Subject: Info-Mac Digest V19 #25 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Sun, 10 Mar 02 Volume 19 : Issue 25 Today's Topics: [*] "Verbs & Nouns" Sample Phrases 1.0 - language learning [*] AutoCat 3.0.4 FR [*] Crystalball updated [*] DoubletScan 4.0b1 [*] GLMStat 5.6.4 X; Generalized Linear Models [*] GLMStat 5.6.4; Generalized Linear Models [*] KnowledgeMiner 4.0 - Powerful Data-Mining Made Easy [*] Let's See [*] Project Timer - Time Tracking Software Released for OS X and Classic [*] Romi 2.1 [*] Romi 2.1 - French version [*] Romi 2.1 - German version [*] Romi 2.1 - Italian version [*] Romi 2.1 - Spanish version [*] Toucan 1.0 - a drag and drop slideshow. [*] Verbs & Nouns 2.5.4 - foreign language learning [Q] Mail App and compound criteria filters? [Q] SMC router/print server and lpr [Q] Text Editor? Connecting PLW to OS X Info-Mac Digest V19 #22 Need help resurrecting powerbook? 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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 V19 #25" ------------------------------ Date: 8 Mar 2002 From: Jacek Iwanski To: Subject: [*] "Verbs & Nouns" Sample Phrases 1.0 - language learning 'V&N Sample Phrases' is a sample collection of sentences for use with English Inflection dictionaries (created with the Verbs & Nouns language-learning program). This package is an easy way to try out the 'Phrase Engine' feature in Verbs & Nouns. You can extend this module by adding more text-files to it. To try out the module you should: 1. Make sure that the program Verbs & Nouns version 2.5.4 or later is installed on your Hard Disk. 2. Download any of the following Verbs & Nouns Inflection Dictionaries: - English Verbs 2.1 (or later), - English Nouns 2.1 (or later), - English Adjectives 2.1 (or later). You can download any of these direct from the Info-Mac archives (the Education/Language directory), or via links from this web site site: . If you are downloading especially in order to try the Phrase Engine, we recommend "English Verbs". If you already have other English Inflection Dictionaries you can use them instead. [Archived as /info-mac/edu/lang/v-and-n-sample-phrases-10.hqx; 2758 K] ------------------------------ Date: 5 Mar 2002 From: Olivier Lebra To: Subject: [*] AutoCat 3.0.4 FR AutoCat 3.0.4 - Version fran‡aise - Shareware $15 Catalog different. Home Page d'AutoCat: http://kebawe.com/autocat/fr/ Enregistrement Online: http://order.kagi.com/?OL Email de l'auteur: autocat@kebawe.com French version by Philippe Bonnaure: http://www.bonnaure.com/ AutoCat a obtenu 4 souris a Macdownload et Tucows, et 5 a FileDudes. AutoCat est un programme trˆs intuitif permettant de cataloguer vos MP3s, vid‰os, images sur vos CDs. Il vous permet de cataloguer tous vos disques ‰jectables ou serveurs en utilisant des alias. Points forts: - Cataloguez tous vos CDs, CDRs, DVDs, tous types de disques et dossiers, fa‡on Macintosh. - Naviguez dans le catalogue directement a partir du Finder. - Naviguez dans le catalogue a partir des dialogues Ouvrir/Enregistrer. - Aucune application n'est necessaire pour naviguer dans le catalogue. - Utilisez la commande 'Chercher' du Finder (Sherlock) pour effectuer des recherches dans le catalogue. - Travaille € partir d'une interface glisser-d‰poser trˆs simple et en t‚che de fond. - Catalogue le contenu des archives StuffIt. - Compatible avec Appearance, compatible avec les Services de Navigation, et Aqua sur MacáOSáX. AutoCat requiert Mac OS X ou Mac OS 8.6 et plus avec CarbonLib. AutoCat peut Štre inclus dans les CD-ROMs. Bon AutoCatalogage! [Archived as /info-mac/disk/autocat-304-fr.hqx; 514 K] ------------------------------ Date: 5 Mar 2002 From: CrystalBall To: Subject: [*] Crystalball updated Numerous Bug fixes from 3.0.5 3rd Edition (D&D) Dungeons and Dragons DM Utility. Random Treasure Generator based on Encounter Level, Experience Award Calculator Quickly create any character class (3rd editon) from the Players Handbook, Monster Manual, Psionics Handbook, and Oriental Adventures. Generate you own Monsters to throw at your players. Combat utility for DM's to keep combat simple and moving quickly. Generate literally millions of random names for People and Places. A must for any MAC Dungeon Master. Download the Carbonized OSX version at http://www.geocities.com/crystalballmac http://homepage.mac.com/crystalballmac [Archived as /info-mac/game/adv/crystal-ball-306.hqx; 1807 K] ------------------------------ Date: 8 Mar 2002 From: Giuseppe Giunto To: Subject: [*] DoubletScan 4.0b1 What's new version 4.0.0b1 Find all kind of duplicates & more. This is the first public beta that work on Classic and OS X, so if you found bugs please, let us know. Thank you. Doublet Scan is a fast and professional way to find all kind of duplicates & more on your hard disks. Compare the content of files, search duplicate files and folders, unique files, unique folders, empty files, empty folders, duplicate and unique by; label, custom icon, locked files, locked folders, invisible files, invisible folders, aliases, compressed files and much