Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #110 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Sat, 08 Jul 00 Volume 17 : Issue 110 Today's Topics: [*] CyberStretch by Jazzercise: An interactive Screensaver [*] e: WebButtons 1.0b3 update [*] Revised Submission [*] Screensaver [*] video-toolbox-00-06-22-c.sit [*] WineBook 1.0.4 (68k-English) [*] WineBook 1.0.4 (68k-French) -- Cellar management software for [*] WineBook 1.0.4 (68k-German) -- Cellar management software for [*] WineBook 1.0.4 (68k-Italian) -- Cellar management software for [*] WineBook 1.0.4 (PPC-English) [*] WineBook 1.0.4 (PPC-French) -- Cellar management software for [*] WineBook 1.0.4 (PPC-German) -- Cellar management software for [*] WineBook 1.0.4 (PPC-Italian) -- Cellar management software for free ISPs Virtual PC 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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Info-Mac volunteers include Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Hugh Lewis, Tom Coradeschi, Shawn Bunn, Christopher Li, Patrik Montgomery, Ed Chambers, and Chris Pepper. America Online donated the main Info-Mac machine . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V17 #110" ------------------------------ Date: 8 Jul 2000 From: rickw@magna.com.au To: Subject: [*] CyberStretch by Jazzercise: An interactive Screensaver Product: Cyberstretch by Jazzercise Version: 1.0 Demo: 30 day Abstract: CyberStretch is an innovative new software program that offers energizing stretch breaks to reduce tension and repetitive stress injuries in an easy-to-use interactive screensaver format. It consists of 26 body-specific, timed stretches (in full color illustrations) and 26 action tips (vision and relaxation breaks, posture checks and fitness tips). CyberStretch is designed to: * Allow the user to work at a computer in greater comfort. * Provide the user with needed posture, relaxation, vision and fitness breaks. * Offer body-specific, timed stretches; all stretches are physiologist-approved. * Help reduce muscle tension and the risk of a repetitive stress injury. * Improve "environ-mentality" by increasing ergonomic awareness. * Enhance the mind and body by reducing physical and mental stress. * Address workplace issues mandated by governmental agencies. * Enhance productivity. * Run on Macintosh and Windows. System requirements: * System 7.1 or better including System 8.1 * Power Macintosh or 68040 recommended * 10 MB of hard drive space * Works best with the PowerPC For more information, please read the Read Me file enclosed, or visit our Web page: http://www.cyberstretch.com/ ----------------------------------------- Thanks, Richard Wylie CyberStretch LLC http://www.cyberstretch.com/ ********** ABSTRACT CROPPED ********** [Archived as /info-mac/app/ss/cs-demo.hqx; 5888 K] ------------------------------ Date: 7 Jul 2000 From: To: Subject: [*] e: WebButtons 1.0b3 update 3AM Coffee Software (http://www.3am.pair.com) is proud to announce the release of WebButtons 1.0 Beta 3. WebButtons is an easy to use beveled button and banner creator for web graphics and multimedia presentations. Version 1.0b3 provides full compatibility with MacOS 9 Multiple Users and provides several bug fixes. Note: WebButtons 1.0 requires MacOS 8.5 or better. WebButtons is shareware. It will function for 30 days, after which a $15 shareware fee must be paid. Use of WebButtons buttons in a public forum (such as a web site) also requires payment of the shareware fee. Features include: o Intuitive graphical interface for button & banner creation o Three-dimensional button effects; all colors user selectable o Text, pictures, and background textures o Powerful batch language for easy creation of entire web sites' worth of buttons o Dithering to web-safe color palette, if desired o JPEG and PICT file formats Derrick Bass & Ian Sammis 3AM Coffee Software http://www.3am.pair.com amcoffee@3am.pair.com [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/web-buttons-10b3.hqx; 1190 K] ------------------------------ Date: 7 Jul 2000 From: Chris Gehlker To: Subject: [*] Revised Submission This is version 0.3 of TempCleaner. It now sports Balloon Help in the finder and a better Icon. Following is a suggested blurb: Before MacOS 9, the Temporary Items Folder was a visible folder in the System Folder and users could just throw accumulated cruft in the Trash. With OS 9, Apple hid the Temporary Items folder so well that not even Sherlock can find it. This is further explained in Article #25134 from Apple's Technical Information Library. The solution - Apple says they will fix the problem and I'm sure they will. Until then, they recommend an AppleScript that doesn't actually work. TempCleaner does work by searching the Temporary Items Folder at startup and, if there is anything there, moving it to a 'From Temporary Items' folder in the Trash. Actually, it won't move more than 20 at a time but I wanted it to be fast enough that you wouldn't notice it. [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/tempcleaner.hqx; 74 K] ------------------------------ Date: 8 Jul 2000 From: neal@sybilmedia.com To: Subject: [*] Screensaver This award winning screensaver counts the time to a user specified target date. The Cosmos Clock defaults to counting down to the year 2000. In addition to counting to a date in the future, the Cosmos