Subject: Info-Mac Digest V18 #79 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Thu, 24 May 01 Volume 18 : Issue 79 Today's Topics: [*] Bub and Bob 1.7.3J - Japanese Version [*] NetFinder 2.2.1b3J PPC - Japanese Version [*] NetFinder OSX 2.2.1b3J - Japanese Version [*] SwitchBack for OS X 3.4b2J - Japanese Version [*] TidBITS#581/21-May-01 [*] Time Tool 2.0 [*] Unlimited FTP 2.2 [*] Verbs & Nouns 2.4.8 - foreign language learning [*] X-Assist 0.5J - Japanese Version [A] monitor flicker on Power Tower 240 [Q] Auto start [Q] Bad Firewire Port? Anyone else? adding an ATA100 drive to a beige G3 Choice of programming language database/cataloguing shareware ? ftp always gives error on info mac files Info-Mac Digest V18 #78 Reading PC disks on a MAC 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 #79" ------------------------------ Date: 21 May 2001 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] Bub and Bob 1.7.3J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the Bub and Bob package. Mac OS X compatible (Classic environment)! *Rated 5 Cows (highest rating) by Tucows (Tukids)* Bub & Bob is an exciting, fast paced arcade game based on the original Bubble Bobble, a classic arcade game from the early 80's! The game was also available for the C64, Atari ST, and Amiga, but never for the Macintosh. Bub & Bob is a 90% clone of the classic game, designed and programmed to run on the Mac. Bub & Bob can be played alone or together with another human player. You are a little green or blue dinosaur with the ability to blow bubbles out your mouth. Your aim is to catch the deadly balls in level 100. So you have to play through all the 99 levels to get there. Some levels are much easier to play if you play in the two player mode. So you can say that the other player is your partner in most cases, in some cases he's your rival, for example if a big fruit appears that gives an extra score. System Requirements Bub & Bob needs 4.2 MB free RAM. It runs both Power-Mac native and on the older 68k Macs. A Mac with at least a 68040-processor is recommended, though I couldn't test it on slower machines. Changes in version 1.7.3: *Fixed a problem with music playback under QuickTime 5. [Archived as /info-mac/game/arc/bub-and-bob-173-jp.hqx; 1240 K] ------------------------------ Date: 22 May 2001 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] NetFinder 2.2.1b3J PPC - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the NetFinder package. This beta version is PPC only. NetFinder makes browsing on the Internet even easier. NetFinder makes FTP file transfers as easy as browsing though your own Macintosh hard disk. You can even resume downloads that are interrupted (or that you interrupt) at your own convenience! NetFinder features an intuitive, Mac-like interface, support for HTTP transfers, Firewall / Proxy support, secure storage of passwords using Apple's Keychain Manager, support for SSL FTP, ICI Script, previewing of Movies, MP3's and even Shockwave files, integration with BBEdit and other text editors, and much much more... Why not just download a copy of NetFinder for FREE and try it out for yourself? You have nothing to lose. MacUser - 1997 Best Shareware - Best Internet Face-Lift. Tucows - 5 cow rating. MacDownload - 5 mice. MacWelt (German MacWorld) - 5 mice. FileDudes - 5 dude rating & Dude Approved! [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/netfinder-221b3-jp.hqx; 3827 K] ------------------------------ Date: 22 May 2001 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] NetFinder OSX 2.2.1b3J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the NetFinder OSX package. NetFinder makes browsing on the Internet even easier. NetFinder makes FTP file transfers as easy as browsing though your own Macintosh hard disk. You can even resume downloads that are interrupted (or that you interrupt) at your own convenience! NetFinder features an intuitive, Mac-like interface, support for HTTP transfers, Firewall / Proxy support, secure storage of passwords using Apple's Keychain Manager, support for SSL FTP, ICI Script, previewing of Movies, MP3's and even Shockwave files, integration with BBEdit and other text editors, and much much more... Why not just download a copy of NetFinder for FREE and try it out for yourself? You have nothing to lose. MacUser - 1997 Best Shareware - Best Internet Face-Lift. Tucows - 5 cow rating. MacDownload - 5 mice. MacWelt (German MacWorld) - 5 mice. FileDudes - 5 dude rating & Dude Approved! [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/netfinder-osx-221b3-jp.hqx; 4005 K] ------------------------------ Date: 22 May 2001 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] SwitchBack for OS X 3.4b2J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the SwitchBack for Mac OS X package. SwitchBack is a file synchronization and backup utility. SwitchBack makes it easy and safe to synchronize two disks, so that both contain your most recently updated documents. Simply choose two folders to compare, and SwitchBack does the rest, quickly and painlessly. The two folders can reside on the same or different disks, or on two computers connected by a network, or even over the Internet. You can ask SwitchBack to tell you in detail what it is doing, or let it go to work, only advising you when there's a problem. SwitchBack