Subject: Info-Mac Digest V18 #107 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Fri, 10 Aug 01 Volume 18 : Issue 107 Today's Topics: [*] Mac-Site-list, Version 4.7.0 [*] PandoCalendar 5.7.3 - Customizable desktop calendar for your Mac. [*] RightWord 1.1 (PPC) [*] RPN Calculator 1.3.2 68K [*] RPN Calculator 1.3.2 Carbon [*] RPN Calculator 1.3.2 PPC [*] TidBITS#591/06-Aug-01 [Q] Software to use CD-RW like a floppy? serial/usb question serial/usb question working with corrupted files 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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Info-Mac volunteers include Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Hugh Lewis, Tom Coradeschi, Shawn Bunn, Christopher Li, Patrik Montgomery, Ed Chambers, and Chris Pepper. America Online donated the main Info-Mac machine . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V18 #107" ------------------------------ Date: 6 Aug 2001 From: Bruce Grubb To: Subject: [*] Mac-Site-list, Version 4.7.0 The Mac-Site-list lists over 120 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 6.0 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 font such as Courier 10pt, Monaco 9pt, or a PC equivalent. Permission is given for this program to be included on the Info-Mac CD-ROM. Changes: 'These Mac sites no longer exist or have major problems' section elimited; hqx archive at home site replaced by smaller .sit file. Added sites/URLs: http://www.ExtensionOverload.com/; http://www.tempel.org/jolie; Defunct sites/URLs: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~jwang/AV/ (too old); [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/mac-site-list-47.hqx; 85 K] ------------------------------ Date: 9 Aug 2001 From: Panda Systems To: Subject: [*] PandoCalendar 5.7.3 - Customizable desktop calendar for your Mac. PandoCalendar is a useful Mac-only program places a fully functional calendar on your desktop. The look is completely customizable. You can change the calendar font and its size, and the calendar's background color; you can center the current week (so you are always able to look back and ahead a full month at a time), display the numerical number of the weeks of the year, display the calendar with European style weeks (Monday being the first day and Sunday being the last), assign notes to any day of the year by clicking on the day in the calendar, and set alarms to remind you of time sensitive events. You can also have PandoCalendar automatically plot the days you work. Great for people who don't have a Monday-Friday work schedule! Version 5.7.3 - Add an option to always save changes in daily information windows without asking. Fixed two bugs that would cause PandoCalendar to crash if run with CarbonLib 1.4. Fixed a bug that would prevent an Apple Script from being able to export notes and appointments to a text file. Panda Systems [Archived as /info-mac/app/time/pando-calendar-573.hqx; 1129 K] ------------------------------ Date: 9 Aug 2001 From: Ton Brand To: Subject: [*] RightWord 1.1 (PPC) RightWord is a word game that resembles a popular game on Dutch television. There are PPC and 68K versions; with this you have the PPC version. It's meant for both adults and children. The fun of playing RightWord is to find the 5-letter words (in English) of which RightWord presents the first letter. You can either play alone or against an opponent, on the same machine or via an internal network. There's also a factor of luck that makes RightWord even more attractive, which has to do with 'drawing balls' and achieving the word 'RIGHT' as column, row or diagonal in a colored bingo board. Further, there are 'red balls' to change the course of the game. New to version 1.1 is that new words are automatically added to the dictionary. [Archived as /info-mac/game/word/right-word-11-ppc.hqx; 1010 K] ------------------------------ Date: 6 Aug 2001 From: Jeffry Baker To: Subject: [*] RPN Calculator 1.3.2 68K "RPN Calculator" comes in 3 varieties, 68k (529K), PPC (600K) and Carbon (699K). Many important improvements and additions have occurred since V1.2.5, including a few minor bug fixes. [Archived as /info-mac/sci/calc/rpn-calculator-132-68k.hqx; 720 K] ------------------------------ Date: 9 Aug 2001 From: Jeffry Baker To: Subject: [*] RPN Calculator 1.3.2 Carbon "RPN Calculator" comes in 3 varieties, 68k (529K), PPC (600K) and Carbon (699K). Many important improvements and additions have occurred since V1.2.5, including a few minor bug fixes. [Archived as /info-mac/sci/calc/rpn-calculator-132-cbn.hqx; 950 K] ------------------------------ Date: 9 Aug 2001 From: Jeffry Baker To: Subject: [*] RPN Calculator 1.3.2 PPC "RPN Calculator" comes in 3 varieties, 68k (529K), PPC (600K) and Carbon (699K). Many