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Well Hello There !!!
Here are a few items that we are presenting for your entertainment this June.
Where to start ....
We have ...
Aaron 1.3.2 (fat) 
The latest version of the Copland look for system 7.5. It provides a
very accurate depiction of what the default theme in Copland is going
to look like. Just drop Aaron in your extensions folder and restart
for a mind blowing and very fresh new look on your system.
AfterDark Modules
Two AfterDark modules, the first is Swarm! which mimics a swarm of
insects, (typical for the spring). And the second is Luna: this
module allows you to have an image of the current face of the Moon
when you activate AfterDark.
Clean Copland Folders
This is a collection of 33 folders that where created by Ed Brooks to
take care of two misgivings that he had about currently available
Copland folders. The current Folders look lousy in black and white
and the tabs on some of them are rough looking.Ed feels that he has
cured these ills in this offering of "Clean Copland Folders".
Copland Hi-Tech Bundle
This is a set of four files all rolled up in one. It includes the
following Copland Hi-Tech Add-ons, Copland Hi-Tech System Icons,
Copland Hi-Tech HD Icons, and Copland Hi-Tech Menu Bar w/Blue Grid.
These enhancements are meant to run in conjunction with "Aaron".
Which we have included in this disk.
DoubleScroll 2.1.2
Is an extension that allows you to have dual scroll arrows at the top
and bottom of each scroll bar. Then you don't have to go all the way
to the other end to change scroll direction.
Drop¤PS 1.1.3 
(¤is as close as I could get to big dot (option-8))
Is a utility to send text files containing
PostScriptTMcode to any PostScript printer
connected to an AppleTalkTM network. To
send a file, a folder full of files, or a disk full of files, simply
drop it onto the DPS application or an alias to the application. You
can also drop multiple files, folders, or disks at once.
DropReception
This shareware package allows you to reduce the clutter on your desk
top by having a single drag and drop application to launch virtually
any document that you drop on it. There is a rather extensive
Help/History document in HTML format that you can open up in Netscape
to learn more about DropReceiption.
FreePPP 2.5a
A just released upgrade(?)/redesign(?) of a much used Internet
utility which you need to run IP applications over the phone to an
Internet Service Provider. This offering of FreePPP allows you to
have setups for multiple Internet servers and you can change from one
to the other via a pop down menu. You can also have different log-on
locations. Another nice feature is that FreePPP will launch your
favorite Internet program (Netscape, Eudora, E-mail@r etc.). FreePPP
is accessible from the menu bar or there is a module available to use
with your control strip. The module, FreePPP Control Strip is
included on this disk.
Lottery Buster
Want a quick way to get a new PowerMac with every conceivable
attachment? Here's your chance. This application is available to help
make your dreams come true. Oh! by the way don't forget your friends
in the shareware group when you strike it rich, we'd all like new
PowerMac's.
MACnTV
Is a small (50k), very easy QuickTime movie collector/player/viewer
that gathers all of your QuickTime movies, visible and otherwise,
into one small (about 3k per movie) double-clickable file. No more
hunting around for movies, long waits for loading and unloading just
to remember what they looked like because MACnTV remembers everything
for you. The author made this because he usually keep hundreds of
movies around and can't remember what they all look like and, well,
he wanted to view movies from game CDs without playing the whole game
again.
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which contain, between them, DirtBike (see how really awful
you are at dirtbike racing) and Mortal Pongbat, a sort of
street combat with artillary. 
Remember the 10 ways to eject a disk? Here they are:
1. drag to trash
2. Special/Eject disk
3. CMD E (equivalent)
4. Select disk/ File/Put Away
5. Select disk/ CMD Y (equivalent)
6. Shutdown
7. Restart
8. CMD-SHFT-1
9. paper clip in the little hole to the right of the disk slot
10. File/Open from within an app
These last 3 are pretty obscure. And the eject in the open dialog is
something we all see, but who uses it? It is there so that if we want
to open a file on a floppy not already inserted, we can eject the old
one first!
