 43" ) and even automatic ISO and US delimiter setting. (if you use a coma in entering a number it use it as the delimiter, the same for the period ) With this calculator you have on-the-fly base conversion, mixed base arithmetic, unsigned numbers conversion, and more. The application has been tested with machines from MacPlus and MAC OS 6.0.2 up to Mac OS 8.1 and the newest PowerBook G3 machines. The Financial mode has automatic features that simplify the calculation of the basic financial function of Interest, Present Value, Future Value and Payments. It even has Canadian Mortgage calculation functions. It has been updated and tested to work on the latest G3 machine ( PowerBook 233 ). This application works as well with the older Mac like the Plus and the SE. The calculator has automatic continuous memory of 2000 registers. There is also a lot of shortcuts for the various modes of the calculator. Jacques Th=E9riault [Archived as /info-mac/sci/calc/fal-connc-20.hqx; 205K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:48:50 -0700 From: imagiciel@videotron.ca Subject: [*] FinderPop1.7.2F - Rehausse les menus contextuels sous MacOS8 This is the french version of FinderPop. If you're looking for the english version and haven't found it here, check out http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/2573/ =46inderPop est un gratuiciel qui rehausse les menus contextuels du MacOS 8. Il permet entre autres l'apparition des menus contextuels sans l'aide de la touche contr=F4le. De plus, il int=E8gre dans les menus contextuels, l'=E9quivalent du menu "Applications",l'espace m=E9moire disponible, donne acc=E8s au contenu du Bureau des dossiers ou des disques, et plusieurs autres fonctions dont vous pourrez ajuster les param=E8tres =E0 votre go=FBt... Il permet aussi une navigation par menus hi=E9rarchiques au travers des dossiers du Finder, soit =E0 partir des zones de dialogue Ouvrir/Enregistrer ou directement dans le Finder. Gracieusete de Turlough O'Connor (turly@geocities.com) Version francaise par Fawzi Dormeyer d'ImaGiciel (imagiciel@videotron.ca) [Archived as /info-mac/gui/finderpop-172-fr.hqx; 313K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:48:55 -0700 From: kjohnn@cb.mbn.or.jp Subject: [*] Function Generator 2.3(PPC) Function Generator - can generate five different waveforms which are sine, square, chop, sawtooth, and arbitrary wave using the internal Sampled Sound Synthesizer in your Power Macintosh. And the frequency of sine wave can be sweeped by Function Generator. The output wave is 16 bit stereo sound whose frequency range is from 10 Hz to 9990 Hz in 10Hz steps and the amplitude of which can be ajustable from 0mV to 400mV in 50mV steps. Besides it is possible to select the sampling frequency from 44.1 kHz, 22.05 kHz, 10.025 kHz. In order to generate arbitrary wave, you should read text file having waveform data which you make using Microsoft Excel etc in advance. The file can be read with Drag & Drop onto the Function Generator window. [Archived as /info-mac/gst/snd/function-generator-2.3-ppc.hqx; 197K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:49:10 -0700 From: ahunter3@earthlink.net Subject: [*] Gantt Chart for FMPro Here is a freeware contribution, a FileMaker Pro solution to the challenge of charting, as bars graphed over time, a series of events, across a page beginning at the left side with the earliest beginning time and ending with the latest ending time of any of the bars. This, (so I have been told) is called a Gantt chart. This, (so I have also been told, after posting exasperated questions in this very venue), is something you just can't DO in Excel. There are charting solutions out there, apparently, that will, and probably they would willingly snatch up exported data from other applications, but I didn't feel like shelling out for another program just for this one capability, and probably a few other folks feel the same way. The interface is simple: each bar (item) is a record; create a new record, enter start date, end date (in its current form it does not accept time entries as opposed to date entries, although since it isn't password-protected you are welcome to modify the field defs), go to next entry, and when completed run the Set Overall Duration script (visible in the Script menu) that will calculate the earliest start date and latest end date in order to graph the collection as a Gantt chart. The enclosed file comes equipped with global color fields allowing the user to set a different color for each entry, selectable via a drop-down menu. The file is easily scriptable from other FMPro solutions: create new record assumes an item name is in the clipboard, and if a relationship is defined on the basis of that item name, you can assign start and end dates from afar, and end by calling the script that figures minimum start date and maximum end date and prints or displays the resultant graph. Using FileMaker import, you can also begin with a spreadsheet or tab-delimited textfile consisting of item name, start date, end date. This solution is a CPU exerciser; you can watch it draw each row's bar on a 300MHz G3 (12-15 second screen draw), and on a IIci you find yourself anticipating the result of each pseudopixel thereof as it is calculated (go get a cup of coffee). 