Subject: Info-Mac Digest V19 #63 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Tue, 06 Aug 02 Volume 19 : Issue 63 Today's Topics: [*] TidBITS#641/05-Aug-02 [*] Asset Basset 2.97 [*] DragThing 4.3.1 [*] DragThing D-4.3.1 (German) [*] DragThing F-4.3.1 (French) [*] DragThing J-4.3.1 (Japanese) [*] DragThing T-4.3.1 (Italian) [*] GLMStat 5.7.0;Generalized linear models [*] GLMStat X 5.7.0;Generalized linear models (Mac OS X) [*] GooSearch 1.6 [*] GooSearchX 1.6 [*] htmlPress 1.5.1 Info-Mac Digest V19 #60 IOGEAR Card for Wallstreet Microphone for G4? Trouble connecting Olympus camera to iMac 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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In the news, we cover PowerMail 4.0, a security update for Mac OS X, and PopChar X 1.2, plus the MacHax Best Hack Contest CD and a digital photography cruise conference. Topics: MailBITS/05-Aug-02 Intuit's QuickBooks Employs FUD Against MYOB Get It Rolling with the RollerMouse Two Books on Mac OS X [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-641.etx; 33K] ------------------------------ Date: 2 Aug 2002 From: Ben Sharvy To: Subject: [*] Asset Basset 2.97 Asset Basset tracks investments, specializing in asset allocation. It will perform the following useful functions: 1) It tracks allocations in various asset classes (foreign/domestic, equity/bond, small-cap/large-cap, etc.). A unique feature is the ability to allocate percentage amounts within a single investment; for example, a mutual fund 60% in stock and 40% in bonds can be accurately represented in Asset Basset. By enabling percentage allocations within an investment, Asset Basset lets you monitor the allocation and performance of your investments with a precision limited only by your knowledge of your own investments. 2) It lets you define portfolios using allocation criteria, e.g., "foreign" or "foreign fixed-income" and monitor the performance of the portfolio. 3) It calculates the cost-basis of each investment, using either the average-cost or first-in-first-out methods, and generates tax-reports of capital gains and distributions for any year. 4) It calculates total profit using the time-value of money, with methods such as the internal rate of return, and the discounting/compounding of cash flows. 5) It keeps track of total worth, out-of-pocket cost, and so on. Version 2.97 fixes a bug which kept portfolios from updating when the basis or cost in an account changed without changing the total value of the account. Asset Basset requires a 640x480 screen or better; a PowerPC is recommended (portfolio updating will be kinda slow on a 68k machine). It requires 1.5 MB of available RAM. Author's Web site: http://www.efn.org/~bsharvy/ [Archived as /info-mac/data/asset-basset-297.hqx; 1253 K] ------------------------------ Date: 2 Aug 2002 From: James Thomson To: Subject: [*] DragThing 4.3.1 DragThing is the original dock designed to tidy up your Macintosh desktop. Simply drag an application from the Finder onto an empty square in a dock and then drag documents onto it as normal. Click a docked application to launch it or bring it to the front. In addition, the docks can contain files, folders, disks and servers, and there are also options to display the currently running processes, and all mounted disks, in special docks. On Mac OS X, you can even show the Trash on the Finder Desktop again. This is primarily a maintenance release with changes needed for the forthcoming Mac OS X 10.2 "Jaguar", but it also has improvements for both Mac OS 9 and previous versions of Mac OS X: * Various fixes for Mac OS X 10.2 "Jaguar". * Fixed problem with DragThing not opening when renamed. * Fixed problem with docks in fullscreen applications. * Fixed problem loading Unicode names for colour and texture sets. * Fixed problem opening the Finder on Mac OS 9. * Fixed some scripting problems with the "Disk Dock" visible. * Removed warning when Finder not running on Mac OS X. * Various optimisations and speed improvements. This is a free upgrade for existing registered users of DragThing 4, $10 for registered users of previous versions, and $25 for new users. Competitive upgrades are also available for $19 to users of Aladdin DragStrip 3, PowerOn ACTION GoMac 2, Semicolon Software's "The Tilery", and Sig Software's "Drop Drawers". DragThing is a Carbon application which runs natively on Mac OS X, and on Mac OS 8.6 and 9 with CarbonLib 1.1 or later installed. [Archived as /info-mac/gui/drag-thing-431.hqx; 1864 K] ------------------------------ Date: 2 Aug 2002 From: James Thomson To: Subject: [*] DragThing D-4.3.1 (German) DragThing D-4.3.1 is the latest German language version of my dock application DragThing. This is a free upgrade for existing registered users of DragThing 4, $10 for registered users of previous versions, and $25 for new users. Competitive upgrades are also available for $19 