SHAREWARE NEWS
December 1997
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This month's Free Sample Shareware is no longer available.
Disk 1:
Agent Audio PPC from ClixSounds
The Mac was made to be customized especially when it comes to
audio, as all Macs come with the native ability to play sounds. Some
software companies halfheartedly acknowledge this by adding a few
sounds to their products but hiding them deep within the program,
thus leaving you with little ability to use the sounds YOU want to
hear. Now you can do something about it. $12
Better Edit Keys 1.1
Better Edit Keys is a cool system enhancement that allows you to
use the shift, option and control keys with the arrows, delete,
forward delete and clear keys in any standard text editing field,
including basic text editors such as SimpleText. This makes it much
easier to work with text without reaching the mouse. You can: extend
the current selection,.move to the previous or next word, move to the
beginning or end of the current line, forward delete, delete up to
the beginning of the current word, delete up to the end of the
current word, delete the current word (or clear selection). $10
BetterTelnet 1.2.1 Fat
BetterTelnet is based on NCSA Telnet, but better. No Readme comes
with this, but it runs itself. Free
Compression Plug-in 1.0.3
Drop this in your closed System Folder (which will put it in the
Contextual menus folder) and a STUFF item will be added to your
contextual menu - which you can use to either stuff or unstuff
archives. $5
CryptKeeper 1.0.7
Just drag and drop any text file you want to encrypt on the
cryptkeeper, or it's alias. You'll be asked for a key, which you'll
need to remember if you intend to decode the file. Pretty simple, eh?
Free
Gramotki 1.5.5 Fat
Gramotki as an easy mode of making notes appeared first thousand
years ago: In XIIth century it was the name for pieces of birch bark
russian people used to save notes and write letters. Now you can use
"electronic" Gramotki as a notebook, sticky notes, calendar, daily
planner and applications launcher. You never need to press Command-S
or select Save from File menu in Gramotki! All your work is
automatically saved every two seconds! $20
Disk 2:
ExaChess_Lite 1.0
ExaChess is a powerful new chess-database program for the
Macintosh with many features. Use it to manage a database of hundreds
of thousands of master games, as a chessboard to play through games,
as a tool to record and annotate your own games, to play games
against the computer, or to play perfect endgames. Free
MacChess 3.0.e PPC
MacChess is a very capable computer chess player. It can be
linked to play against other games via ExaChess, or against ExaChess
itself. Free
Program Switcher 4.4.2
Program Switcher is a convenient timesaving control panel that
allows you to switch between the applications running on your System
7 or greater Macintosh via a simple two-key keystroke. It was
inspired by the same function found in "Windows," but has been
improved and transformed into a unique and fully configurable control
panel that makes switching applications on the Macintosh as simple as
pressing a couple of keys. $10
600 Megabytes of Fantastic Shareware
Contents too huge to list here, but it includes:
Apple Stuff - Cyberdoc, MoviePlayer, Open Transport, Quickdraw 3D, MRJ
Applications - Acrobat Reader, Insult Generator, Guru
Audio - Arnold's MIDI Player, MusicTime, PlayerPRO, Virtual Drummer
Games - Barrack, Escape Velocity, ClueDeluxe, FRACAS, Koji The Frog, Marathon EVIL, Duke Nukem 3D Demo, Maelstrom.
Graphics - JPEGView, Morpher2.0, GraphicConverter3.0.1
Html - Mapper, PageSpinner, SimpleText2Html
Internet - Anarchie, CU-SeeMe, Eudora Light, MT-NewsWatcher, NetPresenz, Netscape Communicator (3 versions), Fetch
Kaleidoscope - dozens of colorful schemes
Movies - Wild Africa, 1984, Gates
QuickTime VR Stuff - Nature, Space, Oddities,...
