Subject: Info-Mac Digest V18 #101 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Mon, 23 Jul 01 Volume 18 : Issue 101 Today's Topics: [*] Akua Sweets 1.4.3 [*] Book of Decks v2.5.8 Submission [*] Fraction Sticks program Sent to ftp site [*] Morse Mania 2.1.0 [*] Morse Mania OSX 2.1.0 [*] N0ONG Ultimeter II Display [*] PCalc 2.2.2 [*] ramBunctious 1.6J - Japanese Version [*] Rob's Pager 1.0.7 [*] Round Euro 1.1 [*] RPN Calculator 1.2.5 PPC [*] SmartView 2.1 [*] Stock Market [*] TidBITS#588/16-Jul-01 [*] Trueclock 2.0 (time utility; freeware; MacOS 7.0+) [*] WeatherMan1.0 Macintosh Weather Monitor [*] WeatherManX1.0 Macintosh Weather Monitor [A] Looking for email body-viewer [Q] Ill Monitor Questions [Q] Looking for email body-viewer ClarisWorks for Kids Graphics Question iMac battery (R) software for ISDN routers (A) 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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Further info at http://www.akua.com/Software/AkuaSweets/index.html John Rethorst [Archived as /info-mac/dev/osa/akua-sweets-143.hqx; 815 K] ------------------------------ Date: 20 Jul 2001 From: Jonathan Scott To: Subject: [*] Book of Decks v2.5.8 Submission A deck building assistant for the game Magic: the Gathering by Wizards of the Coast (Version 2.5.7 - Updated through 7th Edition 4-16-01) [Archived as /info-mac/game/crd/book-of-decks-258.hqx; 4212 K] ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jul 2001 From: "Gary Smith" To: Subject: [*] Fraction Sticks program Sent to ftp site Program Name: Fraction Sticks Category: Education / Math Description: Middle school (grades 5 through 9) math program. Students are shown two congruent squares that have been divided into different numbers of "sticks." Students must click on the "sticks" to shade in a given fraction sum. Example: one square might be divided into fifths and the other into fourths, with the goal being to shade 1 and 1/10 squares. Good practice for fraction meaning, equivalent fractions, adding fractions,and reducing fractions. [Archived as /info-mac/edu/fraction-sticks.hqx; 111 K] ------------------------------ Date: 22 Jul 2001 From: Chris Smolinski To: Subject: [*] Morse Mania 2.1.0 Morse Mania version 2.1.0 Morse Mania is a morse code tutor for the Macintosh. It helps you learn morse code by first introducing you to the morse alphabet, so you can learn what each character sounds like. Then you can practice by listening to random characters being sent, and test your ability. This version adds the ability to play a text file, making it easy to create your own practice sessions. In addition to drills to help learn the various characters, Morse Mania also allows complete text files to be sent, so that "real life" messages can be used for practice. It also supports the Farnsworth mode, which increases the speed of the dots and dashes, and lengthens the pause between letters sent, allowing the student to learn morse code at higher speeds more easily. Shareware: $19.99 Chris Smolinski Black Cat Systems [Archived as /info-mac/edu/morse-mania-21.hqx; 548 K] ------------------------------ Date: 22 Jul 2001 From: Chris Smolinski To: Subject: [*] Morse Mania OSX 2.1.0 Morse Mania OSX version 2.1.0 Morse Mania is a morse code tutor for the Macintosh. It helps you learn morse code by first introducing you to the morse alphabet, so you can learn what each character sounds like. Then you can practice by listening to random characters being sent, and test your ability. This version adds the ability to play a text file, making it easy to create your own practice sessions. In addition to drills to help learn the various characters, Morse Mania also allows complete text files to be sent, so that "real life" messages can be used for practice. It also supports the Farnsworth mode, which increases the speed of the dots and dashes, and lengthens the pause between letters sent, allowing the student to learn morse code at higher speeds more easily. Shareware: $19.99 Chris Smolinski Black Cat Systems [Archived as /info-mac/edu/morse-mania-21-cbn.hqx; 384 K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jul 2001 From: Robert Boeckman To: Subject: [*] N0ONG Ultimeter II Display N0ONG Ultimeter II Display is a graphical display of current weather conditions along with Today's High Temperature, Today's Low Temperature, Today's High Wind Gust, and Wind Chill. And yesterdays average temperature. It also keeps