Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #151 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Fri, 22 Sep 00 Volume 17 : Issue 151 Today's Topics: [*] Holiday Lights 5.0J - Japanese Version [*] Mail Convert 2.1 [*] Nuku 1.1.1 [*] pc Setup 2.1.7 DOS/Windows Drivers for Apple/Reply Compatibility cards [no subject] Eudora 4.3 Alerts iMac Crashes and Freezes MacOS X and G3->G4 upgrade? missing buy button 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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The lights flash in the background while you continue to work, so it's not just a screen saver. The "bulbs" include standard Christmas tree lights, Valentine's Day hearts, Thanksgiving turkeys, chili peppers, shamrocks, dreidels, stockings, holly, snowmen, happy faces, and more -- and you can create your own bulbs using ResEdit or a similar program. For even more seasonal joy, Holiday Lights includes cheery background music (you can add your own MIDI files) as well as built-in festive screen savers to put you in the holiday spirit. Holiday Lights is an application, not a system extension, so it won't cause extension conflicts. It is compatible with System 7.1 or later, including Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9.X. Version 5.0 adds the ability to display bulbs above all other windows and improves the appearance of the screen saver, adding background pictures and text messages. [Archived as /info-mac/gui/holiday-lights-50-jp.hqx; 1299 K] ------------------------------ Date: 22 Sep 2000 From: Greg Nye To: Subject: [*] Mail Convert 2.1 Mail Convert is a small application to convert form data received in email into usable data in a tab-delimited text file. This update features a field editor, drag and drop support, basic AppleScript support (including the ability to fully automate the conversion process included sample scripts) as well as a number of bug fixes. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/mail/mail-convert-21.hqx; 778 K] ------------------------------ Date: 22 Sep 2000 From: Axel Andersson To: Subject: [*] Nuku 1.1.1 A small application to help you learn the Japanese writing systems hiragana and katakana. Features both hiragana and katakana in one application, the three main romanization systems, options for selecting which parts to train on, and the ability to switch between quiz mode, where the user is asked to identify a character, and the learning mode, where the application shows the character the user asked for. [Archived as /info-mac/edu/lang/nuku-111.hqx; 185 K] ------------------------------ Date: 22 Sep 2000 From: Randall Venhola To: Subject: [*] pc Setup 2.1.7 DOS/Windows Drivers for Apple/Reply Compatibility cards pc Setup 2.1.7 is drivers for the DOS and PC compatibility cards created by Apple and Reply to operate in a Macintosh computer. This is a commerical update to the existing Apple product PC SETUP 1.6.4. These drivers provide 32 bit support, increased performance and better networking. This is a demo version that will run for 20 minutes. Home page is at http://www.pcsetup2x.com [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/pc-setup-217.hqx; 2006 K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 21:40:09 -0400 From: Saint John To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: [no subject] At 12:36 -0400 9/20/00, The Info-Mac Network wrote: >Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 02:29:26 -0700 >From: David van Wert >To: digest@info-mac.org >Subject: > >This is a weird little thing happening in Explorer 5. When visiting >the cdbaby web site (on-line distributors for independent musicians), >IE5 doesn't show the "buy" button to add an item to your list of >stuff you want to buy. > >CD Baby Price: >$13.00 > >Well, gee, of course there's no buy button, duh, look at the comment >tag! But iCab does show the buy button and a view source of the same >area shows the following: > >CD Baby Price: href="/add/sugarplastic?CDBabySessionID=beb97476b83e990f8c2f9b218b0be995">$13.00 >src="/gif/newbuy.gif" width="58" height="17" alt="BUY CD" border="0" >align="middle" hspace="10"> > >Weird. Anybody have any idea of what could cause the actual source to >download differently? It's the USERAGENT environmental variable. Servers can deliver different versions of a page depending on a lot of different things-- for example, you can use the REFERRER variable to put up a special welcome to people coming to your site when they click on a link on my page. Using parsed HTML of some sort, you can access these variables. It's quite common these days for a website to put a page together on the fly-- eBay, for example, uses a very complex CGI (Common Ground Interface) script to generate a list of all the auctions you're bidding on. This would be a program written in C or Perl that sends out the headers and content, which the client (your computer) can't tell from a plain old static HTML file. Now for the problems. This method was used to get around the "feature wars" of Netscape and Microsoft. Each of their browsers worked a different way. By using this method and looking at the USERAGENT before sending a page, a company could tweak the output ever so slightly so that users, no matter what the browser type. CD Baby looks like they're simply replacing the "img"[ src] and "a h"[ref] with "!--". This is bad in itself, since it adds an end-anchor () that isn't matched by an appropriate anchor. But the program generating the web page-- which we can't see-- may not even know what a Macintosh is, and may treat anything that doesn't have "(Windows 9?; Internet Explorer)" as "unrecognized." Why does iCab display the graphic? Maybe it's reporting itself as something that the page-generating program knows can support graphics. In any case, I'd be hesitant to shop at a place that knew so little about computers that they dis millions of potential customers. (At least, this is my guess.) PS: Try not to use HTML encoding when sending to in mailing lists, OK? +- Saint John -+ | ...Sorry! My .sig file is packed away for the move. It will | +- return as soon as I find the box that I put it in. ---------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:56:39 -0700 From: Doug Hardie To: dsmall@mitre.org (Duane W Small), digest@info-mac.org Subject: Eudora 4.3 Alerts At 13:25 -0400 9/20/00, Duane W Small wrote: >Well, I'm using 4.2 Pro, but I'm guessing they're similar, and I use >filters that do exactly what you're trying to do. The filters each >have two actions. > >The first filter action is the transfer. You've presumably already >set that up. > >The second filter action seems counter-intuitive. When I don't want >to be notified, I choose "Notify User" as the second action. That >gives me two checkboxes that specify *how* to notify the user. >Unchecking both boxes suppresses the normal notification. > >Hope this helps. > >Duane Small Thanks to all who responded. I was completely missing the "Notify User" action in the list. Upon closer investigation is is active in the free mode. I appreciate your patientce and assistance. -- -- Doug ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:05:00 -0700 From: "Fanning, Alan W. (PS, NE)" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: iMac Crashes and Freezes I recently purchased a floor model of last year's iMac DV for my daughter, a college freshman. We only had it for a week before we hauled her off to college, and did not have time to load all the software. Once at school, she has had intermittent problems with bombs and freezes in loading and using various software. This is quite exasperating for me, as she is 350 miles away and I am hard pressed to even understand the problem let alone fix it remotely. Can someone suggest any web resources which might help us diagnose and fix these problems? It seems particularly important to determine whether we're dealing with a software or a hardware problem. Thanks, Alan Fanning San Jose, CA ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:06:23 -0400 From: "John Hachey" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: MacOS X and G3->G4 upgrade? Hello, I know that OS X is only supposed to work with G3s or G4s and not with older Power PCs upgraded to a G3 or G4 How about a G3 upgraded to a G4? Thanks, John ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 21:11:24 -0500 From: Chaz Larson To: David van Wert Subject: missing buy button This is a weird little thing happening in Explorer 5. When visiting the cdbaby web site (on-line distributors for independent musicians), IE5 doesn't show the "buy" button to add an item to your list of stuff you want to buy. Assuming this is the florescent green oval that appears right next to the "CD Baby Price", it shows up fine on my machine. iMacDV, 9.0.4, MSIE 5.0 chazl -- What's important in this world? A little boy. A little girl. - Chrissie Hynde, Thumbelina Chaz Larson - chaz at visi dot com - http://www.visi.com/~chaz -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************