SMUG - DOMs from Jan 96 through Nov 97, Member disks, and Best of 95
System Additions - BeHeirarchic, FinderPop, SmartScroll
User Interface - Aaron Light, CMTools, more CMM tools and plug-ins
utilities - GIFBuilder, ZipIt, DiskTracker, DropStuff, ShrinkWrap, Yank
virus - Disinfectant 3.7.1
Voice Recognition - English Speech Recognition, HEK3000, voice_control_finder16
All this and more for only $10. LIMITED QUANTITIES!
Have a problem printing under PageMaker? It appears to be a conflict with Apple's Laserwriter 8.4.x extension. Bill Murray writes: "The best thing for PageMaker users to do is to use version 8.3.4 of the Apple LaserWriter driver. This driver is 100% compatible with PageMaker's printing engine. There's no problem using the 8.3.4 driver with Mac OS 8 either - it works just fine. Adobe recommends either doing this or using version 8.3.1 of Adobe's PSPrinter driver."(MacFixit)
If you run MacsBug, you need version 6.5.4a3 if you want to run it under MacOS 8, earlier versions will cause a crash on startup.
This tip from Shareware's Thomas Carlson: In MacOS 8, take any picture you want, name it "secret about box" (omit the quotes) and make it your desktop picture. Instead you get a big blue bird telling you who made the Desktop Picture control panel. Just change the name if you want to actually see the picture you used. (Free mug, Thomas.)
To see what Find File is actually searching, while it searches, hold down the Command (Apple) key when you click Find. (The Macintosh Guy of Portland, Oregon)
For a good article on Magic Cookies (discussed at General Meeting a while back) see a NetBITs article, Toss Your Cookies. You should subscribe to NetBITs - you can really get up to speed on Internet technologies.
Poor-man's folder tabs (folder tabs are a MacOS 8 way to hide open folders as tabs at the bottom of the screen): create aliases to the folders you want, on the desktop. Remove "alias" from the name. Click on the name and slide up under the menu bar, leaving just the name available. Any time you need that folder, double-click on the name. Doesn't take up much room, anyhow.
My choices, only, out of hundreds of items every month. Includes
commercial products, not just shareware. These do NOT include beta
releases. You might check out
Version Tracker for
more.
® means update to recently released DOM item
APPLE
AppleShare Client 3.7.2 - for System Software 7.5.3 or later, and Open Transport 1.1.2 or later
AppleShare IP 5.0.2 - supports OS 8 & WebSTAR API, client & mail tools also finished
Displays Software 1.5.5 - for use with all Apple monitors & System 7.5 or greater
MRJ 1.5.1 - Mac OS Runtime for Java
System Profiler 1.3.1 - gather information about the configuration of your Mac
1.2GB Firmware Utility 1.1 - upgrades firmaware for some 1.2GB ATA Apple drives
BeHierarchic 3.1 - displays submenus for items located in the Apple Menu Items
Netscape Communicator 4.04
GoLive CyberStudio 2.0.1 - web page design & site management software
DOCMaker 4.8.2 - creates stand-alone documents so no application is needed to read them
Eudora Light 3.1.3 - email client
FinderPop 1.5 - improves and extends the Mac OS 8 Contextual Menus ®
GraphicConverter 3.0.2 - for picture image editing and format conversion
Look Mom, No Hands 1.5.1 - open Contextual Menus by holding down the mouse button®
Myrmidon 2.0.1 - turns any Mac file into a Web page with just one click
Navigator Button Editor 1.3.3 - customizes Navigator buttons or Communicator Guide menu®
Nisus Writer 5.1.1 - excellent commercial word processor
QuarkXPress 4.0 - now shipping their popular layout and design software
Intuit Quicken 98
ALM SimpleText Color Menu 3.2 - installs a menu of useful add-on features into Simple Text
St. Clair Sleeper 3.0.1 - spins down hard drives, dims screen & powers off monitors after periods of inactivity
Connectix Speed Doubler 8 8.0.1A updater - also available is the Speed Copy Server
Aladdin StuffIt Deluxe 4.5 - complete file compression solution
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