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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 10 Aug 01 Volume 18 : Issue 107
Today's Topics:
[*] Mac-Site-list, Version 4.7.0
[*] PandoCalendar 5.7.3 - Customizable desktop calendar for your Mac.
[*] RightWord 1.1 (PPC)
[*] RPN Calculator 1.3.2 68K
[*] RPN Calculator 1.3.2 Carbon
[*] RPN Calculator 1.3.2 PPC
[*] TidBITS#591/06-Aug-01
[Q] Software to use CD-RW like a floppy?
serial/usb question
serial/usb question
working with corrupted files
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Date: 6 Aug 2001
From: Bruce Grubb
To:
Subject: [*] Mac-Site-list, Version 4.7.0
The Mac-Site-list lists over 120 mac anonymous ftp sites (some with notes),
over 100 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.
This Stuffit Deluxe 6.0 archive contains both the text and html versions of
the Mac-Site-list.
To ensure that the columns in the Format Chart section line up correctly the
document's text must be in a monospaced font such as Courier 10pt, Monaco 9pt,
or a PC equivalent.
Permission is given for this program to be included on the Info-Mac CD-ROM.
Changes: 'These Mac sites no longer exist or have major problems'
section elimited; hqx archive at home site replaced by smaller .sit
file.
Added sites/URLs:
http://www.ExtensionOverload.com/; http://www.tempel.org/jolie;
Defunct sites/URLs: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~jwang/AV/ (too old);
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/mac-site-list-47.hqx; 85 K]
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Date: 9 Aug 2001
From: Panda Systems
To:
Subject: [*] PandoCalendar 5.7.3 - Customizable desktop calendar for your Mac.
PandoCalendar is a useful Mac-only program places a fully functional
calendar on your desktop. The look is completely customizable. You
can change the calendar font and its size, and the calendar's
background color; you can center the current week (so you are always
able to look back and ahead a full month at a time), display the
numerical number of the weeks of the year, display the calendar with
European style weeks (Monday being the first day and Sunday being the
last), assign notes to any day of the year by clicking on the day in
the calendar, and set alarms to remind you of time sensitive events.
You can also have PandoCalendar automatically plot the days you work.
Great for people who don't have a Monday-Friday work schedule!
Version 5.7.3 - Add an option to always save changes in daily
information windows without asking. Fixed two bugs that would cause
PandoCalendar to crash if run with CarbonLib 1.4. Fixed a bug that
would prevent an Apple Script from being able to export notes and
appointments to a text file.
Panda Systems
[Archived as /info-mac/app/time/pando-calendar-573.hqx; 1129 K]
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Date: 9 Aug 2001
From: Ton Brand
To:
Subject: [*] RightWord 1.1 (PPC)
RightWord is a word game that resembles a popular game on Dutch television.
There are PPC and 68K versions; with this you have the PPC version. It's
meant for both adults and children. The fun of playing RightWord is to find
the 5-letter words (in English) of which RightWord presents the first
letter. You can either play alone or against an opponent, on the same
machine or via an internal network. There's also a factor of luck that makes
RightWord even more attractive, which has to do with 'drawing balls' and
achieving the word 'RIGHT' as column, row or diagonal in a colored bingo
board. Further, there are 'red balls' to change the course of the game.
New to version 1.1 is that new words are automatically added to the
dictionary.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/word/right-word-11-ppc.hqx; 1010 K]
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Date: 6 Aug 2001
From: Jeffry Baker
To:
Subject: [*] RPN Calculator 1.3.2 68K
"RPN Calculator" comes in 3 varieties, 68k (529K), PPC (600K) and Carbon (699K).
Many important improvements and additions have occurred since V1.2.5,
including a few minor bug fixes.
[Archived as /info-mac/sci/calc/rpn-calculator-132-68k.hqx; 720 K]
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Date: 9 Aug 2001
From: Jeffry Baker
To:
Subject: [*] RPN Calculator 1.3.2 Carbon
"RPN Calculator" comes in 3 varieties, 68k (529K), PPC (600K) and Carbon (699K).
Many important improvements and additions have occurred since V1.2.5,
including a few minor bug fixes.
[Archived as /info-mac/sci/calc/rpn-calculator-132-cbn.hqx; 950 K]
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Date: 9 Aug 2001
From: Jeffry Baker
To:
Subject: [*] RPN Calculator 1.3.2 PPC
"RPN Calculator" comes in 3 varieties, 68k (529K), PPC (600K) and Carbon (699K).
Many important improvements and additions have occurred since V1.2.5,
including a few minor bug fixes.
[Archived as /info-mac/sci/calc/rpn-calculator-132-ppc.hqx; 816 K]
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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 21:00:00 -0700
From: TidBITS Editors
To: digest@info-mac.org, mac-l@sparky.listmoms.net,
Subject: [*] TidBITS#591/06-Aug-01
TidBITS#591/06-Aug-01
Wondering if Microsoft will get behind Mac OS X? Previews of
Microsoft Office 10 indicate that Microsoft is going all out on
supporting Apple's new operating system. Looking inward, Adam
passes on the tallied answers to the questions we ask of people
subscribing to and unsubscribing from TidBITS, and in the news, we
cover the shutdown of Metricom's wireless Ricochet network and the
releases of Conflict Catcher 8.0.9 and Spring Cleaning 4.0.
Topics:
MailBITS/06-Aug-01
Navel Gazing for Fun and Profit
Microsoft Office 10's Carrot and Stick
[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-591.etx; 32K]
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Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 14:38:41 -0400
From: refried@email.unc.edu (Howard M. Fried)
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: [Q] Software to use CD-RW like a floppy?
Hi:
Adaptec/Roxio used to sell a product, Direct CD for Mac, that allowed one
to use a CD-RW drive as a standard floppy drive. I didn't purchase this
software and now find that it has been discontinued. Would anyone know of
an alternative?
Many thanks,
Howard Fried
University of North Carolina
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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 21:03:50 -0600
From: Robert Zimmerman
To: Big Bird , digest@info-mac.org
Subject: serial/usb question
I just hooked up a LaserWriter Select 360 to my father's G4 using
ethernet. How did I do that?
At 4:38 PM -0500 8/6/01, Big Bird allegedly wrote:
>In article Robert Zimmerman writes:
>
>A laserwriter 360 doesn't speak ethernet. It has serial, parallel, and
>localtalk ports. That said, a good way to connect a LW360 is with a
>localtalk/ethernet bridge, such as the Gatorbox.
>
>\begin{rant}
>
>Gatorboxes regularly show up on ebay and usually sell (if anyone bids
>at all) for less than $20. These are significantly more powerful than
>the ethernet/localtalk bridges currently available new which sell for
>$50-$100. I don't understand why no one buys these Gatorboxes.
>
>\end{rant}
>
>I'm not familiar with epson printers, so I don't know how to connect
>them.
>
>Mark Geary
>--
> "Build high for happiness."
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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 16:38:02 -0500
From: Big Bird
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: serial/usb question
In article Robert Zimmerman writes:
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: working with corrupted files
Hi!
I'm having lots of fun recording radio programs onto my FW drive for
later burning onto a CD-R. I've just discovered that a 7-minute file
(~50 MB) has been corrupted; disk i/o error and the Finder can't copy it
to another disc. Is there anyway to work with this file so I can at
least skip around the bad sector?
I'd rather not deal with a Norton product. Audion was able to work with
the file up to the point of corruption which saved me 5 minutes. Losing
two minutes might be OK but it's an opera and I'm not sure how important
those two minutes may be. Then again, I guess I'm a little AR...
TIA,
Rob
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