Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #236 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Sat, 09 Jan 99 Volume 16 : Issue 236 Today's Topics: [*] BaschzCons for IconTools 1.0 [*] Blue MC Desktop Pattern [*] Cameraid 1.1.1 [*] Canadian Beaver Desktop Pic (14in) [*] Europrice 1.0 [*] MaBaSoft Quit CSM v1.7 [*] MaBaSoft Quit CSM v1.7.1 [*] MaBaSoft Quit CSM v1.7.1 P (Portuguese Version) [*] MacBzip 0.0b0 [*] Nu Sans PostScript font 8.5--A scalable Espy Sans [*] The Eraser 2.5.1 [*] TimeCache 2.03 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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Or, click . * A full list of Info-Mac mirror sites is available at the URL below: * Search the archive at . Info-Mac volunteers include Gordon Watts, Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Michael Bean, Liam Breck, Hugh Lewis, Tom Coradeschi, and Shawn Bunn. The Info-Mac Digest is sponsored in part by StarNine Technologies, developers of Internet server software for the Macintosh, including Web and email publishing systems. 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 #236" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 16:55:57 -0700 From: alex@quadrand.com Subject: [*] BaschzCons for IconTools 1.0 BaschzCons for IconTools is a freeware collection of icons to play with! You'll have to use IconTools by RicciSoft to stamp and customize Baschz! Have fun with Baschz and remember to put the I Love Baschz iconstickers everywhere! copyright =A91999 [Quad]Rand Baschz and I Love Baschz are trademarks of Baschz Vandewater [Archived as /info-mac/gui/icon/baschzcons-10.hqx; 24K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 16:57:51 -0700 From: norton@bgnet.bgsu.edu Subject: [*] Blue MC Desktop Pattern The Blue MC Desktop Pattern is a 128x128 racing motorcycle pattern with colors more or less like those of the Mac OS Default pattern. It can be viewed at and downloaded from http://ernie.bgsu.edu/~norton/download/bluemc/ [Archived as /info-mac/gui/txtr/blue-mc.hqx; 7K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 16:03:39 -0700 From: jmunkki@clinet.fi Subject: [*] Cameraid 1.1.1 Cameraid 1.1.1 is the all in one digital photography utility program for the Macintosh. Version 1.0 has already been extremely popular among owners of Olympus, Agfa, Epson, Sanyo and Nikon digital cameras. Version 1.1 added a lot of new features, making the program indispensable to anyone who needs to manipulate JPEG images on the Macintosh. Version 1.1.1 is a maintenance release containing some improvements and several bug fixes. Cameraid downloads images from Agfa, Apple (QT-200), Epson, Fuji, Leica, Nikon, Olympus, Sanyo and Toshiba digital cameras. Use any serial port, including third party solutions such as the Keyspan SX Serial Card (http://www.keyspan.com). Cameraid works transparently in the background, allowing the user to continue working while the images are downloading. The program features a very fast viewer, capable of opening up to thousands of images with drag and drop from the Finder. The viewer displays useful information about digital camera files. It's the most convenient way to find out what exposure time and aperture was used for taking a photo. Supports all the cameras mentioned above and any that use the Exif standard (including Kodak, Ricoh and many others). Lossless JPEG transforms: Cameraid can rotate and transform on JPEG images without degrading the image quality. Indispensable for rotating portrait oriented photos from digital cameras to their proper orientation. Powerful batch operations can be used to copy files from flash memory cards, automatically create simple HTML web pages, add custom icons, rename files based on the date and time when the photo was taken and much more. Automatic enhancement filters to enhance images with minimal user interaction. What used to take hours of manual labor can now be done in minutes using a single batch operation. A unique filter can be used to reduce CCD image sensor and interlace artifacts. Cameraid 1.1.1 requires A Macintosh with a 68020 or better processor, QuickTime, at least System 7 and 2MB of available RAM. The unregistered shareware version is fully functional, but includes built-in delays and registration reminders in some operations. The $15 registration fee (payable through Kagi) will eliminate the delays and make working with Cameraid faster and smoother. [Archived as /info-mac/app/cameraid-111.hqx; 1039K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 16:56:05 -0700 From: kent@bmgconsultants.com Subject: [*] Canadian Beaver Desktop Pic (14in) This is the 14" version of a Macintosh desktop background that I've created. This one is of a beaver looking up at a Canadian flag. The image dimensions are 640x480 and the file format is PICT. You really should have a 16 bit monitor (32000 colors or better) to see it at it's best. Other desktop images can be found at http://inkwell.bmgconsultants.com/ Kent Bulmer BMG Consultants "...only visiting this planet..." (Larry Norman) Email: kent@bmgconsultants.com -Work: http://www.bmgconsultants.com/ -Pers: http://inkwell.bmgconsultants.com/ --Alt: http://www.embers.org/ [Archived as /info-mac/art/grf/beaver-14.hqx; 166K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 16:03:41 -0700 From: tencas@kagi.com Subject: [*] Europrice 1.0 What is Europrice? Europrice is a Macintosh application that lets you convert any European national currency value in Euro and viceversa. It calculates even possibile rounded values for market prices. Europrice requires MacOS 7.0. Europrice 1.0 requirements: - System 7.0 - Memory: 512 kB available for Europrice - any processor, 68020, 68030, 68040 or PowerPC [Archived as /info-mac/app/europrice.hqx; 285K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 16:56:03 -0700 From: marco.damaschi@galactica.it Subject: [*] MaBaSoft Quit CSM v1.7 What is Quit CSM? You often run several applications at the same time and wish you could quit them without having to activate them? You would like to know their memory sizes and have your largest unused memory block always under your eyes? You would love to quit and restart the Finder and quit background-only applications? If so, then Quit CSM is what need. With Quit CSM you can: - quit applications without having to make them active: you can quit a single application, all background applications or all running applications; - quit and restart the Finder; - quit background-only applications; - display the largest unused memory block or the memory in use; - show application sizes; - enable a hot spot for showing and hiding the Control Strip; - hide the background applications and show all running applications; - automatically hide the front application before each context switch (requires MacOS 8.0 or higher); - restart and shut down your computer. * * * System Requirements Quit CSM runs on all types of Mac and needs System 7.1.1 or higher. Control Strip, Extensions Strip (v1.5.2 or higher), GoMac or Desktop Strip can be used as module host. * * * Quit CSM v1.7 is 5 US$ shareware. It is available from the MaBaSoft ftp site at ftp://macware.erehwon.org/pub/by_author/MaBaSoft/Quit_CSM_1.7.sit and from all major Macintosh shareware ftp sites. * * * What's new in Quit CSM v1.7? - Quit CSM now runs PowerPC code with Control Strip 2.0. - The "Hide Others" and "Show All" commands and "Restart" and "Shut Down" commands can be added to the Quit menu. - The "Hide Front Application before Switch" option has been introduced: when checked, the front application is automatically hidden before each [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/mabasoft-quit-csm-17.hqx; 314K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 16:55:55 -0700 From: marco.damaschi@galactica.it Subject: [*] MaBaSoft Quit CSM v1.7.1 What is Quit CSM? You often run several applications at the same time and wish you could quit them without having to activate them? You would like to know their memory sizes and have your largest unused memory block always under your eyes? You would love to quit and restart the Finder and quit background-only applications? If so, then Quit CSM is what need. With Quit CSM you can: - quit applications without having to make them active: you can quit a single application, all background applications or all running applications; - quit and restart the Finder; - quit background-only applications; - display the largest unused memory block or the memory in use; - show application sizes; - enable a hot spot for showing and hiding the Control Strip; - hide the background applications and show all running applications; - automatically hide the front application before each context switch (requires MacOS 8.0 or higher); - restart and shut down your computer. * * * System Requirements Quit CSM runs on all types of Mac and needs System 7.1.1 or higher. Control Strip, Extensions Strip (v1.5.2 or higher), GoMac or Desktop Strip can be used as module host. * * * Quit CSM v1.7.1 is 5 US$ shareware. It is available from the MaBaSoft ftp