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Info-Mac Digest             Tue, 27 Mar 01       Volume 18 : Issue 54

Today's Topics:

      [*] PhotoMover 2.0 Released for OS X and 9
      [*] The Atomic Mac 5.0.0 Carbon Version
      [*] The Atomic Mac 5.0.0 PPC Version
      [*] TidBITS#573/26-Mar-01
      [A] iBot driver memory leak confirmed
      [C] Smart-installing MacOS X to prevent future problems
      second monitor for i-mac
      Vertus Player
      Zip drive and old Mac

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Date: 27 Mar 2001
From: julian miller <julian@iview-multimedia.com>
To: 
Subject: [*] PhotoMover 2.0 Released for OS X and 9


Now easily upload photos directly to ClubPhoto, Zing, Sony ImageStation,
Nikon.Net, FotoTime and PhotoPoint from any Mac using iView PhotoMover.
PhotoMover works with the very best and most popular photo archive sites on
the net. Share all your digital photos with family and friends without
having to emailmegabytes of images. Your clients, friends and family can
order professionally printed copies of your photos on many different media
(including photographic paper, posters, t-shirts and mugs) from these sites
and have them shipped anywhere.

New in Version 1.5
- Fixed reporting canceled uploads to Club Photo
- Fixed exiting upload when connection drops during sending. No logger tries
to read response.
- Fixed/Changed host to deal with file size limit of 1Mb on the old club
photo upload host.
  New host now support files size up to the 4Mb.
- Now when scaling is selected, if image is smaller than selected size and
is in JPEG format the image is not recompressed.
- Added better checking for out of memory.
- Added play sound at end of upload.
- Now Beeps if an error during upload.
- Report file size, if failed to upload and file was read successfully.
- Record Album name in log file, if logging is enabled and if host support
it.
- Added option to scale images to 320 x 240 or 640 x 480
- Added options for changes setting during upload.
- Improved status information during upload.
- Display Album name in upload dialog (if host support is).
- Updated copyright.

PhotoMover is the latest application from the creators of the award winning
iView Multimedia and iView MediaPro. iView MediaPro is absolutely essential
software for digital camera and Photoshop users. iView MediaPro is a media
asset management application enjoyed because of its ease of use by hundreds
of thousands of beginners and simultaneously iView is powerful enough for
large commercial users like the SF Chronicle, Condenast, RIT, Apple
Computer, NASA and others.  iView Multimedia catalogs and organizes many
types of media files including stills, movies, animation, sounds, Canvas,
PhotoShop, Quark, SGI, QTVR and a long list of others. iView users can now
use PhotoMover to coordinate photos locally with photos on the web.

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/photomover-20.hqx; 1350 K]

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Date: 27 Mar 2001
From: Chris Smolinski <csmolinski@erols.com>
To: 
Subject: [*] The Atomic Mac 5.0.0 Carbon Version


The Atomic Mac is a periodic table of the elements for the Macintosh. In
addition to the usual information found in such programs, The Atomic Mac
also contains a wealth of nuclear information on each isotope, including
half life, decay mode, and daughter products. X-ray data (fluorescence and
binding energies) is also available. A molecular weight calculator makes it
easy to find the molecular weight of compounds. A shaded diagram showing
the ranges of physical properties makes it easy to visualize relationships
across the periodic table.

The Atomic Mac is a periodic table of the elements for the Macintosh. In
addition to the usual information found in such programs, The Atomic Mac
also contains a wealth of nuclear information on each isotope,
including half life, decay mode, and daughter products. X-ray data
(fluorescence and binding energies) is also available. A molecular weight
calculator makes it easy to find the molecular weight of compounds. A
shaded diagram showing the ranges of physical properties makes it easy to
visualize relationships across the periodic table. Photon interaction data,
both in tabular and graphical format is also available.

[Archived as /info-mac/sci/the-atomic-mac-50-cbn.hqx; 1252 K]

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Date: 27 Mar 2001
From: Chris Smolinski <csmolinski@erols.com>
To: 
Subject: [*] The Atomic Mac 5.0.0 PPC Version


The Atomic Mac is a periodic table of the elements for the Macintosh. In
addition to the usual information found in such programs, The Atomic Mac
also contains a wealth of nuclear information on each isotope, including
half life, decay mode, and daughter products. X-ray data (fluorescence and
binding energies) is also available. A molecular weight calculator makes it
easy to find the molecular weight of compounds. A shaded diagram showing
the ranges of physical properties makes it easy to visualize relationships
across the periodic table.

