Subject: Info-Mac Digest V18 #20 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Wed, 31 Jan 01 Volume 18 : Issue 20 Today's Topics: (Q) Getting Wall Street to Auto Sleep [*] Make iAlias 1.2 [*] Peek-a-Boo 1.5 [*] ramBunctious 1.5 Icon Problems The Info-Mac Network is a volunteer organization that publishes the Info-Mac Digest and operates the Info-Mac Archive, a large network of FTP sites containing gigabytes of freely distributable Macintosh software. Working with the Info-Mac Digest: * To submit articles to the digest, email . * To subscribe, send email to with the words subscribe info-mac in the message. * To unsubscribe, send email to with the words unsubscribe info-mac in the message. * To change your address, unsubscribe from the old address, then subscribe from the new address. * Please send administrative queries to . 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America Online donated the main Info-Mac machine . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V18 #20" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:09:06 +1000 From: Michael Koren To: Subject: (Q) Getting Wall Street to Auto Sleep My early Wall Street (G3 Series PowerBook Revision A 25omhtz with 13" screen) with system 9.1 (was also true with 9.0.4 and 9.0 and 8.6) within weeks after having the system installed and after having a crash at some point often refuses to automatically go to sleep. And when that is true, if you make it sleep, it won't wake without a crash. Before I upgraded to 9.1, I don't know how this happened, but it was stable in going to sleep (after a clean reinstall of 9.0.4) for a few months. The first time in over a year. Now it won't sleep properly again. Anyone have this kind of issue and how did you solve it? Michael ------------------------------ Date: 31 Jan 2001 From: Jan Bruyndonckx To: Subject: [*] Make iAlias 1.2 Unlimited Internet storage, completely free of charge, integrated into your Macintosh OS. Using a handy "Make iAlias" menu item from your File menu (in the Finder), you can store your files safely and securely on the Internet. When you want to retrieve them, simply use the iAlias file or the unbreakable URL. Make iAlias is free. It is available from the Triptic Design web site and all major Macintosh shareware ftp sites. Recommended system: any Apple Macintosh with MacOS 9 Minimum system: a Power Macintosh with MacOS 8.6 **What's new?** Although the main functionality of Make iAlias remains free of charge, registered users have access to additional features such as file encryption (using the NIST-selected Rijndael algorithm ) and increased transfer speeds (approximately 50% faster!). Using a new contextual menu, users can view and edit information about the iAlias file, including removing and later re-inserting the encryption key. Encrypted files can still be downloaded and used by non-registered users. [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/make-ialias-12.hqx; 1026 K] ------------------------------ Date: 31 Jan 2001 From: Bob Clark To: Subject: [*] Peek-a-Boo 1.5 Peek-a-Boo 1.5 is a shareware ($20) utility to monitor and manipulate all running processes. You can watch and adjust how much CPU time each process uses. You can view any piece of information available through the Process Manager, sorting processes by a variety of attributes. Many people have found Peek-a-Boo particularly useful for the "Special Technology" feature. When a web browser is using up too much CPU time when it should be idling, Peek-a-Boo can lower that process's priority. If a number-crunching program in the background needs more CPU time, Peek-a-Boo can raise its priority. Peek-a-Boo is well-suited to this task: it both shows CPU usage and adjusts it, so you can see what processes need their priorities changed, and you can watch how well the adjustments worked. Peek-a-Boo does not need to be running for Special Technology to take effect: once a process's priority is adjusted, it remains set until it's adjusted again. Peek-a-Boo lets you open CPU history windows to track how much processor power a process uses, and logging windows for more detailed CPU and memory usage analysis, including the ability to save the results to a tab-delimited log file. Peek-a-Boo 1.5 has an improved Special Technology mechanism. Its efficiency is improved, and certain processes that would not respond to earlier versions of Special Technology now respond admirably. Peek-a-Boo now has the capability to track Temporary Memory usage. (Temporary Memory is also known as the Process Manager Heap.) This new Temporary Memory support is visible in several places: + The MemGraph column can now include Temp Mem in the graph. + There is now a column to show exactly how much Temp Mem each process uses. + There are now three additional options available when you open a Logging window, all relating to Temp Mem. A "Reveal in Finder" menu item has been added: when using System 7.5 or later, you can open the folder where a process's file is. Several cosmetic improvements, including fuller color support in the main window and new "techie" CPU history windows, have been implemented. Peek-a-Boo 1.5 now runs natively on PowerPC computers, with a performance improvement of about 15%. [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/peek-a-boo-15.hqx; 367 K] ------------------------------ Date: 31 Jan 2001 From: Bob Clark To: Subject: [*] ramBunctious 1.5 What is new in ramBunctious 1.5? - ramBunctious is now even faster. - New color "LED" indicators showing disk accesses. - Improved periodic-save intervals. What is ramBunctious? ramBunctious 1.5 is a shareware ($25) RAM disk program for the Mac OS. Its rich set of features lets you customize your RAM disks for your desired balance of speed, security, safety, and versatility. - You can have several RAM disks mounted simultaneously, limited only by memory available. - ramBunctious has a "write-through" option. When activated, everything written to the RAM disk is saved to a (real) file. This means that the next time you mount the RAM disk, all the contents are still there. This helps protect against data loss in the event of a crash or power failure. - ramBunctious uses normal application memory. This means that when you're done using a RAM disk, that memory is available for other applications to use. In other words, you don't have to reboot to reclaim the memory. - Each RAM disk may be configured to be mounted automatically during the computer's startup process. - These options, and more, are fully user-configurable for each RAM disk via a status/settings window. In addition to the settings, the status window includes LED-like access indicators that flash when the RAM disk is being read from or written to. - ramBunctious is fully AppleScriptable. ramBunctious 1.5 is available now. More information is available at the ramBunctious web site: http://www.clarkwoodsoftware.com/rambunctious/ Inquiries, comments, and questions may be directed to: rambunctious@clarkwoodsoftware.com ramBunctious 1.5 copyright (c) 1995 - 2000 by Clarkwood Software [Archived as /info-mac/disk/rambunctious-15.hqx; 318 K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 12:41:12 +0000 From: Donal Leader To: Subject: Icon Problems Some time ago the IT person here installed a Phaser 850DP on the network. The software for the printer was loaded onto my iMac. Since then every single folder on my iMac now carries the printer icon. I installed Mac 9.0.4 in the hope that a complete system install would take care of the problem; it did not. I am at a complete loss as to how to deal with this total system wide conversion of regular folder icons to printer icons. I should note that the contents of the folders have not been disturbed, just the shape of the actual folder icon. Any ideas? Donal Leader Marino Institute of Education Dublin, Ireland email dleader@mac.com -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************