requires at least MacOS 8.5. Change in this version: New Features *Separate Classic and Carbon versions *Added support for long unicode file names *Auto dismisses error log *Don't report if file busy when trying to delete a folder. *Dims the source destination details when the target disk is not mounted or the alias is invalid *Only uses a temporary file when doing a two-way synchronization *Logs sleep and shut down times Bugs Fixed *Fixed bug in navigation services with junk in the file type filter *Disk size preflighting works again *Unregistered versions show the registration dialog again *Copying comments works again Known Issues *With AppleShare IP as the new standard file sharing mechanism, no longer able to check for time zone discrepancies Compiled with CodeWarrior Pro 5.3. [Archived as /info-mac/disk/switchback-osx-34b2-jp.hqx; 227 K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 22:00:00 -0700 From: TidBITS Editors To: digest@info-mac.org, mac-l@sparky.listmoms.net, Subject: [*] TidBITS#581/21-May-01 TidBITS#581/21-May-01 One benefit of Mac OS X's Unix underpinnings is the capability to run industrial-strength relational databases, and Jonathan Rentzsch examines some database products which may take Mac OS X into the fast lane. Also, Matt Neuburg reviews Copernican Technologies' Boswell text snippet archiver. In the news, Apple starts installing Mac OS X on new machines and we note Apple's first retail stores, the return of OnStream tape drives, and updates to Mac OS X Server, FileMaker Pro 5.5 and BBEdit 6.1.2. Topics: MailBITS/21-May-01 TenBITS/21-May-01 Boswell: A Text Motel Relational Databases and Mac OS X, Part 2 [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-581.etx; 34K] ------------------------------ Date: 21 May 2001 From: Frank Kane To: Subject: [*] Time Tool 2.0 Time Tracker is a time clock, invoice generation, and timesheet generation tool designed for consultants, freelancers, or anybody who needs to track time spent at the computer and bill for it. An underlying relational database manages your clients, jobs, timesheets, and invoices, eliminating double-entry of data. Invoices or timesheets may be automatically printed based on the time you've billed toward a job or client for a given period of time, or you may create free-form invoices from scratch. It's easy to use - if you can punch in and out of a time clock, you can use Time Tool. Formerly known as Time Tracker, this new version adds timesheets, fixes a sorting problem, and exports directly to your email program. Shareware $15. http://home.cfl.rr.com/computingedge/timetracker/ computingedge@kagi.com Permission is granted to include this file in its entirety on CD-ROM compilations. [Archived as /info-mac/app/time/time-tool-20.hqx; 875 K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 May 2001 From: "Unlimited FTP Information" To: Subject: [*] Unlimited FTP 2.2 Unlimited FTP is an FTP client that runs in your web browser. Using Java technology, Unlimited FTP is able to perform the same tasks as larger FTP clients but does not require a large download or install. Instead, the client is downloaded and executed by Mac OS Runtime for Java (MRJ) distributed with your browser. The applet can also be downloaded for use on your personal page. Requirements: I.E. or Netscape and Mac OS Runtime for Java. Author: Unlimi-Tech Software Inc. Contact: John Tkaczewski john@unlimited-tech.net [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/unlimited-ftp-22.hqx; 495 K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 May 2001 From: Jacek Iwanski To: Subject: [*] Verbs & Nouns 2.4.8 - foreign language learning 'Verbs & Nouns' is an application for practising inflection, translation and pronunciation at the level of single words. Features include the opportunity to do various inflection exercises, and translation exercises in both directions; to record and play sound for single words; to do exercises based on sound or pictures; and to play various word-games. The program keeps a record of exercises, and identifies the words that the student has difficulty with. Along with the program, you need a module for the target language concerned. The program can also be used as an authoring tool to write your own modules of inflected words for any language. A built-in 'inflection-generator' simplifies the addition of these words. A 'Find' feature allows the modules to be used as bilingual dictionaries. Ready-made modules are already available for certain languages. You can visit: to get more information. [Archived as /info-mac/edu/lang/verbs-and-nouns-248.hqx; 1727 K] ------------------------------ Date: 22 May 2001 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] X-Assist 0.5J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the X-Assist package. X-Assist was created to assist in the much loved but missing features of OS 9 in OSX. *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. - 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-05-jp.hqx; 540 K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 18:43:41 -0400 From: Saint John To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: [A] monitor flicker on Power Tower 240 At 10:30 -0400 5/21/01, Ken Laskey wrote: >I've got a Power Computing machine and had a Sony monitor on it that >has been i its death