Subject: Info-Mac Digest V18 #137 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Fri, 26 Oct 01 Volume 18 : Issue 137 Today's Topics: [*] CCN Plus 1.6 (68k version) [*] CCN Plus 1.6 (PowerPC version) [*] RPN Calculator 1.45 Carbon [*] RPN Calculator 1.45 PPC [*] Startup Doubler 2.6.1 - For Faster Startups! [*] UPresent Viewer (Carbon) v2.5.3 [*] UPresent Viewer (Classic MacOS) v2.5.3 [*] VCD Player 1.5.3 - Full Screen VCD Player - Johnny CN Lee mac windows network problem PCI - USB card Problems with Apple Downloads Software for USB PCI Card software for USB pci card? Software for USB PCI card? 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 #137" ------------------------------ Date: 25 Oct 2001 From: Brian Stevens To: Subject: [*] CCN Plus 1.6 (68k version) Please update this file on the infomac archive. Thank you. Brian Stevens CCN Plus (CCN+) has several integrated components: * Calendar Monthly calendar with a digital clock and chime. Scroll by year or month and also jump to a specific year quickly Countdown event or date shown based on preferences Options configurable including a 24-hour clock, daynote retention and color and more. * Day Notes (notes associated with a date) are just one click away A pageable weekly view is also printable. A monthly view is also printable. List View shows all the notes in chronological order US holidays can be added for any year via the preferences option * Countdown - a realtime Days, Hours, Minutes and Seconds countdown to the date of your choice. * Notes - a general notepad for collecting To Dos and other important ideas you want to save. All printable. * Timers short-term reminders with automatic repetitions. * Recurring Day Notes can be created automatically for those events that happen every week, month or year. Components are independent with levels of integration with each other and emphasize small desktop size. Version 1.6 adds the following: * Month names and day names in all views Internationalized for local country * Recurring notes now append instead of replace for dates with existing notes * Weekly view button added to Monthly View * Monthly view button added to Weekly View * Weekly view honors Sunday or Monday starting weekday preference * Daynote "Keep" option overrides deletion option in preferences [Archived as /info-mac/app/time/ccn-plus-16-68k.hqx; 373 K] ------------------------------ Date: 25 Oct 2001 From: Brian Stevens To: Subject: [*] CCN Plus 1.6 (PowerPC version) Please update this file on the infomac archive. Thank you. Brian Stevens CCN Plus (CCN+) has several integrated components: * Calendar Monthly calendar with a digital clock and chime. Scroll by year or month and also jump to a specific year quickly Countdown event or date shown based on preferences Options configurable including a 24-hour clock, daynote retention and color and more. * Day Notes (notes associated with a date) are just one click away A pageable weekly view is also printable. A monthly view is also printable. List View shows all the notes in chronological order US holidays can be added for any year via the preferences option * Countdown - a realtime Days, Hours, Minutes and Seconds countdown to the date of your choice. * Notes - a general notepad for collecting To Dos and other important ideas you want to save. All printable. * Timers short-term reminders with automatic repetitions. * Recurring Day Notes can be created automatically for those events that happen every week, month or year. Components are independent with levels of integration with each other and emphasize small desktop size. Version 1.6 adds the following: * Month names and day names in all views Internationalized for local country * Recurring notes now append instead of replace for dates with existing notes * Weekly view button added to Monthly View * Monthly view button added to Weekly View * Weekly view honors Sunday or Monday starting weekday preference * Daynote "Keep" option overrides deletion option in preferences [Archived as /info-mac/app/time/ccn-plus-16-ppc.hqx; 330 K] ------------------------------ Date: 26 Oct 2001 From: Jeffry Baker To: Subject: [*] RPN Calculator 1.45 Carbon RPN Calculator is a mathematically robust RPN implementation for Macintosh in two flavors: PPC and Carbon. No more 58k builds are planned, but V1.44 will remain available for 68k users. V1.45 is essentially a final quality program and is very reliable. Its features include: 100 element stack 8 memories Full support for complex number math Scalable user interface Statistics Systems of equations (up to 5 equations and 5 unknowns) Prime number search Factorization Prime factorization Fraction approximation to decimal expansions Base Conversion Function library (up to 200 user-defined functions) Constants (up to 200 user-defined constants) Simple help system [Archived as /info-mac/sci/calc/rpn-calculator-145-cbn.hqx; 1026 K] ------------------------------ Date: 26 Oct 2001 From: Jeffry Baker To: Subject: [*] RPN Calculator 1.45 PPC RPN Calculator is a mathematically robust RPN implementation for Macintosh in two flavors: PPC and Carbon. No more 58k builds are planned, but V1.44 will remain available for 68k users. V1.45 is essentially a final quality program and is very reliable. Its