Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #135 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Sun, 27 Aug 00 Volume 17 : Issue 135 Today's Topics: (A) video conferencing [*] MIDI Warehouse v1.0.8 [*] Pads - Note Pad/Stickies Replacement for the Macintosh [*] The Eraser Pro 2.7.0; Security erasing and cleaning utility. [*] Version Master 2.0.2J - Japanese Version File translation (R) Fusion 3.0 - free Mac emulator for PCs FW: (A) Why Use A Mac?? IDE Hard Drive help Info-Mac Digest V17 #134 Opinion: Why IT departments don't like Macs TrueType Fonts TrueType Fonts Why Use A Mac?? Why Use A Mac?? & G4 Networking 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 V17 #135" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 09:39:31 -0400 From: "abrody@smart.net" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: (A) video conferencing Dear Digest readers, In case anyone was wondering CU2SEEME still is available for the Mac and is MacOS 9 compatible according to their website: http://www.cuseeme.com/software/hf_mac.htm I seem to remember a post here asking what options are available. Also for those with a Logitech camera: http://www.logitech.com/cf/support/10403.cfm#3 Sincerely, abrody@smart.net -- Come visit my mini Yahoo at: http://www.index-site.com/ All links verified monthly. ------------------------------ Date: 27 Aug 2000 From: Takashi Suzuki To: Subject: [*] MIDI Warehouse v1.0.8 MIDI Warehouse is an application for the Macintosh which allows you to play & manage standard MIDI files. Player window holds one standard MIDI file, and displays it's current tempo, System Exclusive status, Control Change status and Voice Name, Panpot, Pitch Bend, Level for each MIDI channel. Playlist window can have up to 2,147,483,647 MIDI files to be played back sequentially, or random order. Database window can have up to 2,147,483,647 MIDI files with sort & find capability. What's Changed : - It took long time to stop if you use multi port MIDI I/F -> fixed. Features : - Fat Binary. - QuickTime support. - Macintosh Drag and Drop support. - GM, GS, XG format compatible. - 32part Standard MIDI File playback support. - Navigation Services support. (PowerPC only) This application requires : - Macintosh with 68020 or higher / PowerPC - System7.6.1 + QuickTime 3.0 + Appearance Manager or later - OMS (Open Music System) -- If you use external MIDI tone generator - MIDI tone generator or QuickTime Musical Instruments [Archived as /info-mac/gst/midi/midi-warehousei-108.hqx; 439 K] ------------------------------ Date: 26 Aug 2000 From: "Dennis C. De Mars" To: Subject: [*] Pads - Note Pad/Stickies Replacement for the Macintosh Pads v1.0 Pads is a simple replacement for the standard Note Pad and Stickies applications. Pads is as simple to use as either Note Pad or Stickies, yet provides significant new features. Pads gives users the ability to organize their notes and use them more effectively. Features: - Notes can be given titles. - Notes can be categorized. - Pages can be "torn off" so that multiple pages can be viewed at once (like Stickies). These tear-off pages can be closed later without destroying the original notes. - Standard Macintosh features such as styled text and drag-and-drop editing are supported. Pads is a shareware program. It is not restricted in features or time-limited in any way. The fee for a single user license is $15. The Pads web site is at: Inquiries and feedback should be directed to: pads@fractaldomains.com or demars@kagi.com The author of Pads is Dennis C. De Mars, who also created Fractal Domains, a popular shareware fractal program for the Macintosh. [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/pads-10.hqx; 991 K] ------------------------------ Date: 26 Aug 2000 From: Yellowsoft To: Subject: [*] The Eraser Pro 2.7.0; Security erasing and cleaning utility. Make The Eraser Pro the cleaning application of your choice! There are its features: -ERASING: - Security method. The Eraser Pro 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 able to do it! - Simple method. You may also choose some details of this job. The Eraser Pro returns several informations while it's 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, you may also instruct it to ask you the permission, before deleting. - DISK ERASING: The Eraser Pro may initialize your disks by using its own, customizable, method. Through a co-operation with System, The Eraser Pro allows you to take advantage of HFS+ and FSM, if you want. - CLEANING FEATURES: The Eraser Pro creates a list, from where you may gather infos/trash/ delete/view your selection. You may also trash/delete the whole list and you've always the option to erase by using the "Security method". - Preferences search: The Eraser Pro searches orphan preferences files. - System Folder search: The Eraser Pro searches orphan files inside