You readers are all chicken - not one person sent in even one try at the most ways to do it. I had expected SOMEBODY to try, but no. Just a bunch of wimps!
If you want to capture the URL of a page for later
pasting in some document (like another web page), just go to the
Location window at the top of your browser (or whatever window shows
the current URL), select, and copy (command-C). But you can get the
URL without actually going to that page - click on the link and
immediately abort (command-.). Then select the text in the Location
window and copy. It works for Netscape, anyhow.
NOTE: Empty Trash has a real problem with 500 items at once. So I have to pull about 100 at a time from the cache folder, trash and empty those, and repeat. If I don't, my system may hang. YMMV.
If this method doesn't work, try connecting the fax machine to a phone outlet. When you hear the fax tones, unplug the fax machine's phone cord from the wall outlet and plug it into the fax modem. (MacUser magazine, June 96)
(MacIntouch)
Be aware that the PowerBook 500 series, upgraded with either the Newer Technology NUPower card or with the Apple PowerPC Upgrade Card, has problems with PC formatted diskettes. A PC formatted diskette will be corrupted by the PowerBook. While the PowerBook can read a PC diskette and access the data, the diskette cannot be used in the PC. The problem appears anytime a PC-formatted diskette is inserted into the PowerBook -- even in the diskette is not opened.
It is impossible to format a working PC diskette on the PowerPC upgraded PowerBook - even though the format procedure appears to function correctly.
(Macintouch)
Several internet experts point out that Java, the popular Web scripting language, poses major security problems for Netscape users. The risks threaten mainly business users, but if you are concerned, set "Disable Javascript" in Netscape's Security Preferences.
WHOOPS! Another one just in: a new Hypercard virus, HC9603,
has been reported by DataWatch. Symantec's new update to SAM "kills"
this virus. 
One of the things you lose when you Zap the PRAM is
highlight color. This is controlled by the COLOR control panel.
Interestingly, this control panel does NOT have to be in the Control
Panels folder - it is really an application! Put it somewhere else so
the system does not try to load it during startup. Run it once from
anywhere to set the colors permanently. (Incidently, there is a minor
"easter egg" in the color control panel. Hold down the apple
(command) key and click on the sample color (as shown above) to see
the control-panel's first author, and click without the apple key to
see the second.)
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If you use system 7.5 Find File, you may never see all of
this menu - unless you press option. From then on the search
fields on the left include the items below the line. Bet you
didn't know you could search on contents! |
You can drag one or more files directly from the system
7.5 Find File windows, to another folder, for instance. However, both
the Finder Scripting Extension file and the AppleScript file must be
in the Extensions folder for this to work.
A minor security problem of
Appleshare is that any folder with the same name as a shared folder
will also, in some circumstances, be shared. My solution was to
rename the shared folders to "public applications", and so forth.
This also inspired a minor kludge to make file access much easier. I
included an alias to "public applications" in the (private)
applications folder. Since I have an alias to (private) applications
in my apple menu, I can get to both private and public applications
very quickly. This means that the folder structure from the apple
menu is not quite heirarchical, but this is a minor problem.
(hot link on vendor name -> vendor home page,
hot link on product name -> product page, possible download)
Adobe released a free update for After Effects v3.1, its compositing and animation package. The new version more fully supports DayStar's multiprocessing MacOS computer, resulting in faster rendering of images and plug-in effects. The update is available on CD-ROM and will be mailed free to all registered users of After Effects 3.0.
Expected to ship in July, Adobe Pagemill version 2.0 will include WYSIWYG table creation and editing, integrated viewing and editing of HTML source code, inline support for multimedia data types (PDF and QuickTime), and enhanced layout and editing features (including wraparound text, right alignment, "hidden" fields, and the Embed tag).
Aladdin Systems just gave Stuffit Expander an upgrade to version 4.0.1, which allows users to treat archives as containers in the Finder. Double-click on an archive to open a window with the files inside. Drag files in and out of the window just like a folder. It also upgraded DropStuff to version 4.0.
AOL has released a new version 2.7 for their connection software, and version 1.1 of their Web software.
