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This month's Free Sample Shareware is no longer available. See the current month page.
Aurora 4.1 is a control panel that sits in the "Control Panels" folder inside your System Folder. With it, you have full control over the colors used to draw your windows, buttons, scroll bars, menus, and text highlight color. Ever wanted a mauve menu bar? No problem! Ever wanted puce scroll bars? Now's your chance! It's also very easy to do &emdash; as simple as choosing colors from the standard Apple color wheel &emdash; and you're off to colorizing (and personalizing!) your desktop. Aurora 4.1 is intended to completely replace the "Color" control panel that ships with System 7. Aurora can do everything "Color" can do and a whole lot more! $15
AutoMenus Pro is a control panel that makes menu use (especially those pesky hierarchical menus) much easier. It can be set so that menus will drop down when the cursor is placed in the menu heading or it can be set to drop down a menu after a click of the mouse. Once down, a menu can be put back up automatically just by moving the mouse outside the menu or with the click of the mouse. What makes AutoMenus Pro so useful is that the menus stay down without the need to hold down the mouse button. $15
Erik's Desktop Patterns includes 35 Patterns, for the Desktop Patterns Control Panel of System 7.5.x. After unstuffing, open your Control Panel and drag & drop the files (one by one) on the Patterns window. You can also have a sneaky preview of the patterns by double-clicking them. Free.
Looney Tunes Icons contain 50 icons based on the all-time classic cartoon series Looney Tunes. The icons range from the ever popular Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck to other characters including Foghorn Leghorn, Pepe Lepu, Marvin The Marsian, The Crusher, Gossimer and many many more. Since there are literally hundreds of characters in Looney Tunes cartoons, these 50 icons represent a small sample of the icons possible. Free.
Mike's PowerSurge 3D Icons: Version: '96r2
A comprehensive set of Mac & clone machine icons. Free.
Monitors FKey doesn't replace the Monitors CP or Sound + Displays CP (in 7.5.2), but provides a quickie shortcut. The FKEY is packaged as a Font suitcase... why? Its a cool way to install system resources without using ResEdit. Simply place the file in the Fonts folder of System 7.1 or later -- no need to reboot! (System 7.0.x users must still use ResEdit). To remove it, you must quit all open applications before dragging the font suitcase from the Fonts folder. This software requires the Display Manager 1.2, which is bundled with System 7.5.2. Free.
PizzaRush As the only pizza joint in town, Moe's Pizza is often overrun with deliveries to make, and the job is solely on your shoulders to carry the load. Armed with only your car and a map, you must satisfy Doughville's pizza cravings. However, many a pizzaboy have been brought to their knees by this job. You'll have to avoid pushing your trusty car to the limit and running out of gas, as well as making sure all deliveries are made in a respectable amount of time. Who knows, with a little hard work, and a lot of luck, you may even find yourself being tipped generously by the folks of Doughville. Are you up to the task? Can you stake your claim to be one of the finest delivery boys ever? You'll find out as you begin to play.......PizzaRush! $10.
The InformInit is a shareware application based on the Mac Pruning Page on the Web. Here you can find almost every init Apple has ever produced, with information on what they do, who needs them, version numbers, RAM consumption, tips and tricks, and URLs for further information on confusing items. There is an ever-growing section on non-Apple inits. A chapter on System Folder contents gives information on some of the common items found loose in the System Folder. There is a summary of Apple information on System 7.5.3, such as which computers need which of the various updates (7.5 update 2.0, Revision 2), how to best install the updates, and what changes have been made in each update. Finally, there is extensive information about PRAM, how to reset it on various Macs, and what actually gets "reset." Use this guide to satisfy your curiosity about unidentified files, to help you cut down on all the spurious extensions that you don't really need, and to generally improve the performance of your Mac. $10.
Yank. uninstalls an application and files created by the
application by moving them to the Trash, and cleans up your
Preferences folder by moving outdated files to the Trash. Nothing is
deleted &emdash; all files are moved to the Trash. Open the Trash
folder and watch those unneeded files pile up! If you want to replace
the files, click on them, and select "Put Away" from the File menu
(command-Y). $15 
Still nothing dangerous on Macintosh!