throes for several months. Last week the Sony >finally gave out and I got a new Sylvania 17" as a replacement. When >connected to the Power Tower, the new monitor has a significant >amount of flicker at all resolutions, but the monitor is fine if I >attached it to my Powerbook. Do I have a video card problem on the >Power Tower? If so, did that have anything to do with the Sony >monitor dying and can I harm the new Sylvania? Also, if the Power >Tower video is sick, what is the recommended fix? The monitor might be displaying a refresh rate that it wasn't really designed for. In the Monitors & Sound control panel, you can use the popup to switch between Recommended resolutions and All resolutions (as reported by the video circuitry). Try the ones which are the same as the resolution you have now, but higher or lower in refresh rate, first. Flicker can also be due to bad cables. Make sure that they're attached firmly. Since the monitor itself works on your PowerBook, I'm assuming that the trouble is somewhere between the cable and the PowerTower. Since Power Computing was kind enough to give us VGA as well as Mac ports, you can try a cable for each one-- Sony's monitors are designed mostly as SVGA, but they're kind enough to supply Mac adapters to their customers. Perhaps Sylvania is the same way. One reason for flickering can be EM interference. Move the monitor a few feet away from the computer and try again. Some people have used a cake or pie pan as a shield, and say that it works-- I don't have experience with such a peripheral, but it's cheap enough to try. Lastly: yes, you may have video problems on your computer. It's not the first thing I'd check, that's all. The way to find out is to attach a known-good monitor to your system and see whether it reacts the same way. If it does, then the video circuitry is a suspect. One fix might be to get a cheap PCI video card and use that instead of the built-in video. Oh, and make sure that you have the "PCI Timing Update" extension installed. I'm not sure it has anything to do with monitor flicker (last I heard it was for people experiencing choppy sound playback on Power Computing machines), but it could help. +- Saint John -+ | "The Limpflig finds it hard to keep | +-- From spending all its life asleep." (E. Gorey) ------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 16:12:01 -0500 From: Egidio Leitao To: Info Mac Subject: [Q] Auto start Other than the unreliable Energy Saver control panel, is there a way to get a G4 to start up and shut down at given times? I currently use Sleeper because the Mac Energy Saver won't wake up when the computer goes to sleep. However, Sleeper does not have the capability of auto start a Mac. Any ideas? -- Eg¨dio "Que essa fonte que ningu‰m nunca bebeu ‰ toda sua" (Aparecida Silvino) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 11:56:51 -0400 From: Scott Horton To: Info Mac Digest Subject: [Q] Bad Firewire Port? Anyone else? Hello, I am trying to diagnose a firewire failure on my B&W G3/400MHz/512MB/OS9.1&X/Ultra2 SCSI Mac. All testing done via OS9.1. Firewire software: VST format application 2.3.1, VST firewire extension 2.3.1, Apples Firewire Enabler and Firewire Support extensions v2.7 (OS9.1). The only firewire device that I use (and own) is a VST 6GB Hard Drive. It works perfectly well on a B&W G3/350/Ultra66ATA/512MB/OS9.1 Mac. However, on the Mac in question I have the following symptoms. The hard disk power light comes on when plugged into the bus via a firewire cable. However, despite the power light's steady glow, the drive fails even to spin up and of course it does not mount to the desktop either. I get an error message when I launch the VST Format software and it fails to load. I have the same failure with another perfectly good firewire cable thereby eliminating cable failure as the issue. I have no other device to test, but I know that the drive is fine. When I run Apple's System Profiler v2.5.1 the Firewire bus does not show up in the devices and volumes panel (or any other panel). With the case open, the firewire port appears intact with a solid connection to the motherboard, though I have not yet tried reseating it as it looks possibly bothersome with a screw or 2 to loosen and perhaps a cage to remove first. (However, if bad hardware is the problem, it looks replaceable if such a device can be purchased.) I will try to reseat the device, but how else can I know for sure what the problem is short of loosing my machine for a time to a service center? This is unattractive to me as I live in a rural location far away from any authorized Apple repair or other computer shop with any Mac experience. Any ideas or similar experience with a firewire failure? Thank you. (PS How about those new firewire standards released yesterday? What a screaming bus if it comes to fruition!) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 10:03:33 -0600 From: Neil Fiertel To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: adding an ATA100 drive to a beige G3 I want to install a larger hard drive in a first generation G3 minitower beige which means replacing the 6 gig boot-up drive as it cannot be run as a master/slave in this model. I found a very large and fast Western Digital EIDE ATA100 drive which the company says is Mac compatible. They also said that I would have to install it first on a PC in order to run the Windows only utility to reset the drive to run as an ATA66 unit. Does anyone know if this could be done in some other way using Virtual PC on an external scsi drive, setting the utilities on the drive and carrying on or am I stuck having to find a PC and go through what seems to be an onerous install-reset and uninstall and then a Mac install of the drive. If that is the case, Western Digital is missing the boat on selling to Mac users. Any ideas would be welcome. Please email me at nfiertel@ualberta.ca if you have some brilliant suggestions or personal experience with this. -- Neil Fiertel Email: nfiertel@ualberta.ca or nfiertel@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca The opinions expressed are mine alone. "THE EYE EXISTS IN A WILD STATE. THE ARTIST KNOWS NO OTHER." Andre Breton ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 10:10:35 +0200 From: Jacob Palme To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Choice of programming language I have done a lot of programming many years ago, mostly using Simula but also Pascal, Fortran, Snobol and assembler. In the last years, I have not done much programming, the little I have done has been in WordBasic och HyperTalk. Now I have the need to develop some programs, mainly for my own use, and mainly text file generation and conversion, possibly including simple XML and HTML interpretation and generation. Which programming language should I choose? Important to me is that I should not have to spend a lot of time on application building, menu creation and things like that, and that there are good facilities for text string manipulation and debugging. Would REALbasic be a good choice? The facility that it can produce applications for both Macintosh and Windows might be useful for me. Or what programming environment would you otherwise recommend. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 18:45:19 +0000 From: JIM BRUNSWICK To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: database/cataloguing shareware ? Hello to all digest readers ! I am inexperienced with database and/ or catalogue programs. I want to make a catalogue for cd collections, book collections, song sheet libraries, etc... Shareware / freeware is my area of comfort. Any suggestions, feedback or guidance will be very much appreciated. regards, Jim Brunswick ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 16:27:13 -0400 From: "Allan E. Levy" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: ftp always gives error on info mac files I always get the following: (or the equivalent) digest@info-mac.org when I do a ftp://ftp.uu.net/archive/systems/mac/info-mac/gst/grf/photo-grid-19.hqx to get to a file. Any ideas -- Sincerely, Allan E. Levy I worked on the IBM 650 (Tubes, 2000 Memory Drum) Contact home 301-340-7839 cell 301-742-4951 fax 301-838-9545 allan@his.com 14 Boat House Ct Gaithersburg, Md 20878 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 10:07:15 +1000 From: Craig McFarlane To: Subject: Info-Mac Digest V18 #78 >I have tried some of the Mac programs for downloading music such as LimeWire >and MP3Rage and find that none of them work as well as Napster used to work. > On MP3Rage, I have difficulties connecting to servers or searchs take >forever and downloads often fail to start. With Limewire, searches are slow >and downloads frequently fail. With Napster, I had very good results and I >am looking for a decent alternative to Napster. Thanks in advance for any >suggestions. (You may reply directly to me or post to the list.) If you want to run MacOS X, then try Macster - written here in Melbourne. cya Craig -- Craig McFarlane craig@delaneymorgan.com.au Delaney & Morgan Computing Fax: +61 3 9878-3910 ACN 058 140 702 PO Box 84 Forest Hill Vic 3131 AUSTRALIA ABN 89 058 140 702 From my non Windows Scripting compliant Macintosh. And loving it. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 09:20:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Arthur Snoke To: To: ; Subject: Reading PC disks on a MAC I have CDs written on a PC with files that, on the PC, were not restricted to the 8.3 DOS naming convention. Example: index.html. When I look at the CD on a MAC (or on Unix), it portrays the 8.3 naming convention. Example, index.html becomes INDEX-1.HTM. I want to have the longer file names appear when I bring up the CD on any platform. Part of my reason is that we are using HTML as a navigational aid on the CDs, and the names in the HTML files have to agree with the names on the CD for that to work. I would rather not change all my files to fit the 8.3 convention if I can help it. I think there is a hidden file on the CD which has a translation table between the "real" file names and the 8.3 file names. What I am looking for is something which, when it opens the CD, recognizes and uses this translation table. It was suggested that I try Associator 2 or NameCleaner. Neither are attacking the problem at the right level, I think. The program we were using for burning CDs is the free version of EZ CD CREATOR. My question is if there might be a solution either in how the CD is burned or adding utilities to the Mac. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Arthur Snoke -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************