important improvements and additions have occurred since V1.2.5, including a few minor bug fixes. [Archived as /info-mac/sci/calc/rpn-calculator-132-ppc.hqx; 816 K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 21:00:00 -0700 From: TidBITS Editors To: digest@info-mac.org, mac-l@sparky.listmoms.net, Subject: [*] TidBITS#591/06-Aug-01 TidBITS#591/06-Aug-01 Wondering if Microsoft will get behind Mac OS X? Previews of Microsoft Office 10 indicate that Microsoft is going all out on supporting Apple's new operating system. Looking inward, Adam passes on the tallied answers to the questions we ask of people subscribing to and unsubscribing from TidBITS, and in the news, we cover the shutdown of Metricom's wireless Ricochet network and the releases of Conflict Catcher 8.0.9 and Spring Cleaning 4.0. Topics: MailBITS/06-Aug-01 Navel Gazing for Fun and Profit Microsoft Office 10's Carrot and Stick [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-591.etx; 32K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 14:38:41 -0400 From: refried@email.unc.edu (Howard M. Fried) To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: [Q] Software to use CD-RW like a floppy? Hi: Adaptec/Roxio used to sell a product, Direct CD for Mac, that allowed one to use a CD-RW drive as a standard floppy drive. I didn't purchase this software and now find that it has been discontinued. Would anyone know of an alternative? Many thanks, Howard Fried University of North Carolina ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 21:03:50 -0600 From: Robert Zimmerman To: Big Bird , digest@info-mac.org Subject: serial/usb question I just hooked up a LaserWriter Select 360 to my father's G4 using ethernet. How did I do that? At 4:38 PM -0500 8/6/01, Big Bird allegedly wrote: >In article <9kldhu$9se$1@traf.lcs.mit.edu> Robert Zimmerman writes: >< miriams@mindspring.com wrote: >< < I have a beige G3 with serial port burned out. Someone is suggesting >< < I put a usb card in and buy a new printer. But I have a perfectly >< < good Laserwriter Select 360 and an epson stylus pro xl. >< >< Miriam, first off, your Laserwriter can be hooked up via ethernet, > >A laserwriter 360 doesn't speak ethernet. It has serial, parallel, and >localtalk ports. That said, a good way to connect a LW360 is with a >localtalk/ethernet bridge, such as the Gatorbox. > >\begin{rant} > >Gatorboxes regularly show up on ebay and usually sell (if anyone bids >at all) for less than $20. These are significantly more powerful than >the ethernet/localtalk bridges currently available new which sell for >$50-$100. I don't understand why no one buys these Gatorboxes. > >\end{rant} > >I'm not familiar with epson printers, so I don't know how to connect >them. > >Mark Geary >-- > "Build high for happiness." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 16:38:02 -0500 From: Big Bird To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: serial/usb question In article <9kldhu$9se$1@traf.lcs.mit.edu> Robert Zimmerman writes: < miriams@mindspring.com wrote: < < I have a beige G3 with serial port burned out. Someone is suggesting < < I put a usb card in and buy a new printer. But I have a perfectly < < good Laserwriter Select 360 and an epson stylus pro xl. < < Miriam, first off, your Laserwriter can be hooked up via ethernet, A laserwriter 360 doesn't speak ethernet. It has serial, parallel, and localtalk ports. That said, a good way to connect a LW360 is with a localtalk/ethernet bridge, such as the Gatorbox. \begin{rant} Gatorboxes regularly show up on ebay and usually sell (if anyone bids at all) for less than $20. These are significantly more powerful than the ethernet/localtalk bridges currently available new which sell for $50-$100. I don't understand why no one buys these Gatorboxes. \end{rant} I'm not familiar with epson printers, so I don't know how to connect them. Mark Geary -- "Build high for happiness." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 17:42:45 -0500 From: Rob Pluta To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: working with corrupted files Hi! I'm having lots of fun recording radio programs onto my FW drive for later burning onto a CD-R. I've just discovered that a 7-minute file (~50 MB) has been corrupted; disk i/o error and the Finder can't copy it to another disc. Is there anyway to work with this file so I can at least skip around the bad sector? I'd rather not deal with a Norton product. Audion was able to work with the file up to the point of corruption which saved me 5 minutes. Losing two minutes might be OK but it's an opera and I'm not sure how important those two minutes may be. Then again, I guess I'm a little AR... TIA, Rob -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************