more. Download page: http://www.hyperbolicsoftware.com/download.html Direct links: http://www.hyperbolicsoftware.com/programs/DoubletScan40b1.sit ftp://ftp.hyperbolicsoftware.com/DoubletScan40b1.sit [Archived as /info-mac/disk/doublet-scan-40b1.hqx; 1632 K] ------------------------------ Date: 7 Mar 2002 From: Ken Beath To: Subject: [*] GLMStat 5.6.4 X; Generalized Linear Models GLMStat X is a MacOS X statistical program for analysing generalised linear models. It provides a macintosh interface and includes many of the features of other programs. Features of GLMStat are - spreadsheet style data entry - factors may be represented as either integers or strings (categories) - Normal, Poisson, Binomial and Gamma models with appropriate links and specification of convergence and aliasing parameters - Scatter and Residual plots - Matrix scatterplots - Box and Whisker plots - Frequency distribution histograms - Descriptive statistics. - Output of deviance, parameter estimates, residuals and parameter correlations - Saving of data files complete with all model specifications. - printing of data, graph and results. - Missing values - Online Help (under the apple menu) and a brief User Manual. - Transcript window to display output of previous commands - almost fully Applescriptable and recordable with access to some data structures - includes example data files for most examples in two of the texts. - Individual licences available for $US25. 10 User Site Licences $US100. Site licences $US200. World site licence $US500. Payment in $US through Kagi Shareware. - Registration includes free upgrades to version 6.x Unregistered copies are fully functional except that Save and Save As are disabled and there is a usage period of 12 weeks. Version 5.6.4 - fixed bug which caused part of Boxplots to be sometimes drawn outside of graph area - fixed bug which caused boxplot type to be used from preferences rather than from box plot dialog This is a free upgrade to all GLMStat registrations. Current versions of GLMStat are always available at http://www.ozemail.com.au/~kjbeath/glmstat.html Ken Beath kjbeath@kagi.com [Archived as /info-mac/sci/glm-stat-564-x.hqx; 938 K] ------------------------------ Date: 7 Mar 2002 From: Ken Beath To: Subject: [*] GLMStat 5.6.4; Generalized Linear Models GLMStat is a Macintosh-based statistical program for analysing generalised linear models. It provides a macintosh interface and includes many of the features of other programs. Features of GLMStat are - spreadsheet style data entry - factors may be represented as either integers or strings (categories) - Normal, Poisson, Binomial and Gamma models with appropriate links and specification of convergence and aliasing parameters - Scatter and Residual plots - Matrix scatterplots - Box and Whisker plots - Frequency distribution histograms - Descriptive statistics. - Output of deviance, parameter estimates, residuals and parameter correlations - Saving of data files complete with all model specifications. - printing of data, graph and results. - Missing values - Online Help (under the apple menu) and a brief User Manual. - Transcript window to display output of previous commands - almost fully Applescriptable and recordable with access to some data structures - includes example data files for most examples in two of the texts. - Individual licences available for $US25. 10 User Site Licences $US100. Site licences $US200. World site licence $US500. Payment in $US through Kagi Shareware. - Registration includes free upgrades to version 6.x Unregistered copies are fully functional except that Save and Save As are disabled and there is a usage period of 12 weeks. Version 5.6.4 - fixed bug which caused part of Boxplots to be sometimes drawn outside of graph area - fixed bug which caused boxplot type to be used from preferences rather than from box plot dialog This is a free upgrade to all GLMStat registrations. Current versions of GLMStat are always available at http://www.ozemail.com.au/~kjbeath/glmstat.html Ken Beath kjbeath@kagi.com [Archived as /info-mac/sci/glm-stat-564.hqx; 938 K] ------------------------------ Date: 10 Mar 2002 From: julian miller To: Subject: [*] KnowledgeMiner 4.0 - Powerful Data-Mining Made Easy Revolutionary learning and modeling tool that goes beyond neural nets by using gmdh and analog complexing. It has the power to predict with an ease and accuracy that is not available in any other software on any other platform. Now Applescriptable. What is KnowledgeMiner? KnowledgeMiner is a data mining tool that enables anyone to use its unique form of modeling to quickly visualize new possibilities. It is an artificial intelligence tool designed to easily extract hidden knowledge from data. It was built on the cybernetic principles of self-organization: Learning a completely unknown relationship between output and input of any given system in an evolutionary way from a very simple organization to an optimally complex one. Why choose KnowlegeMiner? The main advantages of the inductive KnowledgeMiner approach are: * Only