Aren't you tired of logging in to Hotmail...
This free plug-in (courtesy of Daniel Parnell) for Apple’s Mail app lets you access your Hotmail account, stored on an httpmail server, from within Mail. This version works with Mac OS X 10.3 Panther only.
Thursday, May 13, 2004
Sunday, March 21, 2004
BusinessCard Composer for Mac OS X
BusinessCard Composer 2.1
makes great looking cards in a variety of styles, with templates and the ability to add your own pictures and art.
makes great looking cards in a variety of styles, with templates and the ability to add your own pictures and art.
Pacifist opens .pkg and More!
"Pacifist 1.6.1 from CharlesSoft is a shareware application that opens Mac OS X .pkg package files, .dmg disk images, and .zip, .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, and .xar file archives and allows you to extract individual files and folders out of them.
This is useful, for instance, if an application which is installed by the operating system becomes damaged and needs to be reinstalled without the hassle of reinstalling all of Mac OS X.
Pacifist is also able to verify existing installations and find missing or altered files*, and Pacifist can also examine the kernel extensions installed in your system to let you see what installer installed them, and whether the installer was made by Apple or a third-party.
*This product includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors."
This is useful, for instance, if an application which is installed by the operating system becomes damaged and needs to be reinstalled without the hassle of reinstalling all of Mac OS X.
Pacifist is also able to verify existing installations and find missing or altered files*, and Pacifist can also examine the kernel extensions installed in your system to let you see what installer installed them, and whether the installer was made by Apple or a third-party.
*This product includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors."
Thursday, February 19, 2004
MenuMeters 1.1.1 FREEware
MenuMeters 1.1.1 from Raging Menace is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for the MacOS X Menu Bar!
No more wondering if the computer is "busy", overloaded, or just taking it's time.
This is part of my Top 10 Things to Add to your Mac.
No more wondering if the computer is "busy", overloaded, or just taking it's time.
This is part of my Top 10 Things to Add to your Mac.
Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Myth II for Mac OS X
With the release of Myth II version 1.3.2
it's now possible to play on MAC OS X.
START YOUR GAME SERVERS...
it's now possible to play on MAC OS X.
START YOUR GAME SERVERS...
Friday, January 30, 2004
SimpleText for Mac OS X
SimpleText 1.4 is included on the December 2002 Mac OS X Developers Tools CD (requires v10.2 or later. It's located here: /Developer/Applications/Extras.
It looks just like it always did.
Also available is BombApp. It does just that, and causes the Crash Log to open.
And Mac OS X keeps going without the old crashed application problems.
It looks just like it always did.
Also available is BombApp. It does just that, and causes the Crash Log to open.
And Mac OS X keeps going without the old crashed application problems.
Wednesday, January 21, 2004
WireTap 1.0.0 Freeware!
Want to record any sound coming out of your Mac...
WireTap from Ambrosia Software Inc. is the way.
And did I mention it's FREE?
WireTap from Ambrosia Software Inc. is the way.
And did I mention it's FREE?
Tuesday, January 20, 2004
Monday, September 22, 2003
Apple's QuickTake Digital Camera
My first digital camera is
Apple's QuickTake from the 1990's
G3 Desktop 266:
Install QuickTake for Power Macintosh; QuickTake Software, QuickTake Desktop Access Software. Able to read QuickTake pictures.
G3 Mini Tower 300 (Beige):
Install QuickTake for Power Macintosh; QuickTake Software, QuickTake Desktop Access Software, Geoport. Able to read QuickTake pictures, and connect to camera. Copying to desktop froze computer; restart...
Apple's QuickTake from the 1990's
G3 Desktop 266:
Install QuickTake for Power Macintosh; QuickTake Software, QuickTake Desktop Access Software. Able to read QuickTake pictures.
G3 Mini Tower 300 (Beige):
Install QuickTake for Power Macintosh; QuickTake Software, QuickTake Desktop Access Software, Geoport. Able to read QuickTake pictures, and connect to camera. Copying to desktop froze computer; restart...
Sunday, July 27, 2003
Mac SE/30 now with SuperClock!