to users of Aladdin DragStrip 3, PowerOn ACTION GoMac 2, Semicolon Software's "The Tilery", and Sig Software's "Drop Drawers". DragThing is a Carbon application which runs natively on Mac OS X, and on Mac OS 8.6 and 9 with CarbonLib 1.1 or later installed. For more information, check out the official DragThing website at: [Archived as /info-mac/gui/drag-thing-431-de.hqx; 1886 K] ------------------------------ Date: 2 Aug 2002 From: James Thomson To: Subject: [*] DragThing F-4.3.1 (French) DragThing F-4.3.1 is the latest French language version of my dock application DragThing, translated by Philippe Bonnaure. This is a free upgrade for existing registered users of DragThing 4, $10 for registered users of previous versions, and $25 for new users. Competitive upgrades are also available for $19 to users of Aladdin DragStrip 3, PowerOn ACTION GoMac 2, Semicolon Software's "The Tilery", and Sig Software's "Drop Drawers". DragThing is a Carbon application which runs natively on Mac OS X, and on Mac OS 8.6 and 9 with CarbonLib 1.1 or later installed. For more information, check out the official DragThing website at: and Philippe's translation site at: [Archived as /info-mac/gui/drag-thing-431-fr.hqx; 1926 K] ------------------------------ Date: 2 Aug 2002 From: James Thomson To: Subject: [*] DragThing J-4.3.1 (Japanese) DragThing J-4.3.1 is the latest Japanese language version of my dock application DragThing. This is a free upgrade for existing registered users of DragThing 4, $10 for registered users of previous versions, and $25 for new users. Competitive upgrades are also available for $19 to users of Aladdin DragStrip 3, PowerOn ACTION GoMac 2, Semicolon Software's "The Tilery", and Sig Software's "Drop Drawers". DragThing is a Carbon application which runs natively on Mac OS X, and on Mac OS 8.6 and 9 with CarbonLib 1.1 or later installed. For more information, check out the official DragThing website at: [Archived as /info-mac/gui/drag-thing-431-jp.hqx; 1864 K] ------------------------------ Date: 2 Aug 2002 From: James Thomson To: Subject: [*] DragThing T-4.3.1 (Italian) DragThing T-4.3.1 is the latest Italian language version of my dock application DragThing, translated by Massimo Rotunno. This is a free upgrade for existing registered users of DragThing 4, $10 for registered users of previous versions, and $25 for new users. Competitive upgrades are also available for $19 to users of Aladdin DragStrip 3, PowerOn ACTION GoMac 2, Semicolon Software's "The Tilery", and Sig Software's "Drop Drawers". DragThing is a Carbon application which runs natively on Mac OS X, and on Mac OS 8.6 and 9 with CarbonLib 1.1 or later installed. For more information, check out the official DragThing website at: and Massimo's translation site at: [Archived as /info-mac/gui/drag-thing-431-it.hqx; 1982 K] ------------------------------ Date: 5 Aug 2002 From: Ken Beath To: Subject: [*] GLMStat 5.7.0;Generalized linear models GLMStat is a Macintosh-based statistical program for analysing generalised linear models. It provides a macintosh interface and includes many of the features of other programs. Features of GLMStat are - spreadsheet style data entry - factors may be represented as either integers or strings (categories) - Normal, Poisson, Binomial and Gamma models with appropriate links and specification of convergence and aliasing parameters - Scatter and Residual plots - Matrix scatterplots - Box and Whisker plots - Frequency distribution histograms - Descriptive statistics. - Output of deviance, parameter estimates, residuals and parameter correlations - Saving of data files complete with all model specifications. - printing of data, graph and results. - Missing values - Online Help (under the apple menu) and a brief User Manual. - Transcript window to display output of previous commands - almost fully Applescriptable and recordable with access to some data structures - includes example data files for most examples in two of the texts. - Individual licences available for $US25. 10 User Site Licences $US100. Site licences $US200. World site licence $US500. Payment in $US through Kagi Shareware. - Registration includes free upgrades to version 6.x Unregistered copies are fully functional except that Save and Save As and copying of graphs and results are disabled. Version 5.7.0 - number of rows (observations) allowed is now 65000 - opening text files handles Mac, Unix and DOS line endings - tick marks now on outside of graphs - changes to limitations in unregistered versions - fixed up bug which limited category names in subsets to 15 characters - at last some examples (reading data and t-test) This is a free upgrade to all GLMStat registrations. Current versions of GLMStat are always available at http://www.ozemail.com.au/~kjbeath/glmstat.html Ken Beath kjbeath@kagi.com [Archived as /info-mac/sci/glm-stat-570.hqx; 1257 K] ------------------------------ Date: 5 Aug 2002 From: Ken Beath To: Subject: [*] GLMStat X 5.7.0;Generalized linear models (Mac OS X) GLMStat X is a MacOS X statistical program for analysing generalised linear models. It provides a macintosh interface and includes many of the features of other programs. Features of GLMStat are - spreadsheet style data entry - factors may be represented as either integers or strings (categories) - Normal, Poisson, Binomial and Gamma models with appropriate links and specification of convergence and aliasing parameters - Scatter and Residual plots - Matrix scatterplots - Box and Whisker plots - Frequency distribution histograms - Descriptive statistics. - Output of deviance, parameter estimates, residuals and parameter correlations - Saving of data files complete with all model specifications. - printing of data, graph and results. - Missing values - Online Help (under the apple menu) and a brief User Manual. - Transcript window to display output of previous commands - almost fully Applescriptable and recordable with access to some data structures - includes example data files for most examples in two of the texts. - Individual licences available for $US25. 10 User Site Licences $US100. Site licences $US200. World site licence $US500. Payment in $US through Kagi Shareware. - Registration includes free upgrades to version 6.x Unregistered copies are fully functional except that Save and Save As and copying of graphs and results are disabled. Version 5.7.0 - number of rows (observations) allowed is now 65000 - opening text files handles Mac, Unix and DOS line endings - tick marks now on outside of graphs - changes to limitations in unregistered versions - fixed up bug which limited category names in subsets to 15 characters - at last some examples (reading data and t-test) This is a free upgrade to all GLMStat registrations. Current versions of GLMStat are always available at http://www.ozemail.com.au/~kjbeath/glmstat.html Ken Beath kjbeath@kagi.com [Archived as /info-mac/sci/glm-stat-x-570.hqx; 1289 K] ------------------------------ Date: 2 Aug 2002 From: Alexandre Leclerc To: Subject: [*] GooSearch 1.6 Use GooSearch to search webpages, images, directories,groups listed on Google.com via one application. Translating webpages, submitting webpages, search media files and the advanced search option are some of the others features of GooSearch. GooSearch is very useful to initiate complicated or simple searches quickly without starting them from a web browser. It's like having Google on your desktop ! GooSearch: http://homepage.mac.com/netso/nw/ [Archived as /info-mac/app/goo-search-16.hqx; 1097 K] ------------------------------ Date: 2 Aug 2002 From: Alexandre Leclerc To: Subject: [*] GooSearchX 1.6 Use GooSearch to search webpages, images, directories,groups listed on Google.com via one application. Translating webpages, submitting webpages, search media files and the advanced search option are some of the others features of GooSearch. GooSearch is very useful to initiate complicated or simple searches quickly without starting them from a web browser. It's like having Google on your desktop ! GooSearchX is the carbonised version of GooSearch. GooSearch: http://homepage.mac.com/netso/nw/ [Archived as /info-mac/app/goo-search-x-16.hqx; 1260 K] ------------------------------ Date: 2 Aug 2002 From: tredje design To: Subject: [*] htmlPress 1.5.1 htmlPress 1.5.1 - Compresses HTML pages (c)2001-2002, Eric Roller, tredje design MacPerl script to compress HTML files while keeping their appearance unchanged. This is possible by removing everything that your browser does not show on the screen, such as comments or additional whitespace characters. htmlPress further supports keeping HTML files up-to-date by replacing user-configurable keywords. htmlPress is implemented as a droplet - simply drag and drop your source files onto it to use it. Resulting HTML files can be (automatically) placed in your preferred desination folder. Requires MacPerl 5, MacOS 7-9 For more information, visit http://homepage.mac.com/eroller/tredje/htmlpress.html [Archived as /info-mac/text/html/html-press-151.hqx; 33 K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 12:41:28 -0400 From: "Roger S. Cohen" To: digest@info-mac.org, Larry Subject: Info-Mac Digest V19 #60 The Info-Mac Network said on 7/23/02 2:30 PM: > I have a Powerbook G4 running OS X with an Airport. The Airport is >connected to the phone line and via Ethernet to our other Macs. Sometimes >when I boot up the Powerbook I find that it has dialed my ISP for no >apparent reason. Also, when I connect to another machine on the Ethernet, >the system will often connect to the ISP. Note that I have Software Update >set to manual. Can someone please give me some idea of how to stop this >abberant behavior? I wonder if you have another application which is asking for an automatic update. Perhaps your Mac is trying to update "Date and Time." My Macs, running 9.0.4, update date and time automatically once each day. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Roger S. Cohen, President, Cohen International roger@rogercohen.com http://www.rogercohen.com Voice: +1 (845) 358-8936 Fax: +1 (845) 358-8937 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:52:02 -0600 From: John Fitzgerrel To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: IOGEAR Card for Wallstreet -- We just bought a Cardbus USB interface card for our Wallstreet Powerbook We've tried a Zip Drive, a scanner and a graphics tablet and nothing works The card shows on the desktop with the USB symbol, but nothing happens when we plug in USB devices. Our set up is: Wallstreet Powerbook, Family number M4753 (Powerbook G3 series) 23MHZ 192MB OS 9.2 The tech support at IOGEAR said that our powerbook does not support 32 bit cards. He is probably right, but the apple support page 28512 indicates that the M4753 family does support 32 bit (cardbus) cards and so does our user's manual. In both cases the Apple text is a bit unclear and in the apple support page 24604 which describes how to identify different G3 powerbooks, the family M4753 has two lines in the table - so perhaps earlier and later Wallstreets changed this. Is there any way I can settle the facts and if indeed we can't use this card does any one know where I can get a card that will let me use USB on my powerbook. TIA John Fitzgerrel ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:38:16 -0400 From: Murph Sewall To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Microphone for G4? I've had a 466 MHz G4 for more than a year without thinking much about the sound system. I did get a couple of speakers and they work fine, but only recently have I found a need to input audio (using a microphone). Macs always USED to accept audio input. I've even got an (from an older PowerMac) Apple microphone and there's something that looks like a microphone jack below the speaker jack on the back. HOWEVER, the older Apple microphones don't fit and my local Apple retailer hasn't got (nor heard of) a microphone that fits that jack. There is a (third party) product that will connect the older microphone through the USB port (at $35 it's a bit pricey for something that may not work with the application I need to use--RealPresenter running under VirtualPC with Windows 98). So, is there some source for microphones for the G4? Will a microphone attached to a G4 work with an application running under VirtualPC? -Murph ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 04:42:58 -0400 From: John McG To: , InfoMac posting Subject: Trouble connecting Olympus camera to iMac The problem in two words: Olympus Cammedia. The software is kind of weird by Apple standards. It has to be running for OS 9 to recognize the camera. The software allows you to download the pictures into Cammedia's folder and see it in their application. If your daughter wants to work with the pictures in another application or to import into email then she should buy a USB reader for her type of memory card that the camera uses. It should be "Smart Media" if I recall correctly. With the reader installed each memory card will show up on the desktop like a floppy disk. She can then work with each image individually. Also batch copying to the hard drive is much faster. The readers sell for about $30 to $50 depending on the type of media they're reading. HTH John > ------------------ > From: Laurence Hawkins > Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 22:26:38 -0500 > To: digest@info-mac.org > Subject: Trouble connecting Olympus camera to iMac > > My daughter has just bought a D-520Z digital camera and has a problem when > trying to transfer her shots onto her iMac computer. After loading the > supplied software, when she does connect her camera to the USB socket on the > iMac she immediately gets the screen message:- > > This disk is unreadable by this computer. Do you want to initialise the disk? > Name: untitled > Format: Mac OS standard 15.6 MB. > Options are to "Eject" or "Initialise" > > [I presume she should not choose the "Initialise" option]. When she chooses > the "Eject" option, the screen then correctly identifies the connected item as > "Olympus C22, D520Z, C220Z" but does not display the file on the desktop. > > Now, the strange thing is when I repeat this attempt with my own iMac with > identcal OS 9.0.4, but with Fuji digital camera software installed, the > computer identifies the connected camera as "untitled" on the desktop and > normal viewing of the photos is achieved. > > What is wrong and what's the solution? > > Laurence Hawkins -- DOS Computers, manufactured by millions of companies, are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form. -New York Times -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************