Subject: Info-Mac Digest V18 #66 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Mon, 23 Apr 01 Volume 18 : Issue 66 Today's Topics: [*] Sound Warehouse v1.0.6 [*] X-Assist 0.2J - Japanese Version [C] Action Utilities ... Try FinderPop Instead Adding RAM , summary CDROM as Slave or master, summary Chinese language input methods 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. Working with the Info-Mac Digest: * To submit articles to the digest, email . * To subscribe, send email to with the words subscribe info-mac in the message. * To unsubscribe, send email to with the words unsubscribe info-mac in the message. * To change your address, unsubscribe from the old address, then subscribe from the new address. * Please send administrative queries to . 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America Online donated the main Info-Mac machine . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V18 #66" ------------------------------ Date: 22 Apr 2001 From: Takashi Suzuki To: Subject: [*] Sound Warehouse v1.0.6 Sound Warehouse is an application for the Macintosh which allows you to play & manage sound files. (MP3, AIFF, AIFC, WAVE, AU, Sound DesignerII and MIDI files supported) Player window holds one sound file, and displays it's time code, spectrum and level meters. Playlist window can have up to 2,147,483,647 sound files to be played back sequentially, or random order. Database window can have up to 2,147,483,647 sound files with sort & find capability. You can convert sound format. What's changed in v1.0.6 : Ñ Spectrum and level meters works more fluently. Ñ Stopped showing AIFF waveforms on PowerMacs with PowerPC 601, 603(e, ev). Ñ May crash when you close some window -> fixed. Features : - Power Application. - QuickTime support. - Macintosh Drag and Drop support. - Navigation Services support. This application requires : - Macintosh with PowerPC (G3, G4 recommended) - System8.5 + QuickTime 4 (QuickTime 5 recommended) -- T.Suzuki [Archived as /info-mac/gst/sound-warehouse-106.hqx; 372 K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 Apr 2001 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] X-Assist 0.2J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the X-Assist package. What is X-Assist? X-Assist was created to assist in the much loved but missing features of OS 9 in OSX. Specifically: *Application Switcher Menu (top right corner of screen) X-Assist has a similar implementation. *More than a 5 item "Recent Applications" menu. X-Assist has no "limit". *The ability to add personal hierarchies of items in an OS9-like "apple" menu. X-Assist allows users to add any hierarchy into a "Shortcuts" submenu. *An extensible "Control Strip" like plugin architecture. X-Assist supports Objective-C (NSBundle) plugins. They are easy to write, and examples "SetVolume" and "MP3 Player" plugins are provided in this distribution. *OS 9 window behavior - when you switch applications by clicking in a window, all windows for that application are shown. This behavior has changed in OSX and can be a bit annoying. X-Assist brings back the OS9 windowing functionality and also allows you to toggle between modes. How much does it cost? Its FREE! Check out the following Shareware application which may also interest you: NetFinder is a FTP/HTTP/FILE browsing application that looks like the Finder (OS8). It supports viewing remote servers and local files in a hierarchy, plus much more. A fully functional installer can be downloaded from: http://www.bridge1.com Some features of NetFinder: - As Finder-like as you can imagine when browsing. (see Figure 1) - resume FTP/HTTP - Drag and Drop everywhere. - Its Local File Browsing mode allows you to view, sort and change Label's too! Try it and you will be hooked. [Archived as /info-mac/gui/x-assist-02-jp.hqx; 777 K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 07:52:18 -0400 From: Dwight Early To: Jacob Palme Subject: [C] Action Utilities ... Try FinderPop Instead Jacob, I've had good experiences with FinderPop. I've tried DefaultFolder and A_Dock as well as the rest of the mentioned programs. These programs just didn't suit my style of using the Mac OS environment. FinderPop's contextual menu enhancements allows me to keep my desktop uncluttered while providing the power to find my files (very rarely do I execute a program first, then look for a file). You can find Finderpop at . I highly recomend it. Give it a long trial period. Did I mention that it's Pintware? --Dwight Early At 4:08 AM +0200 4/11/01, Jacob Palme wrote: >At 15.47 -0400 01-04-10, one Info-Mac user wrote in a personal message >to me only: > >In response to your comp.sys.mac.digest question: > >I don't have Dreamweaver, but I've had considerable instability with Action > >Utilities, especially with Gomac. Try DefaultFolder and A_Dock as > >alternates. I prefer Barebones BBEdit Pro for web publishing. > >Yes, I have switched to a combination of Default Folder, OtherMenu >and BeHierachic instead of Action Utilities. Power On software >seems to be more interested in developing new products than >maintaining their main product, Action Utilities, in good shape. >It is also impossible to contact them. E-mail to them are >returned by automatically generated messages which do not >correctly refer to the