Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Sat, 30 Dec 00 Volume 17 : Issue 211 Today's Topics: [*] Background Calendar v1.0 [*] Personal Directory 2.2 AOL Pix question Multi-Mac Bootable CD - Solved! Sherlock 2 copies file paths! 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 V17 #211" ------------------------------ Date: 29 Dec 2000 From: Saint John To: Subject: [*] Background Calendar v1.0 Everyone needs a calendar. Not everyone needs a scheduling program. Background Calendar is a low-impact, easy-to-use solution for most needs. It has a lot of options, but once you like the way it looks, you don't have to fiddle with it any more. A lot of your computer experience is based on real artifacts. A word processor's measurement bar looks like a typewriter's margin slider. A database program may have a display like a Rolodex. To discard a document, we put it in the trash. This technique frees us from having to learn different ways of doing things when we're using a computer; it's good sound cognitive psychology. It's hard to beat a paper calendar for ease of use. All you have to do is hang it up where you'll see it when you need it, and remember to flip the page every month. You can write on it and check it easily to see what events you have coming up in the next two days, this day next week-- whatever. By comparison, scheduling programs require learning, have little to do with the way we use these existing artifacts, and must be specially launched-- they aren't always available. It is with this in mind that I wrote Background Calendar. The Desktop Picture is available at all times. Sure, it may be blocked by windows, but there are easy ways to get rid of them momentarily. So, Background Calendar is like a paper calendar: it's always available. If you have more than one screen, it's particularly handy to set it up on one of them which is left relatively uncluttered. Writing on it? Easy. We have another real-world artifact called the "Post-It Note." On the Macintosh, they exist as "Stickies." So: Why not use them as little "reminders" on a "calendar?" When run, Background Calendar will generate a calendar for the current month, with whatever options you have selected-- such as outlining the current date, applying colors, leaving margins, drawing on top of an existing desktop picture, and so forth-- and then sets the desktop picture of your preferred monitor to the result. You'll always have a current calendar at your fingertips! [Archived as /info-mac/app/time/background-calendar-10.hqx; 568 K] ------------------------------ Date: 29 Dec 2000 From: TomRydberg@aol.com To: Subject: [*] Personal Directory 2.2 Personal Directory 2.2 is a free HyperCard stack that provides you with a flexible way to access, organize, and print your personal database of names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses and web URLs. It automatically sorts single and multiple name entries, tracks birthdays and anniversaries, and supports drag and drop of information between fields. Use this stack to print mailing labels and desk-size organizer sheets. You can also categorize your entries using one or more categories, copy or print entries based on categories or events, and enter free text notes. Navigation through the stack is easy, too: simply click on letter buttons to access entries via pop-up lists, and use the left and right arrow keys or buttons to move ahead or back one card. If you've got scanned pictures of family and friends, you can use this stack as an online photo album. In addition, Personal Directory automatically formats phone numbers and can autodial them for you. Requires: * HyperCard or HyperCard Player 2.4.1 or later * Color Macintosh * System 7.5.3 or later [Archived as /info-mac/data/personal-directory-22.hqx; 1045 K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 15:47:17 -0500 From: John McGibney To: Subject: AOL Pix question I still get mail from people with AOL but I am unable to view the pictures they include. I am using Outlook Express 5 (I also tried communicator 4.7). Is there a way to view the AOL files (.art), or am I stuck reverting to AOL inorder to view them? I tried sttting the helper app. for AOL in Outlook and Netscape communicator but no good. The files won't download so I can't open them with AOL either. John McGibney _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: 29 Dec 2000 08:37:01 -0500 From: Bill Waits To: Subject: Multi-Mac Bootable CD - Solved! For starters, I would like to thank all those that replied with suggestions on how create a Multi-Mac bootable CD. I actually had to piece together a lot of information to finally get things to work. Before I give what worked for me, let me share something that I got that was the most thourough reply that I got from "Robyn".... She indicated to create a partition and install MacOS 9.0.4, compare extensions and what have not with the MacOS 9.0.4 CD and then boot from it, install my utilities, and then burn the CD using Files & Folders using Toast (I have Toast v4.1.2). She even indicated that I would not have to check the "bootable" option (She indicated that this has worked several times for her, but she did not mention what version of Toast she was using.). This did not work for me, even with the bootable option enabled. The closest the above came was to then create an image of the partition, mount the image, then burn the CD as "Mac Volume" and checking the bootable option. Disk Image copying, and Disk Copy did not work at all....hence, I now have 4 new toasters.... When done as Mac Volume, it would work on SOME of my Macs, but others would merely skip over the CD on startup (as opposed to getting some message aobut not being able to boot from this volume....). What DID FINALLY work for me was to take the new Norton Utilities 6 CD, create an image, mount the image as an unlocked volume, copy my utilities AND preferences over, then burn the image using Mac Volume with the "Bootable" option checked. It has worked thus far on any Mac that I have tried. The above failed when using Disk Copy or Image Copy, and it failed (for me) using any of the three options (Mac Volume, Disk Copy, or Image Copy) when starting out with TechTool v2.5.4 CD, Norton Utilities 5 CD, or MacOS 9.0.4 CD. I just got the TechTool v3.0.x CD and have not tried with that one, and to be honest, I will let someone else test if they so desire, as I have approximately 2 1/2 dozen coasters, and don't want any more. I sure hope that this helps someone, as I can attest that it is very frustrating otherwise. Thanks again to all of those that replied with suggestions. I DO appreciate it... Bill Waits ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 10:41:20 -0600 From: "Gib Henry" To: "Info-Mac List" Subject: Sherlock 2 copies file paths! Ever needed to copy the path to a file? Find it in Sherlock 2, click on it in the found-items window, tab until the path window is selected (outlined in color), make sure NO item in the window is selected, then choose Copy (cmd-C). Voil€! You can confirm it by switching to the Finder and choosing Edit/Show Clipboard. [Why isn't it VIEW/Show Clipboard?!?!] Cheers, -- Gib Henry -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************