SHAREWARE NEWS
November 1997
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This month's Free Sample Shareware is no longer available.
BlackWatch 1.0
Why another screen saver? Because none of the screen savers that I've
tried did just what I (the author) wanted. The feature-packed screen
savers tend to want plenty of resources and patch a lot of traps in
order to work, while the bare-bones screen savers don't provide the
ability to lock your screen with password access. BlackWatch solves
these problems. It's small, quick, simple, compatible, and free.
Freeware.
Blizzard 2.1
Blizzard is a simple After Dark™ screen saver module that blows
flakes around your screen. Freeware.
CD Coyote 2.1.1
CD Coyote is a program for CD-ROM drive users who listen to audio
CD's and have written disc information to CD Remote DA or AppleCD
Audio Player. With CD Coyote you can edit the information saved by
the CD player, add new CD information, merge many CD information
files into one, and copy the information to a text file, among other
things. Freeware.
CDFinder 1.5.1
This easy-to-use and fast application creates catalog files of
CD-ROMs, hard disks, floppies, ZIPs and almost everything that spins.
Using the powerful search functions you can easily locate and display
any files or folders that have been catalogued. Shareware fee $15.
Chronomenon 1.0.1
Chronomenon is a software alarm clock and timer which can crow,
speak, and play QuickTime movies when its alarm goes off. That means
you have a choice of three alarms and can have one, two, or all three
alarms sound at once! Chronomenon runs in the background and always
displays the current time, so it can be used as just a clock also.
Shareware fee $1.
Control PPP 2.0
Control PPP is the original and best control strip module for all
you road warriors. It lets you connect or disconnect PPP and open the
TCP and PPP control panels. It also indicates whether PPP is open or
not by a mere glance at its icon and, by popular demand, now records
the time you spend online, shows your IP address and activity, and
lets you switch between saved configurations. Shareware fee $10.
EasyFractPPC 1.1
EasyFractPPC is a program for PowerMac which generates a fractal
(the Mandelbrot set), and lets you zoom in as you want, and where you
want. It is incredibly fast (less than a second to draw a 600*400
fractal using a PowerMac 7200/75) because it is highly optimized for
graphics and math, and is very easy to use. Shareware fee $12.
Ephemerid 1.1.2
Ephemerid provides the user with a simple and fast way of
displaying the current date and time in a pop-up window. It is
specially useful when the screen monitor has a low resolution and the
menu bar is almost full, causing the system to be unable to show the
clock to the left of the help menu icon. Freeware.
Finder View Settings 1.0.1
Finder View Settings makes it much easier to manage the new MacOS
8 folder-specific view settings. It can globally override all of your
folder-specific view settings, making MacOS 8 behave more like System
7, or easily change the requested view settings for single folders or
entire disks. Shareware fee $10.
FinderPop 1.0
FinderPop adds a submenu to the MacOS 8 Finder's Contextual
Menus. This submenu behaves somewhat like the Apple Menu in that its
contents are taken from a special "FinderPop Items" folder; you can
add aliases of applications, servers, folders, etc., to this folder
and they'll appear in the FinderPop menu. Selecting a menu item is
equivalent to launching the corresponding item in the "FinderPop
Items" folder. Additionally, if you have something selected in the
Finder and you choose an application from the FinderPop menu, the
application will be told to open the items selected in the Finder.
Freeware.
German's Patterns v2.0
This is my second release of Patterns for the Mac. Crazy
patterns, old style patterns, etc. As you may know, you can use this
patterns for your Mac, or as your Web pages backgrounds. They work in
the system 7.5.5 control panel, but haven't been tried under System
8. Freeware.
GoMac 1.4
GoMac rather obviously imitates the look and behavior of the task
bar in Windows 95. It was designed to be as intuitive and user
friendly as possible: in general, buttons and menus do exactly what
you would expect them to do. Shareware fee $20.
Guillotine 1.0a5
Guillotine is a drop box that "decapitates" those ugly all caps
DOS-like filenames. Just drop the offending files/folders on it, and
the names will become all lowercase with the first letter of each
word capitalized. Guillotine processes the complete contents of
dropped folders. Freeware.
InCDius 1.0
InCDius is a utility, written in Java, which is designed to
download disc and track titles from an Internet database (cddb). Once
downloaded and saved into the AppleCD Audio Player's preference file,
this information will be available for your favorite CD player to
display. The cddb does not have every CD ever made, but it is fairly
good. Requires Mac Runtime for Java. Freeware.
InternetConfig 1.4
The Internet Configuration System was designed to make your life
easier by reducing the number of times which you need to enter your
Internet preferences into the various preferences windows of all your
Internet applications. This is the latest version of this very useful
application. Freeware.
Look Mom, No Hands! 1.2
Annoyed at pressing the Control key to open Contextual Menus?
"Look Mom, No Hands!" lets you open Contextual Menus by just holding
down the mouse button, keeping your other hand free for the coffee
cup. This handy shareware program requires less than 10K of RAM,
installs in less than a minute, and is definitely a must-have for
every Mac OS 8 lover! Shareware fee $9.
Mac-FTP-list 4.3.0
The Mac-FTP-list lists over 200 mac anonymous ftp sites (some
with notes), over 75 Mac web pages, and contains some instructions on
how to use anonymous ftp and find files as well a format chart
showing which programs decompress and decode which files. Also there
is a section on how to use certain files. Freeware.