problem I try to report to them. > >They have even had a page for a long time (I am not sure if >it is there still) which recommends Dreamweaver users to stop >using Action Utilities. A rather defaitist attitute from >the developers of Action Utilities to recommend people to >stop using their software! > >Default Folder recommends combining it with "AliasMenu" >rather than "OtherMenu", but "AliasMenu" will for some >reason not work on my computer. > >I have had similar problems with Alladin. Their main product, >Stuffit, has become more and more unreliable, instead they >seem to be concentrating on marketing other products instead >of keeping their main product in good shape. >-- >Jacob Palme (Stockholm University and KTH) >for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/jpalme/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 23:35:46 -0400 From: carolynb To: InfoMac Subject: Adding RAM , summary Hello, This project is done too! Thank you all for your advice. In the end I purchased 2 x 256 chips, because it was so cheap! US$62 per 256M! It turns out that, for a beige G3, it doesn't matter how much RAM you put into each slot. The one interesting thing (for any Linux people out there), was that my Linux partition would not boot if the ram was as 64-256-256. Someone from the Linux list suggested that I try 256-256-64 (decreasing in size) from slot 1-3, and that solved my problem. Just FYI- Another thing, when I received my ram (full story below), I received one PC100 chip and one PC133 chip. The company assured me that the faster chip would simply run at the slower speed of my other chips. Well, I went to Apple's Tech Info Lib to make sure (Yup, Apple said the same thing), AND it claimed that a beige G3 should only be able to address 384 M ram. Boy was I ticked off because of a lot of angst that I went through! BUT! not true on my system. My Mac sees all 576 M ram. Go figure. (Actually if anyone knows why it is this way, I'm curious, but not enough to contact Apple to ask them.) I'm glad that I didn't see that first! Where I bought and what I paid: One person suggested: "> Go to The Ramseeker Web site to learn > prices from a lot of vendors. Select "ramguide" at the top of the > page to find the link to Beige G3 computers RAM prices. It is > interesting to see that the prices vary all over the place." And so I did that. Wow! Incredible variations in price. In the end, I went to "Other World Computing", because their price (including shipping) was about $5 less than anyone else. And their online reviews and comments were very favorable. I paid for overnight shipping (Less than $6), got the chips, but became upset that one of them was the PC133 chip. I called them, ordered a replacement, and they agreed to waive the standard restocking fee on returns because it was the wrong product. The replacement came the next day, and it was another PC133 chip! I called them back (angry), and tech support explained how the faster speed would not harm, and would be ignored by the system. Well, to account for all of my frustration (since the guy the day before did not tell me this), they gave me their FedEx number to return the extra chip, and agreed to also credit my shipping on the second one that was sent out, so I never paid for anything other than my initial purchase. A little confusion (hardware is not my forte!), but because of their attitude, I would certainly buy from them again. They "made good" and responded appropriately to a very upset customer! Sorry for all of the detail, but someone else may want to go through this too :O thanks again, Carolyn ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 23:07:32 -0400 From: carolynb To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: CDROM as Slave or master, summary Hello, Thank you all for your help! Everyone said, and I agree, that it makes no difference whether the CD is a slave or master. I am now suceessfully running the start-up HD as a master, with the CD as slave on one bus, and an internal ZIP as master, and second HD as slave on the second bus. And I learned that if you have 2 devices on one bus, one must be a slave and one must be a master. Although this is probably not a startling revelation for many of you, I was (at first) befuddled when my system did not see the zip and second drive after I put everything back together. Duh! They were both designated slave! That was easy to correct, and now everything works as expected. I can boot off of both my Mac CD, and my LinuxPPC CD for any emergencies, which was what I was concernd about when I asked the question. I run both Mac and Linux off of the main HD. Yippee! Carolyn ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 15:15:29 -0500 From: Pepper & Joe To: Subject: Chinese language input methods For weeks I have been trying to find software that will allow me to enter traditional Chinese (Big 5) into various (or any) applications. I have run up against brick walls everywhere I go. The main obstacle seems to be an inability to locate Apple's Chinese Language Kit and, more recently, the Apple extension "inputbacksupport". I would appreciate any assistance anyone is willing to offer with this problem. Gracias Joey Pilon and Pepper Lin -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************