track of average high temp, average low temp and average temp. along with the months extremes. The display will run on 68k and PPC making it perfect for running on a old Mac in the kitchen or bedroom for current weather at a glance. Works only with the Peet Brothers Ultimeter II Weather Station. [Archived as /info-mac/sci/noong-ultimiter-ii.hqx; 944 K] ------------------------------ Date: 21 Jul 2001 From: James Thomson To: Subject: [*] PCalc 2.2.2 PCalc 2.2.2 is the latest version of my veteran scientific calculator application. It's a fully featured scientific calculator that works on Mac OS 8 and later, including native support for Mac OS X. It has a Reverse Polish Notation mode, and support for Binary, Octal and Hexadecimal calculations. 2.2.2 fixes a number of problems on Mac OS X, and with the help, and adds function key shortcuts for undo/cut/copy/paste and some new Euro currency conversions. It ships with a native Carbon version for Mac OS X, and a Classic version for Mac OS 8 and later. This release of PCalc is shareware, that means you can download it and try it out for free, but if you like it and continue to use it you should pay the US $10 registration fee. For more information, check out the official PCalc website at: [Archived as /info-mac/sci/calc/pcalc-222.hqx; 1507 K] ------------------------------ Date: 20 Jul 2001 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] ramBunctious 1.6J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the ramBunctious package. ramBunctious is a shareware RAM disk program for the Mac OS. Its rich set of features lets you customize your RAM disks for your desired balance of speed, security, safety, and versatility. - You can have several RAM disks mounted simultaneously, limited only by memory available. - ramBunctious has a "write-through" option. When activated, everything written to the RAM disk is saved to a (real) file. This means that the next time you mount the RAM disk, all the contents are still there. This helps protect against data loss in the event of a crash or power failure. - ramBunctious uses normal application memory. This means that when you're done using a RAM disk, that memory is available for other applications to use. In other words, you don't have to reboot to reclaim the memory. - Each RAM disk may be configured to be mounted automatically during the computer's startup process. - These options, and more, are fully user-configurable for each RAM disk via a status/settings window. In addition to the settings, the status window includes LED-like access indicators that flash when the RAM disk is being read from or written to. - ramBunctious is fully AppleScriptable. New Features: *Progress Dialogs for lengthy operations. *Using Navigation Services for creating and opening RAM disks. *Default name of new disk image files end in a ".ramb" extension. *Appearance Manager friendly. *Application is now purely native PowerPC since we require MacOS 8.6. *Get Info dialog in Finder on a mounted RAM disk now shows better information. *When creating RAM disks larger than 32MB in size, HFS+ is the default format to save space. Bug Fixes: *Fixed a bug where skipping startup items by holding down the shift key when mounting was broken under Mac OS 9.1. *After a user reformatted a RAM disk, the color icon was lost. This is now fixed. *Balloon help was updated to explain the blue icon status. *Added the custom folder icon back for this release. [Archived as /info-mac/disk/rambunctious-16-jp.hqx; 394 K] ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jul 2001 From: machead@black-hole.com To: Subject: [*] Rob's Pager 1.0.7 Rob's Pager was written so that my wife and kids could reliably send text page messages via e-mail to my pager which has a 170 character limit. Rob's Pager displays the character count as you type and automatically formats the text page message into individual 170 character pages. The text page can span 4 message fields with a 676 character limit. When the 676 character limit is reached, Rob's Pager turns red and a message appears to alert you to send the page. Shareware Price $10.00 [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/mail/robs-pager-107.hqx; 778 K] ------------------------------ Date: 19 Jul 2001 From: ZiggySoft To: Subject: [*] Round Euro 1.1 As you know EURO is normally expressed with two decimals. But, for some reason, further decimals are rounded on a "4" exceeding basis rather