The Atomic Mac is a periodic table of the elements for the Macintosh. In
addition to the usual information found in such programs, The Atomic Mac
also contains a wealth of nuclear information on each isotope,
including half life, decay mode, and daughter products. X-ray data
(fluorescence and binding energies) is also available. A molecular weight
calculator makes it easy to find the molecular weight of compounds. A
shaded diagram showing the ranges of physical properties makes it easy to
visualize relationships across the periodic table. Photon interaction data,
both in tabular and graphical format is also available.

[Archived as /info-mac/sci/the-atomic-mac-50-ppc.hqx; 1258 K]

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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 21:00:00 -0800
From: TidBITS Editors <editors@tidbits.com>
To: digest@info-mac.org, Mac-L@clio.lyris.net, evangelist@macevangelist.com
Subject: [*] TidBITS#573/26-Mar-01

TidBITS#573/26-Mar-01

  Mac OS X is out - when should you make the jump? Adam offers
  specific advice to different types of users to answer that
  question. Jack-Daniyel Strong joins us with a comparison of two
  U.S. federal tax preparation programs: TaxCut and TurboTax. In the
  news, OnStream files for bankruptcy, Proxim and Netopia terminate
  their merger, and we cover the releases of StuffIt Deluxe 6.0.1
  and ConceptDraw 1.59, plus Palm's announcement of the slim m505
  color handheld.

Topics:
    MailBITS/26-Mar-01
    Tax Software for the 2000 Filing Year
    Mac OS X: The Future Is Here - Coming Soon!

<http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-573.html>
<ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/issues/2001/TidBITS#573_26-Mar-01.etx>

[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-573.etx; 33K]

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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 07:10:25 -0500
From: "Randy A. Noranbrock" <randy@noranbrock.com>
To: <digest@info-mac.org>
Subject: [A] iBot driver memory leak confirmed

    I posted last week regarding a potential memory leak in the 1.0.1
version of the drivers for Orange Micro's iBot.  After much cajoling and
persistence in spite of tech support, they have now confirmed that I was
right and there is, in fact, a memory leak in the 1.0.1 version of the
driver.  That being said, they are aware of the problem and should be
updating the driver soon, but an intermediate solution is to fall back to
the 1.0 driver version.

    Do note, this mostly affects you if you use the iBot to capture
individual images and not movies.

-Randy

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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 08:15:43 -0800
From: Wagner Truppel <wtruppel@uci.edu>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: [C] Smart-installing MacOS X to prevent future problems

Dear Mac friends,

about 6 years ago, back when System 7.5 was the newest version of the 
Mac operating system, I wrote an article for TidBits discussing how 
to correctly install the Mac system software in order to avoid common 
problems:

Update Madness
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=01344>

Since then, the Mac and its OS have both changed significantly but 
none of the changes in the past are likely to compare to the switch 
to OS X. Having both a brave and foolish soul, I was one of the first 
to switch and I'd like to relate my experience, particularly 
concerning installation, for the benefit of those who cannot afford 
the time (nor the frustration) involved in experimenting.

Before moving on to talk about installation, however, let me say a 
few words about my overall experience of using OS X so far. For 3 
days now I've been running the _release_ version of OS X on a 
dual-processor G4/450 with a 20 GB hard disk and 128 MB of memory. 
The computer in question is _not_ some machine I set up to experiment 
with OS X. It is, believe or not, my day-to-day machine so I wasn't 
kidding when I said I'm both brave and foolish. In case you're 
wondering whether I'm nuts, I did make a backup of everything I have.

Now, here's the bottom-line:

OS X is slower than I expected but it's also rock-solid; I haven't 
had a single crash yet, and that includes the Classic environment. 
Classic applications are working just as they always have, though a 
little bit slower sometimes. OS X applications are also somewhat 
slow, slower than their counterparts under OS 9. The user interface 
has lost some of the features I liked most from OS 9 (such as 
hierarchical menus, contextual popup menus, and spring-loaded 
folders) and gained others that I'm beginning to love (such as the 
columnar view, though it could be improved). The dock, however, 
should be sent back to the design room with a one-way ticket. Another 
aspect I'd like to see changed is the overall size of things on 
screen. Most things are too large! Also, the windows have a _lot_ of 
wasted space that could be minimized. Not everyone can afford a 
21-inch monitor! Mine is 15 inches.

