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Info-Mac Digest             Wed, 17 Jan 01       Volume 18 : Issue 10

Today's Topics:

      (Q) Stickies Window Hack? [repost]
      1. slow mac 2. connecting to ISDN of small network
      1. slow mac 2. connecting to ISDN of small network
      512 Mb PowerBook RAM upgrades
      [*] SweetMail 2.06f5
      desktop 
      External IP print server for HP 4ML
      Garbage text with AOL - help
      ICQ like software
      IMac freezed
      Info-Mac digest and Eudora
      re mystery attachment

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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:35:24 -0600
From: "Matthew W. Schmeer" <s940422@admiral.umsl.edu>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: (Q) Stickies Window Hack? [repost]

Well, no one responded to my first request for help, but as I asked 
for  assistance during the busy holiday season, I thought I'd ask 
again just in case anyone missed my original query.

A few years ago, I found a little utility on the 'Net that patched 
Stickies so that pressing a certain key combination collapsed the 
windows of all Stickies and tiled them down the left hand side of the 
monitor from top to bottom. It might have even been an FKEY resource. 
I remember this patch being called something along the lines of 
"Greg's Stickies Hack" or "Craig's Stickies Hack" or something of the 
sort; it might have been written by Craig Marciniak of SaintEdit, 
BeforeDark, and GURU fame. Would any of you out there remember this 
little doohicky and could point me to a download location or possibly 
even have a copy you could forward to me?

I lost the patch in a Zip disk "click of death" incident a few months 
ago, and I haven't been able to find a copy of it anywhere on the 
'Net. I've been searching for ways to organize Stickies' windows 
since losing the patch, with no luck. Stickies' windows aren't 
scriptable, and most extensions/control panels only control Finder 
windows (which the new Windows Menu in OS 9.1 makes sort of moot). 
Sure, I could use Gramotki, but I found it kept erroring out on my 
Indigo iMac DV (2000), most likely due to an extension conflict, but 
I strictly control the extensions installed on my machine so that 
only the ones I truly need and use are active.

If no one can point me to the patch, is there another way to arrange 
Stickies' windows instead of manually placing them where I want them?

Thanks in advance,

Matthew Schmeer
<mwschmeer@mac.com>

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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 08:04:11 -0500
From: Chip Carpenter <chip@powermmv.com>
To: "Dr. Peter Stoyanov" <5040@unforgettable.com>, <digest@info-mac.org>
Subject: 1. slow mac 2. connecting to ISDN of small network

on 1/11/01 10:32 AM, Dr. Peter Stoyanov at 5040@unforgettable.com wrote:

> Dear List,
> 
> I have 2 questions:
> 
> 1. Over the past month my iMac is getting increasingly slower. I've
> done what I thought is needed - rebuilt desktop, zapped PRAM,
> defragmented HD and checked HD for problems with Norton and
> DiskWarrior, limited virtual memory to 1 MB. Nothing helped, the
> computer is stil slower then was before - takes too much time for
> apps to launch/perform tasks, Can some kind soul advice what should I
> do. I can't reformat HD right now.

Add more memory and get rid of Virtual Memory completely, memory is cheap
right now, I installed a 128 chip in my mother's Imac add it is like a brand
new machine.  Best thing you can do for the machine.

> 2. I think about installing ISDN line here. Since in Bulgaria Macs
> (and ISDN btw) are not very popular, thus the technician at the
> telecom would hardly help a lot, my I ask you for comments about
> connecting 2 iMacs (and iBook which I'm supposed to receive in couple
> of weeks) to Internet (there are ISP that offer ISDN connections),
> just how to do the modem connection (as far as I know the iMac/iBook
> build-in modem will not work with ISDN line), etc. Or point to a web
> site where I can find answers.

Best answer here is to buy an ISDN terminal adapter that has a built in
router.  This may not be the cheapest option, but it is definitely the
easiest.  Then all you have to do is ensure that the router is compatible
with your phone company and your ISP.  I would contact the phone company and
see if there is a brand they recommend.  I personally like Netopia, but I
don't know if they are compatible with European ISDN.  Then you just connect
any ethernet capable computer to the router.

> 
> MTIA
> 
> Peter
> 

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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 21:50:51 -0600
From: "Gib Henry" <gibhenry@realpeople.com>
To: "'Dr. Peter Stoyanov'" <5040@unforgettable.com>,
Subject: 1. slow mac 2. connecting to ISDN of small network

>Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:32:46 +0200
>From: "Dr. Peter Stoyanov" <5040@unforgettable.com>
>To: digest@info-mac.org
>Subject: 1. slow mac 2. connecting to ISDN of small network
>
[...snip...]
>1. Over the past month my iMac is getting increasingly slower. I've
>done what I thought is needed - rebuilt desktop, zapped PRAM,
>defragmented HD and checked HD for problems with Norton and
>DiskWarrior, limited virtual memory to 1 MB. Nothing helped, the
>computer is stil slower then was before - takes too much time for
>apps to launch/perform tasks, Can some kind soul advice what should I
>do. I can't reformat HD right now.  [...snip...]

You might examine your Temporary Items folder.  It's invisible, and at
the root level.  There's a bug in Mac OS 9 which fails to move these
items to the trash, so they build and build.  Use ResEdit or other
software to make the folder visible, open it, move stuff to the trash,
and make it invisible again.

You might be surprised to find zillions of items in there, especially
if you've had more than a few freezes or crashes.

Alternatively, http://www.apple.com somewhere has a technote about
this, and an AppleScript which you can place in the Startup Items
folder to automate this for you.  Hope this helps.  Cheers,
--
Gib Henry

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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:12:04 -0600
From: J W Cuncannan <wcuncan@interaccess.com>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: 512 Mb PowerBook RAM upgrades

Recently I posted a query to the Info-Mac Network  regarding the ability
of the current PowerBook (FireWire Version) to use the 512 Mb ram
upgrades from Viking and other manufacturers.

