Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #184 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Wed, 22 Nov 00 Volume 17 : Issue 184 Today's Topics: [*] Holiday Lights 5.1 [*] TIM 1.0 USB to serial adapter Wireless Ethernet? Word 98 Macro Misery 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 V17 #184" ------------------------------ Date: 22 Nov 2000 From: Tiger Technologies To: Subject: [*] Holiday Lights 5.1 This is the English version of the Holiday Lights screen saver and desktop application for Macintosh. Holiday Lights places flashing light bulbs around the edge of your screen, as though a (well-insulated) elf crawled into your computer through the disk drive slot and stapled them there. The lights can optionally flash in the background while you continue to work, so it's not just a screen saver. The "bulbs" include standard Christmas tree lights, Valentine's Day hearts, Thanksgiving turkeys, chili peppers, shamrocks, stockings, holly, snowmen, happy faces, and more - and you can create your own bulbs using ResEdit or a similar program. For even more seasonal joy, Holiday Lights includes cheery background music as well as a variety of built-in festive screen savers to put you in the holiday spirit. Holiday Lights is an application, not a system extension, so it won't cause extension conflicts. It is compatible with System 7.0 or later, including Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9. Version 5.1 adds the ability to save different settings as "themes", and now supports the use of MP3 files as background music. $19.95 shareware. "You must have this file on your computer if you at all cherish the holiday season." -ZDNet ZDNet Hot Files: 5 stars (perfect rating) ZDNet Mac User: 5 mice (perfect rating) Tucows: 5 cows (highest rating) [Archived as /info-mac/gui/holiday-lights-51.hqx; 1583 K] ------------------------------ Date: 22 Nov 2000 From: Harry To: Subject: [*] TIM 1.0 TIM Time Information Management TIM is a simple time-tracking application. Use it to track and record your time while working on your Mac. Who uses TIM? -Artists -Consultants -Engineers -Lawyers Anyone who needs to keep accurate track of their time Key Features of TIM -Easy to use -Mac OS 8.1 and above (Mac OS X compatible) -Export time data for use in FileMaker Pro or any database application -Assign Projects and Categories -Much More... [Archived as /info-mac/app/time/tim-10.hqx; 463 K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 18:08:24 +1100 From: Glen Hawkins To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: USB to serial adapter I need to connect a Mac to an anaesthetics machine (datex-omeda AS3) via its serial output port. My G3/500 powerbook has both usb and firewire connections and I need to convert them to PC serial output. Now the software I want to use is DOS based and for propaganda reasons I want to use my mac with Virtual PC emulation. I have seen a Belkin bus-station and they say it will work with emulation but can't guarantee it. Has anyone had any experience with this combination or is there an alternative idea? Cheers Glen ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:12:53 -0500 From: Avram Dorfman To: "SteveCraft" , Subject: Wireless Ethernet? Sure, there are several. The obvious solution is Apple's Airport - one Airport card for the remote machine, and an Airport base station connected to the hub. I believe it's around $150 for the card, and $300 for the station. I've heard that you can avoid the station by putting another card in a wired machine, and setting that card to "base station mode," but I never heard whether Apple actually released that capability. Other solutions all work about the same way, using 802.11/802.11b. Lucent's Orinoco series seems to be the best respected, and is what Apple resells as "Airport." It used to be called "Wavelan" and Lucent has a website all about it at www.wavelan.com. There are 11Mbps (802.11b) cards and 2mbps (802.11) cards. 11Mbps cards are around $150 new, I believe. I regularly see 2Mbps cards on eBay for around $45. One of the cheaper places you can find new ones them on the web is http://www.brummleynet.com. The catch is piecing it all together. You need 2 cards b/c there needs to be a wireless card "at the other end" (kinda like how one ethernet card doesn't do you any good - you need another machine w/ ethernet somewhere to "get to.") Furthermore, if either machine doesn't already have a pcmcia slot, you'll need to get one into each of them. Lucent also makes a PCI PCMCIA card I believe. The *REAL* catch is setting it up to get *through* "the other end" to the rest of your network. I have no idea if Lucent ever produced the equivalent of Apple's "base station mode" for wired machines. Also, I don't even know if Lucent supports using the hardware in Macs - you may HAVE to buy them from Apple. HTH, -Avram ----- Original Message ----- From: "SteveCraft" To: "The Info-Mac Network" Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 10:02 AM Subject: Wireless Ethernet? > > All of my machines are connected to an ethernet (RJ45) hub, and now I have > to put one of them in another room. Does anyone know of a wireless > ethernet solution that would let me move it but stay connected to the > other machines? > > Thanks. > > Steve Craft > mailto:scraft@nothinbut.net > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 12:06:40 -0800 From: Gerry To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Word 98 Macro Misery I'm using MS Word '98 on a new G4. I've recently moved from another mac to this one and had no ill effects. But I fear there are some settings disrupted with MS Word 98. I went to create a macro and it complains "that macro could not be created". No matter how I attempt it or what it's named, even after an (apparently) fresh complete reinstall--always the same. Additionally when I attempt to open the Visual Basic Editor it says "Could not open macro storage." As far as I'm capable of discerning, I've killed all the preferences files, but, incidentally, my Files Locations in the Preferences settings has remained the same. I've randomly modified this too, to no positive effect. The option for Macro Virus Protection is off. I've been trying to crack this problem for a week. Any help appreciated. -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************