Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #147 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Thu, 14 Sep 00 Volume 17 : Issue 147 Today's Topics: (A) Data integrity on PC Zip disks (A) Noisy 250 K Zip drives [*] SpaceAgent 2.1 [*] TaskMenuBar 2.2.0 [*] Tile-it Icons 2.6.2 [*] USB Overdrive 1.3.7 - Universal USB mouse, joystick and gamepaddriver [Q] G4 TV tuners [Q] G4 won't sleep Mac OS 9.0.3 & Printer Problem systems for older mac's systems for older mac's systems for older macs (R) 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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Make sure before saving any data to zip disks to name the files the normal 8.3 PC naming conventions if you want to make sure they maintain their integrity. If somebody has done that and still found data gets corrupted from QuarkExpress and other programs I'd like to hear about it. Also I might add that Zip disks are not for archival storage. They are for data exchange only. Zip disks are susceptible to dust and magnetism in ways that CD-R disks are not. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net -- Come visit my mini Yahoo at: http://www.index-site.com/ All links verified monthly. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:26:45 -0700 From: Paul Brians To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: (A) Noisy 250 K Zip drives Recently I complained here about the noisy whine of the 250K Zip drives. I found that I could remove most of them problem by setting the Iomega control panel to put the drive to sleep after one minute of idle time. This has made using the drive much more comfortable. -- Paul Brians, Department of English Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu/~brians ------------------------------ Date: 14 Sep 2000 From: Bernadette Ryan To: Subject: [*] SpaceAgent 2.1 Speed up your website in seconds! SpaceAgent eliminates extraneous information from both web page text and graphics. It compresses text pages, including HTML, JavaScript, XML, and others by removing white space, redundant tags, unneeded tags, and more. SpaceAgent's GIF and JPEG compression is the best available and reduces image size without affecting the image's quality. SpaceAgent typically reduces web site size by 30%! The streamlined pages download faster, render more quickly, save bandwidth, and reduce web server loads. On average, web sites display 50% faster! Plus, you get all these benefits with one drag and drop. Visit www.insidersoftware.com for more information. Insider Software Inc 6412 Merlin Drive, Suite 700 Carlsbad CA 92009 sales: 800-700-6340 support: 760-804-9900 eMail: spaceagent@insidersoftware.com [Archived as /info-mac/text/html/space-agent-21.hqx; 1560 K] ------------------------------ Date: 14 Sep 2000 From: Hugh Kawahara To: Subject: [*] TaskMenuBar 2.2.0 TaskMenuBar is a control panel that uses the empty space on the menu bar for many operations such as launching and switching applications, and opening files. Because it only uses the menu bar, unlike other utilities, it will never obscure or be obscured by other windows. New features of the 2.2.0 include: 1) "Printer" menu to select the default desktop printer. 2) "Eject" menu to eject removable volumes. 3) Folder menu grouping option. 4) Can selectively disable menu icon drawing. and more. Requires System 7.1 or later including OS-8 and 9 with a 68K or PPC processor. Shareware fee: $15. Hugh Kawahara kawahara@ix.netcom.com www.netcom.com/~kawahara/taskmenubar.html [Archived as /info-mac/gui/task-menu-bar-22.hqx; 164 K] ------------------------------ Date: 14 Sep 2000 From: appajt@nbnet.nb.ca (appajt) To: Subject: [*] Tile-it Icons 2.6.2 Tile-iT Icons is an application that use the custom Icons of System 7.X to display pictures or text on the desktop or in any windows. Tile-iT takes any PICT from the clipboard, break it into 'Tiles', convert those tiles to icons, assign those icons to documents and finally arrange those documents so that they touch each other. In other words, a Tile-iT frame of 3 x 3 icons is composed of 9 documents each having a custom icon representing a portion of the original picture. Tile-it now produce those 32 bits 'icns' resources so that you can display pictures in thousand of colors. Tile-it is also the most userfriendly of these kind of application. This is a major update and a lot of bugs have been fixed. There is a rebuild option available in case you loose the alignment of the tiles. This has been tested up to PowerPc G4 running MacOS 9.0.4. It need MacOS 7.1 to run properly. [Archived as /info-mac/gui/icon/tile-it-262.hqx; 757 K] ------------------------------ Date: 14 Sep 2000 From: Alessandro Levi Montalcini To: Subject: [*] USB Overdrive 1.3.7 - Universal USB mouse, joystick and gamepaddriver The USB Overdrive is a universal USB driver that handles all USB mice, trackballs, joysticks and gamepads from any manufacturer and lets you configure them either globally or on an application-specific basis. It reads all kinds of wheels, buttons, switches and controls and supports scrolling, keyboard emulation, launching and complex macros as well as all the usual stuff like clicking, control-clicking and so forth. The USB Overdrive can easily handle several USB devices at once- I have two mice, one trackball, two joysticks and one gamepad connected to the same iMac, and each of them comes from a different manufacturer. Because each control in each device can be fully configured, the USB Overdrive lets you use any joystick