features include: 100 element stack 8 memories Full support for complex number math Scalable user interface Statistics Systems of equations (up to 5 equations and 5 unknowns) Prime number search Factorization Prime factorization Fraction approximation to decimal expansions Base Conversion Function library (up to 200 user-defined functions) Constants (up to 200 user-defined constants) Simple help system [Archived as /info-mac/sci/calc/rpn-calculator-145-ppc.hqx; 895 K] ------------------------------ Date: 25 Oct 2001 From: Marc Moini To: Subject: [*] Startup Doubler 2.6.1 - For Faster Startups! Startup Doubler can make your Mac startup faster, closer to the maximum speed allowed by the hardware. Startup Doubler's software acceleration streamlines loading of Extensions, Control Panels, Startup Items and the Finder to improve startup times. Startup Doubler is most useful for pre-G4 Macs, where startup can be made 10% to 50% faster. Fast disks in new high-end Macs can't be accelerated much, but the free trial offer lets you find out what effect Startup Doubler can have on your exact setup. Version 2.6.1 is a maintenance release adding support for Mac OS 9.2.1. Startup Doubler runs on Mac OS 7.0 through 9.2.1. You may download and try Startup Doubler for 15 days, at no charge. If you decide to keep it, please register your copy. A single license costs $20, site licenses are also available. Upgrades are free to registered users. You may download Startup Doubler or get more info from www.marcmoini.com. [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/startup-doubler-261.hqx; 162 K] ------------------------------ Date: 25 Oct 2001 From: Kyle Hammond To: Subject: [*] UPresent Viewer (Carbon) v2.5.3 This is the UPresent Viewer v2.5.3 built for MacOS X. UPresent Viewer is the free viewing companion to UPresent Multimedia Presentation Manager, the multimedia authoring and presentation application from CodeBlazer Technologies, LLC. The UPresent Viewer lets you view, navigate, and print pre-assembled multimedia presentations authored in UPresent. The Viewer works like Adobe Acrobat's Reader for viewing PDF documents, no editing functions are available. System Requirements: PowerPC based Macintosh. Requires Mac OS 8.6; built for Mac OS X. Requires QuickTime 4.0. For MacOS 8.6 - 9.x, requires CarbonLib 1.1 and 15 MB free RAM. [Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/upresent-viewer-253-cbn.hqx; 1400 K] ------------------------------ Date: 25 Oct 2001 From: Kyle Hammond To: Subject: [*] UPresent Viewer (Classic MacOS) v2.5.3 UPresent Viewer v2.5.3 is the free viewing companion to UPresent Multimedia Presentation Manager, the multimedia authoring and presentation application from CodeBlazer Technologies, LLC. The UPresent Viewer lets you view, navigate, and print pre-assembled multimedia presentations authored in UPresent. The Viewer works like Adobe Acrobat's Reader for viewing PDF documents, no editing functions are available. System Requirements: PowerPC based Macintosh. Requires MacOS 8.1. Requires QuickTime 4.0. Requires 15 MB free RAM. [Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/upresent-viewer-253.hqx; 1164 K] ------------------------------ Date: 25 Oct 2001 From: Johnny CN Lee To: Subject: [*] VCD Player 1.5.3 - Full Screen VCD Player - Johnny CN Lee VCD Player 1.5.3 (c) Copyright 1997-2001 Johnny CN Lee, All Rights Reserved. info@johnnylee.com http://www.johnnylee.com/ VCD Player simplifies the process of playing video compact discs on your Mac. With most other players, you only get video in a tiny area of your screen, or in an area surrounded by a huge border of some sort. VCD Player smoothes the video playback process and allows you to watch full-screen movies in the MPEG format, without any headache-inducing distortion to make the movie unwatchable. There are various configurable options that control sound and playback, and just as with a sound-only CD player, you can control which track to start watching. VCD Player can remember where you stopped playing the movie after you quit the program, restarted your Mac, or even changed to another disc then changed back. VCD Player X will be released once Mac OS X supports VCD playback. System Requirements - Power PC - QuickTime 2.5 or later - QuickTime MPEG Extension 1.0 or later What's new? - Fixed a bug that some VCDs can't be recognized by VCD Player. Johnny Lee johnny@johnnylee.com http://www.johnnylee.com/ A Hong Kong Macintosh Developer Products: Picture-in-Picture, Pretty Scroll, VCD Player, VCD Screen Saver [Archived as /info-mac/gst/vcd-player-153.hqx; 172 K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:54:28 +0200 From: "Frogman" To: comp-sys-mac-digest@moderators.isc.org Subject: mac windows network problem I have a problem with my apple-windows network. All the time the network has been working perfectly until a week or two ago. If I transfer a file from the pc to the mac works everything perfectly, but when I want to tranfer a file from the mac to the pc, the network jammes. A file of 4 MB takes 4 seconds pc = > mac, but it takes up to 6 minutes when it goes from mac = > pc. Does anybody knows the problem? Please help me, I can't re-install both pc's because they are the main-work computers of my company. Everything of company is saved on these computers. the mac is a G3 with a 100Mb/s nic the pc is a windows '98 SE pc with a 10Mb/s nic I work with DAVE Could somebody help me? if you are able to answer in dutch, do that, my english is not so good. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 09:30:36 -0500 From: "Chaz Larson [mailing lists]" To: me@none.co.uk.invalid (Lobo), comp-sys-mac-digest@moderators.isc.org Subject: PCI - USB card At 1:59 PM +0000 10/24/01, Lobo wrote: >My friend has a PowerMac 7200/120 SCSI, which I believe has 3 PCI slots. He >is looking to buy a SCSI scanner but cannot locate one. Any ideas where he >could buy such an animal?; and what, if any, problems would be associated >by fitting a Belkin PCI-USB card and buying a USB scanner? I've got a PowerCenter 120 [ASP thinks it's a 7200]. I've been using an ADS USB PCI card with a UMAX USB scanner for a couple years without any problems at all. chazl -- I'm gonna tell my son to grow up as pretty as the grass is green and as whip-smart as the English Channel is wide... - Liz Phair, Whip Smart Chaz Larson - chaz at spamcop dot net - http://www.visi.com/~chaz ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:13:20 -0700 From: David Donaldson To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Problems with Apple Downloads For several weeks, I have been unable to download software from Apple's web site. I have an AppleCare ID and password but, when I click on a download button, Netscape (v. 4.78) puts up a notification that says "Netscape is unable to locate the server downloAd.info.apple.com. Please check the server name and try again." The same thing happens in Internet Explorer (v. 1.5.1): it says "The specified server cannot be found." (I routinely delete the MagicCookie file from the Netscape folder.) I wonder whether anyone else has had this problem and what the fix might be. I'm running OS 9.1 on a beige G3-300 and I have an ADSL internet connection. Thanks very much, David Donaldson ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 23:41:05 -0400 From: B Collins To: ezra@cableinet.co.uk, digest@info-mac.org Subject: Software for USB PCI Card In article published in Info-Mac Digest V18#136, Ezra Nathan wrote: >I have bought a Belkin 2 port USB pci card for a 333Mhz G3 desktop in order >to have a laserwriter with a USB connection work off of it. The G3 is >running OS 8.5. Do I need to install any software to make the card work? Has >anyone any experience with doing something like what I am about to do and >care to give any advice. >Thanks, > Ezra First, I recommend you update to OS 8.6. You can download the free updater from Apple. 8.6 is more stable than 8.5. Apple now makes all the USB card drivers for Macs. You should download the most recent version from the Apple web site. Once you have 8.6 and the most recent Apple USB Card driver, your USB interface should work fine. Bill Collins ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 09:32:30 -0500 From: "Chaz Larson [mailing lists]" To: Ezra Nathan , Info-Mac digest Subject: software for USB pci card? At 2:55 PM +0100 10/24/01, Ezra Nathan wrote: >I have bought a Belkin 2 port USB pci card for a 333Mhz G3 desktop in order >to have a laserwriter with a USB connection work off of it. The G3 is >running OS 8.5. Do I need to install any software to make the card work? Has >anyone any experience with doing something like what I am about to do and >care to give any advice. You need Apple's "USB Adapter Card Support" software. It's available at the apple site. Go into the "Downloads" section and search for "USB". It's probably the first or second item in the list of results. chazl -- I'm gonna tell my son to grow up as pretty as the grass is green and as whip-smart as the English Channel is wide... - Liz Phair, Whip Smart Chaz Larson - chaz at spamcop dot net - http://www.visi.com/~chaz ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 00:04:04 -0400 From: Scott Horton To: , Info Mac Digest Subject: Software for USB PCI card? > I have bought a Belkin 2 port USB pci card for a 333Mhz G3 desktop in order > to have a laserwriter with a USB connection work off of it. The G3 is > running OS 8.5. Do I need to install any software to make the card work? Has > anyone any experience with doing something like what I am about to do and > care to give any advice. > > Thanks, > Ezra Hello Ezra, I have a Belkin USB PCI card in a Motorola Starmax Mac clone running MacOS 9.1. The software for it comes directly from Apple itself! If any USB PCI card is manufactured according to specs, and Belkin's among others is, Apple supports it by writing the drivers. I don't have the URL, but if you surf over to Apple support and hunt around, I'm sure that you'll find it. It will be some sort of installer. I vaguely remember the version number being 1.4 or so and it hasn't been nor needed to be updated in quite a long time. My card has been flawless since it was purchased to support a USB laser printer in Feb, 2000. Last month we occupied the 2nd USB port with receiver for a logitech cordless optical mouse. Each USB port has full bandwidth rather than sharing it in this card as well. Cheers, SH -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************