Subject: Info-Mac Digest V18 #53 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Mon, 26 Mar 01 Volume 18 : Issue 53 Today's Topics: [*] Kineticon 2.0 - animated icons on your desktop! [*] Kineticon 2.0J - animated icons on your desktop! (Japanese Version) [*] NotePad Deluxe 2.1.3 - Exclusive notepad with many features [*] NotePad Deluxe 2.1.3 Carbon - Exclusive notepad with many features [*] Screamer Chess Build 57 [*] War on Lithon 3.0 [*] WebCalendarMaker [Q] Byte for Byte file comparison Postscript Files where are Internet explorer's bookmarks 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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Kineticon replaces normal, static icons on your Macintosh's desktop and in its windows with chosen animated icons Kineticon is fully configurable, allowing you to choose which icons should animate simply by enabling them Kineticon allows you to create custom animations which can be made to appear in place of any icon displayed by your Macintosh With Kineticon you will have THE COOLEST hard drive icon on your block! With Kineticon you will have THE CUTEST trash can icon in your neighborhood! And remember, if you don't like the included animations, you can easily make your own or download any of hundreds available at our web site! Changes in version 2.0 from 1.7.2: * Kineticon Editor has be renamed to, simply, "Kineticon" * Kineticon (Editor)'s user interface has been greatly simplified * It is no longer necessary to copy and paste icons in the Finder - Kineticon now handles this for you * Got rid of the "Kines (Disabled)" folder. All kines are now stored in the "Kines" folder, whether enabled or not * Other minor bug fixes System requirements: * 68K and PowerPC Macs supported * System 7.5 or higher (not Mac OS X - please be patient, it's a big job) * Color * Free RAM: at least 300K. More RAM is needed depending on how many animating icons are enabled * 2 MB of hard drive space (for the extension, Kineticon and animating icon files) License: This is a fully-working, 14-day, trial version which is converted to the full version with a license code For more information, please read the enclosed READ ME file. [Archived as /info-mac/gui/icon/kineticon-20.hqx; 1888 K] ------------------------------ Date: 26 Mar 2001 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] Kineticon 2.0J - animated icons on your desktop! (Japanese Version) This is the Japanese version of the Kineticon package. Kinetic Creations, Inc announces the release of Kineticon 2.0! Kineticon brings your Mac's motionless icons to life! Kineticon replaces normal, static icons on your Macintosh's desktop and in its windows with chosen animated icons Kineticon is fully configurable, allowing you to choose which icons should animate simply by enabling them Kineticon allows you to create custom animations which can be made to appear in place of any icon displayed by your Macintosh With Kineticon you will have THE COOLEST hard drive icon on your block! With Kineticon you will have THE CUTEST trash can icon in your neighborhood! And remember, if you don't like the included animations, you can easily make your own or download any of hundreds available at our web site! Changes in version 2.0 from 1.7.2: * Kineticon Editor has be renamed to, simply, "Kineticon" * Kineticon (Editor)'s user interface has been greatly simplified * It is no longer necessary to copy and paste icons in the Finder - Kineticon now handles this for you * Got rid of the "Kines (Disabled)" folder. All kines are now stored in the "Kines" folder, whether enabled or not * Other minor bug fixes System requirements: * 68K and PowerPC Macs supported * System 7.5 or higher (not Mac OS X - please be patient, it's a big job) * Color * Free RAM: at least 300K. More RAM is needed depending on how many animating icons are enabled * 2 MB of hard drive space (for the extension, Kineticon and animating icon files) License: This is a fully-working, 14-day, trial version which is converted to the full version with a license code For more information, please read the enclosed READ ME file. [Archived as /info-mac/gui/icon/kineticon-20-jp.hqx; 2031 K] ------------------------------ Date: 26 Mar 2001 From: "Andreas Rydh, Ibrium HB" To: Subject: [*] NotePad Deluxe 2.1.3 - Exclusive notepad with many features NotePad Deluxe 2.1.3 (English PPC version) NotePad Deluxe is a fast, powerful, multi-purpose notepad for Macintosh. Features include a page browser with extensive drag and drop, find with replace, local/global text formats, quick-find, labels, lock, built-in encryption (Blowfish), context menus, a useful tab ruler with real tabs, a floating database palette, spell checking through the Word Services system, and web links. Yet the interface is user-friendly and carefully polished. New in version 2.1.3: - First release of OSX Carbon version - New and improved background textures - Printing bug (Error -192, resNotFound) fixed - Exporting files with filenames starting with "." now works - Watch cursor no longer flickers when exporting - Minimize state conflict with window layer ordering fixed - Now remembers texture setting when entering Preferences - Open from context menu now displays content properly - Filename length conflict with drag and drop fixed - Now possible to drag notes to printer icon - Topic movement bug fixed - New modifier key for Smaller/Larger command Distribution: Shareware $25 System Requirements: System 7.5 or later (Carbon version does not support public beta) http://www.ibrium.se/npd.html Copyright 1996-2001 Ibrium HB [Archived as /info-mac/text/note-pad-deluxe-213.hqx; 868 K] ------------------------------ Date: 26 Mar 2001 From: "Andreas Rydh, Ibrium HB" To: Subject: [*] NotePad Deluxe 2.1.3 Carbon - Exclusive notepad with many features NotePad Deluxe 2.1.3 (Carbon version) NotePad Deluxe is a fast, powerful, multi-purpose notepad for Macintosh. Features include