or gamepad with any game, including the ones that don't support Apple's InputSprockets. You can map your joystick movements and buttons to the keyboard and mouse to make the game believe you're playing on the keyboard, and you can do this mapping separately for each game so that it's immediately available as soon as the game is launched. For games that already use InputSprockets, the USB Overdrive quietly gives control to the device-specific configuration panels provided by the manufacturer, or to the generic ones provided by Apple with Mac OS 9 or the latest Game Sprockets. The mouse settings allow you to speed up your daily tasks by assigning useful actions to all the extra buttons and wheels in your USB mouse. You'll typically want to assign a control-click to the right button for easy contextual menu acces, and enable document scrolling if your mouse has a scrolling wheel. The Control Panel includes an active help feature that explains each command and option as you move the cursor around. New in version 1.3.7 - Added visual cursor feedback when Auto Scroll is active. - Fixed a conflict with the Classic environment under Mac OS X (the USB Overdrive does not yet work under Mac OS X and the Classic environment, but you no longer have to remove it to boot into Classic). [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/usb-overdrive-137.hqx; 301 K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 02:39:30 -0700 From: Wagner Truppel To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: [Q] G4 TV tuners Howdy, I'm looking for a TV tuner card for the new G4's. Any recommendations? Thanks in advance. Wagner wtruppel@uci.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:11:15 -0400 From: Ken Laskey To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: [Q] G4 won't sleep New G4/500 running OS 9.0.4 that sometimes will not sleep when Sleep is chosen from the Special menu. If you reboot the machine, you can immediately put it to sleep. Computer is on home network and drives from other machines are sometimes mounted. Any ideas? -- Ken Laskey kenneth.j.laskey@saic.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:56:47 -0400 From: Dominic Hawkins To: Info-Mac Network Subject: Mac OS 9.0.3 & Printer Problem Using a new iMac 400 DV and OS 9.0.3,, I am having trouble with an Epson 500 printer and a KeySpan Twin Serial Adapter. At start-up the Mac refuses to recognise the connected printer, stating the port is already in use. My cure is to disconnect the USB plug and reconnect it. Keyspan have now stated that the fault is with OS 9.0.3, and can be corrected by upgrading to 9.0.4. Problem is the size of the dowmload, about 12 MB. Is there any way of getting the upgrade on CD-ROM? I am currently in France, visiting UK shortly. Laurence Hawkins lhawkin@caribnet.net or djnh@wanadoo.fr ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:36:00 -0700 From: "Dan O'Donnell" To: Gerrit.Stemerdink@cwi.nl (Stemerdink) Subject: systems for older mac's My SE (1986) came with version 4.x (iirc) so you should have no problem. For what it's worth, version 6.0.7 was probably the best before System 7. Can you run that? At 10:06 AM +0000 9/13/00, Stemerdink wrote: >I have a question on older Mac's. > >Could anyone inform me on what older 'all-in-one' Mac's I can run Sytem 4.X? > >I have some old favorite games that only run on this system version >and I'd like to know whether for example an SE will tolerate this. > >Please answer me directly via e-mail, as I have no regular access to >this Newsgroup. My e-mail address is either stemerdi@cwi.nl or >stemerdink_wichert@hotmail.com. > >Thanks, > >Gerrit Stemerdink > >-- >Gerrit J. Stemerdink >Weerdslag 98, 7206 BV Zutphen, the Netherlands >phone: (+31) 575 523005 >email: gsek@cbs.nl ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:52:57 -0400 From: Allan Hunter To: stemerdi@cwi.nl (Stemerdink) Subject: systems for older mac's >I have a question on older Mac's. > >Could anyone inform me on what older 'all-in-one' Mac's I can run Sytem 4.X? Sure! Original 128K conceivably? 512K definitely; Mac Plus absolutely; SE will run it nicely; not sure about II series or SE/30. The retro Mac Classic, probably; You can also run it on any modern Mac using vMac! If you're going to run it natively on your SE, don't forget to grab a copy of Switcher, the MultiFinder for system 4! > >I have some old favorite games that only run on this system version >and I'd like to know whether for example an SE will tolerate this. > >Please answer me directly via e-mail, as I have no regular access to >this Newsgroup. My e-mail address is either stemerdi@cwi.nl or >stemerdink_wichert@hotmail.com. > > -- Allan Hunter ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:25:37 +0200 From: Christian F Buser To: stemerdi@cwi.nl Subject: systems for older macs (R) At Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:06:37 GMT, Gerrit.Stemerdink@cwi.nl (Stemerdink) wrote: >Could anyone inform me on what older 'all-in-one' Mac's I can run Sytem 4.X? > >I have some old favorite games that only run on this system version >and I'd like to know whether for example an SE will tolerate this. I did not find any record about a system 4.x on Apple's site. There is a "jump" from 2.0.1 to 5.0. See for the specifications of all Apple hardware. Best wishes, Christian. -- Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) Look at Wenn nicht jetzt, wann dann? (Petra Kelly) -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************