minimal, uncertain a priori information about the system is required. That means, even if you have no experience in modeling, data analysis or designing a neural network you will be able to model, analyze and predict complex relationships of nearly any kind of system. * A very fast and effective learning process for a personal computer. That means you can solve problems on your desktop in a reasonable time which you may have never thought possible. * Modeling short and noisy data samples. That means, you can deal with a problem as is and don't have to construct artificial conditions for your modeling method to get it work. * Output of an optimally complex model. Generally you can be sure to get a model at the end of the automated modeling process which can be expected not to be overfitted. Overfitted models are not able to predict inherent relationships between variables. * Output of an analytical model as a transparent explanation component. That means, you can evaluate the analytical model to explain the obtained results immediately after modeling. [Archived as /info-mac/data/knowledge-miner-40.hqx; 3056 K] ------------------------------ Date: 7 Mar 2002 From: Ron Wiersma - irony software To: Subject: [*] Let's See Introduction to LetsSee LetsSee the perfect solution for people who regularly work with pictures or movie files. LetsSee is a graphics browser that gives you fast and easy access to your favorite pictures and movies, flash and mp3 files. You can modify and batch change fileproperties like name, file-comment and creator. Build html photo galleries. Make files you want to keep private invisible. Present your media files as a continuous slideshow. And a lot more LetsSee is an easy and fast way to view your pictures and movies. It is an imageviewer and a very fast filebrowser. It seamlessly integrates pictures, movies and flash. It can open picts, photoshop files, jpegs, gifs, tiff, targa, png, macpaint, silicon graphic, quicktime images and bmp files. LetsSee opens quicktime and mpeg movies, virtual reality movies, flash (swf) files and mp3 and wave sounds. Read the documentation for more information System Requirements LetsSee will run on all powermacs with system 8.1 or later and quicktime 2.5 or later installed. You need a color monitor that can display 800 * 600 pixels or more and have 12 mb of free memory, Quicktime 4 and 16 MB is recommended. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Ron Wiersma irony software support@irony.biz http://www.irony.biz ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- [Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/lets-see-17.hqx; 1196 K] ------------------------------ Date: 8 Mar 2002 From: julian miller To: Subject: [*] Project Timer - Time Tracking Software Released for OS X and Classic Project Timer is the simplest and easiest to use time tracking software available. Excellent for independent contractors, consultant and anyone who needs to monitor the time they spend on various tasks. Project Timer is the best way of recording the amount of time that is spent working on a project, contract or anything. Project Timer uses tab delimited text as its file format. You can import Project Timer files in to mainstream applications. Now you can save time and make money by using Project Timer. Features: * this carbon application works on OS X and Classic * simple to use * a click of the button to start and stop timing * totals are then generated * works unattended in the background * open Project Timer files in AppleWorks or Microsoft Excel * only 20 us dollars * AutoSave restores unsaved files after a crash * Add, Edit or Remove comments from time entries * Recent Item PURCHASE Project Timer is $20 For questions contact: projecttimer@scriptsoftware.com [Archived as /info-mac/app/time/project-timer.hqx; 874 K] ------------------------------ Date: 8 Mar 2002 From: Gerard Brochu To: Subject: [*] Romi 2.1 Romi lets you play Rummy (RummyCube, RommiKub, Rami) games against the computer at 3 different levels. Romi version 2.1 has been updated for Carbon and work only on Macintosh with PowerPC under MacOS X or under MacOS 8.5 or higher with CarbonLib. If you have an older Macintosh or an older MacOS, you must use Romi version 2.0. Romi is available in English, French, Spanish, German and Italian language. [Archived as /info-mac/game/crd/romi-21.hqx; 278 K] ------------------------------ Date: 8 Mar 2002 From: Gerard Brochu To: Subject: [*] Romi 2.1 - French version This is the French version of Romi Romi lets you play Rummy (RummyCube, RommiKub, Rami) games against the computer at 3 different levels. Romi version 2.1 has been updated for Carbon and work only on Macintosh with PowerPC under MacOS X or under MacOS 8.5 or higher with CarbonLib. If you have an older Macintosh or an older MacOS, you must use Romi version 2.0. Romi is available in English, French, Spanish, German and Italian language. [Archived as /info-mac/game/crd/romi-21-fr.hqx; 248 K] ------------------------------ Date: 8 Mar 2002 From: Gerard Brochu To: Subject: [*] Romi 2.1 - German version This is the German version of Romi Romi lets you play Rummy (RummyCube, RommiKub, Rami) games against the computer at 3 different levels. Romi version 2.1 has been updated for Carbon and work only on Macintosh with PowerPC under MacOS X or under MacOS 8.5 or higher with CarbonLib. If you have an older Macintosh or an older MacOS, you must use Romi version 2.0. Romi is available in English, French, Spanish, German and Italian language. [Archived as /info-mac/game/crd/romi-21-de.hqx; 282 K] ------------------------------ Date: 8 Mar 2002 From: Gerard Brochu To: Subject: [*] Romi 2.1 - Italian version This is the Italian version of Romi Romi lets you play Rummy (RummyCube, RommiKub, Rami) games against the computer at 3 different levels. Romi version 2.1 has been updated for Carbon and work only on Macintosh with PowerPC under MacOS X or under MacOS 8.5 or higher with CarbonLib. If you have an older Macintosh or an older MacOS, you must use Romi version 2.0. Romi is available in English, French, Spanish, German and Italian language. [Archived as /info-mac/game/crd/romi-21-it.hqx; 280 K] ------------------------------ Date: 8 Mar 2002 From: Gerard Brochu To: Subject: [*] Romi 2.1 - Spanish version This is the Spanish version of Romi Romi lets you play Rummy (RummyCube, RommiKub, Rami) games against the computer at 3 different levels. Romi version 2.1 has been updated for Carbon and work only on Macintosh with PowerPC under MacOS X or under MacOS 8.5 or higher with CarbonLib. If you have an older Macintosh or an older MacOS, you must use Romi version 2.0. Romi is available in English, French, Spanish, German and Italian language. [Archived as /info-mac/game/crd/romi-21-es.hqx; 280 K] ------------------------------ Date: 8 Mar 2002 From: Boudewijn Pelt To: Subject: [*] Toucan 1.0 - a drag and drop slideshow. Toucan, a simple and quick drag and drop slideshow. It's ideal for viewing images from a digital camera. Toucan is shareware, the registration fee is $15 System Requirements: Any Mac running Mac OS 8.6, 9 or X. Carbonlib required for Mac OS 8.6 and 9 Feature highlights: * Toucan shows your digital images quickly and full screen. * Full keyboard control. * Point at your images with a BIG pointer. * Choose the display to use, great for presentations on a beamer. * Toucan makes thumbnail icons for your images. Author: Boudewijn Pelt mailto:bpelt@mac.com http://homepage.mac.com/bpelt Toucan Website: http://homepage.mac.com/bpelt/toucan/index.html [Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/toucan-10.hqx; 760 K] ------------------------------ Date: 5 Mar 2002 From: Jacek Iwanski To: Subject: [*] Verbs & Nouns 2.5.4 - foreign language learning 'Verbs & Nouns' is an application for practising inflection, translation and pronunciation at the level of single words. Features include the opportunity to do various inflection exercises, and translation exercises in both directions; to record and play sound for single words; to do exercises based on sound or pictures; and to play various word-games. The program keeps a record of exercises, and identifies the words that the student has difficulty with. Along with the program, you need a module for the target language concerned. The program can also be used as an authoring tool to write your own modules of inflected words for any language. A built-in 'inflection-generator' simplifies the addition of these words. A 'Find' feature allows the modules to be used as bilingual dictionaries. Ready-made modules are already available for certain languages. You can visit: to get more information. Jacek Iwanski. [Archived as /info-mac/edu/lang/verbs-and-nouns-254.hqx; 1915 K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 21:57:10 -0800 From: Kee Nethery To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: [Q] Mail App and compound criteria filters? Is there any way to do compound criteria logic with the Mail App filters? The MacOS X Mail App has filters but it appears to only deal with one criteria. For example; if the "To" header contains "big bucks" then do these actions. Eudora and MailSmith allow for compound filter criteria, for example; if the "To" header contains "big bucks" AND the body contains "jumbo shrimp" then do these actions. I know you can chain filters in Mail App but that doesn't help when you want to filter with a tree of logic. For example; "Subject" contains a "A" and a "B" then do action 1 "Subject" contains a "A" and a "C" then do action 2 "Subject" contains a "B" and a "C" then do action 3 Far as I can see there is no way to do something simple like that in Mail App. Is there some way to do compound criteria filters in Mail App or is this a one criteria filter mail client? As an alternative, is there a way to have Mail App trigger an AppleScript for each incoming email such that the AppleScript can do compound criteria filters and then tell Mail App to do something with that email that the normal filters can do? Kee Nethery kee@kagi.