Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #125 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Tue, 08 Aug 00 Volume 17 : Issue 125 Today's Topics: (Q) Conflict Catcher warning? [*] Sound Studio 1.4, an audio recorder and editor [*] Synk 3.0.5 [*] TextureMagic 1.3.2 [*] Tile-it Icons 2.5.1 [*] TypePopper 1.4J - Japanese Version [*] Worlds Apart (v2.1): a text adventure Anyone have DT Calculator? Eudora Random Signatures Eudora: random signatures IDE hard disk formatting PalmPix 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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Is it a problem, or is this one of those cases where Conflict Catcher is giving me more information than I really need to know. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net -- Come visit my mini Yahoo at. All links verified monthly: http://www.index-site.com/ ------------------------------ Date: 8 Aug 2000 From: Lucius Kwok To: Subject: [*] Sound Studio 1.4, an audio recorder and editor Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I've released version 1.4 of Sound Studio today. Version 1.4 is faster, supports for more file formats, has many rewritten filters, and fixes many bugs. New features: - Faster disk operations (uses most of application RAM as buffer) - New, faster resampling code (uses linear interpolation and averaging) - Windows WAVE file format support - System 7 Sound file format support - WWW links to felttip.com in Register menu - New document icons (rebuild your Desktop Database to see the icons) - The Silence, Amplify, Normalize, Fade In, and Fade Out filters now blend (cross-fade) their edges by 0.5 milliseconds - Noise Gate filter rewritten to have a smoother transition - Internal calculations use 64-bit floating point representations - Dithering: when downsampling and applying filters, triangular pdf dithering is used Bug fixes: - "Open" menu command now works - Cut, and delete editing commands no longer scroll window to beginning of file - Cut and paste no longer generate type-3 errors - Sound Input palette can no longer be placed off-screen - Editing to end of file no longer generates -39 errors Sound Studio is an audio recording and editing app for the Mac OS. It allows you to take full advantage of your Mac's built-in sound recording and playback capabilities, to digitize your collection of vinyl and tapes, to do live recording of audio, to edit new and pre-existing digital audio, and to save your audio in AIFF, WAVE, System 7 Sound, or Sound Designer II format to be used in other audio apps. And it all costs just US$25, if you decide to keep it beyond the 14-day trial period. [Archived as /info-mac/gst/sound-studio-14.hqx; 579 K] ------------------------------ Date: 8 Aug 2000 From: Randall Voth To: Subject: [*] Synk 3.0.5 Synk 3.05 -------- Synk is a popular backup and synchronization program that can resolve aliases and archive old files. It runs on all PowerPC Macintoshes with at least Mac OS 8. Synk 2.6.1 remains available at the website mentioned below for those using older computers. This new version is a complete rewrite with full Mac OS 9 support. In addition to a modern interface and OS 9 features, it includes very powerful, programmable selectors that give excellent control over what is backed up or synchronized. Version history is listed at the end of this message. Synk 3 is US $15 shareware (registration through Kagi). Upgrades from previous version of Synk are free to registered users. Randall Voth Version 3.0.5 -------------- - NEW -> changed selectors in a big way (selectors are now applied to files, folders or both instead of items, containers or volumes). Synk does its best to import selectors, but please check them over for logic. - fixed a potential name comparison error with selectors - greatly expanded "Synk Documentation" to include the information previously only in the online Help [Archived as /info-mac/disk/synk-305.hqx; 1349 K] ------------------------------ Date: 8 Aug 2000 From: Wolfgang Ante To: Subject: [*] TextureMagic 1.3.2 TextureMagic is a graphics application for creating and editing of seamlessly tileable textures. TextureMagic's users are website designers that create webpage backgrounds, 3D artists that easily transform photographed surfaces into tileable textures and other graphic designers that use textured backgrounds for their creative content creation. TextureMagic 1.3.2 updates all open & save dialogs to use Apple's new dialogs. The TextureMagic website is located at . [Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/texture-magic-132.hqx; 2226 K] ------------------------------ Date: 8 Aug 2000 From: appajt@nbnet.nb.ca (appajt) To: Subject: [*] Tile-it Icons 2.5.1 Tile-iT Icons is an application that use the custom Icons of System 7.X to display pictures or text on the desktop or in any windows. Tile-iT takes any PICT from the clipboard, break it into 'Tiles', convert those tiles to icons, assign those icons to documents and finally arrange those documents so that they touch each other. In other words, a Tile-iT frame of 3 x 3 icons is composed of 9 documents each having a custom icon representing a portion of the original picture. Tile-it now produce those 32 bits 'icns' resources so that you can display pictures in thousand of