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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

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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:09:06 +1000
From: Michael Koren <mtoddkoren@yahoo.com>
To: <digest@info-mac.org>
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

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Date: 31 Jan 2001
From: Jan Bruyndonckx <jbruyndonckx@tripticdesign.com>
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]

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Date: 31 Jan 2001
From: Bob Clark <bob@clarkwoodsoftware.com>
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]

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Date: 31 Jan 2001
From: Bob Clark <bob@clarkwoodsoftware.com>
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]

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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 12:41:12 +0000
From: Donal Leader <donalmie@iol.ie>
To: <digest@info-mac.org>
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 

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