than "5" (i.e.: Euro 1.445 becomes 1.45 and 1.444 becomes 1.44). This little HyperCard/Supercard XFCN perform this operation. [Archived as /info-mac/app/bus/round-euro-11.hqx; 193 K] ------------------------------ Date: 15 Jul 2001 From: Jeffry Baker To: Subject: [*] RPN Calculator 1.2.5 PPC RPN Calculator is a simple yet robust RPN calculator for MacOS. It features a scalable interface via function palettes, a base converter window that can sync its input with the calculator's stack and the ability to handle complex numbers in every function that makes sense (e.g. not in factorial, int, frac, etc.). The calculator also features a 100 element stack and 8 user memories, all of which can survive a relaunch, if desired. [Archived as /info-mac/sci/calc/rpn-calculator-125-ppc.hqx; 706 K] ------------------------------ Date: 17 Jul 2001 From: Sascha Bigalke To: Subject: [*] SmartView 2.1 SmartView 2.1 - With SmartView you are able to display and organize setext files like TidBITS for example. Hyperlinks in the setext document are clickable and dragging of selected text is also possible. New in Version 2.1 is spacebar reading (pressing the spacebar shows the next screen of text). Balloon help is supported and double-clicking functionality has been added to the document archive. SmartView is freeware and requires a PowerPC based Macintosh with Mac OS 8.5 - Mac OS 9.1. [Archived as /info-mac/text/smart-view-21.hqx; 602 K] ------------------------------ Date: 21 Jul 2001 From: "Gary Smith" To: Subject: [*] Stock Market This program is freeware. Students read news snippets to decide which stocks to buy and sell; set aside cash for taxes; receive dividends; and calculate their mean daily profit-or loss-in this simulation. The program also generates worksheets and projects for off-line use. [Archived as /info-mac/edu/stock-market.hqx; 112 K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 23:00:00 -0700 From: TidBITS Editors To: digest@info-mac.org, mac-l@sparky.listmoms.net, Subject: [*] TidBITS#588/16-Jul-01 TidBITS#588/16-Jul-01 Survival is on our mind this week, as Geoff Duncan relates how his broadband provider abruptly went dark, and how you can live through a similar event in today's world of uncertain ISPs. Plus, Adam looks at why online grocer Webvan failed to spot its own rotted fruit before ceasing operations. In the news, we note the releases of Panorama 4.0 and Mailsmith 1.1.7, and celebrate Adam's third place rank in the 2001 MDJ Power 25. Topics: MailBITS/16-Jul-01 Where Webvan Went Wrong Surviving Your ISP's Darkest Hour [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-588.etx; 33K] ------------------------------ Date: 20 Jul 2001 From: "jean-francois burnol" To: Subject: [*] Trueclock 2.0 (time utility; freeware; MacOS 7.0+) This is a small time utility for Macintoshes running system 7.0 or higher. It displays up to 64 clocks on the screen, round or rectangular, with analog or digital display. This software was created back in November 1997, and shared at that time only with a few friends. You can save clocks in a configuration file that you can exchange with friends, or copy-paste them as PICTs to export to graphic-editors. You can copy-paste time to a text-document you are currently editing. Example: 12:54:47 jeudi 19 juillet 2001. It also includes a screen-saver. Well, I think using TrueClock is pretty much self-explanatory. For kids, too. [Archived as /info-mac/app/time/true-clock-20.hqx; 59 K] ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jul 2001 From: Dean Davis To: Subject: [*] WeatherMan1.0 Macintosh Weather Monitor WeatherMan connects to the National Weather Service to download current weather information to your Mac. Weather information downloaded includes... Ñ Current Weather Conditions for over 1600 U.S. Locations and 2000 locations Worldwide. Ñ Current and Extended Forecasts (U.S. Locations only) Ñ Severe Weather Alerts (U.S. Locations only) Ñ Nexrad radar images (U.S. Locations only) Other Features Ñ English and Metric units in current conditions screen Ñ Monitor as many Cities as you want (limited only by memory) Ñ AppleScript Support Requirements: OS 9.1 or earlier OpenTransport QuickTime 2.0 or later Homepage: http://homepage.mac.com/deandavis/WeatherMan.htm Contact: mailto:deandavis@mac.com [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/weather-man-10.hqx; 1476 K] ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jul 2001 