the whole System Folder. All following cleaning options allows you to select the objects to scan: disks, folders and, often , individual files. - Orphan files search. You may get a more accurate analysis, using the three cleaning option of above, by activating a couple of special options, but slackening the scan speed. - Cache search:The Eraser Pro may scan the cache folders of your Browsers, excluding some files according to theirs modification dates. - Duplicate file names search. - Empty folders search. - Folder icons search. - Empty aliases search. - Help files search. [Archived as /info-mac/disk/the-eraser-pro-270.hqx; 380 K] ------------------------------ Date: 26 Aug 2000 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] Version Master 2.0.2J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the Version Master package. Version Master is a client application which shows which software on a Macintosh is out-of-date and where on the internet users may find updates, patches, and upgrades. Version Master compiles a list of all of the software on a Mac. Users download the current version numbers and update locations from the Version Master server. The Version Master server currently tracks over 60,000 software titles from 50 countries. Version Master keeps track of 680xx, PowerPC and FAT versions of software. It also tracks beta versions of software independently from release versions of the same software. Software is also categorized by "country code" so localized versions may be tracked. As an added bonus, users may indicate that they would like to receive e-mail notification whenever a newer version of some specific software becomes available. The e-mail feature requires payment of the annual subscription fee. Version Master requires System 7 or greater, 2M RAM, 3M Hard Disk Space. [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/version-master-202-jp.hqx; 880 K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 20:01:11 +0200 From: Christian F Buser To: Kate Subject: File translation (R) Kate wrote: > Why can't I open email enclosures (.doc, etc) with Appleworks 5? (MacOS9) > My husband says WordPerfect is the "industry standard" yet Appleworks > just says "the translator cannot open this file." What am I missing? 1) Industry standard? of what industry? It depends where you ask, and you'll get various different answers. 2) ".doc" is usually - as far as I know - Microsoft Word, not WordPerfect. > Is there an alternative to the $99 MacLinkPlus? If you can't open directly in your application - no. Best wishes, Christian. -- Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) Look at "Wenn nicht jetzt, wann dann?" (Petra Kelly) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 17:43:59 +1200 From: "Markus Winter" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Fusion 3.0 - free Mac emulator for PCs Hi all, to all of you who have a PC but want to run it as a Mac (before I could finally afford a PB I was using a PC laptop together with my Mac desktop), version 3.0 of Fusion is available as a free download from http://www.emulators.com/download.htm Version 1.2 and 2 worked very nicely for me for some time ... please note that it emulates 68k code, so 68k and fat applications will run, but note PPC code only programs ... Regards Markus ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 14:44:37 -0400 From: "Douglas W. St.Clair" To: Subject: FW: (A) Why Use A Mac?? Bud, I started a small desktop publishing business in 1993. I chose the Macintosh because (1) I needed to run more than 100 different applications and the consistency between Macintosh Applications was much greater than that between WINTEL Applications. (2) Printing is much better on the Macintosh. The PC is intended to be an office machine and as such the printing depended on bitmapped graphics and type. Since the Mac's inception the Mac as designed for device independent printing which meant that (via Postscript) the bitmap was optimized for the printer it was going to and scaling was not a problem. (3) Support costs are less (in my experience) on the Macintosh. I stumbled across a website that related an incident in one company where two departments (one Mac and one PC) moved from one building to another. The clerical staff with the Macs got their equipment up and running themselves in a couple hours. It was two days before IT got the PC group running again. (4) The myths about Macs costing more than PCs. The Mac comes with more stuff standard than the PC. For example sound is built in on the Mac requires an optional sound card on the PC. Networking is also standard on the Mac and an option on the PC. Now these items may be bundled in many cases on the PC but if you buy PCs from more than one source you are probably going to get various sound cards for example which means various procedures and software