Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #87 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Tue, 23 May 00 Volume 17 : Issue 87 Today's Topics: [*] TidBITS#532/22-May-00 [*] Play it Cool 3.4J - Japanese Version [*] Tex-Edit Plus 3.0.2J - Japanese Version Hardware Query Netscape erases History Q: HP9100 internal SCSI CD-RW on Mac? 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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Topics: MailBITS/22-May-00 Mac OS X Leaves the Station Threat Models and Domination Systems [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-532.etx; 33K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 May 2000 From: Christopher Li Subject: [*] Play it Cool 3.4J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the Play it Cool 3.4 package. Play it Cool is a QuickTime and QuickTime VR movie player and simple editor. It plays all types of QuickTime movies, including "mov", "MIDI", "MPEG", "AVI", "VCD" and "QuickTime VR". It also opens many image formats, like "PICT", "TIFF", "GIF", "JPEG" and "PNG"; and sound formats, like "snd", "AIFF", "WAV", "MP2", "MP3" and "AU". Note that QuickTime 4 is required to open some of these formats. It is PowerPC native, plays movies very smoothly and contains many features not available in other movie players. Users commonly report better playback performance from Play it Cool than from other movie players. CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS VERSION (3.35): ===================================== - Many small bug fixes. - Now PowerPC only. - Now requires Mac OS 8.0 or later and QuickTime 3.0 or later. [Archived as /info-mac/gst/mov/play-it-cool-34-jp.hqx; 505 K] ------------------------------ Date: 23 May 2000 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com Subject: [*] Tex-Edit Plus 3.0.2J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the Tex-Edit Plus package. Tex-Edit Plus is a scriptable, styled text editor that fills the gap between Apple's bare-bones SimpleText and a full-featured word processor. It's fast, efficient, and has a clean, uncluttered interface. It's also great for cleaning up text which is transmitted over the Internet. Tex-Edit Plus features: PowerPC native (fat), extensive munging abilities, unlimited file size, Drag&Drop support, AppleScript support, Word Services support, Speech Manager support, picture handling, sound handling, movie handling, ability to create SimpleText Read-Only documents, and much more. System 7.0 or better required. NEW -- Tex-Edit Plus 3.0.2 fixes a bug that prevented use of Tex-Edit when extensions were turned off. A few other minor bugs were removed. Tex-Edit Plus 3.0 includes full support for viewing and manipulating QuickDraw 3D models (images). This includes drag, drop, insert, cut, copy, paste, print, etc. Changes to the contents of the "Scripts" folder are now instantly reflected in the Scripts menu (no relaunch needed). A new "do script" command can be used to execute compiled scripts or to compile and execute any script source code text (sample script included). Frontier "menu sharing" has been enabled. Support for an external "Speech Dictionary" to improve word pronunciation has been added (small sample included). Default text size can now be set to any reasonable value and all preference settings are fully scriptable (read/write). See the Revision History for a list of all the other improvements and fixes. [Archived as /info-mac/text/tex-edit-plus-302-jp.hqx; 1262 K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 23:33:18 -0400 From: Seeker Subject: Hardware Query I have a new (actually factory rebuilt) Silicon Graphics 17" LCD Monitor. My question regards how to turn it off...no, not as dumb as it sounds or at least I hope not. ;-> On the assumption that replacing the on/off rocker switches on a good quality surge suppressor is cheaper than replacing the on/off switch on a monitor, I have been turning off my monitor by first putting the HD to sleep with Sleeper then switching the monitor off off via its own surge suppressor rocker switch. However, when I got an HP Deskjet recently, the instructions were very specific. Do NOT shut it down via a power strip/surge suppressor: "Using a power strip, surge protector or wall outlet switch to turn the printer on and off may cause premature failure." No such instructions with the SGI monitor but I was wondering if anyone who might understand the physics behind this could tell me whether I might be best advised to power down the HD via Sleeper then shut off the monitor via the monitor on/off switch OR power down with Sleeper then shut the monitor off via the surge suppressor. Many thanks, Bob G. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 08:44:59 +0200 From: "Michael S. Silverstein" Subject: Netscape erases History Is there any way to prevent Netscape from erasing the History when you close your window (or quit)? On PCs Netscape retains your History for the specified number of days. Thanks! Michael Silverstein Materials Engineering Technion ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 18:14:54 +1200 From: "Markus Winter" Subject: Q: HP9100 internal SCSI CD-RW on Mac? Hi all, does anyone know or has managed to use an HP9100 CD-RW on a Mac? Any answer would be much appreciated ... Markus P.S. Please reply by e-mail since I don't manage to read every digest ... -- Dr. Markus Winter Department of Molecular Medicine Room 3301 School of Medicine 85 Park Road Grafton Auckland New Zealand Tel: 373 7599 ext 3960 -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************