I picked up an old SE/30 (System 7.1, 16 MHz) in the garbage pile outside of a Church sale and installed the following today;
SuperClock! 3.9.1 (1991)
After Dark 2.0t (1990)
Amazing (1984)
SCSI Tools (1987)
Disk First Aid 7.0 (1991)
9" of black and white screen joy, almost just like my first Mac.
SEE PREVIOUS POST: My First Mac
SuperClock! 3.9.1 (1991)
After Dark 2.0t (1990)
Amazing (1984)
SCSI Tools (1987)
Disk First Aid 7.0 (1991)
9" of black and white screen joy, almost just like my first Mac.
SEE PREVIOUS POST: My First Mac
Wednesday, July 23, 2003
MPlayer better than QuickTime?
I installed MPlayer OS X 2 version 2.0 (v2.0b4),, and it plays many more formats than Apple's QuickTime Player.
"MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems (see the documentation). It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5, WMV and even H.264 movies."
Wow, a totally flexible multi-media player!
"MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems (see the documentation). It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5, WMV and even H.264 movies."
Wow, a totally flexible multi-media player!
Wednesday, June 18, 2003
MacJanitor FREE System Utility
If you shut down your Mac at night it's not able to run some important self-maintenance.
"Here is another great utility to run the system's daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance scripts (located at /etc/daily, /etc/weekly, and /etc/monthly). These scripts are normally run between 3am and 5am, and will not be run if you shut off your Mac at night. But with MacJanitor, you can run these scripts by hand periodically and keep your Mac's system databases from getting too large."
MacJanitor from Brian R. Hill brianhill@mac.com
"Because Mac OS X is based on Unix, it performs several automatic maintenance operations throughout the week. But unlike most Unix machines, most Macs are shutdown at night by their owners, and it's at night that these maintenance functions are performed. MacJanitor essentially lets you run those processes right away so that you can save power at night. In addition to improving performance, MacJanitor gets rid of unnecessary files that clutter your Mac."
"Here is another great utility to run the system's daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance scripts (located at /etc/daily, /etc/weekly, and /etc/monthly). These scripts are normally run between 3am and 5am, and will not be run if you shut off your Mac at night. But with MacJanitor, you can run these scripts by hand periodically and keep your Mac's system databases from getting too large."
MacJanitor from Brian R. Hill brianhill@mac.com
"Because Mac OS X is based on Unix, it performs several automatic maintenance operations throughout the week. But unlike most Unix machines, most Macs are shutdown at night by their owners, and it's at night that these maintenance functions are performed. MacJanitor essentially lets you run those processes right away so that you can save power at night. In addition to improving performance, MacJanitor gets rid of unnecessary files that clutter your Mac."
Thursday, January 23, 2003
Mac OS X on G3 B&W
G3 Blue & White DVD 400 MHz:
21 GB Quantum Fireball ATA Hard Drive;
Mac OS X 10.2 only, 3 Partitions,
Boot from OS 9.0 CD, Zero all data, 2 Partitions, Initialize
Install Mac OS 9.0 on first partition
Install Mac OS 9.2 on first and second partitions
Update to Mac OS 9.2.1 on first and second partitions
Update to Mac 9.2.2 on first and second partitions
Install Mac OS 10.2.0 Jaguar (Build 6C115) on first partition
Mac OS 9.2.2 and MAC OS X 10.2.0 Dual Boot Mac.
This is Different™
21 GB Quantum Fireball ATA Hard Drive;
Mac OS X 10.2 only, 3 Partitions,
Boot from OS 9.0 CD, Zero all data, 2 Partitions, Initialize
Install Mac OS 9.0 on first partition
Install Mac OS 9.2 on first and second partitions
Update to Mac OS 9.2.1 on first and second partitions
Update to Mac 9.2.2 on first and second partitions
Install Mac OS 10.2.0 Jaguar (Build 6C115) on first partition
Mac OS 9.2.2 and MAC OS X 10.2.0 Dual Boot Mac.
This is Different™
Monday, September 30, 2002
Free Translation Web Site
Translate between dozens of languages by cutting and pasting right into the site.
FreeTranslation.com
FreeTranslation.com
Saturday, January 20, 2001
SoundJam™ MP: MP3 Player
Take all your CDs and extract the audio to digital filesand play on your Apple® Macintosh computer-!