Now, before I get excited about what I think should be changed in the 
user interface, let me get to the main point of this message: 
installation. Anyone who's been following this matter will have seen 
several suggestions. I enumerate a few below and then discuss why I 
believe the choice I've made in the end is the most useful:

1) partition your hard disk into 5 partitions and install:

a) a "pure" OS 9 on partition 1
b) OS X on partition 2
c) your current OS 9 on partition 3
d) your OS 9 applications on partition 4
e) your documents on partition 5

2) partition your hard disk into 4 partitions and install:

a) a "pure" OS 9 and OS X both on partition 1
b) your current OS 9 on partition 2
c) your OS 9 applications on partition 3
d) your documents on partition 4

3) Either (1) or (2) above with an extra partition containing another 
OS X, for playing with, and/or yet another partition, for backups.

4) one partition, with a single OS X and your current OS 9, and all 
your OS 9 and OS X applications, and your documents.

At first I chose option (2) above but then I realized that it's not 
multi-user friendly at all. Even if you're the only user of your 
machine (as I am of mine), having applications and documents spread 
all over the place is prone to problems. It's far easier and safer 
(see why below) to follow a different approach, so I chose option (4) 
and installed everything again, according to the following 14-step 
scheme:

01) I backed up everything I have on my computer [actually I had 
already done that before I attempted option (2)].

02) I initialized and created a single partition on my hard disk.

03) I installed a pure OS 9.1 system folder.

04) I installed several Apple updates: CarbonLib 1.2.5, Disk Copy 
6.3.3, G4 FW Update 4.1.8, PowerMacG4 AGP Update, and Startup Disk 
9.2.1, as well as printer drivers for my printer. These (with the 
exception of the printer drivers) can all be found at 
<http://asu.info.apple.com/>. Make sure you choose "Released in Past 
Month" from the update date menu.

05) I installed _all_ the extensions and control panels I use daily, 
then the entire contents of my previous OS 9 'Preferences' folder 
(this is the easiest way to restore one's preferences from a previous 
OS 9.1 installation), then restarted to activate those preferences.

06) I created two sets of extensions/control panels in the Extension 
Manager, one for my daily use of OS 9 (which I called 'full OS 9') 
and one for when I want to run the classic environment under OS X 
(which I called 'OS 9/X'). Naturally, the latter has several 
less-important extensions and control panels disabled. I activated 
the 'OS 9/X' set.

07) I then booted from the OS X CD and installed OS X.

08) I booted from OS X and configured it to my liking.

09) I then rebooted from OS 9.

10) I re-installed all my OS 9 applications, saving them in 
sub-folders of the 'Applications (Mac OS 9)' folder (see below for an 
alternative useful to single-user machines).

11) I installed all my documents in sub-folders of 
'Earth/Users/wlt/Documents' Here, 'Earth' is the name of my hard 
disk, and 'wlt' is my home directory (set up by the UNIX environment 
behind OS X, based on my login username).

12) I then configured my daily-OS-9 aliases to applications and 
documents, in effect getting this setup ready for a OS-9-only run if 
ever needed. This included adding aliases of startup documents and 
applications to the 'Startup Items' folder, so they'll run under OS X 
as well. Note that I kept all my aliases within one of these three 
places: the OS 9 System Folder (as in inside the Apple Menu Items 
folder or the Startup Items folder), my 'Earth/Users/wlt/Documents' 
folder, or the desktop.

13) I then made a last-minute re-check of the Extension Manager sets 
I created before to make sure that each set has what I wanted it to 
have.

14) Next I booted from OS X and finished configuring it to my liking, 
including setting up the Classic environment to run at startup.

Now, why is this setup a good idea? Considering the fact that OS X is 
still in its infancy, many updates are sure to be released on a 
regular basis (take the Classic Mac OS as an example). Under the 
setup I just detailed, I can re-install OS X on top of what I already 
have without fearing that my OS 9 System Folder or applications will 
be negatively affected. I can also re-boot under OS 9 and install any 
future OS 9 updates without fearing that OS X will be affected.

In addition, if I ever create other users for my computer, with 
either physical or remote access, they'll have access only to what 
they should, and not to any of my documents (because those are safely 
stored within my home directory). This would not have been the case 
if I had documents spread over several partitions, unless I had taken 
special precautions by setting up sharing privileges. With everything 
that belongs to a user stored within that user's home directory, 
those privileges are set up automatically.

