Subject: Info-Mac Digest V18 #160 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Thu, 13 Dec 01 Volume 18 : Issue 160 Today's Topics: [*] About This Particular Macintosh (ATPM) 7.12 [*] Icon Machine 3.0b11J - Japanese version [*] QIF Web Extract 1.6 - Extracts Investment Transactions from Broker Websites Applescript to find running processes by name? DivX encoders for QuickTime? i want linux Telex video input from analog videocamera 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 contents of ATPM 7.12 are as follows: Columns Apple Cider: The Year of Big Changes My Apple Wedge: Interview With A New User About This Particular Web Site Segments: FireWire on a Beige G3 Mac How To: About Two-Mac Networks How To: Sharing USB Printers on a Network Reviews Shareware Roundup: Games for Mac OS X Bosco's Foto Trimmer Wildform Flix iPod iTunes 2.0.2 Microsoft Outlook 2001 (version 9.00) Portraits & Prints 1.0.1 Extras Cartoon: Hambone Desktop Pictures: Sewickley, PA [Archived as /info-mac/art/zine/atpm-712-print.hqx; 2680 K] ------------------------------ Date: 13 Dec 2001 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] Icon Machine 3.0b11J - Japanese version This is the Japanese version of the Icon Machine package. Icon Machine is a Macintosh icon editor designed to take advantage of the great features of the Mac OS to give you the power to make the icons you want. Now updated and redesigned for editing all icon sizes from 16x12 Mini to Mac OS X's 128x128 Thumbnail, and Carbonizedfor Mac OS X, Icon Machine is a great tool for creating icons for applications, customized folders, eye-catching documents, and everything else. "The Photoshop of icon editors!" - Andrew Miller "Icon Machine has a way of making a little square of 1024 pixels feel like an expansive painter's canvas." - Eric Prentice, MacTips Changes in version 3.0b11 (since 3.0b7) - New application icon - More internal changes to ensure stability and easier mantenance. - Full support for long file names in OS X. - Use of standard sheet dialogs. - Taking advantage of bundle services localization (Japanese localization included). - Fixed masking problems with copying and pasting images. - Support for icons dragged from IconFactory's upcoming Icon Browser. - Fixed some window activation issues, including the ability to drag from inactive windows. - Pictures dragged from editing windows no longer cause crashes in OS X. - Fixed drag outlines when running under CarbonLib. - Improved contextual menu support, especially in OS X. - Fixed display in large image windows, though 32-bit image view is currently very slow. - The text tool now uses a hierarchical font menu. - Many other little things. [Archived as /info-mac/gui/icon/icon-machine-30b11-jp.hqx; 1004 K] ------------------------------ Date: 13 Dec 2001 From: John Woodward To: Subject: [*] QIF Web Extract 1.6 - Extracts Investment Transactions from Broker Websites QIF Web Extract extracts transactions from brokerage website transaction history pages and converts them into Quicken Interchange Format (QIF). The resulting QIF file can then be imported into Quicken. To use QIF Web Extract, you display your transaction history in your web browser. You then select the entire web page (or the frame of the page with transactions), and copy it into the clipboard. Then run QIF Web Extract, which extracts the transactions you specify from the clipboard. To be able to accomplish this extraction, QIF Web Extract needs to know what securities and accounts you have defined in your Quicken file, and it needs to know how your website presents its transaction information. You need to export your securities and accounts from Quicken, and QIF Web Extract needs to learn about your website. QIF Web Extract has the ability to learn about a wide range of websites. However, no guarantee can be made that any particular website can be learned. Since different browsers encode web page information copied into the clipboard in different ways, the specific web browser used is a factor in determining whether QIF Web Extract can learn a particular website. QIF Web Extract has been tested with and works with both Internet Explorer and Netscape. System requirements: * System 7.5.3 through 9.1 For more information, please read the documentation enclosed, or visit the QIF Web Extract Web page: http://homepage.mac.com/jplw/QIFWebExtract.html Thanks, John Woodward http://homepage.mac.com/jplw/sw.html [Archived as /info-mac/app/bus/qif-web-extract-16.hqx; 182 K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 08:44:33 -0600 From: Jeff Wechter To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Applescript to find running processes by name? On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 20:00:39 -0800, Michael Khaw wrote: >Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 20:00:39 -0800 >From: Michael Khaw >To: digest@info-mac.org >Subject: Applescript to find running processes by name? > >Anyone have a fragment of Applescript to find out the names of currently >running processes (pre OS X)? Got this from Alsoft IIRC; it will list all the active processes and allow you to quit them: tell application "Finder" set applicationList to the name of every process end tell choose from list applicationList if result is not equal to false then tell application (item 1 of result) to quit end if hth, jw ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 21:05:48 +0200 From: "E. Blasberg" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: DivX encoders for QuickTime? Hi All, I'm a novice when it comes to DVD/vCD et. al, but I ran across a "QuickTime" file which my copy of QuickTime 5.0 could not open (QuickTime said: The required compressor could not be found). I was able to open it on a Windoze machine. Apparently the format is DivX. Anyone ever heard of this or know if there's a decoder for it for QuickTime on the mac? Much TIA, E. Blasberg -- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 02:14:03 +0100 (CET) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Dauchel=20Jean-Thomas?= To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: i want linux I have a mac powerbook 170 and i desire to install an unix or linux distrib. with nearly 40 MO harddisk and 8 MO of ram.Is it possible how can i get a distrib on a floppy disk.It ' s for getting gcc or an other"compilateur". does a program like gcc already excist on mac? thank's a lot... ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en fran‡ais ! Yahoo! Courrier : http://courrier.yahoo.fr ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 18:02:16 -0700 From: Robert Christy To: comp-sys-mac-digest@moderators.isc.org Subject: Telex I use Telex H531 without problems on TiBook 550. Just have to select USB Mic in Sound control panel. Using ViaVoice works well for me. Matt In article <081220012113568352%gwestonREMOVE@CAPSattbi.com>, Greg Weston wrote: > In article , bellesouth > wrote: > > > I'm using a Titanium G4 on OS 9.2. I bought a USB Microphone from Telex. > > The G4 tells me that extension software to use the mike is missing. I sent > > the mike back to Telex and it worked fine there on G4's. > > > > Anybody else having problems with Telex mikes or know how I can get it to > > work? > > Did you see if there's a driver necessary? > > G This microphone has worked well for me with a G4 Cube. Did not rquire any drivers. I have the mic connected to one of the USB ports on my keyboard. A couple of times the mic did not show up as a choice in the sound Control panel but when I pulled the connection to the keyboard, reconnected and restarted the computer the mic showed up and could be chosen. I am not sure why this cured my problem but I have to think that I didn't have a good clean USB connection. I hope this will cure your problem. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 09:34:10 +0100 From: Paolo Bartoli To: Info Mac Subject: video input from analog videocamera I wish to edit my Video8 tapes on the Mac. At the moment I work with a Pismo Powerbook with firewire port and an analog videocamera (which hasn't a firewire port...). How can I import the videos into the Powerbook? Is there an analog-to-firewire device? -- Paolo Bartoli ** Arch. Paolo Bartoli / pbartoli@iname.com ** ** http://space.tin.it/arte/bpxba/ ** ** http://space.tin.it/arte/bpxba/eco/index.html ** -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************