MacDoc 1.2
MacDoc is a powerful tool for creating standard or stand-alone
documents (also called: self-reading, portable or autonomous
documents) from existing documents and with almost any application. A
stand-alone MacDocument can be read and printed without the original
application it was created from. Therefore, MacDoc is ideal for
creating and distributing any kind of electronic documentation, for
archiving, for making a snapshot from a web page or just for creating
a print preview. Shareware fee $30.
MACOS8 CMM Expansion Pack
The OS8 CMM Expansion Pack was written to expand the
functionality of the MacOS8 contextual menu which is acessed by
holding down the control key while clicking on anything in the OS8
Finder. Two plugins are provided, Finder Info 1.0 and Set Custom Icon
1.1. Additionally, the pack includes a small utility, Visibility 1.0.
The Set Custom Icon plugin lets you quickly and easily change custom
icons on files, folders, applications and drives. The Finder Info
plugin is likely to be of more interest to programmers as it allows
you to toggle the Finder information bits such as the Invisible and
Custom Icon bits. Visibility lets you select invisible files or
folders and make them visible. Shareware fee $10.
Menu Tasker
Menu Tasker patches two OS Traps at startup, and enables
processing to continue while you are searching through those endless
menus, or dragging windows. One caveat, processing only continues in
background applications, the foreground application will not receive
any time. Freeware.
Pattern Wrap
Pattern Wrap is an After Dark™ screen saver module that
simply takes the current desktop pattern, fills the entire screen
with it, and rotates it (not a color rotation) across the screen. The
horizontal and vertical speeds can be changed. Freeware.
SimpleText Color Menu 3.1
SimpleText Color Menu is a cool drag & drop utility that
installs an extra cool Color menu and an extra useful Goodies menu
inside Apple's SimpleText text editor (versions 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.2, 1.3,
1.3.1, 1.3.3 and 1.4 only). This is the latest version of this useful
program. Shareware fee $10.
TaskMaster 1.1
Have you ever wanted to run certain programs or perform certain
tasks at a certain time of the day or night? Have you ever wanted to
perform tasks on a regular basis such as once a day, or even every
few minutes? Do you believe that, up until now, you needed to be a
programmer to set these kinds of things up and all you really want to
do is use the computer? If you answered yes to all of these then
TaskMaster is for you. Adding task schedules in TaskMaster is easier
than setting your VCR. Shareware fee $20.
Warp Factor 2.0
Warp Factor is a simple After Dark™ screen saver module that
simulates a warping star field. Engage! Freeware.
Background printing to HP printers under MacOS 8 prevents printing. New HP printer drivers are needed. Meanwhile, turn off background printing. I see also that some Apple Stylewriters have the same problem.
You are running a QuickTime movie, and you want to turn the sound off. You can grab the sound slider and drag to the bottom, or just Option-click the sound slider. To make it EXTRA loud, hold down shift, and push the slider to the top. THAT should wake someone up!
Just so you know: Steve Wilhite, the creator of GIF (Graphic Interchange Format), always pronounced it "jiff" and would correct those who pronounced it with a hard G. "Choosy developers choose GIF" (spinning off of a historically popular peanut butter commercial).
The invisible bit does just what it's name implies - makes its file invisible. So once you've done that, how will you find it again? Easy: go into Find File, hold down the option key, and click on the selection type (usually has NAME in it). Down at the bottom is VISIBILITY. Select that, and find files whose visibility is - need we say - invisible. The results window will have all the invisible files in the folder or volume designated.
Things you can do while dragging:
Seven things to do to make software installation better:
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
Apple Drive Setup 1.3.1 - formatting software for Apple hard drives
Macromedia Director 6.0.1 (which disappeared 2 days after it was offered)(but now it's back)
DragAnyWindow 4.2.1 - lets you move any kind of window
Claris FileMaker Pro 4.0 - now being shipped to customers, at least from MacWarehouse
Guru 2.5.2 - info on every possible RAM and VRAM upgrade for every Mac & Clone
Internet Config 1.4 - stores internet preferences in 1 location so other internet apps can use them - FEATURED IN THIS MONTH'S DISKS
Look Mom, No Hands 1.5 - open contextual menus without the control key - FEATURED IN THIS MONTH'S DISKS
Mailstrom 2.0.4 - IMAP mail client
MicNotePadLite 4.1.4 - now with Voice Activation!
Myrmidon 2.0 - now out of beta
Navigator Button Editor 1.3.2 - customizes Navigator buttons or Communicator Guide menu
Adobe PageMaker 6.5 - PostScript Printing Files Update fixes two printing problems
Connectix Ram Doubler 2.0.2 - when did this come out?!!
SimpleText Color Menu 3.1 - adds useful features to SimpleText - FEATURED IN THIS MONTH'S DISKS
Smart Scroll 3.0 - makes scroll tab proportional to percent of file in window
Connectix Speed Doubler 8.0 - now shipping
Spellswell Plus & 7 2.1.3 - spell check that comes with Eudora
MicroMat TechTool Pro 1.0.5 - premiere trouble-solving utility now works with OS 8
Connectix Virtual PC 1.0.1 - update for their Pentium MMX PC software emulator
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