colors. Tile-it is also the most userfriendly of these kind of application. [Archived as /info-mac/gui/icon/tile-it-251.hqx; 744 K] ------------------------------ Date: 8 Aug 2000 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] TypePopper 1.4J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the TypePopper package. TypePopper is a lean, robust, and easy to use Contextual Menu Plugin with a single focus: To help you easily change type and creator codes of files with just one click. I wrote TypePopper because I couldn't find a small and simple utility to do what it does as easily. Let us know what you think! This version adds a number of popular file types to the pop-up context menu. [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/cmm/type-popper-14-jp.hqx; 428 K] ------------------------------ Date: 8 Aug 2000 From: Andrew Plotkin To: Subject: [*] Worlds Apart (v2.1): a text adventure Worlds Apart: An Interactive Fugue By Suzanne Britton (tril@igs.net) Version 2.1 http://www.igs.net/~tril/worlds/ Getting Started This is a TADS game, and therefore requires a TADS or HTML TADS interpreter. Specifically, it requires an up-to-date (2.5.1 or better) interpreter. This package includes HyperTADS 1.1.3, which is an HTML TADS interpreter for the Macintosh based on HTML TADS 2.5.1. It should be everything you need to play the game. If HyperTADS doesn't suit you, there are other TADS interpreters for the Macintosh. Check the TADS Page at http://www.tela.bc.ca/tela/tads/ for advice on how to obtain and install the right interpreter for your system. If you do not use HyperTADS, you should set your display to use a fixed-width font if you can. Otherwise, formatting will look odd in a few places. If Interactive Fiction is a new thing to you, or you just want to refresh your memory, you can get some general playing instructions within the game by typing INSTRUCTIONS. Specific information on Worlds Apart is available by typing ABOUT, and hints are available via the HINT command. This work is copyrighted freeware. The game package may be distributed on all public archives. The Worlds Apart homepage is located at http://www.igs.net/~tril/worlds/. Check there for information on new releases. [Archived as /info-mac/game/adv/worlds-apart-21.hqx; 1651 K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 08:42:37 -0500 From: "Allan, David (DS)" To: "'digest@info-mac.org'" Subject: Anyone have DT Calculator? Hi. I am looking for a copy of DT Calculator, a freeware RPN-based calculator that I had on my old Power Mac. I cannot locate a copy at any of the archive sites that I've searched. This was a very useful scientific calculator, and free to boot! If you have a copy, please e-mail it to me and also resubmit it to the mac archives. If anyone would like to recommend a replacement, freeware, RPN scientific calculator, I would welcome your suggestions. Thanks in advance. David Allan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 08:15:16 -0700 From: "Jim Wickman" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Eudora Random Signatures > >Is it possible to have Eudora choose a random signature among all the >signatures that are in the list ? >Claris emailer had this feature and I miss it in Eudora. Maybe I just >didn't find the option ? > > There's a program out there called -- amazingly -- "RandomSig" that will do just what you want. It's $2 (US) shareware, available from: Questions, comments, bug reports? Send them to . Random Sig is ¨ 1999 by Dead Chicken Software. All rights reserved. Write to her to get the URL. -- -- Jim Wickman - - - Pasco WA Why Is "abbreviation" such a long word? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:33:28 -0500 From: Pete Resnick To: Remmy Tourment Subject: Eudora: random signatures On 8/4/00 at 8:22 AM +0200, Remmy Tourment wrote: >Is it possible to have Eudora choose a random signature among all the >signatures that are in the list ? You might want to check out: . pr -- Pete Resnick Eudora Engineering - QUALCOMM Incorporated ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 17:00:28 -0700 From: Bill Rausch To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: IDE hard disk formatting I've got a Beige G3/233 desktop with 4 gig IDE hard disk. I'm thinking about replacing the drive with a larger one of around 20 gigs or so. If I buy a bare drive from a generic source, will Apple's formatting software recognize and format the drive or will I need to purchase Mac specific software from a third party? (The only formatting software I currently own is quite old.) Buying a drive from a Mac specific vendor is quite a bit more expensive and I'm wondering what it gets me? I'd like to partition the drive and install LinuxPPC as well (which I currently have installed on a too-small external SCSI drive). Thanks, Bill --- Bill Rausch, Software Development, Unix, Mac, Windows Numerical Applications, Inc. 509-943-0861 bill@numerical.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 17:32:50 +0100 From: dom To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: PalmPix Has anyone found a way to use Kodak's PalmPix on a Palm V using Mac OS, rather than the supplied Windows? Dave Reeder dreeder@rewrite.demon.co.uk -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************