a page browser with extensive drag and drop, find with replace, local/global text formats, quick-find, labels, lock, built-in encryption (Blowfish), context menus, a useful tab ruler with real tabs, a floating database palette, spell checking through the Word Services system, and web links. Yet the interface is user-friendly and carefully polished. New in version 2.1.3: - First release of OSX Carbon version - New and improved background textures - Printing bug (Error -192, resNotFound) fixed - Exporting files with filenames starting with "." now works - Watch cursor no longer flickers when exporting - Minimize state conflict with window layer ordering fixed - Now remembers texture setting when entering Preferences - Open from context menu now displays content properly - Filename length conflict with drag and drop fixed - Now possible to drag notes to printer icon - Topic movement bug fixed - New modifier key for Smaller/Larger command Distribution: Shareware $25 System Requirements: MacOS X (public beta not supported) System 7.5 or later for the PPC/68k versions http://www.ibrium.se/npd.html Copyright 1996-2001 Ibrium HB [Archived as /info-mac/text/note-pad-deluxe-213-cbn.hqx; 989 K] ------------------------------ Date: 26 Mar 2001 From: William Bryant To: Subject: [*] Screamer Chess Build 57 This is the latest release of the Screamer Chess Engine for PowerPC Macintosh Computers. The distribution includes the Chess Program, An opening book, elementary end-game-tablebases, and complete instructions. A MacOS X compatible version will be coming soon. This is from the _Read_Me_First_ file. What's New - build 57 Screamer has a new log option, "Log to PGN File". This option allows all games played to be send to a file in PGN format. The PGN file can be used a a game database and directly inported into Exachess or any chess database program. What's Better Rewrote the evaluation function. This increases Screamer's score on test suites as follows: Correct ELO USCF Rating CCR 19 / 25 2350 2530 LCT II 23 / 35 2415 2595 BT2630 23 / 30 2376 2556 Average: 2380 2560 WAC 292/300 @ 1 minute Note: This is on my G3 Tower 266mhz (66mhz system bus). What's Fixed A number of minor bug fixes were made. [Archived as /info-mac/game/brd/screamer-chess-57.hqx; 1304 K] ------------------------------ Date: 26 Mar 2001 From: Sean Stewart To: Subject: [*] War on Lithon 3.0 Battle the nations of Earth for a piece of the newly discovered planet, Lithon. Choose from 5 different nations to battle with. They are Canada, Russia, United States, Germany, and France. [Archived as /info-mac/game/war-on-lithon-30.hqx; 389 K] ------------------------------ Date: 26 Mar 2001 From: Eddie Albert To: Subject: [*] WebCalendarMaker WEB CALENDAR MAKER "WCM" is a program designed to make it easy and quick to create calendars in HTML format to be posted on web sites. The program allows you to add and edit events and details about those events. When ready, you simply hit an EXPORT button and the entire calendar, including all event details and their files are exported. Pop-up windows and links are created without the user needing to know javascript or advanced HTML coding. Then, just upload the CALENDAR folder to you web site. A javascript is provided to allow you to make a link to the "Current Month" calendar. I wrote it because I could not find a web calendar program that did the things I wanted. My goals were to create a program that... 1. is simple and easy to use 2. is usable by someone who does not understand advanced HTML 3. has a feature to allow advanced HTML users to edit the look and feel of the calendars 4. offers pop-up-windows to see the details of an event There are several programs out there that provide similar functionality to "WCM". Most are either overkill or require server side CGI's to accomplish their function. sample calendars can be seen at http://homepage.mac.com/eddiealbert/ REQUIREMENTS Macintosh system 9.0 Applescript 1.1 Basic knowledge of HTML [Archived as /info-mac/text/html/web-calendar-maker.hqx; 3154 K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 14:08:57 -0600 From: T Koyn To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: [Q] Byte for Byte file comparison Thanks, Gerry, for your suggestion of verifile. I am still wondering if anyone knows of a utility that will actually compare the files byte-for-byte and not just calculate checksum/crcs on one and then the other. Also, I really would like the ability for the utility to go through all the files in each of two folders to compare if two folders are identical down to the level of every byte in each file. The utility ideally should give a report with entries that indicate if two files are different, or if one file is one one folder and not the other. Thanks in advance for any suggestions... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 23:02:22 +0100 From: muki pakesch To: Alex Brown , "Info-Mac" Subject: Postscript Files At 10:49 +0000 29.01.1946, Alex Brown wrote: >Could anyone tell me of a program that would allow me to convert >postscript (.ps) files into PICT (or even JPEG) graphics. afaik "Tailor" does this http://www.enfocus.com hth cheers, muki __________________________________________________________________ | muki pakesch | | | | mailto:mpakesch@t0.or.at http://www.t0.or.at/~mpakesch | |__________________________________________________________________| ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 11:56:45 +0100 From: Ezra Nathan To: Info-Mac digest Subject: where are Internet explorer's bookmarks Hello> I'd like to save the favourites in Internet Explorer onto a zip drive lest something happens to my HD (which happens from time to time). I know that saving 'Bookmarks html' for Netscape is what to do with that browser; where is the equivalent of IE to be found and what is it called? Thanks, > Ezra Nathan -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************