From: Dean Davis To: Subject: [*] WeatherManX1.0 Macintosh Weather Monitor WeatherManX connects to the National Weather Service to download current weather information to your Mac. Weather information downloaded includes... Ñ Current Weather Conditions for over 1600 U.S. Locations and 2000 locations Worldwide. Ñ Current and Extended Forecasts (U.S. Locations only) Ñ Severe Weather Alerts (U.S. Locations only) Ñ Nexrad radar images (U.S. Locations only) Other Features Ñ English and Metric units in current conditions screen Ñ Monitor as many Cities as you want (limited only by memory) Ñ AppleScript Support Requirements: OS X Internet Connection Homepage: http://homepage.mac.com/deandavis/WeatherMan.htm Contact: mailto:deandavis@mac.com [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/weather-man-x-10.hqx; 1703 K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 09:13:58 +1000 From: George Barker To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: [A] Looking for email body-viewer >So, I'm on the hunt for a program that will enable me to read an email's >body *without* downloading its attachment(s), if any. My plan is to use >this program as a filtering device; I'd read the bodies, delete the emails >that didn't apply to me, and then use Eudora to download all the remaining >ones. You may want to check this out - I haven't tried it but it sounds like it may do what you want: Wouldn't it be great if you could delete unwanted e-mail from your mailbox without downloading it to your computer first? And wouldn't it be a real money saver if you could trash messages with large attachments without the need to download them to your computer first? Well, POPmonitor lets you do just that! With POPmonitor you can take a peek inside your mailbox and delete unwanted e-mail without the need to download those messages first. Just login, select the unwanted messages and click 'Delete'. It's as simple as that. For more information please visit our website at or send an e-mail to . regards George ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 10:42:33 -0500 From: The Sissons To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: [Q] Ill Monitor Questions Greetings: I have a SuperMac 19" Trinitron monitor that is exhibiting some disturbing symptoms. It all started a few weeks ago when I noticed that every so often, the display would flash green for a fraction of a second. The frequency of the flashes would increase the longer the monitor was left on. Sometimes the green flash was only on a portion (horizontal band) of the screen and sometimes it was the whole screen. Over the past several weeks, the problem has become worse and, recently, I've had a few occasions where the monitor appears to have lost synchronization. I have fixed the problem by turning the monitor off for a few minutes and then turning it back on. Can anyone suggest a part that may need to be replaced or some tests I can do to isolate the problem? I am pretty handy with a soldering iron and a multi-meter and I haven't electrocuted myself yet. Any suggestions would be appreciated. TIA, Mike ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 05:04:55 -0700 From: Denny Davis To: Nickee Sanders Subject: [Q] Looking for email body-viewer At 1:49 PM +1200 06/30/01, Nickee Sanders wittily wrote: >Greetings all, > >I will shortly be living in a situation where net access will be difficult >and slow. Unfortunately the email groups that I'm a part of at work mean >that I receive on the order of 10 attachments a week. Most of them are >small; some can be pretty large though. The problem is that the vast >majority of the emails are instant-trash as far as I'm concerned, and so >downloading the attachments is unnecessary. > >So, I'm on the hunt for a program that will enable me to read an email's >body *without* downloading its attachment(s), if any. My plan is to use >this program as a filtering device; I'd read the bodies, delete the emails >that didn't apply to me, and then use Eudora to download all the remaining >ones. > >Just so this is clear: I am not proposing to download just the body of any >email. If I want the body, I accept that I'll get to also download any >attachments it has. > >I know it's possible to get at the body of an email separately from its >attachments, because my ISP offers web-based email access, and it does >this. I can read the body, and down the bottom of the window is a button >which I can