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 15:04:11 -0500 From: Rob McCleave To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: [Q] SMC router/print server and lpr I have an Apple Laserwriter Select 360 connected to a SMC7004ABR (wired, not wireless) router/print server. The SMC has been updated to v1.4.1. The LW360 is a Postscript printer, so with the SMC printer server, which handles lpr, it should be able to work with a Mac lpr client. I can't get my PB400 (Pismo), running OS9.2.2, to print to the printer using the lpr print option. Using the Desktop Printer Utility I can set up the lpr client, and the printer can be verified at the IP address of the router. I get an error -8746 or something from the Finder when I try to print. When I check the status of the SMC router, it says the printer is ready, and the activity log shows a print job has been received. I thought this would be a cheap way to keep using the LW360 with the new generation Macs. It is a pretty rugged printer, but has only parallel and Appletalk ports, no USB or Ethernet. The Asante Ethernet/Appltalk converter box is more than the SMC router, and doesn't do any of the router/firewall stuff. Has anybody had any luck/experience using the printer server on the SMC router with a Mac? Rob ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 11:18:37 -0400 From: "Li Qian" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: [Q] Text Editor? Here's a rather odd question to ask here. I use a Mac at home, and a PC at work. On the Mac I use extensively the BBEdit text editor, which, in terms of features and reliability, is nothing short of superb. I also need to use a text editor on the PC side, but so far I haven't found any Windows text editor to even come close to BBEdit, although I've tried a few (e.g., NotePad, UltraEdit, etc.), and PC guys have no clue. So, has anyone come across a Windows text editor equivalent to BBEdit? TIA, Li Qian ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 12:34:02 -0800 From: Adam Horvath To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Connecting PLW to OS X I have received a number of responses to my question about connecting a Personal Laser Writer 320 to a G3 computer running OS X. Here is the solution that works (& presumably would work for similar printers/machine combinations): The problem is NOT the driver but the fact that OS X does not support serial devices using Apple Talk. 1 Get hold of an Ethernet to Serial converter (I am using Asant‰Talk) 2 Connect the converter to your printer's serial port and to an Ethernet hub (I am assuming that you are using your E-net port on your computer for high speed connection, if not, you can connect the converter's Ethernet port to your computer dirrectly) 3 Re-configure OS X to route AppleTalk through Ethernet. 4 Re configure your printer panel (in the OS X Utilities Folder). Actually now it should find your printer automaticaly & you only need to confirm the selection. This should not only provide you with the use of your AppleTalk printer, but alow you to share it with anyone else who is connected to your Ethernet hub. The only problem I ran into was that the converter I am using is touchy about being the last device starting up THE FIRST TIME it is powered up. (Look up the trouble shooting page at the Asant‰ website for a full remedy.) Thank you for all the helpful responses. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 04:44:08 -0800 From: Ken Prager To: digest@info-mac.org, rpluta@inebraska.com Subject: Info-Mac Digest V19 #22 > From: Rob Pluta > Subject: iMac firmware update - Can't see RAM upgrade > > Hi, > > After upgrading the firmware (to 4.1.3) on our iMac 350 MHz > (slot-loading) the iMac doesn't see the 128 MB RAM chip which is > installed as additional memory. Is this part of the RAM fussiness > whereby Apple won't let *inferior* RAM chips run for the newer OS > upgrades? > > Is there a way to downgrade the firmware or do I need to buy a new RAM > chip? Am I missing something else? > > MacOS 9.1 Go to and get DIMM First Aid. This will most likely fix the problem. HTH, KP ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 08:45:31 -0500 From: "Fred Anderson" To: comp-sys-mac-digest@moderators.isc.org Subject: Need help resurrecting powerbook? On power up, it goes into a dark screen, with "welcome to open firmware, type mac-boot to start..... I type mac-boot and in returns default catch code=300. hit the PRAM reset on the back, now it powers up, HD spins up, fan comes on, but screen is totally blank. How to fix? Powerbook G3, 400 MHZ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 09:56:25 -0500 (EST) From: Joshua Hart To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Turning Apple Cinema Display into a TV? Does anyone know if there is third party hardware out there to put into a mac (PCI card, etc) to turn an Apple Cinema Display into a tv (HDTV or otherwise)? I saw something like this for a 3rd party display.. But have not seen it geared towards the apple cinema display. Joshua -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************