site at ftp://macware.erehwon.org/pub/by_author/MaBaSoft/Quit_CSM_1.7.1.sit and from all major Macintosh shareware ftp sites. * * * What's new in Quit CSM v1.7 and v1.7.1? - Quit CSM now runs PowerPC code with Control Strip 2.0. - The "Hide Others" and "Show All" commands and "Restart" and "Shut Down" commands can be added to the Quit menu. - The "Hide Front Application before Switch" option has been introduced: when checked, the front application is automatically hidden before each [Archived as /info-mac/gui/mabasoft-quit-csm-171.hqx; 314K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 16:55:52 -0700 From: marco.damaschi@galactica.it Subject: [*] MaBaSoft Quit CSM v1.7.1 P (Portuguese Version) What is Quit CSM? You often run several applications at the same time and wish you could quit them without having to activate them? You would like to know their memory sizes and have your largest unused memory block always under your eyes? You would love to quit and restart the Finder and quit background-only applications? If so, then Quit CSM is what need. With Quit CSM you can: - quit applications without having to make them active: you can quit a single application, all background applications or all running applications; - quit and restart the Finder; - quit background-only applications; - display the largest unused memory block or the memory in use; - show application sizes; - enable a hot spot for showing and hiding the Control Strip; - hide the background applications and show all running applications; - automatically hide the front application before each context switch (requires MacOS 8.0 or higher); - restart and shut down your computer. * * * System Requirements Quit CSM runs on all types of Mac and needs System 7.1.1 or higher. Control Strip, Extensions Strip (v1.5.2 or higher), GoMac or Desktop Strip can be used as module host. * * * Quit CSM v1.7.1 P is 5 US$ shareware. It is available from the MaBaSoft ftp site at ftp://macware.erehwon.org/pub/by_author/MaBaSoft/Quit_CSM_1.7.1_P.sit and from all major Macintosh shareware ftp sites. * * * What's new in Quit CSM v1.7 P and v1.7.1 P? - Quit CSM now runs PowerPC code with Control Strip 2.0. - The "Hide Others" and "Show All" commands and "Restart" and "Shut Down" commands can be added to the Quit menu. - The "Hide Front Application before Switch" option has been introduced: [Archived as /info-mac/gui/mabasoft-quit-csm-171-pt.hqx; 314K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 16:56:02 -0700 From: MacSPD@ivo.cps.unizar.es Subject: [*] MacBzip 0.0b0 This is the first release of MacBzip2, the bzip2 compressor ported to MacOS (along with the source code, as required by GPL) You can include it on any CD-ROM w/o asking for permission first according to GNU General Public License; but it will be nice of yours if you let me know it... For more information see http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/ (bzip2 Home Page) http://persephone.cps.unizar.es/~spd/gzip/ (MacBzip2 Home Page) This is a beta release, so you should check it works for you before deleting compressed files! [Archived as /info-mac/cmp/macbzip2-00b0.hqx; 251K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 16:55:58 -0700 From: wamozart@teleport.com Subject: [*] Nu Sans PostScript font 8.5--A scalable Espy Sans Nu Sans (formerly Epsy Sans) version 8.5, December 27, 1998 Copyright =A91995-1998 Marty P. Pfeiffer at Scooter Graphics. Price: $10 for 4 fonts Nu Sans is a font family that brings Apple Computer's "Espy Sans" bitmap font to the printed page. =46eatures: --Includes the Euro Symbol --Much nicer printed appearance than any previous version of Nu Sans --The registered version allows you to select Nu Sans-Bold as your default system font. (MacOS 8.x) --Bitmaps for the 9,10,12,14 and 18 pts sizes of each font --You can use Nu Sans at any point size--without getting the jaggies. --The registered version also includes bold, italic and bold italic--great for web browsing. --Nu Sans, with it's high x-height, is a very readable font, on-screen and on the printed page About the Nu Sans font family Nu Sans is based on Apple Computer's "Espy Sans" bitmap font. Espy Sans is a font designed by Apple's Human Interface people for easy readability on computer screens. This bitmap font is also used by the Newton and comes with the Newton Toolkit as well as the Newton Toolkit Demo (part of "Programming for the Newton" by McKeehan and Rhodes). Now you can use Espy Sans on your printer as well. I was fascinated by the towering x-height