Clock can also tell you the time since an event occured. Besides being a very functional screensaver, the clock is filled with 3d animated graphics of all the planets of the solar system. << Neal Desai - mailto:neal@sybilmedia.com Sybil Media 422 Lovett St, Houston, TX 77006 http://www.sybilmedia.com >> [Archived as /info-mac/app/ss/cosmos-clock-ppc.hqx; 4148 K] ------------------------------ Date: 7 Jul 2000 From: Denis Pelli To: Subject: [*] video-toolbox-00-06-22-c.sit The VideoToolbox is a collection of two hundred C subroutines and several demo and utility programs that I and others have written to do visual psychophysics with Macintosh computers. It's fully compatible with 68K and PowerPC Macs and with Metrowerks CodeWarrior and Symantec C compilers. It's free and may not be sold without permission. It should be useful to anyone who wants to present accurately specified visual stimuli or use the Mac for psychometric experiments. The Videoásynch page discusses all the ways of synchronizing programs to video displays and the many pitfalls to avoid. The TimeVideo application checks out the timing of all video devices in anticipation of their use in critical real-time applications, e.g. movies or lookup table animation. Videoásynch reports all known bugs uncovered by TimeVideo's testing of 56 video cards and drivers. Low-level routines control video timing and lookup tables, display real-time movies, and implement the luminance-control algorithms suggested by Pelli and Zhang (1991). In particular, CopyWindows (or CopyBitsQuickly) faithfully copies between on-screen and off-screen windows (or bit/pixmaps), WindowToEPS saves an image to disk as encapsulated PostScript, for later printing or incorporation into a document, and SetEntriesQuickly and GDSetEntries load the screen's color lookup table, all without any of QuickDraw's color translations. NoisePdfFill.c quickly generates visual noise images whose pixels are samples from a specified probability density function. High-level routines help analyze psychophysical experiments (e.g. maximum-likelihood fitting and graphing of psychometric data). Assign.c is a runtime C interpreter for C assignment statements, which is useful for controlling experiments and sharing calibration data. This collection has been continually updated since 1991. Nearly two hundred colleagues subscribe to the email distribution (see below), and have indicated that they are using the software in their labs. Documentation is in the source files themselves. Many of the routines are Mac-specific, but some very useful routines, e.g. the luminance-control, statistics, maximum-likelihood fitting algorithms, and the runtime interpreter are written in Standard C and will work on any computer. Those wishing to acknowledge use of the VideoToolbox software might cite: Pelli, D.G. (1997) The VideoToolbox software for visual psychophysics: Transforming numbers into movies. Spatial Vision 10:437-442 Denis Pelli, Professor of Psycholoyg and Neural Science at NYU [Archived as /info-mac/dev/video-toolbox.hqx; 2741 K] ------------------------------ Date: 7 Jul 2000 From: Edwin Buehler To: Subject: [*] WineBook 1.0.4 (68k-English) WineBook is a wine cellar management software for wine enthusiasts. (68k-English) You can manage your wines and your own wine-tasting notes. You can note sight, smell, taste and the quality of a wine with WineBook. WineBook manage the wine cellar, winery and supplier addresses. (Available in English, Italian German and French) System requirements: * System 8.5 * Power Macintosh with at least 3 MB of free RAM * 3 MB on harddisk * 15" Color Monitor WineBook is Shareware and costs US$35 Edwin Buehler http://www.winebook.de [Archived as /info-mac/data/wine-book-104-68k.hqx; 1665 K] ------------------------------ Date: 7 Jul 2000 From: Edwin Buehler To: Subject: [*] WineBook 1.0.4 (68k-French) -- Cellar management software for I give permission for my program to be included on the Info-Mac CD-ROM. Abstract: WineBook is a wine cellar management software for wine enthusiasts. (68k-French) You can manage your wines and your own wine-tasting notes. You can note sight, smell, taste and the quality of a wine with WineBook. WineBook manage the wine cellar, winery and supplier addresses. (Available in English, German and French) System requirements: * System 8.5 * Power Macintosh with at least 3 MB of free RAM * 3 MB on harddisk * 15" Color Monitor WineBook is Shareware and costs US$35 Edwin Buehler http://www.winebook.de [Archived as /info-mac/data/wine-book-104-68k-fr.hqx; 1661 K] ------------------------------ Date: 7 Jul 2000 From: Edwin Buehler To: Subject: [*] WineBook 1.0.4 (68k-German) -- Cellar management software for I give permission for my program to be included on the Info-Mac CD-ROM. Abstract: WineBook is a wine cellar management software for wine enthusiasts. (68k-German) You can manage your wines and your own wine-tasting notes. You can note sight, smell, taste and the quality of a wine with WineBook. WineBook manage the wine cellar, winery and supplier addresses. (Available in English, Italian German and French) System requirements: * System 8.5 * Power Macintosh with at least 3 MB of free RAM * 3 MB on harddisk * 15" Color Monitor WineBook is Shareware and costs US$35 Edwin Buehler http://www.winebook.de Attachment Converted: "H:\info-mac