"Play, encode and organize your music"
"SoundJam MP Plus is a full-featured, all-in-one MP3 player and encoder for the Macintosh. It features a customizable user interface, a 10-band graphic equalizer with presets, and even plug-ins that display graphics to the beat of the music. The application can encode your entire music collection--be it on CD, vinyl, or cassette--into high-quality MP3 files. SoundJam MP Plus encodes quickly on all Macintosh computers, and the G4 optimization makes it even zippier on the PowerMac G4 with Velocity Engine. Users can change the look of the MP3 player by changing its "skin." And you can build easily custom music playlists that can track your music by artist, track, song, style, track length, or date recorded."
SoundJam by Casady and Greene also allows you to convert AIFF, WAVE, MP3, MP2 to any other type-!
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING...
"Play, encode and organize your music"
"SoundJam MP Plus is a full-featured, all-in-one MP3 player and encoder for the Macintosh. It features a customizable user interface, a 10-band graphic equalizer with presets, and even plug-ins that display graphics to the beat of the music. The application can encode your entire music collection--be it on CD, vinyl, or cassette--into high-quality MP3 files. SoundJam MP Plus encodes quickly on all Macintosh computers, and the G4 optimization makes it even zippier on the PowerMac G4 with Velocity Engine. Users can change the look of the MP3 player by changing its "skin." And you can build easily custom music playlists that can track your music by artist, track, song, style, track length, or date recorded."
SoundJam by Casady and Greene also allows you to convert AIFF, WAVE, MP3, MP2 to any other type-!
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING...
Saturday, January 6, 2001
iBOT FireWire WebCam for Mac!
Guess what I got for Christmas...
The iBOT from Orange Micro, Inc. is a FireWire web camera for Macintosh that totally knocks the socks off any other. The video is uncompressed, unlike USB models.
Exclusive FireWire Speed and Clarity
With a data transfer rate that's 33 times faster than traditional USB web cams, you'll experience a Video Frame Rate of 30 frames/second that's the same speed as you see at your local movie theater. And that's with a big 640 x 480 image size in living color.
Using BTV View 4.0.1 and BTV Edit 4.1.1 you can view and edit.
General Features:
· 400 Mb/sec. IEEE 1394 compatible (camera consumes only 200 Mb/s bandwidth)
· Fully compatible with Macintosh and PC / Windows
· Non-compressed full-motion digital video at rates of 30 Frames/sec @ 640 x 480
· 1/4" Color CCD Image Sensor
· 62 degree angle of view
· Effective Pixels: 659 x 494
· Frame size up to 640 x 480
· Focusable lens from 1cm to infinity
· Supports YUV 4:1:1, YUV 4:2:2, YUV 4:4:4, and RGB 24-bit formats
· Millions of colors (24 bit)
· Supports Plug-and-Play specification
· Supports up to 2 cameras per bus simultaneously
· iBOT pro Version includes microphone for Mac and/or PC
Cable / Connector:
· 6 foot cable with 6 pin IEEE 1394 FireWire connector
· 3.5mm Mac PlainTalk adapter included (systems not equipped with a 3.5mm microphone jack will require a USB adapter)
· 3.5mm sound card microphone input for PC
System Requirements:
The following Extensions must be in your Apple System/Extensions folder for iBOT to function:
FireWire Enabler
FireWire Support
FW iBOT Camera Extension
QuickTime FireWire DV Enabler
QuickTime FireWire DV Support
Minimum System Requirements: Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition, Microsoft Windows 2000, Apple MacOS 8.6 or later, Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
When video editing from a Macintosh using the iBOT, Orange Micro recommends at least a G3 233 MHz processor and 80 MB of RAM. We also recommend turning virtual memory off, running a minimal set of extensions, turning off Apple Talk, have an optimized hard drive and set disk cache to 128 k.
The only problem with this device is that Apple's iMovie doesn't support it. But that is up to Apple to fix.
The iBOT from Orange Micro, Inc. is a FireWire web camera for Macintosh that totally knocks the socks off any other. The video is uncompressed, unlike USB models.