Apple has released three AppleVision patches. AppleVision Software Fix 1.0 cleans up some problems with System 7.5 Update 2.0 installation and apparently also with the original software.
Then they released a new Apple CD-ROM software update 5.1.7 which fixes several obscure bugs noted since release of System 7.5.3. But if you have an older DOS Compatibility card, you may have to use version 5.0.4. And, if you want the DOS Compatibility 1.5 package, it includes Apple CD-ROM 5.0.6, a third version. Go figure.
They also released a new Hypercard Player version 2.3.5
You can now download CyberDog 1.0. Needs a PowerPC Mac.
Apple updated OpenDoc to version 1.0.4
The Apple Internet Connection Kit 1.1 Upgrade provides new versions of the Apple Internet Dialer (1.1.2), Apple Internet Status (1.1.2), MacPPP (2.5) and ConfigPPP, (2.5) plus a new Apple Guide. (MacIntouch). It also includes Netscape Navigator 2.0 as a Web browser.
Check out this PPC upgrade chart from Apple: 
(Courtesy of MacSense
HotBits)
Bugs: an AppleShare 3.6.2 bug, confirmed by Apple, and an apparent Modern Memory Manager bug.
Bare Bones Software just released BBEdit 4.0, which now colors text based on syntax, a major feature for writing HTML and other source code. It also adds Java support and other improvements.
Claris has released an updater for Emailer Lite 1.0v3. New features:
Newton 2.0 users can soon share an email box with CompuServe users on both Windows and Mac platforms. The free email client works with the Newton's built-in In Box and Out Box so that when they return home from travel Newton users can access the same mail from their desktop computer--whether it's a Windows or MacOS machine.
Connectix' Jorg Brown has a hack that may work around
problems copying files on 68040 Macs with Ram Doubler 1.6.1 and
System 7.5.3.:
A similar patch, this time for the copy problem, is to disable the new 68K SCSI Manager from System 7.5.3. You only want to do this for 68K-based Macs that don't already have SCSI Manager: that is, every 68K based Mac except the 660AV, the 840AV, and Macs with IDE drives. Anyway, open a copy of the System 7.5 Update 2.0 file, and change the resource number of the 'citt' resource from 43 to 430 (or just about any other number, really). Then swap the new System 7.5 Update with the old one. This should solve the copy problem, and could cure problems people are seeing with their hard disk drivers as well.
(Macintouch)
And, while you are at it, you can download an update to Connectix' Ram Doubler 1.6.2 from their Web site.
Corel (who now owns WordPerfect) will release CorelDraw for the Mac late in June. Expect to pay big bucks.
Farrallon Computing has
released a free beta of a new product for network collaboration.
Look@Me
gives you the ability to remotely view another Look@Me or Timbuktu
Pro user's screen as they are working. This means you can collaborate
on editing documents, going over presentations, reviewing graphics,
or providing just-in-time training and support. Look@Me lets you view
the screen of any user with Look@Me or Timbuktu Pro on either a
Windows PC or a Macintosh.
(Note from Louis: I installed it and immediately had a conflict with
Conflict Catcher, of all things. Symptom: bomb in Finder - floating
point coprocessor not installed. YMMV)
Fog City has made version 2.5a of FreePPP available. This public beta version expires May 13. A final version will be released before then.
Rick Giles has a new version of HTML Editor (1.1.4).
Hewlett Packard has released a new background printing utility v4.07 that corrects inability for many of HP's inkjet printers from working properly on Apple PCI Macs.
Hyde Park created MacSLIP v 3.0.3.
Intuit, Inc. announced the latest update release to Quicken 6 for Macintosh, release R7. This Updater will automatically update prior releases of Quicken 6 for Macintosh (R2 or R5) to the current release (R7).
Tad Kennedy has release SoundMachine 2.6.
Look for the new ShrinkWrap2.0 by Chad Magendanz. It even lets you create images of DOS disks.
Metrowerks announced today that it will include full support for Sun's Java language in its CodeWarrior products. The MacOS implementation will be integrated with Metrowerks' PowerPlant object-oriented application framework, with portions hand-coded in PowerPC assembler to optimize performance.