272K (at least on my HD), requires FileMaker Pro 3.x or higher, cross-platform insofar as I can tell. [Archived as /info-mac/data/gantt.hqx; 62K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:48:58 -0700 From: ikmultimedia Subject: [*] GrooveMaker1.1 GrooveMaker+Dancity is actually a combination of two products: the GrooveMaker software and the Dancity sample collection. The GrooveMaker is the first groove generator based on a powerful sample layering engine with huge pre-grouped loop sample libraries called "songs." Now it's fast and simple to create instant, hi-quality dance music. With the GrooveMaker, you can play, mix and randomize your own grooves on the fly, with instantaneous control over 8 stereo loop tracks, in real-time! Separate volume and pan controls, solo and mute buttons are at your disposal giving you an intuitive environment to create stunning grooves. And you can even add your own samples! Shift the tempos (+/-20%) just like a DJ in a live situation. With the randomization feature, you'll discover endless loop combinations to keep your sound fresh. Every combination you hear can be saved on the fly, or marked inside the program for instant recall. A Virtual Synth Arpeggiator is also included to give your performance that rave impact! With 99 sounds and more than 128 presets, a synth snapshot feature and "smart-notes!" With the GrooveSequencer you can assemble your marked grooves in a sequence list with one click. Now you have a full-length song which you can either mix to your hard disk (as a complete stereo file) or save as eight individual stereo tracks for subsequent mixing on your hard disk recording system. But if you think that's quick and easy, check this out . . . . . . the fastest way to make not one, but millions, of different songs is with the V-Mix. Here a VIRTUAL DJ instantly assembles 4 random mixes with a simple click. That's it! And every time you click again, another random song set is generated. Get hours and hours of instant remixes and never hear the same thing twice. When you hear something you particularly like, save it, or just let it run and groove for you all night long. The Dancity sample collection includes... 504 studio-quality remixable loop samples (from 98 to 180 bpm) pre-grouped in 8 songs, that can combine to produce more than 80 million different grooves using the GrooveMaker=AA soundware engine. Choose from Techno, House, Progressive, EuroDance, Jungle, Trash, and more. A huge variety of instrumental loops including Bass, Bass-Drum, FX, Loop, Line, Pad and Percussion, plus Vocals, with incredibly rich sounds created from massive state-of-the-art gear. A 99 sound, 3 octave virtual synth with more than 3,000 sound events is also included for real-time performances. All samples are available as 22 and 44kHz, 16 bit files. Studio ready, and Royalty Free! And more loop collections are just available! [Archived as /info-mac/gst/snd/groove-maker-11.hqx; 14234K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:49:12 -0700 From: LeeC6421@aol.com Subject: [*] Mac CallerID 1.2.1 Mac CallerID 1.2.1 captures Caller ID information from your local telephone company. Once the information is received it can speak the caller=92s name, = page you via numeric or alphanumeric pager, open a database(AppleScript) and find the calling parties record. =46eatures: Display single or list of calls (up to 9999) SubstituteCaller SoundAssign - attach sounds to specificphone numbers Speak name of caller AppleScript Shrink or Hide application when in the background Preferences SoundAssign (assign sound to a particular telephone number) Pop to the front when receiving a call PageMe (with Pro version ONLY) (numeric and alphanumeric paging using TA= P protocol) Works in the US, Canada, Sweden, England, Puerto Rico and many other features Requirements: Color Desktop Macintosh running system 7 or greater Modem supporting CallerID Subscribe to local telephone company's "Caller ID" service Shareware $20-30 U.S. depending on version. See "Registration Information" and "Read Me" files for more information. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/mac-caller-id-121.hqx; 683K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:49:04 -0700 From: wroger@tiac.net Subject: [*] MacTypingTutor MacTypingTutor 4.5.1 replaces MacTypingTutor 4.5, for Power Macs Now with window graphics that show well on all Power Macs. Now with typewriter sounds (turned on or off) that make your keyboard sound like a real typewriter. Users with older Macs should download MacTypingTutor4.3 or earlier versions; search with keyword: wroger. Shareware fee is reduced for the coming holidays. MacTypingTutor is great for beginning typing students. It uses five integrated work areas that together teach correct finger placement and memorization of the keyboard keys. Practice exercises focus on single letters, letter and number sequences, words, sentences, paragraphs, and free typing. The program offers a spelling checker, user-defined speed goals, score sheets, time tracking with rest signals, and many other helpful features. MacTypingTutor comes in the regular version, a special keyboard version (Dvorak), a French version, and one-handed versions (left or right). This download is the regular version. MacTypingTutor takes advantage of the recent Apple System Software improvements for Power Macs. MacTypingTutor let's you hide or show: your typing, screen-keyboard, and feedback reports. You can adjust difficulty level from very easy to hard (this is a good feature for children). Program automatically remembers your work-preferences from session to session. All five modules in download version of MacTypingTutor work, although there are features in each module that are limited is use. Download and begin by testing your current typing speed. And if you choose to, hear what it sounds like to type on a real typewriter. Additional key words that will help you locate this file in the future are: type keyboarding typewriter computer Mac Macintosh tutorial school educational literacy key letter learning language arts tools typing accurate one handed. wroger@tiac.net wroger@aol.com W. Rogers, Practical Press, Box 754151, Parkside Station, Forest Hills, NY 11375 USA Wm. Rogers Practical Press wroger@tiac.net [Archived as /info-mac/edu/mac-typing-tutor-451.hqx; 400K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:48:54 -0700 From: oneapp@kagi.com Subject: [*] OneApp CineSlider 4.0 Italian Version - Movies, sounds and Abstract/Descrizione: OneApp CineSlider is a projector for movies, sounds and images. It's fast and easy to use. OneApp CineSlider lets you personalize the projection to adapt it to the most varied needs. You can create projections that are controlled manually or automatically. You can personalize the projection environment with colored backgrounds or patterns, use a soundtrack during projection, and display the names of the images and movies that are projected. OneApp CineSlider can handle a wide range of graphic and multimedia formats: QuickTime Movies, QuickTime VR Movies, AIFF audio files, and all the main graphic formats such as JPEG, TIFF, Pict, Photoshop, PNG, MacPaint, GIF, animated GIF, Windows Bitmap BMP and SGI. Using OneApp CineSlider you can create projections that can be distributed as standalone applications. These are so easy to use that anyone can launch them just by double-clicking. System Requirements: Mac OS 7.1 or later, QuickTime 3.0 or later. OneApp Software Home Page: http://www.kagi.com/oneapp/ =3D=3D OneApp CineSlider =E8 un proiettore di filmati, suoni e immagini, veloce e facile da usare. OneApp CineSlider ti consente di personalizzare la proiezione per adattarla alle pi=F9 svariate esigenze, =E8 possibile creare proiezioni automatiche o manuali, personalizzare l'ambiente di proiezione con sfondi colorati o motivi, utilizzare una colonna sonora durante la proiezione, visualizzare e fare leggere il nome delle immagini e dei filmati proiettati. OneApp CineSlider pu=F2 proiettare ed eseguire un elevato numero di formati grafici e multimediali: filmati QuickTime, filmati QuickTime VR, file audio AIFF e tutti i principali formati grafici come JPEG, TIFF, Pict, Photoshop, PNG, MacPaint, GIF, GIF animate, Windows Bitmap BMP e SGI. Con OneApp CineSlider =E8 possibile creare delle proiezioni da distribuire come applicazioni standalone avviabili con doppio clic dal Finder. Requisiti di sistema: Mac OS 7.1 o successivo, QuickTime 3.0 o successivo. OneApp Software Home Page: http://www.kagi.com/oneapp/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D [Archived as /info-mac/gst/oneapp-cineslider-40-it.hqx; 2252K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:48:51 -0700 From: royerm@icanect.net Subject: [*] Palms Kaleidoscope scheme Please post "Palms" Kal. 2.0 scheme on your recent additions page. -Martha Royer -- [Archived as /info-mac/gui/ks/palms-for-kaleidoscope.hqx; 695K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:48:53 -0700 From: royerm@icanect.net Subject: [*] Pharaoh Kaleioscope scheme Pharaoh is based on images from ancient Egpyt and is wriiten for Kal. 2.0. Please post on your recent additions page. -Martha Royer -- [Archived as /info-mac/gui/ks/pharaoh-kal-scheme.hqx; 618K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:49:14 -0700 From: Qsys@kagi.com Subject: [*] PictureSnooper98 Subject: PictureSnooper98 V1.0 AutoSearch/Download Binaries Off NewsGroups PictureSnooper98 V1.0 Tired of waiting for pictures to download? Searching for that perfect ClipArt, or Raytraced Images (or other binary file), but can't stand searching through GigaBytes of Postings? That is why I wrote PictureSnooper!! PictureSnooper is an Application that Searches UseNet NewsGroups for binary files, while you are having dinner, at the movies, or even sleeping. These binary files are usually pictures (and sometimes executables and HTML files). After finding a binary file, PictureSnooper downloads the file, decodes that file, and saves that file to the directory of your choice for later viewing. New Features in PictureSnooper98: * New Window that allows user to display the last image downloaded (for previewing) * Added the ability to filter postings by Author * Option to Add Subject/Author Information to the Finder's Get Info Box for the file * Automatic combining of segmented files * Option to allow for files with the same file name to be stored in the download directory * Fixed some handling of certain server errors. * Modified the file saving to handle PC directories in file names Requires: * System 7.0 or Later. * QuickTime 2.5 or Higher * Macintosh with the Thread Manager Extension (Later System Versions Have ThreadManager Built In). * Access To A News Server Through Your Internet Provider. Thanks, Michael QSys Software Qsys@kagi.com http://www.qsyssoft.com [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/picture-snooper-98.hqx; 1225K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:49:00 -0700 From: greg@abel.MATH.HARVARD.EDU Subject: [*] Power Windows 2.0.4 Power Windows 2.0.4 -- October 4, 1998 by Greg Landweber, coauthor of Kaleidoscope The Power Windows control panel lets you drag entire windows instead of dotted outlines. It offers both solid and translucent window dragging and is the only such utility to support the Finder's popup windows (aka tabbed windows) introduced in Mac OS 8. Version 2.0.4 is now compatible with Mac OS 8.5. It also offers various minor fixes and improvements, including fixes for two bugs introduced in the short-lived version 2.0.3. The shareware fee is $10 (registered users of 1.x can upgrade for $5; registered users of version 2.x do not need to pay an upgrade fee). -- Greg Landweber greg@math.harvard.edu [Archived as /info-mac/gui/power-windows-204.hqx; 100K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:49:15 -0700 From: lendres@cpm.com Subject: [*] ShockBox Version 1.0.2 What is it? ShockBox is an Internet and desktop "audio" browser that allows you to listen to Shockwave "streaming" audio located on the Internet and on your hard drive. ShockBox's Internet abilities allow you to connect to different ShockBox Servers then build custom playlists. You can then shuffle your playlists and play them back. "Streaming" sound begins playing while it is still downloading. ShockBox's streaming capabilities provide almost instant playback of high-quality audio, even for users with 28.8 modem connections to the Internet. ShockBox requires less computer memory to function than the average Web browser with audio plug-ins and ShockBox will run satisfactorily when connected to the Internet with a 56 modem connection. New in Version 1.0.2! Your entire music library is instantly available on your computer! With ShockBox, high fidelity music can be played wherever the user takes his/her laptop. Large stacks of physical CDs stay conveniently and safely at home. ShockBox now allows you play music CDs in highly compressed CD-quality Shockwave audio on your hard drive or local hard drive. Compress your audio, label your audio files with the suffix ".swa" and drop them in a folder labeled with the CD title and you're ready to create customized playlists for playback. Plus, drop a JPEG image of the CD cover into the same folder and view the CD image while you listen to the CD audio tracks! System Requirements: PowerPC Macintosh (100mhz minimum recommended) with 4MB memory. You must have Internet access to use ShockBox Internet abilities. It is recommend that you have a 56 modem connection or higher when using the Internet abilities of ShockBox. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/shockbox-102.hqx; 2966K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:49:08 -0700 From: satimage@imaginet.fr Subject: [*] Smile 1.5.2, a free AppleScript editor Smile is a free, PPC-only, text and script editor for AppleScript. It supports applets and droplets. With respect to other editors, Smile works in a new fashion. The text windows behave like a shell for AppleScript. Pressing the Enter key executes (or just compiles, if there is nothing to execute) the current line or the selected text; the result is appended to the text, or redirected to the "Result" window. Variables and handlers you have compiled in a text window remain available until you quit. Smile can be used as a debugger. You write and test scripts line by line. You drag chunks from a script, including the properties and handlers it needs, and test them in a text window. Moreover, Smile comes with AppleScript additions: list and string utilities, coercions, script handling, resource reading and writing, math functions, data publishing etc. Most of these additions are also included in a Scripting Addition, the Satimage osax, which is part of the Smile package. You can use the Satimage osax independently of Smile. Smile has a User Scripts menu. Each item launches the corresponding script stored in the "User scripts" folder. To edit and save scripts, you use the script windows. Like the text windows they support "Find" and "Compare". Smile is also a scriptable text editor, supporting color and styled text. Power users can build quickly a full interface with Smile. Text and script windows can be equipped with scriptable buttons. Smile has scriptable dialogs. You first freely design a dialog with some resource editor. Then, in Smile, you attach to it the script which will handle its behavior. Lastly you write, where suitable, the script which will launch the dialog. [Archived as /info-mac/dev/osa/smile-152.hqx; 863K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:49:01 -0700 From: sato@het02.ph.tsukuba.ac.jp Subject: [*] tetratrap-10.hqx TetraTrap is an accessory using QuickDraw3D and QuickTime's special effect. In this 3D world, there are a plate, a sphere, and a gasket. The plate and the sphere are texture-mapped objects. The sphere spins and is trapped by the rotating gasket. The gasket changes its color as the time goes by. TetraTrap can load a still image file as the texture map. Various import formats that QuickTime supports are allowed. Special effects: fire, cloud, and water ripple, are shown in front of the view. Flying-thru is done by keyboard input. --------------------------------------------- [Archived as /info-mac/gst/tetra-trap-10.hqx; 682K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 21:00:00 -0700 From: TidBITS Editors Subject: [*] TidBITS#451/19-Oct-98 TidBITS#451/19-Oct-98 Steve Jobs capped last week by announcing $106 million in quarterly earnings, a profitable year, and the long-awaited Mac OS 8.5. The positive financials are great, but everyone wants to know about Mac OS 8.5, so Technical Editor Geoff Duncan delves into the important new features and major conflicts. Also, Adam presents his ideas for reviving old software, and we report on the release of Keep It Up 2.0.1 and the numerous problem reports about Norton Utilities 4.0. Topics: MailBITS/19-Oct-98 Electronic Phoenix Project Getting Started with Mac OS 8.5 [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-451.etx; 30K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:49:07 -0700 From: amorose@earthlink.net Subject: [*] Un-SourceSafe Abstract Un-SourceSafe 1.0 User's Guide =A91998 Michael Amorose All Rights Reserved Worldwide. What is it? Un-SourceSafe is a Macintosh application which removes the info that Microsoft's Visual SourceSafe adds to any files you add to a SourceSafe database. On the Macintosh, Metrowerk's Visual SourceSafe Client usually adds a 'ckid' resource and sets the file's Finder label color to green or red. Un-SourceSafe strips this information. How do I use it? How many times have you wanted to open a file which has been added to a SourceSafe database, but not checked out, only to be told that "This file is read-only"? Pretty frustrating, isn't it? Well, just drop a file, group of files, or combination of files and folders onto Un-SourceSafe and it will remove all that nasty info any make any files dropped onto it "normal" again. But