Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #108 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Wed, 05 Jul 00 Volume 17 : Issue 108 Today's Topics: (A) Four free ISPs for the Mac and counting (A) Mac OS 7.6 screen shot (Q) keyboard shortcuts on a G4 [*] NetFinder 2.1.1J - FTP client / Japanese Version [Q] Opcode down? [Q] Sonnet or Newer Tech upgrade for PMac 6500? HotLoop 1.1.4 - Video-Remixer for the Mac Mac OS 7.6 screen shot Network time server PowerBook glitch Studio display problem 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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Granted all these providers are advertiser paid services where you have banners showing all the time. Hope this helps. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net >Hi, >My daughter has a Mac and has lost her educational ISP. She is not able to >pay for an ISP, but wants the same opportunities as I have with a PC. Namely >Juno, FreeWWWeb, NetZero, and others that for the price of advertising, cost >no money out of pocket. I saw your note on a CNET BB or referral indicating >that NetZero may soon have Mac ISP software. >Have you heard anything more about that or an expected date? She has no way >to download it, so would need it on a CD or diskette for Mac. I cannot >download for her, because I have DOS/Windows PC with different diskette >formats. Appreciate any assistance you can provide. >George Hausler >gwhausler@usa.net > >George Hausler >gwhausler@usa.net >ghausler@juno.com >ghausler@freewwweb.com > >____________________________________________________________________ >Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.amexmail.com/?A=1 -- Check out over 800 internet sites updated monthly at: http://www.index-site.com ------------------------------ Date: 2 Jul 2000 23:00:19 -0400 From: "D. Scott Beach" To: "Info-Mac Digest" Subject: (A) Mac OS 7.6 screen shot Ken Lehmann,Xerox860@aol.com asks: >I have a performa 6400, which when loaded with 7.5.3, does fine with >taking a >picture of the screen, Shift + Command + 3. This puts the picture on the >hard >disk, with a label "Picture l" and so on, as many pictures as desired. >Now my daughter recently loaded OS 7.6, and of course, the screen shot >doesn't work >any more. I get a copy of the screen on the 'clipboard', but can't transfer >this material from the clipboard to any other file, such as a word >processor, >printer, etc., and frankly I miss the Shift + Command + 3 combo from OS >7.5.3. Any ideas? Ken: I can't see why it wouldn't work. However, as a work around, try "Flash It 3.02" by Nobu Toge from back in 1993; a screen capture utilitiy that lets you do all sorts of cool things with screen captures. Doesn't fare so well under OZS 8 and newer but it should be OK for you. I can send it if you can't find it. - Scott. Remove the "spamless" to return eMail to me. Scott Beach Toronto, Canada ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 20:54:42 -0400 From: "abrody@smart.net" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: (Q) keyboard shortcuts on a G4 Dear Digest readers, After years of using QuicKeys I learn that someone with a G4 (first model 350 Mhz) has the same capabilities through the Keyboard control panel. There is a button next to Options on the control panel that allows you to map keyboard shortcuts to various applications. Now for some reason I know someone with a Beige G3 and my own Powerbook G3 ADB model don't have that button next to Options, and instead just have the Apple Help button (the circle with the ?). Is this a G4 only feature? Is this a USB Mac only feature? It apparently is both on MacOS 8.6 and 9.0 on the G4. Which makes me even more suspicious. What extension does the MacOS install on the G4 gives it that capability? Or is it ingrained in the motherboard's ROM, and if present in the ROM is activated by the system? Very curious. And they are using a Microsoft Natural Form Keyboard of all things! Could the keyboard communicate to the Keyboard control panel that it has the ability to map shortcuts? But I thought that keyboard was only meant to be programmable on PCs. If it is an extension, will it work on an ADB Mac? Anybody care to e-mail me the answers to those questions? Thank you. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net -- Check out over 800 internet sites updated monthly at: http://www.index-site.com ------------------------------ Date: 4 Jul 2000 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] NetFinder 2.1.1J - FTP client / Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the NetFinder package. NetFinder makes browsing on the Internet another step easier. The award winning NetFinder 1.x which was developed during the MacOS 7.x days, made users feel right at home by having an interface just like the Finder. Version 2.1.1 not only has an updated interface to reflect the MacOS 8.x theme, it also adds support for HTTP, improved 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, improved integration with BBEdit and much much more... The Finder-like listing window supports viewing by name, date, size, and permissions. Other features include automatic binhex, macbinary and text translation for uploads and downloads. Supports many ftp servers. Has speech support. Internet Config savvy. Supports bookmark lists. What's New in v2.1.1 *added support for viewing Movies and playing MP3's and more via View As Graphic/Media menu command. *added a preference to try to only use one connection per server when listing directories. *added preference to configure the BBEdit upload action. Always UL/Never UL or Ask User. *added preference to define what an Open Action does (including double click). eg Edit in BBEdit. *added back in the "Appearance Emulation Code". *fixed a bug that would cause a crash when uploading. *fixed an obscure bug in Keychain Manager that could cause NF to crash as soon as you launch NF for the first time. *fixed a download folder bug that would result in a "transfer complete" message to appear for no good reason and stop the transfer. *fixed a bug that would cause Edit in BBEdit to not work properly with BBEdit under certain circumstances. *improved low memory handling in extreme conditions. *vastly improved stability. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/net-finder-211-jp.hqx; 3928 K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 13:29:59 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois_Rossi?= To: Subject: [Q] Opcode down? Hi, I wanted to download OMS 2.3.8 from Opcode's web site but it seems that the site is down (permanently?). Is there any ftp / web site where I can download this? Please reply direct. Thanks. Francois f.rossi@praetorius.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 13:28:32 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois_Rossi?= To: Subject: [Q] Sonnet or Newer Tech upgrade for PMac 6500? Hi, The title says it all. I'd be glad to hear your views on this. Please reply direct. Thanks. Francois f.rossi@praetorius.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 01:32:29 +0300 From: pi.tolonen@kolumbus.fi To: digest@info-mac.org, archivist@info-mac.org Subject: HotLoop 1.1.4 - Video-Remixer for the Mac HotLoop 1.1.4 - Video-Remixer for the Mac By: Akkep Nenolot Revised Date: 7/1/2000 Email: pi.tolonen@kolumbus.fi Website: http://www.myhotloop.com HotLoop makes full-screen remix videos from tiny clips you download from the net. Drag all your mp3, mpeg, quictime files on it and watch the video come out. Requires no programming. TV & CD video/audio quality. Shareware. Another great invention from Finland :-). Beware xxx loops. -- I have submitted the program to the archieve sending attaching it to email sent to macgifts@info-mac.org ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 01:39:06 +0200 From: Hartmut.Buhrmester@hamburg.de (Hartmut Buhrmester) To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Mac OS 7.6 screen shot > Ken Lebmann wrote: > > I have a performa 6400, which when loaded with 7.5.3, does fine with taking > a picture of the screen, Shift + Command + 3. This puts the picture on the > hard disk, with a label "Picture l" and so on, as many pictures as desired. > Now my daughter recently loaded OS 7.6, and of course, the screen shot > doesn't work any more. I get a copy of the screen on the 'clipboard', but > can't transfer this material from the clipboard to any other file, such as a > word processor, printer, etc., and frankly I miss the Shift + Command + 3 > combo from OS 7.5.3. Any ideas? I think these are the correct keyboard short cuts to make screen copies with System 7.6.1: Command + Shift + 3: Save the screen to a picture file. Command + Shift + Control + 3: Copy the screen to the clipboard. Command + Shift + 4: Save a selection to a picture file. Command + Shift + Control + 4: Copy a selection to the clipboard. Command + Shift + Caps Lock + 4: Save the front window to a file. Command + Shift + Caps Lock + Control + 4: Copy the front window to the clipboard. See also the article "n58068: Mac OS 8.5 Keyboard Short Cuts" in Apple's Tech Info Library (TIL) at . ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 23:15:16 -0700 From: dano45 To: julian kaye , expert@freethink.org, Subject: Network time server The US National Institute of Standards and Technology has info about time services for Macintosh at . Other sources are available, and link out from . Note that while this is a US Govt institution, it's primary mission is science and technology standards. The cesium clocks they maintain are very accurate. (You might check the time latency across your net connection to the NIST time servers in Boulder Colorado though, if you need extremely good accuracy.) At 10:26 AM -0700 6/26/00, you wrote: >--============_-1250082123==_ma============ >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" > >In the last month or so the Apple NTS at Apple Americas >(time.apple.com) has gone down three times, this causes a problem on >our unattended servers (OS 8.6) as a modal dialog box informing about >the lost connection stops or hinders other application processes from >continuing to run. Besides installing our own time server are there >any workarounds using the existing system software? >The system clocks need to be synchronized with a time server at least >every 24 hours. >please cc response to expert@freethink.org >\thanks ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 11:35:11 -0400 From: Chazzz To: Subject: PowerBook glitch I'm poised to by a PowerBook G3 400mHz. I have heard that there is a 'wake from sleep crash' glitch that has plagued owners. Would someone be good enought to tell me about this and if Apple has sent forth a fix/patch/update etc. for this problem? Any personal info re: you happiness/sadness with your PB experience would be welcome as well. You can either post to the list or if you prefer Thank you everyone for your time. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 15:30:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Robert Meade To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Studio display problem About two days ago my 17 in Studio Display suddenly developed a mind of its own. When turned on the screen remains dark until it is turned off and then on again. I've done the usual things, rebuilt the PRAM etc. Any suggestions? -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************