Microsoft's Internet Assistant for Word saves documents in HTML format from within Word 6.0.1 on the Mac. (MacIntouch)
If Microsoft's Internet Explorer v2.0, with its nasty Windoz icon (animated, yet!) annoys you, you can fix it up with Internet Explorer Sanitizer by Matthew McCrae. It will not work with the beta version we provided a few months ago. And now the arms race is on! Microsoft released a new version of the Explorer, so the author released a new version 2.1 of Sanitizer!
NCSA release a new beta of Mosaic 3.0b2 - the father of Graphic Web browsers.
Neon Software is giving away a beta version of OTTool, a diagnostic tool for Apple's Open Transport networking architecture. OTTool provides a synopsis of the AppleTalk and IP configuration parameters within Open Transport. In addition, the tool allows users on IP networks to make Domain Name Server (DNS) queries and ping devices using ICMP Pings.
NetManage has released a free version of its WebSurfer browser, as well as an evaluation copy of the XoftWare X.
Reportedly a "Daylight savings bug" in Navigator v2 and 3, has caused some Netscape users to view cached versions of updated Web pages, without their knowledge. The problem presented itself After Daylight Savings Time, on April 7. A fix may be available by the time you read this.
Netscape has also released Navigator 3.0b3 (Atlas Gold PR 2), which supports lots of Java stuff, Open Transport, Secure sockets, you name it. Can you say 10 Megabytes of Ram? However, it no longer supports drag'n'drop upload, a feature of 2.01 which I find extremely handy. Netscape promised to restore this in the final release. - And almost immediately, Netscape released Navigator 2.02.
NiftyTelnet is a freeware telnet client for the Macintosh. The encryption and authentication passing support was written by Rob Earhart for Carnegie Mellon University. As of this date, NiftyTelnet is not officially supported by Carnegie Mellon University. You will need MacPGP to decrypt the download.
Nisus Software has an updater for Nisus Writer 4.1.x
Now Software is giving away a new utility to allow anyone to publish calendars on the Web. The online calendars can be shared using the Mac or Windows versions of Now Up-To-Date and dates can be dragged-and-dropped onto your own calendars. (Macinstuff Times)
Also, Now has released Now Utilities v 6.0.
Optima Systems (Sweden) released its latest beta (1.1b3) of PageSpinner, a $25 shareware Web authoring tool (and used to create these pages). Next best thing to PageMill (at $100 commercial).
Quarterdeck Corp announced that it has made WebSTAR 1.2.5 Web server for Macintosh available for free downloading off the Internet to current owners of the software. Running under Open Transport 1.1, WebSTAR 1.2.5's throughput increases up to 40% without making any changes to the server's configuration. It allows 150 simultaneous connections!
Qualcomm keeps releasing new betas of EUDORA 3.0 (now beta 111). Production version should be out in July.
Softarc announced FirstClass Evaluation Server 2.63 for Mac OS, a full-featured evaluation version of SoftArc's FirstClass multiprotocol electronic mail and group communications server. It will run on any Macintosh with at least 1.5MB of memory and 3 MB HD space free, and accommodates FirstClass client logins over network and modem. It also includes the FirstClass Client 3.11 for Mac.
Symantec released a patcher to update Copy Doubler 2.0.5 or 2.0.6 to Version 2.0.7 for better compatibility with System 7.5.3. FTP using Fetch from ftp://ftp.symantec.com//public/mac/doubler/CD207.sea.bin. Don't use Netscape, Symantec's ftp server doesn't work well with Netscape and other browsers.
A new version of Tex-Edit (v 1.7.1) has been released, containing many new features and several bug fixes.
TopSoft, Inc has released a free version of its multi-file processing software FilterTop 2.0. Dave Winer has released version 4.0 (free, not a beta!) of his scripting system Frontier.
Miscellaneous updates (from Macintosh Software Update Report):
credits
©copyright 1996, Louis
Bookbinder - booky1@earthlink.net 
