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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 09 May 00 Volume 17 : Issue 77
Today's Topics:
[*] TidBITS#530/08-May-00
(A) treasure chest at the end of the rainbow!
[*] The Fontz 1.0 - font organizer and browser
[Q] com port on virtual PC?
Audio input plug for G4
Audio input plug for G4
counting MB
Keyboard Commands
laserwritet select 310, iMac & KeySpan
OS 8.6
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Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 21:00:00 -0700
From: TidBITS Editors
Subject: [*] TidBITS#530/08-May-00
TidBITS#530/08-May-00
What do you do with all the snippets of information you deal with
every day? Toss them into a folder? Append them to a huge text
file? Matt Neuburg has found a better way: Idea Keeper. Also in
this issue, Kirk McElhearn replaces Emailer with PowerMail 3.0 as
his email client of choice, and we note the releases of AppleShare
IP 6.3.2, AppleWorks 6.0.3, and Netscape Communicator 4.73, plus
announce another quiz to test your Macintosh knowledge.
Topics:
MailBITS/08-May-00
Migrating to New Climes with PowerMail
It's a Keeper (Idea Keeper, That Is)
[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-530.etx; 30K]
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Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 21:17:40 -0400
From: "[email protected]"
Subject: (A) treasure chest at the end of the rainbow!
Dear Digest readers,
For years all we had was Darkside and After Dark. Both were getting
increasingly unstable as Apple upgraded their operating system.
Sure we have SETI @home, and some OpenGL screen savers that were just
released if your graphics card didn't crash on them first. Now at
long last the website we've all been waiting for has opened!
http://www.macscreensavers.com/
Stand alone screensaver programs, and all the screen savers you could
want. You can even build your own. And they are free!
PC users could easily have pointed fingers at us wondering why Mac
users don't have built in screen savers like they do. Especially NT
users. Especially people who browsed to
http://www.screensavers.com. Well no longer...we have a site for
our own platform (albeit quite a few of their screen savers are
crossplatform developed, at least they have a lot of Mac screen
savers I never knew existed...like "Man in the Moon."
The secret is out...don't let another Mac user feel ashamed they
don't have free screen savers they can't have, because it just ain't
true!
Sincerely,
[email protected]
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Date: 9 May 2000
From: Terry Findlay
Subject: [*] The Fontz 1.0 - font organizer and browser
The Fontz is a versatile but easy to use font utility. It is part font
browser, part font organizer, part text and style editor. You get to arrange
your fonts in flexible groupings that can be modified on the fly. No more
font menu mayhem. One of the best things about it is that your system fonts
are left completely untouched (no annoying and time consuming restarts).
The Fontz offers a simple and inexpensive solution to your font management
and text formatting needs.
This version of The Fontz is PPC only.
[Archived as /info-mac/font/util/the-fontz-10.hqx; 731 K]
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Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 00:12:14 +0200
From: Eduard Hoenkamp
Subject: [Q] com port on virtual PC?
I need advice from someone who has used the VPC com port other than
as a modem port. It does not do things the real PC will do. (And I
don't like that, for reasons obvious to this list).
yrs. Eduard.
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Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 15:02:40 +0100
From: "Charles Arthur, The Independent"
Subject: Audio input plug for G4
On Mon, 8 May 2000 16:54:09 +0200, "Michael S. Silverstein"
wrote:
>I would like to hook up my stereo system to my G4 400 MHz.
>The trouble is, there is only the microphone input and I cannot find
>an adaptor with the extra-long plug that is used by Apple.
The microphone input is all you get. Are you sure it's an extra-long plug?
I think you'll find it's the same as the plug that fits into headphones.
One way to find out: take a pair of Walkman headphones, plug them into the
sound in plug, go to the sound panel, choose "sound in" for the sound
input, and agree to the option "play sound through output device" such as
your speaker. You can also record using Simplesound to check if it's
recording. (Simplesound eats up disk space quite fast - so make it brief
but loud.)
>Where do they sell these adaptors?
I don't think they need to.
>Is the audio input plug for the G4 mono or stereo?
Stereo.
>Should I connect to my stereo system's headphone socket (large size
>plug)
this will have to do but it's not ideal - you need to take it out to a
small walkman-type headphone plug, which will involve soldering. Better
would be to take the output from your preamp.
> or should I connect to the speaker output (clips for wires, not
>sockets)?
Only if you want to turn your G4 into a sort of early firework with a
burnt-out sound card.
>Will importing sound in this manner yield reasonable quality?
If your hi-fi is any good, you might as well just buy a longer headphone
lead. That's what I don't understand about your plan - it seems a bit
backasswards. If you wanted to output from the G4 to your hifi that would
make more sense.
Charles
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Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 00:47:51 +0800
From: Christopher Smith
Subject: Audio input plug for G4
>I would like to hook up my stereo system to my G4 400 MHz.
>
>The trouble is, there is only the microphone input and I cannot find
>an adaptor with the extra-long plug that is used by Apple.
>
>Where do they sell these adaptors?
>
>Also:
>
>Is the audio input plug for the G4 mono or stereo?
>
>Should I connect to my stereo system's headphone socket (large size
>plug) or should I connect to the speaker output (clips for wires, not
>sockets)?
>
>Will importing sound in this manner yield reasonable quality?
The plaintalk microphones are powered via the long pin of that non
standard plug, which was used particularly to stop people from
accidentally frying their other audio equipment with it. Just use a
standard (stereo) 1/16 inch plug.
I used this method (from my stereos headphone socket - the fewer
components to get in the path the better) to excise some of the more
explicit lyrics from the music my sister in laws dance students
wanted to use for their graduation performance. Everyone from school
principal to ratbag pubescent rebel were satisfied with the result.
Good luck
--
Christopher Smith | [email protected]
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
-Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre
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Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 17:37:58 +0300
From: "Dr. Peter Stoyanov"
Subject: counting MB
Dear all,
i'm considering switching to cable internet service. In my country
(Bulgaria) one has to pay, for now at least, this service based on
the MB used. Can you advise me on, preferably free/shareware, program
which will calculate MB I send/receive during my dial-up sessions, so
I can make a good estimate on which level to subscribe.
I'm using iMac 233 MHz (rev A) and MacOS 9.0.4
MTIA
Peter
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Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 06:42:25 +1200
From: Mike Isle
Subject: Keyboard Commands
Does anyone know a programme that will allow me to, easily, add keyboard
commands to my Finder and application menus? I know Action Menus does this,
but it slows my old Mac 68k something awful and I am looking for an
alternative for this function only. I am running System 7.5.
Thanks,
Mike.
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Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 19:09:46 +0300
From: "Dr. Peter Stoyanov"
Subject: laserwritet select 310, iMac & KeySpan
Dear all,
I have iMac (rev A), KeySpan and LaserWriter Select 310. My driver
for Select 310 is of system 7.1 or so.
I can't print to the LaserWriter - in the Chooser I correctly
establish the printer, but when i try to print (MS Word 98,
ClarisWorks 5, etc.) I can't - the green diode starts blinking and
that's it.
Please advice what I will need to do. The printer works fine for my
needs and I don't have funds/need to buy a new postscript printer
right now.
MTIA
Peter
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Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 08:08:08 -0700
From: "Chris McVay/Karen McVay"
Subject: OS 8.6
Hi:
Anyone know where I can obtain a CD of OS 8.6? I have tried to download the
OS from the web but the download time is too long and I get disconnect.
Please respond to my address below.
Thanks,
Chris McVay
[email protected]
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