in\wine-book-104-68k-de.sit" [Archived as /info-mac/data/wine-book-104-68k-de.hqx; 1677 K] ------------------------------ Date: 7 Jul 2000 From: Edwin Buehler To: Subject: [*] WineBook 1.0.4 (68k-Italian) -- Cellar management software for I give permission for my program to be included on the Info-Mac CD-ROM. Abstract: WineBook is a wine cellar management software for wine enthusiasts. (68k-Italian) You can manage your wines and your own wine-tasting notes. You can note sight, smell, taste and the quality of a wine with WineBook. WineBook manage the wine cellar, winery and supplier addresses. (Available in English, German and French) System requirements: * System 8.5 * Power Macintosh with at least 3 MB of free RAM * 3 MB on harddisk * 15" Color Monitor WineBook is Shareware and costs US$35 Edwin Buehler http://www.winebook.de [Archived as /info-mac/data/wine-book-104-68k-it.hqx; 1672 K] ------------------------------ Date: 7 Jul 2000 From: Edwin Buehler To: Subject: [*] WineBook 1.0.4 (PPC-English) I give permission for my program to be included on the Info-Mac CD-ROM. Abstract: WineBook is a wine cellar management software for wine enthusiasts. (PPC-English) You can manage your wines and your own wine-tasting notes. You can note sight, smell, taste and the quality of a wine with WineBook. WineBook manage the wine cellar, winery and supplier addresses. (Available in English, Italian, German and French) System requirements: * System 8.5 * Power Macintosh with at least 3 MB of free RAM * 3 MB on harddisk * 15" Color Monitor WineBook is Shareware and costs US$35 Edwin Buehler http://www.winebook.de [Archived as /info-mac/data/wine-book-104-ppc.hqx; 1711 K] ------------------------------ Date: 7 Jul 2000 From: Edwin Buehler To: Subject: [*] WineBook 1.0.4 (PPC-French) -- Cellar management software for I give permission for my program to be included on the Info-Mac CD-ROM. Abstract: WineBook is a wine cellar management software for wine enthusiasts. (PPC-French) You can manage your wines and your own wine-tasting notes. You can note sight, smell, taste and the quality of a wine with WineBook. WineBook manage the wine cellar, winery and supplier addresses. (Available in English, Italian German and French) System requirements: * System 8.5 * Power Macintosh with at least 3 MB of free RAM * 3 MB on harddisk * 15" Color Monitor WineBook is Shareware and costs US$35 Edwin Buehler http://www.winebook.de Attachment Converted: "H:\info-mac in\wine-book-104-ppc-fr.sit" [Archived as /info-mac/data/wine-book-104-ppc-fr.hqx; 1703 K] ------------------------------ Date: 7 Jul 2000 From: Edwin Buehler To: Subject: [*] WineBook 1.0.4 (PPC-German) -- Cellar management software for I give permission for my program to be included on the Info-Mac CD-ROM. Abstract: WineBook is a wine cellar management software for wine enthusiasts. (PPC-German) You can manage your wines and your own wine-tasting notes. You can note sight, smell, taste and the quality of a wine with WineBook. WineBook manage the wine cellar, winery and supplier addresses. (Available in English, Italian German and French) System requirements: * System 8.5 * Power Macintosh with at least 3 MB of free RAM * 3 MB on harddisk * 15" Color Monitor WineBook is Shareware and costs US$35 Edwin Buehler http://www.winebook.de Attachment Converted: "H:\info-mac in\wine-book-104-ppc-de.sit" [Archived as /info-mac/data/wine-book-104-ppc-de.hqx; 1724 K] ------------------------------ Date: 7 Jul 2000 From: Edwin Buehler To: Subject: [*] WineBook 1.0.4 (PPC-Italian) -- Cellar management software for I give permission for my program to be included on the Info-Mac CD-ROM. Abstract: WineBook is a wine cellar management software for wine enthusiasts. (PPC-Italian) You can manage your wines and your own wine-tasting notes. You can note sight, smell, taste and the quality of a wine with WineBook. WineBook manage the wine cellar, winery and supplier addresses. (Available in English, Italian, German and French) System requirements: * System 8.5 * Power Macintosh with at least 3 MB of free RAM * 3 MB on harddisk * 15" Color Monitor WineBook is Shareware and costs US$35 Edwin Buehler http://www.winebook.de Attachment Converted: "H:\info-mac in\wine-book-104-ppc-it.sit" [Archived as /info-mac/data/wine-book-104-ppc-it.hqx; 1716 K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 07:51:04 -0004 From: "Dan Panachyda" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: free ISPs My Syracuse University access to the web is being restricted to syr.edu sites (yet another way to screw grad students trying to do research). Can anyone recommend a free ISP that works with system 7.5.5 or 7.6? Alternately, anybody know of a place to get OS 8 cheaply? Thanks! - Dan Panachyda Dan Panachyda, systems engineer Sensis Corporation Syracuse, New York (315) 445-5714 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 19:23:40 -0700 From: Doug Hardie To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Virtual PC I have a friend who is considering switching some of his equipment from PCs to Macs. However, he currently has a NETBUI network in place and his printer is one that is directly attached to one of the PCs. With Virtual PC would he be able to access the printer on that PC? The Virtual PC tech support didn't know. -- Doug -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************