I received TWO answers.

One said yes they work ;
the other said they did not.

I acquired one, installed it in the top chip space without any
difficulty. The Apple System Profiler immediately reported the Ram total
to be 640 (512+128).

It appears that the answer is YES.

I have now seen several ads for the upgrades, including some for the
total to be boosted to 1 Gig by installing the 512 Mb chips in  both the
bottom and top slots. I have experience only with replacing the top
chips (which is a piece of cake), but the design of the PowerBook seems
to make the replacement of boths chips seem easy.

Not like my first PowerBook 170 which took two men and a small boy to
upgrade ANYTHING.

Thanks for the help,

Bill Cuncannan
wcuncan@nwu.edu

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Date: 17 Jan 2001
From: sweetmail@mac.com (Ichise)
To: 
Subject: [*] SweetMail 2.06f5


SweetMail is an internet e-mail client for Macintosh that provides
most powerful features with sweet interface. SweetMail has
multiple POP3 accounts, very fast searching, thread-view,
filtering, templates, auto-wrap and many useful functions.

System Requirements:
* System 7.5 or later. (including MacOSX public beta)
* 4MB of Memory.

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/mail/sweet-mail-206f5.hqx; 2057 K]

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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:50:24 +0000
From: Tom Murphy <tpom@eircom.net>
To: macintosh org <digest@info-mac.org>
Subject: desktop 

Still cant rebuild desktop on powermac.Does it matter?

The beep when my mail arrives has gone and no amount of fiddling in
preferences will recover it .

Such simple little problems

Tomßs O Murchu/Tom Murphy
Kilkenny 
Ireland
056 22478

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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 18:15:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Joshua Hart <hart@mcbi-34.med.nyu.edu>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: External IP print server for HP 4ML


Does anybody know of a product out on the market which will serve as an
external IP print server that can take a LocalTalk printer (my HP 4ML)
plugged into it?

HP has all kinds of solutions for printers with parallel ports, but I
really want one which can use the LocalTalk connection on my HP4ML.

I am not looking for the iPrint solution from Farallon.  It (to my
knowledge) only supports AppleTalk.  I would like to do IP printing
(looking to the future :))

Anyone have any nifty ideas?

Thanks,

Joshua

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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:23:12 -0600
From: Bill Hubschmitt <cfweh@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: Garbage text with AOL - help

I have a friend who uses AOL to access the internet.   He logs on to AOL
fine, but when he goes to the web, much of the text - all that is Italics,
and perhaps more is garbage characters.  He has the all the standard Mac
Fonts, and a fresh AOL install - 4.0.  What is going on? I have no
experience with AOL - is it a common problem? cfweh@ux1.cts.eiu.edu

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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 19:02:09 +0200
From: "Dr. Peter Stoyanov" <5040.services@gmx.net>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: ICQ like software

Dear List,

we have a small network here in the office (4 iMac/iBooks in 
different rooms). We need to message sometimes each other, preferably 
through network not through phone. Is there an ICQ-like software, 
which will run on the local network only (we have dial-up internet 
connection), we would prefer shareware/freeware and the cost of the 
solution is of paramount importance.

I know there is an abvious answer somewhere, thank you for help.

With best wishes,

Peter Stoyanov

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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 08:25:00 -0500
From: Guy Paquette <Guy.Paquette@com.ulaval.ca>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: IMac freezed

My new IMac (model 406, system 9.04) frequently freeze even when no 
application is running.
No new software or games had been added so there is no conflicts with 
preexisting extensions. I have rebuilded the desktop but the problem 
is still there.
Any idea ?
Thanks,
Guy

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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:43:54 -0500
From: "Michael G. Schabert" <michael@graphicpower.com>
To: Glen Hawkins <glenhawk@ozemail.com.au>
Subject: Info-Mac digest and Eudora

>Hi there,
>
>Something that annoys me and I cannot work out why it is happening.
>Info-mac digest comes to me in a contents page and then an attached
>eudora file that I can open up like any normal e-mail file with the
>actual messages listed. But after this has happened I see that Eudora
>then has placed a new mailbox entry into my menu bar of the issue of
>info-mac digest. It is the only program that does this and it stuffs
>up my mailboxes regularly. Can I get a rid of the mode that is doing
>this?

Hi Glen,
If you wish to see the digest all in one text message, you can open 
your Eudora Settings, click the "attachments" tab, and uncheck 
"receive MIME digests as attachments". The reason that you get the 
Info-Mac as a Eudora mailbox is because they send out the mailing in 
a format which is MIME-complint as a "burstable" digest. This can be 
very handy because when you reply, it knows who sent in the original 
message...before the burstable digests, you would be replying to 
Info-Mac, with the entire contents of the whole digest.

I too wish that Eudora wouldn't make the digests stick in the mailbox 
folder, but they are just aliases to the actual digest attachments, 
so you can delete them from the mailbox window without losing the 
real files. Open the "mailboxes" window from the window menu, & 
highlight all of the digests. Them click the delete button & iEudora 
will tell you that they're aliases & ask whether you wish to delete 
just the alias, delete both or cancel the delete.

Hope this helps,
Mike
-- 
Michael G. Schabert, Mac Guy
Miranda Graphic Systems, publishers of Graphic Power
http://www.graphicpower.com

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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 16:03:55 -0500
From: David Houston <houston@Exordia.com>
To: "'digest@info-mac.org'" <digest@info-mac.org>
Subject: re mystery attachment

Your .vcf attachment is a "Virtual card file", included as an option in
microsoft outlook is the ability to atach a "business card" to e-mails.Hope
this helps

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