Moreover, if any of these multiple users ever wants to install his or 
her own 'private' OS 9 or OS X application, he or she can do so by 
saving those applications in a sub-folder of his or her home 
directory's 'Documents' folder. In fact, on a single-user machine, 
it's useful to install _all_ 3rd party applications (both OS 9 and OS 
X) in one's 'Documents' folder (or in folders within it) so that 
updates to either OS 9 or OS X will not affect them. Some OS X 
applications, however, don't give you a choice and must be installed 
in OS X's 'Applications' folder. A similar situation happens to 
Apple's OS 9 applications, which are better left installed in the 
'Applications (Mac OS 9)' folder. Those may have to be re-installed 
after an update to either OS is performed.

This setup also facilitates back-up procedures. _Everything_ that a 
given user may be interested in backing up (other than backing up the 
actual OS) is stored within his or her home directory.

To summarize, I used to be a big fan of multiple partitions, for the 
following reasons: better organization, safety, and space 
considerations. Safety was an issue because if an application crashed 
the OS while in the middle of accessing the disk, the file structure 
could be compromised to the point of rendering the disk completely 
unreadable; with multiple partitions, you can at least have backups 
on a separate partition. As for space considerations, under the old 
Mac file system, the minimum allocation file size increased with the 
size of your partition, so the more partitions the smaller the 
allocation size.

These reasons are not very compelling under OS X, however. In many 
ways, the more restrictive file structure imposed by OS X (because of 
UNIX) actually improves organization, safety is improved by OS X's 
stability, and - with the extended file system now used by OS 9 and X 
- allocation file size is independent of the disk size. In addition, 
moving files from one location to another takes much less time in a 
single-partition disk than in a multiple-partition one.

For all these reasons, I ended up re-installing OS X as I outlined 
above and I believe it was a good choice.

I'd like to end this message with an updated version of my "Update 
Madness" article's disclaimers:

**Disclaimers** -- In the interests of full disclosure, there are
   a few disclaimers I should make:

* I don't work for Apple, and never did. I think they make great
   computers, though.

* Yes, MacOS X has its problems.

* Yes, I _do_ experience system errors sometimes. So does my
   computer although, these days, far less often that I.

** Most importantly, this message expresses an informed opinion, not 
a professional recommendation. If you decide to follow my 
suggestions, please understand that you're doing so at your own risk.

Best regards,
Wagner Truppel
wtruppel@uci.edu

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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 09:04:22 +0800
From: "Tony Stanton" <tonystanton@hotmail.com>
To: <digest@info-mac.org>
Subject: second monitor for i-mac

I have a Mac 7300/180 using a 21" PC monitor. I am interested in upgrading,
obviously, but cannot afford a G4 at this stage.

I have been quoted $500 for a G4 upgrade card but can also buy an entry
level I-Mac for $850.

Does anyone know if it is possible to use a second monitor with the I-Mac,
which would allow me to keep my big monitor and use the I-Mac screen for
toolbars, etc.

I have done this in the past with a powerbook so I would like to know if
anyone has tried this with the I-Mac and if it works or not

Hope you can help

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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:42:40 -0800
From: Richard <Richard@ComCon-Inc.com>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: Vertus Player

Does anyone have a "Vertus" player? I'd like to view some NASA pix and
other stuff, but they're in Vertus and Vertus no longer supports that
player. I've tried several (about 12) FTP sites after a search, and
they've all pulled their player files. Everyone is saying that Vertus is
no longer supporting the player. (As has the Vertus site as far as I can
tell.)

Or, does anyone know of an app that will convert Vertus files to
Quicktime? I believe the Vertus (vrml?) files come with the extension
".wsb"  ".wrl" or ".vpy" - I'm not sure.

Richard...

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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 20:55:21 +0300
From: Matti Haveri <matti.haveri@sjoki.uta.fi>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: Zip drive and old Mac

>     I have an ancient Mac LC which is serving as a dedicated data 
>     acquisition machine for a seismometer.  I would like to attach my 
>     SCSI Zip drive to it

68000-mac-faq <http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/68000.txt>:

* If you use a Zip drive as a boot drive on a Plus you will need v4.2 
Zip drivers. Make sure that other Zip drives don't update the drivers 
automatically.

<http://surf.to/macdrivers/>

Zip Tools package v4.2 (948K) is at

<http://members.nbci.com/macdrivers/disk/zipmac42.hqx>

or just the 48K v4.2 driver at

<http://members.nbci.com/macdrivers/disk/zipdriver4.2.hqx>

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