I have a problem with Netscape (and any other internet utility) - what my app knows at work it does not know at home. In Netscape Navigator's case, my home app does not have the bookmarks on my work app and vice-versa. But I can solve this, at lease periodically. I simply download my bookmarks and put on my web server. Then I can always get all those bookmarks from either site. The secret is that Navigator keeps the bookmarks in a file as html links. To get a file of these links, do BOOKMARKS (command-B) in Navigator, then Save Bookmark File As... (in the File menu).
I use Claris Home Page to open this file up, clip the entire list, then open one of my web pages I use for this purpose, and paste the list in the appropriate place. But if you have access to the web server's page, even SimpleText can do the job. (Home Page can open up pages on remote sites).
Welcome to the world's largest collection of Apple easter eggs. This is a compilation of secrets stuffed inside of your Macintosh or Newton by Apple programmers and engineers. Easter eggs include random jokes, elaborate credit screens, or hard-to-find games that are meant to give the creator a little fame, also adding a personal touch to the best computer on earth.
Here is a poem from these pages. Hidden in this poem is a clever message:
A dogcow is what I want to be.
Pictured in dialogs,
Running through the weeds,
In and out of advertisements,
Loving my naughty deeds.
Feeling in black and white.
Over the edge of cliffs,
Out with the tide in the sea.
Living life to the fullest,
Sweet survival in 2 D.
What ever would you want to list by date for? Here's one: if you constantly add updates and extensions to your system, like I do, you should keep a log. Surely you note where you start having crashes. Very well, list your extensions by date, and remove anything after the date where you started having crashes. And if you have to rebuild your system, which means installing 7.5.1 clean and adding update 2.0 and then revision 2.0 to get 7.5.3 rev 2, you may have trouble remembering all the pieces - list by date and then add in that order. You may especially want to use this trick on your preferences file, since all items there are created by their applications.
Want to search on multiple removable volumes? Insert the first, use find file to try to find what you want. Then select the Find Items list - which should show your volume name - hold down Option, and drag to the Trash! Find file will eject the disk and ask for another one. Repeat until you find what you want.
Get to learn about Find File - it can save years of
headache.
(hot link on vendor name -> vendor home page,
hot link on product name -> product page, possible download)
I apologize that the SMUG newsletter editor is sometimes unable to fit all of New Releases into the newsletter due to space constraints. Please check the Web page at http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~booky/shareoct96.shtml. Yes, that is ".shtml" - it allows me a server-side include for the mod-date at the bottom of the web page.
APPLE
Soon to be released (on or after Sept 13): an update to create System 7.5.4 It fixes:
Note also some OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS with 7.5.3:
For owners of Apple's Multi-Scan Displays, Display Software 2.0.2
Open Transport 1.1.1b7 This fixes a major memory leak: in b6, if you run Netscape after opening OT111 and then quit, you immediately lose all its RAM, 5-7 MEGS!! Of course, b7 has its own problems! THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE, STUPID!
Adobe released Persuasion version
4.0, and
Illustrator
6.0.1 and
Page
Mill 2.0.1
And
Photoshop
4.0 and
PageMaker
6.5 and
After
Effects 3.1
Cassidy & Greene put out an updater to their Let's Keep It Simple Spreadsheet.
Connectix has a free upgrade for
Color
Quickcam VIDEC 2.0.2
And an
update to
Speed
Doubler 1.3.1 (you need your 1.3 disk)
On Aug 8, Corel announced Corel WordPerfect 3.5, an updated version of Novell WordPerfect 3.5.
FWB updated Hard Disk Toolkit 2.0.1
HydePark Software released an updater for MacSLIP 3.0.4
Greg Landweber updated Aaron 1.5.1
Thorsten Lemke's Graphic Converter 2.5 updater
InternetConfig 1.3 from Peter Lewis
Micromat's TechTool Pro 1.0.2 This is not the same as the free LITE version 1.1.1.
Microsoft finally has Internet Explorer 2.1 for the Mac. Currently offering version 3.0 for Windoz :(
John R Montbriand is offering Big Secret 4.0, which lets you hide folders.
Netscape has released Navigator 3.0 Gold to compliment its previously released, vanilla, 3.0. The Gold version lets you modify the HTML online. Expect to take time to download 4 megabytes of software!
Now Startup Manager 7.0 is FREE until Sept 15. Also Now Utilities 6.5. If you didn't see this before the newsletter came out, you aren't reading the web page (URL above). NOTE: several users have reported incompatibilities with NSM7. And, sure enough, Now has NSM7.01 patch
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