and easy readability of this font when I first started using eWorld. Then the font showed up again in Greg Landweber & Ed Voas' "Aaron" system extension to update the look of your Mac. I had been designing fonts for awhile and so I decided to take on the challenge of making a printer font out of a bitmap. Driven by a need to use Nu Sans as a general, all-purpose font, I created an Italic and Bold Italic. I have many users who swear by Nu Sans as the default font for their web browsers :-) [Archived as /info-mac/font/nu-sans-85-ps-demo.hqx; 252K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 16:56:00 -0700 From: yellowsoft@iol.it Subject: [*] The Eraser 2.5.1 Make The Eraser the cleaning application of your choice! There are its features: - Security erasing. The Eraser deletes your files by using a sophisticated procedure. It lets you customize many details of this job. The recovery of deleted files becomes impracticable: there's no utility ables to do it! - Simple erasing. You may also choose some details of this job. - Disk erasing. The Eraser may initialize your disks by using its own, customizable, method. Through a co-operation with System, The Eraser allows you to take advantage of HFS+ and FSM, if you want. The Eraser returns several informations while is using the features of above and allows you to stop its performance at any time. It works fine and fast in background, deleting large groups of items... But The Eraser may also create lists, from where you may gather infos/trash/delete the file you want. You may also trash/delete the whole list and you've always the option to erase by using the Security method. List options: - Preferences Folder. The Eraser scans this folder searching for orphan preferences files. - System Folder. It scans the whole System Folder searching for orphan files. - Orphan files. It scans your disks and folders, searching for orphan files (you may also check individual files). You may get a more accurate analysis, searching for orphan files, by activating a couple of special options, but slackening the scan speed. - Cache cleaning. The Eraser may scan the cache folders of your Browsers, excluding some files according to theirs modification dates. - Find. This is a cool feature! The Eraser may scan disks and folders (and individual files) following your instructions: you may instruct it to search files matching type, creator, extension, prefix and name. It may also skip or include files created or/and modified within the period of time you want. The Eraser is Internet Config, Drag Manager and Navigation Manager aware, moreover it's Appearance savvy. It requires at least System 7 to run. Author: Rocco Moliterno mailto:yellowsoft@geocities.com http://yellowsoft.tsx.org/ http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/7162/theeraser.html What's new in 2.5.1 version: Cosmetic adjustments. Better Navigation Manager support. [Archived as /info-mac/disk/the-eraser-251.hqx; 194K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 16:03:44 -0700 From: PandaWare@aol.com Subject: [*] TimeCache 2.03 PandaWare(r) TimeCache(tm) 2.0 is an upgrade to the popular Macintosh time tracking application for freelancers, consultants and small companies. TimeCache 2.0 now tracks expenses along with time (and resulting charges) for any number of clients and projects. You can apply different billing rates to user-defined billing categories. TimeCache totals charges for every data entry. TimeCache automatically times your work, or you can enter time in hours or minutes. You can print daily reports or job reports. TimeCache 2.0 also automatically creates reports that summarize time and charges by billing categories. Among the new features in TimeCache 2.0: Easier data entry Ability to record time in units ranging from one to 30 minutes Ability to record negative payments, signifying payments or credits Ability to track client numbers and project estimates The ability to mark selected time and expense entries Great flexibility in choosing items to print Mac OS 8 Appearance Manager support You can try TimeCache 2.0 for free. If you like it, register your copy with The PandaWare Company and we'll send you a registration key that lets you unlock your copy of TimeCache 2.0 for unlimited use. Version 2.03 fixes a major memory leak and an obscure crashing problem, fixes problems in the online help and includes minor interface tweaks. [Archived as /info-mac/app/timecache-20.hqx; 1739K] -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************