Exclusive FireWire Speed and Clarity
With a data transfer rate that's 33 times faster than traditional USB web cams, you'll experience a Video Frame Rate of 30 frames/second that's the same speed as you see at your local movie theater. And that's with a big 640 x 480 image size in living color.
Using BTV View 4.0.1 and BTV Edit 4.1.1 you can view and edit.
General Features:
· 400 Mb/sec. IEEE 1394 compatible (camera consumes only 200 Mb/s bandwidth)
· Fully compatible with Macintosh and PC / Windows
· Non-compressed full-motion digital video at rates of 30 Frames/sec @ 640 x 480
· 1/4" Color CCD Image Sensor
· 62 degree angle of view
· Effective Pixels: 659 x 494
· Frame size up to 640 x 480
· Focusable lens from 1cm to infinity
· Supports YUV 4:1:1, YUV 4:2:2, YUV 4:4:4, and RGB 24-bit formats
· Millions of colors (24 bit)
· Supports Plug-and-Play specification
· Supports up to 2 cameras per bus simultaneously
· iBOT pro Version includes microphone for Mac and/or PC
Cable / Connector:
· 6 foot cable with 6 pin IEEE 1394 FireWire connector
· 3.5mm Mac PlainTalk adapter included (systems not equipped with a 3.5mm microphone jack will require a USB adapter)
· 3.5mm sound card microphone input for PC
System Requirements:
The following Extensions must be in your Apple System/Extensions folder for iBOT to function:
FireWire Enabler
FireWire Support
FW iBOT Camera Extension
QuickTime FireWire DV Enabler
QuickTime FireWire DV Support
Minimum System Requirements: Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition, Microsoft Windows 2000, Apple MacOS 8.6 or later, Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
When video editing from a Macintosh using the iBOT, Orange Micro recommends at least a G3 233 MHz processor and 80 MB of RAM. We also recommend turning virtual memory off, running a minimal set of extensions, turning off Apple Talk, have an optimized hard drive and set disk cache to 128 k.
The only problem with this device is that Apple's iMovie doesn't support it. But that is up to Apple to fix.
Thursday, November 30, 2000
G4/400 = Pro Tools Rig
I purchased an Apple® Macintosh G4 (AGP)
and the Pro Tools 001 hardware.
This is sweet.
Installed OS 9.0.4, set up and configured.
Digital recording on my Mac... awesome.
and the Pro Tools 001 hardware.
This is sweet.
Installed OS 9.0.4, set up and configured.
Digital recording on my Mac... awesome.
Sunday, September 19, 1993
My First Mac
An updated version replaced the Mac 512K and debuted as
the Macintosh 512K enhanced on April 14, 1986.
• 8 MHz Motorola 68000 processor
• 512 KB DRAM
• 16-bit data bus
• 128K of ROM
• 800 KB internal floppy single-sided disk drive
• 800 KB external floppy disk drive (M0131)
• LocalTalk network 3-pin Mini-DIN connection
• Macintosh Keyboard (M0110)
The original 512K could accept Macintosh system software up to version 4.1; System Software 5 was possible if used with the Hard Disk 20; With the OEM 800K Drive and ROM upgrade kit a 512Ke could accept up to System 6.0.8.
The LaserWriter became available for the first time shortly after the 512K's introduction.
The 512K was the earliest Mac capable of supporting Apple's AppleShare built-in file sharing network, when introduced in 1987.
Macintosh 512K and accessories
the Macintosh 512K enhanced on April 14, 1986.
• 8 MHz Motorola 68000 processor
• 512 KB DRAM
• 16-bit data bus
• 128K of ROM
• 800 KB internal floppy single-sided disk drive
• 800 KB external floppy disk drive (M0131)
• LocalTalk network 3-pin Mini-DIN connection
• Macintosh Keyboard (M0110)
The original 512K could accept Macintosh system software up to version 4.1; System Software 5 was possible if used with the Hard Disk 20; With the OEM 800K Drive and ROM upgrade kit a 512Ke could accept up to System 6.0.8.
The LaserWriter became available for the first time shortly after the 512K's introduction.
The 512K was the earliest Mac capable of supporting Apple's AppleShare built-in file sharing network, when introduced in 1987.
Macintosh 512K and accessories
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