press if I want to download the attachment. Now, maybe this is >possible precisely because it *is* web-based, but I'm hoping not. I'd >rather use a standalone app for my "filtering". > >I like Mail Beacon, from Navdeep Bains, and I've also tried his PopThing, >but unfortunately neither of them will show me the body of an email that >has an attachment. I've looked through the MIT shareware archive with no >success, so I'm asking here. > >Does anyone know of an app that will do what I need? > >Nickee Sanders >Software Engineer >Auckland, New Zealand >PGP Public Key available from http://www.keyserver.net/en/ >Fingerprint: 2D83 0E4B 4B19 C0C5 BBA1 339A C52B EE11 FD09 20C7 You already have Eudora and it will do what you want, I think. You go to Settings and Checking Mail. Check the Skip Messages over... checkl box and put a low number in the box and Eudora will download the first part of the message and then allow you to download the rest of the message and its attachement(s) if desired. The ones you don't download can be deleted instead. :-} <<>> Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. Blessings, Denny ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 14:52:00 +0100 From: Donal Leader To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: ClarisWorks for Kids I have donated some old Macs to a small struggling school that lacks the funds to purchase computers. A few years ago there was an excellent version of ClarisWorks that was designed to be used by younger children. It was called ClarisWorks for Kids. Does anyone know whether it is still available for purchase? If so, where. Donal Leader Marino Institute of Education Dublin, Ireland ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 11:26:07 +0200 From: Hans de Wolf To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Graphics Question In info-mac V18 #99, Paul Fons (paul-fons@aist.go.jp ) asked for an application to plot 3D data in an aesthetically pleasing way. Here are some suggestions for Mac software for displaying three-dimensional data: * Noesys , especially the T3D module * Curvus Pro -- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 16:11:23 -0400 From: "A.W. Neef" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: iMac battery (R) Christian F Buser wrote: > I don't think Apple made any computers (at least, no Macs; not > sure about the Apple II series) which required soldering for > changing a PRAM battery. The IIgs is an Apple-II, not a Mac. And believe it, the first incarnation "ROM-01" came with a battery soldered to the motherboard. Nite Owl Productions of Mission, KS soon offered a "slide-on" replacement 3.6 v lithium battery pak. The two leads are wound into a tapered spiral ... so user could clip off the original battery, leaving long leads attached to motherboard, and make "slide-on" connections with the replacement battery. The next IIgs incarnation "ROM-3" came with a plug-in battery. -- Bill Neef Grass Lake, MI, USA ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 09:52:36 +0200 From: "Studio Arch.Carlo Bartoli" To: Christian F Buser Subject: software for ISDN routers (A) At 22:37 +0200 14-07-2001, Christian F Buser wrote: > >>I'm looking for some kind of software (better if shareware or >>freeware) that monitor ISDN connections to the internet. >> >>I'm working with a Zyxel 100 ISDN modem/router > >I don't know of a software, but the router should keep a record of >the connections and which computer or application caused it. See in >the router's manual how to access and interprete them (I don't have >my manual at hand, but I n#know it is in, I use the same router >model). > >Hope this helps. Best wishes, Christian. > >-- >Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) >Look at >Die Natur gab uns zwei Ohren, aber nur eine Zunge (Zulu). Christian, the zyxel router has its own software that controls access and other settings. What I'm looking for a pice of software like Apple's own Remote Access (that works for POTS access -plain old telephone systems- not ISDN) that graphically display if the connection is on or off: just simple as that. Have you used Zyxel's own software? It does work, but the user inteface is awful. I need to have a window showing "connectin on" and "Ip address ....". Thanks anyway for the input! -- Paolo Bartoli ** Arch.Carlo Bartoli / Bartoli Design ** ** archbart@tin.it ** -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************