to set them up and more different kinds of parts when it comes time to repair them. (5) The applications are not the same. I worked two years ago for a major publisher that had decided to go from PC to Mac. Very big mistake and very painful. One well respected application, Quark, gave people fits because it did not work the same on both platforms. In addition people in the publishing industry were all Mac based and hiring temp labor became a real problem. Finally a Microsoft's insistence fonts in the Adobe font collection for the PC are not named the same as the font collection for the Mac which meant documents were not portable (as advertised). (6) Finally the cost of retraining people from one system to another should not be overlooked. (7) If it ain't broke don't fix it. -----Original Message----- On 9:21 AM -0500, Bud Casanova wrote: >If anyone can offer me arguments on why Mac is superior to PC, I would >really appreciate your input as I am a Mac person, but my IT dept. would >like to see them disappear. I need valid reasons to keep them in my Creative >Services dept. >Please help me win the argument. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 05:34:18 GMT From: JunkMailMan To: comp-sys-mac-digest@moderators.isc.org Subject: IDE Hard Drive help Hey everyone, I'm planing on getting a new hard drive for my Blue and White G3. It has a 6GB and I'm looking at upgrading to a 40-60GB, preferably under $300. Right now I'm leaning towards a 61.4GB Maxtor drive for about $279, although the price seems to be going down a bit each month (from MegaHaus.com). Here are the specs: 61.4GB Capacity 9ms Seek Time 2MB Buffer 3 year Warranty 5400rpm Spindle Speed 3.5" x 1" Form Factor DiamondMax 60 series Ultra ATA/66 I have several questions: A) Can I keep my existing 6GB hard drive installed as the "master" and have this one act as a "slave" drive? (that whole master and slave thing cracks me up!) B) Should I get some sort of IDE card or controller type thing? C) Is there a lot of difference speed-wise between 5400 RPMs and 7200 PRMs? (I think that number is RPMs?!) D) Are there any other better models/deals out there? E) Anything else I should know about this drive or IDE hard drives in general? I would really appreciate it if you respond by email (JunkMailMan@mac.com) -Tom ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 13:56:06 -0400 From: To: "Info-Mac Digest" Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #134 on the subject of running OS X on an Intel-architectured box: Some time ago, I read on (either) macosrumors or macnn.com, that someone at Apple had successfully ported the command-line core of OS Ten (Darwin) to Intel, which doesn't mean it will necessarily run -- same comment was made in the article. The conventional wisdom is that OS X's GUI, built on the c.l.i. core Darwin but making full use of some of the IBMoto PPC RISC architecture's perks and quirks, would need quite a bit of tweaking before it would suit an Intel (even an Alpha-enhanced intel) box, if only at the API level. It'd be great to see, but then again so was the Yellow Box layer of Rhapsody. :-) Steve Wright sjwright2k@mindspring.com Microsoft -- when they stopped stealing they stopped caring. (http://sjwright2k.home.mindspring.com) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 16:43:44 +1200 From: "Markus Winter" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Opinion: Why IT departments don't like Macs Hi, in the last 10 years I've worked at 3 different Universities with huge IT departments - each of them prefers WinPCs over Macs. The reasons have nothing to do with the actual users, on the contrary. It's not that the IT department is there to support the users, make their job easier, help them do the work - it's that the users are there to give the IT department a reason for existing (and that usually shows in the lacklustre attitude). Macs in my opinion don't need much support or the users are easily capable of tending to them - PC users call for the IT department because the knowledge you sometimes need to sort out problems (my favourite: "Win couldn't start because the himem.sys file couldn't be found") is far beyond their abilities ... You try to reason with the IT department - wrong people to argue with. Argue with the boss instead. Good luck. Markus ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 00:02:41 +0200 From: Mac Frog To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: TrueType Fonts >Anybody know of an easy, trick way to convert TrueType fonts for >Windows to TrueType fonts for MacOS? > >I was certain that I had seen a utility for converting TTF, but now >that I need it, I can't put my hands on it. ;-) > >Memo TTConverter 1.5 HTH, --Michel ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 20:01:13 +0200 From: Christian F Buser To: "William D. Thompson" Subject: TrueType Fonts "William D. Thompson" asked: > Anybody know of an easy, trick way to convert TrueType fonts for > Windows to TrueType fonts for MacOS? TT Converter (or TrueType Converter?), version 1.5; shareware Fontographer; commercial - no idea whether it still exists. Best wishes, Christian. -- Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) Look at "Wenn nicht jetzt, wann dann?" (Petra Kelly) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 12:02:42 -0700 From: Rick Karhu To: Subject: Why Use A Mac?? Murph Sewall : > On 8/17/2000 9:21 AM -0500, Casanova, Bud wrote: > >> If anyone can offer me arguments on why Mac is superior to PC, I would >> really appreciate your input as I am a Mac person, but my IT dept. would >> like to see them disappear. I need valid reasons to keep them in my Creative >> Services dept. You really need them to understand that Macs are far superior in design issues (and I'm assuming a Creative Services dept. is a design-oriented dept.) Open any design industry magazine and look around at the equipment that the world's most cutting-edge designers are using and you'll see there are almost never any PCs--almost completely Macs. It's understandable that an IT dept might get a little annoyed with Macs because PCs do have a slight edge in terms of networking and that's the big issue with IT guys. They need to understand that PCs are horrible to do design work on. Not only do they handle fonts in the most abhorrent manner possible, but they also lack the ability to deal with consistent color. Any printing more advanced that simple pages (i.e. CMYK color separations) is going to be an enormous headache on a PC whereas it's a walk in the park on a Mac. These are very real issues that can mean a lot in terms of productivity and work quality. If your IT dept fails to acknowledge this, you should bring the issue up with your dept heads or someone higher up. It really is an issue worth fighting for. I went from designing on a Mac to a PC at work (switched depts) and it has been a total fiasco. PCs are not the platform for design work. > Your best bet may be to ask the IT department to contact the Gartner > Group http://www.gartner.com one of the leading industry research In my experience however, and IT dept is largely concerned with issues that usually have little to no bearing on users, and their preferences stem from that. An IT dept needs to work *with* the user's choice of equipment, not force their own choices on the user. Luckily, where I work, we have a superior IT dept and they happily cater to us, even though they generally dismiss Macs as largely useless. --Rick Karhu [v1.2 r+d>s TW 1/1/pw tinG 4- pp/oc TW 5 33] "The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad." --Salvador Dali 8^}| Spare Bricks Pink Floyd Webzine: http://sparebricks.cjb.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 19:35:30 +0100 From: Sebastiano Pilla To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Why Use A Mac?? & G4 Networking >Why Use A Mac?? >If anyone can offer me arguments on why Mac is superior to PC, I would >really appreciate your input as I am a Mac person, but my IT dept. would >like to see them disappear. I need valid reasons to keep them in my Creative >Services dept. >G4 Networking > Hi. We (a network of about 100 Macs in a >University/Government biomedical research environment) are being >forcefully "migrated" to use PC/Wintel machines on our 10/100BaseT >Ethernet network. Many of us have refused (long story not worth >going into), and are shortly to be placed on a newly installed >gigabit-capable ethernet network. I am afraid that the IT admin (who >has professed that he *hates* all things Macintosh) will be using a >TCP/IP only strategy on the new network. To both: in cases like this, it's the IT manager (or the IT dept.) at fault. Tell them they're being unprofessional and that's not their job to mandate a platform, but to support the choices made by their users. And if they choose not to support a particular platform, they have to provide rational reasons, as opposed to emotional ("I hate this...", "I hate that..."). My guess: either they're lazy (they don't want to use and support another platform) or they're incompetent (they couldn't possibly learn how to do it). I also seem to remember a study by the Gartner Group that showed that Mac OS-based computers cost less to support than the equivalent PCs. If you can find this study you can point out to upper management that by replacing Macs with PCs you'll have to put more money into an IT department that's already uncapable to properly do its work. Regards Sebastiano Pilla -- There are _no_ Mac "entry-level" programmers. A Mac programmer is, by definition, an expert. They just acquire more expertise over time. - Mark Hartman -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************