beware that if you do this, SourceSafe can no longer determine the file's checkout or revision status! There are two versions of the app: one is named "Un-SourceSafe G3" - this version should only be run on G3-based Macs. The other version is simply named "Un-SourceSafe". This version is for all other non-G3-based PowerPC Macs. Limitations Un-SourceSafe can only modify files nested 100 levels deep. If you have a folder with more than 100 sub folders, you will have to split the drop up into fewer levels, drop the individual folders onto Un-SourceSafe and then move the folders back. In addition, the maximum number of items that can be changed in any given folder in one drop is 1000. Due to memory limitations, you cannot drop disks onto Un-SourceSafe. How much is it? Un-SourceSafe is free and you can freely distribute it as long as this document accompanies it and you do not sell it or include it in any product that you charge for. Un-SourceSafe is a PowerPC-only and so runs only on PowerPC-based Macs. Please send any problems, bugs, or suggestions to: Michael C. Amorose P.O. Box 610217 San Jose, CA 95161-0217 USA Email: amorose@earthlink.net http://www.home.earthlink.net/~amorose [Archived as /info-mac/dev/uss.hqx; 1126K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:48:36 -0700 From: yellowsoft@iol.it Subject: [*] YellowView 2.1.1 Need you a fast way to build stand-alone multi page documentation? or a Reference system? or a Help System? Should have, the program you need, a very low cost? Should be, the applications created, under free distribution? YellowView is what you want! You may build a YellowView's stand-alone documentation by dragging text files onto its icon or onto its window or by means of menus. You may create 68k, PPC or FAT binary YellowView's applications. YellowView's stand-alone documentations are WASTE based applications having some special features: Any individual page has no 32K text size limit. Full WorldScript support. Double-byte/bidirectional scripts support. Multi-styled text. Drag Manager support. Translucent Drag-and-Drop. Embedded objects (images, sounds, QuickDraw3D, QuickTime). Real tabs. Fully justified text. Command-clicking of URLs (by using Internet Config). Text selection. Bookmarks for any individual page. Live scrolling. SmartScroll support. Searching and opening of text selection (simple hypertext feature). Search features (also across the whole application). SpeechManager support. Last, but not least, YellowView's stand-alone documentations support five kind of AppleEvents, with related AppleScript commands, for searching words or pages. This feature allows to configure YellowView's applications as Help or Reference System. YellowView is $10 SHAREWARE. After a trial period of one week it allows to build applications containing only one document. If you register it you may againg build multi-page applications. All YellowView's stand-alone documentations can be freely distributed. YellowView is Appearance Savvy, Internet Config aware and requires at least System 7 to run. Author: Rocco Moliterno mailto:yellowsoft@geocities.com http://yellowsoft.home.ml.org/ http://yellowsoft.home.ml.org/yellowview.html [Archived as /info-mac/text/yellow-view-211.hqx; 322K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:48:42 -0700 From: ch865@freenet.carleton.ca Subject: [*] YP Refraction (french version) YP Refraction 1.0F This is the french version of YP Refraction. Simule la refraction lumineuse dans differentes formes de prismes. Mise a Jour: Septembre 1998 Auteur: Yves Pelletier Email: pelletier@kagi.com ou ch865@freenet.carleton.ca WWW: http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~ch865/ Prix: $15 US Description du logiciel: YP Refraction est un didacticiel concu pour l'apprentissage des lois de la refraction en optique geometrique. L'utilisateur dispose d'une source laser pouvant etre d=E9placee autour d'un prisme. Six prismes differents sont disponibles: simple interface lineaire entre deux milieux d'indices de refraction differents, prisme en forme de demi-cercle, prisme carre, prisme rectangulaire, prisme triangulaire equilateral (60=B0-60=B0-60=B0), et prisme triangulaire isocele (90=B0-45=B0-45=B0). L'= utilisateur peut modifier les indices de refraction. Il est possible d'afficher la normale a chaque point d'incidence, ainsi que l'angle entre le rayon laser et chaque normale. Le schema obtenu peut etre copie, imprime ou sauvegarde sous la forme d'un fichier PICT. Yves Pelletier pelletier@kagi.com http://www.kagi.com/pelletier [Archived as /info-mac/sci/yp-refraction-10-fr.hqx; 256K] -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************